This is just a short post about something that is often thought about but not often asked about when we attend a teaching or course of some kind. How can I measure the value of a teaching? Especially when the teaching is something spiritual and may not be measured empirically. My teachers have always said I should simply ask am I a better person because of it. This is not as easy a thing to check as it might seem. The implication is that after the teaching, having learned the topic. You then must put the topic into everyday use for maybe six months or more. Then you can accurately measure the value of the teaching by asking am I a better person because of it.

So the next course you take just ask am I a better person because of it. But don’t forget the hard work involved in the answer.