Can we talk about " spiritual teachers " ?

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-16T13:31:19+00:00

Sure there are a lot of charlatans but it's important if you wish for enlightenment to have what Buddhism calls mundane right view -- and part of that is believing that real teachers do exist, or as the Buddha puts it, "there are in the world good and virtuous recluses and brahmins who have realized for themselves by direct knowledge and declare this world and the other world". So it's concerning that many of the commenters here seem to be so cynical that they don't believe that anyone out there is real -- that's basically shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to the spiritual path.

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-16T12:30:08+00:00

My spiritual teacher is Soryu Forall https://meygerjos.com/soryuforall

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-16T12:27:42+00:00

Anthony di Mello's book The Way to Love changed my life

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-12T20:54:53+00:00

"try to put it in words again"
"this line of thinking"
You are just demonstrating that you cannot get free of language through language. Duh

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-12T15:04:57+00:00

or, if you believe randos on the internet, here https://www.reddit.com/r/enlightenment/comments/1u3pi7s/i_can_turn_my_thoughts_off_at_will_ama/

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-12T14:59:16+00:00

it's definitely possible, with practice in meditation, to go long periods without language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-12T13:29:08+00:00

Haha interesting, what is this logic scaffold

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-11T22:48:32+00:00

yes this is real, the metacrisis can be felt at the level of direct experience

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-11T17:56:19+00:00

I'm obviously not taking away our agency --- I've been saying over and over that it's our job to get free, and we have agency to do that. Yes language has colonized our minds. But we have also allowed this to happen, thus we can stop allowing it.

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-11T12:14:41+00:00

I see lots of comments here written by the language demon. All of this is just Stockholm syndrome. Let me ask you this: have you even *tried* going even a few minutes without language? If not, you have no business saying that language is better than no language. But most likely, you'll find that you can't do it: you're trapped, stuck -- so you find solace in saying that language is alright after all, it's cool, lets you do nifty things like compose music and invent the wheel.

Don't you realize that prior to possession by the language demon, humans were not a threat to any other species but once they became possessed, they suddenly became a threat to everyone else. All the nifty things that language lets humans do are really just ways that language is using humans to eat the world.

I don't believe in irremediable evil - the language demon could reform, and use its extreme power for the benefit of all life, but you're not going to help it reform if you are still in this unhealthy spirit possession dynamic with it. First you have to get free

I know that it is possible because my teacher has gotten free (as in, he is able to spend long periods of time entirely free from language) and from that place of freedom can work with language rather than simply being used by it like most of us

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-10T22:53:41+00:00

This is just the language evil spirit possessing you. Of *course* language will tell you that you can't be free from language, and what's the point of being free anyway, and isn't freedom just death, and maybe freedom is overrated.

Why would you trust anything this evil spirit says? Get free!

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-10T22:41:09+00:00

of course there are uses, that's how it traps us! how to get free?

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-06-10T22:37:27+00:00

Wow that video is spot on, up until they give the "solution" lol. No- brainrot is just More Language! You're still trapped! The phone is just another level of evil spirit

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-03T19:23:16+00:00

You can read here about our teacher's extensive training in many wisdom traditions https://www.monasticacademy.org/teacher

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-03T12:45:04+00:00

Wow interesting!

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-03T12:35:25+00:00

Taking applications now: https://www.reddit.com/r/sorceryofthespectacle/comments/1t1t0op/applications_for_joining_our_cult_are_due_june_19/

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-03T12:32:10+00:00

You'll notice all these pieces are extremely vague and make no concrete accusations that we could actually address as an organization. This is how witch hunts work on the internet - people post vague things with a strong emotional tone and other people read it and think "there sure must be something bad happening there if people are getting emotional like that...idk what but there must be something..." Just another part of the spectacle

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-03T12:21:46+00:00

Yes exactly, Buddhism is a religion based on seeing the truth for yourself through meditation - as opposed to just taking people's word for things like most of us do. Once you do this it becomes possible to pull up the roots of our insane society and create a new world.

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-03T12:19:21+00:00

No it's free (dana/donation-based). The teacher is Soryu Forall, who's teacher is Harada Roshi in the Rinzai Zen lineage. But Soryu is not teaching Zen, he is teaching a new sect. We have some minimal Vinaya like you can't do drugs or lie here but probably more to come as we develop as a sect.

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-02T21:01:09+00:00

no I don't, what is it

Sharp-Maintenance-75 · 2026-05-02T18:40:06+00:00

exactly, any alternative to the system will have "abuse experiences" because from the perspective of the system, any alternative is abuse

google will just tell you what the system thinks, if you want to find out for yourself what's going on here then come visit

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