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. 285

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