The Best of Shargrol
4 years 7 months ago - 4 years 7 months ago #113776
by Shargrol
Replied by Shargrol on topic The Best of Shargrol
The user "Pepe" on DhO did all the work, it's really great that he did that.
The only "problem" I have with this is something I mentioned in the intro --- it's not really a "teaching" because it's so person specific, but I have a feeling it might be read dogmatically that way.
But I really am thankful to Pepe. I was struggling with how to write something that was closer to actual teaching, but kept struggling with how to do it. In some way, writing a teaching is an exercise in condescension: you assume that the reader has a particular confusion or blindness and then point it out... but if you do that for an entire book it ---feels to me --- like one lengthy condescension.
So he save my bacon from the fire by doing the compilation of past advice.
One day I'll figure out how to write this stuff up... or maybe not.
>shrug<
The only "problem" I have with this is something I mentioned in the intro --- it's not really a "teaching" because it's so person specific, but I have a feeling it might be read dogmatically that way.
But I really am thankful to Pepe. I was struggling with how to write something that was closer to actual teaching, but kept struggling with how to do it. In some way, writing a teaching is an exercise in condescension: you assume that the reader has a particular confusion or blindness and then point it out... but if you do that for an entire book it ---feels to me --- like one lengthy condescension.
So he save my bacon from the fire by doing the compilation of past advice.One day I'll figure out how to write this stuff up... or maybe not.
>shrug<
4 years 7 months ago #113785
by Tom Otvos
AwakeNetwork has a Magazine!
But seriously, I was saying to someone today that you have a clarity of description that is unusual. Yes, it may be tuned to a specific person and their practice, but we all benefit from reading it.
-- tomo
Replied by Tom Otvos on topic The Best of Shargrol
Shargrol wrote: One day I'll figure out how to write this stuff up... or maybe not.
AwakeNetwork has a Magazine!
But seriously, I was saying to someone today that you have a clarity of description that is unusual. Yes, it may be tuned to a specific person and their practice, but we all benefit from reading it.
-- tomo
4 years 7 months ago #113793
by Ona Kiser
I hadn't thought in those terms, but I had thought it tends to feel cringeworthy, even if in the moment someone asks me something and I gush enthusiastically some lengthy response, afterwards it's just cringey. But I suspect that the cringey will go away at some point (as it's a kind of self-consciousness on my part?), and then I'll be a weird babbling idiot but not care instead of being a babbling idiot who feels slightly humiliated most of the time.
Replied by Ona Kiser on topic The Best of Shargrol
Shargrol wrote: In some way, writing a teaching is an exercise in condescension: you assume that the reader has a particular confusion or blindness and then point it out... but if you do that for an entire book it ---feels to me --- like one lengthy condescension.
One day I'll figure out how to write this stuff up... or maybe not.
I hadn't thought in those terms, but I had thought it tends to feel cringeworthy, even if in the moment someone asks me something and I gush enthusiastically some lengthy response, afterwards it's just cringey. But I suspect that the cringey will go away at some point (as it's a kind of self-consciousness on my part?), and then I'll be a weird babbling idiot but not care instead of being a babbling idiot who feels slightly humiliated most of the time.