The Teacher and the Student

[Razard86]

The Teacher and the student are One. The Teacher is the taught, and the taught is the Teacher. The Teacher is pointing the student to the reality that it is the Teacher. The student will never realize this, as long as it reveres and holds in high regard its Teacher. As a result the Teacher sometimes must act unseemly, and awkward to shed its student of its habit of looking at its Teacher as a deity or some divine prescience. 

The most common trap is lip service. The student believes their thoughts and words are true, and ignore the fear that is ever present. They talk with courage and conviction until the moment appears to actualize it. They would do better to admit their fear, so they can access where they are. But the student's ego hates looking at its vulnerability, it would rather look at the parts it likes. 

Vulnerability=naked. You must offer yourself up naked, exposed, and look at everything. The truth is nothing was ever hidden, but you like to play this game of hide and seek. You love to only focus on your favorite parts and play this game of disassociation. But ultimately you will never escape yourself, you will face that mirror, because no matter where you go, there you are. There is no escaping that mirror, that reflection of you, being everything. Because you are everything....even you must dissolve as the illusion it was....to realize you were every illusion there ever was and will ever be. To realize the nothingness that you are. You are no identity, you are that which cannot be known, you are that which cannot be measured, you are that which is and isn't. You are that which is the scariest, the most powerful, most wise, most all knowing, most all loving, but....that which cannot be with itself.....because you are...itself. 

This hide and seek game is the cruelest game you could ever play.....because all you have ever wanted....is your self. But the only way you can ever know yourself....is to live a life....but live a life...you must create an illusion of separation, stripping yourself of that which you are so you can experience what you are....but in so doing....you lose the null identity of what you are and become a specific identity. Through this limited identity you experience a perspectival view of what you are. But these identities suffer the perspective. Duality, Me, = Suffering. As long as ME exists, suffering exists. The Dream of ME is Hell, and the Falling Away of ME is Heaven. 

The Teacher is just reminding the Student that this is Heaven, but the Student thinks it is a Demon in Hell speaking to God. The Student ponders, will I ever be worthy enough, good enough? The Teacher is aware of what is going on.......it realizes.....part of itself fell asleep again. 

[Galyna]

4 hours ago, Razard86 said:

Vulnerability=naked. You must offer yourself up naked, exposed, and look at everything. The truth is nothing was ever hidden, but you like to play this game of hide and seek. You love to only focus on your favorite parts and play this game of disassociation. But ultimately you will never escape yourself, you will face that mirror, because no matter where you go, there you are.

Feels like I wrote this for myself to remind myself to not fall asleep. 
Yes, beautifully said. Vulnerability requires not only courage but a clear mind, like a hawk who watches the pray. 
Resistance to let go and cast the layers of ego. It is so hard. Ego wants to preserve itself and have compromise at the same time.   
But compromise is impossible. You either die or stay alive, there is no middle. 

[Razard86]

On 10/23/2022 at 8:09 AM, Galyna said:

Feels like I wrote this for myself to remind myself to not fall asleep. 
Yes, beautifully said. Vulnerability requires not only courage but a clear mind, like a hawk who watches the pray. 
Resistance to let go and cast the layers of ego. It is so hard. Ego wants to preserve itself and have compromise at the same time.   
But compromise is impossible. You either die or stay alive, there is no middle. 

Yes Galyna.....but we are already dead.....facing death reveals...you are already dead right now. Spiritual Awakening is the realization that life and death are the same. Right now....I'm already dead. This is not figuratively....its literally. There is no difference if someone shoots my avatar.....or steps on an Ant.....I was both there....and never there to begin with.