When I'm ready to listen to my guru, I listen. That's what makes a guru - one that is worth listening to. "Guru" has often been used as "teacher" but it is much more.
Our most rewarding educations are from those that we can truly listen to, finding answers within. All this is from listening, defined as -
To make an effort to hear something; to pay attention; heed.
Our best listening is when we make no effort at all but are yet mesmerized by what it is we are listening to. It's a natural attraction to the subject... one that we have an affinity for. Magnetized not solely to the individual, but what the individual has to say, their words become no longer words but a transcendence into the vision of the speaker... we are sharing their perception of a situation... a location... a vibration.
Listening to experiences without choosing them - being at that place at that time, sucked in, identifying, creating a bond between you and the speaker, naturally becoming one.
Listening on that level, the guru level, is where fresh seeds of truths fertilize and sprout - the guru and the listener. (Note I did not use the word "student"*) They both work together... one does not exist without the other.
A guru is not a guru without a listener. The listener is sought out by the speaker. The speaker is not guru until s/he finds a true listener. This symbiotic relationship becomes 'guru'.
On the guru level sharing between speaker and listener is very intimate - inward journeys, outer observations from the why's of existence to the who's of responsibility, self-discovery is the quest.
[* 'Student' is how those outside the guru relationship view the listener... s/he absorbing the words of the speaker, period. On guru level it goes beyond period... the absorption of words does not have an end but an endlessness - even when speaker and listener are no longer in exchange.]
There is only one guru/one listener, even if there are many. Speaker shares the experience of the journey with listener - it is that state where listener is at one with speaker, not one at a time, but one at once... the fragrance bathes the air, whosoever breathes the air receives the fragrance.
Intimacy can only be truly experienced by surrendering mind. Sexually or not, intimacy is essential for knowing. To know is acceptance and the only acceptance is ac-know-ledging the coalescence of Being.
Nothing is certain but change. Change is the result of coalescence... the eternal dance of nature. Change does not result in finality but further changes. It is a constant movement of matter throughout the universe, throughout every living thing, throughout ever organic substance, this interplay between sub-atomic particles in a constant search for and end that never occurs. They amass to form shapes and purposes only to eventually disband and reorganize into other temporal forms.
What gives the energy to power this eternal dance? The question is not 'what?' but 'where?' If we find the source we experience Realization. There is no more 'what?' - there is only 'know'... acceptance of knowing now unknotted, we become free, unbound and radiant. We have passed thru the prism at one with the Light.
<center>A student of Life should never deny their Self of Realization.</center>
Cecil
14 August 2005
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On this date 32 years ago our first born, Noah Matthew Lee, was born in the Newark Maternity Hospital in the Second Ward neighborhood of Phar Lepht, Texas.
<center>HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NOAH!!!
I Love You!</center>
I also wish a Happy Natural Birth Day to his beautiful mother, SooZen A. Lee... her first of two birth givings -
<center>HAPPY NATURAL BIRTH DAY, SOO!!!
Thank you and I Love You!</center>
Vine Flower au Naturel
