We label the purest mirror 'impure' when we see our own doubts reflected in it. The Guru is here simply to be a mirror. That is why judging the Guru is futile.
Those who are obsessed with money see the Guru as a swindler. Those who are obsessed with sex see the Guru as a seducer. Those who have a big ego see the Guru as an egomaniac. Those who are full of shadows see the Guru as a demon. Jesus himself was accused of all these things.
If you don't experience the mystery of attraction to a particular Guru, then just ignore him. You are not required to be a disciple. But judging the Guru is worthless: it lowers your energy, not the Guru's.
One seeker gives away his inner authority to any so-called Guru who comes through town. Another declares all Gurus false. These are just two poles of one ignorance. The first lacks a center: the slightest breeze of glamor will knock him over. The other is too centered, too fixed in a separate self, incapable of surrender. Between these extremes is a middle way: a state of subtle balance, softly poised in one's center yet open to expansion.
The most precious gift is finding a real Guru. The Guru is Grace made active and practical. But how does one discriminate without becoming petty or judgmental?
This requires the heart of a dancer! When such a heart recognizes the Master, it is quickened. Energized with the courage to surrender, it leaps into the abyss of love! Truth sets the heart free. Utterly freed from the vine of doubt, this ripe heart falls at the feet of the Master's feet. Such a paradox! When I no longer need the Master, that is precisely when I go back to him, and fall down in gratitude.
Such surrender doesn't look like freedom to the observer, yet this leap into love, this fall into the abyss of devotion, is the deepest freedom, and the most centered balance. One has fallen into one's own true center, and awakened the Master Within.
Choose your Guru wisely. Yet when the moment comes, there will be no other choice, for the Guru has chosen you.
"We love because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19)
5 comments:
I love my guru dearly. He is something so beyond this minds ability to comprehend. Anything he says I just ignore it and pay incredibly close attention to it. I can't explain any of this.
You have just explained the Mystery, much more clearly than I. Thank you!
No ons really needs a guru. Not if they have made the choice to be honest with themselves
I would say, when you are totally honest with yourself, the Guru shows up.
AKL, you write so beautifully. It brings tears to my eyes.
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