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Arrogant much?
by throw_away2012 14y ago
Arrogant much?
- mkr-hn 14y agoWhat's arrogant about wanting to talk to people you consider smarter than yourself?
- kragen 14y agoPerhaps our anonymous troll was offended at Jacques Chester's implication that talking to people smarter than J.C. is an unusual occasion for J.C.
- jacques_chester 14y agoI ... hadn't thought of it that way. Satori in 3 ... 2 ...
- mkr-hn 14y agoI learned a new word
- Alex3917 14y agoJust a caveat though, jacques_chester is using the term in a way that's metaphorical, but not correct according to the literal definition. That is, if he now understands someone else's point of view then that implies there's still a 'he' to have understood something, which means that he couldn't actually be in a state of non-dual consciousness by definition.
- chc 14y agoI thought satori was the Japanese Zen term for what is commonly called "enlightenment" or "awakening" in most forms of Buddhism in America. Is it meaningfully distinct besides being primarily used in a Zen context?