GREAT TEACHERS I HAVE KNOWN - ANDREW GUNN McIVER (PDF-1384)

[Note: Most of you know I have worked with Tibetan teachers for some 36 years or so, but I have had other teachers before that, and one incredible teacher that I will tell you about here, Andrew Gunn McIver, who literally changed my life. I warn you bored-easily ones to skip this post as I am going to wax somewhat poetic when I feel like it and I don’t want to disturb your equilibrium. You have been warned.] One morning, sometimes in 1967 I believe, I met an old man on the Diagonal of the U. of M. campus who looked a lot like the writer Bernard Shaw. This meeting was to change my life forever. Here is a poetic account of that meeting written many years ago that, while perhaps over the top, will give you at least a flavor of what that meeting was like. You were warned of this above, so don’t complain: