--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Akashanon writes: I have said, 'hey guys, lets focus on substance.' > > TorquiseB writes: > Dude, why don't you try being honest with yourself > for once. What you *meant* by "Let's focus on > substance" was "Let's all talk about what *I* want > to talk about, in the pseudointellectual way I like > to talk about such things. Anything else is off-topic." > It's your whole act here. > > Tom T: > That is why he is so careful in his self appointed role as the > Dogma/thought patrol. Wouldn't want anyone here to have any > substantive opportunity to discuss and share experiences. Must clear > it with the Dogma patrol and get the blessing of substance that only > the intellect can understand. Anyone who deviates from that script and > role playing must certainly be OTP and subject to intense scrutiny on > a word by word basis for error and wrong thinking. Must keep that > thinking in a very narrow path. Must Must Must. Should should should. >
The cool thing about akashanon's constant parrying and challenging is that it strengthens the Awakening experience of those who are challenged. Its like this dude I encountered in the post office the other day, where I'm plunking endless amounts of change into the one functioning stamp machine, and the machine is rejecting about every third coin, and given that, along with the price of a book of twenty stamps these days, it is taking a long time to buy my stamps. So I'm putting in coins, and putting in coins, and then I hear from behind me, an annoyed and persistent voice, "Buy the stamps! C'mon buy the stamps!". I ignore it, not really catching the connection, and keep plunking my change in, and several seconds later, "Buy the stamps! Buy the stamps!". At this point I turn around, and see that it is this guy in line, addressing me. So I stop what I am doing and begin calmly explaining what I am doing, and why it is taking so long. This doesn't satisfy him, and he interrupts with, "Well, then just push the button! Buy some stamps with what you have!". So I explain that the machine only offers 20 stamp books and I haven't put enough stamps in. He isn't satisfied by my explanation, because he has apparently made up his mind that I am wrong, and dammit, I'm not conforming to that view of his. Anyway, he got frustrated and left, and I got my stamps. Afterwards, I realized how much such an experience had validated and reinforced the silence which now permeates my Being, is an everpresent constituent of me, and how such experiences stretch and test our true Nature. So, the same with akashanon. The more he challenges what we who have Awakened express, the stronger it gets. I don't know whether it helps him or not, though... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
