Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01059)

M. Sufilight wrote:

<<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.
:-) >>>>>>>>>>>>

Not to mention all other worlds, planes, 
experiences and whatever? But I tend to 
agree with Geralds' comment ... Uh, 
maybe if I were to add some qualifiers 
to that, just in case: Or I tend to find 
some interest in his comment which I'm 
think I might tend to interpret to the 
effect that "Teacher" with a cap T 
could be defined as one who can somehow 
offer at least snippets of his "direct 
experiences" to some people (if I have 
that any of my speculation about that 
topic in any kind of line with Gerald's 
intended meaning) ... Well, if you want, 
you can check out what he said on 
Theosophy Study List. Not that I know 
what exactly Gerald might've meant by 
"direct" in that context, since I don't 
seem to have experienced much in the way 
of ... certain kinds of "direct/er" 
experiences (say ...), apparently, 
(unless I just forgot or my defining is 
missing something). Even my speculations 
about certain kinds of "direct/er" 
experiences seem to have gone over kind 
of like lead balloons (apparently ...), 
but I guess that's why such 
experiences are called what they're 
called, and I guess that's why some 
students might be seen to benefit from a 
"Teacher," in some cases, maybe.

Speculatively,
Mauri