Re: teacher's Crazy Wisdom...
Re: worthwhile teachings Vs. bad behavior & flawed teachers -- roark Top of thread Post Reply Forum
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tarvuist ®

10/11/2017, 19:28:38
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...motives
Vs. ethics involved when teachers pretend to be 'above the law', behave
badly and shed personal ethical responsibility, using outs such as the
Tibetan Buddhist 'Crazy Wisdom' excuse


 Just to parse this dryly, at risk of reducing this dynamic boisterous site into dryness ...  sorry I haven't added any humorous spice here ...  Can anyone "kick it up a notch"?

Ø   To free himself/herself from any limit to personal behaviors, or so as to be rationalized by followers, unexpected or even unacceptable behaviors can be said to be ultimately beneficent "Crazy Wisdom, claiming to be for purposes above the law -- while really this being only clever evasion for exceeding the bounds of acceptable social behavior.  Like the minor example of labeling it after the fact as:  ..."It was just locker room talk." etc.  
...for self-defense and self-preservation, whatever a relatively unhinged transgressor with the upper hand might get away with saying about the unacceptable transgression after the fact, or in advance freeing himself up for some over-the-edge behavior, and then afterward to negate general notice of the distasteful transgression by favorable labeling or any justification, making a
public relations fix to "be going forward" and hoping to normalize the behavior in the public mind, or even a fix to legitimize such obviously devious and transgressive habit.  The perfect master (teacher, leader...politician...president?)  is exempt, far beyond being bound by any normal limits of any sort...isn't he?  Or is he?!

But then a teacher may be intuitively behaving or speaking in a way that's seems crazy or unexpected yet does effect some sort of learning, or unchaining of student's understanding by the very unusualness of the teacher's style of teaching, anything to advance the student's comprehension further, whether or not expected, whether in a "normal" teaching manner or of recognizably informative didactics.  (didactic = intended to educate)

You'd hope for discrimination to be exercised to recognize acceptable vs. unacceptable, appropriate vs. inappropriate ... with full consideration of the results in the student's learning of something or other?






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