The Teacher is the Outcome of Meditation
the level of sensitivity we experience

Meditation is being aware of awareness. Realising that there is nothing other than awareness, the realisation of our true nature takes place – pure awareness – nothing doing.

Our personality is an expression of the balance between ordinary awareness and pure awareness. It is what we work with; after all, on a conventional level, we’re not ‘non-people’, are we? Our personality can range from ‘heavy’ to ‘light’ (we mustn’t assume that we know what the terms ‘heavy’ and ‘light’ mean, as this will depend on whether we are working in ordinary awareness or pure awareness).

Reactions arise within us from external stimuli: the noticing of these reactions is our teacher. In themselves, reactions are neither good nor bad, and it’s a matter of how skilfully we respond to them to bring about balance; not too tight, not too loose.

On the conventional level, a heavy personality is dogmatic* and monopolises space, whereas a light personality is flexible and spacious**.

When compassion is present in pure awareness, both of these aspects may be employed; not too tight and not too loose. Empathy is constantly balancing the four enlightened qualities of pacifying, enriching, magnetising and destroying; not too tight, not too loose.

The outcome of meditation is compassion.
The teacher is empathy.

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*There seem to be two qualities to the word ‘dogmatic’, one being clarity and the other, fixated clarity: assertive, imperative, insistent, emphatic, adamant, doctrinaire, authoritarian, authoritative
or
domineering, imperious, high-handed, pontifical, arrogant, overbearing, dictatorial, uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, inflexible, rigid, entrenched, unquestionable, unchallengeable; intolerant, narrow-minded, small-minded

For example, the idea of ‘dogmatic’ can mean a person is very precise: a few of my teachers have described their teachers as being ‘quite scary’. With some teachers, one has to be careful of the questions one asks as they don’t bend at all, and one as to do exactly what they say! This is something we westerners can struggle with 😉 It’s said that such teachers had a high level of clairvoyance.

** Likewise, ‘light’ has two qualities, one being a light, sensitive touch and the other being a lack of substance, flighty, easily swayed.