Who is your spiritual teacher?

[an anarchist]

Who is your spiritual teacher?

I am practicing a visual meditation called “mentor yoga”. I am to “invoke the presence of the one who has initiated me into the sacred realm of my chosen form of Buddhhood.”

It’s a lot to take in once again, but I am invoking my mother in my meditation. She is my spiritual teacher as she taught me the importance of love.

This meditation made me wonder about you in retrospect! Who is your spiritual teacher? If you were doing a mentor yoga visual meditation, who would you visualize?

 

[idea]

I visualize my maternal grandparents. I grew up with them, they were incredible examples of protecting lgbtq before that was popular, examples of being step-parents to those who needed it through wars, of breaking stereotypes - pioneer for working women. Always smiling, moving, adapting, evolving, changing, learning, studying, building, creating. No matter what came, they figured it out. Job loss, lost a child, they kept going through it all with a smile.

 

[Nyingjé Tso]

Who is your spiritual teacher?

I am practicing a visual meditation called “mentor yoga”. I am to “invoke the presence of the one who has initiated me into the sacred realm of my chosen form of Buddhhood.”

It’s a lot to take in once again, but I am invoking my mother in my meditation. She is my spiritual teacher as she taught me the importance of love.

This meditation made me wonder about you in retrospect! Who is your spiritual teacher? If you were doing a mentor yoga visual meditation, who would you visualize?

It's actually a practice in Buddhism, you should check out Guru yoga!

Guru yoga - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

My first spiritual teacher is Lama Drimed Rinpoche. He's the one who gave me the first teachings, and he's an exemple of patience and diligence. He's very active in doing animal liberation (buying local fish to the fishermen and releasing them in their natural habitat, or buying cattle going to the slaughterhouse and settling them to peacefully live their lives in farms etc...)



Then my current teacher, Khenchen Tenpa Yungdrung. He's so sweet, patient and compassionate. Always has time for anyone who needs him. He opened a school in Nepal for Bönpo children from poor and remote Himalayan areas. When he's teaching, he makes sure everyone understands and have no questions or confusion. Even in a crowded room, it always feels like he's talking to you, one on one. Being around him is really an experience.

 

[osgart]

Language itself, and how words and meanings fit together and relate is my spiritual teacher. The necessity of words and meanings as representative of reality, and actuality intrigues me.

Words are ingenious actualities and quite necessary. Many words are jumping off points into a deeper actuality, and deeper meaning. Spirituality is the search for deeper meaning, and finding purposes, actions, and fulfillment in living.

Spirituality is also about the existence of meaning as actuality. Meaning is not an accidental, mindless, incidental effect. Ordinary language is used to describe qualitative aspects of reality. Meanings such as honesty, and truth are as existent as velocity, and force.

For me spirituality is an important way of thinking.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Who is your spiritual teacher?

My teacher appears in my signature...

Chidananda rupa Shivoham Shivoham.​

I am the form of auspicious consciousness/bliss; I am the eternal Shiva.​

That said, Adi Shankara, Guadapada, and Swami Sarvapriyananda have played a vital role in helping to validate my experiences (as have the Upanishads) and in my ability to communicate my views based the those experiences to others.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Apparently redditors and forum users. Sometimes Wikipedia.

 

[ChristineM]

No one but the river and the forest.
I don't think of my time there as spiritual but others tell me it is

 

[sun rise]

No one but the river and the forest.
I don't think of my time there as spiritual but others tell me it is

To me, it can be. When I ask you "what do you learn from the river and the forest?" what do you reply?

 

[sun rise]

If you were doing a mentor yoga visual meditation, who would you visualize?

I've never heard of "mentor yoga visual meditation". But one of my practices is a visual meditation on Meher Baba.

 

[an anarchist]

It's actually a practice in Buddhism, you should check out Guru yoga!

Guru yoga - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

My first spiritual teacher is Lama Drimed Rinpoche. He's the one who gave me the first teachings, and he's an exemple of patience and diligence. He's very active in doing animal liberation (buying local fish to the fishermen and releasing them in their natural habitat, or buying cattle going to the slaughterhouse and settling them to peacefully live their lives in farms etc...)

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Then my current teacher, Khenchen Tenpa Yungdrung. He's so sweet, patient and compassionate. Always has time for anyone who needs him. He opened a school in Nepal for Bönpo children from poor and remote Himalayan areas. When he's teaching, he makes sure everyone understands and have no questions or confusion. Even in a crowded room, it always feels like he's talking to you, one on one. Being around him is really an experience.


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Do you live in a culture where Dharmic religion has relevance? I don't unfortunately, the only Dharmic Temple that I found on google in my county and ended up traveling to was seemingly abandoned. So I have no teacher who I can physically approach and learn from. Do you have advice?

 

[amorphous_constellation]

Well the conclusion that I have now come to.. is essentially that all spiritual practices are vessels, that I sort of pour my goals into. They aren't there, in my current and perhaps now solidified view, to directly teach me the goals. I think that I decide the goals, and the spiritual practice teaches and sculpts the goals that I decided I have. I have an innate feeling and perspective about things.. How can the Tarot help me describe that feeling that I had, before I introduced it as a spiritual question?

I do feel like this is not a humble way for me frame this. However, if I can't put forward the initial goal , to be worked on, then I feel like something about my potential is unfulfilled. I don't know.. Hopefully I'm thinking about this is an ordered way

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I don't know.

 

[Spice]

My best visual has been the sky. Concentration on the movements, colors, depths of the sky bring me to a relaxed state that allows the emptying and refilling I seek in meditation.

 

[ChristineM]

To me, it can be. When I ask you "what do you learn from the river and the forest?" what do you reply?

Tranquility, peace, calmness, relaxation.
So yes, i can see how it can be from another perspective but to me it's just an every day thing

 

[RestlessSoul]

 

[Sinful Hypocrite]

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One of the best answers.

 

[Nyingjé Tso]

Do you live in a culture where Dharmic religion has relevance? I don't unfortunately, the only Dharmic Temple that I found on google in my county and ended up traveling to was seemingly abandoned. So I have no teacher who I can physically approach and learn from. Do you have advice?

I don't live in a place where dharmic culture is relevant or even common. It caused me problems finding a place like you tried too so I can sympathize with you on that

Since then I've moved and is fortunate to live an hour away from my monastery, but before that I was mainly meeting my sangha and teacher online. Many temples and monastery and doing online courses, on zoom or things like that and many teachers are now very accessible to talk to by mail or one on one. I talk to one of my teacher on WhatsApp even tho there's an ocean between us.

The other day I even stumbled across a Japanese temple live streaming their daily rituals and holding QandA with the head monk for those curious.

I think it's good use of modern tools for those like us who are a bit isolated

 

[Secret Chief]

Who is your spiritual teacher?

I am practicing a visual meditation called “mentor yoga”. I am to “invoke the presence of the one who has initiated me into the sacred realm of my chosen form of Buddhhood.”

It’s a lot to take in once again, but I am invoking my mother in my meditation. She is my spiritual teacher as she taught me the importance of love.

This meditation made me wonder about you in retrospect! Who is your spiritual teacher? If you were doing a mentor yoga visual meditation, who would you visualize?

This took a bit of rummaging... but I would say the Buddha, Eihei Dogen, Nagarjuna, the authors of the Heart and the Diamond Sutra and of course Moonbear (unlike the other teachers, he had four paws).

 

[ChristineM]

This took a bit of rummaging... but I would say the Buddha, Eihei Dogen, Nagarjuna, the authors of the Heart and the Diamond Sutra and of course Moonbear (unlike the other teachers, he had four paws).

I thought you'd have mentioned @JustGeorge

 

[Secret Chief]

I thought you'd have mentioned @JustGeorge

Too obvious to bother. She's like my personal antichrist. But not in a good way.