Comments on: Can a Teacher Help?

By: Arpana

Arpana — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:28:18 +0000

Prem Kabir, it is one of the human weaknesses, one of the deep-rooted frailties, to seek attention.
The reason one seeks attention is because one does not know oneself. It is only in other people’s eyes one can see his face, in their opinions he can find his personality. What they say matters immensely. If they neglect him, ignore him, he feels lost. If you pass by and nobody takes any attention, you will start losing what you have put together — your personality. It is something that you have put together. You have not discovered it, it is not natural. It is very artificial and very arbitrary.

Osho.

The Great Pilgrimage: From Here to Here
Chapter #1
Chapter title: The great pilgrimage: from here to here

By: dominic

dominic — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:45:01 +0000

Thx Anu, the bliss of Nerdvana. I shall add it to the pile.
Nice picture of the Mrs or is it a selfie of you, all glammed up?
You just don’t know on the interweb.

By: swami anand anubodh

swami anand anubodh — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:42:31 +0000

@Dom & SD

I found this short Podcast that touches upon the suicide of an ‘enlightened one’

http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2007/03/bg-009-enlightened-teachers/

Oh.. btw Dom, you had your chance…

http://i.imgur.com/mC4Hg1L.jpg

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:44:05 +0000

So you knew Sudha, Madhu? She introduced me to dynamic and Osho, back in April,’73 and was a big influence on me around then. Met her by chance at Cairo airport on my way to Poona the next year (she was returning to London), then lost track of her until I last came across her in Oregon, sitting right behind me in the first ‘Satsang’ of the annual Celebration, July,’83. What coincidences! A person worth remembering.

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:16:31 +0000

beloved satyadeva (14 january 11.58 pm)

and thank you for your strong REMINDER

the last three lines – of your comment -

so good to be reminded that way
thank you

yoga sudha and some memory popped up… of the everlasting “past”
it was when she said to me

aaaahhhh a bliss attack again ???

and we were were heartingly laughing together
before then the whole carrousel turned again and we lost (?) track of each other

- kind of mystic rose meditation happening in a few seconds….
before the time that was installed -

bright morning sky here at my place satyadeva
SUNNY

cold outside
a very thin layer of snow on the lawn outside
i may have to use my walking sticks to reach my outdoor appointment of the day

the little birds hide and probably look my bigger hiding in between the branches because of their capacity to use their feathers as a “daunendecke” to warm up

they don t sing
may be not to catch a cold by tschirping….

may it be warm for you
wherever you are in the body

madhu

By: dominic

dominic — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:51:31 +0000

“Dining out”
Where are you taking me sd?
My man on the street says,
“enlightenment schmenlightenment, shit happens.”
My own working theory is that a lot of spiritual types are like crack addicts and junkies, searching for the ultimate fix.
Spiritual bypassers, avoiding their humanity with sought after expanded states.
Often stunted and stuck at the emotional level, and a bit clueless to what’s going on and trapped in reactivity.
This gets magnified in teachus who live in an isolated and elevated bubble.
I don’t know about Radha Ma, guess she had “issues.” She planned it, there was a letter.
My little devil is thinking, “there’s a few more I can think of, I wish would spontaneously combust.”

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:58:41 +0000

A response to this dramatic story from a friend of mine:

Sadly the very long evolutionary process of the soul, involves many cul de sacs, dead ends and reversals, even when a soul may have apparently ( and I emphasise the word ‘apparently’) reached quite high levels of spiritual understanding, there can be sudden reversals or volcanic eruptios of unconsciousness. The whole process of human and spiritual evolution is such a complex matter .

It is impossible for the vast majority of humanity to ascertain the level of another. God only knows where this Rada ma was at. But it really does indicate that you have to be very, very careful: “All that glisters is not Gold.”

To the last 6 words of which I (SD) would add: ‘both within and without, in oneself and in others’.

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:32:40 +0000

thank you – parmatha,

thank you for posting that photo too
it s late evening now
and i have evening herb tee just now

to get
may be ready for sleep relaxation

have been looking into the “caravanserai” after seeing two videos in tv-arte
about the war-times OCEAN-wise in the constant war dealing with power around oil and sea tracks piraterie and what not…

the people living in that zone
being by majority so poor as poor can be
the world-war -mongers dictating one can say in a way also their criminal piraterie actings
and sometimes it feels

there is not really a way out

we are living in very turbulent times

also when we seemingly are living far away from these zones

to have it warm in winter and the fridge functioning in summer times though
is only one aspect
of connection

the human figure
the man in the photo
you posted

seemingly be out of that all

and yet not

both

-other aspects of an indian “dreamtime”

thank you

madhu

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:25:55 +0000

I noticed your morning and you.

By: dominic

dominic — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:09:25 +0000

Sometimes I seem to wake up grumpy.
Other times I just let him be.