Master Part II

Master is an interesting term.

Am I my own master?... Really think about that. I am casey, I define myself fully and completely by being myself...

To myself, I am never a Master, merely myself. However, because I define myself so well, others would and do see me as my personal master. I never see myself as a master in this sense since then there falls the trap of ego: Thinking more of oneself than one should.

Instead: I am. That is enough.

I am...

All is relative to perception on that front.

Master also implies other things. It implies connection to the past, to teachings, to practices.

Since I do teach Taoism and help people be themselves. I am a Taoist Master. But again it's a relative term. I accept that I am a Taoist Master for this reason. Does that mean I know everything. Nah a good Taoist knows they know nothing. I merely accept everything else. In terms of acceptance people get confused on what acceptance really means also, but I talked enough about acceptance in previous blog posts.

To some I would be a Master, that would mean I represent an ideal through which they gain connection to the larger world. As I said earlier, I am just casey...(notice lower cased!) but due to perception and connection I also fall under the category of a Master.

Master is such a strange concept. But I use the term Master since it does refer to this process of connection and when teaching others I am at times a Taoist Master, at other times not.

It all just depends. To me it makes no difference as I remain myself through the whole debatable issue of language.

peace

PS tomorrow I will chat about how does a person find a Master, or "validate" a Master is a Master.