king hebben op de kennisoverdracht en het thema van het lustrum:
Op de vraag wat een "master" in de oosterse opvatting is:
"He begins from the center and not from the fringe. He imparts an understanding
of the basic principles of the art before going to the meticulous details, and he
refuses to break down the t'ai chi movements into a one-two-three drill so as to
make the student into a robot. The traditional way is to teach by rote, and
to give the impression that long periods of boredom are the most essential part
of training. In that way a student may go on for years and years without ever
getting the feel of what he is doing."
Vraag van de natuurkundige aan de Wu Li master over de opbouw van zijn colle
ges:
'Every lesson is the first lesson" he told me; "Everytime we dance, we do it for
the first time.
"But surely you cannot be starting new each lesson", I said.
"Lesson number two must be built on what you taught in lesson number one,
and lesson three likewise must be built on lessons one and two, and so on."
"When I say that every lesson is the first lesson," he replied, "it does not mean
that we forget what we already know. It means that what we are doing is always
new, because we are always doing it for the first time."
Mijn dank gaat naar Janna Blotwijk voor haar moeite mijn "benaderd" naar een
leesbaar Nederlands over te brengen.
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