From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sal Sunshine Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 5:33 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Acedia & Fairfield On May 30, 2010, at 5:13 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
>> FW; >> "I knew Daniel well and have a little different take than some others. this is what my perception was knowing what was going on. Had I known the last 2 months he told so many people his pain was too great and he was thinking of killing himself I would have intervened strongly in some way. intervention may have helped but at the same time. a person has to be receptive and I don't know how receptive Daniel was. that advaita group all think they are beyond human help and looked to him as the mentor and teacher and he had no one." <end paste> > > > Whoever wrote this doesn't know what they're talking about. They may never have been to the group, and you certainly haven't. We loved and respected Dan, and he spoke with great clarity from a great depth, but the group in general did not look to him as mentor and teacher, and he had people he respected to whom he could talk as much as he wanted to. I sure hope not, Rick. There seems to be something profoundly odd about a group of middle-aged people looking to someone more than half their age as a "mentor and teacher," JMO. I wouldn't find that odd. Christ died at 33, Shankara at 32. The latter was a guru from his early teens. I don't think chronological age correlates tightly with wisdom, or the age of the soul, if souls have ages. But anyway, that wasn't our relationship with Dan. He was one of the gang. If he talked too much, someone would ask him to button his lip and give others a chance.
