... CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MASTER AND DISCIPLES ...
MARTIAL ART DIDN'T MEAN STRUGGLING AGAINST POTENTIAL ENEMIES ( AN EXTERNAL THREAT ) BUT ABOVE ALL , LEARN HOW NOT TO IMPOSE HUMAN MURDEROUS AND DESTRUCTIVE MADNESS
( BORN FROM HIS OWN FEAR ABOUT DEATH ) TO THE WHOLE WORLD ( MANKIND AND PLANETARY ENVIRONMENT ) .
PERSEVERANCE IN THE TRAINING OF SPIRIT , TECHNIQUE AND BODY WAS THE ESSENCE OF MARTIAL ARTS .
WE AREN'T HUMAN BEINGS LIVING A MORE OR LESS SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE ,
WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS COMPLETELY LIVING A HUMAN EXPERIENCE .
A very old parchment relates that there was a time when all men were Gods .
But they so abused of their divinity that the Gods' master decided to remove them from the divine power and to hide it in a place where it would be impossible for them to find it .
The main issue was thus to find a hiding-place .
When the minor Gods were called in a council in order to solve this problem , they proposed : « Let's bury the man's divinity into the ground » .
But the supreme God answered : « No , this wouldn't be enough, because men will dig and find it » .
Then the minor Gods replied : « Therefore , let's throw the divinity in the deepest ocean » .
But the major God answered again : « No, because soon or later, Man will explore the depths of all oceans , and there is no doubt that one day , he'll find it and set it up again to the surface » .
The minor Gods concluded : « We definitely don't know where to hide it for there doesn't seem to be a place on Earth or in the sea that man wouldn't reach one day » .
So the Gods' master said : « Here's what we'll do with the humans' divinity : we'll hide it in the dephts of themselves, because this is the only location where they'll never think about seeking it » .
Since that time , Man went round Earth , explored , climbed , dived and dug , searching for something that is inside himself .
The devils had to react to in order to flourish :
If the Man's divine part only act when it is visible , on the other hand , his shade part , takes its full-size once hidden .
The devils' master wanted to put this to good use and in his turn , summoned the minor devils at a council so as to know where to hide the Mans' evil-part in order to make it active .
« Let's bury the Man's shade-part into the ground » , said one of the devils who wanted to incur himself the master 's favours .
He was then reduced to ashes by the devils' master : « No , this one , others have already thought about it » , said the devils' master .
« Let's hide it in the dephts of himself » , said another one .
Wearied , the master answered : « The place is already filled up with his divinity » , mading him consume himself on the spot .
Then the devils' master said : « Here's what we'll do : we'll hide the Man's shade part inside the established rules that link human beings between each other » .
Since then , Man who looks forward to become a God again , becomes devil when meeting other men while forgetting being fully aware of his divine part .
The careful devils , took care to tear up the parchment's end describing their Machiavellian plan so that men remain reckless of their shade part and in this way , it can go on prospering
We had already come into the Kali Yuga era for centuries ...
During their long incarnation process , embodied souls were overwhelmed with illusion . Souls identified themselves to their bodies and became human beings for being captive of their own persuasions of being thoses bodies .
The identification to the human form was the biggest of all mistakes , because it prevented the spirit to admit itself as the only reality .
Identified with bodies , men were forced to be under the perpetually transformed matter's principle , and experienced suffering .
Ever since they were captive of their own thoughts as thoses that constituted the triple-world of form , desire , and mental .
Experiencing the human form , they expanded their consciousness and finally purchased the power of discrimination .
They could thus tell the Self from the non-Self , the observant from the observed form , the Divinity from the Human .
Since that time , they made the decision to set themselves free from this world and to open themselves up to the Divinity .
This progressive process was long and slow in its first primary steps , then everything quickened since they got ready to undertake a self discipline .
From materialistic , they became truth-seekers and came into their " probationary stage " .
Then came the continuous-training stage and the discipline laid down by the soul to Oneself , under the enlightened supervision of embodied or unembodied celestial instructors .
Moreover they reached the initiation stage , at succeeding steps of their expanding consciousness , led by the heavenly masters .
Their slow rise from darkness to the light was : Yearning , Purification , Discipline , Asceticism , Initiation , Achievement , Union .
In the course of evolution on Earth appeared then disappeared races and civilizations .
The whole Humanity went by the animal-human condition to the human condition . Then it slowly got itself ready to experience the human-divinity condition .
During the very first civilizations , Man was different from who he has become today .
He lived intensely but his undeveloped and still asleep senses didn't allow him to do anything but making familiar his closed physical surroundings .
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« The first Noble Truth is the existence of pain . We suffer while being born , we suffer while growing up . We suffer from disease , we suffer while dying . We suffer from being joined with people we don't love . We even more suffer from being separated from people we love . We suffer from desiring what we can't obtain . » ...