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Nine more days until Harry Potter!!!
"Real compassion kicks butt and takes names, and it is not pleasant on certain days. If you are not ready for this fire, then find a new-age, sweetness-and-light, soft-speaking, perpetually-smiling teacher, and learn to relabel your ego with spiritual-sounding terms. But stay away from those who practice real compassion, because they will fry your ass, my friend. What most people mean by "compassion" is: please be nice to my ego. Well, your ego is your own worst enemy, and anybody being nice to it is not being compassionate to you.
Now maybe you and I aren't accomplished masters, and so maybe we don't always know what is real compassion and what is not. But we must start to try to learn to exercise real compassion instead of idiot compassion. We need to learn to make qualitative distinctions. These are hierarchical judgments that involve the ranking of values. If you don't like hierarchy, well fine, that is your hierarchy: you hierarchically value nonhierarchies more than you value hierarchies. That's fine with me, just be honest enough to correctly label what you are really doing. If you don't like value rankings and want to avoid them, then fine, that is your value ranking--you rank nonranking as better than ranking--and that itself is a ranking, your ranking. At least be honest about this. The fact is, ranking is unavoidable in values, so at least do it consciously, honestly, and above board, and stop this hypocritical stance that you are being "nonjudgmental," which itself is a colossal judgement."
from One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber
I'm trying to decide now if I want to go to Borders on harry Potter new book release night. My copy has been reserved since February, and I thinkit would be pretty fun to get caught up in the trendy excitment of it all...plus they'll be giving out some cool stuff I bet.
Yet, I have a strong distaste for other human beings. And it's going to be way far crowded with maniacs and children. And people dressed up like withces...okay that tears it--I'm going! Hear that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uterdic? You can't stop me!!!
Take THAT, Guernica!
Now maybe you and I aren't accomplished masters, and so maybe we don't always know what is real compassion and what is not. But we must start to try to learn to exercise real compassion instead of idiot compassion. We need to learn to make qualitative distinctions. These are hierarchical judgments that involve the ranking of values. If you don't like hierarchy, well fine, that is your hierarchy: you hierarchically value nonhierarchies more than you value hierarchies. That's fine with me, just be honest enough to correctly label what you are really doing. If you don't like value rankings and want to avoid them, then fine, that is your value ranking--you rank nonranking as better than ranking--and that itself is a ranking, your ranking. At least be honest about this. The fact is, ranking is unavoidable in values, so at least do it consciously, honestly, and above board, and stop this hypocritical stance that you are being "nonjudgmental," which itself is a colossal judgement."
from One Taste: Daily Reflections on Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber
I'm trying to decide now if I want to go to Borders on harry Potter new book release night. My copy has been reserved since February, and I thinkit would be pretty fun to get caught up in the trendy excitment of it all...plus they'll be giving out some cool stuff I bet.
Yet, I have a strong distaste for other human beings. And it's going to be way far crowded with maniacs and children. And people dressed up like withces...okay that tears it--I'm going! Hear that
uterdic? You can't stop me!!!Take THAT, Guernica!
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