Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01050)

Hallo all,

My views are:

The following requires, that some of you uses their little gray non-physical cells in the central part of the brain.



Finally here it is:

1.
How do I find a Teacher?:
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real Student.
If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.


2.
What is a teacher?
Any experience, that teaches you something is a Teacher.
If you fall down the stairs, and that expereince learns you something. Then the stairs was your Teacher.
So actually the whole "organic" world is our Teacher, and not only a Mahatma with a 19th century India-Himalaya beard.
:-)


3.
How to approach the situation?:

Here is one option to consider.
The bitter truth is that before man can know his own inadequacy, or the competence of another man or institution, he must first learn something which will enable him to perceive both. Note well that his perception itself is a product of right study; not of instinct or emotional attraction to the individual, nor yet of desiring to 'go it alone'. This is 'Learning How To
Learn.


4.
Avoid the scholars:
Theosophists never have followed scholars, though they have frequently equaled or excelled scholars in scholarship. 
Theosophists can do this because they do not regard scholarship as an end but as something useful: with the advantages and limitations corresponding to this function. Scholars, quite often, do not show signs of understanding that there is anything beyond scholarship, and therefore they are incapacitated -- while they remain at this stage -- from being able to have a higher objective. One must always have an aspiration higher than one's actual status in order to rise, even in an existing field. 
Such scholars, because they cannot move beyond their conception of scholarship, are driven to believe and to practice two things: 
1. They tend to make themselves believe that scholarship is of. the highest nature among things and that scholars are a high, even special, product with some kind of property-interest in truth or even a peculiar, perhaps unique, capacity to perceive it. The historical records of scholars in this respect, not to mention their individual experiences in being refuted by events, do not daunt them. 
2. Because they know inwardly that this posture of theirs is not true, those of them in the appropriate field are compelled to resort to the study of the work, of their opponents (the Theosophists ). This is why scholars study the works of Theosophists, but Theosophists do not have to study the works of scholars, as one Theosophist has cogently remarked. 




from
M. Sufilight


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