01-01-2019, 11:13 PM
You're welcome SilvioManuel! If our answers had meaning for you..... where did that meaning come from? From within your own awareness! Yes? The teacher whether a physical person or not is within your own awareness! Always.
We are like Carlos alone in the desert. The teacher has moved off into the darkness. Where is he? What's going to happen? Will I be annihilated? Or worse yet... Maybe nothing... Maybe nothing will happen! "***! Don Juan! Where are you!?!?"
So what do we do? We stay there! We stay in the desert, feeling everything that we don't want to feel. We trust the teacher even though it has seemed to vanish. I ask. I ask the teacher to direct my thoughts, to bring into my mind what I need to know. I feel in my heart if there is a direction to move. And I don't know! The art is to stay where I don't know and at the same time to build apon my existing knowledge.
I think that any master is someone who has mastered the art of staying in that place of not knowing. Someone who is humble enough to accept what it brings no matter how it seems. Whether "small" or "great." Someone who has been doing that for a significant portion of linear time.
And someone who realizes that it truly is not up to us. We meet the moment as impeccably as we can and the rest... No one can truly say <3
We are like Carlos alone in the desert. The teacher has moved off into the darkness. Where is he? What's going to happen? Will I be annihilated? Or worse yet... Maybe nothing... Maybe nothing will happen! "***! Don Juan! Where are you!?!?"
So what do we do? We stay there! We stay in the desert, feeling everything that we don't want to feel. We trust the teacher even though it has seemed to vanish. I ask. I ask the teacher to direct my thoughts, to bring into my mind what I need to know. I feel in my heart if there is a direction to move. And I don't know! The art is to stay where I don't know and at the same time to build apon my existing knowledge.
I think that any master is someone who has mastered the art of staying in that place of not knowing. Someone who is humble enough to accept what it brings no matter how it seems. Whether "small" or "great." Someone who has been doing that for a significant portion of linear time.
And someone who realizes that it truly is not up to us. We meet the moment as impeccably as we can and the rest... No one can truly say <3