Lester Levenson

[gooch69]

So where does Lester Levenson fit in to the spiritual teachers ratings. Can anyone deny he was a true master?

[michaelsees]

Well I do not see him as a spiritual teacher of any sorts IMO.
He is a body/mind person. He uses the Sedona Method for release work.
He's certainly not concerned about the question "Who Am I"
He's very much into prosperity teachings, making money etc.

Michael

[gooch69]

Interesting Micheal. If you listen to his audio recordings he says "Who am I?' is the most important question you can ask yourself. His mentor is Ramana Maharshi. You may be confusing him with Lawrence Crane who has definitely exploited Lester Levenson's legacy.

[dawn]

Well, LL is a little better than LC, but not a whole lot.

[Peter]

Short post, Dawn! Are you able to expand on that at all?

I like Mint Choc Chip icecream a little better than Vanilla, but me offering my opinion on the matter doesn't help anyone else very much.



Ahh, I've now caught up with your previous postings where you said "NOYB" to Michael and "NOYFB" to Wynn. Perhaps you've walked into the wrong bar. You could have just not replied you know....

You don't like criticism, do you? I went looking for a quote for you, some lama who said that spiritual progress is just one insult after another, and found this page:

www.jflory.org/contemplative_quaker/difficulties.htm

A genuine spiritual path does not avoid difficulties or mistakes but leads us to the art of making mistakes wakefully, bringing them to the transformative power of our heart. When we set our to love, to awaken, to become free, we are inevitably confronted with our own limitations. As we look into ourselves we see more clearly our unexamined conflicts and fears, our frailties and confusion. To witness this can be difficult. Lama Trungpa Rinpoche described spiritual progress from the ego's point of view as "one insult after another."

In this way, our life may appear as a series of mistakes. One could call them "problems" or "challenges", but in some ways "mistakes" is better. One famous Zen master actually described spiritual practice as "one mistake after another," which is to say, one opportunity after another to learn. It is from "difficulties, mistakes, and errors" that we actually learn. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others - we are at ease with the difficulties of life.

-- Jack Kornfield - A Path With Heart

[gooch69]

Good insight Peter