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As I thought more about this, it became clear why this deep transformation we seek remains beyond our reach despite our best efforts. We wait for it to come from outside of us. We want others to give it to us. Unfortunately, real self-transformation defies teaching. It makes all teachers ultimately irrelevant. For its nature is to be grown, like a plant. It wants to arise spontaneously. Only then is it real.
Amit Pagedar
Finding Awareness:
The Journey of Self-discovery
What a wide firmament of experiences, images and words live in the depths of us! Iâd want to suggest to Amit Pagedar that teachers contribute to our inner lives and are not therefore âultimately irrelevant,â whilst understanding the thesis that self-development absolutely arises from and is processed within – and deeply appreciating the âlike a plantâ imagery.
Almost every outward encounter I have invites me to contemplate the rooted plant that is perpetually growing within me – fed and watered by everything Iâve ever known – by âboth sides now.â And the silence heard in such watchfulness counters – or balances – external cacophany and generates hope, for me, for humankind, and for the world.