Eye of the Beholder
Force visage. You may wonder to yourself what that means. I for one find this technique used by the wisest and humble of Jedi. Basically, I define it as the ability of allowing a person to believe in a certain quality you are portraying to represent, and not of what you really are. This is used simply in order to teach lessons that inspire people, not to trick them.
The first time I really notice it from was Yoda. He mainly used it with Luke Skywalker to clarify an important ideal of the Jedi - you shouldn�t base one�s ability by looks alone.
When Luke first met glance with Yoda, his first thoughts of the Jedi Master was that he is a curious brute hanging around wanting to cause trouble. Even when he began to get to know Yoda, Yoda kept his patience and maintained an elementary trait which one could not easily sense a great being as himself to portray. Even when Luke walked inside the hut and went to eat a meal there, Yoda still was silent about his true identity - only to let the Force adept realize for himself who Yoda really was, not Yoda himself.
You see, what all of us need to realize is that one should at first get to the point where ability doesn�t always come from those who allow themselves to show their skill. Many of us know and understand many things, yet we do not always reveal them so that the people we are performing it to do not get so overwhelmed all of the sudden. That is why the Jedi believe that one should only teach a little at a time to allow a Force student to adapt to the changes given to them.
The way this is done varies from teacher to teacher. Yet really, the main point of it all is that even though one may seem to be weak, one can be strong. When one may seem to be ignorant, one can be knowledgeable. Yet after constant practice, a person can interpret another person very obviously. That is why it is easy for some people to glance at someone by their actions and believe that person is a Jedi without he or she saying it.
In order to discern a the person really is, you should first be patient and notice the reality of the character the person is portraying. If you do that, then you will know by contemplating the way they are truly represented - and learn the lesson being taught.
...Jedi Relan Volkum
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