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What Right Do You Have to Call Yourself a Master? (Part Two)

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In part one we discussed that a person has to know something, and not just in the general monkey see monkey do sense of the current legion of so called masters. This article has to do with the second and even more important missing ingredient upon the part of todays masters. This article has to do with the amount of knowledge a master must have to be a Master.

In part one we discussed that a person has to know something, and not just in the general monkey see monkey do sense of the current legion of so called masters. This article has to do with the second and even more important missing ingredient upon the part of todays masters. This article has to do with the amount of knowledge a master must have to be a Master.

Yes, a fellow can study a martial art and say he has mastered that martial art. He can get so good at the art of karate, for instance, that nobody can beat him. That, however, isn't going to result in him being a master.

To be able to destroy somebody using a particular art is very limited. Destruction, you see, is very short sighted. While there is an art to destruction, the true art is in control.

How do you control somebody? You must learn more than one art, and this means you must learn both the destructive arts, and the arts which espouse control. You've got to learn force and flow, which is another way of saying you must be able to bash something, or control it.

Destroy something and it is no longer around. This means that you have no more authority or power over that. True mastery is a perpetuating state whereby you can sustain your power and authority over your subject even into the future.

In the first article I said you had to know something about the technology of something. In this article I am telling you have to know the technology of everything, and one other thing. I am telling you that you must have power and authority even over those unreasoning and strange things called people.

Having power and authority over not just things, or an art and all its moves is not enough to make somebody a master. You must be able to have power and authority over people. You must not just know the moves of an art, you must be able to apply them at any time and any place over any person.

Now, having defined what a true master is, consider those individuals who lay claim to being a master. Can they just destroy and hurt people, and especially their students? Or have they studied and can apply a wide range of arts, without the necessity of hurting anyone, to anybody at any time?

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Written by: Al Case Monday, 30 November 2009 18:37
 

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