Zen responses from Lutz and Peter White

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Thank you both for illuminating responses.

Doing without a Guru's words or guidance in attaining Self-knowledge

must be like trying to write a PhD. dissertation without a

bibliography or advisor. Is it even possible unless one is a

remarkably spiritually advanced being already? An Avatar perhaps.

 

We obey the least road signs that tell us of speed laws, exits and

directions. Yet we question the need to obey any road signs

spiritually! Our hearts are the most powerful pointer, they swing

without question toward the magnet of love that is Amma, it is left

to our "educated and rational" mind to catch up to this primitive

powerhouse of instinctive understanding.

 

Not to discount the Zen teaching in any way here ((in fact, they say

it is important to question one's Guru in whichever way one's mind

needs to in order to understand through Jnana (intellectually) what

the heart understands through Bhakti (faith)), but it is a much

harder way to walk through which to pursue self-inquiry.

Om Namah Shivayai.

Usha