Saturday, March 08, 2008

AS USUAL FOLLOWING AN ABSENCE, THERE IS A BACKLOG OF E-MAIL TO ANSWER

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: There is something almost exhilarating about the consistency with which you express your nihilism so unabashedly and so unwaveringly. From the denial of the existence of any Supreme Being (or Beings or any being after whatever this thing called life is) to your rejection of human-defined morality to the absence of anything meaningful or purposeful about all the doingness that persons engage in to the ego-smashing lessons you offer to the instructions on how to live naturally and the recommendation to enjoy the only thing that can be enjoyed…this existence NOW--its all just so obviously the truth. Yet I never saw it before. Thank you. Richard

F.: So it is.

FROM ANOTHER SITE VISITOR (who has been driven on some occasions to debate at times and to lambaste at other times): It has been explained to me to talk more about myself and feelings, so, I just wanted to say that maybe I would have understood things if I had consistently kept in contact through the phone. To this day, I know that the conversation we had blew me away and still has stuck. The conversation we had made all prior and even post conversations nil. Something of the methods you employ of whatever school you follow are the only methods that make any sense. And as this is being typed, please understand that I was wrong. I apologize. Gerard

F.: Of course there is no one here to be offended so there is no one here to whom you need apologize. Since it seems that is something you wanted to do nevertheless, so it is. Regards, and Peace and Light.

FROM A SITE VISITOR: why are you and Advaita Vedanta so freakin negative? Always on and on about ending pain and suffering. I am not suffering and I don’t know anybody suffering, My life is pretty damn good, thank you very much. Its negativity like you that brings people down and causes depression. Sick of you in Seattle.

F.: The most amazing part of your missive is that a person like you would find an Advaita ("not two") site, being so self-absorbed, so narrowly-focused, and so far removed from any sense of the unicity that you cannot feel any of the suffering being experienced across this globe since it is not your own and since you are doing "so damn good" (that is, “good,” as in duality).

Among the Realized, there is only one set of suffering and one set of joy, and the suffering of one is the suffering of “all”; likewise, the joy of one is the joy of “all,” “all” being One as it is.

Further, if one sets out to find the True Self, the false selves must all be found first; similarly, if one would find joy, all of the suffering (and its source or sources) must be acknowledged first.

Some who speak in dualistic terms might suggest that you took a “wrong” turn on the internet to end up here. But did you? Maybe not. Either way, so it is. Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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