The teacher is the student!! Christ knew this, Buddha knew this as did Muhammad and every other great sage throughout human history. Christ wasn't just a Christian, Buddha wasn't just a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't just a Muslim. They were teachers and students of Love, they taught Love and as they taught, they learned more about the power and divinity of Love.
They also knew that every encounter with another person was not by chance, it was for the purpose of learning. And every encounter you and I have with another is not by chance, it provides us with the opportunity to be willing to learn and teach about love. Love, the opposite of fear and the teaching is not always overt as in the conveying of a concept. A lot of time it is resting in the feeling of Love and the impact that can have on the interaction. Maybe it is compassion that is expressed rather than judgement. As you do that, you are learning more about the power of Love and that it is always a choice.
You have likely heard the phrase "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear". That can happen in an instant with your willingness to learn just by changing your thoughts or perception. Every thought you have creates form on some level, but at times it is difficult to be aware of this and choose deliberately where your thoughts come from. This very much impacts if the student is ready. In a previous post I mentioned a person at my work that irritates the shit (sorry) out of me. Well, that irritation is my choice to reside in and even to allow, so I have chosen to make my relationship with this person one of my greatest learning opportunities and things nothing short of miracles are taking place almost on a daily basis if not hourly with this change in perspective.
Before I had this revelation, I had made up my mind to remove myself from the situation of being influenced by this person. In essence, I had accepted that they influenced me in a way that irritated me, that I was the victim and I was going stop that by moving on. It finally dawned on me, "Oh, Hell no", I am the only one in control of my thoughts. This person wasn't irritating me, my thoughts about the person were irritating me and it was a lesson I needed to learn. If I left the situation, another, likely more irritating person would come into my experience.
It came down to deciding, did I want to be right or have peace. When I was frustrated by this person, I wanted to be right, as in "I was right and they were wrong". I was judging them and nothing good can come from that.......but I was right and that was most important to my ego. Peace is so much easier and expansive but only if we are willing to let go of "Being Right". Peace is where the Student became ready and the teacher taught. This person was my greatest teacher as I learned a great lesson about myself. The irony of the whole thing, was "being right" was just a struggle I was having in my own mind.
Here is the real beauty in this experience, the teacher/student realtionship is internal to me, as David Bohm would say it is a part of the implicit order. Does this person think of themselves as teaching me? Probably not, but who cares? What I get from my willingness to come from a new perspective is awesome for me and those I interact with becasue I am better for having changed my thoughts.
Be the student in order to be the teacher and then teach, not necessarily by conveying concepts but by living from Love and Peace and Truth. Everything else is just an illusion you either buy or dismiss. And you dismiss it by having a different thought. Do that!!!
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