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The Life of a Guru
By karen | January 14, 2008
Imagine this.
You wake up tomorrow morning and everything has changed. Your life is different. While you remember your spouse, your children, your loved ones and you remember the work that you do, all of your knowledge about life is gone. Gone. As if it never existed at all. You have to start all over and learn everything there is to know about life and living again.
All of the paradigms you’ve become attached to and all of the limiting beliefs that you have accumulated throughout your years of living are gone. The empowering beliefs are gone too. You are a clean slate. You are as innocent and unknowing about life and living as a newborn baby.
So what do you do?
As you get going on with your day, you remember the people you know and the people you meet and come across everyday.
These people become your teachers. Each and every one of them have a lesson to teach you. But they are not in the same place as you are today. They remember their life and how they think it is best to live it. They are going on about their lives just as they always have.
They will not stop to tell you what you need to know. You will have to learn by observing their example, looking into their eyes, making conversations, observing them as they live. In doing it this way you can pick and choose the beliefs, paradigms, knowledge and actions that you want to take with you throughout your life. You can choose to take what will serve you and disregard the rest.
You can choose the lessons that will help you create the Life you really want.
What do you choose to learn? If every single person you meet or come across is your teacher, a guru even, and each and every one of them have a valuable lesson to impart, What do you learn?
What lessons do you choose to take away?
From your sleepy spouse, your noisy children, the neighbor across the street?
The garbage man in the truck in front of your house?
The frazzled looking character driving the school bus in front of you?
The teacher on the playground? The exuberant children running around on the field?
What about the person who cuts you off in traffic? Or the person who slams the door on your face as they race into the building? And then there is that happy lady who always has a smile that you meet everyday on the elevator, and the guy you pass on the sidewalk who is singing about how he “Can’t Get No Satisfaction”.
There is the Grandmother with the baby in her arms at the grocery store, the bum on the street who asks you for money, the business suit with the crocodile briefcase rushing to a meeting, your boss, your co-workers, the lady behind the counter at the cleaners?
What do you choose to learn from your teachers today?
Every person that you meet can teach you something of value, if you just humble yourself, open up your mind and your heart, and let it in. Even if you think you already know more about life than they do. There is always something valuable they can teach you.
What do you choose to learn?
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January 15th, 2008 at 9:38 am
You reminded me of a well-known cite which says sth like: “nobody is so poor that he cannot give something to others and nobody is so rich not to need anything from others” (free translation)
Very nice article, Karen. I liked it a lot.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Thanks Patricia
January 17th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Yes, humility is the true path of spirituality, and as we remain humble, we keep ‘on learning…nice article, thanks for sharing. Regards, Keith
January 17th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Thank you, Keith
I appreciate you stopping by and your thoughtful comment.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
compassion…loving kindness…
January 18th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
yes, it is your choice….you choose what to take away…
Thanks Greg for stopping by. I appreciate it!