Mastery of Form

There are two elements to mastery:

• holding your power (stance),
• directing your power (mu-whatistheword)

The energy that you are holding and directing is called chi. When chi is under your control it is called power.

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. One doesn't overcome power, one has to ''master'' it. But don't even think of getting close to that one. You've got karma to resolve.

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See also: Martial Arts training [can].

Types of power:

• inner: applied to martial arts, regulating cravings
• outer: applied to reparte, obstacles the world