Jana
12-11-2006, 05:58 AM
I wanted to turn you guys onto this spiritual teacher from Canada...how does it relate to permaculture...well if we are going to change the world or find our place in it we need to get over idiot compassion....
Man this guy doesn't let up, if anything he is getting better, hard to believe possible...hows this...idiot compassion is kindness rooted in fear. And he has a blog now, don't forget to sign up for his newzletter...this months is on idiot compassion.
"Idiot compassion does not just act kind when kindness is called for, but also when something quite different is needed, such as a forceful no, or an umistakable voicing of displeasure, or an anger-defended setting of boundaries. Such activities are not in themselves necessarily devoid of love, but whatever love is there is not limited to a kindly approach. Idiot compassion keeps love meek, sentenced to always wearing a kind face. This is not the kindness of the Dalai Lama, which is rooted in courage, but a kindness rooted in fear, not just the fear of confrontation, but also the fear of not coming across as a good person. The apparent humility of idiot compassion is little more than a kind of flattened arrogance, carrying as it does the well-disguised but nonetheless present exaggerated self-worth of being such a compassionate nobody." RAM
http://www.RobertMasters.com/newsletter ... er2006.pdf (http://www.RobertMasters.com/newsletter/November2006.pdf)
http://robertmasters.com/BLOG.html
Man this guy doesn't let up, if anything he is getting better, hard to believe possible...hows this...idiot compassion is kindness rooted in fear. And he has a blog now, don't forget to sign up for his newzletter...this months is on idiot compassion.
"Idiot compassion does not just act kind when kindness is called for, but also when something quite different is needed, such as a forceful no, or an umistakable voicing of displeasure, or an anger-defended setting of boundaries. Such activities are not in themselves necessarily devoid of love, but whatever love is there is not limited to a kindly approach. Idiot compassion keeps love meek, sentenced to always wearing a kind face. This is not the kindness of the Dalai Lama, which is rooted in courage, but a kindness rooted in fear, not just the fear of confrontation, but also the fear of not coming across as a good person. The apparent humility of idiot compassion is little more than a kind of flattened arrogance, carrying as it does the well-disguised but nonetheless present exaggerated self-worth of being such a compassionate nobody." RAM
http://www.RobertMasters.com/newsletter ... er2006.pdf (http://www.RobertMasters.com/newsletter/November2006.pdf)
http://robertmasters.com/BLOG.html