#154: Finding a True Teacher -- How Great Teachings Get Distorted by Followers
This essential topic resonates deeply with every sincere lover of wisdom and spiritual vitality. With so many traps and possible missteps, what matters most in finding a true source of aid for inner transformation? Are things different in our modern times? What new knowledge exists today that might better match the needs of the modern day truth seeker? This podcast is an excerpt from the SuperWisdom Foundation monthly tele/web-class. Donate to the nonprofit SuperWisdom Foundation. Thank you!
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Posted by SuperWisdom Foundation at 1/24/2010 9:15 AM 
Categories: Healing Challenges
Tags: Spirituality
Categories: Healing Challenges
Tags: Spirituality
Our own true teacher is our essential nature. Our tangible affinity with awareness itself is immediate— that much shouldn't be a mystery, yet somehow it is.
Non-psychological awareness is empty; So to honor our teacher we must be empty too. Perception arriving at openness is spiritual; Openness is submission to our own sincerity.
This is our responsibility to reality. As we experience immediate reality, any attachment to now is simply habit that only stultifies the wholeness of being.
Sincerity isn't a moral imperative; it's the intent of human being, which has no form or location. So, like our teacher, sincerity has no motive. This is not a person. This is light. If you don't let go now, then when do you?
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Hello!
Great excerpt. I feel it ties in very well with last weeks podcast...
Two points:
1. What ring in my head is what Tom read in last week about what J.K. said about being careful of the student teacher division. It was also addressed in the podcast, the false self creates a seperate entity that is going to "get it". The Truth is best sumed up the the esoteric meaning of what Jesus said, "Be one as I am my Father are one".
2. Tom said (also J.k. and Fred) how the Truth is always changing. What may have rang true then my be different now. So it is a matter of following you heart. Just to sum up about the Truth though, I am reminded about the saying "The more it changes the more it stays the same". Really hard explain, all I can say is I am grateful for the Truth.
Looking forward to the next class! Anyone who is reading this these classes are so unique and very special. If you are serious about these Truths it is a precious resource.
Jijo
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