On Facebook someone dissed Rick's interview, and so I tried to reason with him:
Spiros Kabasakalis https://www.facebook.com/kabasakalis?fref=ufi Hey Rick, greetings from Athens,Greece.I have been watching your B.A.T.G.P videos on youtube and appreciate your contribution to the non-dual community with these discussions.I am sure you agree that spiritual guidance is not business.But here we are,this lady in your latest video Sharon Whatever charging $450 for a 4 day event.And what's most outrageous and ridiculous: A DOKUSAN over the PHONE!!!????Cost: 1 hour $150 and 1/2 hour $75.Not only this is ridiculous,this is also an insult to the Zen trandition.It's disgusting.It's a whole industry built on non-duality-and it's all a hoax.Maybe you should weed out the genuine from the false in your interviews, most of them (all???) so called "teachers" are just a scum exploiting naive people for $$$. Edg Duveyoung https://www.facebook.com/duveyoung Hey, Spiros, don't hold back; tell us how you really feel! Everyone has to pass the collection plate, and we all do our own idiosyncratic marketing our wares, but, what? -- her? she's your choice to start with the ranting? I could give you a list, hoo boy could I give you a list of those far more deserving being "outted for fraud." Rick's service unto us is not to judge or expose in these conversations, but rather, it's to give HIS VIEWERS a space in which they can comfortably reside whilst DISCOVERING their minds' ways of processing the folks he interviews. Get it? What you as a viewer bring to the experience MEANS EVERYTHING. Spiros Kabasakalis https://www.facebook.com/kabasakalis?fref=ufi What I am saying is that the space Rick's viewers get should be weeded out from greedy false messiahs.And yes,a person who charges Dokusan by the hour is the perfect target for my outting for fraud.For the rest of you who don't agree,you can still go and give this lady your hard earned $450.She makes a living out of your stupidity. Edg Duveyoung https://www.facebook.com/duveyoung But but but -- some folks need to be enticed thusly in order to get their spiritual feet wet. She's cheap compared to my contributions into the Lutheran collection plates of my youth. See? We all pay into these kinds of things until we get our mojo going enough to do our own sorting out. Rick asks HARD QUESTIONS in the softest voice, but a person WITH EARS should be able to benefit from any of these discussions -- even if Rick was interviewing -- wait for it -- HITLER. Maybe you don't need this kind of thingie, and, hey, who has the time? , but seekers out there will google the names of their would-be-gurus, and Rick's interviews will be on the list. And his platform is not easily survived, because if one isn't genuinely enlightened, then the answers to Rick's questions will necessarily be bullshit, and what is the especial talent of a successful seeker?-- a good ear for inauthentic blarney. And spotting fakes in media res takes practice -- watching Rick is free -- how cheap can you get for lessons about exactly how to interface with someone who has a spiritual product to sell? Get it? Folks these days have google strapped to their hips like Buntline Specials. For any guru to survive this environment, there's going to have to be some very good scholarship and good intents to fake the role, and most folks just can't pull that off for very long before they're caught somewhere with a very unenlightened wide stance in a place they shouldn't be. But, what? Blame Rick for helping a doofus while ignoring that he's spent thousands of hours interviewing some fairly heavy hitters? If I had seen Rick interview all the hucksters I have given money to over the decades, I'd be richer -- how much richer, you don't get to know, but Rick knows. Hoo boy does Rick know. You think he's not on top of who he's interviewing? Think again. Spiros Kabasakalis https://www.facebook.com/kabasakalis?fref=ufi So you are saying let all those greedy false gurus loose,so that people "get their spiritual feet wet"?Nobody can get his "spiritual feet wet" because there is no water in the first place.Just a greedy person digging deep into your pocket,while he/she gets exposure from youtube videos and makes more bucks.Their eloquence does not qualify them as teachers If it's not backed up from genuine realization.A person with medium intelligence can see through their fraud.And NO realized teacher whould ever ask a fee for these teachings.Why?The teachings are a an ancient timeless legacy and does not belong to them.No problem with donations.They are fair.But asking $450 for a 4 day session (housing excluded!) it's a total rip off. Edg Duveyoung https://www.facebook.com/duveyoung Settle down, we're spitting into the same campfire here. Yeah, Rick has interviewed some clunkers. There, satisfied? If someone has enough of a following that Rick's "picked her up on his radar," that's probably proof that she NEEDS A PUBLIC INTERVIEW where someone asks the simplest of questions -- the answers for which NO ONE CAN FIND THE WORDS. If it could be in the words, it would be in the words. No words will jimmy the door to freedom open. Nope. Rick's not about the words. It's about "vibe" of all parties when their brains are sizzling with concepts that made Arjuna drop his bow for the first time in his life. And those that have the eyes can see if someone is struggling to create answers or if the words come from INFINITY. If someone out there resonates with WHATEVER is being SOLD, they're lost in the unfathomable seas of karma. Any identification is way down the slippery slope and turning back only accelerates the decent to doom. This is our common sin.....we market personae instead of residing in the pure radiance of Being. Rick's one of those who scrambles to reach the TOP of that slope -- and that I salute.
