One of the first responsibilities that you encounter within an oral tradition is the idea that you have to remember stuff. I mean, really remember. There's no guarantee that you can come back to what you are learning. The sources are people, and one person might move, your access to another person might change, and you don't know when those changes might occur. You also don’t know if that person has told anybody else what they've told you. So, there is a very high level of responsibility for whatever you have been given. The assumption in my experience has always been this:
This is yours, assume no one else has it, and do what you’ve been taught is right with it.
That’s a thing – a thing worth thinking about.
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