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ZEN IN THE ART OF SEX AND VIOLENCE

Thu, 2009-11-26 16:08 — ABN

...This pressure to have the unhappy students leave and let the holy teacher stay, too, is very relevant to the unsupportable idea that guru-disciple relationships have “traditionally” worked. (The untenable claim implicit there is that in the agrarian East such relationships had “checks and balances” in place, which purportedly constrained the behaviors of their guru-figures in ways which are absent in the West.) For, observations such as Rand’s, above, clearly show that “traditional” societies have exercised far less practical checks and balances on the behaviors of their gurus/kings/emperors than does the modern and postmodern West.

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This chapter is from the book, Stripping the Gurus by Geoffrey D. Falk. Lest we start looking down on the Catholic church. ABN