https://lightofdharma.com/tags/gurus/ Recent content in Gurus on Light of Dharma Publishing Hugo en-us Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://lightofdharma.com/the-internal-world-of-the-false-guru/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://lightofdharma.com/the-internal-world-of-the-false-guru/ <p>There&rsquo;s a revealing pattern in spiritual circles that repeats across traditions and centuries: <strong>false gurus invariably oppose, undermine, and attack genuine spiritual teachers.</strong> This isn&rsquo;t coincidental—it&rsquo;s psychologically inevitable. To understand why, we need to enter the internal world of the spiritual charlatan and examine the peculiar prison of their own making.</p> <h2 id="the-con-artists-fundamental-assumption">The Con Artist&rsquo;s Fundamental Assumption</h2> <p>The non-bonafide guru operates from the same materialistic consciousness we explored earlier, but with a dangerous twist: they&rsquo;ve discovered that <em>spirituality itself can be commodified and exploited.</em></p>