This is literally and intentionally what I am doing. I am studying this corpus as literature. That is why I am here. I keep telling people, over and over again, that if I need spiritual advice, or meditation advise, I can get it from actual monastics who I can talk to face to face, who I have personal and direct confidence in, who I respect, in real actual off the internet life. No matter how many times I say it, no matter how calmly or angrily, no mater how simply or in how much detail, strangers on the internet who do not know me from a bar of soap, who know literally nothing about my practice, who do not appear to have the capacity to understand what I have said above about finding unsolicited spiritual advice to be narcissistic and delusional, keep relentlessly appearing on my threads to give me this unsolicited, unwelcome, rude, narcissistic, condescending bromides about how they understand Buddhism better than me and how they think I should behave or practice.
This is direct, literal evidence of the failure of these posters to understand the basic tenants of Buddhism: right speech is speech that is timely, welcome, that unifies, and dispels doubts.
Your speech to me is unwelcome!
So you are literally showing me that you don’t understand enough about the very basics of polite conduct to be someone from whom I would take spiritual advice.
Please, I am begging you, stop giving me unsolicited religous advice about my practice.
From the FAQ:
I am not interested in your spiritual advice.
I do not welcome it.
I find it offensive.
I find it to be evidence of narcissism and delusion, especially when it is given after I have explicitly asked for it not to be done.
You are violating the rules of the forum doing this and causing me distress.
Please. Just. Stop. It.
Again, I am studying these texts. This forum is built with the intention of facilitating the study of these texts.
I know for a fact that there are people who have been hounded from this board and now no longer post, because a reactionary anti-intellectual culture has been allowed to fester and the mods simply ignore the rules about spiritual advice.
If this is going to be a place where everyone can post their thoughts about Buddhism and feel safe and respected then rule 3.2 of the FAQ needs to be respected.
It is inappropriate to tell a person, without their having asked, that you think they need to practice their religion differently.
Can you see that?
Metta.