Re: egoistic teachers' foibles
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10/08/2017, 22:23:53
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...the egoistic, needy nature of
those that are driven to become teachers (many as soon as they think they
have learned something), borrowing teachings from established traditions,
then taking credit for their own 'extraordinary wisdom'

Ø   The urge to get ahead, make something grand of oneself with whatever material comes to hand to the best of one's lights, getting a leg up, getting the upper hand, promote oneself to the furthest degree, losing or discarding in the process any delimitations of veracity and stretching limits of reality even into the imaginary realms of mysticism and magical thinking far beyond objective or rational thought.  

Certainly this kind of behavior is not seen only in realms of spiritual teachers, but at all levels of society and everywhere.  Politics comes to mind immediately where a little bit (!) of this kind of behavior might be noticed.  Is it inbred in the human race as some functional force for survival?  Is it an urge for self-improvement? ...but then improvement for what evolutionary gain?  Can possibly the qualities inbred in human behavior evolve to more of mix of something we'd call goodness over the next few hundred thousand years?






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