dogmatic rules vs authoritative understanding

[Guest guest]

Dear Krishna Singh:

 

 

 

I accept the dialogue.

 

 

 

I agree with everything you say from a certain perspective and there is

ample space in the teachings of Yogi Bhajan to live from that space. I am

trying to convey what it looks like from a different perspective.

 

 

 

We need to make sure we understand the language we use. For instance, we

don't use the word rebel in the same sense.

 

 

 

Yogi Bhajan was a rebel in the highest sense of the word. He came from his

truth to offer the world something that frightened his peers.

 

The rebel I am talking about is the one is searching for himself/herself,

the inner critic. It gives a sense of power to come from that place. But it

does not last.

 

 

 

Yes I was there when Yogi Bhajan asked us whether to follow the teacher who

asks us to steal. He did not argue it. The interpretation I gave was mine.

But his point was clear that at some point it is time to follow. Have you

ever been in the classroom and he asks people to bow? He expected us to bow

within seconds, not take a minute to get our notes off our lap and

straighten our clothes and then bow. When he told us at teacher training to

answer his yes/no questions with "Yes Sir!" or "No Sir!" He taught us

obedience. But it is not blind obedience; it is learning to bypass the inner

critic, the rebel in the little sense of the word, not the wise discernment.

 

 

 

Of course Yogi Bhajan said different things at different times. One day he

would say: "What are you doing? There is no God!" The following day he would

say: "You are behaving like God is outside of you!"

 

 

 

The Yogi Bhajan I know also taught us to not be gullible. I agree. The Yogi

Bhajan we all know is the Yogi Bhajan we were able to receive. The Yogi

Bhajan I know today is who I am able to receive today. So whatever you say

or I say about YB is really about us.

 

 

 

There is a place to question the teachings. I agree. I have done it. I

taught a teacher training without the credentials. I had no fear because I

was honest with my students. And we all enjoyed the experience. It went

beautifully.

 

 

 

Where I am now is a different place where I have questioned long enough and

the time as come where there's a realization that questioning is an endless

loop. It does not serve me any more.

 

 

 

When I suggest going to a place of stopping the questioning it's not a place

of gullibility or fear like you suggest --- the child who does not want or

dare to question his parents. No. It is from a place where I see that it no

longer matters to me, it does not feed me spiritually, to argue what's right

and what's wrong! The truth is beyond and I cannot access it by arguing.

Playing the "dogmatic rule" vs "authoritative understanding" game is still

arguing.

 

 

 

When I stop arguing, the inner silence is pure bliss. That's what I am

after!

 

 

 

Blessings,

 

Awtar