One who knows does not speak, one who speaks does not know

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1. n. yeti says:

   May 5, 2014 at 4:13 pm

   Good friend, you are truly selling yourself short if you think the merit of your work depends upon what the World Buddhism Association avers, or any person or group for that matter (much less my trivial commentary), or something so paltry as the numbers of hits you receive on the blog. I am surprised that someone of your advanced progress would feel the need to affirm this even for a split second. My seemingly blunt comment was an expression of irony regarding the paucity of earnest spiritual seekers in this obscured age, when it seems the holy message of the Buddhadharma has all but been obliterated under the vast and growing juggernaut of worldly desire, the crushing weight of exploitive commerce, and an almost universal shunting aside of the spiritual proposition altogether. It had no intent to wound you. Quite to the contrary, your sublime insights and perspectives have been of inestimable value in my practice. If I have any complaint it is the rapacity with which you jump to conclusions (vis. the Cloud of Unknowing, for example, which is, despite what may have appeared, of near total insignificance to me, or the way in which you react to certain terminology such as “universal consciousness” when what is meant is totally different from that which you interpret prima facie). Granted I do not expect you to be omniscient, but precisely because of the profundity of your deep insights, which shine with such lucidity in each of your writings, it does at times surprise me that you limit yourself to wrangle on such questions of terminology or doctrine, instead of what I think we can both agree is a field of utmost luminosity so far beyond such mundane quibbles as to obviate such discussions almost entirely. For my part I am surely responsible for bringing your attention away and focusing it on things beneath your consideration, but it was not intended. No, quite to the contrary it was out of gratitude and brotherly solidarity that I manifest here at all, and for this reason alone (rather, let me add the additional reason of shared spiritual values and a certain camaraderie on the road) which I suggested – as gently as I could – that you might after a difficult lifetime allow yourself to simply let go of this vast storehouse of knowledge long enough to recognize you may not need it anymore. This is no fad, no borrowed teaching, or following what someone else says, it is not part of any popular trend or spiritual group (because I have none whatsoever) and it is not something which depends on any authority whatsoever, mine or anyone else’s, because it is not even a thing unto itself. I sense deeply that the pangs of samsara limit your patience and lead to hasty judgments; and for not being more sensitive to this I apologize. I feel at this point it is perhaps best to take my leave altogether from this virtual space because I see now my presence has not been auspicious toward your work. It is not without sincere gratitude however, nor is it out of any other motive than to cease to inhibit yours (or anyone else’s) spiritual progress. Go onward then lighting the way, without my distracting presence, but with the conveyance of divine compassion and my deepest blessings as a fellow seeker, and know that I shall be with you in spirit, if not in word, and that my hope is for any worldly or spiritual pain you are experiencing to subside, and a shedding of any of the last vestiges of this dream-world’s veils which may remain so that your gnosis is, in this very lifetime, complete.