I take each message I get in life as Karma and Dharma. Karma as in, there's a reason I get it. Dharma as in, this is a lesson. I don't always do this, but when I am in the NOW moment, I can ingest this in real time as a message.
Today as I woke up I checked my email and a Twitter person had read my call sign: findingmyguru. He sent me a private message: "Btw. you are your own guru."
It's interesting.
Ram Dass said that the difference between a teacher and a guru is that a teacher is pointing to the way, the guru is the Way. Jesus, for example, fits into the Guru figure by his definition as it is said, "I am the Way..."
But I am not that.
I am a seeker. But what is I?
Who am I?
I am not my body.
I am not my thoughts.
I am not my mind.
Could what's left be my guru? Is that the meaning of Namaste, the God in me that is in you? We all have the guru nature?
More then that, is the physical manifestations of someone's Guru simply a projection from this formless state that we all are deep down?
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The Guru and the disciple both arise in "our" consciousness, so I get the "you are your own Guru" thing. But distinguishing between the relative and the transcendental is helpful for me. In the ultimate and transcendental sense we are all our own Guru because there is only one of us here. Only God Exists. In the relative sense it is my opinion that many beings, along with there own sincerity and earnestness, will awaken through the Grace of a Guru, weather embodied or disembodied. The Guru is our own True Self-Nature appearing within the dream to awaken us.
Yes, I agree Lakshmi. You said it very well. Have you, yourself, met someone you would consider a Guru? The people I've read, or listened to, who have met a personal Guru (i.e. Ram Dass meeting his Guru) it's a very powerful and life changing thing. If you have a Guru experience you would like to share, I'd love to hear about it.
I've had many wonderful teachers and books that have helped me in both the personality and the depth dimensions, but over the past 11 years there have really only been 3 Teachers (2 are Gurus) that I've had deep and powerful experiences that have made a lasting (whole bodily) impact. Adyashanti showed me the unreality of the thinking mind how to abide in Silence beyond the mind, and his 2006 talk, Abide in the Self, free on his web library archives always brings me back to that. Though his community is not for me, Adi Da's transmission of Shakti through his photos, Darshan videos, writings, and voice demonstrates to me personally, in my own body/mind the Power and Blissful Energy of the Divine and shows me that Enlightenment can be "Brightening process" in which the whole body and mind are filled with Divine Light until even the body itself (though still functioning) is transcended in the Ocean of Bright Divine-Love-Bliss Consciousness. And best of all, Yogananda, an incarnation of Divine Love who awakened my love for God through his writings 9 years ago, and with whom I've come back to again this past year, as more than a student this time I hope. When I look into his Eyes, I just melt and when I say "Yogananda is my Guru" over and over again, I feel blissful and right, and a felt sense of Communion, but I'm just again at the beginning of my studies (more mature this time around, I pray). With so many wonderful Teachers in my life, my question right now is not "who is my Guru?", but "Can I be a disciple?" Can I sit still, in just one of these wonderful teachings, and take them to the Source and Depth of the World, and burn and burn and burn...
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