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C.S Lewis on the problem of the conformist midwit:
“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
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Forwarded from PhilosophiCat
“Basically to be treated as a hero was to be treated as a mythical being. It was the equivalent of being seen as belonging to another world, another race, another time. Deep inside us we’ve all had a glimpse of that world and that time at one moment or another. But to live what we’ve glimpsed, or allow it to be lived- that’s something else.”
~ Peter Kingsley, “In the Dark Places of Wisdom”
~ Peter Kingsley, “In the Dark Places of Wisdom”
Forwarded from Vajrarastra
Mahasiddha Khaḍgapa
Khaḍgapa was a low-caste thief. One day, he met the yogin Carpati who was seated in meditation. When Khaḍgapa asked Carpati what he was doing, Carpati said that he was meditating because he feared birth and death.
When Carpati asked him if he wanted to learn how to meditate, Khaḍgapa replied that he did not have time, asking instead for instructions on how to steal without being caught.
Carpati told him to go to the city that had a stūpa with a statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara inside. He should circumambulate it for three weeks without sitting down. When a black snake emerged from the stūpa, he should grab it.
Khaḍgapa did so, and the snake immediately turned into a sword of knowledge. He was purified of his negative karma from stealing and obtained the power of the sword, one of the eight magical powers.
Khaḍgapa was a low-caste thief. One day, he met the yogin Carpati who was seated in meditation. When Khaḍgapa asked Carpati what he was doing, Carpati said that he was meditating because he feared birth and death.
When Carpati asked him if he wanted to learn how to meditate, Khaḍgapa replied that he did not have time, asking instead for instructions on how to steal without being caught.
Carpati told him to go to the city that had a stūpa with a statue of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara inside. He should circumambulate it for three weeks without sitting down. When a black snake emerged from the stūpa, he should grab it.
Khaḍgapa did so, and the snake immediately turned into a sword of knowledge. He was purified of his negative karma from stealing and obtained the power of the sword, one of the eight magical powers.
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