on 4/10/05 9:19 AM, Peter Sutphen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have always found this point very interesting. We > have no problem with our friends and loved-ones having > "faults" and "shortcomings". Our authentic love and > appreciation of them is never ruined by their > occasional asinine behavior or comment. But we need > our gurus and spiritual teachers to be "perfect" (and > what does that even mean?) Perhaps we need a relative > expression of That pristine, empty, complete > consciousness and we burden the limited mind/body of > that guru with that (infantile?) need/projection. Also > there truly (from CC up) is no person or individuality > called MMY. Whatever was left of Brahmachariya Mahesh > "left" many decades ago while he was sitting on a > porch with Guru Dev. There is no ego driving MMY. MMY > is just a point value fully open to THAT. And that > infinite point value behaves in ways that upsets our > point value! Interesting.......... > -Peter > Most of us were raised on MMY's teaching that being established in Being results in relative perfection: perfect health, ideal social behavior, harmony with and mastery of all the laws of nature, all good everywhere, no good nowhere, etc., and MMY was implicitly and even explicitly held up as the personification of those ideals. So a lot of people have difficulty letting go of those ideas even when reality repeatedly contradicts them. Instead, they try to reinterpret or deny reality to fit their concepts.
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