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(French) Why do you form only students
and not spiritual masters like yourself?

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(Translator) Why do you form only students
and not spiritual masters like yourself?

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Every student is a master.

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When you are a student,

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you play the role of being
your own master.

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You don't rely entirely
on your teacher.

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You have to make the teacher
that is outside of yourself

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to be inside of you.

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It is possible to train yourself

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so that your teacher is not outside 
but always inside of you.

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So that even when you are physically
separated from your teacher,

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your teacher is still with you inside.

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Suppose you are confronting a situation,

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and you don't know how to react,
how to act,

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and if your teacher is not there,
for you to ask,

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then you can tell yourself,

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if this happened to my teacher,
how would he act or react.

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If you ask the question,
then the teacher becomes "inside",

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and the teacher inside is always
available.

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If you are your own teacher,
you can be the teacher of others,

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you can be a disciple and a teacher
at the same time.

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Suppose your hear from your teacher,

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the practice of mindful walking,

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and if you practice well,
enjoy every step that you make,

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you walk so that
every step can be healing,

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and nourishing, joyful, peaceful,

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you are practicing as a good disciple.

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But people around you,


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monks, nuns, lay practitioners,

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when they see you walking like that,

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your solidity, your freedom and joy,

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they can learn from you.

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They can learn
from your way of walking,

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so you walk as a teacher also.

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You practice as a student,
and you practice as a spiritual teacher.

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Even if you don't say anything,

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you are teaching people how to do it.

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So don't think that the teacher
and the student are two things,

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that can be taken out of each other.

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A good student is 
at the same time a good teacher.

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So it it is not true that
I am not training teachers.

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When I train students, I train teachers,

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because all students have to be teachers.

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