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   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   Jigme Dorje :   
      
   > Such an entity cannot listen to others or carry on meaningful   
   > communication with them. It can only feed its false sense of identity   
   > by creating a sense of specialness, separation and superiority in   
   > comparison to others.  For such an entity to exist, others must be   
   > "wrong" and "stupid" or otherwise inferior.  It exists in a reactive   
   > state, completely dependent on the world of form.   
      
        If Jigme is describing himself then he's doing pretty well.   
   His reading difficulties stem from an inability to listen   
   without hearing his own voice, he likes to think he's specially   
   awakened, and our present discussion began with his need to   
   claim I was wrong about Buddhism.  Unfortunately for him he was   
   unable to address what I said, still less show that it was   
   false, so my point stands:  teachings like the Four Noble   
   Truths offer a highly critical perspective on worldly existence   
   no matter how much of a shock that is to worldlings like   
   Jigme who believe that "Buddhism does not comment negatively on   
   life here."   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)