The abuse of power manifests with phony spiritual teachers and phony gurus who tell you how to run your life and what to wear and what to eat, all that sort of stuff. They abuse. People don’t realize that, listen to them and ruin their lives.
Phony gurus make themselves objects of adoration and worship. Real spiritual teachers aren’t interested in adoration and worship. They like respect only because they realize respect will help the student.
Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.
An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.
Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it’s just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play.
I think only a person who’s studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.
When you find a teacher, you devote your time and energy to what they believe in. You surrender not them but to the infinite, which operates through them.
A real liberated teacher never asks for a commitment from a student. That’s absurd, a person wants to be there and they want to learn everything they can.
There is deception. People who think they are enlightened and it’s just ego.
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don’t feel right.
It’s a good idea to be in the physical presence of the enlightened teacher because it’s not physical. You can hear the ocean from quite a ways away, but if you’re standing right in front of it, it’s easier.
Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.
Enlightened teachers can do certain miracles, but they are not really miracles. They just know how to use energy on other levels of consciousness. A miracle is in the eye of the beholder, as is all of life.
When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.
Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn’t matter that much, to tell you the truth.
The later stages of the enlightenment process are trickier, and it is really essential to have a teacher then. You need correction, direction, and most of all you need a master’s auric empowerment.
Most teachers are not enlightened. Very few are. That doesn’t mean they are not great teachers.
The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.
When you meditate with an enlightened teacher, you will feel something from them. They just dissolve completely, absorption in nirvana, where they don’t even have physical contact with this world anymore.
An enlightened person is not in touch with all the ten thousand states of mind simultaneously always. It would be very hard to go shopping let alone drive the car.