Everyone is a guru....

[bird_migration]

.... but not every guru is everyone.

Or are we?

[TheLizardQueen]

God damn it, I'll be thinking about that all day now.

[bird_migration]

God damn it, I'll be thinking about that all day now.
It is a thinkworthy statement indeed. Feel free to post your conclusion and/or unfinished personal thought about the statement.

[themnax]

.... but not every guru is everyone.

Or are we?


i would say actualy, yes we are.

you know i heard once the origen of that word was just someone who knew how to get from where they were to some other place they might sometimes like to be. so that anytime someone asks you for directions, like how to get to the nearest 7-11, and you give them directions how to get there, you are being their 'guru'.

of course i suppose that example might be a reducio ad infinitum
but i think it makes a good point about making too big of a deal about somethings, like i'm doing saying so many words about this.

=^^=
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[shaman sun]

Everyone is their own guru, as everything is a teacher; from the smallest tree to the tallest mountain, from the greatest mind to the simplest fellow. The question is, do we know how to look? Can you see that?

[themnax]

Everyone is their own guru, as everything is a teacher; from the smallest tree to the tallest mountain, from the greatest mind to the simplest fellow. The question is, do we know how to look? Can you see that?

learning how to look. learning to look at what is there and not what we want to assume or immagine or someone else has told us to expect or immagine.

my father, who was a very imperfect human being, as we are all in many ways imperfect, told me, long before even kindergarten, and the fewer years you have the longer each one experientialy is, that the most important thing in life was learning how to actualy look, that everything else, in some way depends on it.

i don't believe thought, that another human being can teach us as much about how to look as does the diversity of nature itself.

sometimes another person can be useful to see what we ourselves might overlook. that is not because of superior powers of seeing but because again diversity, that we each see things in our own unique way, but also thanks to diversity to give us each other to see in those different ways.

so not only are we all gurus but also we can sometimes bennifit from each other's percaptions and their differences from our own.

the danger in that, what defeats the value of that, is when too many people try or pretend, to see too many things too much the same way.

=^^=
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[supertramp]

Nature is every mans guru....if it can't "teach you" then no man... including yourself can!

[Fallout55]

.... but not every guru is everyone.

Or are we?
Yes we are.

We are all everyone.

[sentient]

every shit is a shit but not every shit is all shit

[OnlyOne]

guud shit an bad shit that iz duh answer an question, here iz teh answer:
Long Hair guud
eat veggyz, guud.

[Fallout55]

every shit is a shit but not every shit is all shitEvery human is a human and every individual human is every human.

Cultural defusion
Death and returning to nature then rebirth from the nutriants of the dead

We are all parts of one brain every struggle we have amongts each other is the choices that this brain makes. We all combine to form one.

Its all cycles, I am you and you are me.

If we fight to prove/deny this then the brain is deciding to see its self for what it really is or if it wants to continue hiding form its shadow.

[OnlyOne]

Our brainz are alwayz tryin to oozz out our skcullz an be free, like osmosis, an buterfluez. it=they turn into HAITlockz, flowin away from the hell of your, our , my head.

[old tiger]

A cloud..is a cloud..but what's a cloud..without the skies??
guru...means master..teacher??true gurus..never ask...
whether they are guru's or not..they are..or they are not..
a simple sanyasi or sadhu..carrying a tulsi mala...is not a guru..
real guru's live in caves??not on an internet pages??
Tiger

[i0-techno]

If you have ambitions of being a guru, it is probably because you already are a guru.

The second I found yoga in a little book at the impulse buy counter of Safeway I knew my calling, inspiration filled me to the brim. Life has changed and ambitions never die.

Guru is just another word that people hear and attach their history to it and perceive it to be theirs, like a guy saying that gurus aren't on internet pages, they are in caves, well my mind is a cave and my thoughts and actions exit out of those caves all day every day and somehow they some times end up on a computer screen. Not trying to prove right or wrong but that yin an yang are in every aspect of life. Weigh and distribute whatever it is you have to and you will see this can be as real a fact as any fact can be real, which is to the beholder of such a thought. LOL