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"...if you look to one person as your teacher, then you are lost and that
person becomes your nightmare."
Think On These Things, p.124 |
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"We can understand ourselves only in relationship to the present; and that relationship
itself is the guru, not someone outside."
The First and Last Freedom, p.151 |
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"Another can point out the way but you have to do all the work, even if you have a
guru. Because you do not want to face that, you shift the responsibility to the
guru. The guru becomes useless when there is a particle of self-knowledge."
The First and Last Freedom, p.151 |
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"If he is a real guru, he will tell you to understand yourself."
The First and Last Freedom, p.152 |
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"...instead of asking who has realized or what God is why not give your whole attention and awareness
to what is?"
The First and Last Freedom, p.265 |
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"If you are attached to your Guru, there is no love in your heart."
Unknown source |
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"As long as there is a division between the Master and the pupil, between reality and yourself,
understanding is not possible. In the understanding of truth, there is no Master..."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.19 |
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"Is truth granted only to the few, to the exceptionally
intelligent? Why do we ask whether we are capable
of finding it? We have the pattern, the example of the man who
is supposed to have discovered truth; and the example, being elevated
far above us, creates uncertainty in ourselves. The example thus
assumes great significance and there is competition between the
example and ourselves; we also long to be the record-breaker. Does
not this question, 'Have I the capacity?', arise out of one's
conscious or unconscious comparison of what one is with what one
supposes the example to be?
Why do we compare ourselves with the ideal? And does comparison bring understanding? Is the ideal different from ourselves? Is it not a self-projection, a homemade thing, and does it not therefore prevent the understanding of ourselves as we are? Is not comparison an evasion of the understanding of ourselves? There are so many ways of escaping from ourselves, and comparison is one of them. Surely, without the understanding of oneself, the search for so-called reality is an escape from oneself. Without self-knowledge, the god that you seek is the god of illusion; and illusion inevitably brings conflict and sorrow. Without self-knowledge, there can be no right thinking; and then all knowledge is ignorance which can only lead to confusion and destruction. Self-knowledge is not an ultimate end; it is the only opening wedge to the inexhaustible." Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.46-47 |
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"There is no intermediary between you and reality; and if there is one, he is a perverter, a
mischief-maker, it does not matter who he is, whether the highest saviour or your latest guru
or teacher."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.66 |
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"It is important to find out, not who is the Master, the saint,
the leader, but why you follow. You only follow to become something,
to gain, to be clear. Clarity cannot be given by another. Confusion
is in us; we have brought it about, and we have to clear it away."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.66 |
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"Belief in the Master creates the Master..."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.73 |
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"Does it matter very much who a Master or a guru is? What matters is life - not your guru, not a
Master, a leader or a teacher who interprets life for you. It is you who have to understand life;
it is you who are suffering, who are in misery; it is you who want to know the meaning of death,
of birth, of meditation, of sorrow, and nobody can tell you. Others can explain, but their
explanations may be entirely false, altogether wrong. "
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