--- Alex Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "Alex > Stanley" > > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], > nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Yesterday you claimed to have given up this > list, presumably > > because > > > > too many here posessed enough knowledge to see > through your > > > > rethoric... and now you continue ! Don't you > see that it is > > > > laughable for a socalled Guru to denonce > someone for having been > > a > > > > secretary or wearing white ? > > > > > > She takes all that hierarchical lineage and > tradition stuff very > > > seriously. And, as Dr. Pete pointed out, it's > all just "divisions > > of > > > the mind." It's Indian cultural baggage, dusty > codified duality, > > that > > > for some people, apparently, is inextricably > intertwined with > > > awakening itself. > > > > > > You can get a taste of how very seriously she > takes herself and the > > > whole guru shtick from what she writes on her > contact page: > > > > > > > http://www.abide-in-self.com/contact-Swami-G..htm > > > > > > 1. Save the Hey there or the Hi for your > buddies. When seeking > > > someone's Wisdom have the Courtesy to come with > the greeting of > > Namaste. > > > > > Looks and feels to me like a poser. No energy hit > at all. No > > awakening. No offense to any followers- just > offering my sense of > > it.:-) > > Well, not every teacher or teaching is going to be > everyone's cuppa > tea. Certainly not everyone is going to be drawn to > the Waking Down > teachers who really gave me a jump start, but if any > of them had > insisted that I address him with 'namaste', I'd have > laughed in his > face and told him to get over himself already. Heck, > last year when > Saniel Bonder was in town, I ended up taking a > weekend course that I > had not planned on taking because I didn't like his > course > description. I told him right to his face that it > sounded like > "saccharine new-age dreck." Some teachers/gurus > might have thrown me > out on my ass for saying something like that, but > Saniel loved it. > And, the course turned out to be immensely valuable > for me.
Reminds me of people asking SSRS what they should call him. He said you could call him anything you like that it really didn't matter. When asked about him being a guru, etc., he got this pained bemused look on his face and said all these concepts aren't necessary. Just the mind labeling things for no purpose at all. He said to treat and to think of him as your friend, because he was. > > > > > > 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 > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/
