> If you start playing the game of being an "enlightened somebody," the
> true teacher is going to call you on it. He or she is going to expose
> you, and that exposure is going to hurt. Because the ego will be
> there, standing in the light of Truth, exposed and humiliated. Of
> course, the ego will cry "foul!" It will claim that the teacher made a
> mistake and begin to justify itself in an effort to put its protective
> clothing back on. It will begin to spin justifications with incredible
> subtlety and deceptiveness. This is where real spiritual sadhana
> (practice) begins. This is where it all becomes very real and the
> student discovers whether he or she truly wants to be free, or merely
> wants to remain as a false, separate, and self-justifying ego. This
> crossroad inevitably comes and is always challenging. It separates the
> true seeker from the false one. The true seeker will be willing to
> bare the grace of humility, whereas the false seeker will run from it.
> Thus begins the true path to enlightenment, granted only to those
> willing to be nobody. Discovering your "nobodyness" opens the door to
> awakening as beingness, and beyond that to the Source of all beingness.