see "looking for a mentor" Is it worng to have a mentor, counselor, coach? To seek guidance from elders? Let me know your opinion! yes! follow your own path and figure things out by yourself maybe? If it feels right do it No! A mentor is a wonderful thing with the right person
we are all here to learn from others. we are teachers and students. someone that doesn't learn from other's does not have an open mind. all through time there have been teacher's and students. someone that has the courage to say "i am seeking a mentor" is very much in touch with their own yearning to know more. i think it is a courageous act to open your heart to what other's have to say and teach. angel
I've been following the discussion on the other thread. In the opinion of this old hippie, a mentor can mean many different things, but it's basically (to me) a teacher. And (once again - to me), someone seeking a teacher is (or should be) a student and a seeker of knowledge. And that's a good thing. Knowledge being on the path to wisdom and then on the path to enlightenment. Too often a teacher wants to be a leader and wants a student to be a follower (aka a sheep), and I think that's a bad thing. In my opinion, InSearchOfMore, if you're looking for a mentor(s) as part of your personal path to enlightenment, then I'd be glad to help anyway I can. I'm not trying to say I'm a mentor, but I may be able to make suggestions. What, in general, do you seek? Peace, poor_old_dad
thats how I feel poor old dad You two are the only ones that understood what I was looking for. Im a student In search of a teacher or teachers even! Not a sheep looking for a master. Anything you guys want to share with me is more then welcomed I am interested in historical and presant people who have done great things for our cause. As well as those that stood in the way. Religion, meditation, animal cruelty, world issues. Anything really. If you have something you want to share, a fact, a story, a personal experiance, or something you think would give me something to think about, and grow from is all welcomed. Poor-are you asking what I seek in guidance, or in life in gernel
I just found out that shamless heifer moved my post. It was in back to the garden and moved it to gurus. guess she thought it belonged in here...
Only the ultimate egomaniac would think that he can live without the help and guidance of others. To even be able to articulate or think in a particular language, one requires a teacher. If we need guidance to develop even the most basic skills and knowledge, then think how much more we are in need of help in figuring out the entire universe.
I was wondering what subject or subjects you are interested in learning more about. If I knew that, I might be able to point you in certain directions or suggest you avoid others. Of course I might not. Not all teachers (or mentors) work with all subjects. You said, "I am interested in historical and presant people who have done great things for our cause." The first thing I would say to that is that "our cause" can not be defined. Over the decades (and now also), hippies have been involved in and a part of many, many things. And it's for sure that not all hippies participated in all causes. And it's also for sure that not all the people working for any of those causes were (or are) hippies. Peace, poor_old_dad ps.: As far as Philosophy and Religion as concerned, I suggest the FAQ's within each of the Philosophy and Religion threads. "Meagain" has done an incredible job of putting a lot of great info together. - POD
How would you ever know if your mentor/guide/guru was sufficiently true to your life's purpose that you could implicitly tyrust them with you life path??? Given that those who feel the need for mentor/guide/guru's are generally and searching for that which is missing, they are 100% vulnerable to deception. Religions make a killng from such people. The best thing you can ever do is KNOW that the Divine Living Principle is that which enlivens your body, inspires your imagination, fires your passions, fills your heart with love, bestows intellect upon you, and brings to you all that you ask for from the depths of your being. No one can show it to you, but Find it and you have found all that is worthy of finding.
I would say yes, for we are forever the teacher and the student. That is the cycle of learning. And everybody's path is their own so only they know to what extent they need the mentor. Whether it is completely submitting one's will and ego to one who will teach over a long period of time, or taking into your heart and embodying the lessons in a speech you heard once, mentors and teachers come and go and it is only our intuition and choice that can tell us what/from who we need to learn.
It is not wrong or right. A tree grows in proper nourishment, or if fails and withers under its predecessor's shadow.
Over the past few months I discovered something I had not found before. I have been a mentor but have never found someone I could closely call my own mentor. I didn't seek it because I found it both futile and dangerous to go about advertising but I sought for ways to help people and in turn, they also taught me. That was enough for me. Three months ago I stumbled on someone who's calmness and demeanor was unlike anything I've known. Considerate, kind, knowing without condescension and pride and he never left me. He is not a regurgitator of scriptures and he doesn't recite till thy kingdom come but the spiritual lightness (I have no other word for it) comes through because it's his nature. What he touches with a single fingertip affects a vast space around him but he's quiet and gentle. He feels living pain when someone is hurt and does all he can to comfort them with few words and a very strong presence. His kind of truth is ever-seeking, learning, reaching around, laughing. He repays another's kindness with laughter and more kindness. Taking little and giving much. His happiness is nearly childlike despite his age and experience. Since then he's become a great friend, though I frankly have no idea where he came from. I don't think of mentors, of wanting a mentor, of wanting to learn something specific because I don't think I particularly trusted nor wanted to admit to myself that a spiritual mentor would do well. I simply had never met a person I could genuinely call a mentor. I felt those people existed mostly in self-help books, in myths and legends, far off spiritual leaders and was skeptical that there was actually any humanity and reality in half of them. Paradoxically, I was also a mentor to others though not what I would call in a spiritual sense. He too, coincidentally, is involved with the community as a patron and mentor in other ways. When I realize myself before I knew this man and myself now, I realize how much guidance I needed without him saying a word about guidance but only leading me by his example. I do agree with several other posters who've already mentioned how wonderful it is that you've opened yourself up to learning more, Chelsa. But be careful what you open yourself up to, or whom. You can find truth in yourself, and in another's teachings but I believe you will recognize a true mentor in every sense of the word when you do meet him/her.
As teacher learns from a student. A student learns from a teacher. If someone says "This is the one true path, learn from me only". Hold on to your wallet.
And what good will it do to hold on to your wallet? Whether today or at your funeral, your wallet is eventually going to find its way to other hands. Leave economic considerations out of spirituality.
nothing wrong to study and learn from those who have gone further ahead then two pages in the teacher's guide. the error is to take any word as infallable. something no honest teacher will claim to be. =^^= .../\...
