Can it be Beneficial to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles

[Jhon Dolton]

Can it be helpful to really have a guru in your lifetime, especially if you have a dark nights the soul to undergo? I've read that we all need some kind of help undo all that we have learned acim youtube. That's where Intercessory prayer is available in or a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this type of sort out the generation of their family. All of it has related to the vitality of the individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and find that I have become tremendously in combination with all the current other spiritual books and work I have been doing. However, I see now that 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've put aside me knowing that there clearly was another way to take care of my illness. It was because of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that we all have the vitality within us and when my guru speaks like some other in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my own path. So I'm confused, I view a major change in me with this guru but at once I get the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I believed I must listen for here 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 as the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. They can 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 concept of personhood. Persons don't become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to become a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. Whilst the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to happen in stages. During the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or even more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the knowledge of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The ultimate dark night is definitely the temptation to retain a feeling 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's 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 are feeling is the one right use of judgment until it is apparent that any judgment is entirely impossible. Follow the Joy! Follow the Bliss! As you look within and make no attempt to safeguard or defend the ego, you'll go through the Love the ego was made to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have been removed only Love remains.

Whenever you consider the concept of guru contemplate this:

Gee YoU aRe YoU
This is actually the gentle reminder: I'm as God created Me.
This is actually the Power of Now.
This is actually the simplicity of Being.

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

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