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  1. I think it can be a very hot topic at any period of history, in any part of the world. I live in a country where mysticism and new age movements are far too popular for some reason, and there are a lot of people with questionable background and morality who start teaching their own ideas and understandings, trying to manipulate people with energies and such means that mostly awakens fear in the "patient" or disciple. There are also "teachers", who call themselves with different titles - as nobody is authoritative enough in burocratic circles to ban them using such titles - but they are not more than common samsaric "philosophers", who earn money by "talking to themselves", but are resourceful enough to dress their poundering in a saleable form. They are also not capable for guiding disciples spiritually, though are not as harmful - maybe - as the previous ones. We also often hear news that parents actually killed their child and themselves too, because they tried to live on prana... Others simply go mad, and end up in psychiatry, live crazy among people, or become criminal or find other ways to abuse people. There are planty of examples for such cases, normally not ending in that very serious result, but the direction is taken to bad already... And all of these tragedies have their roots in wrong understanding of reality, and in following one's own convictions and aberrations, i.e. when people are getting 'successful' in explaining things so that they support their inclinations and personal reasons, emotions, frustrations. They do not want to face their shortcomings so they search for "teachers" from some easily reachable trend, and pay for it, become a slave mentaly, and ending up in chaos, loosing themselves, partly because when at the end they realize they were mistaken, it is already too late. The so called "teacher" does not have the ability to bring them back! He was just telling his ideas amidst the hosanna of the crowds who are looking for pleasant words and easy access, and he had not the slightest connection to Reality! Consequently he also has no mean to act upon it, he is building dreamlands for himself and for his disciples too! But these people go mad in samsaric reality, and the dreamers who put them there cannot help them in coming back, as they are losers themselves. There are 2 reasons i brought up this topic - first is to talk about specific dangers of different trends, because i really do worry for these people, as it is extremly difficult to come back to normal life: they lose everything that could sustain them in rehabilitation, they will lack of conditions, not just because they can lose material thing like money, property, but can also lose qualities in their mindstream for long time, which blocks them in remembering precious feelings. And the second is to talk about how one can find a true spiritual guide. How one can test the person to be choosen as a teacher. And i am also saying this to emphasise how precious is the true Teacher, and how inexpressible is His/her support and protection and safe guidance. (we in Dharmaling can feel very "lucky" ) In Hungary there are some schools of so called brain-controll. They use meditation and mental manipulation in a very silly way. there are quite some psychiatric people coming out from their groups. i wonder how such schools can flourish...
  2. Though Rumi doesnt mention "freewill" in this poem, but it might be relevant to this question: "This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence: This place made from our love for that emptiness! Yet somehow comes emptiness, this existence goes. Praise to that happening, over and over! For years I pulled my own existence out of emptiness. Then one swoop, one swing of the arm, that work is over. Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting. The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness. These words I'm saying so much begin to lose meaning: Existence, emptiness, mountain, straw: Words and what they try to say swept out the window, down the slant of the roof." i think our free will is in our free creation on the basis of our deep inner knowledge of Emptiness, or Buddha nature.
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