Looking for a Spiritual Teacher

Looking for a Spiritual Teacher.

Once we as spiritual creatures accept that our journey is one of understanding, who are we, why are we here, what is the point of everything.

We all start looking for guidance; we do this by reading books, by looking for certainties and guarantees and by listening to others who set themselves up as teachers.

Unfortunately what you are acquiring here is knowledge based upon another persons perception, that is to say that the wisdom they impart is totally down to their own level of understanding. What I guess I am trying to say also is that as we are all at a different level of understanding and what is the truth for one person is an untruth for someone else.

We also then have the problem of communication, what I mean and someone else means by a single word are always very different. OK let’s look at the statement:

"I feel lonely"

For some of you, you will have felt most lonely when surrounded by people due impart to not being understood by others, now for most of you I suspect the opposite is true. The major problem I have with the old scriptures is exactly that that firstly we are relying on a translation and secondly true teaching is done on an emotional level.

So what you are looking for in truth is a level of understanding that resonates with your inner being, it doesn’t matter where the source of this information comes from, what matters is the effect it has upon you.

So what I have to say to you is stop looking externally for guidance, start to look internally.

Stop looking for Knowledge and start looking for wisdom, Wisdom is the wise use of Knowledge and is gained through and only through experience.

Experience is only gained through making mistakes. So stop trying to make perfect decisions and recognise that mistakes lead to wisdom.

I can honestly say that through this process of making mistakes I have gained a level of understanding of who and what I am, rather than looking at my life and say failure, I am contented now that I am starting to listen to my inner teacher.

So what I am trying to say to all of you is that we all have within us an inner teacher.

Listen to this teacher, I know that at time of stress this can be very hard as we are all subject to external issues, however the harder you try and follow that guidance the more in harmony with you potential destiny you become.

Once you start on this pathway you start to find that everyone around you becomes a spiritual teacher as your soul dictates the lessons you encounter.

If you have read this far, firstly I want to say thank you, secondly something of what I have said may resonate with you, so especially for you I offer you this as it may be of help.

Recognise that to evolve as a soul is impossible as you already are perfection, to evolve as a human being is also impossible as this is what separates us from our soul.

For me this reminds me of two neighbours living next door to each other with a fence between the two properties.

Once you start to live with trust, trusting your higher self eliminating fear of the unknown, eliminating the need to control your destiny in all matters. You start to pull down the fence and start to incorporate your soul in your daily living and that my friend is Enlightenment.

Always

Peter Dolding