Dr. Jim Manganiello states what I've been thinking exactly of late. There is a need to separate "guru divinity and lineage" from "practice" or "teaching" in cases where the "guru" has compromised his/her principles or, by virtue of his/her position is unable to maintain the unreasonable standards of being "God" or a channel for "God" and descends into narcissism - as a function of the tradition, belief system, adulation of devotees, human desires or whatever. This is why I don't/can't follow any *one* spiritual leader or religion or program. Doesn't mean that there aren't many good teachers out there.
I believe that most of this blog applies directly to the situation Amma has created for herself as well, in her "movement," which is creating dependence and infantilizing its devotees, at the very least. The old adage is true for all the religions - "absolute power corrupts absolutely." One must be very careful how one define's the term "surrender" for oneself. I refuse to let anyone define my reality for me ever again. ________________________________ From: Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartax...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Sexual abuse in the Transcendental Meditation movement, was Mahamudra and... It would seem there is enough hormonal disruption in the lives of spiritual teachers world-wide to go the round of just about every tradition. Chasing tail in the search for the infinite is an established tradition in the universe. The universe, in the eye of non-dual philosophies at any rate, is, while maintaining unity is nonetheless always falling into pieces, so at the highest level of being, we have a lack of integrity, god simply cannot quite seem to keep anything together. Being, have gotten lost in its own machinations, tries to ride back to wholeness on its own coattails, or anyone else's for that matter. Some interesting articles on buggery and related spiritual entertainments of the priestly class: http://drjimmanganiellosblog.com/articles/revisioning-spirituality-rethinking-spiritual-teachers-spiritual-betrayal-and-spiritual-knowledge/ http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.htm -------------------------------- --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > From what I can see, there are child abusers and rapists in all cultures and > traditions. They don't seem to congregate in a few spots. Kind of like most > diseases - mental illness, heart disease. You can try to cure them, but > mostly child abusers and rapists etc don't change much no matter what their > practice or belief system. So they are represented everywhere, even in the > very places you would least expect- Buddhist or Hindu masters, clergy of all > persuasions, professors, camp counselors, police, grandparents, neighbors. > You can't judge the tradition or job by what sick people do. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: >> >> On Apr 29, 2012, at 12:39 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: >> >>> In your opinion, are there more child abusers and rapists amongst the >>> tibetan Buddhist abbottery than in the Catholic glergy ? >> >> Apparently, child abusers are involved in the Transcendental Meditation >> community in Fairfield, IA and the Maharishi School of the Age of >> Enlightenment. Even fetuses have been poisoned in Maharishi Vedic City from >> Ayurvedic products manufactured by Maharishi Ayurvedic Products >> International. Scientific research reported in the Journal of the American >> Medical Association shows that even regular store bought Maharishi Ayurvedic >> Products which claim to be highly tested for contaminants contain heavy >> metals, what's up with that? >> >> http://tmfree.blogspot.com/2007/02/program-pedophilia.html
