Tricycle's Daily Dharma: July 18, 2007
Only One Teacher.
There is only one teacher. What is that teacher? Life itself. And of course each
one of us is amanifestation of life; we couldn't be anything else. Now life happens tobe both a severe and an endlessly kind teacher. It's the only authority that you need to trust. And this teacher, this authority, is everywhere.
You don't have to go to some special place to find this incomparable
teacher, you don't have to have some especially quiet or ideal
situation; in fact, the messier it is, the better. The average office is
a great place. The average home is perfect. Such places are pretty messy
most of the time--we all know from firsthand experience! That is where
authority, the teacher is.
--Charlotte Joko Beck
