Is it Useful to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles
Is it helpful to really have a guru in your life, especially when you have a dark nights the soul to undergo? I have read that people all need some sort of help undo all that people have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer is available in or a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this type of work through the generation of the family. It all has regarding the power of this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.
I study A Course in Miracles and discover that I have become tremendously in combination with all the other spiritual books and work I have already been doing. However, I see given 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 taken me a year and another dark night to observe that I have put aside me realizing that there clearly 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 people all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like every other in life I must discern the info and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my path. So I'm confused, I view a major change in me with this specific guru but at once I get the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I thought I must listen for this is the lesson: Tune in to the REAL SOURCE- usually the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I could be missing.
Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very helpful stepping stones because the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. They could offer very helpful and practical advice, teachings, and examples. Yet accepting the Atonement (Correction) is THE sole responsibility and this can be a decision of mind that transcends the idea of personhood. Persons don't become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to be always a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. Whilst the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to happen in stages. During the seeming “process” of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be quite a symbol of the prospect of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last dark night is obviously 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.a course in miracles twitter
It's wonderful that you're simply because the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you're feeling is usually the one right utilization 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'll feel the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have already been removed only Love remains.
Whenever you think of the idea of guru think of this: Gee YoU aRe YoU Here is the gentle reminder: I'm as God created Me. Here is the Power of Now. Here is the simplicity of Being.
Truth is simple. The ego was the illusion of confusion and complexity.
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