Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00038)

Hi all of you,

The following could be given to students at Theosophical Schools - if they will benefit from it.

Here is something on 

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....If you have any experience of spiritual groups, you will know that too many people focus their attention on the teacher and not on the teaching. Indeed, this is such a frequent abuse that some people become completely fixated on a teacher, whether true or false.
Even in the East, people mistake this phenomenon for sanctity, or for religious experience.
Knowing this, many Sufis (hopefully also Theosophists ??) do not teach directly at all; much will depend upon the condition of their followers.
It is therefore not uncommen for teachers to write or dictate teachings, which are ten read or read out.
When, however indiviudals or groups of learners are able to concentrate upon the essence and not on the appearence or the presence of the teacher, meetings do take place.
It is only recently in the West that psychological workers have discovered that the actual presence of someone supposed to be teaching produces a sense of awe, significance or religious devotion which is, of course, not the same as perceiving what is really there.


from
M. Sufilight with peace and love....and the time, the place, the people, the situation....


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