Wherever you Go, There you are
=Pt. ShriRam Sharma Acharya
The casualties of this way of looking at things
are all over the place. Look virtually anywhere and you will find broken
relationships, broken families, broken people wanderers with no roots,
lost, going from this place to that, this job to that, this relationship to
that, this idea of salvation to that, in the desperate hope that the right
person, the right job, the right place, the right book will make it all better.
Or feeling isolated, unlovable, and in despair, having given up looking and
even making any attempt, however misguided, to find peace of mind. By itself, meditation
does not confer immunity from this pattern of looking elsewhere for answers and
solutions to ones problems.
Sometimes people chronically go from one technique
to another, or from one teacher to another teacher, or one tradition to another
tradition, looking for that special something, that special teaching, that
special relationship, that momentary "high" which will open the door
to self-understanding and liberation.
But this can turn into serious delusion, an
unending quest to escape looking at what is closest to home and perhaps most
painful. Out of fear and yearning for someone special to help them to see
clearly, people sometimes fall into unhealthy dependency relationships with
meditation teachers, forgetting that no matter how good the teacher, ultimately
you have to live the inner work yourself and that work always comes from the
cloth of your own life.
Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,
Shiv Sharma
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