I’ve read part one, @rok-sivante, and appreciate the humility implicit in this.

I’ve just posted today a short reflection about modern-gurus and the life of quotes & I hear many echoes in your words.

For example, the Bruce Lee quote is a Buddha quote, but in the absence of tradition, students are regarded as teachers (which is not to suggest Lee was not a teacher, too).

It’s easy for others to think they’ve found a master, when they are lost, and have not done their homework. Likewise, real spiritual teachers throughout history have turned down students who are not ready to receive.

Echoing what you say above I recall a formative quote by a poet I encountered as a teenager, Rimbaud: “one should not say I think, I am thought. I is another... Too bad for the wood that finds itself a violin.”