RE: Osho, Jiddu, etc.

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Here we have a saying 'to take the leaf from the mouth'

 

I must confess one of the persons mentioned did annoy me many years ago when

somebody in the good book shop in town used three out of four shelves

reserved for the very best literature for his books : ).

 

Has it not always been like this, some clever people will give themselves a

title (maybe not the right word), some way or the other.

But there are a few who truly 'receive' a title from others ( not only the

group of followers ).

 

And is it not so, that these are the ones we all can agree upon, as being

genuine?

 

Alan

 

 

yosyx [yosyflug]

9. november 2004 00:44

Re: Osho, Jiddu, etc.

 

 

 

, jerry weinstein

<gwein1111> wrote:

> Although I've done my share of castigating "false" or fallen

teachers in the past, I've cooled it in recent years. I'm always

genuinely ambivalent about it, feeling the need on the one hand to

honor factual truths, but at the same time not wanting to insult a

devotee of said teacher.

>

> Sooo, with that in mind: What appears to be idle gossip is

one thing. ANY teacher, no matter how pure, is going to have things

said about him/her at some point, human nature being what it is. But

matters like being charged with felonies, getting kicked out of a

country, having a sangha go completely out of control indulging in

every possible form of excess ..... well, I would say that's a little

different.

>

> That doesn't mean one couldn't have benefitted from certain

positive experiences with the teacher. But I think the spiritual

community can only evolve by having some degree of critical analysis

and some standards of behavior.

>

 

 

the teacher can be evaluated by his/her students. true spiritual

development is indicated by natural increase of student's humility

and compassion. it is easily observable fact that followers of false

teachers lack those developements; on the contrary. hypocrites,

conscious or not, the self infatuated and the misled, attract people

with similar tendencies...

true love is not all hugs and kisses and soft speech. imitations of

what people associate with "spirituality" are easy. but inner value

is entirely different.

 

respectfully,

yosy

 

jay ramana!

 

 

 

 

 

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"Love itself is the actual form of God."

 

Sri Ramana

 

In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma

 

 

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