Transmission of Energy

Replying to a comment yesterday made me appreciate just how powerful a living energetic teaching is. And how dangerous if abused. My teacher always talked of a transmission of energy. When he gives instruction there is an energy given, round about the same time that the words are voiced, which is the true instruction. It is this transmission of energy that enables the student to correctly interpret the verbals. The words are very crude and blunt compared to the energy which is finely nuanced (although at the time the student may feel it as a brutal blast). Without the energy the words may as well have come from a book. The teacher chooses his time carefully since the student must be caught at just the right time otherwise the teaching will not penetrate. The teacher feels an opportunity for some aspect of the teaching to express itself in the student's presence, always due to the student's energy having opened up in some way, and will quickly apply the gentle pressure the teaching is. The student must make sure she stays open for the duration of the transmission (usually very short), and must then go away and start the arduous struggle of retrieving and working with the energy she has been gifted. The transmission is like a seed and the student's work and respect and whole-heartedness is the nourishment the seed needs to grow. You can see now that teaching energy is a delicate business and requires the presence of the Master. Without it the student's energy may well improve and strengthen, but it wont belong, and wont bear the rich fruits of the lineage.