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434 STRIPPING THE GURUS
Kunley’s exploits included claims of his having slept with five
thousand women—but evidently no men—“for their spiritual benefit.”
So here we have someone who ostensibly drew no distinctions
between excrement and urine, versus “the finest food and wine.”
That is, he potentially enjoyed both sets equally, for experiencing
everything—including his own thoughts, sensations and emotions
—as having the same “One Taste.” In other words, he “experienced”
them with no division between subject and object, and no
recoiling from psychological engagement in those various psychic
relationships. And yet, like the strictly heterosexual Wilber, he obviously
still distinguished between men and women as sexual
partners, only indulging in the female of the species in that regard.
Very fishy, that—to allegedly not distinguish between one’s culinary
enjoyment of filth versus appropriate foods, but to still be
bound by largely learned/cultural sexual preferences.
Feuerstein gives many additional “fairy tales” of the violent
“crazy wisdom” exploits of Kunley and others. None of those mythic
stories could possibly be literally true. Yet, all of them have undoubtedly
been used, at one time or another, to excuse the behaviors
of foolish individuals masquerading as sages, both past and
present.
Consider:
[Adi Da] likes to compare his work to the crazy-wise teachings
of some of the great adepts of the East. In particular, he
once remarked, “I am Drukpa Kunley.... This is exactly what
I am in your time and place” (Feuerstein, 1996).
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Traditionally, in Asia, vows and moral precepts have protected
teachers and students from sexual and other forms of
misconduct. In Japan, Tibet, India and Thailand, the precepts
against harm by stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, or
abuse of intoxicants are understood and followed by all members
of the religious community....
In modern America these rules are often dispensed with,
and neither TV preachers nor Eastern spiritual teachers
have clear rules of behavior regarding money, power and sex
(Kornfield, 1993).
Yet as we have seen, contrary to the romantic belief that things are
different in Asia: In Japan, local girls throw rocks over the monas-