The Guru Wears No Clothes!

Your ego-self is nothing more than a composite or package of beliefs you attribute to as “you.” Those beliefs that make up the 'self' are nothing more than associations to the past. Your ego-self has extracted from the past the information and experiences it has decided best assert itself into its experience of a ‘world.’

Because of this, the world is a mass of confused associations, all claiming to be the map to truth. But which one is true?
If you choose to rely on the great wisdom traditions, essentially you rely on the past. But can reliance on the past give you a present moment? Can information from the past give you NOW?

When you quote the revered ones, have you simply recreated the past in the moment? Do their words from the past, often quoted from centuries of interwoven interpretations piled one atop another, liberate you from the past? How can you experience the “now” based on what the past teaches?

They all claim to show the way to freedom from the past, but how often do you ever stop to consider that the teachings you have been following all came from the past? Are we not simply traveling in circles?

When will we finally proclaim that the guru wears no clothes?

The ego-self certainly loves the past and, let’s face it, without an experience of ‘memory’ who would “you” be? Therefore, the ego really isn’t interested in evolving or freeing itself, from the past. No, your ego’s sole objective is to develop the ‘self’ based on past instruction. In following the ancient maps to the “now,” the ego has merely made sacred its journey to NO WHERE.

Today, all the modern maps are simply the old man dressed up in the latest styles?

The ego-self certainly does desire change, but only if the road to change is charted from the comfort of the old maps.

Yet, from following those maps, has the world changed at all? Have the old maps taken us to a place where we no longer destroy each other any less than before? Have the old maps shown us how to preserve our home and hold all life sacred? Have the old maps shown us how to love one another?

If not, then why follow them?

Shouldn't we be constructing a new map?