11-27-2011, 12:01 AM
quantumshaman wrote
iamond Unicorn wrote:
quantumshaman wrote:
If your teacher HASN'T lied to you to get you to change your thinking, he's probably not a very effective teacher. (Oh my! Illusions of wholesomeness and truth, justice and the usual yada just got blasted all to hell!)
Not really, it just shows that YOUR ideal of 'master teacher' is: someone who is a liar.
Not all liars are shamans. But all shamans are liars.
Get over it.
Or... as Jack Nicholson said with such conviction in "A Few Good Men"...
"You can't HANDLE the truth."
*gotta laugh* Until a warrior reaches a certain level of awareness, s/he can't handle the truth.
I ain't lyin'.
LOL!
Just one point to make here, been a great read so far this thread btw... is that I would put a small line in between a lie that is a trickery by a teacher (or parent for that matter) in order to eventually achieve a positive end, and a lie told for purely selfish reasons. Not that it matters, but the word lie does have some rather ugly connotations. At the end of the day, however, when you are alone in your bed, just you, yourself and your death, nothing anyone else has ever said to you really matters, lie or not!
It's all just flying french poodles!
iamond Unicorn wrote:quantumshaman wrote:
If your teacher HASN'T lied to you to get you to change your thinking, he's probably not a very effective teacher. (Oh my! Illusions of wholesomeness and truth, justice and the usual yada just got blasted all to hell!)
Not really, it just shows that YOUR ideal of 'master teacher' is: someone who is a liar.
Not all liars are shamans. But all shamans are liars.
Get over it.
Or... as Jack Nicholson said with such conviction in "A Few Good Men"...
"You can't HANDLE the truth."
*gotta laugh* Until a warrior reaches a certain level of awareness, s/he can't handle the truth.
I ain't lyin'.
LOL!
Just one point to make here, been a great read so far this thread btw... is that I would put a small line in between a lie that is a trickery by a teacher (or parent for that matter) in order to eventually achieve a positive end, and a lie told for purely selfish reasons. Not that it matters, but the word lie does have some rather ugly connotations. At the end of the day, however, when you are alone in your bed, just you, yourself and your death, nothing anyone else has ever said to you really matters, lie or not!
It's all just flying french poodles!