facilitation
"The job of a poet," he said, "is not to kill poets by creating disciples," but the other way around, "to create poets by killing disciples or himself. Whether killing himself or his disciples, what the true poet gives is life, not death like the supposed 'master."
—Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist
Mmm. In the context of working as a mentor. Need to think further on this to try reconcile the tension between “killing” self/others and giving life. Seems oxymoronic. By inference/extension, ‘masters’ practice death. By establishing a rigid path or ‘way’ for their followers? Link to some of Bruce Lee’s thinking on Jeet Kune Do…
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