Comments on: “This Will Liberate Germany” http://www.guru-talk.com/2009/12/%e2%80%9cthis-will-liberate-germany%e2%80%9d/ American Guru Andrew Cohen: Former Close Students Speak Out Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:28:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Bjorn Saw http://www.guru-talk.com/2009/12/%e2%80%9cthis-will-liberate-germany%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Bjorn Saw Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:46:17 +0000 http://www.guru-talk.com/?p=480#comment-14 Seeing the Absolute evil inside oneself is a revelation that shocks as well as enlightens. It radically abolishes the belief that we only partake in a marginal amount of "evil" in our own person. It lays bare the utter possibility that we all carry the potential to do the most unthinkable crimes. It strips away our idea of having "a not perfect but not all that bad" character. Surrendering these hard held strongholds comes as result of trusting your teacher. Trusting Andrew to see more of what the bigger picture is. To see the cultural and historical values that shape us individually and impersonally to a norm and structure of a nation takes work. Often, returning home from trips abroad, we become much more aware of these idiosyncrasies of a whole people. We often find it easier to breath outside of our own culturally conditioned home country. The common jokes and jibes directed at traits of certain nations, cultures and races, often reveal some truths to their ingrained habits. While it has always been easier to point a finger to the other, Andrew always pointed it back to oneself. Can we face the facts of our own conditioning? Thank you Eva, for describing it so well. Bjorn Seeing the Absolute evil inside oneself is a revelation that shocks as well as enlightens. It radically abolishes the belief that we only partake in a marginal amount of “evil” in our own person. It lays bare the utter possibility that we all carry the potential to do the most unthinkable crimes. It strips away our idea of having “a not perfect but not all that bad” character.

Surrendering these hard held strongholds comes as result of trusting your teacher. Trusting Andrew to see more of what the bigger picture is. To see the cultural and historical values that shape us individually and impersonally to a norm and structure of a nation takes work. Often, returning home from trips abroad, we become much more aware of these idiosyncrasies of a whole people. We often find it easier to breath outside of our own culturally conditioned home country. The common jokes and jibes directed at traits of certain nations, cultures and races, often reveal some truths to their ingrained habits. While it has always been easier to point a finger to the other, Andrew always pointed it back to oneself. Can we face the facts of our own conditioning?
Thank you Eva, for describing it so well.

Bjorn

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