Yes, I grind my teeth a lot. I'm now with my thirdentistry. The 1st two weren't half as cheap ;)

You would be surprised at how many real spiritual Gurus are very much like you.

My Uncle knew Rajneesh quite well and visited him in his home. He later described him to me as child like. His presence was very much like that of a small child totaly none threatening and alive with purity.

Like you making up nonsense words like Gagga Goo Goo. A baby would do the same and a Baby is totaly enlightened as it is just pure consciousness without any distraction of the material world.

You really are a Guru in many ways.

Love Simon xx

I'm with you on this one Simon. Who says Guru's have to look, think and act a certain way?

Guru's come in all shapes and sizes : )

Thanks for the gigglies again Guru Pitka!

Love,
North

Hi Vivian,

Nice to hear from you love.

I agree, If you ever watch the Movie Empire Strikes Back; it is the middle Star wars Movie from Back in the 1970's and 80's.

Yoda is just about one of the coolest Guru's ever imagined and when Luke Skywalker first meets him he mistakes him for a pest or nuissance and tries to chase him away.

Yet he is super enlightened; that kind of says something deeper than many people will consciously recognise. It really says that size, shape and form mean nothing compared to the deeper layers of existence.

Yet for most people (including myself sometimes when I am not in reflection of my real being) will make a judegment based upon physical form and shape. From a deeper level of understanding we can see that these values are totaly false values.

I recall just recently I had a conversation with a guy here in Newcastle whom I regard as being a realiser, a spiritualy awakened person and he said something that also fits into this area we are talking about.

he said "If you could Jump out of your body and into the body of an axe murderer..... You would find yourself there"

Quite Interesting concept don't you think. Is it possible to accept that the conscious soul of a murderer is the same divine awareness that you can know when you sit in silence and just comprehend your own beingness?

Is the Guru not just that same awareness no matter how silly he comes accross or how he/she may appear in what form?

I heard a great saying one time that I have hung on to for years now

"It might Say Budwieser on the side of a bus........... but you don't get a beer when you get on"

Love Simon xx

I am enjoying Guru Pitka's second time, as much as the first. Thanks for the humor! ;^)

Love, Char

BTW: A temper is like a living hell and anger will transport one there, while the breath carries one to heaven upon the wings of the wind or an angel if you prefer.

I am humbled by your gloryful fullness and your enlightenment aint too bad neither.

peace comes from playfulness and playfulness comes from piece

derek

Yes, Simon...I agree.

The appearance of things is not the Real. What is Real lies beyond the appearance of things.

As a "mystic" I have encountered many "Miracles", yet from the appearance, I smoke, I fight and make love with my partner.

When I looked for answers, I read in books that you have to do this and that....but all along I was already experiencing what others teach would be the result of doing something. I did/do nothing.

My clusion is that the divine will express itself however it expresses itself. Are we o.k. with that?

To

Chopras
Owners of the IntentBlog

You own a spiritual website. Do you know what Guru Pitka is professing here? "Horseshit" in his own words.

Do you know what he means by "choodnars"?
Do you know what he means by "dolahmpeek"?

Is he professing profanity too?

If so, how shameful!
You are the guardians of decency. And yet, you propagate horseshit!

The Spiritual Personality

by Todd Murphy

http://www.shaktitechnology.com/traits.htm

Excerpts:

Summary-The personalities of people who are involved with spiritual practices like prayer, meditation and ceremony are shaped by the altered-state experiences their spirituality creates.

...Another personality trait that spiritual practitioners almost always seem to show is a fascination with spirituality. It may seem to be too obvious to say, but what it less obvious is that spirituality dominates over other kinds of concerns more than other pursuits do. What seems to be happening is that the repeated experience of altered states is so novel, and infused with such a sense of meaningfulness that things which lack meaning in them lose their impact.

Another personality trait that can emerge after enough time in an altered state has two names. In medical terms, its called hyper-emotionality. In spiritual terms, its called open-heartedness or more simply 'being filled with love'. A psychologist might call it 'extreme vulnerability.'

...The point I'm trying to make is that the way a person feels while relating to others changes as their practice deepens. The direction always favors closer intimacy, or deeper rapport.

...Until this happens the person can suffer from 'the dark night of the soul', which can come as moments when they doubt their self-worth, or as long periods of melancholy. More often in my experience, such people respond with a specific coping strategy. They become 'holier than thou.' In these cases, spiritual practitioners will respond to comments from others with 'spiritual' interpretations.

You missed your bus? You weren't 'meant' to be on it. How have you been lately? There is no lately: there is only this moment. The person you were attracted to isn't interested in you? Give your love to Jesus. I seem insensitive? I'm only sharing my truth in this moment. You're angry about something? It just shows how are attached you are. You're offended by something? That's just your ego coming out.

In extreme cases, such people have an answer for everything they don't care to hear, and each answer shows how 'spiritual' they are, and subtly 'puts down' the other. Its just not possible, for one who is 'holier than thou', to feel beneath others. This type of person won't be free of the inner turbulence that an extra-active amygdala creates, they just won't feel that they are lower than others. Because we are such linguistic beings, we are very sensitive to words that we don't like. An easy way to cope is to have a stock of things to say that invalidates whatever the 'other' has to say, and to do so in a spiritual-seeming way. If they are successful, they can become gurus or teachers in their own right.

Now, gurus (or masters or satgurus, sufus, tzaddiks, roshis, growth group or workshop leaders, priests, or a ministers) often don't like to be 'defined' or 'labeled' or 'categorized', but there a category that seems to invite them in. Its a term from primatology, the study of our closest living evolutionary cousins, the primates. You know. Monkeys and chimpanzees. Gurus are dominant or alpha individuals. Within their community, the guru is the boss. He (forgive the sexist pronoun) usually calls the shots. He disperses the donated resources, and if the tradition doesn't include celibacy, to be his romantic partner is a 'position' of some prestige. All other conditions being equal, the guru will be more successful at passing on his genetic material than the disciple. If you become a guru, your self-esteem will automatically rise. You've become the alpha person.

...Becoming a guru works against low self-esteem, just as becoming a leader of any kind will bring a person 'up'.

We've been talking about gurus and 'wannabe' gurus. Another type we need to look at is the 'perfect disciple'.

Another way of responding to low-self esteem is to lower your self. The perfect disciple will always see the guru as being higher. Devotion to the guru allows a context where low-self esteem can be acted out in a constructive way. Being subordinate is rewarded in communities gathered around a spiritual master. The Buddhist and Hindu practice of prostrations or pranam allows a person to behave submissively without actually taking on a position of inferiority for those around them. Only the master (and the 'inner circle' of senior disciples) is worthy of these gestures. For day-to-day living in the ashram, the slogan seems to be 'we're all bozos on this bus'. Outside of their community, their having found the path allows them to discount what others say. They don't know the truth. Such a believer need not pay any heed to slights or challenging remarks from others.

...Its no wonder that so many cults, religions, and spiritual traditions are so ready to embrace those in a state of sadness or despair. They will usually claim to have the answer. And they do. It actually works. Its an effective coping strategy that people have been using for millennia. As such, it has stood the test of time far longer than any kind of psychotherapy.

...Religion and spirituality are still the most effective methods known for coping with the emergence of a new sense of self or with spiritual transformation.

While I find the mentality of the true 'believer' difficult to respond to, I prefer to support spiritual people in their beliefs.

Now my mind turns to the old Catholic women of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The stereotypical example is of a widow, dressed in black, who slowly puffs her way up the stairs to her church. She believes in One God, the creator of heaven and earth. She believes that The Virgin Mary sits, surrounded by adoring cherubs who sing her praises, at the left hand of God. She believes that saying her rosary will help ease her life while she lives, and to gain her a better place in heaven after her death.

I don't share any beliefs with this woman. But, if I were to convert her to my way of thinking, the poor woman would no longer know how to live, and I would have done her real harm.

I might be right in my views, but spirituality is one area of human experience where being right doesn't really count for much.

The serious comments are so funny! Sounds like a good bit for the yogadawg.com site.