What is interesting, as someone who has been blessed with a number of good teachers, is that there is absolutely no consistency in what makes a good teacher -- some are strict, some are loose, some are flamboyant, some are quiet, some are focussed, some are all over the place. It is a puzzle to me. My suspicion is that the one thing they all had in common was that whatever their thing was it was the centre of their world, and it radiated energy out from that centre, like the sun. It was different for each of them, and probably for me, none of what any of them thought was the centre is mine, but the idea of having one thing that you centre on is something I have taken away from them (alas, not having ever had such a thing myself, maybe it is some kind of luck to get one, no matter who the teacher is -- but one can see what that kind of life is like).

yours,

Peter T.