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Kindle edition : ASIN: B0DNTFPTLF
Paperpack edition : ISBN: 979-8300629502
117 pages
Date of Publishing : November 2024
DESCRIPTION
‘THE ROLE OF THE SPIRITUAL TEACHER’ is a handmade extract from the Samadhi handbook on the subject of teachers and students, and on speaking truth. For sure, the true teacher is our innermost Self, which is the same in everyone. As we desire to work with the inner teacher, the outer teacher karmically manifests. And the outer teacher will do nothing more or less than push us back to the inner teacher. As our quest is for the Self, the outer teacher can only point towards it. And to the practice of course, as the second teacher, the outer teacher only being third in line. Thus we relax that Ego and just listen for a while. We let ourselves be inspired. Just like meditation is not the goal but the path to the top of the mountain, the teacher is not the destination, merely a mountain guide. When it is then our time to teach, integrity is the only thing to watch out for. However relative words are, we teach the truth as we know it from the heart and do not let our personal limitations get in the way. All my teachers actually never resisted touching the feet of another, while having always protested to some degree when being so touched themselves. In that, I feel to have been really fortunate and it is a joy to share the stories of my adventures with them, which added so much juice to the game of life.
This booklet is part of a series of small books extracted from “Samadhi – The Deep Meditation Handbook”, a two-volume work with over 600 pages on reaching the deepest states of meditation. Samadhi is the highest of yogic practices, a trance state where body consciousness is entirely lost and a gradual full merging with the Self is gained. It requires daily sustained meditation practice, supported by some major changes to our lifestyle, attitudes and desires. It is nevertheless everyone’s birthright, even when living as a householder yogi.
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The entirety of the yogic tradition is revealed as originating from the Self, bridging the illusion of a gap between nonduality and other practices.
The practitioners of yoga postures, breath, mantra, or meditation should not be confused about whether all of that is helpful on the spiritual path, or just some distraction produced by the ego.