Which Came First, Teacher Or Teaching?

This presupposes a beginning.

Before there is teaching on pure consciousness, there has to be pure consciousness present already. Truth cannot change. Like pure space, pure consciousness is constant and infinite. It cannot start anywhere, but can arrive wherever is receptive.

Those who realise this truth point it out.

The essence of realisation has many forms, interpretations and commentaries, and we become confused because we ignore our primary, raw experience.

Did we just find a teaching, or were we looking because of something within? Why do we re-cognise what was pointed out? There must have been something timeless within that knows.

We re-cognise in the same way as a teacher,
who tells us what we already know.

The real teacher is our karmic mind, showing us where we go astray.

Our essence of pure consciousness is primordial and changeless.

Which comes first, teacher or teaching?
The student, within whom the question arises.