Guest guest Posted August 17, 2006 Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 Nisargadatta , " pliantheart " <pliantheart wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " skywhilds " <skywords@> wrote: > > > > Nisargadatta , " pliantheart " <pliantheart@> > > wrote: > > > > > > What higher approval can I offer? > > > > > > sky > > > ~*~ > > > >>>>>>> > > > > > > you talk about " approval " as though it mattered. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > that's right. > > > > as if it didn't. > > > > as if you didn't. > > > > as if boundaries, flaming and approval > > > > weren't all mutually inclusive. > > > > > > > > and, as I will continually repeat: > > > > > > there's no buddha in numbness. > > > > > > no buddha in solipsism. > > > > > > > > > > > > and certainly no " freshness " > > > > > > in what you just said. > > > > > > Sorry. > > > > > > Although I do approve of > > > > your words at other times. > > > > > > > > But feigned indifference > > > > is definitely pseudo spiritual > > > > and banally cavalier > > > > if not just typically > > > > macho. > > I'm just saying that the very notion > of " approving " of someone or their words > strikes me as odd. It implies (to me) a > psychology of concern about the approval > of others. > > Bill > It strikes me as odd that you'd respond to a post without reading it. Yes, there are many, maybe most who do this. So, maybe it isn't odd. Maybe it's typical. As typical as it is to constantly offer and be hypersensitive to approval and disapproval: And yet disavow the whole process absentmindedly without the slightest trace of recognition. Typical. Because most of us are in a state of distraction and frenetic business. Most of us. Most of us don't really have time for this list. .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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