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Been listening to a really interesting discussion between Jordan Peterson and Sir Roger Scruton, and Jordan made a remark to the effect, there is no conversation possible with those who can admit no ignorance. (He made the point much more effectively than I have.)

https://youtu.be/XvbtKAYdcZY

Italian insults are much more interesting than the British equivalent. Much more vindictive and dismissive. Make British insults and slurs just seem really lame.

Keep up the good work veet francesco, lord of Italian plain speaking,

You old hippy. Lovely stuff.

Actually the one who sprang most to mind was a ma who had just taken sannyas, but yes blokes as well

Everytime I ever came across anyone who was into ’'Tantra’', I always had the impression they just wanted to break the world record for screwing, and to rationalise this, used the label, spiritual practise; ie tantra.

I am thinking the Kindle edition is a massively edited version of all three books she wrote.

swamishanti

I’ve returned the kindle
I wanted to lift passages from it for something I’m writing, but the edition is so differen, t no use to me.

The first chapter in the book starts with Maneeshas early life. The first chapter in the kindle edition is set on the ranch

So why have this sent this to you SD?

I think we should be told.

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My mind is boggled

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I wondered

Reads like a MAD parody.

I winced and am amused; as I am watching peter cook and dudley Moore, doing their faux naif thing.

IMO, part of the meditation journey, the meditation journey is to examine our stories, that we think are what actually happened, and in so doing eventually see them as stories which give us identity, and the looking through meditation changes the stories. (This is considered conjecture on my part, and may well be just part of my story about my…[Read more]

The stories that stick with us when very young, I surmise, are the basis of our identity; then once that’s happened, we increasingly tune into that which supports that identity. Also very connected to what hurts us I guess, survival mechanisms.

Everybody creates a story that supports a sense of identity and then as the sense of identity develops, we are drawn to memories and incidences, we become attached to memories and incidences the support that growing sense of identity.

Jonathan Gottschall; the storytelling animal. At Amazon.

https://youtu.be/Vhd0XdedLpY