A Note On Different Kinds Of Teachers

Dhamma Teachers have always come from their perspective, their experience, their understanding! They can not come from our perspective, our experience, or our understanding. A skilled teacher will be able to know how best to explain something so that we can relate to it and come to an understanding, but they can not give us the understanding, they can only guide us! Teachers of Dhamma come from different places! Either Anitta (impermanence), Anatta (no-self), Dukkha (unsatisfactoriness)! And students are going to one of these three places, not necessarily to where the teacher has understood things via!

All Dhamma Teachers should be coming from Wisdom, not truth or love, or anywhere else, but wisdom! This is because everywhere else may provide a teaching which is not fully able to guide the student properly to the end result of the practice. If a teacher comes solely from love they may not give a teaching believing it to not be the right time as the student is in distress, and if they come from truth they may give the teaching too soon, but if they come from wisdom they will give the teaching at the right time! The three areas the teacher may use to give teachings are just their outward expression of their wisdom, not the wisdom itself!

At the end of the day I may be right, I may be wrong, but I share this hoping I am one, or the other.