Ask Your Sensei Questions - Part 2

Have you ever actually asked your Sensei a question during practice?

Sensei Dave Lowry explains why it’s beneficial to ask questions, for both the student AND the teacher: 

I have spent too many evenings with too many older Japanese budo sensei, sitting over sake or beer, listening to them moan about all the questions they wished they’d asked their teachers when they had the opportunity. The fact is, whether it is transmitted through some magical osmosis or through the asking and answering of ongoing and detailed questions, the finer points of a budo must be passed on some way. If you have access to that magic osmosis, have at it. If not, you’d better start asking questions. And your teacher better be honest and sincere enough to answer them when it is appropriate to do so. More so, he must be brutally honest and sincere in admitting when he doesn’t know the answer—and he should be eager to work to find it out by asking his own teachers or other senior practitioners.

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