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G.U.R.U – Gee, you
are you
INTRODUCING…you to you!
Thirty plus years ago… I left America
in search of myself. Now, I am on my way back home! It has
taken me half my life to know that I am whole. My journey
began in 19 hundred and sixty something when I bought a
one-way ticket to “nowhere”!
As the plane touched down in Bombay, India, I immediately
had a feeling, I can only describe as “now here”.
It was a feeling of coming home and it’s no coincidence
that India is called “Mother India”. With my life
savings of five hundred dollars in my pocket, and a warm
feeling in my heart, I felt rich, for the first time in
my life!
So, off set Marcia and I, hand in hand, on the Hippie Trail
to the beaches of Goa. Marcia was the gal I had been traveling
around planet Earth with for a while and was the love of
my life…at the time. We found our first honeymoon spot
under a cashew tree, only a hundred yards of pure sand away
from the Arabic Sea. However, our romantic relationship
suffered its first hiccup, just minutes after our first
sip of the local H2O. In Mexico, they call it “Montezuma’s
Revenge”, in India they call it “dysentery”,
but I just call it, plain and simple, “the shits”.
Anyway, the shits soon turned our smooth-cruising relation-ship
into a rocky “relation-shit”!
So, after our first mutual, “I hate your
guts” fight, we turned our backs on each other and
lying yards apart on the beach, began reading our library
books. Marcia picked up Autobiography of a Yogi by a fellow
named Paramhansa Yogananda. I’ve never read it, and
probably never will, as it must be a 1000 pages long or
so. Anyway, judging by the size of her book, I knew I would
be living in the dog house for a while, rather than under
that romantic cashew tree by the sea! I chose Seeds of Revolutionary
Thought , a quick 100 page read, by Acharya Rajneesh, who
later changed his name to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and eventually
to… Osho.
Now, you may be thinking, “Oh no! not that Bhagwan
with the 99 Rolls Royces? Can’t stand him!” or
you may be thinking, “Never heard of him!”. Either
way, for me, Osho is the love of my life. Now, you may not
have a master or you may be in love with another master,
but for me, Osho is the best-looking loving guru and the
best friend I have ever known, and all the other masters
look like ugly ducklings to me! It’s just like when
you first fall in love, doesn’t everybody else look
ordinary to you? But Osho was quick to point out to me that
Osho is the first and last Osho, that Jesus Christ is the
first and last Christian. And it is my job to be the first
and last Krishna Prem. And so, that brings me to the point,
that just as it’s my job to be the first and last Krishna
Prem, so it’s your job to be the first and last YOU!
See, at the end of the day, it’s not
about the master at all, it’s about you! The master
isn’t the place where you put down your bags, he’s
the signpost along the way, the finger pointing to the moon.
No, it’s about you becoming the master of your own
reality. Ask yourself who is the master of your life right
now? Who is running the show? The answer is probably…
your very own mind! And that’s what we’re going
to do in this book, is help you understand the nature of
your own mind, what it does, how it works and how its chattering
thoughts are the ONLY obstacle to U knowing U!
See, it’s no coincidence that G.U.R.U.
has two “U’’s in it! One U represents the
little “u”. That’s the “u” that
gets up in the morning, brushes its teeth, gets dressed,
goes out and struts its stuff! It’s your little local
life, you can call it your your “self”, your “I
or your “me”. Then there’s the other U, which
is your big “U”. That’s the U who exists
beyond your body, your mind and the entire world itself.
It’s the ultimate U, call it “God”, “Source”,
“Existence”, call it what you like!
And that’s my job here in this book,
to help your little “u” get in touch with your
big “U”, so you know who U are in total, and that
there’s no separation between the two! See, it’s
no good me knowing “you are you!”, or others knowing
“you are you!” No, that’s not enough! You
need to know you are you, and you have every right not to
be satisfied, until you do! Only when you know the cosmic
joke, that you are already you … will you know that
the world is a play, “u” are an actor and that
life is not awful, but AWESOME!
So, if you’re ready….lets
begin!
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