What would help the Temple Be A Better Place? Suggestions please...

Apologies if this has been mentioned before; I admit to not having read all 18 pages.

I think it'd be really nice if there were broader options for learning methods in the IP. As someone with learning differences it's been really tough going for me even though I love the ideas presented and thinking about what they mean for me and my path.

I'm not sure what this would look like... I've only just now found out that adaptations might be a possibility. Formal seminar/study groups? One on one discussions with Knights about IP lessons they find especially interesting or could be considered to have expertise on? I don't know. I don't know what the possibilities are at all - heck, I barely know the material of the first half of the first lesson, lol!

I just know, I've felt overwhelmed and stymied and like it will take a Herculean effort to get through the IP. Not because of lack of interest, and not because I'm incapable; just because I don't brain in a way that plays well with traditional education models.

ReallyRiver wrote: I think it'd be really nice if there were broader options for learning methods in the IP. As someone with learning differences it's been really tough going for me even though I love the ideas presented and thinking about what they mean for me and my path.

Thank you for raising this issue, River. I admit I don't know off the top of my head to what extent we have implemented accommodations for people who need them. But we absolutely should give this some consideration if we haven't already.

This is exactly the attitude I am talking about: the spirit of serving: what an earth is wrong with that... please enlighten me... I find these forums discursive and without proper aim, clarity, reality and defining collective goals: besides becoming enlightened whom ever said it was just this... its the action in the world that matters not the being whom enacts it...

JEDIONE777 wrote: This is exactly the attitude I am talking about: the spirit of serving: what an earth is wrong with that... please enlighten me... I find these forums discursive and without proper aim, clarity, reality and defining collective goals: besides becoming enlightened whom ever said it was just this... its the action in the world that matters not the being whom enacts it...

What is exactly the attitude that you're talking about?

YOURS...

JEDIONE777 wrote: YOURS...

Could you please be more specific?

Sure you don't seem like you all want to learn anything... its more about relative semantics and being right about your own path, perception and ego design... and less about what you can do for the other... a very bad sign... that the force you love so much is not actually present within you and that even if you tried harder you could not because your stuck in your own ruts... this is not conducive to a learning environment and less becoming of a true Jedi... I would say: its just a matter of time and their won't be many left now... the real hardcore ones that actually change the world with their intentions and actions and are not caught up in their reactions and ego offended when someone has something to say about service...

JEDIONE777 wrote: Sure you don't seem like you all want to learn anything... its more about relative semantics and being right about your own path, perception and ego design... and less about what you can do for the other... a very bad sign... that the force you love so much is not actually present within you and that even if you tried harder you could not because your stuck in your own ruts... this is not conducive to a learning environment and less becoming of a true Jedi... I would say: its just a matter of time and their won't be many left now... the real hardcore ones that actually change the world with their intentions and actions and are not caught up in their reactions and ego offended when someone has something to say about service...

You say that without learning about the people you're aiming that at, what they do day-to-day, their practises, and their training. Before pulling the trigger, perhaps try to identify friendlies.

Define "true Jedi" for me because I don't think there is a definition to a "true Jedi" because there is no one answer. Arisaig does have a point, all you see is what we write on here, you don't know what kind of person someone is outside this virtual world. Being judgmental is not very Jedi like, by the way.

just saying, with utmost respect.

JEDIONE777 wrote: Sure you don't seem like you all want to learn anything... its more about relative semantics and being right about your own path, perception and ego design... and less about what you can do for the other... a very bad sign... that the force you love so much is not actually present within you and that even if you tried harder you could not because your stuck in your own ruts... this is not conducive to a learning environment and less becoming of a true Jedi... I would say: its just a matter of time and their won't be many left now... the real hardcore ones that actually change the world with their intentions and actions and are not caught up in their reactions and ego offended when someone has something to say about service...

"You all?"
Excuse me, but have you taken the time to get to know me, or anyone else here? I barely post in the forums as it is, how can you make such claims at the general membership here like that when you've only scratched the surface?

One other thing, please don't mistake "your version" of Jediism as "the version" to judge all others, because everyone here is walking their own path, some are having a hard time if it just to get through the day sometimes...

We're also not the only Jedi site in the net, if for some reason we don't live up "to your standards" there are other sites who may very well do so...

I hope you find what it is you seek....