stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

ZEN IN THE ART OF SEX AND VIOLENCE 43
simply because the same belief is regularly used to support the
false idea that guru-disciple relationships worked in those contexts,
even if not functioning properly in our own society and culture.
Nor was it necessary to go out seeking in order to find the enjoyments
listed by van de Wetering, above:
Girls threw rocks into the sodo’s courtyard with invitations
attached with red ribbons.... I once got a rock on my head
(van de Wetering, 2001).
Wet night, a rock, ouch!
Her love trails in red ribbons
Falling from the sky
But far, far away from such “enlightenment” ... where noble,
revered masters and their humble disciples chop wood, draw water,
and have illicit sex ... the quiet, spontaneous grace of a Zen
archer, his performance broadcast on Dutch television—
a Japanese archery-adept in robes, bowing, kneeling, dancing,
praying before he pulled his bow’s string ... and had his
arrow miss the target completely (van de Wetering, 2001).
The young girls throwing rocks over Kyoto monastery walls,
however—their sweet offers of love attached by soft red silk ribbons—hit
the bull’s eye every time.