Sublime

Contemporary teacher of awakening, Adyashanti, describes stages of “head awakening, heart awakening, gut awakening, and root awakening.”

If a guru only imposes a single method, such as meditation, the students will be deprived of a wealth of skillful means.

But should you take him or her as your guru? This is another matter. The bottom line is this: it’s all very individual and ambiguous, and perhaps it should be left that way. Ambiguity is a good thing. Once there is a system, things tend toward ruin.

Sylvia Boorstein

no longer to categorise him as a “person,” because from this point on the guru is the dharma.