Monica Pignotti (1989) then opined, after spending half a decade in Scientology:
I know that no one is going to give me the answers to life. I now realize that I have a mind that is fully capable of guiding me through the decisions I make in life and I will never put anyone or anything above what I know and feel. I now know the techniques that are [allegedly] used to control people’s minds and that people exist in this world that have no compunction about using these techniques to manipulate people.... My life and my mind are now my own and I will never give them up again.
What I mean is, There could be such a thing, in the sense that perhaps "enlightenment" could be described as the cause of people being kind to each other and making wise decisions. So in that case it might be rare, but its not that rare.
Its definately not something you can buy. But there sure are enough people selling it. Its the perfect con really. Lots of people want it. You can't really describe what it is, supposedly, because its beyond words. So how do you get it? You make yourself subservient to one of these gurus, do whatever they ask of you, even if they ask you to give up your ass, and they will tell you when you have gotten there. Its not up to you apparently. Only they know.
So imagine you are the Guru. You have something to sell, and the way people buy it is by paying you for them to be allowed the privelege of worshipping you. Pretty good deal, eh? Yeah, if you are a psychopath.
I think what happens though, is the way this stuff gets passed on, is that One con artist recognizes another and teaches him the con. That's the foundation of these "lineages."
People just keep sucking it up. Even after these Gurus get exposed. They don't want to let go of their image that these people were enlightened beings. You're Guru died of cerrosis. He had alcaholic dimentia before he died and a serious cocaine habit. He sexually assaulted people.
"Well, that's just crazy wisdom! You can't judge his actions unless you have his mind.
We could all be San Bushmen, right now. In a way we once were according to analysis of our MtDNA. I once saw an episode of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" where he ate an Ostrich egg with some Bushmen prepared in the traditional way.
I'm pretty sure it tasted like shit. It had sand and bits of ash in it. He said as much but was careful to say he had respect for their traditional way of life and so forth, which I do too.
The fact remains though, that these people are not Epicurians. You aren't going to find many of the "finer things in life" like Literature, Fine wine, gourmet food, High culture, among the Bushmen.
So where do all these things come from?
It comes from the development of an Aristocracy through the development of intensve Agriculture. Basically feudalism.
There is no doubt in my mind that a cultured Feudal lord lived a better life than a bushman and that a peasant lived a far worse one.
Sure a Bushman owns little, but he has the freedom to do as he pleases. He is a free man living with dignity, beholden to no one. He eats a healthier more diverse diet then the gruel that was peasant fare. Weston A Price proved that hunter gatheres the world over enjoyed superor health from their varied diets than the western starch based diet.
So I am sure that was even moreso, in midieval Europe. But the point I am trying to make here is that the majority of people took a step down from how they lived as hunter gatherers in order for an elite to make advances that eventually filtered down to a broader segment of mankind.
The Old regime of Tibet seems to have been a form of the Midieval Period of Europe, frozen in time. The many slaved away in lives of hunger, toil and deradation so that a privelidged few could live lifes of high culture gorgeously attired in Saffron robes playing with Gold trinkets raping the woman and young boys. See Buddhism is Corrupt
They Monopolized the Literacy and knowledge and trade with outside world.
They obviously had some kernel of Knowledge. This is What Spiritually curious Westerners have been all excited about learning.
But there have been lots of statges of development beyond fudealism that happened outside of Tibet prior to the 1950's such as Human rights, democracy, industrialization, that have brought freedom and prosperity to porportionately greater numbers of people.
There is an Hegelian Dialetic with this stuff, with relative freedom vs. relative servitude going back and forth through history. In many ways Advanced Corporate capitalism resembles Fuedalism. On a Global scale it, perhaps be argued that the billions of people subsisting on less than a dollar a day are serfs to powerful Wealthy Interests in the West. The World Bank and the IMF emplot debt slavery to create uneven trade balances and siphon wealth from the third world.
These two paragraphs from the Michael Parenti article "The Myth of Tibet say it all"
In 1959, Anna Louise Strong visited an exhibition of torture equipment that had been used by the Tibetan overlords. There were handcuffs of all sizes, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs. There were hot brands, whips, and special implements for disemboweling. The exhibition presented photographs and testimonies of victims who had been blinded or crippled or suffered amputations for thievery. There was the shepherd whose master owed him a reimbursement in yuan and wheat but refused to pay. So he took one of the master’s cows; for this he had his hands severed. Another herdsman, who opposed having his wife taken from him by his lord, had his hands broken off. There were pictures of Communist activists with noses and upper lips cut off, and a woman who was raped and then had her nose sliced away.23
Earlier visitors to Tibet commented on the theocratic despotism. In 1895, an Englishman, Dr. A. L. Waddell, wrote that the populace was under the “intolerable tyranny of monks” and the devil superstitions they had fashioned to terrorize the people. In 1904 Perceval Landon described the Dalai Lama’s rule as “an engine of oppression.” At about that time, another English traveler, Captain W.F.T. O’Connor, observed that “the great landowners and the priests… exercise each in their own dominion a despotic power from which there is no appeal,” while the people are “oppressed by the most monstrous growth of monasticism and priest-craft.” Tibetan rulers “invented degrading legends and stimulated a spirit of superstition” among the common people. In 1937, another visitor, Spencer Chapman, wrote, “The Lamaist monk does not spend his time in ministering to the people or educating them. . . . The beggar beside the road is nothing to the monk. Knowledge is the jealously guarded prerogative of the monasteries and is used to increase their influence and wealth.”24 As much as we might wish otherwise, feudal theocratic Tibet was a far cry from the romanticized Shangri La so enthusiastically nurtured by Buddhism’s western proselytes.
Everything the Dalai Lama has learned about freedom, democracy, social activism, he learned since exile (while on a CIA payroll I might add) from the same sources availabe to everyone else. There is no wisdom inherent in Tibetan Buddhism of a program to make the World a better place. Had there been ostensily, they would have employed it to make Tibet a better place.
Because I'm tired of maturity, airport insecurity Runnin' from the Thought Police, fightin' with the go-betweens Hold up, let me steal a breath 'Cause we're dealin' with identity theft
(You need an education) I don't see why I got to (You need a good degree) As to assimilate
So little time, so much to be bored by If no one trod along Harvard lawn, no one'd make a nuclear bomb They don't teach you how to care, empathisin' if you dare Euthanize your sense of fair play, better to obey
No child is free, oh, why, it's queasy to see Is that an elementary or a penitentiary
Huh, geez, get off my back Beat it, take it to town, man Idiots go to college to get dumbed down
Ooh, it leaves you bereft Ooh, identity theft I may be wrong, I don't know why I may be wrong, but I'll try
Because I'm sick of the insanity, watchin' horny manatee Feelin' like a libertine, dealin' with the death machine Hold 'em up, it's a street arrest And we're dealin' with identity theft
(You need a publication) I don't see why I got to (You need a press release) As to assimilate
Journo-fascist profiteers, pornotastic pioneers Bombobastic puppeteers, get away from me How can you write what we read, that ain't my reality You disabuse humanity, humility and fealty
Oh, you guess you got an edge Hiding your head from the feds Puttin' down the little veg (Ignorance is a right, not a privilege)
I'm finished, done, and had it And while you fucks are at it As far as I'm concerned, Pluto's still a planet
Ooh, you die a quick death Ooh, identity theft I may be wrong, I don't know why I may be wrong, but I'll try
Because I'm sick of all the sabotage, where's my female entourage Lookin' for some kind of closure, all I'm findin' is Ray Bolger Hold up, hell yeah, I'll confess 'Cause we're dealin' with identity theft
(You need an occupation) I don't see why I got to (You need a boss to please) Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you're late
Yakety yak, don't look back, Nellie, you're a heart attack Murder, murder, on the wall, who's the butchest one of all (Where'd you get that vegan dress, a flea market) Oops, I forgot, you design for Target Shun violence and religion, don't ever play with nuns
But I punched a man on Broadway just to watch him cry Every guy I went to try said I fight him but I can't think why
Bent unhinged and singed I cringe to watch the main event But in the end, there's no success like revenge
Ooh, it leaves you bereft Ooh, identity theft I may be wrong, I don't know why I may be wrong, but I'll try
Because I'm tired of hypocrisy, is it them or is it me If Jesus Christ is left in ruin, Satan, buddy, how you doin' Hold 'em up, it's a street arrest And we're dealin' with identity theft
Because I'm tired of being sweet and nice Fuck you once and fuck you twice Show your passport, get that stamp Funny like a nazi camp Hold 'em up, hell yeah, I'll confess 'Cause we're dealin with identity theft
All this info is available on the internet. Its not opinion. its FACT. If you go up high enough into the Buddhist Hierarchy it all comes down to raping little girls. That's what it ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO with these religious hierarchies. That is what TANTRA is. Converting eroticism into POWER. Its RAPE plain and simple.
These people are all vampires. They feed on your SOUL ENERGY. Have you taken vows? If not, seriously, DON'T DO IT. Its the Vampires bite. It will create a psychic link between you and these vampires.
Don't take my word for it. Research it your self:
The raping of little girls by Tibetan Lamas:
“In the rite of ‘virgin-worship’ (kumari-puja)”, writes Benjamin Walker, “a girl is selected and trained for initiation, and innocent of her impending fate is brought before the altar and worshipped in the nude, and then deflowered by a guru or chela” (Walker, 1982, p. 72). It was not just the Hindu tantrics who practiced rituals with a kumari, but also the Tibetans, in any case the Grand Abbot of the Sakyapa Sect, even though he was married.
On a numerological basis twelve- or sixteen-year-old girls are preferred. Only when none can be found does Tsongkhapa recommend the use of a twenty-year-old. There is also a table of correspondences between the various ages and the elements and senses: an 11-year-old represents the air, a 12-year-old fire, a 13-year-old water, a 14-year-old earth, a15-year-old sound, a 16-year-old the sense of touch, a 17-year-old taste, an 18-year-old shape or form, and a 20-year-old the sense of smell (Naropa, 1994, p. 189).
How 1950's Tibet was a Corrupt Mideival Oligarchy, with serfs slavery, torture, dispicable poverty and servitude etc. :
Drepung monastery was one of the biggest landowners in the world, with its 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 great pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. The wealth of the monasteries rested in the hands of small numbers of high-ranking lamas. Most ordinary monks lived modestly and had no direct access to great wealth. The Dalai Lama himself “lived richly in the 1000-room, 14-story Potala Palace.” 11
Secular leaders also did well. A notable example was the commander-in-chief of the Tibetan army, a member of the Dalai Lama’s lay Cabinet, who owned 4,000 square kilometers of land and 3,500 serfs. 12 Old Tibet has been misrepresented by some Western admirers as “a nation that required no police force because its people voluntarily observed the laws of karma.” 13 In fact. it had a professional army, albeit a small one, that served mainly as a gendarmerie for the landlords to keep order, protect their property, and hunt down runaway serfs.
Young Tibetan boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. Once there, they were bonded for life. Tashì-Tsering, a monk, reports that it was common for peasant children to be sexually mistreated in the monasteries. He himself was a victim of repeated rape, beginning at age nine. 14 The monastic estates also conscripted children for lifelong servitude as domestics, dance performers, and soldiers.
In old Tibet there were small numbers of farmers who subsisted as a kind of free peasantry, and perhaps an additional 10,000 people who composed the “middle-class” families of merchants, shopkeepers, and small traders. Thousands of others were beggars. There also were slaves, usually domestic servants, who owned nothing. Their offspring were born into slavery. 15 The majority of the rural population were serfs. Treated little better than slaves, the serfs went without schooling or medical care, They were under a lifetime bond to work the lord's land--or the monastery’s land--without pay, to repair the lord's houses, transport his crops, and collect his firewood. They were also expected to provide carrying animals and transportation on demand.16 Their masters told them what crops to grow and what animals to raise. They could not get married without the consent of their lord or lama. And they might easily be separated from their families should their owners lease them out to work in a distant location. 17
Thats where the trail started that led to all the corruption at the top. The alcaholic womanizng Lama Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, with the $40,000 a year coke habit and his HIV positive successor who continued to have sex with his male desciples even after knowing he was HIV positive because he felt that a Guru is without sin and the victims only got AIDS due to bad Karma and their part.
NONE of this is OPINION.
This takes nothing away from meditating and Spiritual practice. in fact that's the point, we can do all this stuff without the 'help" of these SPIRITUAL VAMPIRES.
