[FairfieldLife] Who's a TM teacher? (Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch)

[Robert]

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <lengli...@...> wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > I've seen the opposite. I've seen spiritual
> > teachers who encounter a person who WON'T 
> > settle for "pat answers" with a sense of delight.
> > The Dalai Lama breaks into a huge smile when
> > this happens in one of his advanced talks. It
> > MAKES HIS DAY when a student doesn't just "buy"
> > the "pat answer," and keeps digging and digging
> > for more. In the times I've seen him, he rises
> > to the occasion, and takes the discussion much
> > further than it would have gone if the student
> > just meekly submitted to "authority." And at
> > the end of these longer, more in-depth discus-
> > sions, what I saw was TWO people smiling big-
> > time. Not one person smiling like he'd "won"
> > by getting the other to STFU, and the STFUpee
> > not smiling at all.
> >
> 
> Funny I've seen that with MMY as well.
> 
> Seems to me that you're selectively extracting anecdotes
> to fit in with your public stance towards each person.
> 
> 
> Silly.
> 
> 
> L.
>
A good teacher will want good questions; that's the whole point.