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Life Means Nothing and is Going Nowhere. Somebody prove me wrong. Please.

I don't think there's anything inherently contradictory about being spiritual and wealthy, but it doesn't sit right bc we think of gurus as men who sit naked on a bed of nails in the desert or something lol. I looked at his "credentials" and it just says he's a "yoga guru"..

Modern yoga gurus are people widely acknowledged to be gurus of modern yoga in any of its forms, whether religious or not. The role implies being well-known and having a large following; in contrast to the old guru-shishya tradition, the modern guru-follower relationship is not secretive, not exclusive, and does not necessarily involve a tradition.


So he's not like the Dalai Lama (or the Pope). I guess he did well with that yoga place in India and thought well why not expand my business to the West? Before that he did a Bachelor of English and then set up a couple of businesses.

He's got a cult following but that's just what people do. I watched his videos a bit and read his book then probably went back to Alan Watts and Terence McKenna.


So I call bullshit on him being an evil murdering charlatan.
 
Camus said the meaning of life is whatever you're doing other than killing yourself.

So it's lying on your bed at 6:45am (without sleeping) and laughing at people online. And listening to music. And playing word games.
 
No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talkin' falsely now
The hour's getting late, hey

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The plowman is broad as the back of the land he is sowing
As he dances the circular track of the plow ever knowing
That the work of his days measures more than the planting and growing
Let it grow, let it grow, greatly yield
 
AbbeyLee said:
Dalai Lama
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He had a meeting with Shoko from Aum Shinrikyo!!!!
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Sadhguru is as bad as any of them, his not that far removed from Osho & you should know what he got upto to say the least if you wanna talk about these people ;)

Anyone who is a Sādhana & legit WON'T be on Youtube, making books etc.
You will find them with Mala beads alone, half naked & sitting at the cremation grounds.
 
Zopiclone bandit said:
Sadhguru is as bad as any of them, his not that far removed from Osho & you should know what he got upto to say the least if you wanna talk about these people ;)

Anyone who is a Sādhana & legit WON'T be on Youtube, making books etc.
You will find them with Mala beads alone, half naked & sitting at the cremation grounds.
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Oh well, that whole Eastern thing isn't for me. I respect it but I'm a very different creature to those men. I prefer One Pound Fish man lol.
 
Zopiclone bandit said:
Anyone who is a Sādhana & legit WON'T be on Youtube, making books etc.
You will find them with Mala beads alone, half naked & sitting at the cremation grounds.
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You telling me you weren't impressed by his turban?

I love it. He's like a caricature of what he thinks westerners think a wise Indian sage looks and sounds like. Also reminds me of this:
 
-=SS=- said:
You telling me you weren't impressed by his turban?

I love it. He's like a caricature of what he thinks westerners think a wise Indian sage looks and sounds like. Also reminds me of this:
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When I was watching some of his vids I'd discuss them with my friend who's British but first generation with Hindu heritage - Brahmin caste! But he's more atheistic than anything. Anyway it was via email and I could never remember how his name was spelled, so I called him Sad Guru lol.

I just saw in my feed a clip by him on parallel universes. I'm interested in that concept so I might check it out.

A mistake people (especially Westerners who, like me, had no real religious background) tend to make is black and white thinking re religion/philosophy. I mean just bc Sad Guru is a bit of a charlatan does not mean he has to be dismissed completely. On the other hand, thinking he's going to solve all your issues isn't a good plan either. I take the best of what these "teachers" have to say and leave the rest.

That's why I avoid the neo-pagan community like a plague even though I am one. It includes some of the most egotistical individuals I've ever met. And the most annoying lol. So I do my thing alone. Friends and relatives who are non-religious take an interest but I don't volunteer much info.

/rant
 
AbbeyLee said:
A mistake people (especially Westerners who, like me, had no real religious background) tend to make is black and white thinking re religion/philosophy. I mean just bc Sad Guru is a bit of a charlatan does not mean he has to be dismissed completely. On the other hand, thinking he's going to solve all your issues isn't a good plan either. I take the best of what these "teachers" have to say and leave the rest.
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This is true. It's difficult when you have no reference point, but even if you did have a religious background you still can't be sure that your starting point isn't all just baloney too! If someone is looking for answers the best thing they can do is look everywhere, as this helps in triangulation, but as you say also don't immediately jump on the first bandwagon or take the first good sounding sales pitch. The problem with hucksters is they understand the tendency we have to want to settle, and they tell us what we want to hear or give us soothing stories to lull us to sleep (which is the opposite of what we want if we want answers).

AbbeyLee said:
That's why I avoid the neo-pagan community like a plague even though I am one. It includes some of the most egotistical individuals I've ever met. And the most annoying lol. So I do my thing alone. Friends and relatives who are non-religious take an interest but I don't volunteer much info.
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Yeah, I don't do community either because those with the strongest egos tend stand out the most and those with whom you'd have a mutually beneficial exchange are always on the periphery, unfortunately. It makes for a very lonely journey, but on the occasion you do pass a similar soul on the highway to nowhere it's almost makes life worth living 🙃
 
-=SS=- said:
This is true. It's difficult when you have no reference point, but even if you did have a religious background you still can't be sure that your starting point isn't all just baloney too! If someone is looking for answers the best thing they can do is look everywhere, as this helps in triangulation, but as you say also don't immediately jump on the first bandwagon or take the first good sounding sales pitch. The problem with hucksters is they understand the tendency we have to want to settle, and they tell us what we want to hear or give us soothing stories to lull us to sleep (which is the opposite of what we want if we want answers).


Yeah, I don't do community either because those with the strongest egos tend stand out the most and those with whom you'd have a mutually beneficial exchange are always on the periphery, unfortunately. It makes for a very lonely journey, but on the occasion you do pass a similar soul on the highway to nowhere it's almost makes life worth living 🙃
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It always makes me think of AbFab lol

Where are you hiding @Robi??

"Corn bloody buggery dollies" 😂😂😂

 
AbbeyLee said:
Oh well, that whole Eastern thing isn't for me. I respect it but I'm a very different creature to those men.
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I was the same till I checked out a podcast on the Hindu Matrikas, I know the Hindu faith is huge & sadly many "white" folks get up their own arse with it BUT you can also find some really god stuff in it too.

Not much on Earth puts me off than a load of White American folks in their late 20's going on about the Hindu faith & thinking Ram Dass is some kind of "God"
I did fall into the Ram Dass trap myself for some time but the more I went down the Hindu path myself the more I learned how sterile he had made it, you will never hear Ram Dass speaking of the Matrika known as Dhumavati for example & Shiva is glossed over too, this is the same Deity that spends his time getting stoned with ghosts, Aghori & Naga Babas, spends decades doing meditation in graveyards & the burning ghats etc.

Honestly check out Dhumavati @AbbeyLee
 
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