Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
And that was coming from a place in a way where I didn't see
myself as special. I really genuinely didn't see myself as special in
any way. I didn't see myself as fundamentally different from you,
or from anyone who came to the meetings in a way. It's the same
consciousness; it's the same I am what you are, so I can't be
special. And for a while people would call me a teacher, it's funny
and something didn't feel right about it for a while. I thought, well
I'm not a teacher, I'm just this, I don't know what I am. I can't call
myself a teacher really, because then I have to call you my student,
and I don't see you as separate from me. How can I separate
myself from you by calling you my student, I don't see it that way.
So for a while I was a bit uncomfortable in calling myself a teacher,
it just didn't come naturally to me. Because in a way I saw that I
was nothing, I'm just a space in which everything appears, and as
that space I can't be a teacher, I guess I can teach, but I can't be a
teacher. Teaching can happen, but I can't be a teacher. So for a
while I said, no I'm not a teacher, I'm not a teacher. But actually
the funny thing is, then what happened is actually I started to say,
wait a second, that's okay as well, because in a way there is a
relative Truth to that ultimately, I'm not a teacher, ultimately I am
what you are. But at the same time Jeff Foster does meetings, Jeff
Foster writes books, and speaks, and does radio interviews.
WIZARD: You're teaching an equality of vision.
JEFF FOSTER: Yes. So then I guess what happened is it was just,
okay so yeah, I can call myself a teacher, and I guess the word
means something different to me that it used to. I guess for me a
teacher, in a way everyone is a teacher, we all teach in different
ways. Some of us hold meetings; some of us don't hold meetings.
Some of us write books, some of us don't write books. Some of us
hold radio shows, or don't do radio shows. Some of us don't talk
in public, or we just keep quiet. There's so many different ways of
teaching.
TRIP: Well I think the most important aspect of being an
authentic teacher is that from the teacher's perspective he is no
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