Q & A with Enza Vita, author of Always Already Free – Recognizing the natural wakefulness that you

were born with

THE TRUE TEACHER

Q: Can a teacher or guru help me to realize my true nature? And how would I go about choosing one?

•Enza: There is only one teacher and that is presence. My suggestion is that you stay with that one.

• The true guru is a manifestation of your true nature, as it exists internally and appears to exist externally. The true guru is actually you made manifest, not as you think you are but the real you, presence/awareness itself. Since who you truly are is the totality of being, you are capable of generating many forms, both human and non-human, to bring the focus of the illusionary seeker back to itself. "Guru" is really another word for awareness

• In regard to the human teacher, be guided, first of all, by love. Follow your heart and see where it takes you.

• If one day you meet someone in whose company you find you can be yourself, and if you feel clear, peaceful, happy, and your mind becomes calm for no apparent reason, you may like to keep his or her company from time to time.

• Jean Klein, a well-known speaker and author on the subject of non-duality, said, “You will know a true teacher because you will feel yourself, in your autonomy, in his or her presence.”

• With the true teacher you are free to be yourself rather than bound by rules and agendas. The true teacher doesn’t take the identity and role of the teacher seriously and has no need for his/her students to feel complete.

• The greatness of a teacher is not in psychic powers, lineages, or credentials, in the numbers of followers or eloquence or intellect or charisma. Greatness is the extent to which the vehicle has been taken over by the realization and has ceased grasping.

• When you meet such a teacher, there is actually nobody there. Apart from thoughts and concepts of a separate self, there is nobody there in either of you. In reality there is no difference between you and the guru, as there is no difference between the space in this cup and the space in that cup. The cup cannot limit the all-pervasive space.

Ultimately, there are no teachers or teachings because there aren’t any students. There is only ever unconditional presence—Oneness meeting Itself as That.

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