Summary: Call and Response Ep. 70 | When the Student Is Ready, The Teacher Will Come<br> Q: Is it simply just, when the student is ready, the teacher appears, because some of us, I don’t have access to Ram Das except by video and I don’t have access to Krishna Das except every ten years when he comes to Atlanta, so my question is, do you have any suggestions for those of us that live out on the rural area, is it simply, focus on your spiritual technologies and realize that you’re going to be the same person looking in the mirror only with a different perspective?<br> “You know, the Guru, the issue of a Guru is very, it’s a big story and but, Westerners and everybody, we subtly want somebody to do it for us and whether you have a Guru or don’t have a Guru, nobody’s going to do it for us. We have to do it for ourselves. So, that’s the deal. Nobody can chant for you. Nobody can make you pay attention.” – Krishna Das<br> <br> MORE FROM KRISHNA DAS:<br> <br> Harmonium Tutorials: <a href="https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/harmonium-tutorials/products/harmonium-tutorials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/harmonium-tutorials/products/harmonium-tutorials</a><br> Online Courses with Krishna Das: <a href="https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://krishnadasmusic.com/collections/courses</a><br> Online Shop for books, videos, music and more: <a href="https://krishnadasmusic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://krishnadasmusic.com/</a><br> <br> FULL TRANSCRIPTION:<br> KD: So, yes, you have the mic yet? Pass it up here. Hi.<br> Q: Hi. I’m Sarah and I was one of the fortunate few to come up and get a picture and a hug last night and I was wondering…<br> KD: Did you take a shower?<br> Q: Not since last week. Boy. So, I’m curious, is the performance or the singing, the chanting that you did last night, does that prepare you for all the wanting and the needing or does it feel like that to you to see all these people wanting just a hug and a picture with you, does that fill up your soul more? Or do you kind of have to prepare for that experience?<br> KD: No. It’s not like that at all. I feel like I’m sitting in my living room with my family, basically, except for some people. You know, it’s just love. There’s nothing to prepare for. It’s nothing like that at all. And it’s not a performance, so there’s nothing going on. We’re sharing our practice. We’re sharing the moment. And that’s the whole deal. Yeah. Good. You got it?<br> Q: May I ask a question?<br> KD: Yes, you may.<br> Q: Well, thank you for being here.<br> KD: You’re welcome. I tried to be somewhere else but I couldn’t do it.<br> Q: I’m here now, formally I live out on the West Coast of our country, about 2 hours West of Seattle almost in the Pacific Ocean.<br> KD: Wow. Beautiful out there.<br> Q: I recently, or I hear your message today that we’re here and when you’re, when the student is ready, the teacher appears and I have my spiritual technologies that I’ve been able to access in my rural area. We just got our first yoga teacher about eight years ago in my town because I was too busy to be a yoga teacher myself. My question is this, first, let me confirm with you, I saw a post that my sister sent me about you and it said, and you’ve already used the “F” bomb in here, so I know I can use these words without embarrassing people, but your statement, and I want to make sure it was you who said it, you said, “30 years ago I woke up and saw an asshole in the mirror, and today I got up and I saw the same asshole.” And I wonder, when we don’t…<br> KD: Sounds like me.<br> Q: It does sound like you and so, and so, my question is…<br> KD: But I don’t hate that asshole as much as I used to.<br> Q: Ok, good, because my exposure to Ram Das was when I was a young hippie girl, started traveling around and people had torn pages out of his book, Be Here Now,
