Jon Bernie: Understandably, most people are looking for answers. You know, when they get
on the path they want some help. They want some understanding. They want to understand,
"What's the purpose? What is this life about?" People often come to these kinds of teachings
with a deeper question, "What's the meaning of life?" So, maybe they find someone, or
they go and they find someone who's a so-called "teacher" and they look to that person, or
they need support, or they are looking for answers and so forth. And I know in my own
case when I first started out, I assumed because somebody was wearing a robe and they had a
shaved head or something that somehow they were the example of so-called enlightened
being. Right? And what I learned over time was, as my teacher Jean Klein said, that when
there is no one taking themselves to be a teacher and no one taking themselves to be
a student, then true teaching takes place. And what he's describing is that nonverbal
realm of transmission. Mind to mind, heart to heart transmission. And when somebody is
identified with being a so-called teacher, that's not what he's talking about. That's
a different kind of teacher. That's not the direct path of teaching. Because at that level,
one is not identified -- truly, if they really are at that level, they cannot be identified
with it. And they would also say fundamentally that they -- that no one really knows what's
going on. That there isn't a "knower" who could know. There is the description of experience.
And when we're having a unified field of presence that's obviously here, we can talk about it
and we know what we are talking about, right? So we can use language as a way of pointing
out the truth. That's what, when the Zen master raises his finger and goes, "This is it."
That's what's happening. There is a recognition of that unified field of oneness, and he's
going, "That's it." There is pointing it out. That's what pointing the truth out means.
I think that what we find in that and a lot of what I've been working towards is in what
I would call dissolving the trance of authority. That actually the teacher fundamentally is
a mirror to see the self. It isn't about them. It's not about a personality. It's not about
somebody who's attained something. That's not what it is at all. It's really finding
out that it's not possible to follow another human being. It's not possible to hold on
to any beliefs. To even have beliefs. So that's why I often say, "I'm not a believer and I'm
not a follower." And I don't attract people who are. Because once you begin to find the
truth is within, then you see that the so-called teacher is really the mirror for that truth
that is within here. So being in that resonate field -- it's like a tuning fork -- it vibrates
that field into consciousness in yourself that might have been unconscious and brings
you into that field. If you think it's the teacher, you're deluded. They are simply...
when you meet them, when you meet into the space of awareness, they are there immediately
to mirror that for you. So you can really experience it. That's why there is the amplification
of energy and it feels like you're getting zapped with shakti -- that's what is going
on. But you are really, actually, finding yourself. Your true self. And actually, the
term guru, from what I understand, actually means true self. It doesn't mean some dude
up there on the pedestal. Right? It really means that you are myself. So, you often hear
that phrase that you are myself or something -- we are this. We are That. So, there isn't
really a we, energetically. Yes, as people as physical forms there are separate forms.
So, that realm is the realm of the mystery. That's why it's called, "mysticism." Right?
Because it's not about knowledge, it's about not-knowing. That discovery, the endless life
experience is this constant discovery process. It's the life force, the creative force, is
literally the realm of not-knowing. It's the realm of constant discovery. Not the the realm
of constant believing. Discovery and learning have nothing to do with belief. Learning and
discovery is this constant, "Wow!" This is what's happening right now. The mind goes
into, "Well, what does it mean and how does it compare and ...." and the mind does it's
thing. Right? The mental configuration -- it may do that, and that's interesting but it's
not the truth.