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Podučavanje

Može li itko ikoga ex cathedra podučavanjem naučiti ono bitno?

Ili se to, ključno znanje, prenosi isključivo primjerom? Na taj način budi ono što čovjek već u sebi nosi?

Najinspirativniji opis učitelja na koji sam ikad naišao je napisala Trudy Dixon o Shunryu Suzukiju. Vidio sam ga u blagovaonici chan centra na Žumberku, na jednom od povlačenja. Monumentalan detalj u toj prostoriji.

Dodajem i ovo:

That is all that I can tell. Now return to yourselves and seek within yourselves. A teacher can only transmit the techniques and give you the principles, but “I myself” have to realise the truth and take it as my own. This is called self-appropriation. It is a transference from heart to heart. It is a ‘bestowal by extraordinary means, beyond instruction and erudition’, which does not mean that the master’s teaching is to be contradicted. It means that even a master cannot pass on truth itself.
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The meaning of every ‘teaching’ is only to show what everyone possesses in himself without already knowing it, and then to make him aware of it. There is no secret that the master can ‘hand over’ to the pupil. Teaching is easy. Listening is easy. But it is difficult to become aware of what one has in one’s self, to mark it out and really to take possession of it. That is known as looking into one’s own being; this practice is called ‘the one-eye vision’
-- The Subtle Art of a Cat

There is no special book you have to read,
There is no special teacher you have to see.
This is between you and yourself.
-- Robert Adams