Tada Hozumi
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July 19th, 2021
- quoted in its entirety:
- > An ethical teacher is simply someone who gives you THE OPTION to not be in a cult dynamic with them.
- > But you still have to exercise it.
- > Related, if you’re in a cult dynamic with a teacher it’s ultimately because you lack a developed centre, end of story.
- > And if you’re afraid of being in a cult dynamic with someone that’s always your shit to deal with by growing some maturity as a student - not the teacher’s.
- I partially agree with this and also think it's profoundly misguided as well. I would steer away from having a teacher-student relationship with a teacher who thinks they can fully assess whether they're doing anything culty, which is what this implies.
- In practice, many wise teachers give you the option to not be in a cult dynamic with them on one level, as long as you don't point out any of their blindspots on another level... at which point you're in a cult dynamic with them in precisely the ways they can't see or acknowledge.
- From the teacher's perspective—which is subject to the frame maintaining the blindspot—you absolutely have the option of not being in a cult dynamic. From a perspective outside the blindspot frame, that option doesn't exist. The teacher may go to great lengths to show you how to enter their frame so that you can experience this non-culty dynamic with them! Much of what they're saying will probably even be wisdom and generally-applicable.