Teacher-Student Relationship

When the love between teacher and student remains free, the relationship can continue to be an inexhaustible resource of spiritual nourishment.

The effectiveness of the teacher-student relationship becomes diluted when emotional possessiveness, personal expectations and intention to manipulate, cloud love with conditional boundaries. This kind of controlling relationship can promise only bondage. It is not freeing unless one or both in the relationship open to loving freely. Without unconditional love at the heart of the relationship, nourishment will be minimal (intellectual and physical only) and will have nothing to do with spirituality.

Teachers and students grow in consciousness continually if the relationship is founded in Love. Attachment inhibits the potentially creative evolution of the teacher-student relationship and its ultimate resolution.