As he wandered, his muscle grew hard, and his body lean and tanned. His face became lined and radiated a peace and a gentle silence that filled people he met with quiet awe and reverence. Yet none of this he noticed.

When he came to a new town, he would tell people there of his travels, and he would illuminate his stories with pictures and maps of his own making, drawn both on paper, and in air with his arms as he told his tales. And he started to notice a strange thing; that when he came into a new place, people seemed to know him, and to have been waiting eagerly for his arrival. Audiences would gather to hear of his travels, and he would leave behind maps and pictures for people, never taking them on with himself in his journey but always starting out anew with fresh pencils and plain paper.

As he continued to wander, he came to realise that maps he carried in his memory would guide him better than maps he drew on paper, because they could change, and in winter, would have snow and ice, and in summer, fields and desert. So he started to tell his audience that they did not need his maps, that maps that they carried in their heads were much more useful, because they would change, but only children seemed to understand, and so he would still leave maps and pictures for townsfolk wherever he wandered.

Time went on, and although he had not forgotten why he had left city, his purpose became less and less important to him.

Over time, he noticed that people seemed to treat him differently. The children would rush toward him still and clutch at his clothes, begging to hear his stories, and adults would welcome him into their homes, offer him work and give him food, but there was a change. There was an air of hushed reverence and deference in their treatment of him and gradually this came to trouble him. One day he stopped at a village that he knew well, and people of village welcomed him with their usual love and respect, but he asked of them "Why this change? For many years now I have travelled, and I've come through your village, and you have always welcomed like a brother, but this, this is different. Why do you now treat me like a…?" and he paused, lost for word.

"Magus, you do not know?" asked one villager. The answer troubled him further, and he shook his head, so villager lead him to village meeting hall. There, inside, and surrounded by people, lay one of his maps, left behind from a previous visit. The villagers parted to let him through, and he approached map, only to notice most curious thing. When he was here last, he had drawn a map of land in winter, with snowcaps and frozen lakes. This, this was a map of land in summer, all green fields and flowing rivers. He peered closer, and was surprised to see movement. If he looked closely enough, he could see meeting hall. And if he looked closer still, he could swear that he could almost see into hall itself, and see himself standing surrounded by awed villagers. He laughed out loud.

"Do you see, Magus?" villager asked.

"I see nothing" said Maker of Maps, kindly, "I see only what I have told you all along, but only children understood." and with that, he picked up map, and tore it into little pieces. He turned to villager, placed his hand upon villager's head and asked "And who has best map, now?"

Adam is an NLP practitioner and Hypnotherapist, as well as a mental health nurse with over a decades experience. He is passionate about the use of language to effect change, and about the ability of people to maximise their own potential.

Now, whichever is easier, allow guru self to fill your being from within, or allow yourself to expand and merge with image of guru self. Become aware of transparency of self as you grow and simply rest, still, within mind of guru self.

In your mind, say now "Fill me now with love and devotion I have learned in future, guide me to resources I have acquired in time of my future self. I am my own Buddha teacher, and pull of my own inspiration is inspired to flower and to blossom, as a flower in sun".

Adam is an NLP practitioner and Hypnotherapist, as well as a mental health nurse with over a decades experience. He is passionate about the use of language to effect change, and about the ability of people to maximise their own potential.