Insofar as enlightenment makes people feel less neurotic and more connected to their worlds, 
. I’ve found heuristic truth in Leary’s take that one has to feel good to do good.
But operators tell me heightened states of blissful consciousness are also quite useful for killing.
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It's a mahasiddha tradition. As with Vajrayana, the closest Buddhist tradition in both geography and style, enlightened beings manifest in a huge range of personalities. Sharp contrast with, say, Zen where they seem to converge as they get closer to enlightenment. No idea why.
Ah, we have shared lineage ancestors via the mahasiddhas, so to speak. Given the variety of personal manifestations, have you found that people get confused that you’re supposed to be ‘enlightened’ but don’t adhere to their image of what a so-called enlightened person is like?
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No, they aren't confused, they're racist cunts. Who gave a bunch of random white people the right to try to judge the spiritual evolution of an ethnic Hindu spiritual practitoner? White privilege, that's who. I'm a private citizen working mainly on FOSS tech for humanitarians.
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We Hindus are not in the same situation. In the Nath group, consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Adityanath … who is the elected chief minister of a 260m person political region as was his predecessor at the Gorakhnath Math. From a foundation like that, we don't need to flatter people so much.
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The Tibetans, who were penniless politics refugees, were almost completely dependent on the support of rich, privileged Americans for their survival. Somebody paid for Naropa, and all the rest. This power relationship distorted the teachings: they met expectations. This is bad.
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