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jodyr
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Yesterday, May 13, I read my blog with different eyes. I found it to be excessively shrill, rather than bitingly sarcastic. As a result, I took it offline and I'm trying to decide what to do with it. This had nothing to do with any guru, guru's devotee or lawyer, nor did I suddenly "see the light" about gurus and realize I was mistaken. The fact is I didn't like the tone of my writing upon last night's review, so until further notice, I'm going to try to generate a new approach that is just as critical without sounding quite as harsh.

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14th May 15:27 p.m.
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Sounds interesting. At least we're not gonna lose your critique altogether.

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14th May 16:32 p.m.
em
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I wondered where you had vanished to. It is good to take a step back and look, from time to time. My blog has gone through changes over the years. Some drastic, some not quite so obvious. I trust it works out for you.

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14th May 16:38 p.m.
jodyr
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The blog is back up with a bit of softening. For whatever reason, I was suddenly able to see how shrill I can sound. As much as I find these "gurus" to be utter losers as spiritual teachers, my excessively accusatory tone isn't really what's called for.

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14th May 19:37 p.m.
waldo
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I was introduced to your blog through a friend who felt it might interest me.
It did.
It grabbed me with an enormous amount of enthusiasm and resonated with so much of what I felt.
And then after a while I felts that things began to pall - perhaps this ran in parallel with your feelings.
I nearly wrote in at some points, but felt it would be an intrusion.
Whatever.

Nice to see the re-evaluation, and I look forward to tasting bitter candy, but perhaps interlaced from time to time with a measured dash of the milk [ Wink ] of human kindness.

best wishes

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16th May 06:00 a.m.
jodyr
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Hey Waldo.

Sometimes my perpetual disgust with these ignorance-broadcasting flimflammers gets the best of me. Thanks for the kind words.

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17th May 15:36 p.m.
randomstu
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This happens to me all the time. I write something (or say or do something), and then wonder if it was a mistake.

My original Zen teacher used to say, "Mistakes don't matter." The point, I think, is that absolutely all we've got is what we're doing right now. Always, always, the only thing we can ever do is try our best in this moment. Making a mistake (or 3 mistakes or 10,000 mistakes)... the challenge always remains meeting each new situation.

Everything appears out of emptiness, and returns to emptiness. So, for example, you can get born, make few mistakes, and then die. Or you can get born, make many mistakes, and then die. Those may be different paths, but they lead to the same destination.

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19th May 02:42 a.m.
yomamma
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what the ? you did? I guess I have noticed that things have been slower.so slow i've been forced to come over to the forum and see WTH is going on. A light goes out of my life when GP has a reflective episode, but I'm just a guest at the party , i don't make the souffle. may you rise again.

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29th May 18:19 p.m.
jhowardprasad
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I just posted my first blog ever, here. Much too long. I've been tring to find a way to remove it ever since (just a couple of days ago). it was accurate and honest, but too long and could be misinterpreted as I was upset when I wrote it.

can someone help me. lefora seems never to be online

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12th June 01:04 a.m.
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