I’m sorry you incorrectly attributed the quote to a charlatan.
I’m also sorry the quote was taken out of context which reversed its meaning.
Division was my intention. I want to divide both the left’s new-age religion AND the right wings traditional/fundamentalism from true spirituality.
I want to divide those who perpetually argue over the finger pointing to the moon from those who are actually gazing at the moon.
The fingers pointing at the moon are belief systems, theories or dogmas of ANY kind – left or right, traditional or new age.
Regardless of who’s pointing, the pointing finger is not the Truth. Even if you point at the moon better than anyone else in history ever has, that is STILL not the Truth.
The aim of pointing, ironically, is to get people to look AWAY from the finger pointing and towards that which it is pointing to. To see the moon, you have to abandon your focus on the finger. The finger, of course, refers to ones’ beliefs, concepts, understandings hope and wishes.
My anger at fake spiritual teachers like Chopra is that they make their fortunes from deceiving people into thinking it’s about choosing the correct finger/concept/belief. In doing so, they prevent their disciples from ever seeing the moon themselves. I think I have a valid point for being angry or divisive.
Speaking of being divisive… few people have been more divisive than Siddhartha and Jesus. This is positive division - separating organised group-think (finger pointing) from personal realization (the moon).
Christ is perhaps the greatest divider in history. He was a true revolutionary and is said to have come with a sword – not to kill - but to separate and divide.
Jesus said: “Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but sword (sometimes translated as division).” He said he came to divide one family member from another… “they will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter…." and that “a man’s enemies will be the members of his household”
Jesus also divided people by separating the disciples from ‘luke-warm’ followers who he said he would spew out of his mouth. He divided people by criticizing the Rabbis by calling them hypocrites and challenging their authority.
There’s no political correctness in spirituality. There’s just spiritual correctness and when you take it seriously, it’s often, brutal. Chopra wont tell you about anything like this because he’s selling sweetness and light. He’s offering to make your dream cozier and more comfortable while the true masters are violently shaking you and hitting you with sticks to wake you up.
I don’t know where the subject of money comes from? I didn’t ‘hint’ at anything about money but I’ll respond by asking you this:
Do you think Jesus’ act of overturning the money-changers tables in the temple grounds also ‘hints at the fundy justice system of rewards and punishment’?
What about when he said: “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” or when he warned about storing up treasure on earth where moth and vermin destroy and thieves steal? What about when he said you cannot serve two masters… you cannot serve both God and mammon?
Do these also hint at a ‘fundy’ justice system?
For me, it’s not about money per se. It’s about attachment. Being attached to making money is an addiction. Chopra has amassed $80 million (writing books on deeply spiritual subjects that include diet, how to look younger and how to be successful ) and yet he still doesn’t have enough. His kids said he is an absentee father; they don’t know him. He may as well have been addicted to drugs or in prison as far as his relationship with his kids goes. He didn’t leave his family to serve God as Jesus’ disciples did. He abandoned his family to serve his addiction to fame and mammon.
I see no difference between the leftist new-age false ‘profits’ like Chopra and these right-wing fundies.
EDIT: Having said all that. I don’t expect or want anything to change. People want to be fooled and charlatans want to people to fool. Everything is as it’s meant to be.
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