Caring/Compassion/Sensitivity/Tact vs Lying/Faking

[zenmaster]

Understanding is strangely layered and digging down, we find it's often supported by quite tenuous notions of what is perceived to be the case, but most often just enough to satisfy the ego. Sometimes it's in the form of a mere apprehension (intuitive notions of "could-be's") instead of a more integrated and workable comprehension (experience/knowledge). However, most of the forum conflicts are due to an unwillingness to (re)address first principles from which we derive meaning. Lacking a "shared mind", there must be another mechanism to get on the same page - as inefficient as it may be, and from there we can better offer our insights. The more successful dialogs invariably acknowledge possibly unappreciated standpoints and attempt to refocus on these first principles in attempt to discover where the limits of knowledge are.

In any case, "Thus, to attempt to discern and weave your way through as many group mind/body/spirit distortions as possible among your peoples in the course of your teaching is a very good effort to make. We can speak no more valiantly of your desire to serve."

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Even among "spiritual" communities, there is a particular American brand of relativism which has become expressed in a nutshell as "You Create Your Own Reality" or YCYOR. As with all spiritual truths, there exists a twisted- or bastardized- version of it which is ascribed to by a certain percentage of the population.

Relativism/pluralism is just another stage in the development of mind here, with possible healthy an pathological expressions. It can be used like a weapon or to actually provide more opportunity for acceptance.