To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/09/23 08:01
Subject: Re: [K-list] seemingly stupid questions about K
From: Ville Vainio
On 1999/09/23 08:01, Ville Vainio posted thus to the K-list:
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Martin Thompson wrote:
> early stages I am not going to know that. Talk of eliminating the ego
> therefore sounds counterproductive. I prefer "integrating" or
> "transcending."
I don't use the word eliminating myself, as the ego gets less attention
automatically in the k process, there is no need for us to do any specific
ego-eliminating excercises.
> > I can't see the
> >significance you put to the social status/job. Me, I wouldn't care if I
> >had to live on welfare all my life (actully, it would be great to get
> >welfare, it would be much higher than the money students get).
>
> I'd rather be a contributor to the net weal of the world. That may
> happen by being a recluse or a dole collector, or it may happen by being
> an entrepreneur meeting wants in exchange for cash. My particular view
> gives greater odds on the entrepreneur being of greater net benefit than
> the person who is paid to stay at home - but life is perfect anyway.
Being paid to stay at home is kinda like what the sannyasins could do,
with the exception that there is no need to beg for anything, just fill
the forms at your leisure. However, my ego (only weakened, not elimated,
remember) kinda pushes me to do something useful, if for nothing else then
to not disappoint my parents. I think welfare is a perfect way to go for
people who have truly transcended ego. I got it for two years (after
dropping out of U of Tech because of K), and I think it was good living
for the time.
> > My rice
> >would still taste better than the beef of fat businessmen, and my P2 would
> >run faster than the Athlon of an ignorant executive ;-).
>
> Careful - you might be one one day.
Having seen how preoccupied one gets with ones businesses when one puts up
a firm, I really would prefer to be just an employee (well paid one,
though ;-).
Ville Vainio - vvainioATnospamtp.spt.fi http://www.tp.spt.fi/~vvainio
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