I saw a documentary yesterday about Master Chef Yan Jingxiang. He is a humble man with little education. He was sent to the kitchen to work at the age of 5 because his parents were too poor to send him to school. He knows little except for what is inside a Chinese kitchen. But when he is inside his kitchen, what he does is nothing short of magic.
All children have the potential to become masters. Which kind of masters depends on how they choose. Whether you like to admit it or not, each of us constantly struggles with this choice...to become a master or to remain a child...or any kinds of combination in between. A child seeks an answer for everything. A master seeks answers only for himself.
The choice to become a master requires sacrifices...including all your "other potentials". A child has many hearts, but a master has only one heart. Being a master is being the purest of that heart. It is an act of living your purpose with all your mind and soul. To do that, you must forego other gifts. The universe must destroy something before it can manifest something else. We cannot be expected to do anything less.
To know your path is to be blessed. Once the choice is made, there is no longer struggle. What remains is the task of removing excess knowledge. Master Chef Yan Jingxiang does not know the difference between a treble clef and a bass clef, nor does he care to. He is a wizard in his own universe...and everything that he needs to know outside his kitchen can be drawn from his own universe.
All children have the potential to become masters. Which kind of masters depends on how they choose. Whether you like to admit it or not, each of us constantly struggles with this choice...to become a master or to remain a child...or any kinds of combination in between. A child seeks an answer for everything. A master seeks answers only for himself.
The choice to become a master requires sacrifices...including all your "other potentials". A child has many hearts, but a master has only one heart. Being a master is being the purest of that heart. It is an act of living your purpose with all your mind and soul. To do that, you must forego other gifts. The universe must destroy something before it can manifest something else. We cannot be expected to do anything less.
To know your path is to be blessed. Once the choice is made, there is no longer struggle. What remains is the task of removing excess knowledge. Master Chef Yan Jingxiang does not know the difference between a treble clef and a bass clef, nor does he care to. He is a wizard in his own universe...and everything that he needs to know outside his kitchen can be drawn from his own universe.
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