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Posted by josef on 12/11/2009, 8:54 am, in reply to "Re: And This Too!"
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I've told this story before, but it was one of my first Aha moments about conditioning, and a dramatic one at that. In Chicago many years ago there was a newspaper article about a young woman who had been raped. An interview with the young woman was included, and it was astonishing.
She had been jogging in the park when a man grabbed her, dragged her into the bushes and raped her. When he had finished she asked him, with real interest, why he had done it. Startled, he actually talked to her, and they talked, person to person awhile, then he left her.
She reported it to the police, because she understood the crime of it. But in the news interview she revealed something amazing. No trauma, no drama. It was, to her, a simple act. A few moments. She wasn't promiscuous, but it wasn't her first sexual experience, but her first forced one. She, for some reason didn't carry the society "Violated!" stigma, didn't see it as any more than what it actually was: a few moments of unpleasant physical sensation. The simple reality. No emotional component added.
The fact was she wasn't psychologically harmed *because* she didn't have the societally-conditioned message about rape that reads violation, trauma, shame, etc.
That's an extreme example, and most people's reaction, from conditioning, might strongly object, but when really examined it reveals alot, imo.
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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