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Re: correctness and experience, PSFrom: Nnonnth
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-11-27 10:55:39
Remote IP: 195.93.21.42
MessagePS, just checked out Bodhi's site. He sure sells a good game! All this, "The secrets of being very rich, YOURS for just $20!" stuff! He's obviously studied marketing at length if nothing else - NLP salesmen will be familiar with such techniques as "I feel safe putting you in this product's hands to get started at meditation", etc. He is trying to make you feel unsafe following someone else, it's quite classic really, playing on insecurity etc. I mean come on! This is not a master! He is speaking as to a mark or a sap and not as to a student. Surely I can't be the only person for whom this lights a red light? And then he goes off on miraculous easy results, surely another brakes-crammer?
Even if he were right, which I'm quite sure he isn't, I personally don't touch hucksters! You can't tell whether you're drawn to the teaching or the pitch... his main concern is to put you off others by means of your insecurity and fear about doing things wrong, that is his first message, THEN comes the teaching, which seems to lack, how shall I say?... dignity? I never met anyone well-cultivated who talked that way, trying to reinforce societal conforming pressures et al. He doesn't exactly speak to the soul does he? All he really says is, "Forget everyone else, I've studied and I know the truth". I personally can't trust anyone like that.
It also is not correct that bodily or inner alchemy is a mere chimera, descended from true teachings that were corrupted through misunderstanding. Historically that case does not wash. The qigong teachings and those of western alchemy are linked and come from somewhere else altogether, and they have to do with observing, conversing with and being part of natural forces.
NN
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