Interview with Andrew Cohen by Luc Sala about spirituality

[alzico]

I find it staggering that so-called 'spiritual teachers' can still get away with this kind of verbal sewage loaded with undefined terms like 'good', 'whole', 'enlightenment' etc in this day and age. Whatever representation Andrew has of a 'good person' exists only in his own mind, yet, he makes the fatal, most basic of errors by equating his perceptions with the exterior world.

[damightyom]

Im not saying I don't like Andrew, he's done some good work. I just get the feeling he needed to listen more. It's O.K. for the guru to learn in front of a camera, especially since these guys don't have egos anyway, right? hah

I have a video I created that speaks on hardship and enlightenment

Check out my channel and watch Guru and the Gangster

[damightyom]

I liked Luc Sala's sense of perception. One problem with guys like Andrew is they don't realize when they meet someone with an equally valid and hardwon perspective. They are too busy trying to convert. It looks like he is having a conversation but he isnt. He keeps trying to convert or prove himself right. Luc seems to be describing Maslow-type ideas, but Andrew seems more one dimensional. The preachers of freedom are often the most controlling

[elbanydaer]

Cohen just wants people to be "good". But the dangerous thing about that is, who will set the standards for "good"?

What I consider "good" he may not.

In my opinion, Cohen is not an enlightened teacher. He just wants us all to be "good".

And we certainly don't live in any shadow. We are a part of God and God is a part of us. We are one and the same. Atman = Brahman

[VegaBjorn]

Improve youself, BECOME enlightened, become simple, become good, IMPROVE improve improve.. and THEN YOU become enlightened....blablabla... Im sorry, but this is all nonsense to me. It might have a good intention, but still... It's all just words fooling people into continuing their spiritual search, when infact there is nothing to search for and NO searcher in the first place! It's actually kind of a cruel game, even if he might not intend it to be.

[MrCuntyballs2U]

A neat freak creep.........sadist......repr­essed heterosexual

[rogkeista]

Cohen exhibits all the typical features of narcissistic personality disorder, such as a grandiose sense of self-importance and uniqueness; a preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success; a need for constant attention and admiration; a set of characteristic responses to threats to self-esteem; disturbances in interpersonal relationships; a preoccupation with grooming combined with frequent resorting to prevarication or outright lying; and a lack of empathy.

[rogkeista]

Hey...it's Noddy and Big Ears!

[cosmicjazzer]

I take it you're not A Cohen's greatest fan! I'm interested. Why do you feel this way?

[rogkeista]

The blind leading the blind. Arrest him!

[LogosIge]

When Andrew Cohen is advising simplicity or to be simple then he is advising us to become simpletons. Stupidity radiates from him and he wants it to radiate from you too. And, I am not even sure if he is aware of this.

[Calmurmur]

His answers are simplistic; they lack nuance. What is good for Al-Quaida is not considered good by many people. Who is correct? How do we define "good"? He doesn't give a real answer; all he does is ramble on about superlatives.

[donkey69donkey69]

makes perfect sense to me. tx :)))

[immortalal1]

alpha2470 It takes a higher level of understanding to get what he in on about.

[alpha2470]

What a nutter, get this dude some psychiatric treatment lol..What a load of confusion, after listening to him all you want to do is go kill yourself lol!

[iamness1000]

all his thoughts are dual.non duality means not two,so even the worst of acts is the one in expression.this doesnt mean you dont get walked over,it means the is,the reality,is the is,and can you argue with the is????andrew???

[jazinos]

the commentator is really good..you go my friend..

[snix41]

That's how simple it is! I feel Andrew Cohen was very polite about the way he answered in the interview as the simplicity is that 'some folks are just too busy to get it' lol peace x

[snix41]

By learning the simplicity and true nature of everything around you makes everything very easy to understand. You may not like what you see but you no longer feel bitter or angry about it which in turn allows your mind the peace and space in order to try help change things instead of waging war and crying about them. It helps prevent wasting time on 'revenge' and leaves more time and freedom for 'resolution'.....cont....

[yairz83]

Great video. The meaning of our lives can be found, and the approach described here makes a lot of sense for me. Thanks.

[fredclaret]

He is so creepy !!!!

super yuuckk

[zencane]

What is good? This is a naive question! Those who are spiritually evolved enough to understand that goodness is the honoring of life do not have to ask what is good.

Be as kind to all that you meet ~pay attention to what you are attracted to. If you are attracted to shadows, because you are hiding your fears, you will manifest from your subconsious the very thing that you are afriad of.

Becoming simple, does not mean becoming simple minded.

[a5dr3]

You are incredibly naive. 40,000 children starve to death every day and you and your 40 dollar yoga classes think you have the answer to the worlds problems? Only 2 percent of the worlds population have the wealth to even attempt this nonsensensical system. -From a philisophical perspective all of this guys responses are logically fallacious, just like your definition of good which breaks down to nothing more than autobiography.

[a5dr3]

You should be learning how to think critically instead of wasting your time subscribing to paper thin, narcissistic, dead end "spiritual" cults. I'm sorry, but even the average American couch potato should be able to exam these systems of thought and see how ridiculous and impoverished they are.

[donkey69donkey69]

cmon... the average 100 kilo american couch potato exam systems of thought??? ...pffff.

[psstheyyou]

The interviewer is offering a microphone to Handy Koan.

Why doesn't Handy have the decency to say thank you and eat it?

Handy Koan reminds me of Uri Gellar for some reason. The difference between them is that Uri never mastered the power of bending cutlery with his mouth.

That's what Handy is good at. He can talk a steel girder into a twist.

When Handy says "The meaning of life to me is love" I had to reach for the sick bag. Notice his twitchy moustache and sly smile after he says it.(8:18)

[MaBu888]

This isn't a criticism... it seems.

[MaBu888]

I take it back, paartially- this interview is amazingly shallow. Although, I disagree with you about Andrew Cohen and his evolutionary spirituality...

[Aoxomoxoaxa]

This a very shallow conversation. They barely look at each other in the eyes. Cohen speaks looking... somewhere which makes the host lose interest. How strange.

[dylanskriloff]

Come on fellas. Buddha and Jesus are quite a lot more powerful than Tolle and Krishnamurti! Not that they are bad...

[michaelmage]

Agreed!

[hophip64]

Who the hell would want a guru & especially one as shallow as Cohen. Unfortunately he appeals to people who are struggling in life.

He's even worse than this when him and wilber get into mutual masturbatory exchanges.

Narcissism at its best LOL!!

[richidpraah]

absolutely! glad to see others enlightened about some of the worst guru's on this green earth.

[aikigenius]

perfect goodness is the problem isnt it? that seems a bit abstract and dualistic..good/bad, perfect/imperfect, selfish/unselfish, human beings aware of being alive/those who aren't..

being simple, enlightened..'uni-vied'?

altho, im not sure about the idea that questioning consumer culture automatically makes us simple..

[sonorousmass]

It is amazing to me how inarticulate and incapable this pompous fraud is. My guru is off the map, takes no money, seeks no followers, lives modestly. And he is an articulate and radiant mind. Cohen is LITE and TRITE. His heart is small as is evident, he has no psychic strength, he's pompous and frankly his fear comes through loud and clear. He's confusion would not survive a fair debate with me, let alone my guru. He is cruel and he is an ass, just ask his mom.

[richidpraah]

i'm one hundred procent with you.

[georgituber]

hahah yea yea, you can be "good" if you don't reject inequality and capitalism. It is not possible for any universal good to exist, when people are dived by class, sex, race etc etc etc. It is only possible if you create a classless society.

[mhj212]

this guy isn't the real deal.

[meantime08]

That was a messed up post. I should have

said that working with them directly on

a day to day basis or to be part of their

inner circle would be...a challenge. I think

it was Wilber who said, something like, any really advanced teacher is not going to be in his right mind all of the time. I used to follow Chinmoy, would I want to deal with him

everyday? Yes and no but mostly NO! Would he

want to deal with me...hell no.

[Avrunath]

What i have learned about the "state" is that you have to go thru this door !alone! and it feels like dieing. Sadly no one else can enlighten us, they can only point towards the door. And its a big step goin thru it.

[Avrunath]

I cannot tell, i wasnt there but Tolle is helping me a lot in pointing towards the state and in my opinion he is fairly close to how Krishnamurti does it.

And Krishnamurti is very radical, i think he is a very good teacher in ways of bringin you to the edge where you can see and let go.

But again i dont know and luckily there are a lot of spiritual teachers working differently because at this point we all still have a different way of understanding.

[Avrunath]

I think so too, but Eckhart Tolle is also there.

[Avrunath]

Hey folks,

have a look at Eckhart Tolle, Adyashanti and Jiddu Krishnamurti. There are more videos showing them talking out of that state they are referring to. Have Fun

[meantime08]

First of all, most of there guys are maniacs. All or most advanced "teachers" are crAZY. Chinmoy, Cohen,

Ada Da, Wilber. I would not want to work with any of them. These guys are compulsively free to be as crazy as they want to be. From a distance they are fine. Very inspiring, very advanced, very this and that. Most of them at some point say 'get away before it's too late'. Accept that going in.

[sting1993]

2 meantime08: bullshit

[meantime08]

2 Mr. bullshit: two of the guys mentioned in my post agree

with me.

[Winegardener]

wanna see the big enlightened master cohen in action?

in the YouTube Video "Ego Is a Closed Loop" you can learn, how to treat and help a nice person in despair.

wow, what a sympathetic, caring and wonderful expression of pure being mr.cohen is, isn't he?

[FritsPeter]

I just read 'Enlightenment Blues' from VandenBraak. The author has lived with Cohen for 11 years and finally stepped out. The book is also a stern warning against Cohen. A reliable witness from within I would describe this book. If you are involved with Cohen, I would advice to read it.

[quintusonline]

i have watched video`s of Andrew Cohen but his words does not resonate with my heart although i cannot find anything he says is untrue.He always appear to me as a very smart guy..who can communicate very well..but he does not touch my heart like Osho does.

[YourFullPotential]

Before I could truly understand these kinds of messages I had to truly forgive the "hurt people" that hurt me. The road to Freedom is thru the doorway to forgiveness. I am greatful I finally let it all go! The spritual awakening and the pathway of enlightment is a great place to travel!

[maxanova]

Cohen is something of a charismatic cult leader. Do your homework before buying into any of his ramblings.