--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oops, forgot these: > > On Dec 21, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Vaj wrote: > > >> > >> 3. Acts omnipotently with no accountability: Some spiritual > >> communities are run like concentration camps, with guru and his > >> chosen > >> ones acting like Gestapo officers. Unjust or outrageous behaviour by > >> the guru is passed off as what is needed to help the followers grow > >> (how kind). These are the dangerous gurus who have often severely > >> damaged their students. A real master respects your will even if > >> he or > >> she understands that your particular decisions may not be in your > >> interest, and he or she will act accountably to an ethical code of > >> conduct. > > Yes.
As I noted in my previous response, there's no accountability, but the spiritual communities are hardly run like concentration; and I've never heard anybody but bliss-ninny TBs suggest MMY's outrageous or unjust behavior, such as it may be, is what is needed to help followers grow. It's certainly not an official TMO line, at least that I've ever encountered. > > >> > >> 4. Focuses on enlightenment itself rather than teaching the path > >> leading to it: It is amazing how much false gurus have to say about > >> enlightenment. They argue their points in the same way that the > >> scholars in the middle ages argued how many angels could sit on the > >> head of a pin. Any fool can talk about the end goal because what is > >> said is irrefutable to most of your listeners. What is skillful is > >> guiding those listeners to having awakening within themselves. The > >> real teacher focuses on the path and strictly avoids any talk on > >> enlightenment. > > Yes, only teaches an intro path all the while preaching \ > enlightenment. <stretching...stretching...> TM, of course, *is* the path MMY teaches, so it doesn't make sense to claim MMY talks only about the goal and not the path. And your claim about TM being merely an "intro path" is your opinion only, not an established fact. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he hits you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hemMeA/rbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
