| There is an old martial arts saying, when the | | | | master, and he taught me his style. And, in a |
| student is ready the master will appear. Sounds | | | | bizarre circumstance, he taught me the exact |
| neat, eh? You get so good that some ancient | | | | thing that had been next to learn in my system |
| master pops out of the woodwork and gives you | | | | before my instructor retired. |
| the sacred teaching! The truth of what happens, | | | | And this thing, of people telling me what next to |
| however is not quite as it sounds. In fact, the | | | | do entered all areas of my life, giving me a life |
| truth of the matter is an oddity that is hard to | | | | that was entirely bizarre but totally golden. I would |
| believe. Let me tell you what really happens. | | | | go to a buy an vehicle, know that the salesman |
| In 1974 I was sitting on a cinder block in my | | | | was full of goose droppings, and suddenly some |
| backyard, tapping a piece of rebar on the patio | | | | other customer would draw my attention to |
| and listening to music. Ding, ding...and the world | | | | another car, or tell me about another dealer, and, |
| turned golden and I couldn't tell where the music | | | | suddenly, everything in the universe seemed |
| was coming from. Everything I knew suddenly | | | | balanced and right. The master had appeared, and |
| turned upside down, and I realized that I had had | | | | the master was humanity, and humanity never |
| a moment of enlightenment. | | | | led me astray. |
| And, about that time, my instructor closed his | | | | So this thing of when the student is ready the |
| fists. So, here I was, an enlightened human type | | | | master will appear is true, but its not what you |
| fellow, and I didn't know where to go to get my | | | | think at all. People, as a race, are a pure |
| next lesson. Hey, the student was ready, so | | | | magnitudious explosion of consciousness, and, |
| when was this doggoned master gonna make his | | | | when taken as a whole, and a person who has |
| appearance? | | | | been enlightened will tend to take them in that |
| Then a fantastic thing happened. People started | | | | manner, they are the master. |
| appearing and telling me what to do. Whenever I | | | | All of us, we are connected by a consciousness |
| had a problem, some fellow, not necessarily a | | | | that we do not usually perceive, and even turn |
| martial artist, would come out of some driveway | | | | away from when we do, and yet this is the |
| and tell me the exact thing I needed to know to | | | | secret of where we are going, We are part of a |
| understand my next step. | | | | Cosmic Mind, a consciousness that is God, and |
| I was teaching a class in Karate one day, and I | | | | when the martial arts are done in the correct |
| looked out the window, and a guy was doing in | | | | manner, and this can be ascertained by whether |
| the parking lot doing gung fu. I went out, | | | | they lead to enlightenment, humanity knows what |
| introduced myself, and he turned out to be a | | | | you need, and it gives you what is necessary. |