[wwwater]

> I can't wait to teach

It seems that you don't actually want to become enlightened as much as you just simply want to be helpful to other people and teach them a valuable skill.

I personally think that enlightenment and teaching others about it are quite different things that maybe don't have in common as much as one thinks they have.

As I see it, you might reach a state of mind you are very content with, and it makes you see the world "as it is" and because of it, you don't need to teach anybody anything, since it's already "as it is" and "as it should be". So, maybe it's just enough to be aware of it.

[nsouth]

I see what you're getting at, but it's not quite how I feel.

For me teaching is predicated on having seen far enough to actually be a useful guide. Having said that there may be things I could teach before then, but I'd have to have experienced something major to convince me I was on the right track and the time was right.

Also, regarding the "just enough to be aware" it probably would be enough, but I wouldn't have been able to have reached my goal without the thousands who've gone before, so it'd be paying back that debt. There's just some part of me that knows it's important for me to do that.