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**seatlyled** · 07-29-2012, 06:43 PM

Maybe I'm wrong here too, but it happens in Tibetan tradition where the intimate relationship with the teacher a very important aspect of the practice.

My perspective on this comes from being a long term TB practitioner. I previously was a practicing Catholic, as an adult only, after being baptised Catholic as a baby and making the decision without attending Mass at all during my childhood nor did I have a catholic school education.

In my experience, the relationship with the teacher is not akin to christian worship. In any event, I only ever found the idea of worship in Catholicism being prompted for the benefit of the individual anyway ... God didn't need it - but then my experience of being Catholic was different to many others who had childhood experiences.

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seatlyled Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 476 Senior Member	Maybe I'm wrong here too, but it happens in Tibetan tradition where the intimate relationship with the teacher a very important aspect of the practice. My perspective on this comes from being a long term TB practitioner. I previously was a practicing Catholic, as an adult only, after being baptised Catholic as a baby and making the decision without attending Mass at all during my childhood nor did I have a catholic school education. In my experience, the relationship with the teacher is not akin to christian worship. In any event, I only ever found the idea of worship in Catholicism being prompted for the benefit of the individual anyway ... God didn't need it - but then my experience of being Catholic was different to many others who had childhood experiences.
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