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By bringing the seemingly disparate parts of our spiritual existence back to the unity of the Ultimate Being/Consciousness, the complexity of our lives is returned to the simplicity of the selfless Being.
T he true teaching is within each and every individual, yet to open to such a possibility within, one needs to spend a great deal of time refining the self and realising the various motives that push one into spiritual actions and ambitious pursuits.
The genuine teacher is the one who is the teaching and who emanates this teaching through their presence, in every word and action. Such a teacher’s words vibrate the Being. Their words are not just full of wisdom or familiar concepts that our minds may agree or disagree with, but are filled in with the very essence of the teaching that these beings emanate, and through whose presence each and every other being can perceive that same essence within themselves, even if only for a glimpse.
True teachers do not need to appear as bold and charismatic or super pleasant people.
True teachers are called as such not because they know how to teach or offer academic discourses or other types of courses, but because their entire being emanates teaching and transformation in each moment. Such beings have no desire to teach or to be in the spotlight. Such beings flow in life and do everything naturally and spontaneously. Such true gems are rare. Many people ignorantly choose to believe that some saints of the past or people who were put by other ignorant people on a pedestal of holiness are truly enlightened or knowledgeable, yet for some reason they all perished and died like everyone else.
They will definitely not be very appealing or attractive for the majority of the current day-and-age people, because they are too subtle and too simple. The current mind is a complex mind that looks for complexity in existence.
It is so because those who represent and teach such spirituality are not the vessels of the teaching, are not the emanations of the teaching, but rather, are entertainers and businessmen, beings who are distorted and/or imbalanced on various levels. And thus, they attract beings alike – the more the better; armies of ignorant beings swamp around the most ignorant teachers.
To pass on the knowledge means that the recipient beings are equal in potentiality to the teachers and can contain the knowledge within, or in other words, can become the vessels of this knowledge, too. Knowledge is like existence or space; it is always there. Yet, in order to be able to experience it, and more-so, to contain and vibrate it, one needs to realign one’s transitory being with that of the Ultimate One. This is the essence of true teaching and the transmission of the Higher Being in the body.
The majority of immature people find immature teachers and dead-end paths, which fit their boxed ideas of spirituality, imagination and projections, suitable to a shopper or consumer-like mentality.
They are subtly manipulated into a belief that they choose, yet their choices are carefully calculated, tailored and well-marketed to them in order to match their ideas of spirituality or their current emotional/mental needs.
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Self-Cultivation by Jivanmukti presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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