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Originally Posted by Phaelyn

That was a brilliant insightful post to me. I'd say as good as Krishnamurti or Tolle or Mooji. It's amazing these people have or had gotten rich from teaching such things. Made a living or a "career" from being spiritual teachers. Some still are teaching as a job, like Tolle or Mooji, some like Krishnamurti have died.

I think Mooji is involved in morally questionable things and seems to revel in his God-like status, I just don't trust him. Tolle seems a reasonable character - a bit of an Oprah styles sensationalist for my tastes - but seems to hold a high enough integrity. J. krishnamurti is legendary. I'm a big fan.

I'd not say all of those "teachers" teachings are great though. Sometimes their "lectures" are good and sometimes not so good, some I've seen were terrible. One can become rich with one book, like Tolle's book.

Yea, it kinda strange how spiritualism has been commercialised, and you can even buy a 'sound' from a Transendental Meditation school for a few hundred bucks . My school is non-profit and teachers and trustees have no way of extracting money from the organisation at all. That would contradict the principles of dana, to give expecting nothing in return. Having that background, I see it as improper to sell spiritualism, but this is a capitalist world, so I guess it's just the way it works... However, riches come and go.

I've tried saving my posts and trying to turn them into a book, but when I go back and read the posts, yea terrible lol. Some here and there, I go wow very good. That's "it" or expresses it well. But the majority of my posts when I go back and read them are terrible in my opinion.

Then too, my "sin" if I were to name one, is "being too much in my head." So thinking and writing about such things is not a good past time for me. I'd say, when thinking about people who make a living from discussing such things, the important thing is to be "living/being" them, the "teachings." Unless that is well established, the writing will be wonky. That's where I am. I can intellectually get this stuff, but then the living or actualizing such things, is iffy. Sometimes I am "there," sometimes I even have these amazing metaphysical experiences, I've experienced the "source" a few times, but living it day to day, moment to moment to moment, meh... lol. Sometimes good sometimes bad, always feels like so much more to know or understand or "be."

Don't worry about being too much in the head. Creative and critical thinking is excellent, and being a free thinker is dope.

Seems to me being a "spiritual teacher" is everyone's destiny. To mentor and guide those who are lacking in some awareness or understanding, but I must be what I want to teach in some very advanced way I think. To where I am not teaching or expressing what I know, but am instead, teaching or expressing what I am. That will take quite a few more incarnations, though I'd prefer to not be on earth to learn and instead, continue on my journey in the non-physical plane.

Teaching these "spiritual" things is odd, because naturally people prefer to only listen to themselves, not others. Also, if someone is not "interested" they get defensive and downright "hostile." Maybe that is part of the journey, to stop listening to others, to tune that out, resist that, then part two, to stop listening to ourselves, "ourselves" there being the habitual conditioned thought stream in our own minds. Then when we are free of our own thoughts, the thoughts of others are fine to us. Do not produce conflict. That's another thing, to let others be fully what they want to be, as long as they are doing no actual harm to others. We learn best from our own experience, not in others telling us "how it is."

I think the problem is we are conditioned to think that statements are right or wrong, and because the known is what we essentially cling to, it's very, very important to be right.