To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/11/15 07:36
Subject: Re: Humility (was Re: [K-list] Shaktipat?
From: Jenell
On 1999/11/15 07:36, Jenell posted thus to the K-list:
Adele Chatelain wrote:
>
>
> That quote about Crowley and killing the dog: well,
> as you know, in Buddhism one is supposed to work past
> the disturbance (one wouldn't kill one's next door neighbors
> because they were making noise---although one would like
> to!:-))
> I remember teaching meditation and it seemed like just as
> soon as the class started to really get into the
> meditation---
> that was the time the jack-hammers outside the window (to
> widen
> the road) began! It was kind of funny. But it was also
> an opportunity for us all to go beyond the noise.
> Adele
>
I agree absolutely! Having had some experience in training animals,
there is a technique called 'proofing'. After you've gotten an idea
across to the animal, achieved consistent desired response in a
sheltered, quiet, non-distracting situation, you add deliberate
distractions, 'temptations', that are sure to cause the animal to
'break' from what it has been taught. The point being, so that you can
'reinforce' the lesson under more demanding cirucumstances. It doesn't
do a lot of good to have taught a dog to immediately come when called in
a quiet training yard, for example, only to have the dog 'forget' it all
when he's in hot pursuit of a cat headed toward a busy highway.
It is for this reason I also view such things as monastic or sanctuary
settings for much spiritual work, seems to me kinda like learning to
drive a car in the saftey of a garage. If you never take it out into
traffic on the road, what's the point?
Jenell
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