An Important Type of Spiritual Teacher (Re-post)

When most of us think of the term spiritual teacher we often think of the sages and avatars, gurus and saints around the world who have acquired large followings as a result of his or her living example of wisdom, charity or presumed advanced states of presence, awareness or spiritual development. In some cases they are viewed as spiritual teachers mostly because of their incredible ability to strategically market themselves as such.

Still, there are other types of spiritual teachers who are far closer to us; they are also far more numerous and prevalent and they are always available to us; always right under our noses and their teachings are always spot on. Yet these spiritual teachers are seldom recognized for their astounding, miraculous and life changing spiritual teaching abilities, consistency and availability.

These teachers are the people in each of our lives who daily or regularly rattle, enrage, annoy, infuriate, test, confuse and sometimes even make us physically ill simply by gazing upon their sickening faces. It is the man or woman who thoughtlessly cut you off at the busy intersection yesterday. They are our micro-managing and high maintenance supervisors. They are the people we imagine are at the absolute polar opposite ideological pole from us and not only that, they are the ones who often represent everything we believe to be “bad” or “wrong” about that very “opposite” ideological pole. They are the people we would like to believe embody everything we are against. Or they are the people who simply refuse to act, say or do what we want them to act, say or do. These are the people we are often verbally aggressive toward as well as the people we might even fantasize about being physically violent against. 

If you have such people in your lives- meet some of your spiritual teachers.

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