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JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
For those people who are a little interested in guru devotion and the Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta (which means “the truth of not-two-ness at the end of the scriptures”) I wanted to point at this interview with the Dutch spiritual teacher Alexander Smit about his meetings with Nisargadatta Maharaj. The interview was given in 1988 but it contains one of the clearest descriptions of the guru-disciple process I’ve found…
JeroenLuminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlandsVeteran
Just to explain in this thread why I’ve now decided to let go of Osho as a guru and a spiritual teacher…
Sometimes it takes a shock to awaken you from a fascination with a guru. For me what started the ball rolling was the documentary ‘Children of the Cult’ which exposed the way we were groomed and then left to be abused by unscrupulous members of the commune. It didn’t happen to me, but it could have done easily.
After connecting with fellow ex-commune members on Facebook and listening to their stories I found I could no longer accept Osho as a guru or as a spiritual teacher. He is profoundly unsuitable for either role.
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For those people who are a little interested in guru devotion and the Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta (which means “the truth of not-two-ness at the end of the scriptures”) I wanted to point at this interview with the Dutch spiritual teacher Alexander Smit about his meetings with Nisargadatta Maharaj. The interview was given in 1988 but it contains one of the clearest descriptions of the guru-disciple process I’ve found…
http://www.spiritualteachers.org/smit.htm
Just to explain in this thread why I’ve now decided to let go of Osho as a guru and a spiritual teacher…
Sometimes it takes a shock to awaken you from a fascination with a guru. For me what started the ball rolling was the documentary ‘Children of the Cult’ which exposed the way we were groomed and then left to be abused by unscrupulous members of the commune. It didn’t happen to me, but it could have done easily.
After connecting with fellow ex-commune members on Facebook and listening to their stories I found I could no longer accept Osho as a guru or as a spiritual teacher. He is profoundly unsuitable for either role.