Who Is Right?
My Guru! … My Guru! … My Lama ! … My Teacher! … My Book! … My Book! ..
Whatever anyone says is the truth is never the truth.
What is true?
The truth is not some physical experience.
It is that which is experiencing the experience.
Being comes before perception and words. It is the pure cognisance of our reality. We have to be careful not to experience though others’ interpretation or culture.
A example:
Several people are eating the same species of apple. Each will have an opinion about the taste, using limited words to describe it. Any description is a personal experience – a generalisation – which cannot be accurately appreciated because we are all individuals. An opinion is not the truth about an apple. The truth is in the tasting experience before the opinion. That first moment is pure perception, the yoga of tasting. After tasting the apple, that first moment of clarity is still present.
What is right?
Clarity is the quality of being coherent, easily understood, and free from ambiguity. It’s the ability to think clearly without confusion or bias.
Our essence – the clarity of pure consciousness – is right, straight, not bent.
It no longer relies on gurus; it relies on seeing our own confusion and bias.
That is our precious teacher.