Watered-Down Dharma

If we don’t know what Dharma is – the teaching of our reality – we won’t know or recognise any slight deviations. But why would anyone deviate or water-down the Dharma?

Two reasons.
One: people are not ready to realise absolute truth as they still in awe of the form it takes.
Two: gurus want to hold on to followers, and don’t want scare them away.

Watered-down Dharma is easy on the mind, like a feel-good therapy session.

When listening to a guru, mentally discard all the trappings, the name, the mannerisms and culture, and listen to the words. Do the words shock and awaken, or make you feel good?

Never mix cultural mannerisms with teachings.

We are pure consciousness.
Anything else is a obscuration.

Recognising obscurations is the job of pure consciousness.