To work with beginners is to be reminded of innocence, of openness, of the unshaped potential that exists before ego and form take hold. In guiding them, the teacher polishes his own spirit - patience becomes sharper than technique, humility deeper than knowledge. The beginner learns the form; the teacher rediscovers the formless. True mastery is not in escaping the basics, but in embodying them so completely that they become one’s nature. To teach is to begin again - with every student, every l