Our tendency to seek outside ourselves and consistently leave our personal experience results only in moving--constantly shuffling--and never finding. We travel to distant lands seeking wisdom from a swami or hoping a guru will take us under their wing and share, but after a while, we discover that the guru has been within us the whole time. We are seeking someone to help us do "better" what we're already doing. Noticing is what we do so well, and we don't need to travel to India to find someone who will help us with a task we're already quite familiar with. Defining the essence of what we notice is the skill of any guru, so for the rest of us, it is just about practicing the art of noticing. Observe - and then distill this observation down to its most elemental form, and what better way to practice this than to create a haiku?
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