Thursday, December 18, 2008
The Purpose of the Guru or Master
When walking on the spiritual path you will enevitably meet a master or guru. This can have a powerful effect on you and your growth spiritually. The core of that relationship, should it develope, is love and devotion. If you can make a strong connection of heart ( Shimjung in Korean terms ) you will learn and inherit much blessing from them. However, this love is not of this world, and should not result in dependence on the master. The Master does not need your love and devotion! You as well should love him/her without ego attachment. This is your challenge. Ultimately they are there to teach you how to love yourself at the essential level. By bringing your awareness to the deepest aspects of your being ( buddha nature ), you should practice the same love and devotion to your own divinity as you do towards them. At some point they will disappear when the time is right!
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I will take on the challenge to worship my divinity as much as I worship the divinity of my master, my spiritual friend. Mother God dwells in me and speaks to others just as much as God dwells in him and speaks to me.
One can experience the master in a simple human being who allows ones devotion to be awakened and returned to the infinite benevolent creator. Following is a poem about my experience of meeting the divine in the author of this web site.
SWEET SOBUL
Sweet Sweet Sweet Sobul.
Soft as a feather,
floating lightly to the ground.
Strong as a tree trunk,
with rough bark all around.
An inner spring ,
of the purest water.
Comes up up up,
from the depth of his soul,
and showers us,
with it's sweet splendor.
Sobul Sobul Sobul.
A blessing in the heart of heaven,
waits to shower on thee.
The beloved the treasure,
of the One who creates.
Patiently He waits,
Long suffering She endures,
beloved is Sobul,
of the One up above.
KASHTA
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