Teacher Talk

[pseudonymous]

Teacher Talk


When the student is ready, the teacher appears. If you are beginning the inward journey then you must come into contact with an experienced guide, or be one of the rare ones who have an innate sense of aligning with their inner guidance. To know whether or not a teacher is serving your best interest at this point in your journey depends solely if they are trying to get you to an awareness where you will no longer need them. Teachers come and go along the path, and knowing this can help ease attachments.

A teacher of esoteric awareness should be helping you to get direct communication with your inner source. Teachers should likewise not be charging money for their services, as the exchange of money becomes a distraction ladened with expectations for both people involved. Receiving gifts or donations is acceptable as long as it is not expected. A teacher is provided for. Never too much, and never too little to distract from their service work. But do be aware that sometimes your donations are the support being offered by the divine.

Once you threshold into esoteric awareness you should not need the tutelage of a guide for anything but minor adjustments as new awarenesses become available to you. A teacher will always tell you the bare minimum in order to get you relying on your own inherent ability to find your inner channel. A great teacher will help you to see how you think, as opposed to filling your head with what to think. What we think is largely conjecture & speculation, but realizing how we think is often what makes the difference between being unconscious and awakened.

These days there is no longer the need to veil information in heavily esoteric phrasing. A teacher's language should be practical. If a teacher is being unnecessarily esoteric or elusive towards you, then you may be dealing with someone who is trying to impress you with their mysteriousness. Selfless teaching is not so mysterious. The goal should be to find you the shortest path that is available so that you might begin to function in health and awareness within the whole. If it isn't about you and your growth, but seems to be about the teacher and their appearance, then it might serve you best to move on and find someone devoted to serving the student and not themselves.

Do not confuse a teacher's pace, however, with their ability to serve you. There is often a matter of timing involved in attaining awareness. The teacher should, though, in very straightforward terms be sharing the process with you as best as you are able to discern the language used. There should not be anything secretive going on, or mysterious. This only serves the teacher's appearance and not the student, who has a right to know what they are getting into.

The most important thing to keep in mind once you enter into the realms of esoteric awareness is that what worked and was useful in lobby-level spiritual awarenesses will most likely have little to no bearing. One was for external orientation, and one is for internal orientation. A teacher has every right in the world to turn you away if they feel you are not ready, or that you are hanging onto obsolete patterns of thinking. Be respectful of your teachers as you are taking up their valuable time, but also be mindful of the teacher and their goals or possible motivations. Like any level of teacher/student relationship, discernment is key.

©2004 DC Vision

[thorn]

Originally Posted by pseudonymous

Teacher Talk


When the student is ready, the teacher appears. If you are beginning the inward journey then you must come into contact with an experienced guide, or be one of the rare ones who have an innate sense of aligning with their inner guidance. To know whether or not a teacher is serving your best interest at this point in your journey depends solely if they are trying to get you to an awareness where you will no longer need them. Teachers come and go along the path, and knowing this can help ease attachments.

A teacher of esoteric awareness should be helping you to get direct communication with your inner source. Teachers should likewise not be charging money for their services, as the exchange of money becomes a distraction ladened with expectations for both people involved. Receiving gifts or donations is acceptable as long as it is not expected. A teacher is provided for. Never too much, and never too little to distract from their service work. But do be aware that sometimes your donations are the support being offered by the divine.

Once you threshold into esoteric awareness you should not need the tutelage of a guide for anything but minor adjustments as new awarenesses become available to you. A teacher will always tell you the bare minimum in order to get you relying on your own inherent ability to find your inner channel. A great teacher will help you to see how you think, as opposed to filling your head with what to think. What we think is largely conjecture & speculation, but realizing how we think is often what makes the difference between being unconscious and awakened.

These days there is no longer the need to veil information in heavily esoteric phrasing. A teacher's language should be practical. If a teacher is being unnecessarily esoteric or elusive towards you, then you may be dealing with someone who is trying to impress you with their mysteriousness. Selfless teaching is not so mysterious. The goal should be to find you the shortest path that is available so that you might begin to function in health and awareness within the whole. If it isn't about you and your growth, but seems to be about the teacher and their appearance, then it might serve you best to move on and find someone devoted to serving the student and not themselves.

Do not confuse a teacher's pace, however, with their ability to serve you. There if often a matter of timing involved in attaining awareness. The teacher should, though, in very straightforward terms be sharing the process with you as best as you are able to discern the language used. There should not be anything secretive going on, or mysterious. This only serves the teacher's appearance and not the student, who has a right to know what they are getting into.

The most important thing to keep in mind once you enter into the realms of esoteric awareness is that what worked and was useful in lobby-level spiritual awarenesses will most likely have little to no bearing. One was for external orientation, and one is for internal orientation. A teacher has every right in the world to turn you away if they feel you are not ready, or that you are hanging onto obsolete patterns of thinking. Be respectful of your teachers as you are taking up their valuable time, but also be mindful of the teacher and their goals or possible motivations. Like any level of teacher/student relationship, discernment is key.

©2004 DC Vision

Very insightful. Really.
I couldn't agree with you more.

Most potential students I come into contact with, however, have more money than tradable goods so....I find myself inclined to accept money as fair exchange for whatever service I am able to provide.

We all know, of course, that there is a general discrepancy as to whether or not the value of any given chinkle of wampum is, in fact, in equal balance with the weight of the boullion it is intended to represent.

I guess this is where we must realize that currency is, in fact, paper..trees..etc. .......does indeed belong, ultimately, to the people and then, somehow, reciprocate according to our own communal standards.

I could just be talking crap though.


Nice essay though. Absolutely.

(That money thing's really a stinker, I agree.)

[I, Brian]

Never had a teacher figure (excepting maybe for physics ) - sometimes it would have been great for someone to guide and provide utterances from the Easy Book of Life. But the personal experience always seems the greatest teacher of them all.