If you Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill HIm!

If you meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him is the name of a book. Hold on one second, let me check and make sure. Yes and it said "a pilgrimmage of Psychotherapy". Which means in short, if someone is claiming to be "the one" head for the hills.

This weekend I went to a Chi Gong workshop. I accessed this information through a website known as "meet up". Anyone can post their class and schedule for yoga, dance, dinners out, or whatever and I had been particularly interested in Qi-Gong. It's known as Chi in Chinese and Qi in Japanese and Korean but basically it means "energy".

I am certainly no stranger to the "new age" category and have delved extensively in "rebirthing", inner child workshops, psychotherapy, herbology, homeopathy, chiropractic, massage therapy, and a little Ayurveda.

Almost as soon as I came into class, This "guru" of Qi Gong, which he insisted on calling Yi Gong because he spent so much time in China, started criticising the "new agers" and then later in the class criticised the yogis!

What the F__k! Anyone knows that the basics of common sense and good manners would teach you as a teacher never to criticize other modalities if you are going to come across as a "Spiritual" person. And this guy had the bad manners and audacity to say that he certainly considered himself to be more "spiritual" than these new age people who were out there talking about manifesting a parking space and how they got this and they got that simply by thinking about it.

I almost walked out. But knowing what I know and being where I've been in life, I know that noone is perfect, Not even the Guru!

One of my girlfriends lived in Hawaii for a while. She said she went to see a "Holy Man" and after giving her a fantastic massage, wanted to know if she would like her "Yonni spot" stimulated. She then asked him and he proceeded to tell her that he would place his finger inside of her to stimulate what we call the G spot until she orgasmed! She was absolutely livid and still telling people this story some years later. And she then would say, "A Holy Man", can you believe it?

I then proceeded to tell her, if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him! And her reaction is the same as all of ours when we first heard this comment, "what do you mean?" I said "Anyone claiming to be the one, is misleading you with false information." We are all a part of the whole, noone any less, and noone any more. In this particular case, the man was just a man. Doing what most men do, except claiming some type of status undeserving of him.

So my advice to you is "Know that we are all in the process of learning". If someone makes a mistake, don't shoot the messenger. We're all adults here, noone can take advantage of us, and maybe these people claiming to be spiritual gurus, can learn something from us!

So if you meet "the Buddha" on the road, don't kill him, just walk away!