--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > > Yesterday you claimed to have given up this list, presumably > because > > > too many here posessed enough knowledge to see through your > > > rethoric... and now you continue ! Don't you see that it is > > > laughable for a socalled Guru to denonce someone for having been > a > > > secretary or wearing white ? > > > > She takes all that hierarchical lineage and tradition stuff very > > seriously. And, as Dr. Pete pointed out, it's all just "divisions > of > > the mind." It's Indian cultural baggage, dusty codified duality, > that > > for some people, apparently, is inextricably intertwined with > > awakening itself. > > > > You can get a taste of how very seriously she takes herself and the > > whole guru shtick from what she writes on her contact page: > > > > http://www.abide-in-self.com/contact-Swami-G..htm > > > > 1. Save the Hey there or the Hi for your buddies. When seeking > > someone's Wisdom have the Courtesy to come with the greeting of > Namaste. > > > Looks and feels to me like a poser. No energy hit at all. No > awakening. No offense to any followers- just offering my sense of > it.:-)
Well, not every teacher or teaching is going to be everyone's cuppa tea. Certainly not everyone is going to be drawn to the Waking Down teachers who really gave me a jump start, but if any of them had insisted that I address him with 'namaste', I'd have laughed in his face and told him to get over himself already. Heck, last year when Saniel Bonder was in town, I ended up taking a weekend course that I had not planned on taking because I didn't like his course description. I told him right to his face that it sounded like "saccharine new-age dreck." Some teachers/gurus might have thrown me out on my ass for saying something like that, but Saniel loved it. And, the course turned out to be immensely valuable for me.
