Perhaps synchronicitous, but a writer I have gotten some good mileage from in the past, Dave Chapman, just this past week wrote about the problems with the guru relationship in Buddhism, but how the valuable parts of it might be salvaged here: https://vividness.live/evolving-ground-learning-relationship
Fair warning: I haven't read the piece yet, and he's coming at this from a materialist Buddhist standpoint, but he's a careful thinker and reasonable person who takes the concept of "Meaning" very seriously, so maybe this can be helpful.
Re: On Gurus
Date: 2023-06-19 06:44 pm (UTC)Fair warning: I haven't read the piece yet, and he's coming at this from a materialist Buddhist standpoint, but he's a careful thinker and reasonable person who takes the concept of "Meaning" very seriously, so maybe this can be helpful.
Cheers,
Jeff