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Picking a teacher
Posted on Dec 30th, 2006
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Katya
Katya
So you want a teacher....
If any of you have been to India (and I have not, but get my stories from the many firends who have) you may have a story yourself about being confronted by many people telling you that they are your "Baba."
"I am your Baba!" they yell. "I have been waiting for you. I will teach you truth!"
Most of the time its a hoax, and where they may have minor psychic powers, they are generally looking for a benefactor. Read "Entering the Diamond Way" by Ole Nydhal for a good story on that.
So you want a teacher...
Here are The Necessary Ingredients:
Number 4 deals with your actual intentions. What do you REALLY want? And number 5 is, well, the guide.
Lets address #4.
This is almost the most important thing.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
You have to ask yourself that.
Do you want peace? Or magic powers? Or unsurpassible wisdom? Or just a better life?
What do you want? First answer that.
Because #5, the one you attract will follow your bullshit meter precisely.
If you want some tea-time blah blah blah, then you will get that. If you want a dead sage who can not refute your words, then you will get that. If you want a teacher in the astral, who will be your personal guide, then you will get that. But what do you want?
I noticed with my teacher that what I wanted was a smack. A smack hard enough to get me straight. A smack that was done with ultimate compassion, but a smack nontheless because I did not listen any other way. And guess what - I got that.
I also got a path to wisdom through personal experience, because that's also what I wanted, though the most mezmerizing journeys of body and mind ever imaginable, and an adventure through the worlds of my mind.
Many of my friends got a Buddhist monk, who met with them each week and read whatever they read. Some even went to a monestry, and later debated consort behavior and the law of disattachments with me, only to invite me to speak on the subject. Me! I told him it was not such a good idea. I would make them all take off their robes and laugh at themselves.
But that is me. Crazy wisdom lover. There was no other road for me. I am both - order and chaos. And what I take seriously will be laughed at shortly, only to be taken seriously again.
For many of you, what you want is logic and linearity alone.
Unfortunately that will bring you only more law and order, only more confusion, because in order to break through your walls of stasis you need anything BUT THAT.
How to look
Create the intention.
And he will find you.
You dont ultimately pick your teacher. They pick you. You attract what you need, and the teacher comes.
I sat outside a window reading Castaneda when I was 18, and I wanted that lineage. And I got it - within months. But that was also my development, my karma, and my readiness.
Many of you will be shocked and scared if you see things you are not ready for.
But some of you really really want something INTENSE!!!
So go for it. Wish for it. He'll come...
If any of you have been to India (and I have not, but get my stories from the many firends who have) you may have a story yourself about being confronted by many people telling you that they are your "Baba."
"I am your Baba!" they yell. "I have been waiting for you. I will teach you truth!"
Most of the time its a hoax, and where they may have minor psychic powers, they are generally looking for a benefactor. Read "Entering the Diamond Way" by Ole Nydhal for a good story on that.
So you want a teacher...
Here are The Necessary Ingredients:
- your personal level of awareness
- your personal karma
- your view of the world - shaped by the above 2
- your dedication to snapping out of your nonsense
- the teacher
Number 4 deals with your actual intentions. What do you REALLY want? And number 5 is, well, the guide.
Lets address #4.
This is almost the most important thing.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
You have to ask yourself that.
Do you want peace? Or magic powers? Or unsurpassible wisdom? Or just a better life?
What do you want? First answer that.
Because #5, the one you attract will follow your bullshit meter precisely.
If you want some tea-time blah blah blah, then you will get that. If you want a dead sage who can not refute your words, then you will get that. If you want a teacher in the astral, who will be your personal guide, then you will get that. But what do you want?
I noticed with my teacher that what I wanted was a smack. A smack hard enough to get me straight. A smack that was done with ultimate compassion, but a smack nontheless because I did not listen any other way. And guess what - I got that.
I also got a path to wisdom through personal experience, because that's also what I wanted, though the most mezmerizing journeys of body and mind ever imaginable, and an adventure through the worlds of my mind.
Many of my friends got a Buddhist monk, who met with them each week and read whatever they read. Some even went to a monestry, and later debated consort behavior and the law of disattachments with me, only to invite me to speak on the subject. Me! I told him it was not such a good idea. I would make them all take off their robes and laugh at themselves.
But that is me. Crazy wisdom lover. There was no other road for me. I am both - order and chaos. And what I take seriously will be laughed at shortly, only to be taken seriously again.
For many of you, what you want is logic and linearity alone.
Unfortunately that will bring you only more law and order, only more confusion, because in order to break through your walls of stasis you need anything BUT THAT.
How to look
Create the intention.
And he will find you.
You dont ultimately pick your teacher. They pick you. You attract what you need, and the teacher comes.
I sat outside a window reading Castaneda when I was 18, and I wanted that lineage. And I got it - within months. But that was also my development, my karma, and my readiness.
Many of you will be shocked and scared if you see things you are not ready for.
But some of you really really want something INTENSE!!!
So go for it. Wish for it. He'll come...
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Katya- Without intention life can be a bardo state, an endless world of reactivity. I have floated through without proper intention. But I can see big intention and little intentions. What you say about conscious preparation is true. It can bring the mother lode or the mother load. Without clarity we mostly get the daily bumping into each other above and below. But the law of attraction is at work all the time. Sometimes I need to do a depth check to understand why something or someone is under my nose. This is usually little intention. Yet the teacher is always on call as energy. He-she-it can come in an infinite number of forms. I've heard the process expressed in many ways: Eat the world, create more space to allow more of the world to enter, everything is an unfolding, etc. The more it becomes a part of you the more it is like a banana being peeled. You strike me as big eater Katya. With a burp and a laugh no doubt. Take care( theraflu anyone?)
Awesome.
Though they are few and far between, your posts always illuminate!
Thank you!
-Rob
Rob - I absolutely am back!
Ron - my burps always come with laughs! How did you know?! Seems in this time, it is a good space to collect your energy and chose.
Just chose.
Chose a live of power and no-regret. Chose a space of information flowing rather than stasis. Chose.
We can bump around sleepily for eons, and I have dont that myself.
I have thrown tantrums at my teacher, abandoned the path, ridiculed the methods and spat on the teachings. And yet, here I am, back with fury to give back just as I have been given.
So once again…what do you want? Especially being in the ripe, virginal space you're in…
Love,
Katya
Is so nice to have a steady teacher especially for the lazy ones that dont want to be aware always (like Ron said), that teachers can come in many ways (even Katyas burps lol).