"The task of the teacher is to be open, rather than attached, to outcomes. Openness and non-attachment helps us recover the human resources of wisdom and objectivity. Every culture has traditional and non-traditional means of education. Shamanic traditions believe that wisdom is flexible and fluid. The teacher's way is to be open to outcome and access wisdom by learning how to trust and be comfortable with states of not knowing.
Trust is the container out of which the qualities of wisdom grow clarity, objectivity, discernment and detachment. The opposite of trust is control. The trickster figure found in many shamanic traditions functions to present surprises and the unexpected as a way of waking people out of their routines and shocking them into seeing their attachments.
Among many shamanic traditions, the Way of the Teacher is associated with the direction of the West, the home of Grandmother Ocean and all the water creatures. The ocean is nature's mirror for indigenous cultures to learn how to be malleable and fluid." The Four-Fold Way, Angeles Arrien
O ke kahua manua, mahope ke kukulu.The site first; and then the building.
Learn all you can, then practice.-'Olelo No'eau
Click on the ocean to see a larger view.
No comments:
Post a Comment