anart said:
You are evidencing, quite strongly, your complete lack of a firm grasp on what it is we do here and why we do it. This is almost certainly a direct result of reading and keeping your own counsel and NOT questioning yourself and your understanding. If you are attempting to teach others about this material with your current level of knowledge, then you are doing damage - and nothing more. You may even be assuring that they will never approach this material on their own and benefit from it because your introduction was so misguided and not objectively true that they will forever connect the material to you - thus you destroy whatever inherent chance they might have had on their own. You do not grasp the horror of that possibility, or the resultant responsibility, or you would not be doing what you are doing.
You are not even willing to consider the possibility that what I have said to you up to this point is the absolute truth - yet you consider yourself capable of teaching others?
Those are important words to heed. On a number of occasions in the past, I've tried to "teach" others and explain what the material is all about, but failed at it completely. As I look back from a different perspective, my own self-importance, and worst of all, arrogance and belief in my own understanding was so utterly subjective and flawed in objective reasoning, that I actually thought I was at a level where I can explain and teach others. The irony being, in my introduction post on this forum, I stated how I got over my arrogance, yet all the while, this aspect of my personality is just waiting to come through in moments where I lose myself.
anart said:
I understand your desire to 'help' - however you must first help yourself to gain an objective understanding - if not , not only will you be leading yourself astray, but you'll be leading others astray.
I've noticed how just BEing in a situation, the few times I have actually accomplished this without any desire, or urge to want to "help" or "save" someone, but just being open to what's going on, what the other person is saying and doing, will usually cause an effect in another person, where, maybe just for an instant they seem aware to a degree of their situation (at least from my perspective). It's actually an amazing thing to watch, and how it involves so little effort on my part, YET, requires so much effort and discipline to BE in the situation. To watch and observe yourself, your thoughts, the other person, your environment, changes, everything involved in the process, yet have it kind of "merged" into this overall awareness, and most importantly, acting upon this awareness in the "appropriate" manner, fully realizing consideration for others. It's so different from urging and pushing to help someone, try to explain this and that theory, that you may or may not truly know.
Non-anticipation is so important, that it often becomes the easiest thing to forget in any given situation.
These are just some thoughts to add fwiw.