In San Francisco

Namaste --- 

Just got back from two weeks in Los Angeles and a day 
layover in San Francisco.. We set up a meeting with another 
Non-duality teacher named David Spero.. He once told 
Hridaya your teacher should come and sit with me... So 
when in town i did just that... We sat - had lunch - and 
enjoyed the day. 

The meeting turned out to be quite fine with much 
laughter and working on understanding the pointings 
and ways of explaining the Non-dual Reality. Each 
teacher has a different flavor and way of presentation. 
Words can be aides or barriers and it takes a bit of 
time to unwind the external words to uncover what 
is attempting to be said in the end. Sometimes it 
takes a few days and then a light bulb goes off and 
it becomes more clear as to what was being put forth. 
Clarity is always a good thing.. The only way to come 
to clarity is to continue to broach the field of words 
with a grain of salt and hope that the salt dissolves 
in the ocean of IS... hahahahahahahaha 
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Why are teachers at loggerheads ? Different flavors 
are different flavors but the basic elements are one 
and the same... You can have potatoes and can spice 
them up or down and turn them into so many different 
dishes and yet when it comes down to the basic fact 
underneath the flavors and differences one is still 
encountering potatoes. Lets keep digging through 
the spices until the basic element of potato is found.. 
As a Guru or a Teacher one encounters all so often 
the admonition that you should meet with some other 
Teacher but most often it is said tongue in cheek as 
if there is someone one needs to learn from them. 
Have encountered this a number of times and i 
always take them up on it --- most often then 
the back peddling takes place and they aren't 
willing to meet. But Teachers and Gurus that 
are simply giving the Truth and speaking from 
Ground of Being KNOW that there is nothing 
to run from --- nor any false aires to put on. 
Once in awhile a meeting actually takes place 
and it's usually beneficial to all as some of the 
walls come down. It takes peeling away the 
layers of fragrance and flavors to get to the substance 
but the substance has to be one and the same in the 
end... That is unless ones starting point is Shakti 
and then it's easier to get lost in the manifestations 
versus the primal first projection of Love as
moving energy. 

When it comes to Realization there is nothing to be 
learnt --- it is either uncovered or is not. If there it is 
FULLY the Living breathing Reality that cannot be 
discounted nor denied.. If not then there is endless 
posturing in place and claims of scholarship or 
being the highest being on the planet with some 
brand new higher teachings for the planet or being 
a special avatar that no one can touch claims of 
specialness will prevail ... 

The hallmark of Realization is becoming ORDINARY.. 
YES any idea of being some higher being has 
blown out with all the other illusions of separation. 
There is only 0-NE ABSOLUTE 
0--NE BRAHMAN 
Therefore how can there be some ***Special *** 
unique persona that is reborn ? At the core 
it is that one singular Brahman without Change 
One without a second - Pure - IS... 
Now what others see is the transient and that 
has as many flavors as beings in the universe.. 
One is relating and looking at what may be 
seen in the physicality which is the Shakti 
element which is always in flux and change 
and motion... People use the Shakti element 
and try to use it as a judge of Absolute.. 
That cannot be done... That is a mistaken 
notion that Shakti is ever going to present 
in a singular way... People that are wrapped 
up in their externalizations only see through 
the lens of externalization.. 
So how to go beyond this ? How to go beyond 
the externalized notions of how a Guru or a 
Teacher should be ? Perhaps if Teachers and 
Guru's began to come together and dialog and 
be open in genuine meetings then these stereo 
typical projections would begin to be broken 
through... 

In Realization what is lost - what falls away is 
the ME Story and Identification as a limited 
body form. That story is at an end and as if it 
never took place... What remains is the Reality 
that there is no birth nor death of that primary 
IS which is the LIFE of BEING... The transient then 
becomes this beautiful Dance of Eternal Change 
that takes place to entertain the Unchanging IS. 
Whereas before Realization there is the trepidation 
and fear driven persona that feels it has to keep itself 
SELF Centered.. hahahahahahaha Self is not the me 
of persona it is the Lifeforce of all of humanity Equally.. 
NONE ARE HIGHER AND NONE ARE LOWER - that is an 
impossibility when the core being is Absolute. 

OM Shanti