Being a clear mirror, reflecting all of who you are

mind of the authentic guru, in its all-embracing reach, fires up all important dimensions of your developmental potential. Shining a light on where we least want to look… The true guru helps us face everything and avoid nothing. A real master will intuit where the student is stuck and when he may not be responding or acting from his own authentic self. The nature of ego is such that there will always be pockets of egoic resistance in ourselves that we don’t want to see and tend to avoid at all cost. These are exactly the places where our self-contraction is most dense, where we are most stuck, and, therefore, where our real work is located. As Carl Jung poignantly put it, “That which we need the most will be found where we least want to look.” Deep down we know that working through these knots will be like pain- ful surgery. And so without the relentless vertical pull of the guru’s awakened mind, we would not so easily choose to face our deepest obstacles head on. Instead, we are more likely to subtly and uncon- sciously – or perhaps even rather overtly - exempt ourselves from such a challenging ordeal. Without the transformational incentive provided by the guru-function, most of us would be more inclined to avoid interventions that would really break the spell of our egoic self-contraction and change us most fundamentally. This is where the role of a real master becomes uniquely valuable. Transmitting enlightened awareness directly to you But perhaps the most central function of the guru role is spiritual transmission. A true guru, because he or she is rooted in the Di-