Could it be Helpful to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles

[Asad shaikh]

Could it be helpful to truly have a guru in your lifetime, especially if you have a black night of the soul to undergo? I have read that individuals all need some type of help undo all that individuals have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or perhaps a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this sort of work through the generation of their family. It all has to do with the power with this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.



I study A Course in Miracles and realize that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with all the current other spiritual books and work I have already 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. It has taken me annually and another dark night to observe that I have put aside me realizing that there clearly was another way to take care of my illness. It had been because of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that individuals all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like any in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the last answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my path. So I'm confused, I see a major change in me with this guru but at the same time I get the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I thought I must listen for this is the lesson: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I could be missing.



Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very useful stepping stones while the ego is undone. They may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. acim youtube They are able to offer very useful and practical advice, teachings, and examples. Yet accepting the Atonement (Correction) is THE sole responsibility and this is a decision of mind that transcends the thought of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to be a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. While the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to occur in stages. During the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are utilized by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or even more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be quite a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the knowledge of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The ultimate 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 will be since the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you feel is 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'll experience the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have already been removed only Love remains.


When you consider the thought of guru contemplate this:

Gee YoU aRe YoU

This is the gentle reminder: I am as God created Me.

This is the Power of Now.

This is the simplicity of Being.

The fact is simple. The ego was the illusion of confusion and complexity.

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