You don't have to go anywhere for the truth, that can be found in everything...

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Teacher & teaching

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What determines that someone feels called to become a teacher and what does the

role of teacher mean to the student? We went searching with this question for

you.

While I was reading the preface of the Dutch edition of The Dancing Wu-Li

Masters (Gary Zukov, 1981) I cam across a nice analogy.

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Rudy Kousbroek told about the well-known game in which you have to leave the

room while the others think of a word which you have to discover with yes/no

questions. Rudy told of how the American scientist John Wheeler was once playing

this game and was sent out into the hallway. When he returned he saw a lot of

roguish faces as if a plot had been hatched. He began to ask questions and these

were answered very quickly in the beginning. But the longer the game lasted the

longer he had to wait for the answers. At his wits end he asked if 'cloud' was

the word and the group confirmed that.

It seemed that the company had decided not to choose any particular word;

everyone was free to answer yes or no as they wished, the only condition being

that the answer could not contradict any of the previous answers.

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Therefore they needed more and more time to give their answers. The game

proceeded as usual, and reached as usual, a result. Only, the result 'cloud'

could not deduced from the questions asked. The answer 'cloud' followed as a

result of the questions.

Could it thus be that 'a teacher' is a result of what we ask ourselves.

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In this Amigo Wolter Keers talks about his meeting with his teacher; Ramana

Maharshi. Jan van Delden talks about The Odyssey which he discovered as an

instrument for instruction.

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We had a talk with Wayne Liquorman about what it's like to walk around without a

stone in your shoe. Among other things Hans Laurentius speaks about being a

'warrior'. Jan Kersschot sees the person as a melting ice floe. We had a meeting

with Peter Vos who told stories about his years with John Levy. Johan van der

Kooij writes about the importance of a centrifuge.

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Douwe Tiemersma on the duality in the teacher-student relation. Jan Koehoorn

opens with a definite point of view: 'Being a teacher is dreadful'. Jan van

Rossum on his drive to be a teacher. And in closing a piece from the book by

Leen Kuiper in which he lets us take a peek in the kitchen or how it served

itself.

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Finally borrowed freely form the words of Eckhart Tolle: In reality there is

only one teaching although packaged in many forms. And especially in the older

religions this instruction is overgrown by attention to form so that the power

to transform is no longer recognized and has been lost. You don't have to go

anywhere for the truth, that can be found in everything, omnipresent.

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Thus, that one instruction is hidden in everything. Should we then conclude that

there is thus only one (universal) spiritual master...? [Kees Schreuders]

 

 

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