How joyful to look upon the Awakened and to keep company with the wise. Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. But if you cannot find friend or master to go with you, travel on alone - like a king who has given away his kingdom, like an elephant in the forest.
The Buddha
This teaching tells me that sometimes we can become attached and cling to our teachers even and the Buddha tells us to cling to nothing even teachers. And to go it alone if we have to. And if you really think about it we all have to go it alone in the end. Teachers can tell us all kinds of things but in the end we are the only ones who can do it for ourselves.If we do not put the teachings into practice then we are wasting them.
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