My teacher, my god

By Suzi Tucker
 
What is the difference between teachers and gods? Between students and supplicants?
 
Well, one difference is in the level of freedom that they have. The teacher-student relationship assumes the freedom to change. In other words, when the teacher shifts his or her way of teaching or even what is being explored, the student is free to follow or to withdraw. In this freedom, the student allows himself or herself to continue to receive from what has already been learned.
 
The learning experience is complete with respect to the relationship to the particular teacher, but the potential unfoldings over time are limitless.  In this way, a decision to stay with a particular teacher is not actually a decision to stay, but rather it is a moment to choose anew.
 
And the teacher is free to build upon the original ideas — adding to, reexamining, reframing and continuing to value what has been even as he or she moves toward the new. When the insights and gathered knowledge of the past can be integrated, rather than dismissed or rejected, the backbone of the future is strengthened.

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