20 February 2020

Studentship begins not when you commence classes with your teacher but when you finally commit to a daily regime of practice, a regime which you rightly hold as sacrosanct. My teacher had a phrase to describe students who had yet to reach this stage: "Not ready to begin." He had another phrase to describe those who felt they had a head start because they'd read a few books or visited other masters: "Worse than a beginner."

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