The teacher/student dualistic energy dynamic

White Feather
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

A teacher cannot be a teacher without students. A student cannot be a student without a teacher(s). The teacher/student energy dynamic is a vital component of duality. While it can be beneficial to some degree it is essentially limiting because it keeps us (both student and teacher) trapped in duality, thus blocking the opening to one-ness.

A teacher can only point towards that which can be learned and a student cannot go there without releasing and going beyond the teaching. Neither the teacher nor the student can attain one-ness without breaking the bond of the teacher/student energy dynamic. Every student is a mirror for a teacher to see into and learn. Every teacher is a mirror for a student to look into and learn.

We can learn so much through this duality but we cannot truly experience anything without going beyond the learning. To experience one-ness we must go beyond duality.

And the only way to do that is through surrender. But for a student that does not mean surrender to a teacher. For a teacher that does not mean to surrender to the energetic upliftment of students. It means the total release of dualistic energy entrainment patterns, including the teacher/student dynamic. It means surrendering to that which is pointed at. It means surrendering to that which can only be experienced and not learned.

We engage in duality because that is our process for gaining what we hope is an intellectual understanding of what we hope to attain. But it is the mind and the ego that so desperately needs that intellectual understanding. It is the mind and ego, though, that keeps us trapped in duality and endless thought. And this is the barrier that keeps us from a true experiencing of one-ness.

When a student hitches their wagon to the star of a teacher they are resisting and closing the door to one-ness. When a teacher hitches their wagon to the star of their following they are resisting and closing the door to one-ness. It might turn out to be a delightful learning fest but no one truly experiences one-ness until they go beyond that energy dynamic.

When the students don’t attain nirvana they start blaming their teachers. When the teachers don’t attain nirvana they start blaming their students. One-ness is never realized.

Because no one truly surrendered.


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