Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 5:32 am
There has been a stream of God-knowers come across this forum who think it is their role to tell all the rest of us what/who God is, and what we don't know.
Dear Lacewing,
- It’s only fair that you read all this, because it pertains to your interest in those who speak of what they know.
- Self-glorification is a secular Thang.
- On the other hand, you must consider Bach's S.D.G. in order to understand what is going on.
- The “problem” that you perceive in Dattaswami, is a problem of
Appropriateness.
- A problem well-defined is half the solution.
- No need to turn it into a titanic clash of primal forces.
- No need to call it stupid.
- You’re free to think any critical thing you must due to the ticking of your thoughts, but stomping down on enthusiasm should not be the default response.
- You know, it’s said that when Milarepa*, who was mere mortal man, saw the light he wrote 100,000 poems. Given the brevity of some transmissions that require few words to none, I bet many of them were short poems, because even with inflation 100,000 is a lot. In fact, the number is significant for purification rituals aimed at taming the Ego, and once tamed, appropriateness takes on a whole new meaning.
There is another cause for dattaswami’s actions.
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Enthusiasm.
- The thing is, once you get old and know everything, enthusiasm don’t come easy. You know, it don’t come easy.
- Tap into the energy of his enthusiasm, which quite obviously is borne of Compassion, not Ego.
- In the context of this Situation, which is Philosophy, his enthusiasm is a Broadcasting Transmission to Contemplate, which is pondering but need not be ponderous.
- Once you see the light, enthusiasm must be suppressed in order to get along within the herd, to not stand out too much because … if you’re too enthusiastic someone will try to take that away, or change it, or say that the enthusiasm is wrong.
- This is only natural. It is the balancing force of stillness.
Still that enthusiasm! Hush up, now!
- Learning to deal with enthusiasm and suppression of that is part of integrating “the light,” into all your relationships. Learning the appropriate use of Energy is …
Integration.
- This is something that Men know.
- Logically, this must be why some men are, shall we say, flambuoyant. They are trying their darndest to not behave the way men do behave, because men must curb their enthusiasm. An example of this is Rue Paul. Examine how he behaves when dressed as a man. Fortunately for Men who don’t swing that way, there are other ways to transcend limitations, for cultural limitations are transitory.
- Enthusiasm is a manifestation of energy ...
- Eric Clapton said it well. He said that if he didn’t play music, he didn’t know what would have become of him (paraphrased, from an interview somewhere). Like most of us, he would just fade away as if he never was. This is likely why you see guys playing guitar on the street corner. It's not like they have a choice or anything.
- Dattaswami has Knowledge. He immerses in the Saraswati River of Knowledge, and this makes him untouchable. Try to take it away and he simply turns the flood in your direction. This is why he says,
I know, when told he is flooding the forum.
- Be grateful that Dattaswami is not Eric Clapton, because it's rumoured that if you don't know who Doc Pomus is and was, he won't share his intellectual knowledge with you.
- Dattaswami must study
Appropriateness to appease, to not offend. Western minds are more Individualistic. They don’t cotton to the choir verses they don’t know.
- It is possible, quite possible, that Dattaswami caught this tidbit that was floating down the River of Knowledge.
- The Western Mind that was shaped by The Age of Enlightenment has been softened up by The Communal Thinking that seems to be popular throughout the world, that can be summed up as from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
- What is the proof of this Obviousness?
- The Submission to Government’s exercise of Totalitarian Powers.
- The population has been softened up, although Ego still feels uncomfortable with swallowing information wholesale.
* For those who must keep the world properly ordered, he was not a Hindu, not a Christian, but pro-guru.
