Could it be Beneficial to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles
Could it be helpful to truly have a guru in your lifetime, especially when you yourself have a black night of the soul to undergo? I have read that we all need some type of help to undo all that we have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or perhaps a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this kind of work through the generation of these family. Everything has regarding the power with this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.
I study A Course in Miracles and discover that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with all the current other spiritual books and work I have already been doing. However, I see now that even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now. It has brought me per year and another dark night to see that I have put aside me realizing that there was another way to handle my illness. It was as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that we all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like any other in life I must discern the info and go within for the last answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles within my path. So I'm confused, I see a major change in me with this particular guru but at once I find the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I believed I must listen for this is the lesson: Listen to the REAL SOURCE- the main one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I could be missing.a course in miracles twitter
Thanks for your heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very helpful stepping stones because the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's want to Wake Up. They can offer very helpful and practical advice, teachings, and examples. Yet accepting the Atonement (Correction) is THE sole responsibility and this is a decision of mind that transcends the concept of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to be a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. While the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem that occurs in stages. Through the seeming “process” of Awakening, symbols are utilized by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be a symbol of the prospect of Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final dark night is always the temptation to retain an expression of individuality, privacy, autonomy, and uniqueness. All perceived darkness reflects the belief in private minds with private thoughts. Mind is one in forgiveness and One in Truth.
It is wonderful that you will be seeing that the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you are feeling is the main one right use of judgment until it's apparent that any judgment is entirely impossible. Follow the Joy! Follow the Bliss! As you look within and make no attempt to guard or defend the ego, you will experience the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have already been removed only Love remains.
Whenever you consider the concept of guru consider this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
This is the gentle reminder: I am as God created Me.
This is the Power of Now.
This is the simplicity of Being.
The fact is simple. The ego was the illusion of confusion and complexity.
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