To me the term "guru" has acquired mercenary, even predatory connotations, like "televangelist." Jesus warned us of these wolves in sheep's clothing. Fortunately we already have all the guru we will ever need, loving, blissful, a quiet magnetic pull from the very heart of our being. We need only open like flower petals to the sun, blooming, surrendered.
Mankind is cutting down the tree in his eagerness to devour the choice fruit in its bough.
Somehow cruelty and poignancy collide in the best dark humor.
Here is a pretty damn good account of my present state of no-mind: "Just look away from all that happens in your mind and bring it to the feeling 'I am'...bringing the mind to the feeling 'I am' merely helps in turning the mind away from everything else. When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known, and yet you recognize it at once as your own true nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its visions, but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained, until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end, and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present." N.M.
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