i think your response to the post was fair and insightful, likewise i'm not sure why people want to spend energy hurting others, but everyone is entitled to their opinion and all you can do is respond. strange, just before i went online and read this post i was lying in the bath, contemplating what it means being white and middle class, and all the baggage that some people tend to pile onto that existance...and i thought, ok, if i really am going to be resentful of my existence and create the illusion that somehow other people are automatically born with some unsaid integrity for being non-white or non-middle class, then i would have to act upon my beliefs and reject all that i am. so, realistically, do i see myself jumping on a plane to china and applying for a job in a sweat shop? is this really going to bring me peace and contentment? perhaps...but there's no way i'd ever do that. that would be terrifying beyond belief. who would i be helping? what would i be trying to prove? to reject what you are never seems like the best
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i spent the day really feeling wretched. i dodn't want to, but i jsut went deep into the insecurities this comment brought up for me. i realized aquite a few things, exhausted myself in the process. thanks you so much for your comment. i agree withthe last line of the 1st paragraph fully. i think it is a startng point, to awaken to what you are (in a samsarc sense of the world) and live it conciously, and be grateful for it. and i aree it was good to have a moment ofof totaly questioning the validity of my entire trip. and to come up with some lightness about it. obvoiusly since this comment through me off with such force, i must have some insecurities about what i am doing. and obvoisly i should. there are no clear answeres over here (or anwhere!)as to how i should living, as to what to do with this life my karma has thrown me into. so thank-you so much for your support. :)
that is a terrible message for someone to write and it's wierd how much they missed the point. like it's so obvious to me that you show great spiritual maturity because you admit you have shallow desires but you know they are shallow and acknowledge you're on the path. that is what makes you someone i respect spiritually.
i agree - this comment misses the point completely. it sounds as though the poster is projecting their own frustrations at not being perfect on to you, and using knee-jerk racial/economic generalisations to back it up. how lazy! at least you're doing the work, and not sitting back and taking aim at other people for not having attained enlightenment yet.
i love you both so much. and not jsut because you always make me feel like i am ok, but in this moment, yes, beasue of that. but also becase i trust you that if i was being a total ass you would call me on it.
i am long ign for hugs in such an immense way and am envisioning your arms around me at this moment.
That person is just being mean spirited, a common occurence on the faceless digital environment. I am glad you took it as a learning opportunity even though it was obviously full of malicious intent. I killed anon comments on my journal for that reason: if you are so proud of what you are saying, why don't you sign your name?
it is important to always be critically conscious of our priviledge and your reader has brought this to light. i doubt that the person's intent was malicious! i highly doubt that a malicious reader would bother to take the time to read your journal!
at any rate, i am glad to see that you have taken it as a learning opportunity. we would never learn ANYTHING if EVERYONE always agreed with us.
personally, i learn NOTHING from people who always agree with me! what is there in that really? i am grateful for disagreement.
that's just typical!! anyone who can hide under the guise of a computer generated personality so they can barb other people is so cowardly!!! i had a dream of someone posting a similar flaming comment the other day and was actually terrified it might be true....i turns out i think i dreamt of this incident!!!then again someone might just pounce on one of my comments someday...but think of it this way...your a brave soul, and we who are your friends will always give you support, because we love you so fucking much!!!!! so, anti-stomach punch, and a big cyberhugandkiss babe!!!!!!!your hardly white middleclass, more like rainbow and cloud.... bless you!!
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thanks you so much for your comment. i agree withthe last line of the 1st paragraph fully. i think it is a startng point, to awaken to what you are (in a samsarc sense of the world) and live it conciously, and be grateful for it.
and i aree it was good to have a moment ofof totaly questioning the validity of my entire trip. and to come up with some lightness about it. obvoiusly since this comment through me off with such force, i must have some insecurities about what i am doing.
and obvoisly i should. there are no clear answeres over here (or anwhere!)as to how i should living, as to what to do with this life my karma has thrown me into.
so thank-you so much for your support.
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i am long ign for hugs in such an immense way and am envisioning your arms around me at this moment.
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at any rate, i am glad to see that you have taken it as a learning opportunity. we would never learn ANYTHING if EVERYONE always agreed with us.
personally, i learn NOTHING from people who always agree with me! what is there in that really? i am grateful for disagreement.
journey's blessings.
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bless you!!
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