--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Share doesn't know how to dance or play *with* people,
> > > because that would require a vulnerability not present
> > > in her.
> >
> > Now, in the language of the TMO, TM is alleged to bring the
> > experience of 'invincibility'. That is, the absence of
> > vulnerability. It does seem that people who have had long
> > practice with at least some spiritual techniques develop a
> > sort of psychological invulnerability.
>
> If that invulnerability leaves them unable to "dance or
> play *with* people," it would seem to be a pretty
> serious disadvantage.
>
> I'd suggest that there may be a kind of core
> invulnerability that comes from spiritual development,
> but that when it's authentic, its effect is to make it
> possible to be *more* vulnerable in one's interpersonal
> interactions. One isn't afraid to be vulnerable to
> another person, because that core cannot be shaken.
>
That would be a good way to describe it, because fear diminishes. A different
kind of intimacy arises, not based on trading handicaps.
>
>
> >
> > I experience this happening to me over a long span of time. As this
> > develops, I have noticed the tendency to seek out people that seem to have
> > similar weaknesses to mine, or complimentary ones, is diminishing.
> >
> > So I can imagine it becomes exceedingly interesting in how one relates to
> > someone who has no obvious weakness, or caves in to certain emotional
> > prompts. If we call our individuality a persona, then such persons do not
> > relate to one another on the basis of persona. This can be particularly
> > upsetting for people who only relate to others on the basis of persona, for
> > such persons without or with a diminished persona appear to function
> > independently, or largely independently of whatever you foist in their
> > direction.
> >
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