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Originally Posted by Imzadi
I think the term "teacher" may not be the most accurate definition for those among us who genuinely share and exchange spiritual insight. They may serve as guides, pointers, and reminders etc. but they are not necessarily "teaching" anything by way of demanding adherence to a spiritual opinion. They guide, point, and remind us that our answers and what we seek already lies within ourselves and our own process of SELF discovery. Of course there are many tools and practices that can be used to support the spiritual process that could be "taught" per se, but then those are only tools. :)
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So many of the tools and practices don't seem to lead where the teacher/opiner promises, it's just such a mess in the field of spirituality, and this goes back centuries.
Muhammad decided that an angel was talking to him, and the supposed angel said a whole lot of stuff that seemed to be in favour of Muhammad. And billions of people take him as a teacher. Paul did the same for Christianity, thought he had a direct line to Jesus and his opinions have held sway for millenia.
These guys just had opinions, and apparently opinions can be very powerful, and can dictate what entire nations believe. But their opinions are not necessarily the truth.
Thousands of teachers have now set up in the West, each claiming to know the truth, and they promote their opinions as the truth, and will gladly try to take others there, but more likely than not it is the blind leading the blind and naked, and both are heading straight for the ditch.
Truth is more likely to be found within, but where would you find the right tools to find that truth?