Subject: Re: preconceptions & connections
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 14:33:42 -0400
From: Paul Shane <pshane-AT-ctnet.com>


Robert,

Please do not be so hasty as to fold your hand and get up from the table; 
you've only just sat down to play. I believe you have a great deal more 
to share with us regarding your own experience of Being given many of 
your past statements. (The following quotations are all excerpted from 
your past posts):

"I propose a 'no nonsense' discussion..... without the 'baggage' that is 
often carried about like an icon to one's accomplishments." (1-25-97)

"Let me suggest to you that 'human transformation' isn't something that 
can be done alone." (1-25-97)

"Perhaps it would be beneficial for 'more conventional' academicians to 
"BE" directly, in addition to their analytic pursuits. I have discovered 
in a direct fashion that "Human Being" isn't given by "BEING," but by 
"NOT BEING." (1-25-97)

"... and by the way, I am a but a humble engineer. I am not a 
professional philosopher... .however, I 'assert' that I know plenty about 
'BEING." (1-27-97)

"I just want to be of service.... like put BEING into practice... like 
have people's lives work.... that is all. I just just thought that it 
would be 'refreshing.'" (1-27-97)

"What I would like to discuss is: BEING who one is! BEING in the 
world!... this is where my inquiry lies..." (1-27-97)

"I am just posing BEING in a light not normally available in a place 
devoted (mostly as far as I can tell) to "thinking about BEING." (1-27-97)

"The 'ground of BEING' must 'shift' from 'MIND' (let's say) to SELF 
(let's say)." (1-27-97).

"by the way. My Project is to be of service to people. not to 'prance' 
about with my already exiting 'understandings' as decoration." (1-27-97)

"Remember, this is not theoretical, or even experiential; you are present 
to "being present" ...how it works for me 'on the court' is to have 'no 
thoughts' as in 'mind chatter.' ...and never being 'at effect.' ...but 
'at cause.' ...of course, at my level of efficacy, this happens a 'large 
percentage of the time' but not always..." (1-30-97)

Given this wealth of implied insight, you must truly be an enlightened 
man. Afterall, it even says so on your web page.

I was hoping that you could save me from my present living death of 
talking and thinking about Being. Please Robert, please don't leave and 
let them throw dirt on my face before you've revealed the secret of BEING 
to me. Yes, take me onto the court with you and let us 'shift the ground 
of BEING' together. I will stop thinking as you have done and will BE my 
'listening' for you. Save me from the horror of 'triggered' 
POSITIONALITY. Come back and participate and make a contribution to my 
life because it's not even a teeny-weeny bit as remarkable as that of 
your or your friends' lives. Oh, I am so envious; if only I could be 
transformed like you. Then I could just NOT BE.

And if you won't do it for me, then do it for the others because, and 
this I find most perplexing, you've not really engaged with Henry, Sarah, 
Malcolm, Steven and Mark... or wasn't that part of your game plan?

Best regards,
Paul

;P





 


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