Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TMO ishta mantras in India

[Llundrub]

Yeah, absolutely this is dangerous. I would suspect what this would engender would be people setting themselves up as teachers and selling their wares, websites, slick marketing, etc....and this is exactly what has happened. It is essential to emphasize kindness, especially to people interested in higher teaching. If a person cannot really connect to a sense of kindness toward others, then the teachings can simply be distorted into a method of cultivating some form of sanctified misanthropy. Enlightenment is supposed to be naturally connected with the thought of enlightenment of everyone--and this manifests thru compassion, that way you automatically not only retain a connection to other beings, you spontaneously act on their behalf. "All you need is love." -the Four Sages ;-) ---Well, also there is the danger really of setting oneself up as expert, then solidifying experience around ones old crusty ego, which is basically like deciding to have sex with a corpse. The real ego is not some solidified material atomic structure but a sliding energetic variable which can slip into new levels as the circumstance directs. To not have a sliding ego, which is open to change is to be out of touch with the cosmos which always changes.  Thereby one falls from the evolutionary process. To presuppose that one is at their best already is to stop oneself from growing and also to condense things about one until one is trapped.   On the other hand, some egoists are so good at it that they become the nearly puranic examples of the extreme of such a process, such as Hitler, etc... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/   To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.