ABOUT GURUS….contd.
An excerpt from the interview with Andrew Cohen (http://www.andrew-cohen)…. a celebrated spiritual guru….who, I genuinely think, talks a great deal of sense….by the way !
Quote……
“Q: What about all the corruption so prevalent in spiritual authority today?
A: Well, obviously integrity in the spiritual teacher is absolutely crucial. But we’ve got to face the fact that unfortunately, the failure of so many gurus, priests, lamas, and monks over the last thirty or forty years may have become an easy excuse for us all to let ourselves off the hook. They have made it all too easy for us to become cynical, to arrogantly conclude that we know better and don’t require any help from anyone.
You see, the problem is that when we lost our faith, we also lost our humility. It’s also important to understand that the main reason that the concept of a guru is such a tough one in our culture is that we postmodern narcissists just hate hierarchy. We don’t like anyone to be higher than us! It’s often hard for even very intelligent people to admit that higher levels of development actually exist.”
Unquote…..
There are two simple things I wish to state on this……
Gurus have been irresponsible….or wily….or manipulative…..how many ?….what percentage ?…..noone knows !….but the general phenomena is quite (sadly) revealing !
Other thing is….if we have to learn ….evolve….improve….in this ‘life-skill’….it should be like any other teacher-student relationship….!
…this hierarchy…..or shall I say blind-worship is un called for !
….respect is OK ! more than OK !….but hierarchy ?….sounds outrageous ! If this is arrogance? ….then what is subtle ego-play ?
…but first let us find out a genuine guy ! (oops…guru !)
bhaskarbenjamin
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