The question is
simple...
Who are you?
What is your purpose?
Prerequisite for mastery:
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Give up all your preconceived ideas,
notions, belief system. Start from point Zero.
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Mastery is not about how you feel.
Feelings don't matter. There are enough courses and
seminars out there to help you feel things, your
past, or whatever. You cannot use feelings to measure
your understanding of mastery.
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Thus, journey has nothing to do with:
your past, your issues, your belief system, your fear,
or your guilt. Issues have nothing to do with mastery.
You don't need repair or breakthroughs.
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Mastery is not about solutions and
fixes. It is not about solving things.
It is not a place to get, it is not
about getting someplace. It is the process of all times
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Mastery is about::
Discovery
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Mastery is exploration, unveiling,
creating, and questions.
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Rigor is essential in mastery and is
not to be taken casually. Be diligent, hungry and
disciplined.
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If you are bored, you are being
boring.
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Mastery is the ability of distinction.
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What we know comes from the eyes to our
perception, then to our judgment and finally to our
interpretation.
Mastery is letting go
of what you already know
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Mastery is like the first time; it is
the first time all the time.
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What makes up our experiences? Physical
sensation, Mental (how we think),
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Emotion (how we feel).
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The mind is a mechanism that is not
designed to work right now. It is a thing that is
designed by default to protect us from what might
happen to us in the future based on what has happened
to us in the past.
Mastery is to love the
plateau
The self is a separate
identity apart from Mind, Emotions and Body.
Mastery is not a solo
journey.
Steps to Mastery:
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Experience your experience. Be present
with what happens right now – be aware of it, notice
what occurs, show up in it, while it is now.
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Communicate experiences to help others.
The "I" is no longer confined to mind,
feelings and body.
What are you experiencing now?
I am experiencing a sense of control, a
feeling bigger than the "I" that I'm used to. I have a
strong sensation in my body. I think I am having a hard
time pulling out of my perceived "concepts" box. Oh God,
I have a concept for everything. I am not my mind. I am
not my body. I am not my feeling.
Listening is simply
hearing with attention
I must learn to listen with the self, not
the mind or the body or the feelings.
Everything happens in my language. The
mind is everything
Self is a place to notice from.
Notice how you appear
to others
Oh yeah and there is reality.
Mind is the creator of the
reality.
When questions are asked, ask yourself:
What is the purpose of the question, and who is asking
it.
Mastery is getting
to where you are coming from
A
Road to Mastery
Start with something simple. Try
touching your forehead with your hand. Ah, that’s easy,
automatic. Nothing to it. But there was a time when you
were as far removed from the mastery of that simple
skill as a non-pianist is from playing a Beethoven
sonata.
First, you had to learn to control the
movements of your hands (you were just a baby then) and
somehow get them to move where you wanted them to. You
had to develop some sort of kinesthetic "image" of your
body so that you could know the relationship between
your forehead and other parts of your body. You had to
learn to match this image with the visual image of an
adult’s body. You had to learn how to mimic your
mother’s actions. Momentous stuff, make no mistake about
it.
And we haven’t yet considered the
matter of language—learning to decode sounds shaped as
words and to match them to our own actions. Only after
all this could you play the learning game that parents
everywhere play with their children: "Where’s your nose?
Where are your ears? Where’s your forehead?" As with all
significant learning, this learning was measured not in
a straight line but in stages: brief spurts of progress
separated by periods during which you seemed to be
getting nowhere.
Still, you learned an essential skill.
What’s more important, you learned about learning.
You started with something difficult and made it easy
and pleasurable through instruction and practice. You
took a master’s journey. And if you could learn to touch
your forehead, you can learn to play a Beethoven sonata
or fly a jet plane, to be a better manager, do martial
arts and get your Black Belt or improve your
relationships. Our current society works in many ways to
lead us astray, but the path of mastery is always there,
waiting for us.