Teacher-pupil relationship

[Guest guest]

With regard to what we were talking about the other day, to wit, the

need for a successor to be up to the task of *receiving* his

teacher's transmission, I came across the following in a book

called INVITATION TO ENLIGHTENMENT, translations by

Hahn of Matriceta's 'Letter to the Great King Kanishka' and

Candragomin's 'Letter to a Disciple', published by Dharma

Publications:

“Those who, completely on their own, conceive a vow in their hearts

and integrate it with every action are great, and they will become

head-ornaments of the whole globe. It is only through such noble

disciples that teachers become real teachers.”

It REALLY has nothing to do with one-upmanship or pride at all.

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'The ultimate discipline is to rest at ease in the View' - Jetsün Milarepa