Originally Posted by
taai gihk yahn
in my mind, this idea of trying to repeat forms EXACTLY the way one's teachers, teachers, teachers etc. did it is the best way to kill a style from the inside out; people like to go on and on about "internal" practice and what it is, but utimately it's about coming fact to face with one's self-nature; the practice is not the end, it is the vehicle by which one might do so; but if if you spend your life trying to imitate what your teacher's taught, your practice will always necessarily be "external", your chances of "noticing" your intrinsic suchness will be diminished if not eradicated...well, that's my belief, anyway;
liberation is not found in standardization; as such, in his own way, intentionally or not, because he did not conform to some idealized notion of conventionality, CTS provided the opportunity for each of us to discover ourselves as unique individuals through his teachings (the notion of "crazy wisdom" a la Chogyam Trungpa and co. comes to mind, although w/CTS, the scale may have been tipped a bit more towards the "crazy" side...);