Former Spiritual Teacher's Confession
Channel: Rokas Leonavicius
Date: 2020-05-07

For years I believed that if I wanted to help people - I should become a spiritual teacher. Eventually I opened my own school and worked hard to be a good spiritual teacher to my community, but as time moved on I started to realize that I was potentially doing more harm than good. In this episode of Lessons Learned The Hard Way I share what I discovered to be the downside to spiritual teachers and openly speak about my own personal mistakes being one.

Here you can find the previous episode of Hard Lessons where I speak about the often hidden downside to Yoga, from my personal experience: https://youtu.be/kivsGL6vkYA

00:00 Intro
03:58 My biggest criticism to spiritual teachers
09:02 Subtle arrogance of spiritual teachers
12:58 A lack of authenticity passed on to others
16:29 Importance of defining spirituality
20:27 Allowing yourself to be flawed and owning it
23:13 How spiritual teachers teach things they shouldn’t
30:55 Are spiritual people really inspiring?
38:28 Having a critical mind with spiritual teachers
43:02 Conclusion 

In the Lessons Learned The Hard Way series I share my most interesting and crazy stories how through my devotion to fulfill my goals and constant efforts to become better I tried, failed, succeeded and learned my lessons through experience.

Watch the previous episode on what I discovered Enlightenment to really be here: https://youtu.be/9MBa0Bi5Pa8

Find all the episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpYu1wrhxbcwoyQzGtj_Y_GZ0r5ONoMQO

Check out this video conversation where we discuss about Yoga myths and science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1cnmLGbuI

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