13/07/2026
The best teacher is every person 🌼
Food for Thought…
When you see three people out walking… surely one of them must be my teacher…
"When you see three people out walking… surely one of them must be my teacher," you say, and the path answers with a breeze…
To search for a teacher among distinct forms is to miss the whole of the mountain…
The sage lives where water flows, not where name attaches… a teacher is the silence between footsteps, the patience of the road…
The best teacher is every person, every sunset, every leaf stirring in the wind… and everything in between…
Observe without grasping… Expand your awareness…
One companion carries a basket of bread, another carries only a staff, the third carries laughter like a lantern…
Each moves with a particular weight…
Each reveals a way of aligning with the Tao…
The farmer tending the earth teaches steadiness…
The wanderer with a staff teaches simplicity…
The one who laughs under the sky teaches openness…
No marker declares who is teacher… the world itself instructs through necessity and ease…
Study the small gestures… how hands settle, how eyes rest on clouds, how breath finds rhythm…
Let learning come as a flower falls… naturally, without force…
To force a teacher is to clutch at wind…
Sit at the edge of the road and listen…
The road will teach you to let go, the stone to accept hardness and wear, the river to yield and continue…
Where desire relaxes, insight grows…
A true teacher need not be declared by rank or title…
Sometimes the teacher is the stumbling that makes you mindful… sometimes it is the silent passing that leaves a space for something new…
Walk three abreast and notice… every step is instruction, every encounter a mirror…
The Tao does not appoint… it reveals…
Be ready to learn from the ordinary…
The world, in its ordinary speaking, is always teaching…
Do not hunt for named wisdom… sit, watch, practice humility, and the teacher in three people will appear as the silence that opens the heart…
There is nothing wrong with learning from a teacher with skills you do not yet possess…
There is nothing wrong with being open to learn from everyone else you meet as well…
The best teachers will openly tell you this…
Expand your awareness…
All the Best!
H Perry Curtis, Master at Pampamisayoc Qi Gong
