I don’t trust spiritual teachers, motivational people. Somehow I have nothing against motivational texts, though I believe some of them are completely wrong and misunderstood. But all the persons teaching us how to live our lives, seem to be self-hypnotized.
They are either too enthusiastic about their truths, or too theatrical, telling a lesson well learned with out blinking. All TED people are so sure on themselves, speak so easily, fluently and smartly that this puts them on such a high level, that makes us feel stupid and inferior.
You get the feeling the speaker’s truth was there all the time and you didn’t see it, but now you understand and you will change yourself.
You leave the room energized by words that actually hit your brain with their obvious clarity and truthfulness and feel you can change all your world from now on.
But how long will this last? Maximum 3 days.
I don’t like and I don’t trust these spiritual gurus, that are so evolved and enlighten that are teaching us the way to happiness and freedom in exchange for real, earthly, material money. They must live, you may say. Really? And have 5 cars, 3 beach houses and live in a tropical part of the world? At least?
I don’t trust them, not because they charge us to share a piece of wisdom, but because they are selling their truth.
Which is their truth! Is there a supreme judge to say they’re right? At this moment in your life, it feels right, agree. But this doesn’t make it a universal valid truth.
To me, this kind of info, this wisdom they gained, should not be sold for money. Did Christ sell his wisdom? Did Buddha do that? Who, among the big spiritual teachers of the world sold their wisdom for money?
Did Einstein requested money to share the theory of relativity? And, this theory, is biiiig, indeed!
Now, our preaching spiritual teacher ask money in return to telling us the 5 things that makes us realize we are free, but are blind enough to not see it for ourselves!
And how unconsidered and disrespectful to say that these 5 things apply to everybody. Tell this to a woman in Philippine, an abandoned child or a 7 years old child with cancer. A starving man in Africa.
Here are some pictures, for you great spiritual teachers who preach living in the present moment and enjoying the hidden beauty of our own person! From FB, credit unknown.
Anyway, my point is that that the way spiritual teachers of today talk to us is suspicious from the start. If you wouldn’t hear them, just look at their body language, and face, you could notice either a frenzy or an unjustified stillness. They look either drunk or sedated. And the drunk ones seem more dangerous.
Their videos are so professionally made, so calculated, so expressive, that make you thing they are scams. Which is not necessarily true but trigger the idea that a lot of money have been invested there – meaning only one thing: at the end of the video, they are going to ask you for money!
In fact, sometimes these people even sound like an ad on the shopping channel.
Getting drunk with a word!
Communism. Socialism. Power. Money. Salvation. Purity. Mercy. Love. Democracy. Health. Cancer. Singing. Children. Travelling.
There are people who are driven by a single word their entire life. Drunk with it.
Balance was never an easy thing to acquire.
What’s your word?
Hmm, that’s something I should reflect on myself. “Find your word.” – a meditation subject.
Along history there were always people convinced they discovered the perfect recipe to happiness. It took different names: Buddhism, Christian-ism, spiritualism, or “living-in-the-now”. All these are paths towards an unseen and always wanted Heaven. Because here, we actually live in Hell.
Because why would you want happiness unless you are unhappy?
The funny thing is that more than finding the path, we want to find a mentor. A guru, a teacher. A person to trust in. To rely on. A person who can vouch for the path to happiness. A god.
Probably we were taught to rely on somebody else and listen to it. And yes, it comes from childhood. It’s mother who we trust from the beginning. Or a brother. An uncle. A wife. A boss.
And we become so accustomed to listening to a boss, that we imagine God as the supreme boss, we should all fear and obey.
Yeah… something is so not right in this picture.
In a time when we work from home, we have our own businesses, are entrepreneurs, do we still need The Big Boss?
I don’t think so.
Yet, we are so few of us.
But here is my message to all asking-for-money spiritual teachers: you are nothing else than spiritual scams.
Do you guys trust them?
Have you paid them, tried their methods?
Did it work?