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Recieved: 2001/09/08 04:54
Subject: [K-list] Masters and Cuckoos
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2001/09/08 04:54, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
Characteristic of the Masters I have met in my journey over the last
14 years has been that they resist the term Master - recognising that
there is a student within themselves. Each has been open and willing
to allow me to scratch below their surface so that I may better
understand myself.
None of those whom I have met whom I would call Master has tried to
teach me anything. None has tried to help me. Each has allowed (and
even provoked me) into exploring the possibilities within myself ..
often leading me on a merry dance without showing me the steps -
yet, never denigrating any experience that I may have had .. or any
of the stumbling steps I took as I learned to dance to the beat of my
own inner drum beat.
The Master recognises the body as the vehicle for Liberation and
Meditation as the Practice of that liberation - where all of life -
whether sitting, walking, sleeping or "chopping wood and carrying
water" is an expression of that Meditation - the energy some know as
Kundalini finding expression through Hu-man form in the flow of the
breath .. or the Tao.
Every relationship - and most of those I would call masters were
ordinary people - was one of ordinariness. Even the experience of
pain was welcomed as the release of some past holding pattern of
trauma experienced. What goes down must come up again.On the other hand, there were plenty of Cuckoos.
For those who don't know, one of their more insidious characteristics
of the Cuckoo bird is that it lays its egg in the nest of some other
bird, throwing out one of the previous occupants .. and then stands
back to allow the "foster parent" to raise its off-spring.Many pseudo gurus and masters are like this with their victims -
finding the vulnerable fertility that may set a person apart and
placing in there their own ideology so that they may be able to exert
some sort of control in the search of the ultimate power trip.
The "Great Put-down" is especially true if the seeker starts to
demonstrate any qualities that may demonstrate a budding
individuality or uniqueness.Many Parents are like this with their own children - especially
Mothers. Any seeds or originality that are seen in their offspring
are quickly thrown out or destroyed and replaced with the eggs of
their own destructive tendencies .. implanted beliefs.The Cuckoo or the "Pseudo Guru" is the world's original megalomaniac
and there are a lot of them around - preying on those who are weaker
than themselves - keeping them in their Victimhood of dependency
because they are not prepared to go deeply enough into their own
makeup to resolve their own psychosis.
Thus, the Cuckoo can be easily identified when one approaches them
with a new possibility technique or therapy that may actually expose
some of their limitations. Their response is usually to strongly
decry any possibility that may allow one to move beyond dependency.
The usual manner of doing this is through parroting a "party line"
warning of the dangers of a particular approach - particularly if
they have paid money to learn the right to lay their own trademarked
eggs.
The Cuckoo teaches the path of Meditation as a mental specific
process - a patented technique which must be followed for the active
seeking of some stereotypical image - most likely the one he (or she)
epitomises within his or her carefully cultivated illusion of self
grandeur.
The body is to be avoided at all cost, because the Cuckoo is afraid
of the memories contained. The most easily recognisable mating calls
of the Cuckoo are often "I am not my body" or "I am nobody".
Sometimes even "I am a Spiritual Being having a human experience" -
whatever that means.
Kundalini is fraught with pitfalls and dangers because the Cuckoo
knows that one who embraces Life itself can never again be
manipulated, controlled or influenced - and therefore is a threat to
self denied megalomania.
Therefore, for the Cuckoo, the Kundalini path is carefully controlled
and regulated so that there can be no spontaneous expression of
integrity (which is taught to be feared).
After all, the student might come up with something that the Cuckoo
has no control over - or has no answer for -
except that God or Goddess is the only one with all of the answers.
The usual warning is that any deviation from this "party line" will
result in the dire consequences of personal damage -
and this is the dead giveaway -
the Cuckoo has some deep dark secret
that he or she dare not look at.
The true teacher cannot teach you anything -
but, on the other hand, reminds you of everything
that you (on some level) already know.
There are always Masters there are always Students -
the two are inexorably linked - two sides of the one coin.
You won't find the Master, the Master will find you -
when you are ready ..
But until you have walked in the shoes of the Master
and joined the master in your own Heart,
you will never recognise
that you found a way Home
to the Heart that dwells in every cell
of your body physical.
-- Christopher Wynter,
lifestreamsATnospambigpond.com
http://www.anunda.com
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