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mlurtsema |
| Date: |
1-Jan-2005-10:50:11 |
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Experience Starvation |
It is a crazy thing about human life. There is a built-in program in an infant that says that you have to love mommy and daddy. It doesn't matter how awful or klutzy or crazy they are. You love them. It's just part of being an infant. That gets transferred onto the spiritual teacher. So, the spiritual teacher may have a hard time not only with their own psychological problems--admitting that they made a mistake, or that they didn't know, or that they goofed, or that they did something out of insecurity or anger--but their students also project this perfection onto them. In order to maintain their influence over their students, they tend to rationalize and accept the projections and this builds the delusion deeper for everybody and is very dangerous. Any spiritual teacher is in a really difficult position in this respect.
Often when a person meets a teacher in whom the Absolute is manifesting to a powerful degree, their heart will open up unexpectedly. they may experience unusual insight and understanding just through mere association with this kind of extraordinary individual. After this dind of experience, it is easy to understand how one may get very attached to that individual. The bond that is formed through experiences like these run very deep. Slowly, without realizing it, in order to protect the love and beauty of that precious event, the person starts to be willing to overlook things. the minute that begins, they become corrupt themselves.
The minute anybody allows themselves to tolerate corruption they become a part of it...the security of their spiritual well-being depends on the fact that no matter what, the actions of the teacher are never questioned. Because their hearts are so invested in the teacher, they will make almost any rationalization or justification for the teacher's actions. They will do almost anything in order to protect that love that the guru has revealed to them. This is spiritual slavery and prostitution of the soul.
Simply put, we are experience starved. And, a person who has some attainment can "zap" people, and it is very seductive. It's like taking drugs. People want that hit again and again, so they hang around the teacher.
It is interesting that the object of the student's attachment and that which becomes the basis for their corruption is often an experience of some specific feeling that they believe is spiritual.
From Halfway Up the Mountain, by Mariana Caplan
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