bruce said on
>sakti-rising said on
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>>what do you all think of the connotations to the word Master??
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>In the East, it's someone who trains apprentices. In the West, it carries too much baggage, IMHO.
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>Bruce
But in the East it is far more than someone who just trains apprentices.....it is someone who has trained for many many years( some say many lifetimes) in a particular discipline to achieve the status of 'Master'.
If the word carries too much baggage in the West, its only because of what we have come to associate with the meaning of the word Master, from the East.
I personally have really struggled with the word Master for a long time.....My reiki teacher said to me after we had a discussion, that the Word Master in Reiki is just the name for a level of training... which of course is exactly what it is... but the word Master itself,... implies much much more.
