The Master dealt with "ideas about American personality, success, rootlessness, master-disciple dynamics, and father-son mutually assured destruction".
There's something dishonest about the master-disciple relationship.
This involves a master-disciple learning partnership intended to improve the traditional relationship between the Art teacher and her students.
Since that time, Zen teachings have skillfully combined the seemingly opposing elements of mythology and history, iconoclasm and pious worship, freedom and strict monastic discipline, and sudden awakening (Sanskrit: bodhi; Chinese: wu; Japanese: satori) and long master-disciple apprenticeships.
However, if we can be so bold, these types of programs are unconventional in their radical approach to rethinking the master-disciple relationship, which, for us, is illuminating.
Each is, in turn, hero and villain, master and disciple, con man and patsy.
The painting was not shown to the public for decades; it is a highly personal meditation between master and disciple.
The mountain as a meeting place of heaven and earth, gods and men, and master and disciple (as already in Zhuangzi), takes on a vast downward extension.
To be both pursuer and pursued, master and disciple, "wanted man" and the "holy order" that harbors him: this fate awaits all poets of Paterson's calibre, chased offstage by the art they once chased.
Mitsunen received dharma transmission, by which teachings are passed from master to disciple, in the Soto school of Zen and was ordained a Zen monk in the Soto and the Rinzai schools.
But as a way in to the history of the mind, the relation between master and disciple could scarcely be richer in terms of drama, with its perilous trusts and shattering betrayals.
