Original methods and fidelity

• Discussion of whether one should be faithful to the original method

• Arguing that “we should be faithful” or “we don’t have to be faithful” is False dichotomy.

• There is a long-established three-step explanation of skill acquisition in the martial arts and arts: “Shuhari.

• First, follow the pattern. This means to be faithful to the original method.

  • In this process, knowledge about methods that was outside of you is internalized within you.
  • By actually using the method, you can accumulate your own experience.

• Then the type spontaneously bursts.

  • If the disciple learns to observe, he will break the rule himself. Separation is the combination of these two, and also the protection of the two.

    • Kawakami Fubaku (1719-1807), founder of the Edo Senke school of tea ceremony
  • Compare to programming:
    • First, try entering the code as it is written in the textbook (Mamoru).
    • Eventually, “What would happen if we changed this part?” will naturally arise.
    • As you try it out and learn from the results, you will be able to write programs that are not just a copy of the code in the textbook.

• The word “detachment” is difficult to explain in words alone, although those who have experienced it will say, “Oh, that’s it.

  • It is not “the teacher told me to do X, so I have to do X” (mamoru) or “the teacher told me to do X, but I dare to do Y” (shakai), but rather “I think it is good to do Y, so I will do it”.
  • A bird’s-eye view of the “defenses” and the “breakthroughs” that are well understood but not biased toward one or the other
    • dialectics It’s also a bit of a dialectics look.

• Those who insist that we should be “faithful” are those who have not yet reached the “breaking point.”

  • Or Ritualization of Means, Businessization of Methodology.

• Those who insist that “you don’t have to be loyal.”

  • If you’re assuming “first follow the pattern,” you’re making a decent argument.
  • If you neglect “first of all, follow the pattern,” then you are a person who cannot even “follow” the pattern.

Whether this idea is unusual in the world?

• Because of the weak influence of monotheism thought in Japan, the idea that righteousness is transformed over time was stronger than the idea that righteousness is given to man from outside.

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