//It's obvious which direction you are steering this
too. Soon, it will be poor me, poor 'I No Stupid', poor
victim...//
I am not sure what your ‘direction’ means but I
can read between the lines – my direction is not your
direction. Also, I don’t need sympathy or
support. I don’t think it is poor me, this or
that or I m a victim. I fought each and every
one of you without fear or favour. Your lack of
direction is indeed poverty.
//I have to hand it to
you. You really are quite brainy. However, intellectual
prowess gets you nowhere when treading the path of
spirituality. You can choose to believe or disbelieve this,
but just remember that you've been informed. (I'm not
discussing this point with you on this thread or on any other
thread. Feel free to think of me as immature or
cowardly.)//
For one to be brainy, intellectual prowess is
necessary. It is a delusion to think that you
don’t need intellectual prowess to be spiritual.
Do you know what spirituality is all about?
I choose to believe the correct teaching, not
make-belief idealism of cult leaders with so-called undefined,
incomprehensible, delusional ‘experiential
realization’. It appears to me that nothing was
realized. Just some abstract, pie-in-the-sky
aspirations.
//And now, I'd like to get
back to kneading my mala beads. I need more merit so that I
may be able to constructively discuss useful Dharma information
with others on the forum without having the discussions derailed by
well-meaning but misguided people, who feel they have a better grip
on what the Buddha did or didn't teach.//
You are not discussing dhamma at all so
far. Just some dogmatic doctrines of cult
leaders.
And you don’t gain any merit by kneading your
mala beads. Better that you knead bread and give
it to hungry African children. So, you have better grip of Buddha’s
teaching? For what?
//... because you know?
I'm really a simple person. Before deep experiential
realizations of my own, I choose to believe scripture first.
Until such time I have my own insight, I may begin to separate the
wheat from the chaff. With regards to figuring out who has
insight and who is a fake, I go by whether those people can show me
a clear map to my destination, and describe the destination.
Also, I trust intuition. Yes... very far from the
intellectual that you are.//
I am sorry to learn that you have no clear map to
your destination. This confirms my statement in
first para “Your lack of direction is indeed poverty.” I am also
sorry that despite your experiential realization you need ‘those’
people to describe your destination. Your
intuition cannot be trusted. Trust the Noble
Truths. In it, your destination is already
figured out for you!
Hope you are able to separate the wheat from the
chaff so that the bread you knead will be good enough to alleviate
the sufferings of African children.
@I No Stupid,
Glad you've been liberated and live daily in bliss and
freedom. Looks like you have it all figured out.
edited to add: oh and thanks for the incisive analysis of
the status of my spirituality
