Mahareshi Mahesh Mash
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When exploring matters esoteric, I have encountered much Guru stuff. There are fine genuine teachers, but I am wary of the strong Guru type approach as I have seen it abused and misused.
I have looked at Transcendental Meditataion, and purchased literature about it. But something didn't sit right. It was all a little too easy and prescibed. The use of a "special" mantra only to be given by "specially trained instructors", left a wide door for financial renumeration.
I once attended a local Buddhist home based cell. The local Buddhist "teacher" was receiving a little too much adulation and ran his group using strong suggestion and somewhat personal pressure that didn't ring with a genuine Buddhist gong. The was too much "self" for a no-self Buddhist tradition.
The site above is informative and fits with my concerns. It as a good warning of the subtleties of suggestion in matters spiritual, and the need for discrimination. It would seem to me that genuine insight as to the nature and experience of the Real would have no tag of any sort, other than a reflective sincere seeking.
An old but true saying - "All that glitters is not gold." A good friend of mine bemoans these days that he regrets dismissing all the "cliches" in his past. They were cliches by the very fact that they were so often true!
When exploring matters esoteric, I have encountered much Guru stuff. There are fine genuine teachers, but I am wary of the strong Guru type approach as I have seen it abused and misused.
I have looked at Transcendental Meditataion, and purchased literature about it. But something didn't sit right. It was all a little too easy and prescibed. The use of a "special" mantra only to be given by "specially trained instructors", left a wide door for financial renumeration.
I once attended a local Buddhist home based cell. The local Buddhist "teacher" was receiving a little too much adulation and ran his group using strong suggestion and somewhat personal pressure that didn't ring with a genuine Buddhist gong. The was too much "self" for a no-self Buddhist tradition.
The site above is informative and fits with my concerns. It as a good warning of the subtleties of suggestion in matters spiritual, and the need for discrimination. It would seem to me that genuine insight as to the nature and experience of the Real would have no tag of any sort, other than a reflective sincere seeking.
An old but true saying - "All that glitters is not gold." A good friend of mine bemoans these days that he regrets dismissing all the "cliches" in his past. They were cliches by the very fact that they were so often true!
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