Gurus and business, Guru business

06-16-2002, 10:13 AM

Gurus and business...
Guru business... complex stuff that...

Gurus and money, gurus and sex, gurus and food, gurus and authority.
Now, those are topics...

Things have changed so much... the whole value system...
physical/metaphysical values.

Sexuality, money, food, authority...

'lack' of sex,
'lack' of money,
'lack' of food,
'lack' of one's voice.

The traditional prerequisites to be allowed, at some point, free entry into
some "kingdom of heaven", what about them ?
The traditional vows... poverty, chastity, obedience, what about them?
Vows used to be about disavowal, exclusion... now we seem to look for
inclusion...embrace...

A way bigger ticket...

Celibacy used to be a pretty well a prerequisite... that has changed.
Poverty used to be pretty well a prerequisite... that has changed.
Begging for food used to be...
Individuality???
All changed

So much has changed and... had to change... because it cannot be about
that...

Truth is not about those characteristics, is it?

Although...
Is it not Franklin Jones (Adi Da), who made dealing "money, food and sex" a
test?
If there was something not kosher with any of those three, one could not
even think of being considered to become a devotee or whatever term of
relationship one had in mind. And I don't think that he meant that not
dealing with it, in the sense of fasting, being money-less and celibate got
you a quick pass...
Strange? He was onto something very fundamental...
But then... we cannot make any of that to be the prerequisite of moving into
the realm of unconditional love.

It must be different...
Unconditional love cannot mean that one has to disavow the conditions of the
world...
If unconditional love does not include the world in whatever sense, is it
unconditional?

Universal and unconditional love is not about exclusion... it is about
unconditional inclusion.
An embrace...

Funny that just considering guru business, lets us deal with all of that...

Wim
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