I'm with all on the public face of this forum...meditation practice is meditation practice, and ultimately about developing equanimity and peace within ourselves. I'll go out on a limb and say that the writer of that e-mail was neither right nor wrong, good nor bad. Just someone who was suffering and out of that suffering came what often comes when one of us suffers - its infliction on someone else. That happens online and offline in the world, and I would be sad if the support that this blog offers to countless people's meditation practice were to end in an effort to seek something that doesn't exist anywhere - freedom from human foible, judgement, and suffering...
Thanks to everyone for the very honest, open sharing that always takes place here. It makes a difference for me.
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Good morning, all!
I'm with all on the public face of this forum...meditation practice is meditation practice, and ultimately about developing equanimity and peace within ourselves. I'll go out on a limb and say that the writer of that e-mail was neither right nor wrong, good nor bad. Just someone who was suffering and out of that suffering came what often comes when one of us suffers - its infliction on someone else. That happens online and offline in the world, and I would be sad if the support that this blog offers to countless people's meditation practice were to end in an effort to seek something that doesn't exist anywhere - freedom from human foible, judgement, and suffering...
Thanks to everyone for the very honest, open sharing that always takes place here. It makes a difference for me.
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