Know the Teacher to be One

Excerpt from THIS, Prose and Poetry of Dancing Emptiness, page 26

Compiled and edited by Prashanti and Vidyavati de Jager

and Yudhishtara

The teacher will not be recognized

by the diamonds on his head

or by the number of students he has.

Know the Teacher to be the One

whose presence gives you Peace

and removes all craving, attachment, and desire.

The Teacher is one who know the truth

and can transmit this Truth to a humble one

by look, by touch, by thought,

or, as Arunachala does, by Silence.

This Silence is the Light that does not move.

The true Teacher has no students,

all is Being and Silence speaks.

The perfect Teacher has no teachings

because he knows that you are Free already.

So the true Teacher’s non-teaching

is that there is no Teacher, no student, no teaching

and that Nothing has ever existed.

This Teaching must be without words

and must land in your Heart.

If you try to understnd, it will only land in your head.

The Teaching can only be given by the Eternal

and received by the Eternal.

The Eternal has nothing to give to the Eternal,

so there is no disciple and no teacher.

You are already THAT,

not the physical, emotional or mental.

Leave beside these forms and find out what is left,

and what it needs