> > I don't think that love and critical faculties are > > mutually exclusive. One should never abdicate one's > > critical faculties. If a spiritual teacher tells you > > to do so, head for the door. > TurquoiseB wrote: > I couldn't agree more, and find the assertion to > the opposite -- that one "should" believe that one's > spiritual teacher is "perfect" -- very curious indeed. > This seems to me to be a contradiction in terms - if someone has a "spiritiul teacher" it would seem that they would have to leave their critical faculties at the door. Otherwise, why would anyone want to have a "spiritual teacher" in the first place - they could just have a "critical faculties" teacher, or take a course in logic at a secular college.
So, how, exactly, could an avowed athiest have a "spiritual teacher", and for what purpose? > The *same* people who say this blithely about their > spiritual teacher would never in a million years say > something similar about their parents or their wives > or husbands or anyone else they loved. They would > never consider these people "perfect," and yet they > love them anyway. And yet, they'll claim that anyone > who believes that their spiritual teacher is less > than perfect doesn't love them. Go figure. > > . . . > > > your "facts" are not facts at all, > > > > That's your fundamentalist speaking. You're rejecting out of > > hand things that you haven't even looked at. > > And, in my opinion, are terrified *to* look at. > The fear involves more than the knowledge that > they risk excommunication from the TM movement > *for* looking at things critically. As potent > and powerful that possibility is, what I think > this fellow and his ilk are afraid of is at a > much deeper level than that. They're afraid > that critical examination might reveal that > they were wrong, and wrong for decades. > > To many people, facing that possibility is one > of the worst things they can imagine. Whereas > for those of us who have *no problem* with > having been wrong in the past, it's no biggie. >
