What do you mean by teachers buddhism
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What is the role of the teacher in Buddhism?
The role of a teacher is to be a flashlight in a dark room.
People see the light on the wall. They say: “Oh, look, I’ve found enlightenment!” But it’s just a reflection of the teacher.
The teacher’s job is to gradually get the student’s own light to light up, so that they can see for themselves whatever the truth is, and then go and live. When the student is ready to see things without the teacher’s light, and they become their own flashlight, that student is said to be “enlightened.”
Thus, the teacher’s role is to overcome resistance to enlightenment. Everyone is capable of it. We just have to stop doing the things that resist it (and that changes from person to person).
The role of a teacher is to be a flashlight in a dark room.
People see the light on the wall. They say: “Oh, look, I’ve found enlightenment!” But it’s just a reflection of the teacher.
The teacher’s job is to gradually get the student’s own light to light up, so that they can see for themselves whatever the truth is, and then go and live. When the student is ready to see things without the teacher’s light, and they become their own flashlight, that student is said to be “enlightened.”
Thus, the teacher’s role is to overcome resistance to enlightenment. Everyone is capable of it. We just have to stop doing the things that resist it (and that changes from person to person).
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After Gautama became an ascetic, he went to Alara Kalama, who was a teacher that taught a kind of early meditation at Vessali. Alara taught Gautama Buddha meditation, especially a dhyānic state called the "sphere of nothingness" (Pali: ākiñcaññāyatana).
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