10-14-2010, 12:00 AM
DJ said many things to Carlos and always said in the context of what was being taught at a particular juncture. Here is another quote that approaches from a different angle than what he said above:
"Its not the people around you who are at fault. They cannot help themselves. The fault is with you, because you can help yourself, but you are bent on judging them, at a deep level of silence. Any **** can judge. If you judge them, you will only get the worst out of them. All of us human beings are prisoners, and its that prison that makes us act in such a miserable way. Your challenge is to take people as they are. Leave people alone."
Here he seems to take a hard tone with Carlos, putting the entire burden of change upon his shoulders rather than any external view of fellow men. DJ often did this, contradict, becasue truly he was teaching his student Carlos and so was tailoring it to the situation, which changed often. I don't think DJ believed any view exclusively, its was only his controlled folly that made him say what he did. He also wrote of a state of sameness, saying that that state didn't have laughter, so its controlled folly that causes a person to see and laugh, to care even though they know it doesn't matter because nothing matters. He was trying to get Carlos to see, and each step of the way was a process, so different advice was delved out accordingly.
The enemy can be real in perceptual experience but so too can a view of total unity.
"Its not the people around you who are at fault. They cannot help themselves. The fault is with you, because you can help yourself, but you are bent on judging them, at a deep level of silence. Any **** can judge. If you judge them, you will only get the worst out of them. All of us human beings are prisoners, and its that prison that makes us act in such a miserable way. Your challenge is to take people as they are. Leave people alone."
Here he seems to take a hard tone with Carlos, putting the entire burden of change upon his shoulders rather than any external view of fellow men. DJ often did this, contradict, becasue truly he was teaching his student Carlos and so was tailoring it to the situation, which changed often. I don't think DJ believed any view exclusively, its was only his controlled folly that made him say what he did. He also wrote of a state of sameness, saying that that state didn't have laughter, so its controlled folly that causes a person to see and laugh, to care even though they know it doesn't matter because nothing matters. He was trying to get Carlos to see, and each step of the way was a process, so different advice was delved out accordingly.
The enemy can be real in perceptual experience but so too can a view of total unity.