A work colleague recently loaned me a book. I can't say I would have purchased it, but it was a lovely thought, considering we had been talking about how to keep calm during tumultous times. The book talked a lot about what it takes to be happy, how to quieten the mind and the benefit of thinking about others. It was a reasonable read.
One of the nuggets I took away from the book was the following. "The way we think about our teacher has a lot less to do with our teacher than it does with our mind."
Not an easy point to understand at first glance, but the more I thought about it the more I could apply this to all parts of my life. It made more sense to me when I didn't apply the definition of teacher in the traditional schooling sense but rather in its broader sense which is anyone with something to teach.
So thinking of a teacher as someone to help me out when asking directions to a place, someone who is helping me fix something or learn soemthing.
So the moral I drew from this chapter of the book was that if we find ourselves becoming disenchanted with our teacher, perhaps it's not the teacher that needs to be changed - perhaps it is our mind.
When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.
Lots of thoughts, need some time to order them and unjumble them.................
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