[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Awareness of the Teacher

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

March 3, 2009

AWARENESS OF THE TEACHER

As a dharmic person, a practitioner, you also have awareness of the 
teacher and of other realized people whom you are studying with. The 
idea is to be without shyness and to be able to relate with your 
teacher, who in the hinayana tradition is an elder. You relate to the 
teacher as somebody who has accomplished the path already. Because 
you are without shyness, you can relate with the teacher and emulate 
him or her properly and fully. You have a sense of appreciation that 
you are and will be part of a certain tradition, a certain 
discipline. You have as an example a teacher who is behaving in a way 
that you should behave, and you have some sense of sacredness in 
studying and listening to the teacher.

 From "Seven Characteristics of a Dharmic Person," in THE COLLECTED 
WORKS OF CHOGYAM TRUNGPA, Volume Two, pages 488.

Of interest to Ocean of Dharma subscribers:

A weekend conference on Mindfulness, Love and Relationship sponsored 
by the Omega Institute and the Shambhala Sun Foundation will take 
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Boorstein, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, John Tarrant, and Polly 
Young-Eisendrath. A chance for those with an interest in meditation 
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by permission.

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