Nilasarasvati wrote: ↑Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:19 am
Malcolm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:44 pm
tobes wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 9:41 am
I think you're seriously underestimating the drive to discover truth, insight, knowledge, wisdom etc in philosophers past and present.
Nonetheless, I agree that Buddhadharma operates in a different way.
People like to climb all kinds of mountains, high and low. I am only interested in one of them, the highest.
I had written all of the below statement even before you said this quote above, but which encapsulates everything I need to tell you. I wish you'd read Susan Sontag's notes on Camp. The quote above sounds like something from a Schwarzenegger movie. Or even something that Tommy Wiseau would say. Do you realize how grandiose that sounds?
By highest, I mean the only one that actually leads to liberation.
I have feedback that I unfortunately feel compelled to share in a public forum.
Ok.
I would have sent a private message, but you've disabled those. You may not "be here to make friends" but I really hope you'll think seriously the fact that your tone consistently makes me feel that you have so little regard for me (And others) that I should go crawl under a rock and die.
It is unfortunate you have such feelings. I am not the cause of them.
I have no idea how you mean to come across,
I don't mean to come across in anyway whatsoever. I say what I think. That's it.
but even employing the most generous readings possible, I still feel waves of contempt, disdain, and superiority.
It is unfortunate you have such feelings, but again, I am not the cause of your feelings.
Your tone and patterns of constant invalidation are ultimately one of the main reasons I stopped coming back here in 2013.
These are your projections, you own them, not me.
If I could delete my account on here, I would. Instead I think I'll just try to drift away again. I want to make friends who practice dharma, and learn and share insights with those who have a sincere wish for my happiness and progress on the path.
If you bothered to stop and think about it, all that I do here and elsewhere is encourage people to practice the dharma. I do this because I desire that people have ultimate happiness, freedom from afflictions.
I find none of the above happening on here, and its in a large part due to the norms that make this place feel more like a competition than a conversation.
That has to do with your unreasonable expectations of an internet bulletin board, and nothing to do with what actually goes on here.
You are not responsible for how I interpret your words,
Correct.
but you're intelligent enough to know that if you see one mouse, there are probably 30, and if one person is interpreting your words this way, and speaking up about it, how many more are reading what you write silently, and never participating on this forum for fear of having their head held underwater by an extremely authoritative practitioner who Only Climbs The Highest Mountain.
You can't please everyone, so I make no attempt to please anyone.