The role of a Guru

I read something like this in one of the Upanishads...don't know which one. It had something to tell on the role of a Guru....

When a person is exiled from a city by being blind-folded and taken to the middle of the forest and left there, the Guru unties the fold and points the direction of the city. The person then asks everyone on the way for directions and eventually comes back to the city.

This is the role that my Guru also played. Ofcourse I did most of the work, the 99% of it and some times we agreed to disagree. A Guru is himself on the journey and as the gap between the Guru and the disciple decreases, the relationship turns into that of 2 pilgrims exchanging notes.

Going to spend a hour a day on developing a website rather than on the novel

I'm not going to write professionally. Instead I'm planning to develop a website on BEtter Living, a website that focuses on making life better. I hope to get some money from it in the form of ad clicks or banner ad or maybe even a donate button if it turns out to be good. The website will be a way where I can discover life more as well as share whatever I know with others.

Maybe I will finish the novel some time in my life as a hobby. Better yet, I want to live my life as a novel.

That makes my work life...1 hour of non-profit volunteering + 4 hours of professional work + 1 hour of magazine-editorship.

Today I have worked for 4 hours this way...not bad.

Okay...the website is at (in a poor shape now) http://aafhey6w.facebook.joyent.us/betterliving/

Happy-go-lucky guy?

I was once like this. I hope he doesn't get carried away by the rat race and lose what he is basically.

We would give anything for what we have. ~ Tony Hoagland

That's one nice couple (I wonder what they are looking at...)

Never thought spying was this easy