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blue · External Since: Nov 01, 2006 Posts: 141

Old Man Kelps has started trolling real bad.

Wordsmith · External Since: Jun 01, 2007 Posts: 19

On Jul 19, 5:25 pm, blue wrote:
> Old Man Kelps has started trolling real bad.

Padriag, we hardly knew ye.

W : (

Harry Bailey · External Since: Jun 04, 2007 Posts: 46

On Jul 20, 7:33 pm, wrote:
>
> Secondly, Y/K is NOT a true or practicing Buddhist because he does NOT
> practice one
> of the main tenets of the dharma which is to engage in mindful speech
> and listening; this includes
> mindful writing and reading of posts on AMK and elsewhere [on the
> Internet and in print]. (His views on Buddhism just sound
> like another LA-appropriation-consumerist take on eastern religions,
> anyway - help me here, Harry!

Maybe one way of looking at this, by no means the only one, is to
consider the 'status' of the religious fundamentalist, whether he/she
is Christian or Muslim or Buddhist or Psychedelic New-Ageist etc. Are
they 'truly' fundamentalists? There is a feature that clearly
distinguishes all authentic fundamentalists, from Tibetan Buddhists to
the Amish [and we all remember Peter Weir's 'Witness' from long ago in
this regard ...] in the US: the absence of resentment and envy and
ontological insecurity, the deep indifference they have towards the
non-believers' way of life. Since the 'genuine religious
fundamentalists' are such that they really believe they have found
their way to Truth and Enlightenment, why should they feel threatened
by non-believers, why should they envy or resent them? When a Tibetan
Buddhist encounters a Western New-Ageist hedonist, he is far from
condemning him; he just benevolently notes that the hedonist's search
for happiness is self-defeating. The contrast cannot be stronger to
the aggressively self-righteous ('missionary') pseudo-fundamentalists
who are deeply bothered, intrigued, fascinated, by the 'lost soul'
life of the non-believers - one can feel that, in fighting the non-
believing other, they are fighting their own temptation [or
destructively disgusted by the lie that is their fake, precious
Ego] ...