03-25-2012, 05:50 PM
(03-25-2012, 05:24 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: I think what Ra is talking about here is that teaching/learning are two sides of the same coin. One cannot truly teach another, unless one is also willing to simultaneously learn from them. Energy exchange is bidirectional. Thus- if one is giving a one-sided, or rhetorical address to others, thinking they are "teaching" something, they are mistaken. There is no true teaching involved, because there is no true learning involved.
Take it from me- if you go back and look at some of my earliest posts they were quite eloquent discourses on this or that topic, but little actual teach/learning occurred because I hadn't yet taken into consideration what I could possibly learn from interacting with others here.
Nowadays, even in the most heated debate, I operate with the assumption that there is something I need to learn from the other person, else I wouldn't have been drawn into a debate with them.
Exceptionally well-stated.
Unfortunately, this too can be a power struggle where the one who offers teaching doesn't want to take the seemingly "lower" stance of student.
Thank you Tenet!