My previous question came from this quote, ......?

Question

The Light from a Teacher of Truth
“Abre la puerta” – Guillaume Apollinaire

‘Come to the edge,’ he said.
They said: ‘We are afraid.’
‘Come to the edge,’ he said.
They came.
He pushed them… and they flew.

I would love your sincere thoughts on the above.

Answer 1

It would seem that he was speaking figuratively and not of pushing them off a cliff, although some steps on the journey to awakening and enlightenment require guts. Been there.
^They flew from where they were to a higher place, higher centers^. This is my guess.

Answer 2

Poetic, but essentially false. Truth seeking is not necessarily a group activity. A relation between a shepherd and his flock is political-theological; the relation between the philosopher and wisdom is known only to the wise. The above quote denatures inquiry by putting wisdom ("flight"?) entirely in the push of the teacher, and so it is hyper-conventional, excessively intellectualized, and would be rejected by all the best teachers* I have had the honor of knowing, most of whom have been dead for hundreds of years.

*These understand learning as a natural faculty...a teacher's task is to remove obstacles to learning for those who are disposed toward learning..."to let learn". For the rest, something else resembling the manipulation of a second-class enchanter.

Answer 3

Nice. There is an other saying 'you can lead (leed) a horse to water but you can not make them drink'. Nothing ever goes wrong does it.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 4

It means that if we take risks we can succeed more compared to cowering away from"the edge". It is very true. Cool quote.

Answer 5

NICE; I would by the world a box cutter if they would simply use it.

Answer 6

what if the teacher was wrong? would you consider the teacher to be irresponsible or would you think that the students were simply naive and stupid.

please answer my questions if you could. thanks!