(Regarding the issue of gurus, a useful quote from Osho...)
"Do you feel hlpless? No one feels helpless. No one feels helpless! Everyone knows, 'I can do. If I want, I can do. It is because I do not want to that I am not doing.' Everyone thinks that if they wish, if the will, they will do. They think, 'The moment I will it, I will do it. the only reason I am not doing it is because I am not willing it just now.'
But no one feels helpless. If someone says that through tht egrace fo teh master it can happen, you think you are ready just this very moment. If it is a question of doing something, you say you can do it whenever you want, but if it is a question of grace you say, 'Okay! If it can be received from someone, i can receive it this very moment.'
You are not helpless, you are just lazy, and there is a great difference. In laziness no grace can be received - only in helplessness. And helplessness is not part of laziness. Helplessness comes only to those who first make every effort to reach, to penetrate, to do. When you have done everything and nothing happens, you feel helpless. Only then can you surrender to someone. Then your surrendering will become a technique.
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So do not think of a master as one who can give you grace. Think of becoming a helpless disciples - totally surrendered, in love. the master will come to you. When the disciple is ready, the master always comes. It is not a question of physical presence; when you are ready, from an unknown dimension of love, grace happens. But do not think about grace as an escape. (...) Try these techniques, and try honestly. If you are a failure, then that very failure will become your surrender. That is the ultimate technique."
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