Can it be Useful 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 when you yourself have a dark night of the soul to proceed through? I've read that people all need some kind of help undo all that people 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 sort out the generation of their family. Everything has regarding the vitality with this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and see that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with all the current other spiritual books and work I have already been doing. However best a course in miracles podcast, 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 realizing that there was another way to handle my illness. It absolutely was as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that people 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 within my path. So I'm confused, I view 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 believed I must listen for this is actually the lesson: Tune in to the REAL SOURCE- the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I may be missing.

Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very helpful stepping stones whilst the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. They can offer very helpful and practical advice, teachings, and examples. Yet accepting the Atonement (Correction) is THE sole responsibility and this can be a decision of mind that transcends the concept of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for the mind 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 employed by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be quite a symbol of the prospect of Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The ultimate dark night is definitely 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's wonderful that you are simply because 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 use of judgment until it's 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 will go through the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have already been removed only Love remains.

Once you consider the concept of guru consider this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
Here is the gentle reminder: I'm as God created Me.
Here is the Power of Now.
Here is the simplicity of Being.

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

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