> > How is this different than learning how to play > > a violin.? ...and getting an expert teacher in > > that field? > > TurquoiseB: > If we believe the claims of the enlightened, a > significant number of them (and historically an > *important* number of them) realized their > enlightenment without working with a teacher... > So, how many teachers in history have claimed to be 'enlightened', without having had a 'teacher'? And, why would that be important?
Only a few teachers have ever made a claim of being 'enlightened', so the number of teachers NOT having a teacher themselves would probably be about what, three or four? After you've done some research, get back to me and let's discuss YOUR enlightened teacher. LOL! Titles of interest: 'Sinister Yogis' by David Gordon White University Of Chicago Press, 2009 'The Great Oom' The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America by Robert Love Viking, 2010 'Transcendent in America' Hindu-Inspired Meditation Movements as New Religion by Lola Williamson New York University Press, 2010 'A History of Modern Yoga' Patanjali and Western Esotericism by Elizabeth De Michelis Continuum, 2005 'The Subtle Body' The Story of Yoga in America by Stefanie Syman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
