corboy Wrote:
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> It would be a interesting project to get the
> descriptions of Maharshi's talks and compare them
> with Moo's output.
I haven't done the work, but my intuition is that
Ramana Maharshi approached questions in a much more roundabout way,
leaving more then enough space for the listener
to interpret in an appropriately situated manner.
Moo seems to have a more direct approach,
which greatly increases the gaslighting potential in my opinion.
(just as a beside, corboy, why do you refer to yourself in the third person?,
it reminds me of 'there is no one there', but that probably says more about me than you.)
corboy Wrote:
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> Denying how frightened you are is key to the
> cultic arrangement.
Although I said I hadn't personally felt that my mind wasn't to be trusted,
I might just have been, and probably still am, caught in the web of denial
of course I have conveniently projected my own fear
of having my mind publicly scrutinized and revealed as trapped in illusion
onto those who were actually undergoing it.
As liberating to admit this here
as suffocating the anxiety of public shame
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> It would be a interesting project to get the
> descriptions of Maharshi's talks and compare them
> with Moo's output.
I haven't done the work, but my intuition is that
Ramana Maharshi approached questions in a much more roundabout way,
leaving more then enough space for the listener
to interpret in an appropriately situated manner.
Moo seems to have a more direct approach,
which greatly increases the gaslighting potential in my opinion.
(just as a beside, corboy, why do you refer to yourself in the third person?,
it reminds me of 'there is no one there', but that probably says more about me than you.)
corboy Wrote:
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> Denying how frightened you are is key to the
> cultic arrangement.
Although I said I hadn't personally felt that my mind wasn't to be trusted,
I might just have been, and probably still am, caught in the web of denial
of course I have conveniently projected my own fear
of having my mind publicly scrutinized and revealed as trapped in illusion
onto those who were actually undergoing it.
As liberating to admit this here
as suffocating the anxiety of public shame