How can you recognize a real or true guru?

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- Jan Sultan

Friday, December 21, 2001 1:58 AM

[NDS] How can you recognize a real or true guru?

I got this from the net. I do not know who the author is, however I

felt that it could be of interest to this group.Love

YouJan--"How

can you recognize a real or true guru?""You can't. You can however

come to see that there is no such thing as thetruth, there is only

what is, as it is right now. Whoever you meet along theway, that's

how it's meant to be. If you sit with someone who appears to bea

great master, but speaks from ignorance, that is the infinite

expression.If you listen to someone who is awakened and speaks with

clarity, that isalso the infinite expression, but there's no

guarantee that you will hear.For some people they feel the need to be

with somebody who seems to be veryspecial and magical and important. I

would say seek out a teacher who givesyou nothing at all, no hope, no

method, no personal offer to take you there,because of course there

isn't anywhere to go. Look for someone who destroysall of your belief

systems and who is always throwing you back onto what is,right here.

Any teaching that advises you that you need to be serious orhonest or

purified or changed through some process, is simply not relevant.I

have met people who have been with very powerful eastern teachers and

whohave had many so-called spiritual experiences. These people

haveconsiderable difficulty in accepting and living with the idea of

the divinebeing in the ordinary. They still seek the excitement of

these so-calledspiritual experiences, and have very little time for

the idea that a singlefootstep could be miraculous. As a consequence

these people are often a bitlost in the ordinary world, and still

look for the extraordinary whereverthey can."