I can only speak for myself G, as Jed and many have pointed out we are all at different understandings within this paradigm, a good guru will recognize what every student needs and may send different students in opposite directions to find their next key. Possibly they will send them to a different guru knowing that the line of teaching they are a proponent of may not be of help to a particular student.
"learning to negotiate that without the reflexive defensiveness is part of why we charge those batteries."
S, sounds familiar?
What are the batteries you are speaking of?For myself, if you've read my thread you will understand that my H/C was committed to this defensive reflexiveness, it's my minds auto function, the metaphor of charging batteries is just my way of saying "being constantly aware of minds tendency for defensiveness" I hone this through contemplation and study and then get tested through out my interactions in the dream state. By maintaining awareness within these interactions I can gauge how much ego I'm currently running. Read anyones post here, mine included and you can easily see each is running ego at differing rates with each post, less ego=more abiding truth. Thats why in my world there is no "done" (funny right? title of my thread.) only complete truth recognition and ego regulation thereafter.
But WTF do I know? I like Jed's caveat, I'm full of contradictions, sue me.