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| Let 'em know you are flattered, but politely decline |
   
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5 | 21.74% |
| Say you are honored and will take up the teaching at no cost |
  
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4 | 17.39% |
| Try to earn a buck from the proposition dropped in your lap |
  
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1 | 4.35% |
| Not just walk away, but run |
  
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4 | 17.39% |
| Something other. My Guru self will explain below |
  
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9 | 39.13% |
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#1
09-09-2011, 11:33 PM
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What if you were the Guru?
Poll is main reason for starting this thread, but feel free to elaborate on your response to the following inquiry:
If someone approached you and said they greatly admired your teaching, so much that they would like you to be their personal Guru, how might you respond? 
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#2
09-09-2011, 11:38 PM
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As I am now? I don't really know. I'd probably tell them that, while I can teach them my beliefs, I'd tell them that I can't be their personal Guru, since my beliefs are dynamic and constantly shifting to fit with new knowledge and insights. I believe that a true Guru must be consistent in their teachings.
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Naho apre atra Tomorrow will take us away Far from home No one will ever know our names But the Bardsongs will remain -from The Bard's Song For Odin's Call Was Heard Above Them All -from Hymn of the Immortal Warriors
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#3
09-09-2011, 11:45 PM
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It is true that the early bird gets the worm, however, it is the second mouse, that gets the cheese.
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#4
09-10-2011, 12:04 AM
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But you can learn this first subject from me -- otherwise -- go and find somebody else -- am just a student.  Like a peon -- sitting outside his boss office -- can never say -- he himself is boss, ~ Similarly -- the person who has realized true divine guru inside -- can never say -- he himself is guru, _/\_ Chinu
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 All creatures belong to him, and he resides within everyone. Thus.. to whom to say wrong ? as there's nobody insted of him
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#5
09-10-2011, 03:55 PM
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I'd tell them why I'm not a guru. I'd also explain how me floating in the air while meditating was just an illusion.
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#6
09-10-2011, 09:43 PM
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I suppose that I am the only one that would try to make a quick buck off of this person? Hell, my philosophy is selfish, I have an excuse
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“There is a beast in man that needs to be exercised, not exorcised.” 
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09-10-2011, 09:45 PM
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I would politely decline because there is no way I could take to the title "guru".
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"Creationism, because its easier to read one book than a bunch of hard ones" Source unknown
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#8
09-10-2011, 09:47 PM
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most of the regular posters here would do great teaching the general masses.
if someone chose you to be their teacher, teach. Your not a pro so do it free.
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#9
09-10-2011, 10:04 PM
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I have been asked...a stern "no" didn't nearly cover it.
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"Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden." -D.T. Suzuki
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#10
09-10-2011, 10:05 PM
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Dunno.
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