The quality of one’s relationship with the teacher is the barometer of one’s spiritual health - Illusory Advice

 

To say that the teacher-student relationship is central to Vajrayana Buddhism would be a gross understatement. In Vajrayana, the teacher is the practice. Methods are received from the teacher and practised under their supervision. They then validate our evolving experience. With sufficient experience of the teacher-student relationship the teacher’s view begins to pervade every aspect of our lives; and so there is no sense in which the teacher’s importance diminishes as one progresses along the path – quite the contrary. In many ways, the quality of one’s relationship with the teacher is the barometer of one’s spiritual health.

page 35, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6