This line from Rumi feels painfully relevant for humanity right now: “Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.”
If they freely chose to sit, they wouldn't need to be told to sit down. The information about the ledge would be sufficient. 'Receiving updates' (persuasion) is being conflated with "subjugating one's own judgement to someone else (who isn't 'drunk')" (coercion).
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I like the distinction between persuasion and coercion. In ever circumstance where we might be mindlessly coercive, or mindlessly coerced, we should instead consider the intermediary of persuasion.
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However, in the mantric analogy, part of being emotionally/perceptually "drunk" is that one cannot adequately perceive the ledge of the rooftop.
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