How To Be Your Own Guru~ 29 January 2013

Be your own Guru; your own Teacher. You have the lamp within you. Light it and march on without fear. – Sai Baba

Hello friends. Well in just a short time and the Year of the Water Snake will commence. Snake wisdom teaches us many powerful things: to drop illusions, to metamorphose and “shed skins” where necessary, and also to find and listen to our own deep, inner wisdom and truth.

So what is a Guru anyway? It is a man or woman to shows us how to make the journey from darkness (ignorance) to Light (illumination and wisdom.) A true Guru (Sat Guru) will always lead you back to your own Inner Self as the source of your own highest wisdom. As a person that had a physical spiritual teacher for many years, I do have a bit of experience in this area. Human teachers are not infallible, and often through their so-called “mistakes” we may also gain deeper insight into our own limitations and foibles. We are entering into a time (Aquarian Age,) where human beings are being called to act from greater personal sovereignty than before, and this also means not handing over our spiritual power and authority to others. This is not to say that teachers are not useful, we are graced with many wonderful teachers in our midst currently including but not limited to: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Adyashanti, Eckhart Tolle and Pema Chodron, just to name a few.

It’s a good thing I live and thrive in the “weird and strange” zone, because yesterday was every bit of that, from the moment I got out of bed.  When I sat down at my computer yesterday morning to share my mornings understandings, suddenly my lungs decided they needed to purge some (a lot) of phlegm.  Granted I am a smoker, but I never ever hack like I did yesterday and constantly spewing up lung content (phlegm.)  But for close to a full half hour, I couldn’t even type for the hacking.  However, in-between the coughing I did manage to drink yesterdays coffee (I always leave a cup of coffee from the day before so I don’t have to wait in the morning for my first cup) well… seems my body decided to kick in the gag reflex too at the end of my first coffee and what went in, came straight out, over and over again until there was nothing left in my stomach to bring up.

After all that ruckus inside, I was perfectly fine, well, mostly.  The sinuses stepped in for the next few hours, but so mild compared to my mornings eruption within!!

Michael

Our purpose today will be to point out to many of you the tools which you have on your personal workshops, and which you do not recognize, understand, or give credence to due to the conditioning of your environments and societies.  It is important now for you to find and begin to utilize these to the fullest extent possible for you.

Of course your workshop, if you remember, is located in the heart space you find with intent when you close your eyes and move your focus into your heart.  There is more to this which you may find and which we may discuss in a later message.