It is said that when the pupil is ready, the master will appear. That may well be true. But just because someone appears before you for lessons, that does not make them, in that moment, a ready pupil (any more than it makes you, in that moment, the right teacher). There is a world of difference between simply ‘being there’ and ‘being ready to learn’. The pupil may easily conflate the two. It becomes the teacher’s role to distinguish between them and, in doing so, perhaps to s