Daily Dose - Oct. 25, 2013 - Freya'sDay/Venus - Dreams of Mastery

In June of 2009 I had a dream which I would like to share with you today for the Daily Dose.

I was learning some kind of Qi-Gong & Martial Art from a Master Monk (I say some kind because it was a form I'd never seen).

He told me,
"Mastery is observance, patience, and proper application.

It is kind and gentle yet strong and unstoppable.

The jewel within is Balance.

Mastery is found in the subtlety."

After some time of teaching me some very powerful and beautiful  breath and movement techniques, he went on to tell me,
"Self mastery is knowing all there is to know;
not because you've learned it, but because you know it.
It is finding something new in every repetition of pattern.
Seeing the extravagant in the mundane.
Seeing all there is to see not because you have to or want to,
but because it is already in your vision.
It is noticing everything in Life today
which you did not yesterday,
and tomorrow what you did not today."

Be your own master.
Have a loving Friday! <3

Daily Dose - Oct 3, 2013

• When we judge anyone in anyway, we are actually judging ourselves. When we think someone is "closed off" or narrow minded, it is in fact our own self that is exhibiting and experiencing that condition.

• Remember, it is the natural tendency of everything and everyone to evolve. This is the path of least resistance.

From chapter 34, "Impermanence of All Things" of the Kural

• There is no baser folly than the infatuation
  that looks upon the ephemeral as if it were everlasting.
  - 331
• Do good deeds with a sense of urgency,
  before death's approaching rattle strangles the tongue.
  - 336

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"Success is as dangerous as failure.

Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?

Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky.

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, 

you will always keep your balance.

What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?

Hope and fear are both phantoms

that arise from thinking of the self.

When we don't see the self as self,

what do we have to fear?

See the world as your self.

Have faith in the way things are.

Love the world as your self,

then you can care for all things."

- 13, Tao Te Ching