Being Bound To A Teacher

Being bound to a teacher not only creates and maintains a duality, a dependency, it is not the way or culture of modern life. The point of having a teacher is to show the student that they are free to work on their own, responsible for using the spontaneous moment now and their reactions to that moment as “the teacher of all phenomena”. 

How we approach the moment now – and our reactions to this moment – is due to our karma, our habitual patterns of behaviour. So it is karma that is our teacher – and it’s always with us. Karma is teaching us not to be bound.

If we are bound by appearances and words, 
direct experience and realisation is tainted. 
Reactions are the taint.

Taint: from Latin tingere ‘to dye, tinge’ – something with a contaminating influence or effect.