01 April 2018

The teacher waits, patiently, hopefully, but not expectantly, for the student to fall in love with the work. Not with the teacher, or the teacher's words, or the teacher's spirit, beautiful though they may be, but with the work. In other words the teacher waits for the student, always mediocre to begin with, to become a good student. Then, and only then, can there be a transmission. My own teacher's rule of thumb was that if this doesn't happen within six months then it never will.

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