Howdy, Chris,
I dunno; usually teachers can "tell" the half-baked, or the half-hearted. It's
a skill we ALL have, I think; it's just further un-covered in a teacher, and
works spontaneously and without blockages and doubts.
A teacher is just a really good practitioner, who also has the ability, and the
desire to teach. Any good practitioner can tell by a look in the eye or the
turn of a body what's what. I think it never requires speech. But speech is
encouraged because expression is one of the skills that teachers hone, in us,
for us to use as a(n) Upaya. Speech is not the only form of expression.
I know that the late John Daido Loori presented photographs to Maezumi in the
dokusan room as his answers to Roshi's questioning on koans. A number of them
have been published, in his book with Roshi, THE WAY OF EVERYDAY LIFE.
So far I have not attempted to trick any of my teachers. This is one reason
why I've often been rather quiet in the dokusan room. Anyway, I'm the guy who
makes Roshi's sticks. ;-)
--Joe / Arizona
> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Read some history, teachers are tricked by students all through time.
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