There is an old martial arts saying, when the student is ready the master will appear. Sounds neat, eh? You get so good that some ancient master pops out of the woodwork and gives you the sacred teaching!

The truth of what happens, however is not quite as it sounds. In fact, the truth of the matter is an oddity that is hard tobelieve. Let me tell you what really happens.

In the mid seventies I was sitting on a cinder block in my backyard, tapping a length of rebar on the patio and listening to music. Donk, donk…and the world glowed golden and I couldn’t tell where the music was coming from. Everything I knew suddenly became irrelevant, and I realized that I had had a moment of enlightenment.

And, about that time, my instructor retired. So, here I was, an enlightened being, and I didn’t know where to go to get my lesson. Hey, the student was ready, so where was the master?

Then a bizarre thing happened. People started coming along and telling me what to do. Whenever I was in a quandary, some fellow, not necessarily a martial artist, would come out of some alleyway and tell me the exact thing I needed to know to understand my next step.

I was teaching a class in Karate one day, and I looked out the window, and a guy was doing in the parking lot doing gung fu. I went out, introduced myself, and he turned out to be a master, and he taught me his style. And, in a bizarre circumstance, he taught me the exact thing that had been next to learn in my system before my instructor retired.

And this thing, of people telling me what to do entered all aspects of my life, giving me a life that was entirely different, bizarre but golden, from the rest of humanity. I would go to a buy a car, know that the salesman was full of dung sticks, and suddenly some other customer would draw my attention to another car, or tell me about another dealer, and, suddenly, everything in the universe seemed balanced and right. The master had appeared, and he was people, and he never led me wrong.

So this thing of when the student is ready the master will appear works, but not the way you expect it. People, as a race, are a more pure and magnitudious rendition of consciousness, and, when taken together, and a person who has been enlightened will tend to take them, they are the master. All of us, we are connected by a consciousness that we do not usually understand, and even reject outright, and yet this is the secret of where we are going, We are part of a Cosmic Mind, a Godlike consciousness, and when the martial arts are done right, and this can be ascertained by whether they lead to enlightenment, humanity knows what you need, and when, and it delivers.

Al Case has more than 4O++ years experience in the martial arts. If you wish to enter the Cosmic Mind, visit either Church of the Martial Arts, or pick upa free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.

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