Teaching

Ever get the feeling that your teacher is holding something back - witholding secrets? This will always be the case. If the teacher is worth his salt he'll have a whole panoply of techniques and devices up his sleeve plus a limitless ability to invent new ones when the need arises. Most of these - the less important ones - are simply tricks to assist you in your task of demolishing the known world. Others however are devices to help you maintain and develop your relationship with the unknown once the known world starts to crumble. These cannot be imparted until the student is ready - until they have done the work - the techniques would have no power if practised by a student who is unprepared. They are never invented but dredged from some distant memory: an energetic facet of the teaching that may take a multitude of different forms but the energy of which remains pure and intact. The sincere and qualified student's need sets up a vibration in the teacher which calls and awakens these energies and brings them to the surface. The teacher will then clothe the energy in a technique that both he and the student can practice, but the energy must come first. This is why the teacher needs the sincere hardworking student as much as the student needs the teacher: both inspire the other to attain new heights and greater depths.