The Elephant in the Room (with it's foot on your neck)

From a DM:

I don’t understand anything you talk about. I feel inferior to you. I view enlightenment as a con that unscrupulous persons use to attract worshippers who will pad the unscrupulous person’s ego.

On the other hand, I’m concerned that enlightenment may actually be real and that I’m moving further away from it.

Why do you have to be so aggressive and use shaming tactics? I’m a very sensitive and angry person, and any wisdom that I might get from reading your posts and comments is immediately burned up in my rage towards you for being so cruel to others. In those moments it feels like your cruelty is directed right at me. I don’t blame you for my own weaknesses and reactions, and I’m not asking for an apology. I only wonder if there’s some way I could learn from you other than to be whipped into believing exactly what you believe, lest I risk being chastised by you in the same way I’ve been chastised by Christian’s, Buddhists, and psychotherapists. I want to understand, but when I read the things you write, I collapse.

The first thing I think about is Huangbo:

You are inherently complete

So we know that nobody is superior or inferior.

Yuanwu:

The wisdom of the character of reality is true knowledge: it is the one great matter where each of you stands, shining across past and present, far beyond knowledge and opinion; it is that which is clean and naked, bare and untrammelled.

and

You people, each of you has an ancient mirror.

Has. Has an ancient mirror. You can't move farther away from it, it's in you originally.

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I replied to this message from my perspective of it being unfair to ask me to tolerate people lying to me about books. It's in a book for fuck's sake... there is *no point to lying about it. This isn't a complicated conversation: *what does the frickin' book say?

 NOBODY HAS TO BELIEVE SH*T LET'S JUST READ THE DAMN BOOK 

It's not cruel to kill pwn and wrek liars with book reports. People who lie about what it says in a book *are already pwnd and wrekd. I'm not doing it. They are doing it. To blame me for having any part of this is like Trump blaming the liberal media for Jan 6. WTF?

If somebody goes on social media and claims that the Book of Mormon is historically accurate, that's on them. They lied to the whole world, as publicly as possible, and naturally the whole world is not going to be tolerant of that... and we already all agreed NOT TO LIE.

Sheesh.

Just stop lying and nobody will hurt your feelings.

Submitted April 11, 2023 at 08:06AM by ewk https://ift.tt/dAIGPm6