Quotes About Teaching

he had shown me how to do that maybe a dozen times before. But that was the time that it stuck

The life of a Zen master is eating cornflakes and doing the dishes. From the distant past up till today, that's what the masters have all taught.

Dhammapada. Anyhow,

I never entered a monastery as a full-time live-in monk, which many people consider the only way to practice what D?gen preached. But this would ignore the fact that D?gen taught a number of lay students throughout his life and, indeed, recommended zazen as a daily practice not only for those who live in monasteries but also to anyone interested in self-discovery.

Echu says the insentient explain the dharma all the time. "All the time" means they actually explain it at every real moment. There's no break in their explanation. Real explanations always happen without any break.

D?gen's big question when he was a young monk was this: If Buddhism teaches that we're all perfect just as we are — and it does teach that — then why do we have to undergo training? A whole lot of Sh?b?genz? is D?gen's attempt to answer that question.

Wise people learn from their mistakes, but wiser people learn from others.

You want nutrition?" Seth asked. "Remind me to teach you guys about the food pyramid." "A pyramid made of food?" Doren said reverently. "We are your humble pupils," Newel pledged.

I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?

having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.

The Survivor said that we should smile," the priest pled. "He taught that we should not let our sorrows drag us down no matter how bad life became.

Kelsier chuckled. "I wonder what I've unleashed upon the world by teaching you Allomancy. Of course, my trainer said the same thing about me." "He was right to worry." "Of course he was.

it had never occurred to her that having knowledge was entirely different from explaining that knowledge to others.

Is it such a shameful thing, he thought, to be the man who likes to provide information for others, rather than be the one who has to use that information?

But learn to take a little pride in yourself, kid! If there's anything I can teach you, it's how to be self-confident.

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?

It was the teaching itself that I loved. At least, I loved it back when I thought it would be enough to change things.

If you're comfortable, I'm not teaching and you're not learning.

If you're comfortable, I'm not teaching and you're not learning. It's going to get uncomfortable in here and that's okay. It's normal and it's part of the process.

Tonight we will exhale and teach. Now it's time to inhale. There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and it's easy to believe that we must exhale all the time, without ever inhaling. But the inhale is absolutely essential if you want to continue to exhale.

In terms of teaching our children to dare greatly in the "never enough" culture, the question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?" Our stories of worthiness—of being enough—begin in our first families.

the more grounded confidence parents have, the more likely they are to prepare their child for the path by teaching courage, praising effort, and modeling grit, versus trying to prepare a perfect path for their child by fixing, praising only results

Organizational values are gauzy and assessed in terms of aspirations rather than actual behaviors that can be taught, measured, and evaluated.