Can it be Useful to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles
Can it be helpful to truly have a guru in your life, especially when you yourself have a dark nights the soul to undergo? I’ve 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 kind of work through the generation of these family. All of it has regarding the energy of the individual and the group they travel with in spirit.
I study A Course in Miracles and find that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with all the current other spiritual books and work I have now been doing. However, I see since even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now best a course in miracles podcast. It has taken me annually and another dark night to see that I’ve put aside me realizing that there is another way to take care of my illness. It was for this reason guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that people all have the energy within us and when my guru speaks like some other in life I must discern the data 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 guru but at once I discover the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I believed 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 might be missing.
Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very helpful stepping stones whilst the ego is undone. They may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind’s need 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 can be a decision of mind that transcends the thought of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for your head that believes itself to be always a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. As the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem that occurs in stages. Throughout the seeming “process” of Awakening, symbols are employed by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or maybe more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last dark night is always the temptation to retain a sense 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’re since the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you feel 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 appear within and make no attempt to protect or defend the ego, you will feel the Love the ego was made to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love’s Presence have now been removed only Love remains.
When you consider the thought of guru consider this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
This is the gentle reminder: I’m as God created Me.
This is the Power of Now.
This is the simplicity of Being.
Truth is simple. The ego was the illusion of confusion and complexity.
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