Joshu (also) said:
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"Ninety years ago I met with Master Baso's eighty disciples. Each of them was excellent.
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The masters of today only pile branch and vine on top of branches and vines. They have all widely deviated from the root. With every generation it goes from bad to worse.
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"For instance, Nansen, one of those excellent masters of the past, always used to say" 'You must proceed straight into samsara [theworldly realm of ignorance and suffering].' Do any of you understand these words?
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"These greenhorn 'masters' of today, preaching by the wayside
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they stuff themselves with all the rice they can get, and demand to be worshiped.
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Then they gather some three hundred or five hundred followers and say, 'I am the master. You are the pupils.' "
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Because of the influence of cults, dogmas and churchs, there are many who can only see the world in terms of power dynamics based on the models they adopted.
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The most popular is usually a variation of the following:
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Master and slave/servant.
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Teacher and student.
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Leader and follower.
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At any given moment, you re either one or the other within the model. If you do not follow it...well, according to the believer, you obviously 'don't know your place', and, thus, must be put in it.
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Almost every community you visit will have ideas of hierarchy floating around within it.
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Some will have very simple and organized structures of right/wrong and higher/lower, while other places will have many different systems competing for supremacy or influence against each other.
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Those that have adopted these systems deeply, who base their understandings, values and character on them, work hard to protect and maintain their chosen dynamic. After all, they built so much of their world and sense of self atop their chosen hierarchy game.
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Because it is just a game, it needs others to play along in order to keep its imaginary integrity intact.
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So, when confronted with someone outside of their game, who does not play along with the ideas they hold most dear, it can be treated as a near existential threat to their sense of existence, both of their world and who they are in it. Doubt may enter.
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And from that doubt, can come great desperation.
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Notice how desperate, a 'master', who 'demands to be worshiped', gets when you do not give it to them. How low they may sink in response.
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Take care.
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Submitted December 27, 2018 at 05:52AM by Pikkko http://bit.ly/2Ainycl
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