Ok, the front page of Beliefnet, where I hang out (as if it's cool...) and debate Christianity (and, for a while, Islam) has Wayne Dyer giving advice on 'how to go with the flow' using the Dao De Jing as travel guide. Blech. It's like the difference between real maple syrup and Log Cabin syrup on your pancakes. Sorry, but it's pretty easy for Mr. Dyer to go with the flow. After all, he's been saying the same thing for years in repackaged formulas to the same people who buy his stuff and continue to fund his lifestyle. Not knocking him; he's got a gimmick that works (and, in essence, what he says is valuable).
I think I just tire of the guru thing, this cult of celebrity in the self-help and even in the Christian world. Come to think of it, the cult of celebrity is everywhere. Alan Watts was a celebrity and his fans flocked to him, his little haunt in Caliornia the 'in' thing to do spiritually. Hell, even they way Jesus is presented today he frequently resembles a superhero more than a saviour. Or he's turned into some kind of a guru where he begins to look like - you guessed it - the individual (or group) promoting Jesus' guru status.
Jesus is antihero/antiguru if we really read the accounts of his life in the New Testament.
When spirituality, whatever form, becomes hip it ceases to be relevant.
"When everyone knows good as good, this is not good." (DDJ, 2, Cleary translation)
Saturday, August 18, 2007
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You have to express more your opinion to attract more readers, because just a video or plain text without any personal approach is not that valuable. But it is just form my point of view
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