Guest guest Posted February 9, 2000 Report Share Posted February 9, 2000 At 11:45 PM 2/9/2000 -0400, you wrote: >andrew macnab <a.macnab >Completely mad quite likely. But people are attracted to gurus who express >wise and profound thoughts and revelations in all good intention >but all that happens is that people find them beautiful and true and imitate >them, and so never come to any independant realization. U.G.also attracts >people, but he doesn't give anything to imitate, and he causes people to >question that whole process. I think that's what started him off in his >reaction against J.Krisnamurti, he saw many people who followed him around and >wanted to be like him and have faith in him and parrot his words and ideas >rather than being independant. That's why I called him the antidote. Yet, there are also cases of " U.G. addiction " (well documented in the " prefaces " to his " books " )... and it's on a psychologically sick level. People state that despite all they " receive " from U.G. is despair and more despair, something keeps them coming back which they can't explain. It shows the incredible (and I mean absolutely incredible, unbelievable) propensity of the human mind and ego to *cling*. I don't think there's any " external " antidote to it at all, none, zilch. Where there is no courage, no ability to stand on one's two feet, no ability to die to the past or to surrender to " Allness, " there is no " enlightenment " - period, end of story. And that has to come from " within, " not from anybody external. Given that, U.G. is more like a poison than an antidote. The other Gurus are like smoking marijuana... U.G. addiction is like speedballing cocaine and heroin. >The story of Andrew Cohen's mother and a couple of other devotees going to see >him and being 'cured' of their devotion to A.C. is another example. After reading some of A.C.'s material, I 'personally' don't even see how anyone would even be attracted in the first place. Purely as an opinion, I think the guy is a fraud, and has never even once glimpsed anything beyond the level of mind. He's a legend in his own mind. But then, that's just an opinion, and you know what they say opinions are like (hint - everybody has one)... :-) With Love, Tim ----- Sum Ergo Sum Visit " The Core " Website at http://coresite.cjb.net - Music, Poetry, Writings on Nondual Spiritual Topics. Tim's other pages are at http://core.vdirect.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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