Dear Friends,
Hello,
Adrian, are you some enlightened guru or something? Just curious, at times I feel some resonance with your words.
I Am that I Am.
I do not like or use labels - especially of that kind.
People who call themselves a "guru" is not - no Enlightened person would present themselves as such.
I suppose if I considered myself to be anything - and it is not something I ever think about - it would be a Guide.
If you resonate with my words, it is because at an Inner level of your Mind and Spirit you know it to be True.
In Divine Love and Light,
Adrian.
This brings to mind a fragment from a book one of my friends has written:
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Some of us turn to gurus to help us home.
In the Hindu tradition, a distinction is made between two types: (1) sat-guru, and (2) upa-guru.
A sat-guru is a realised master. She is the way.
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An upa-guru is a door opener. They influence a shift in our consciousness. They show you "some part" of the way. Anyone - your mother, your cat, the homeless guy who tells you to get out of your head - can be an upa-guru.
When someone presents themselves as a sat-guru, or when we project sat-guru onto someone, we tread on dangerous ground.
There are many signs that we are dealing with an ungrounded and potentially untrustworthy spiritual teacher. For instance they have one set of rules for you, one for them. They deny their unresolved issues. [] they defend their behaviour by reference to a higher knowing. If you complain about their actions, you are told that your complaints are emanating from the mundane world and that you just can't grasp their lens.
A giant warning sign is the use of the "mirror" as a defence against wrongdoing. The guru claim that his (questionable) actions were not actually for his own benefit but done with conscious intention of reflecting back to you the unresolved aspects of your own consciousness.
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If we see everyone as an upa-guru, then we can avoid many of the pitfalls with the sat-guru projection.
Better yet, chase ourselves down the way we chase down the guru. See our own lives as guru. Sit before as a student and teacher. What a thing - to be a teacher and student both!
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From the book "Soulshaping" - chapter "A warning about Gurus" by Jeff Brown
http://www.soulshaping.com/excerpts/excerpts.phpAdrian...hmmm... I agree with him I would not call him any kind of Guru, if I would describe him in any way in my mind would be 'the portal opener'...that is my experience with him. He opened many wondruous portals for me.

Namaste