Dear Peter:

You are welcome and thank you for the compliment!

“an old wound of not being seen or understood showed up“- these forums are not about irritating or opening an old wound. I am glad you weren’t offended, but lots of people don’t have your ability (using the title of your thread) to place a rude comment on a blank canvas before it makes an old wound bleed.

I don’t criticize other members’ replies to an OP, but took an exception here because of the unmistakenly rude nature of his reply (and his tendency to produce such replies in other threads). My replies aren’t perfect, but way better than in the past, on the empathy front. And so, I hope that he improves his replies by removing the Rude off of them.

And, Peter, in all the years of reading your posts, I don’t think that there was one incident that you were rude, not even once.

“My process of ‘sitting in a Koan’ (Paradox, dualism) with free flow of thoughts (slowed down by typing them out) actually calms the monkey as it tends to end in silence“- calm down the monkey mind, calm… down… the… monkey.

anita