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The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Guru Relationship - Is That Really the Case?

The term Guru is almost at this point a pejorative only in English. In Wake Up to Your Life, which is the first book that I wrote, the quality that you're looking for in a teacher is someone who speaks to you even when you're completely crazy. And we also need someone who can teach us how to build the skills and the capabilities that we're going to need in spiritual practice. But it's rare, actually, that we find all of those in one person. We may find them in three different people.

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