Guru Yoga.

 No one has become enlightened unless they have practised Guru Yoga in some form or another. This is not Guru worship, or person worship: it is a spiritual attitude towards the teachings the Guru represents.

 Sometimes we become caught up in how we think a Guru should be, and this is why Guru yoga is an individual thing. Finding someone who gives you a sense of relief is a relief! A feeling of “Thank goodness.” A sense of connectedness. Personally, I look for ordinariness, openness, naturalness rather than artifice…and they don’t have to have long beards and smile a lot!

 We need a power greater than our own to pull us through – something that truly inspires us to get over our obstacles. This means totally giving up, letting go, surrendering pride.

 A Guru/teacher represents all the enlightened ones. There are many forms of Guru Yoga practice: in fact, all practice is Guru Yoga. If we see a teacher as an ordinary person, we get ordinary blessings. If we see a teacher as a clever person, we get clever blessings. If we see the teacher as the Buddha, we get Buddha blessings.

 So you see,
it all still comes from us.

 We may not always like our teacher. Teachers can be irritating: they are always in your mind…irritating it! That’s until you do not ‘mind’ anymore… 😉

 This doesn’t mean you cannot change teachers, or have many teachers…it’s all one anyway. Some have different flavours in their fridge which we might need to taste!

Try not to dismiss the power of Guru Yoga.