When the child was asked what she learned at school that day she said that 'someone was wicked and did bad things'. The parent said 'are you telling me what happened or what you learned?' The child said 'both, they were wicked and we all learned from that to be good'.
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So the evil are as much gurus to pointing to the true self as are the good. Maybe they teach more directly.
Daily Tao is a reprint from Ta-Wan's blog, Daily Cup of Tao, which offers one post per day for an entire year. You also can read these posts in an ebook.
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So the evil are as much gurus to pointing to the true self as are the good. Maybe they teach more directly.
Daily Tao is a reprint from Ta-Wan's blog, Daily Cup of Tao, which offers one post per day for an entire year. You also can read these posts in an ebook.
Pol Pot as guru? That's creepy. A guru has more than authority and power.
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ReplyDeleteGood and bad play off one another. Bad teaches about good (and visa versa). Good must already know of bad to be known as good (and visa versa).
Here though we are pointing to the true self, Tao, and returning to the root.
A guru is usually thought to have wisdom, as well as authority and power. I was picking a random evil, bad person and suggesting that if he was a guru, he was lacking the wisdom part. I don't disagree with your point, just the idea of calling an evil person a guru. I think if a person is evil (or stupid) he is not a guru. If you had simply said "teacher", I probably wouldn't have made the comment.
ReplyDeleteOK. For me, I've said elsewhere, a guru can be a tree, child, lake, anything, that's what I see in Taoist works.
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