hi y’all. fyi, my latest–an interview for beliefnet with chant master krishna das–“krishna das’s chants for love.”
here’s a snippet:
Do you feel it’s necessary to have a guru or a spiritual teacher to walk a spiritual path?
Absolutely not…. Everybody has their own guru inside, and that’s their own heart, their own being. The longing that everybody has to find that love and joy and happiness and live a good life, that longing is the guru.
You don’t have to wait for somebody to push a button for it to start. It’s already started, and you can’t make it go faster and you can’t slow it down. Everybody’s unfolding at their own rate. Sometimes a teacher will arise, and the teacher is very different than a guru. A teacher is somebody who teaches you something. A guru is a mirror that shows you the love that lives inside of you.
So, you really don’t need anything other than to try to wake up in your life right as it is now. You don’t need to wait for anybody to tell you. You already have it. It’s inside of everyone. Without that spark of love, spark of God, or spark of divinity or presence, we wouldn’t exist.
read the rest here.
