The Third Jewel: The Mirror

Symbolic of calmness, serenity, and the essence of receptivity. It symbolizes: silence and claims no credit for the image it produces; formless, yet with out it no form would exist; a tool for creation; the universe is a mirror reflection of infinity (universe=finite; infinity=infinite); in Asian cultures man and cosmos are considered reflections of each other.

It should be contemplated and considered as reflective to martial attitude. It is another view into the koan of the ken-po goku-i. The goku-i explains the connectivity of man to the cosmos, i.e. heaven and earth; sun and moon; blood (energy:ki) and circulation (Ki flow). All that governs is here and the rest is the mind-body connectivity.

Self-reflection, Sense(i), and a holistically wholehearted way of living life and practicing. Mirror mirror on the wall, who is master of his own destiny after all? Mirror tells us that the master of the universe is man, self, the individual.

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