Beware of Spiritual Teachers Who Encourage You to Stay Broken

They try to mastermind their way to a spiritual path.

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Many spiritual teachers will try to convince you that it’s okay to be broken. They’ll preach to you about the reasons it’s fine to treat others unkindly and to attach yourself to your pain. Or, they often find ways to justify being selfish. This is the ego talking — and it’s strong in all of us. It takes a lot of inner strength to resist it.

The ego loves to hear a validating, authoritative voice telling it that it’s okay to stay attached to fear. It loves to hear that it can disguise fear, anger, and self-preservation as something loving. That’s why this type of spiritual teacher can be so popular.

Forgiveness

I was just scrolling through my feed and saw yet another spiritual leader telling her followers that she has an “unpopular opinion” about forgiveness. She said this would probably get her canceled from the spiritual community (as it should) because she said we should not forgive people — it’s part of our soul journey to keep grudges against other souls. It’s part of working through karma. She encouraged everyone to stay in a place of hurt.

She was reasoning her way into attaching to grief, grudges, and anger. But there’s no magic trick…