--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gerbal88 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > on 8/25/05 12:35 PM, gerbal88 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Well said. I finally saw that the emperor's new clothes were
> > > not what I wanted to believe and left. It took nearly 30 more
> > > years before I
> > > found someone who embodied the wisdom I had only read about.
> >
> > Who?
>
> Y'know, Rick, I have thought about this and thought. If I give
> you a name, it won't be important. What is important is to find
> a way to be very aware of exactly what you are experiencing,
> right now.
>
> It is important to be very open to what you hear, see, feel,
> experience, sense and then to not let that go until you have
> seen it for what it is.
>
> Sorry. It's the best I can do.
>
> Sometimes, at least for me, it is a matter of comparing what I
> learned from and about MMY/MCS/MPV/BBM (so many names for one
> little man) and then comparing that with what I know about myself,
> what I have learned since those days when the Emperor's new
> clothes were seen, suddenly, one day, just as they were.
>
> It is important to keep moving on. When you think you are there,
> when you think "this is it", well, it may be close and it may be
> important, but you are it and thinking somthing outside yourself
> is it is missing the point.
Well, and gracefully, said.
It ties in well with what I found myself laughing about
this morning as I woke up. (I love waking myself up
with laughter.) I was thinking back on all these dis-
cussions here lately of what constitutes a "real"
teacher, and I found myself remembering P. J. O'Rourke's
marvelous one-liner about responsibility:
"One of the annoying things about believing in free will
and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding
somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find
somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up
on your driver's license."
What made me laugh was the realization that in MOST of
the discussions one finds on the Internet about what
constitutes a "real" teacher, the definition is usually,
"Mine." :-)
You gracefully avoided that, and came up with a better
definition: "You, as long as you keep learning."
Unc
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