# The Teaching of Prolog Repeated action becomes habit. Habit becomes cause. Mood is what is present. Choice is cause meeting condition. Action is future condition. ## Lessons 1. Before ink, there is only the hand and the sheet before it. Nothing more is needed. Practice is lost when the hand reaches past what is present. [[01_lesson|Lesson I]]. 2. One motion is enough to shape the next. What repeats becomes habit; what becomes habit becomes cause. [[02_lesson|Lesson II]]. 3. First see the gesture; then make it. A hand that cannot see before moving writes blindly. [[03_lesson|Lesson III]]. 4. The eye and hand now bow to one form. When seeing and doing serve one form, the stroke becomes honest. [[04_lesson|Lesson IV]]. 5. To paint truly, first know the ink. [[05_lesson|Lesson V]]. 6. The drop shows its form; the brush sets it down. [[06_lesson|Lesson VI]]. 7. Nothing is painted, yet the stroke is already shaped. The brush will reveal it in time. [[07_lesson|Lesson VII]]. 8. The brush moves once. What was hidden and what is present are no longer two. [[08_lesson|Lesson VIII]]. 9. A stroke begins by knowing where it will appear. [[09_lesson|Lesson IX]]. 10. The name does not move the brush. It keeps the hand from wandering. [[10_lesson|Lesson X]]. 11. The brush does not disturb what has already become clear. [[11_lesson|Lesson XI]]. 12. The brush may be steady, yet a fine stroke asks for ink that will not run. [[12_lesson|Lesson XII]]. 13. The brush meets the ink. Holding opens the way; unknown remains open; running closes the stroke. [[13_lesson|Lesson XIII]]. 14. The hand may hold nothing. See the empty hand. Do not ask it for a line. [[14_lesson|Lesson XIV]]. 15. Each ink keeps its own nature. The brush must not pretend otherwise. [[15_lesson|Lesson XV]]. 16. Change the ink while the brush is still. See what remains. Then the line can be trusted. [[16_lesson|Lesson XVI]]. 17. . 18. . 19. . 20. . 21. . 22. . 23. . 24. . 25. . 26. . 27. . 28. . 29. . 30. . 31. . 32. . 33. . 34. . 35. . 36. .