When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.

A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready. And if you ignore its presence, it will speak to you more loudly. But you have to be quiet to hear.

How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens <i>inward</i>. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

If the student is smart, the teacher takes the credit.

Train assiduously, with the teacher serving as the needle and the student as the thread.31

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

The teacher should help, but not too much and not too little, so that the student shall have a reasonable share of the work.

Be close to your teacher without long absences.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

impact of meeting a personality so developed can be enough to change another’s whole way of life. But in the end it is not the extraordinariness of the teacher which perplexes, intrigues, and deepens the student, it is the teacher’s utter ordinariness. Because he is just himself, he is a mirror for his students. When we are with him we feel our own strengths and shortcomings without any sense of praise or criticism from him. In his presence we see our original face, and the extraordinariness we see is only our own true nature. When we learn to let our own nature free, the boundaries between master and student disappear in a deep flow of being and joy in the unfolding of Buddha mind.

You will never be told when the next bit of education is coming or where it's coming from or who the teacher will be. That information will only reveal itself after the fact. All that you can do is leave a little room there for the next lesson to come through. Someone will be carrying it. You just leave the door open a crack.

he who has the knowledge has the responsibility to impart it to the students.