05-01-2010, 12:00 AM
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Life itself is the guru, existence itself is the guru.
When life calls you, don’t remain frozen. Listen to the call, be adventurous, and go on the unknown, uncharted ways of life.
As Brother Jed says, “Further.”
Only a brave wo/man is courageous, because s/he goes on the most uncharted journey – without any maps and without any paths – and nobody to lead you! Nobody is there in front of you to lead you! – only life... and life never shouts, it only whispers. Unless you are very attentive, tuned in, and turned on, you will not be able to understand the little, small, still voice. It is the guru, it is the Nagual.
If you find a wo/man and you feel that you have found your Nagual, that simply shows that in his voice, in his being, there is a reflection of that still, small voice of the Spirit. The guru outside you is but a mirror.
S/he reflects you, reflects the Spirit. And the real Nagual will throw you back to yourself. The real guru will not bind you to himself, because the real guru is life itself, the real guru is the Spirit itself.
You are shopping for a guru, and it is a supermarket. There are many gurus in the world, and how can you just decide that this wo/man is the right one?
When you are pulled towards guru’s, you have a strange feeling. The feeling is that you are being pulled towards them and at the same time you are being pulled inwards – a very strange paradoxical phenomenon as the closer you come to your guru, the closer you come to yourself. The more you become attracted towards the guru, the more you become independent. The more you become surrendered to the guru, the more you feel that you have freedom you never had before.
If you are pulled towards a wo/man and that pull creates a slavery, that is not the guru. That wo/man may have charisma, may have magnetic power – maybe his great intelligence, his physical beauty, or his sheer vitality pulls you – but you will be going away from yourself. It will be an infatuation. You will be obsessed with this wo/man, and you will be off your center.
Avoid such people; these are the greatest mischief-mongers in the world. Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Alexander – these are the people who have created great havoc, because people feel tremendously attracted and people feel like surrendering.
Remember, if your surrendering gives you freedom, then the man is a guru, a Nagual. If your surrendering makes you a slave, makes you a robot – as all the followers of Adolf Hitler were turned into mechanical robots.... They lost their souls; he simply exploited their souls. They lost all their awareness.
This happens in the spiritual world also, because these charismatic people are everywhere. So make it a criterion inside: if by the presence of your guru, of your Nagual, you are becoming freer and freer, more and more independent; by surrendering, the paradox is happening – that by surrendering you are gaining more Power, by surrendering you are becoming powerful not impotent – then you are near the guru.
The guru is one who pulls you towards himself just to throw you back into your own being. He functions as a mediator; via the guru, you arrive at your own self. Because you cannot go directly, he helps you via him. But his whole effort is to make you yourself.
A true guru will never impose himself upon you. He will never impose his life-style on you. He will never give you any rigid discipline. He will not enforce anything on you, regiment you. He will not try to create soldiers of you. No, he will help you to become yourself. He will help you to be yourself, whatsoever that is. He will help to give you more and more understanding about yourself. You will become more and more centered, rooted, near him. More and more you will feel he has given you back to yourself – that which was lost or forgotten, he has made you aware of it.
Let me mention one thing. In the East they have been making a distinction between a teacher and a Master or Nagual. The teacher is one who teaches, of course; and the Master or Nagual is one who does not teach.
Then what does a Nagual do? A teacher teaches; he believes in teaching – he believes that truth can be taught. Of course this is basically wrong. Truth cannot be reduced to language, truth cannot be reduced to concepts, so how can it be taught? Truth cannot be expressed, nobody has ever been able to express it, so how can it be taught? The teacher himself has not known yet. The teacher is as unaware as the taught. With the teacher, you become a student, so whatsoever he has accumulated, he goes on transferring it to you. It is transference of information.
A Nagual never teaches, but you can catch something from the Nagual. Truth cannot be taught but can be caught. The Nagual.... His very being, his very presence. His every gesture – the way he looks at you, the way he walks. The WAY he talks – not what he says, not the content – but the way he talks. The way he keeps quiet, the way sometimes he falls silent. Something between the words and something between the lines.
The teacher exists in the words; the Nagual exists between the words – the gaps, the intervals. The teacher has something to teach you; the Nagual has something which if YOU want you can take but he cannot teach.
If you are ready you can partake of it.
If you are thirsty you can quench your thirst. It is not a communication. It is a communion. Between a teacher and a student there is communication; between a Nagual and the disciple there is a communion, transference of energy.
Something mysterious passes, and the disciple become pregnant with the unknown.
Life itself is the guru, existence itself is the guru.
When life calls you, don’t remain frozen. Listen to the call, be adventurous, and go on the unknown, uncharted ways of life.
As Brother Jed says, “Further.”
Only a brave wo/man is courageous, because s/he goes on the most uncharted journey – without any maps and without any paths – and nobody to lead you! Nobody is there in front of you to lead you! – only life... and life never shouts, it only whispers. Unless you are very attentive, tuned in, and turned on, you will not be able to understand the little, small, still voice. It is the guru, it is the Nagual.
If you find a wo/man and you feel that you have found your Nagual, that simply shows that in his voice, in his being, there is a reflection of that still, small voice of the Spirit. The guru outside you is but a mirror.
S/he reflects you, reflects the Spirit. And the real Nagual will throw you back to yourself. The real guru will not bind you to himself, because the real guru is life itself, the real guru is the Spirit itself.
You are shopping for a guru, and it is a supermarket. There are many gurus in the world, and how can you just decide that this wo/man is the right one?
When you are pulled towards guru’s, you have a strange feeling. The feeling is that you are being pulled towards them and at the same time you are being pulled inwards – a very strange paradoxical phenomenon as the closer you come to your guru, the closer you come to yourself. The more you become attracted towards the guru, the more you become independent. The more you become surrendered to the guru, the more you feel that you have freedom you never had before.
If you are pulled towards a wo/man and that pull creates a slavery, that is not the guru. That wo/man may have charisma, may have magnetic power – maybe his great intelligence, his physical beauty, or his sheer vitality pulls you – but you will be going away from yourself. It will be an infatuation. You will be obsessed with this wo/man, and you will be off your center.
Avoid such people; these are the greatest mischief-mongers in the world. Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Alexander – these are the people who have created great havoc, because people feel tremendously attracted and people feel like surrendering.
Remember, if your surrendering gives you freedom, then the man is a guru, a Nagual. If your surrendering makes you a slave, makes you a robot – as all the followers of Adolf Hitler were turned into mechanical robots.... They lost their souls; he simply exploited their souls. They lost all their awareness.
This happens in the spiritual world also, because these charismatic people are everywhere. So make it a criterion inside: if by the presence of your guru, of your Nagual, you are becoming freer and freer, more and more independent; by surrendering, the paradox is happening – that by surrendering you are gaining more Power, by surrendering you are becoming powerful not impotent – then you are near the guru.
The guru is one who pulls you towards himself just to throw you back into your own being. He functions as a mediator; via the guru, you arrive at your own self. Because you cannot go directly, he helps you via him. But his whole effort is to make you yourself.
A true guru will never impose himself upon you. He will never impose his life-style on you. He will never give you any rigid discipline. He will not enforce anything on you, regiment you. He will not try to create soldiers of you. No, he will help you to become yourself. He will help you to be yourself, whatsoever that is. He will help to give you more and more understanding about yourself. You will become more and more centered, rooted, near him. More and more you will feel he has given you back to yourself – that which was lost or forgotten, he has made you aware of it.
Let me mention one thing. In the East they have been making a distinction between a teacher and a Master or Nagual. The teacher is one who teaches, of course; and the Master or Nagual is one who does not teach.
Then what does a Nagual do? A teacher teaches; he believes in teaching – he believes that truth can be taught. Of course this is basically wrong. Truth cannot be reduced to language, truth cannot be reduced to concepts, so how can it be taught? Truth cannot be expressed, nobody has ever been able to express it, so how can it be taught? The teacher himself has not known yet. The teacher is as unaware as the taught. With the teacher, you become a student, so whatsoever he has accumulated, he goes on transferring it to you. It is transference of information.
A Nagual never teaches, but you can catch something from the Nagual. Truth cannot be taught but can be caught. The Nagual.... His very being, his very presence. His every gesture – the way he looks at you, the way he walks. The WAY he talks – not what he says, not the content – but the way he talks. The way he keeps quiet, the way sometimes he falls silent. Something between the words and something between the lines.
The teacher exists in the words; the Nagual exists between the words – the gaps, the intervals. The teacher has something to teach you; the Nagual has something which if YOU want you can take but he cannot teach.
If you are ready you can partake of it.
If you are thirsty you can quench your thirst. It is not a communication. It is a communion. Between a teacher and a student there is communication; between a Nagual and the disciple there is a communion, transference of energy.
Something mysterious passes, and the disciple become pregnant with the unknown.