direction and not promotion

[Guest guest]

re: SHOULD A GURU PROMOTE HIM/HERSELF?

 

The real " guru " is not in the imaginary outside but in the imaginary

inside. The mind is the inside and its outside and this is the whole

problem with the mind and its seeking. The mind is seeking for

things in the outside when the outside, and its inside, is just the

mind and its dualities.

 

This Guru is just another word for the Self, Atman or NOW.

 

The story of the outer-guru starts when the mind, thoughts, cannot

understand the inner-guru because all its thoughts point it – the

mind, the seeker -- to the imaginary outside. So this inner-guru

projects itself into an imaginary outer-guru that can then somehow

redirect the seeker, the mind, back to the real inner-guru, the

Self, NOW.

 

If these words have any worth then any outer-guru that has to promote

him/herself is not a guru because the outer-guru's job is not

promotion. The outer-gurus ONLY job is to redirect the seeker, or

the mind, from the outside to the inner-guru, the Self, Atman, so

the duality of outside – inside can then vanish to leave the JOY

called NOW.

 

This vanishing is called Awakening.

 

-- thoughts for NOW