Huge quandary: boss is flying his guru out. Woowoo AF. Do I make a statement about where I stand or do I fake my way through it?
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knowing nothing about your background: do you have some kind of PTSD trigger about this stuff or just very very opinionated? If not PTSD, then you have a good opportunity to examine your own uptightness, possible self-righteousness. Try to relax
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I think it’s ultimately about territory. I’ve dedicated my life to injecting what I find to be clarity about nonduality, and now I have to contend with somebody that I feel is doing the opposite, as an authority, on what is ostensibly my turf.
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Yeah. Then it’s a great opportunity for you to relax, engage lightly w life. “in between sessions, be a child of illusion.” How would you feel if this were happening in a dream you were having, once you realized it was a dream?
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I don’t buy the life’s a dream trope. Life is about paying bills, whether it’s an amoeba finding bacteria to graze on or me having to pay rent. In order to continue to do that, I have to endure the travail of dealing with somebody who teaches from the folk theory.
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You’re insistent that people who are, in your view, deluded shouldn’t teach or act from their view. If you try and foist your view on them - make a stand - aren’t you just another proselytizing believer?
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I would not make the attempt to proselytize anyone here. As I said, very few believe I have the experiential standing to do so. But you are correct to observe I’m uptight about it and perhaps need to find room for other views, deluded as I may find them to be.
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I dig the conversation you are having with folks on here about this. As I see it, the room I make is not so much for other views, as for other people. I have come to respect other people's need for their beliefs, however delusional.
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The more rigid and delusional a belief, the greater the need for that belief. And the greater the need for a belief, the greater risk to that person's integrity if that belief is challenged. I respect that need, and not the belief, which is often quite silly without the need.
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A delusional belief can be likened unto a knife that is plugging up a wound in someone. If you are going to pull a knife out, are you prepared to attend to the person when they are bleeding out? Do you have the skills and time to manage a breakdown?
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That is a very succinct way to put it, though I would add that not all delusions are necessarily even harmful (unless you're a hardcore Platonic) - further complicating the sitch.
Like you, I tend just to leave it alone. Until I have a chance to complain on Twitter, anyway.
Ha! Yes. Twitter is a place for us to hash stuff out. And yes, delusion is also a form of creativity, and it may be the best that a person has gotten to. In fact, preserving another person's delusions may be a form of care for them. You break it; you own it.
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To that last line: Indeed. I was speaking from experience.
Very unpleasant experience.
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