meditation workshop
meditation workshop
Why have a guru or spiritual master?
I recently attended workshops offered by Sri Chinmoy my local center. They teach meditation techniques and offer many opportunities for group activities of meditation. All this is great, my opinion. The only thing I find strange is that whenever we meet for meditation, there is a temple of Sri Chinmoy mini. Although I am sure that person was a beautiful, enlightened, spiritual person love (or maybe not, ideas about this?), it is not a god, I do not want not pray … I do not know, it just makes me feel weird. It is the only aspect of practice that I find odd. All activities and workshops are free and lead by volunteers. So my question is, if the point of meditation is self-awareness and enlightenment, why is it good to have a guru or spiritual master (which is now dead, for that matter)? Any other ideas or thoughts?
From where you are now, perhaps you can simply Sri Chinmoy display figures for inspiration. If others feel the love and devotion to him, maybe you could empathize with their experience, not necessarily share. If you just want to do a little meditation, I do not think anyone could fault you for that. But initial goal of meditation in the Indian system of Yoga has been part of an Enlightenment tradition which also take the help of a guru. Everything depends on how including a sincere seeker you are. If you only want spirituality to be, say, 10% of your life, then there may be no need for a guru. But consider that someone who eats in a Chinese restaurant once in a blue moon, and yet they want to know how to eat with chopsticks, and how order correctly from the menu, balancing yin "food with" yang ". You can get more if meditation you are able to appreciate the subtleties of the tradition, including devotional guru. You can feel a certain affinity with students Sri Chinmoy, or why would you studied meditation with them? But you do not understand some things they do – or, having grown up in a secular framework, Are you uncomfortable when you see a traditional temple with flowers and a photo of the guru. This is extremely common in India (and quite natural), but is not always well understood by the West. As far as the guru is "dead" if you ask the disciples of Sri Ramakrishna or Sri Aurobindo, Sri Chinmoy, or if their guru is dead, "they will probably tell you he has left the body, but they feel his spiritual presence very strong when they meditate (Especially in a group). Spirituality is a process of development, and it may be useful to keep open and follow the process by which it will leads, rather than planting your feet firmly and define in advance exactly what you or will not do. If you are a spiritual person, while you progress, you may feel the need to question some of your preconceived ideas and attitudes in society. If Ask the average person in the street if there is a need for a guru, he / she will probably say no. But if you ask people well advanced on the spiritual path, many will say that the guru can be very, very helpful. Sri Chinmoy tells this story: "Sri Ramakrishna said that God is like a cow. The milk is then in cow, but if I press the tail or leg or nose, I do not get milk. I get the milk when I press the udder of the cow. Similarly, God is around the world. In this wood plank God exists, but if I break the board of God does not appear. Thus, the representative of God, the Guru is the udder and then we get the milk. Milk, compassion, light, peace and happiness. Http: / / www.srichinmoylibrary.com/public/0311/1/1 Sri Chinmoy also speaks very beautiful and eloquent on the role of the guru as a messenger here: http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/public/0166/12/1 Good luck with your spiritual practice! AM
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