James Wood Teachings

In the introduction to my book, The Path of Awakening, I write the following:

Most people think that a spiritual teacher is a person outside you. This is not necessarily the case. The ultimate Teacher is Truth, or who you are in your essence, so you already have a Teacher inside you. Everyone does. You are your own Teacher.

I speak and write a lot about the importance of the Teacher. This can easily be misunderstood to mean that the Teacher is an external authority, which is not true.

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No matter what we want things to be, they are what they are.

In my experience, if we try to gloss over, ignore, or repress our awareness of Reality—things as they are—we cannot help but be confused. It’s like looking at the world through lenses that distort what we see into what we think we want to see, when what we really want to see is things as they are.

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