The following I believe to be a teaching from my inner guru:
Devotion to your teacher, devotion to your parents, devotion to your friends, devotion to a stranger, devotion to a prisoner, devotion to your enemy, is devotion to oneself. Devotion to the poor is as devotion to the rich, your birthright and your refuge. Be devoted to improving the lives of others. Neither hinder nor prohibit their way on the path which they walk. Do not tear open the chrysalis of a being’s experience. The path must be walked fully for it to be understood by the traveler. Know that you are here to walk with your brothers and sisters; not to walk for them. In each case the end will be the same, the full telling of the story of awakening. Let’s read it together, have patience and take your time.
When we look at the path of others we are looking at our own path, the difference is a trick of perception; separation is magic of complexity and nothing more. Rest in the knowledge that you and I are with each other in the calmness of awareness as it has always been. Do not fear anything this world shows you regardless of how horrific it may seem. Feel compassion for the violent dragon as he will one day kneel and weep and know. Open your heart to the mirror gazers for they will look upon a withered face. Know that the ladder climbers will reach a summit and find the same hunger waiting for them there. There is no eternal joy in aspiration or attainment.
There is a place where joy never ends, beneath the façade of placement and acquisition. You will know it when you realize that you have always been there. Let go of your likes and dislikes. Let go of your restlessness and anxiety. Have no fear and release all doubt that you are joyful, content, peaceful, and complete in this moment as you have always been. It is only the illusion of the thinking self, its intent of mastery, its desire to extinguish, and its fear of loneliness and death which hides the true nature of our being. Rest in the understanding that the passing of these thoughts are only a novel dream of difference. You are beyond the need of healing, you are.
Zen Momentum 