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Meanwhile I think Chi Dragon might actually be teaching.... but teaching us a different lesson than he is claiming to be.... Words are vases? Did Wittgenstein bring you here, Chi Dragon? Trying to do another Rectification of names ?

to someone doesn't mean one is being payed for it. so no accusations in that direction on my behalf. anyways, they are everywhere. If you observe closely, I didn't criticize his opinion, but his intention in the OP. He endorses the student while explaining that he isn't sure about the quality of the knowledge shared, while his mind is yet unclear about it. No trouble with expressing opinions, perceptions or values. But teaching lifestyle ethics - to those in need - while not being sure about the quality - seems to me the equivalent to a kid at the gas station playing with a fire lighter near to the gasoline puddle. But that is just my prejudiced opinion, and yeah... sharing opinion and "teaching" might be quite close to each other... - it differs, when one claims 'authority' or tries to change behavior of others, while profiting thereof, I'd say. In my culture, every teacher who confesses he is exploring the concept in the moment just while and when he is teaching on life subjects, while he had no endorsement to teach in that area and no depths of source and security in the tradition, clarity and proven proficiency, - would (yet) not be called a teacher. But even my culture changes. words are vases. who am I to teach? BUT maybe we can get back to topic... the cauldron the bellows the force field the inner fields the entrance the nowayout ...

It is serious but I often am overreacting.

Do you realize you are doing the agitation and propaganda section of any modern (e.g. anti-cultural) and authoritarian party (think: CPC / CCP e.g.) a favor with spreading even more confusion and distortions about and thereby further destroying wisdom of the old? Word Wizards, are you doing any good?! If you want to share something you experience, why not share that in simple words of your own? Maybe at some time, someone comments on your experience/perception resembling something known in cultural phenomena of old wisdom?

The question is, can you still call it a ‘pretzel’ if most of its substantial properties have been exchanged to others and only the resemblance of the form remains? Maybe we should differentiate between the traditional (Brezel, italian) and the consumerist/modern (Pretzel, American), to not have any misunderstandings come up? Words as empty vases. How can anyone ever be sure, the words and concepts sold to him/her/it in meaning and explanation are authentic / solid? If they aren’t? If you look at Edward Arthur Blair and ‘newspeak’ - in the modern world you might be sold something for something else entirely! Try religion, worldview or even concepts as love or enlightenment or death or spirits! So even if I here this is in the abrahamic section, just like other religions/worldviews, - at the basis of storytelling/fables/parables and myths, there is an interpretation of gnosis or perception of world/other/self. Just if there isn’t or it cannot be seen or felt anymore, - to me it’s fake. ?! What is your take on this? When do you realize the essence (and all hope) is lost and the path a dead end? … but then again, there’s people who point out to the sacred in the most profane, so there still might be hope for Jona, whales, reptiles & the like. merry christmas, everyone ✨

- within the herd . bliss and recognition come at a price & sometimes to soon. thus it might help to forget from time to time.

‘sublimation’ as phase changing? just like eating apples: lilith and/or snowwhite both did. maybe a parallel (or parable?) is recognizable ?

Humans. Or so it seems.

He is also called the lamb, which got slaughtered by his own kind.

How do you proceed, what are your considerations?

agreed.

Isn’t what you speak of also beyond the timeframe you use to build this sentence?

How do you do that in a decent way? Quite challenging, or not?

Like what, for example? What are you thinking of? some people cannot see the consequences of their actions further than a grasshopper jumps… can’t help that - and others have worldviews, like the sage from ddj ch.5… who treats people like straw dogs. again, what Steve says, has a point: after annihilation of self, who is there to still be forgiving? and then there were none. and yet, the flesh or nerves might not be so in a forgiving mood, but react heavily to (perceived) trauma, real or not. strange are ways What’s good punishing anyways and who is morally allowed to do that? Who is above another and ‘sees it all’ so rightly? a slippery slope, imo, as you use to say….

Sounds somewhat painful, from the perspective of the pencil

oh it always changes…

No. What I wrote before: being aware at a young age that people nearby perceive the ‘same’ world very differently, yet had the same methods of recognizing, senses, mind, etc. but an extremely different perspective about how to interpret or handle stuff. Must have been a sucker for harmony even back then, so the question was how; understand early on that their perception of the world was not ‘one’. I still remember that moment, by preschool, at the fence next to it, it still is there (lots of small stones together as a fence, each their own universe, but somewhat undeniably connected, unless blunt force destroys that; and even then, maybe you can blend them together again with some plaster glue.)

As an ‘accountant’, you mean? Guess so, I’ll have another cup of coffee and some breakfast. But that’s not what you meant, no?

You miss my point, but not here to argue. To me it’s more a ‘show! don’t tell’. Explaining is mostly telling, not showing. Currently I’m against the notion that there’s concrete steps to be followed; more a trust/faith/devotion or gravity issue (Mark Foote mentioned a sutra once, you might know, can’t find it, something like stepping from a several yards high pole or so). Becoming an accountant might do, why not! But I might not be buddhist enough, don’t know, if I have a path, teachers were people I meet on the streets and the like. Schroedinger was interesting, others too. Huh. I can’t show, I guess.

I would be wary of those… 🫥 … as well as of paths that seem to show all steps fully, then something might be missing or it’s already interpretation/‘religion/‘science’, and not being there. my experience

LMAO, where does he say this, I say this too. He has a way with words, eh? Must have fenced me early on. That thing about one origin of consciousness, I have had it as well, as it baffled me how perceptions of close people could differ that much from each other, when yet they were using the same ‘instrument’. made my day.