Mastery of Form

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There are two pillars to the mastery of form:

• Mastery of Chi (inner relations)
• Impeccibility or relating to the world-at-large (outer relations)

There are four attributes to achieving mastery:

• building your power: training, practice and effort (forbearance)
• holding your power (stance or control),
• directing your power (timing)
• right way of living (or discipline)

The energy that you are holding and directing is called chi. When chi is under your control it is called power. When power is disciplined, it becomes a martial-art. And when the martial art purifies your soul, you become an enlightened warrior.
So, power is one of the masteries on the path to enlightenment. Carlos Casteneda talks about it as the third enemy.

The first one is fear, the second one is clarity, the third one is power. One must take care that trying overcome fear doesn't turn into false clarity or ego. And one must take care that overcoming clarity doesn't turn into false power or tyranny. As for power, one doesn't overcome it, one has to master it. How? By not becoming a self-important. For that, you'll have to be in and of the world, not apart from it (at least if you're a Westerner). The arena is life itself. The practice is martial arts and other things.

But before you even think of getting close to that one, you've got karma to resolve.