David's thesis:
I would also enjoy hearing anyone's comments or insights as I don't think my goose is done being cooked.
A response with samples of posts without regard to the order of David's posting them.
Intentions and motivations:David to Yadid (who asked "What is your intention in posting on the DhO?"):
I suppose its the endless drive to know...
David to Nick:
...and what I'm looking for is the spontaneous experience.
David to Bruno (the order in which these were written is reversed):
Why would a realized individual get out of bed in the morning? The answer is that I don't know.
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Your questions about intention and the general notion of motivation is what I find the most interesting.
Why do you find questions about intention and the general notion of motivation most interesting?
Do you know your motivations? Are you motivated to get out of bed in the morning?
Most people and everyone:David's first post:
I can see everyone playing identity games everywhere. That's mostly all that everybody seems to be doing. Making up alliances and enemies.
Are you making up this observation? Who can tell what all everybody seems to be doing?
David to Bruno:
You see most people are endlessly looking to fix the objects of perception (the environment) in an attempt to be happy.
Who sees? Do you mean to say "I see most people are endlessly..."?
What is your ability to endlessly see most people: i) who knows most people, ii) who lives long enough to adjudicate most people's "endlessly looking to fix the objects of perception", and iii) who determines what is an "attempt to be happy" versus what is happy, and who can distinguish this for "most people" (or even one other person)?
David to Bruno:
I was doing with 'spirituality' the same thing that most people do with life in general. I was trying to get something.
What can you know about most people's doings, and what is life in general?
Why not say, "I was doing 'spirituality. I was trying to get something." Why speak for most people and life in general?
David to Beoman:
People think this 'path' results in some exalted metaphysical state. The fact is that most people are in a state.
Where are the people thinking of an exalted metaphysical state?
Is the assumption of knowing most people's/everyone's doings, thinkings, attempts, fixings a metaphysical state or a delusional state?
David to Beoman:
For the reasons we have just explored many realized people have come to the conclusion that meditation leads you away from the source. Personally I don't agree. I'm thinking that quiessence clears the way for wisdom to arise
Again, how do you know the conclusion of "many realized people"?
Does "you" want to disagree with its assumptions of many realized people?
David to Beoman:
When you look around does it seem to you that the majority of people in this world are behaving in a sane, non-delusional way?
Can you, David, see the majority of people in this world?
David's first post:
I noticed that people in general were acting stupidly and in a way that did not seem to make sense.
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When you watch people its like you're watching robots.
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I know that all of this is words and very few people know what I'm talking about.
David to Dauphin:
I may be completely delusional. But whatever this is I highly recommend it.
Well, the key is to meet those times with equanimity.*
David to Bruno:
The more things non-essential to this investigation, including TV, that you can turn off the faster you're going to cook.
David, can there be "spontaneous experience" with all of these you-facets (excerpted above) and governing, or can there be only endlessly driving?
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*Words cited from David's vipassana teacher
[edits: typos, format]