Posted by The Uncreated on 7/30/2008, 9:21 am, in reply to "Re: Excerpt from an Ebook on Spirituality"
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"Thanks for posting a reply and acknowledging that you are not a Buddha." In the ultimate sense, there are no buddhas -- period. Such talk is, to borrow Sri Nisargaddata's phrasing, for "the ignorant masses." To suggest there are awakened beings is to tacitly suggest there's a perceivable demarcation point between the awakened state and the non-awakened state. Those distinctions are the problem. Where is that point if not in the ego "I Am", the very illusory thing we're to rid ourselves of? Gurus, buddhas, jnanis, what have you, cannot be recognized by any external behavioral characteristics. Because they have resolved into a world where things have not yet manifested, they are the very emobidment of all possibility. By their own "will", they collapse their own wave function and take on whatever form they "choose," so all the typical feel-good buzzphrases regarding compassion, gentleness, wisdom, etc as characteristics of the guru can be discarded. The true guru can be as much a Charles Manson as a Mahatma Ghandi -- as much a fool as a genius -- as much a stone as a human being. -