It doesn't take you very long for the algorithms to suddenly take you to like Andrew Tate or some like dating advice guru who tells you that you know, like women only want one thing or women only wantmen who are 666 and also all women are constantly sleeping around and are untrustworthy.
And since there's a few of those, we actually call ourselves the Dzogchen Buddha path, and so under the guidance of my precious root guru , his eminence, Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche.And I've lived with Rinpoche for just about 10 years now at our main retreat center.
In India, there's a very beautiful term called "guru ." Guru means a guide, a teacher, and it doesn't need to be a human being.It can be my principles.
stage, and on the stage, I kept doing drama with Harpal Thava ji's Hindi Chadar Guru . Teg Bahadur sahib played the role of a Sufi fakir in the play Lani Qurbani,so that actor also got ingrained in me, as a singer, as a writer, all
He became my doctor over the years, but he lived far away, so I couldn't see him often, so it was almost like he had guru status in my mind, he did and does.And his name is Sid.
actually, part of the background for what I'll talk about today is a strange collaboration in which I engaged with about eight years with Gary Klein, whom I mentioned. He is a guru of a group of people who really, I wouldn't say they despise what I do but they certainly don't like what I do because they think that the emphasis and biases of judgment has drawnan unjustly unfavorable picture of the human mind. And by and large I am inclined to agree.
blessing at age 17 18 he went off to India looking for his Guru he did what people do when they go to India he walked around Barefoot hemet a faker he starved he met a guru and
spin ever and a catapulted monster number one in class now I'm not a retail marketing Guru here but these numbers also sadly underscore a various obvious fact factmany people even at the height of the bubble were not living their
So yeah, I noticed that during the pandemic lockdown, there was just a glut of social media manifestation gurus entering people's For You pages and feeds, promising a sort of bespoke manifestation techniquethat could help them reclaim control over this terrifying situation.
That's how I learned. My guru said start singing. He didn't say anything about stopping.
But it's all the same. My guru used to go-- no matter what. He knew everything.
monastery and this is the ashram that I lived in it's kenhi it's at the corner of India and Nepal and China and this is my Guru named coroli Baba he's reading a book about him and I just had a chance am I allowed to say I just had a chance to see virtual reality of the Taj Mahal and this is real reality of the Taj
In the olden days, you probably sat with and sitar, and harmonium, and so on. Rouhani guru . When they say that you have sung well in some concert or something, that really gives me a high.
But only thing is, we are fixed with a format of a guru . A guru need not be older than you. A guru need not be somebody who comes from outside.
A guru need not be older than you. A guru need not be somebody who comes from outside. It could be a friend.
exactly you are not alone you are not alone in fact uh Peter Ducker the management Guru uh estimated that the average hiring manager the typical hiring manager makes a hiring mistake 50% of the time let's see I think we've got oh there's Nate Thompson 50% of all
And I was listening to gangster rap before NWA. My gurus rhymed and killed. This was something I was always exposed to.
management gurus he a professor at Harvard he's no longer with us but he created what is called this mind map
I'm not a guru .
I lost my guru when he was in the monastery, and that was the most devastating experience in my life.
One thing my guru taught me in the monastery a lot was, OK, if I fail, first question is, what can I learn from it?
He's not a guru .
And his guru said, I want to try it.
He's a guru , I guess-- takes it, and nothing happened.
So faith in the guru , faith in God.
The laptop is the guru , in a good way.
Like some guru that achieved, like, you know.
Lama just means guru in Tibetan.
You don't want guru bugging you and following you around the whole time and making you do whatever you're supposed to do.
I'm not some guru .
And Career Guru is something that I'm very passionate about.
in the rivers, these rivers were cut off, the Nangal dam was believe in your Guru and Pir, whatever you have, walk keeping your self-confidence in mind and give
And my own guru , Srila Prabhupada, I remember he was giving a talk at a marriage.
You're the fitness guru so-- You've run marathons.
invest in the next guru .
There's a guru on the top, and then there are proteges.
it and the great guru the great master of empathic listening is a guy called Marshall Rosenberg who invented something called non-violent
She's the first guru of Amaan and Ayaan.
And the guru demanded complete attention, complete surrendered-ness And most of the disciples, the students, they
So a guru was considered institution.
learned from my beloved guru , Srila Prabhupada, and from all my experiences in life.
someone who's a guru or a believer.
And the guru leads them through this dialogue where they say, well, what if I replaced one of your legs with a robot leg, would you still be you?
into India find some guru , I'll do, you know, get this degree and everything will be cool.
uh sort of simple Guru aphorism to say that this is how you get over your fear
not a leadership Guru uh all I can do is point out some factors if these are messages for modern
and also gurus , or others that are particularly charismatic.
We are the gurus .
And I know your guruji, your teacher, actually popularized this.
And I'm sitting there like, every hymn I was ever taught to memorize rhymed. Over half of the gurus that I was taught to learn from ran armies and had bodies under their belt. And I was listening to gangster rap before NWA.