Lets look at two metaphors that are commonplaces of guru discussions.
There is a big difference between having feet of clay and having feet of excrement.
When we ingest shit, we are exposed to pathogens that can make us sick.
Excrement is useful only when kept contained, within boundaries.
By contrast, we do not associate clay with danger. Clay is useful for pottery, brick making. Bricks and pottery and ceramic pipes are used to create boundaries, distinctions between what is inside and what is outside
Metaphorically any human being has feet of clay - I do, you do, we all do.
However, CEI was set up because too many people with feet of manure claim in false humility to have feet of clay.
Discussion of Metaphors
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is an expression much favored and over used by by abusive gurus and those defending abusive gurus.
What about situations where first appearances were deception?
Situations when a cute baby is not actually a baby but only looks like a baby?
What if that cute, cooing dewy eyed baby is a vampire?
How can we drink water, coffee, tea without a container, eh?
We need to be alert about language, because properly used, language creates
boundaries, distinctions, containters/catagories which enable us to get beyond babyhood by recognizing self versus other, what is more important, what is less important.
The guru business and various methods of trance induction are all about abusing language, mixing shit with clay so that we lose ability to contain and prioritize what we are experiencing.
Our awareness regresses toward the blooming buzzing confusion of babyhood.
This is not enlightenment. A severe concussion causes the same thing.
BTW if Moo is a tax exempt entity, what he does is our business, even those of us
who have never been involved with him.
Why?
Those of us who do pay our taxes indirectly subsidize the gurus who do not pay tax.
There is a big difference between having feet of clay and having feet of excrement.
When we ingest shit, we are exposed to pathogens that can make us sick.
Excrement is useful only when kept contained, within boundaries.
By contrast, we do not associate clay with danger. Clay is useful for pottery, brick making. Bricks and pottery and ceramic pipes are used to create boundaries, distinctions between what is inside and what is outside
Metaphorically any human being has feet of clay - I do, you do, we all do.
However, CEI was set up because too many people with feet of manure claim in false humility to have feet of clay.
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is an expression much favored and over used by by abusive gurus and those defending abusive gurus.
What about situations where first appearances were deception?
Situations when a cute baby is not actually a baby but only looks like a baby?
What if that cute, cooing dewy eyed baby is a vampire?
How can we drink water, coffee, tea without a container, eh?
We need to be alert about language, because properly used, language creates
boundaries, distinctions, containters/catagories which enable us to get beyond babyhood by recognizing self versus other, what is more important, what is less important.
The guru business and various methods of trance induction are all about abusing language, mixing shit with clay so that we lose ability to contain and prioritize what we are experiencing.
Our awareness regresses toward the blooming buzzing confusion of babyhood.
This is not enlightenment. A severe concussion causes the same thing.
BTW if Moo is a tax exempt entity, what he does is our business, even those of us
who have never been involved with him.
Why?
Those of us who do pay our taxes indirectly subsidize the gurus who do not pay tax.