Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00054)

Hi all of you,



My views are only views and that is a fact:

Here is a little something...






Way of teaching



Students must sit and listen to the teacher until understanding

comes to them. And we already know and understand that all of us

are teachers and pupils at the same time - with the exception of the 

Avathar of the age.



This listening requires a form of alertness and concentration - while

relaxed, which alone allows the meanings to penetrate.



People have to unlearn the compulsive habit of trying to

Puzzle things out as their ONLY response to a teaching

Situation.



This effectively means that they have to ADD a capacity, not

To lose anything.



This can only be done by practise and by allowing the teacher

to guide (not dictate) the student's thinking, at least at the beginning.

This 'dynamic attention' enables the psychological breakthrough

to take place, where the words and writings of the

teaching become plain, and the student no longer needs the

guidance of the teacher.



People who have been to deeply conditioned to a single 

Mode of learning (which effectively cuts out wider forms of

Understanding) sometimes object 'I want to understand first,

Before I learn, or as I learn'.



The problem here is that you can't revive an unconscious

Man who's drowning - first you have to get him out of the

Water. What the ignorant would-be learner is asking is to be

taught HIS way, even though that way does not work !!!







Please: I do not know everything.



From

M. Sufilight with peace and love.


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