01-06-2011, 12:00 AM
Wei Shan Yang wrote:
"It is believed to gain power one must use power. Using power attracts power. Storing power short term is advised, the fi will eat your power if it can".
Storing power...now that's an interesting remark...how does one go about storing power?Storing power occurs in direct proportion to accumulating Knowledge. Knowledge will never fail you and even the FI cannot steal it from you. Belief, on the other hand, is fleeting, and easily dissected by doubt (which is one of the primary tools the FI uses - self-doubt). When your power is weakened by self-doubt, it is shed like a cat sheds hair and all the FI has to do is gather it up.* Knowledge cannot be weakened by the FI because it is rooted in personal experience, not just what you believe or what you read in a book. So to store power, the warrior must accumulate Knowledge - which can only be arrived at through direct personal experience.
At least that's how I've experienced it.
*There are several different ways of looking at the FI. Some warriors perceive it as an entity - something that has an agenda. Others see it as a byproduct of the tonal - not intelligent and having no agenda, but nonetheless a foreign mindset created largely by society/culture. Either way, the FI steals power by undermining intent and creating self-doubt. The ONLY way to avoid that is to amass Knowledge, which is the intersect point between intent and action - and at the same time, invulenrable to the FI.
"It is believed to gain power one must use power. Using power attracts power. Storing power short term is advised, the fi will eat your power if it can".
Storing power...now that's an interesting remark...how does one go about storing power?Storing power occurs in direct proportion to accumulating Knowledge. Knowledge will never fail you and even the FI cannot steal it from you. Belief, on the other hand, is fleeting, and easily dissected by doubt (which is one of the primary tools the FI uses - self-doubt). When your power is weakened by self-doubt, it is shed like a cat sheds hair and all the FI has to do is gather it up.* Knowledge cannot be weakened by the FI because it is rooted in personal experience, not just what you believe or what you read in a book. So to store power, the warrior must accumulate Knowledge - which can only be arrived at through direct personal experience.
At least that's how I've experienced it.
*There are several different ways of looking at the FI. Some warriors perceive it as an entity - something that has an agenda. Others see it as a byproduct of the tonal - not intelligent and having no agenda, but nonetheless a foreign mindset created largely by society/culture. Either way, the FI steals power by undermining intent and creating self-doubt. The ONLY way to avoid that is to amass Knowledge, which is the intersect point between intent and action - and at the same time, invulenrable to the FI.