Friday, January 30, 2015

Via Daily Dharma


Student Creates Teacher | January 30, 2015


In order to work with a teacher, there needs to be a student. We often skip over this: It’s easy to waste time going through the motions of entering the room for a face-to-face teaching, but to not really be a student—to just be someone who wants to debate, or to prove something. Often, a real spiritual meeting is not available even though the bows have been made. Yet once a student develops, it is inevitable that a teacher will appear in their life. They create each other.

- Bonnie Myotai Treace, Sensei, "The Sword Disappears in the Water"

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