Take the best qualities of the best/greatest people you can think of…

Take the best qualities of the best/greatest people you can think of…

And embody them.

Take the qualities you know, in your heart of hearts, are destructive, like…

Greed; envy; arrogance; apathy; negative pre-judgment; and hate…

And make a conscious decision not to let them work thru you in your life.

Forgive. Forget. Offer kindness even in the face of anger and confusion.

These ideas reflect the kind of martial arts “master” worth knowing (and that we strive to be).

The purely physical is the box of cake mix.

Making the cake is your training. Sitting down to eat it is part of the reward.

Eating it with a complete awareness of the fragility of life, so that when you’re sharing it with your daughter, you are completely aware of the fact that you are there, alive, and so is she…eating it with awe for what it is and what’s brought you to that place.

Well now, THAT is something so big, so valuable, so enchanted that it is borders on the sacred.

Going to your dojo today, is the cake mix.

Doing your work and workout is making the cake. Teaching is part of your reward.

Teaching people to become better, more cognizant, participative, more empathetic, more here and now and happy for it, that is the sacred.

That’s something those folks you admire might have admired themselves.