[JennyStewarta]

to Dhamma teachers

The teacher we have at the dojo, the Roshi, is the kind of teacher that do not becomes "the prison" expoused in the given quote. He encourages us to go thorough our own learning. Some of the sangha members have leave the tradition because they have not found the kind of teacher that gives interpretations about everything but encourages them never telling what to do about. Just to evaluate your experience in zazen and in zazen brought to daily life. He also has encouraged me to look thoroughly at the Pali Canon even when we have our particular Soto teachings.

Fortunately I have not found that closeness that I think sometimes happens with some teachers taken as gurus or absolute truth embodiments. The experience at the dojo with the Roshi is similar at the one I had as a teacher. That is why I gave this expample to plogsties.