Now you guys are getting silly... :-)

Don, my "leader" is within me, not vested in somebody outside of myself. Same goes for you. But...if I want to learn a new guitar technique, I go to someone who can show it to me. He's more experienced than I am in that particular matter. If I want to learn more about meditation or quieting the mind or moving kundalini or a new healing technique, I do likewise. I go to those who are more experienced at it, and have demonstrated it in a way that I can appreciate.

That does not mean that the practitioner then becomes my "leader" who then dominates the whole rest of my life. I have no such leader. I am my leader.


Amos - I do not intend to leave my ego behind or to destroy it. I intend to master it, instead of letting it lead me around by the nose for the rest of this mortal life. I intend the ego to become a useful servant, not a petty tyrant, as it is in most people. I intend to enlarge my awareness, not obliterate it in cosmic Oneness. I still have enough ego left, believe me, to get just a tad annoyed at your attempts to ridicule what you have seemingly only the vaguest notion of...given that you mentioned the "Krishna temple", of all things...and it's your little ego that prompts you to engage in such ridicule in the first place.

Zing! Little Hawk's ego and Amos's ego stalk portentiously into the ring, waving their little fists as the crowd roars for blood! (chuckle...) Little Hawk looks very fetching in a harvest-gold lycra Star Trek outfit, while Amos is clad in his armour of intellect, emblazoned "I cogitate, therefore I am!".

I hope Martin gets a laugh or two out of this...