Monday, September 12, 2011

Spiritual assembly line

Mass Production of Spiritual Teachers:
Is cultivating discernment on the spiritual path in all the gritty areas--power, sex, enlightenment, gurus, scandals, psychology, neurosis -- as well as earnest, but just plain confused and unconscious, motivations on the path.

There are a number of current trendy spiritual traditions that produce people who believe themselves to be at a level of spiritual enlightenment, or mastery, that is far beyond their actual level. This disease functions like a spiritual conveyor belt: put on this glow, get that insight, and -- bam! -- you're enlightened and ready to enlighten others in similar fashion. The problem is not that such teachers instruct but that they represent themselves as having achieved spiritual mastery.Today there is a Master, healer ,or Guru at every doorstep or traffic junction. They dole out wisdom, Counseling, Yoga,Reiki, Tarot reading of ones destiny and other holistic methods of healing in the name of spirituality.
They don’t need any training , nor license to practise , just a funny dress sense or a strange moniker and a whole bunch of sheep like followers bleating in unison.All of them some cosmic connection to India, Tibet, Buddhism and offer a smorgasbord of solutions to the world;s problems and salvation for everyone. Like a Spiritually transmitted virus or disease it is spreading all over the world including the internet, a new virulent form of STD!

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