A teacher has great power to demonstrate good endings, to give the student a way to transition from one path to another, one level to another, one teacher to another – or to no teacher.
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Most teaching is about strengthening the student’s understanding of our views, but there are times when it is best to seek to weaken the shadow of our voice in the student’s mind. As a teacher, can you show your students what gratitude might look like? Any time we teach, we choose what facets of ourselves to show our student in order to best teach them. If you want your students to be genuinely and deeply attentive you must show them how. To teach deeply, to be a great teacher, it is essential that you understand what exchanges are in play in your teaching and what they accomplish. A teacher guides another person on a path of learning. Sometimes with words, sometimes with actions. Sometimes by opening doors of heart and mind and spirit, sometimes with gentle and quiet witness. This is a touch-stone question in spiritual teaching. How a teacher answers this question has everything to do with how they understand profound teaching, and how they care for a student who has trusted them with their deepest self. In our lives there are many wagons to fall off of, many resolutions to make and break, many ways to see ourselves as failures. As teachers, we want our students to see the best of what we are, not the worst, so we hide our weaknesses where we can. But this is monochrome thinking, [...] All things end. Sometimes silently, sometimes with flash and noise, but still they end. This is true in teaching as well. Teachers leave, students leave, relationships change, and not always clearly or cleanly. |
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