The Stuart Davis Show - Episode 10: The Tragedy at VA Tech

[ShiatsuRobs]

This was just great. Unpacked it all nicely and then wrapped it all up succinctly. Thanks.

[aknightofswords]

You could spend days using every dripping ounce of your reasoning ability to understand the intuitive insight that your wife (my wife also) seems to just float in. I love my wife.

[Wrymenigma]

Insightful as always. Thank you.

I notice getting wrapped up in our intellectual Ego, we forget we are not the universe. Our individual thoughts don't make the universe, or heck even our personal universe ( such as "The Secret" seems to imply).

Life isn't that simple, and yet it is that simple.

I know when I heard about this, I had heartfelt love to the shooter and his family, knowing he needed it the most, before and after the shooting. We all need love, epically those who don't receive it.

[nctuber]

Brilliant. This is among the most lucid and thoughtful responses to the Va Tech massacre that I've seen. Thanks Stu.

[grasshulaskirt]

This is so refreshing. Thank you.

[masterjtp01]

"so why am I thrashing around? There's nothing to fear, I'm ready to drown"

[chipcircuit]

Alas, the cause is anti-depresent drugs.

every school shooting as the same root cause.

from Stockton to colombine to VA tech.

[kenjifoo]

I can feel pitty for a murderer, while i shot him in selfdefense, can't I? I can know that he is a hellrider (in a bardo way) and whish he would do better, instead of wishing him even deeper to hell.

[dezunne]

"innocent people"

that's always such a strange adjective to use when any calamity befalls human beings--

it implies that somehow death, decay, impermanence and the whole shebang are somehow more sensible in other cases.

this whole world is an engine of guilt and fear.

there are no innocent,

because "the guilty" have never been.

everything is perfectly OK, and has always been.

[deesine]

If your emotional response to the death of a loved one is as your last sentence, then I believe Stuart addressed this view in the video: you haven't transcended suffering, you've divorced yourself from it.

[kenjifoo]

why not stop assuming wheter a statement comes from gut, heart, or mind. heartfelt compassion was showed for the murdere wich is healty green, as long as it does not come with a mind-wise "let him kill if he wants" and as long its is not caused by gutfelt fear of "dont dare to held him back"

[deesine]

The statement - "It's strange to rail against the universe's non-discrimination" - seems to ignore that personal sensibility towards the universe is tied to one's developmental progress. There's nothing strange about a suffering person hyperbolizing adjectivally with 'innocent' & 'guilty': it's a reaction of anger at a God/Universe that bafflingly doesn't discriminate.

However, perhaps calling a suffering person strange while declaring universal perfectness is exactly what's needed.

[goodwyrd10]

the most powerful piece yet.

Thanks Stu

[Dajida]

"Your ego is part of the dream, not the source of it."

"Be fearless with your love."

Thanks for the wonderfully quotable piece, you naked and loving souls.

[peruadam]

I like your style. I am going to be making some animation based around spiral dynamics, Wilber, Big Mind sort of structures that will hopefully senthesise split selves and the different 'colours' of fragmentation to create a sense of wholeness within the viewer. Could be a life long task but I'd like to be in contact with some people who know what they're talking about.

[spencerhead]

What about the 180+ non americans that died two days later in the baghdad car bombings? I guess they're desensitized to such carnage, so they're not as important.

[noavatar1]

He didn't talk about the crusades or the plague either. He was talking about a certain incident. It doesn't mean he has no concern for all the other millions of incidence of violence happening around the world. Stay on topic please.