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

[Jhon Dolton]

 

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 sort of help undo all that we have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this sort of work through the generation of these family. All of it has related to the energy of the 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 now 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 per year and another dark night to see that I have put aside me understanding that there was another way to deal with my illness. It was as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this a course in miracles twitter. I believe the lesson maybe that we all have the energy within us and when my guru speaks like any in life I must discern the info and go within for the ultimate answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my own path. So I'm confused, I visit a major change in me with this specific guru but at the same time frame I discover the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I believed I must listen for this is the lesson: Listen to the REAL SOURCE- the main 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 beneficial stepping stones since the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's want to Wake Up. They could offer beneficial 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 do not become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to be always 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 happen in stages. Throughout the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are used 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 potential for Enlightenment, yet the knowledge of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final dark night is always the temptation to retain an expression 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 feel is the main one right usage 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 safeguard or defend the ego, you will go through the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have now been removed only Love remains.

 

When you think of the concept of guru think of 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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