The Experience
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 1999 4:20 am
There have been quite a few new students to the YMCA dojo, lately ... more who seem to be questioning their choice of a martial art style. I came across the saying by Buddha which helps define the search:
Rely not on the teacher (person), but on the teaching. Rely not on the words of teaching, but on the spirit of the words. Rely not on theory, but on the experience.
I have become aware lately that sometimes I suffer the "paralysis of analysis..." The desire to explain away a teaching or theory instead of perhaps just providing the basics and helping the student define their own experience.
We are a spoon-fed culture, often looking to the teacher to totally define the way, instead of looking withing and digging deep for some of our own answers.
How many classes begin or end with more than a just few moments of meditation? Should we spend more time in silence? What has been your experience?
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In Beauty,
Jackie
Rely not on the teacher (person), but on the teaching. Rely not on the words of teaching, but on the spirit of the words. Rely not on theory, but on the experience.
I have become aware lately that sometimes I suffer the "paralysis of analysis..." The desire to explain away a teaching or theory instead of perhaps just providing the basics and helping the student define their own experience.
We are a spoon-fed culture, often looking to the teacher to totally define the way, instead of looking withing and digging deep for some of our own answers.
How many classes begin or end with more than a just few moments of meditation? Should we spend more time in silence? What has been your experience?
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In Beauty,
Jackie