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Don't Congratulate - And Don't Hate...

25/4/2012

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You know me, the two choices - expand or contract, love or fear, truth or sham... well, I'm a fan of being real, and keeping it real with myself, too.

Got a lot of positive support - thanks and praise. It is priceless and I thank you. I hope I've earned the care and respect I'm being afforded, and I hope to be back with y'all in the practice quite soon.

But first, a little of my own cleanup. Part of the reason for my transition from what I was doing to what I want to do was to follow my truth, not my ego, not my desire for what I believed would happen, but rather for what I can create myself. I'm happy with that, I'm proud of being truthful enough with myself to make positive change.

And, making that change and getting the support of others ennobles me and helps me feel empowered to pursue those truths - to see what will develop.

However, even positive attributes like Truth can be mis-used and abused. With almost every emotion, action, or even physical item we encounter, we can choose to use them correctly or incorrectly - as a tool or a weapon.

I was too brutally honest, to proud of my honesty. I used honesty and truth to hurt others and for that I admit my failings. The outcome doesn't bother me, that was natural. But, I'm not an 'ends' person, I like to live in the 'means', so to coin a phrase, my means were mean.

Kinda shitty, I'll own it and the detriment it caused. I'm not saying what I said isn't true, it just probably didn't need to be said. A good lesson. So, not a saint, and yes a sinner, and just like many of you, making my way through the world.

I'm right where I need to be. I will apologize for using facts to hurt others, I will sit in study of myself and get those triggers identified, so I can use truth to support and uplift. It's not my role to be righteous, but rather to move on and just get right with me.

Not trying to be cryptic, I'm happy to share in person more if this intrigues you, but this is not about the 'story' or the 'drama', but rather, the 'author' and what he has learned.

Thanks and praise, for letting me learn and live. Apologies if my use of the truth hurt any of you all. Let's move on and co-create a new way of relating that isn't so much about proving who is right, but lifting the whole community.
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Sally link
25/4/2012 12:27:51 pm

Considerations:

"We often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing." Aesop

"Anything more than the truth would be too much." Robert Frost

"Anything less than the truth would be a lie." Yours truly

"We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish." John Culkin

"We delude ourselves that we want to implant honesty in our children: what we really want is to imbue them with our particular kind of dishonesty, with our culture's dishonesty." Sidney Harris

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" Dogen

"Fur comes from fir trees." Sally, in Peanuts

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare

"The great majority of readers and hearers are the same all over the world. If you speak to them of profound Truths, they yawn, and if they dare, they leave you, but if you tell them absurd fables they are all eyes and ears. They wish the doctrines preached to them whether religious, philosophic, or social, to be agreeable, to be consistent with their conceptions, to satisfy their inclinations, in fact that they find themselves in them, and that they feel themselves approved by them." Unknown Tibetan Lama

"If everything that isn't true is let go, then what remains must be true." Peter Ralston

"How was school today? Did they teach you how to believe or how to think?" Nathra Nader

... you know, I don't know what happened. But to this/your post, I just want to say, please don't sell the truth or yourself short. Honesty is a supreme practice in itself. A very deep, important practice. Lies of ommission, half truths, sugar coated concoctions, etc. are deceitful. The truth is the truth. It isn't always pleasant and it isn't always useful. But, in many ways, it is really all there is. And I'll leave you with one last quote:

Have good trust in yourself ----
Not in the One that you think you should be,
but in the One that you are. Maezumi Roshi

Sat Nam, Brother

Have good trust in yourself

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Jack
25/4/2012 11:38:45 pm

If you are right where you need to be, then that is all I need. For you and to you, Support, Praise, Honesty and most of all the ability to think more than believe. As they say, believing is easier than thinking. We'll be back in practice VERY soon

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jenn
26/4/2012 03:22:51 am

I like the Dalai Lama's tenets for whether something should be said or not.

Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is is necessary?

I usually fuck it up after the first one.


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