On Spiritual Teachers And Their Teachings

Spiritual teachings

Are but dumbed down summaries,

And a litany of prescriptions,

Written for the masses.

 

As a result,

They are for No Flesh-and-Blood Human Being.

 

Non-this.

Non-that . . .

It is clear that those who wrote such things

Had neither the interest

Or the understanding

Of how to Teach a human being.

 

To tell a person

Non-this,

Non-that,

Does not make him Non-anything.

 

If this were the way things worked,

Everyone who read such things

Would be non-this-ing, and non-that-ing.

 

“Thou shall not steal.”

Have all the thieves suddenly disappeared?

 

Buddha’s eightfold path,

Right action

Right speech

Right mindfulness . . .

Does putting the word “right” before something

Make the reader do it?

 

A parrot

Can dispense information.

 

Is parroting

Teaching?

 

It is difficult to believe

That those who were so wise

And had realized so much,

Could be this uninsightful

As to the ways of man

And his mind.

 

This is what happens

When there is an intent

To teach the masses.

 

The teaching must be destroyed

And reduced into such rubble

That it loses its essence,

And becomes a comic book.

 

The desire to enlighten the masses

Is a desire born of ignorance.

 

Jiddu Krishnamurti made this mistake

All his life.

 

In begging and pleading

In fits and contortions

For his mass audience to be Sincere,

He ruined it for the one or two

In the world

Who may have been Ready for the Truth.

 

But in catering to the majority,

He wasted his time,

His energy,

And his undeniable Sincerity.

 

There seems to be throughout history

An Achilles heel

Amongst great spiritual stalwarts.

 

A desire to teach the world.

An intention to teach the masses.

 

This has led

To a plethora of literature

That looks pretty,

But is substanceless and worthless.

 

Telling people Not to do something

Does not make them not do it.

 

If this were true,

The world would be a perfect place.

 

Telling people that all is one

And one is all

And love, love, love

Does not make them experience anything.

 

The point is not

That new ways must be found

To teach the masses.

 

The point is

That to teach the masses anything

Is an exercise in futility.

 

The Four Noble Truths,

The Eightfold Path,

Such things . . .

If they were meant for a True and Sincere Human

Would have been written very differently.

 

But in creating them for the mass populace

They were . . . reduced

Into a mere tabloid.

 

Truth

Is not a thing to be reduced

And summarized

And paraphrased

For mass consumption.

 

Its integrity

Must be maintained

At all costs.

 

It matters not if a single person understands.

So long as the Truth is preserved.

 

The one who is Ready

Will Reach for it.

 

Cowering down to dogs

Creates dog manure.

 

The masses

Destroy everything.

 

Namaste.