I was wondering how any of you all found your way on the path you knew was right for you? I am in need of a guru, life coach or whatever right now. I feel so lost and I was wondering…how did you find your path? Thanks all.
On this forum, you can find an excellent “group-coach” who may be faceless, but quite an expert collectively and very kind.
I used to be restless about questions with no answers from childhood. In youth, it was search of an identity and in the middle-age, search for a purpose. Then I read “An autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramhansa Yoganand and visited Sathya Sai in India. The path was seen but ‘walking’ needed determination that was absent. Then, I met my guru.
Please don’t shop around for the right path; in spirituality, there is no red carpet. Keep the “lost” feeling alive, seek whole-heartedly, and sincerely try everything that comes your way. That you are on the right path is always a hindsight.
Thank you so much for your kind advice. I definitly am looking for a coach in my life right now. Not someone to make decisions for me, but I just feel like I am wandering, but maybe you are right maybe that is a little bit of a good thing. Right now I am just looking for a path, not necessarily one singluar path, but just a way to go. Thanks.
I wich to find a bad ass guru.Not one of the money stillers full of ego and afraid bunnys that walk 24 by 7 the hatha yoga mats of the california gyms.It seem so hard to find .
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I got a weird thought when I read your question: my answer would be that I haven’t. I often get inspired when I read/listen to people talking about this feeling of excitement and purpose after encountering a teacher or a “path”. I wish I would find such thing myself and enjoy those feelings constantly. But now I wonder what those feelings actually mean. Is it something that is coming to you from outside? Or maybe it is something you touch deep inside yourself? (and its projected to teachers/“paths”). If thats the latter, then your feeling of being lost is a door to connect with this part of yourself. So I guess Suhas advice is very good. To experience fully this feeling of being lost, to sit with it, befriend it. Its the closest thing to this radiance within you and it will lead you there.
Thank you so much, your advice makes a lot of sense. I appreciate it all the kind words, I guess I need to sit with my confusion and maybe something great will come out of it.
If you are looking for a guide, then it is perhaps far more significant to come to an understanding that even if you happen to come into the presence of a master, unless you are absolutely receptive, you have ressurected a million walls, the same walls which have been preventing oneself from communion with existence for centuries. Part of that receptivity is simply coming to a recognition of one’s own ignorance. The search for Truth is something that requires tremendous doubt, you will have to enter into the unknown as an empty slate, setting aside all of one’s assumptions and belief systems. It requires a scientific approach, and part of a scientific approach is to assume nothing whatsoever. The moment you enter into the search with a prejudice, one will be seeking simply to confirm that prejudice. And the mind is such, that it will see whatever one wants to see.
If you are capable of awakening such a state of receptivity, then you will not need to seek the help of a master or a guide. The whole existence can become your master in this very moment. But if such a state of receptivity has not happened, then it may be fine to seek the help of a master, but if you happen to cross paths with even one, it is like finding a pearl in the desert.
Mind plays many games. One of them is to let us understand many things intellectually that makes us talk a lot but walk a little. A Master or a guru helps us take that first actual step; and take it right.
That’s why once we learn to keep mind consciously away from coloring our knowledge, we reach the infinite space within. By then our spiritual ability and bodily preparedness reaches a point where the inner guru can take over from the external one.
The spiritual journey without any guru is possible only for those who inherit great spiritual legacy from the previous lives. Such people are one in a billion. For others to do away with a guru is ego’s handi-work.
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Don’t overlook the obvious and the established.
Don’t let spiritual snobbery get the best of you.
There is truth, wisdom, and “enlightenment” in Christianity, especially in its most complete form, Catholicism.
At least take a look at it objectively, and don’t judge it by the naysayers and storytellers.
Also realize that on a sincere quest for truth, the first truths you will discover will be about yourself, and that can be painful.
Pls read Kundalini book from following link for guidance that you require, if you feel that it is leading you into right direction
you can check the website given in the book for more knowledge.
kundaliniawakeningsystems1.com/downloads/kundalini-yoga-&-meditation this e book will give you the characteristics of a person who is on the verge of kundalini initiation
This is the Siddhyog tradition.
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There is truth, wisdom, and “enlightenment” in Christianity, [B]especially in its most complete form, Catholicism[/B][/QUOTE]
How do you define complete? More importantly why are other faiths or branches of Christianity less ‘complete’ than Catholicism?
[QUOTE=Radianceinprogress;43075]I was wondering how any of you all found your way on the path you knew was right for you? I am in need of a guru, life coach or whatever right now. I feel so lost and I was wondering…how did you find your path? Thanks all.[/QUOTE]
Go within and find what is right for you, you know better than anyone else what is right for you. Sometimes we are too overwhelmed, or at the time we don’t have the strength to face the difficult answers and this is when outside support could help you to find perspective and courage again. But it will still be you who will need to decide what it is right for you.
As for ‘how did I find my path’…By following my gut, doing a lot of difficult and at times distressing self discovery and honest reflection, all along being supported by wonderful people and God.
The journey never ends, we only become more of the person we already are.
Radiance,
I’d say you know when you are on the right path when things you do and directions you go feel “right”, and continue to lead you on to more that keeps feeling “right”. It’s not about the things you do, or the disciplines you choose to try, but about what feels as though it is making you a better person, a better you.
Now I’m going to go off into the realm of “superstition” to some, but I truly believe that when I’m on the right path, I begin to notice synchronicities and little signs that I take as “notes” from my guides or from a higher power that I’m going in the right direction with my attitude and inner growth. I will see pennies at unusual times or unusual places, especially when I’m in turmoil about decisions and I’m beginning to choose one path over another. I take these as encouragement to keep seeking in that direction. It doesn’t mean the direction is the right one, it just means that the seeking is the right thing to do, and it may bring me insight that will make my decision easier.
I will see pennies at unusual times or unusual places, especially when I’m in turmoil about decisions and I’m beginning to choose one path over another.
Interesting. My wife has had the same experience with pennies.
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I’d say you know when you are on the right path when things you do and directions you go feel “right”, and continue to lead you on to more that keeps feeling “right”. It’s not about the things you do, or the disciplines you choose to try, but about what feels as though it is making you a better person, a better you.[/QUOTE]
Good point Joanna63.
@Radiance: Two things go together when searching for a path, discernment and personal feelings. It’s important to rely on your sense of inner guidance, whatever the advices you could get from the outside. The teacher Ellen Grace O’Brian says that when you meet your true guru, you know it immediately because a true guru has the ability to reveal you to yourself. He/she brings you to a new awareness of who you are. It’s a liberating experience which gives you a sense of expansion and growth. The path and the true teacher find you before you find them. Just stay receptive and open to what resonates deeply in you.
From poster.
This is a face to face reality.
this is good for suggestions and speculation. but if you really want a teacher, you really do, you will find one.
if you have any specific questions i think the abundance of useful knowledge held in this website would help no?
hey good luck
i mean it, i know what its like to feel lost, no fun.
youl be just fine though, i promise. there is only one rule.
dont give up.
(until its time to ;).
kavon
[QUOTE=Radianceinprogress;43075]I was wondering how any of you all found your way on the path you knew was right for you? I am in need of a guru, life coach or whatever right now. I feel so lost and I was wondering…how did you find your path? Thanks all.[/QUOTE]
This is what I would do. I’d go to the library and check out some books. Which books? The books that say “you need to check me out.”
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That is what I used to do, and it worked so well! I would even close my eyes and say to my higher self, or guides, “show me the book that has the message I most need to hear right now”. Then I would let go and trust my gut. One time I did this and grabbed a random book off the shelf (I was in the spiritual/new age section at the library) and it was WONDERFUL for me. Now, as I looked at it, I felt in my gut (a full feeling of “this is right”) that it was the right book. It was exactly what I needed, and influenced some major changes in my life. It was called “Don’t Push the River” and now I can’t recall the author! I loved it. It was perfect for that stage of my life.
I haven’t done it in a long while, and last night during the lunar eclipse, I thought of how it is also winter solstice, so paired together, perhaps it was a good time for energies to influence change. I prayed silently while looking at the moon that gentle, loving, new guidance comes to me now to show me the way to go. The feeling that came with that is one I must cling to, the feeling alone is enough to influence me to see more subtle hints about what to do, where to go, and helps me be more in tune with my right thinking.
I don’t know if that helps, talking all about me, but these are the kinds of things I do when I am needing guidance and know I’m ready for it. Maybe it will give you some insight into what helps you.
Antonio Machado said: “walker there is no way, way is done while walking…”