Body & Mind

The body learns at its own pace, and there is nothing the mind can do to speed up the process other than by keeping quiet. This is very difficult for an intelligent person used to learning things quickly, and such people will tend to use their over-active intelligence to force their body to give a semblance of physical correctness by pedantically copying. But this is never right, and what's more it wont become right in time. Mimetic efforts should be minimally total: don't just ape the master's movements, copy his mind and spirit too, otherwise your movements will be beautiful and your mind will be endlessly busy ensuring that beauty.