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202 STRIPPING THE GURUS
We saw earlier that, in Wilber’s world, Trungpa’s “Merwin incident”
was an “outrageous, inexcusable, and completely stupid mistake”
on the part of the master. In the same world, however, the
more-revered (by Wilber) Adi Da’s far worse alleged behaviors are
simply “mistakes” without pejorative adjectives. His followers, further,
are evidently to blame for being “silly” in taking those as
“great teaching events.” Such a regard, of course, completely overlooks
the fact that, if one is truly “completely surrendered” to a
guru-figure, there are no possible criteria which one could use to
distinguish between valid “teaching events” and “mistakes” on his
part. (Plus, Da has again reportedly told his followers that he “can
do no wrong” [Feuerstein, 1992].) Rather, it is all equally “divinely
inspired,” and all equally done “for the benefit of all sentient beings.”
Further, to the pathetic excuse that the most objectionable
events in any community may have happened “twenty years ago,”
the proper response is: If we have learned one thing from the
French, it is plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. That is, “the
more things change, the more they stay the same.” What, then, has
changed in the psychologies of people who would have allowed such
reported atrocities to occur in the first place, and hardly blinked a
collective eye at the instruction to “keep it quiet”? (A quick glance
at the Daism Research Index at Lightmind [2004] discloses that
nothing whatsoever has changed in that regard.) Would you trust
such “miraculous corona”-seeing people with your mental and
physical health? Would you surrender completely to such gurufigures
and their obedient followers? (Short of that complete surrender,
you are still “resisting the grace of the Avatar.” Why are
you resisting? Ah, ego.)
Wilber’s own writings give no indication that he has ever been
spiritually disciplined over an extended period of time in a “crazy
wisdom” environment. (By “an extended period of time” is meant a
minimum of six continuous months. At one point, he was considering
[1991] taking a three-year meditation retreat at an ashram run
by Kalu Rinpoche, but evidently never actually did so.) He has attended
satsanga at the feet of Adi Da on the Mountain of Attention.
But surely even he must realize that there is a huge difference
between spending a few days or weeks as a guest in such an
environment, versus being trapped there for months or years.
Further, according to Georg Feuerstein in Lowe (1996), Da
himself predictably has a strong “interest in enlisting the assis-