06/01/2026
Food for Thought…
The importance of Spaced Repetition…
To learn a new skill… or acquire a new understanding… or to acquire a new principal, a new value…
We must do the right things, long enough, consistently… using spaced repetition…
From the Daoist way, learning is not a conquest but a returning…
The Dao unfolds in quiet rhythms… knowledge must be allowed to sink into the bones as rain into earth…
To cultivate a skill or to adopt a virtue is to engage with the movement of seasons… small, repeated acts gather like dew and become the river…
Spaced repetition is simply aligning practice with nature’s pulse… It honors the pattern of growth… sprout, pause, root, surge… rather than forcing a single unnatural thrust…
The sage knows that rushing breaks the leaf…
Wu wei teaches action without contention… practice without strain, repeated until habit becomes spontaneous…
Each repetition is a stepping-stone… each pause allows assimilation…
Forgetting is not enemy but teacher… in the pausing interval the mind sorts and strengthens what is essential…
Like the kiln that tempers clay through cycles of heat and cool, the learner is tempered by alternation of effort and rest…
The uncarved block is transformed not by a single blow but by patient, measured shaping…
Consistency is loyalty to the Dao of becoming…
A tiny habit, tended daily, becomes a mountain over years…
The valley gathers streams… streams become river…
Intensity without duration is like a firework… bright and gone…
The sage prefers the steady flame of a hearth that warms household generations…
Spaced repetition respects limits and honors renewal… it plants seeds when the soil is ready, and returns to water them before they dry…
In moral cultivation, values are rehearsed the way breath is practiced… repeatedly, rhythmically, until compassion and rectitude arise without calculation…
In skill, each practiced motion accrues to effortless art… In understanding, each review peels away confusion like moss from stone, revealing clarity beneath…
Therefore, practice the small again and again, but with mindful intervals…
The secret Is In the basics… repeated consistently…
Trust the slow curve of change…
Do not force… do not abandon…
Align with cyclical time, respect the pause, and let repetition be the quiet drum that guides transformation…
In that patient cadence, the Dao works, and the self becomes what it was meant to be…
Observe how bamboo bends in wind and returns unbroken… so does the learner who endures seasons of practice…
Habit deepens not by force but by gentle persistence, by returning to the root again and again until the pattern is woven into being…
Let your work be unhurried and intentional…
Let intervals be the quiet teachers that carve patience…
In time, growth will arrive, It Is inevitable…
All the Best!
H Perry Curtis, Master at Pampamisayoc Qigong
