Bad gurus, tosh gurus and good gurus

685.54 - 711.364 Alex Wilding

Their stories do demonstrate how any circumstances can, if only we can rise to them, be circumstances for attaining enlightenment. A small fraction of these Mahasiddhas were rich and powerful, but many of them follow the more popular Buddhist pattern of riches to rags and then onward to enlightenment. This is, after all, very much what the Buddha himself did two and a half thousand years ago.