If you are trained in a tradition, initiated in it, you continue to have that as part of your experience. (Assuming we're talking an initiatory tradition, or something similar, with clear-cut 'this makes you part of the tradition' shared experiences/practices)
However, if your practice shifts away from that, while the background is still part of you, and may influence you, I think it's important to be honest about what you're doing now.
So, for example, "My past training includes X tradition, but I've moved towards including things Y and Z now." or something similar. It's like saying "My college major was X, but I work doing Y" when they're not the most connected things ever. (One of my undergrad majors was music - still a part of my life, but I'm a librarian by profession, for example.)
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Date: 2009-06-13 04:42 pm (UTC)If you are trained in a tradition, initiated in it, you continue to have that as part of your experience. (Assuming we're talking an initiatory tradition, or something similar, with clear-cut 'this makes you part of the tradition' shared experiences/practices)
However, if your practice shifts away from that, while the background is still part of you, and may influence you, I think it's important to be honest about what you're doing now.
So, for example, "My past training includes X tradition, but I've moved towards including things Y and Z now." or something similar. It's like saying "My college major was X, but I work doing Y" when they're not the most connected things ever. (One of my undergrad majors was music - still a part of my life, but I'm a librarian by profession, for example.)