
Shaila Catherine: When Students Get Distracted
Teaching Meditation
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Is It OK to Overshare a Mistake as a Teacher?
I do tend to share a lot and a big part of that is because my students are coming in with these wildly unreasonable expectations of what ought to happen. But I don't think we should give the impression that we don't make mistakes as teachers either. What I was criticizing was the tendency not among teachers, but among in a culture as a whole, which is to always favor and like the, the, the underdog,. The one that is struggling, the one that is suffering. It doesn't focus on the Dharma. It focuses on the person. And any time we're focusing on the person, we're really in a realm of delusion. We just happen to notice different things from our
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