to bala on guru hopping

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bala wrote:

 

also hopping from one guru to another guru

 

 

Dear bala ~ I have heard this too, yet I feel that spending time in the

presense of a Great Soul is simply that and doesn't represent guru hopping. I

feel that guru hopping would be more like trying to have two different teachers

for the same subject in school. We would get the same information, but it

might be presented differently, or uniquely enough, that to try and follow,

spend

time with and learn from two different teachers would be not only difficult,

but perhaps an exercise in futility. Yet if I am in an woman's art history

class, studying art by women, and I go to see the opening of an exhibit by a

contemporary woman artist or to listen to a lecture about Frida Kahlo or Berte

Morisot, would be very different. In the second example, I am adding to what

my teacher offers me. In the other case, I may be conflicting. Wow, I think

I made a really simple idea very complicated. But I really wanted to showet

the difference I believe there is, using a personal example. (Too much English

in college. LOL).

And, to be personal again, I did have to make such a choice in teachers

several months ago. Yet having done so, I feel no less for Those I did not

choose, while at the same time feeling greater closeness and communion with the

One

I did choose. I hope this makes sense to someone. :::scratching head:::

Blessings ~ Linda