I am happy to share some of my poetryand some of my close to 50 years of journey as a practitioner. A journey which began even before visiting Boudha back in '71. I was inspired by Lama Anagarika Govinda and his group, and also in Tashi Jong by Khamtrul Rinpoche; worked for 1976-87 with the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley and Tarthang Tulku; translated five of his books into German; now a student of Acharya Dawa Chhodak Rinpoche (since 1999). Now settled in Goa, still doing small things with people and for people, as my root guru kindly made it my duty to share Buddhist refuge + bodhisattva instructions and guide a few through beginning stages of the path. I'm feeling a particular kinship with the Indian origins of the diamond teachings, strangely, all my dharma friends are young Indians.
Guru is heart, guru is luminous, substanceless mind-essence. By the virtue of his or her own training and devotion to benefit beings, the guru in human form embodies heartmind, and by embodying it brings it out in those with eyes to see and ears to hear, who also have a body alive enough to feel their own life and what is around. Like the real authentic guru himself or herself, heartmind remains ungraspable and indefinable, even as a person.