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4. Truth Is Always Already the Case, But the Spiritual Master is Still Required for Realizing the Truth

Chris Tong, Ph.D.

This is Part 4 of Chris Tong's six-part article, Why Great Spiritual Realization Requires a Spiritual Master.

Question: If, as Adi Da says, Truth is always already the case, how can any process I engage in (including a process involving a Spiritual Master) realize the Truth?

Outline: One of Adi Da's many major contributions to our understanding of Reality and the Great Tradition of the world's esoteric practices and schools was to identify and correct a flaw in logic that He referred to as the "Talking School" error. The logic goes as follows: Since Truth is already the case, there is no method one can fruitfully engage to "find" the Truth (including any process involving a Spiritual Master); therefore, what one should do instead is simply meditate on what is already the case (in some verbal form: for example, "I am That") until one Realizes It. In this section, we examine Adi Da's criticism of this logic, and why a deeper understanding actually confirms the absolute need for the Spiritual Master.

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