How to Find the Guru Who Won’t Hold Your Hand Through Enlightenment

(But You’ll Thank Them Later)

Listen up, seeker. You want a guru to take you by the hand and guide you through this amusement park called enlightenment?

Sure, you’d like that, wouldn’t you?

Cute idea, but let’s shatter a few delusions while we’re at it.

Delusion 1: A Guru Is Your Spiritual Uber Driver

You think a guru is going to drive you to enlightenment while you sit in the backseat eating kale chips and chanting mantras?

Please. A guru’s job isn’t to give you answers. It’s to question your questions until you’re so confused you stumble into enlightenment just to escape. Take Ramana Maharshi. Guy sat in a cave for years. Did he look like an Uber driver to you? People showed up, sat around, and guess what happened? Nothing.

Yet some of those nothing-doers woke up. Funny, huh?

Delusion 2: The Journey Is Some Epic Quest