Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. I hope you are doing fabulous in your corner of the World! Let’s start with a breath and a smile.

Our Next Teacher in Life

Perhaps many of you have heard the saying “When student is ready, teacher will appear”. I agree with that. I’d like to combine this statement with another one: “When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru.” So is it the teacher who appears, or is it just me who finally recognizes the teacher?

I am not going to philosophize about that. I’d like to look at both statements from a very practical point of view.

First of all, we are learning in steps. There’s law in dialectic materialism, which I think applies to today’s topic. It says that quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes. In simple words, we learn, and learn, and learn, and then we make a jump to the next level. This is when we can read the same book we read before and not even recognize it. It feels like somebody change the frequency on the radio, and we start listening to a new radio station.

Here’s a catch: in order to make that jump we need to keep learning what is available to us now. Learn from everybody and everything. Be mindful of every second. Learn, study, grow, repeat, and then you will start changing. And then you will be ready for the next level of learning. You will feel like a child who just learned to read a cursive. All that gibberish starts making sense. Until… next level. But if you try to learn, let’s say, level 5 before you complete levels 1 through 4, not only it won’t make much sense, you may even consider level 5 total bizarre. Ask me how I know that.

My friend, are you ready to make a change? Remember, what you are learning today may become obsolete tomorrow. Even my opinion perhaps. It becomes just a step to the next level of understanding. Think about it.

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Now let’s breathe and smile. I will talk to you next time.

PEACE!
Jin

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