guru

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Then he gets his disciples together, has them lick some Sonoran desert toads and tada, the vessel appears and blows their little minds, and the guru is the next best thing to God.

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  1. noun Hinduism & Tibetan Buddhism A personal spiritual teacher.
  2. noun A teacher and guide in spiritual and philosophical matters.
  3. noun A trusted counselor and adviser; a mentor.
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  • Buckminster Fuller was the kind of green guru -- again, a word that had not been coined. —  Norman Foster's green agenda
  • With a childlike humility, the master often touched the feet of others, but seldom allowed them to pay him similar honor, even though such obeisance toward the guru is an ancient Oriental custom. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • A guru is promoting another guru, then another is promoting another guru. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The reason for my visit is that Harcourt-Cooze is releasing his first ever chocolate bars, Peruvian San Martin 70 per cent and Venezuelan Rio Caribe Superior, to shops nationwide and the Burmese-Irish cocoa guru is at a career-to-date pinnacle. —  Home
  • The woman offering the soft embrace is considered a guru, and the tenderness of her approach and the simplicity of her message has galvanized followers to amass in crowds thousands deep, to travel hundreds or thousands of miles, to assemble in snaking lines at stops around the globe.
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  1. Hindi guru, from Sanskrit guruḥ, from guru-, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Hindustani, etc., guru, from Sanskrit guru, heavy, weighty, important, worthy of honor; as a noun, one to be honored, a teacher (see def.); = Greek βαρύς, heavy, = Latin gravis, heavy: see grave.
 

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