Your shortcut to spiritual enlightenment (without a guru)
The other day I was reading the e-book “Stripping the Gurus”. Although some people believe that the author, Geoffrey D Falk, has a ‘skeptical agenda’, it nonetheless is a sobering catalogue of abuse, violence, predatory sexual behaviour, alcoholism and rampant egoism – involving supposedly enlightened spiritual beings, many of whom are well known.
Psychological, and sometimes physical, bullying and abuse is always possible in any relationship when someone has the power and someone else wants it. There are also just as many fakers as fakirs out there – so be careful.
You can shortcut this whole troublesome process if you really ‘get’ the Time-Light super-charged koan: