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

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Is it 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 we all need some type of help to undo all that we have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or 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 of 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 the other spiritual books and work I have already 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 see that I have put aside me knowing that there is another way to deal with my illness. It absolutely was as a result 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 every other in life I must discern the data and go within for the last answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles within my path. So I'm confused, I see a major change in me with this particular 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 this is actually the lesson: Listen to the REAL SOURCE- usually the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I might be missing.

Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very useful stepping stones since the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's want to Wake Up. 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. acim podcasts Persons don't become enlightened, for your head that believes itself to become a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. While the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem that occurs in stages. During the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or maybe more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be quite a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last 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 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 usually the one right utilization of judgment until it is apparent that any judgment is entirely impossible. Follow the Joy! Follow the Bliss! As you appear within and make no attempt to guard or defend the ego, you will go through the Love the ego was made to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have already been removed only Love remains.

Whenever you think of the thought of guru think of this:

Gee You are You
This is the gentle reminder: I'm 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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