This is just a quick note to let you know I've decided that it's in the best interests of my development to renounce the roles of admin and moderator here at Dhamma Wheel.
I want to thank David and the moderator team for the excellent work they've done over the years and continue to do at this forum, in providing an environment where you're free to discuss any aspect of the Dhamma, so long as you do so in a reasonably cordial manner. Internet forum history has shown such impartiality to be a very rare quality, as most online moderator teams at religious forums want to use their authority to protect favoured teachers, push certain views and interpretations, moderate according to like and dislike, and pursue their own private agendas. The current team's respect for your spiritual and intellectual autonomy is real, and I ask that you continue to make their jobs as easy as possible, by appreciating the rarity of what we have here at Dhamma Wheel and continuing to engage accordingly.
Especially, I want to thank David for setting this forum up with me, at my request, all those years ago. It has been a blessing to be able to work with someone who has a temperament such as his, and I dare not imagine how much more challenging pursuing the Dhamma would be, if not for somewhere to freely discuss the Dhamma with other seekers, asking questions of others, and learning from the insights and texts shared by members.
I will still be a member of Dhamma Wheel, but will probably only know the frequency of my participation here in an ongoing capacity, once I become accustomed to having laid down these official duties.
Thank you everyone.
Metta,
Paul.
