We should put together a list of the greatest Gurus, alive
and dead, even perhaps imaginary, from each of the major traditions and
non-traditions.
Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Krishna, Dögen, Nisargadatta, Anandamayi
Ma, Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, Gurdjieff, Suzuki Roshi, Wei Wu Wei, Alan
Watts, Bernadette Roberts, Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Suzanne Segal, Satyam
Nadeen, Chögyam Trungpa, Meher Baba, Lama Ole Nydahl, Osho, Pema Chödrön, Philip
Kapleau, Toni Packer, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sylvia
Boorstein, Sharon Salzberg, Byron Katie, Andrew Cohen, Ken Wilber, Eckhart
Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Dalai Lama, etc, etc. (I know I left out YOUR favorite
guru…)
I have 2 books to help out:
“Great Thinkers of the Eastern World,” IP McGreal ed, 1995
“The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers of
Eastern Traditions,” A Rawlinson, 1997
Another shorter list is here:
And here with excellent links and ratings!
Then set up a standard bracket and vote!
We can then see who wins the most votes.
The best guru of all time!
I love this viewpoint on gurus and enlightenment from Krishnamurti:
And from Richard Rose here:
But, wait a minute!
If we are all One, then who is there to win?
Damn!
Oh, well. It was a
fun idea anyway.
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