The Guru – The Great Unknown
with OM C. Parkin and Prajnaparamita
This weekend, in the company of OM C. Parkin and Prajnaparamita , we will explore a delicate and often challenging topic.
As soon as the term “Guru” comes up, people often react with distrust, and often even hostility. Our aim is to look beyond preconceptions and biases, and approach this mystery with fresh eyes: Who is the Guru?
Especially in the West, seekers often have an ambivalent relationship with the concept of the Guru. Old cultural and social misunderstandings obscure this principle. Confronting authority, both in a positive and in a negative sense, without bias, seems all but impossible. But if we manage to go beyond these layers, we may uncover, alongside aversion, a natural affection – an awakening of the longing for surrender that has always been there.
The opportunity to navigate this process in the presence of a living master raises essential questions that we will engage with: Do I need a Guru on the path of awakening? Can I admit to myself that I don’t really know who the Guru is? How is my relationship with my teacher, if I have one? How do I recognise a true Guru? What do I see in the mirror of an external Guru? Are there both outer and inner dimensions of the Guru principle?
You are invited to take part in this journey of exploration, which leads deeper into your soul and closer to understanding what is truly meant by “Guru”. The encounter with masters and teachers at Gut Saunstorf Monastery is a rare opportunity, and we are looking forward to OM and ShantiMayi, to their insights into the teachings, and to the companionship on the path.
OM C. Parkin
OM C. Parkin is a spiritual master, mystic, philosopher and author. He is the initiator of the OM Foundation Inner Science, director of the mystery school Enneallionce – School of the Fourth Way and founder of Gut Saunstorf Monastery – Place of Stillness.
OM C. Parkin’s spiritual teaching, which he also calls Inner Science, is based on the Eastern advaita tradition (teaching of non-duality, with Ramana Maharshi as its most prominent figure in the West), as well as on the teachings of the Fourth Way, made known in the West by Georges I. Gurdjieff. On the other hand, it is based on Western experiential paths (e.g. Christian mysticism).
Talks on the Guru – with OM C. Parkin
The Guru “is there to open your heart, to tear you apart and feed you to the lions. The lions of love.” So speaks a Sufi master of the Naqshbandi order. Yet “a true teacher will never force anyone to do something against their will, because he respects human freedom.” Even though he knows that this “freedom” is nothing but pure ignorance. How do Western people encounter a true Guru? They will completely misunderstand him. Conversations about true and false Gurus, and about true and false students.
Time with Prajnaparamita
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