Buiding a Foundation

Siddhananda: Okay, cute little guy here (holding up a rock). Oh gosh I’m hearing "my teacher doesn’t know." Not talking of you (looking over at G).

G: Mm hmm.

Siddhananda: "My teacher led me wrong." I'm hearing that.

G: Okay, in what way did they lead you wrong?

Siddhananda: At least I’m hearing "doing a lot of hard work"… (laughing)

G: Ah… well there, it doesn’t mean that…

Siddhananda: …at times.

G: Okay, it doesn’t mean that they led you wrong you just didn’t take advantage of what was being given. Okay, so there are some teachers… there was one in fact that that’s all he gave. All he gave his students was hard work. He gave no other teachings. And the reason they gave you the hard work and gave no teachings was because you had to just surrender and to let go of your preconceived notions. Yeah, it’s to wear down the ego is what that hard work is for. So I’m sure they gave it to you and didn’t want any kind of discussion about it, just go do it.

Siddhananda: He’s saying, “It’s hard, it’s hard.”

G: Of course it’s hard. It’s not meant to be easy. It’s meant to wear away ego, to bring up all of the doubts and all of the nonsense to the surface for you to see it and let go of it… to challenge you.

Siddhananda: Yeah, I’m just seeing images of mountains he walked up with big things of planks on his back, and, you know, different things where he just feels like he’s just…

G: Yeah.

Siddhananda: …you know, really in the heat and different things..

G: Yeah, and that’s why they do it. They do it in order to wear down the ego. And so all these questions and anger and all these things come up, and if one just continues through it, eventually, one wears out the ego and goes into some deeper questioning.

Siddhananda: So he’s wanting… (laughing) so what he’s asking he wants [is] a teacher maybe in the next life that might lead him in a different way than that.

G: Yeah, I mean you can learn… you can see that maybe that was not the best for you, you know, you didn’t take advantage of it or whatever the case may be…

Siddhananda: Yeah.

G: Not every teacher is good for every student, but usually you are drawn to the one that can aid you (smiling).

Siddhananda: (nodding in agreement)

G: Usually you are drawn to the one that can help you. Now whether you open and take advantage of it or not is another story. You can get resistant to it and not take advantage of what they are giving but usually, you know, when you are asking for aid and guidance the universe will send you to the one you need at the time… maybe not the one you want, but usually the one you need. So if you sit with this and you look at it, I’m sure that you can find some lesson within that.

Siddhananda: You know, I do see as you are speaking, a little image of maybe a house that was built kind of sturdy… maybe it did give him some sturdiness… something about it, I think he’s reflecting back, gave him some strength.

G: Yeah, gave him a good foundation.

Siddhananda: Some sturdiness…

G: Some foundation and sturdiness. So you can always get something from your lessons even if it’s to find out this is not the way to do. Sometimes it’s a matter of finding out this is not what I need, this is not what I want, this is not… you know. And then you can go in another direction. Sometimes you need to get that out of the way first before you can fully go into another direction as well.

Siddhananda: Process of elimination, some of these things are.

G: Sometimes… sometimes, yeah.

Siddhananda: Okay, I am getting a reflection of a nice sturdy kind of framework of a house and then there’s a cross in there and some lights. So, I think it’s their way of saying that, yeah, there is something that came from it and he’s feeling more in the heart.

G: Right, so take the lessons that you can have from it rather than having a pity party about how difficult it is. Look deeper and see what you actually did get from it and then honor that and be willing to go forward.

Siddhananda: He’s saying no more 'poor me'.

G: Yeah, no more poor me. The bandwagon ends (laughing).

Siddhananda: No more poor me… Okay he’s ready… he’s wanting to shed that and so, anything else?

G: Is there anything else we can give you or aid you with?

Siddhananda: He’s wanting the COS.

G: There you go… he’s waiting for it. (laughing)

Siddhananda: You knew it!

G: If you ask… first you have to ask (laughing). Yes, definitely, you can have the COS. You’ve earned it.

Spirit: So grateful, so grateful.

G: He’s built a foundation and he’s ready now to definitely go forward, yeah.

Siddhananda: That sounds exactly like what that image says as well that he was reflecting.

G: He needed to see that he’s got that foundation in place. He does have that strength in place and it wasn’t for nothing.

Siddhananda: Right, exactly! It wasn’t wasted time.

G: It wasn’t wasted time.

Siddhananda: Absolutely, absolutely!

G: So thank you for coming in and enjoy the COS.

Siddhananda: Okay, next!