" Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. Not the danger of wasting himself in idle self gratification, but rather the danger of getting stuck in his
achievement, which is confirmed by his success and magnified by his renown; in other words, of behaving as if the artistic existence were a form of life that bore witness to its own validity.
The teacher foresees this danger. Carefully and with the adroitness of a psychopomp he seeks to head the pupil off in time and to detach him from himself. This he does by pointing out, casually and as though it were scarcely worth a mention in view of all that the pupil has alredy learned, that all right doing is accomplished only in a state of true selflessness, in which the doer cannot be present any longer as' himself '.
Thus the teacher lets the pupil voyage onward through himself. But the pupil, with growing receptivity, lets the teacher bring to view something of which he has often heard but whose reality is only now beginning to become tangible on the basis of his own experiences. It is immaterial what name the teacher gives it, whether indeed he names it at all. The pupil understands him even when he keeps silent.
The important thing is that an inward movement is thereby initiated. The teacher pursues it, and, without influencing its course with further instructions, which would merely disturb it, helps the pupil in the most secret and intimate way he knows: by direct transference of the spirit, as it is called in Buddhist circles."
(from the same book by Eugen Herrigel)
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