Pema Khandro Rinpoche points out that there *is no* The Guru Model. (That’s a caricature born of late-70s hysteria.) Teacher-student interactions in Vajrayana are highly varied, and often quite individualized. It’s rarely if ever a “model” in the sense of a formalized system.
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It’s time-efficient to sit in front of a room of a hundred people and talk. But if students see the teacher just as a dispenser of information, all they are going to get is information. If they think the teacher can magically transmit enlightenment… that might happen.
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But then the real work of integrating the transmission with everyday reality begins, and there’s no known substitute for years of individualized one-on-one teaching for that… (just thinking out loud here)
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I’ve recently been part of some discussions which touched on this point exactly: the most important dimensions of guru-student relationship require expertise/time/specificity, and there really isn’t an easy way around that, AFAICT.
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