Check your symbol study, self-practice and questions before preparing for attunement.
Why this matters
The attunement chapter asks you to make choices about a ceremony. Before that, it helps to know what you have actually studied and practised.
This review is formative. It is not a test you can fail, and it does not decide whether you are worthy of an attunement.
Check three areas
Give yourself ten quiet minutes. Use your notes and the manual. For each area, write one sentence that is true today.
- Symbol study: Can you find the Dai Ko Myo reference, keep Dumo and Raku separate, and describe one traditional use without promising a medical result?
- Personal practice: Do you have a comfortable session you can repeat, including a shorter version for a busy day?
- Questions: Do you have one practical question and one meaning question for a teacher?
A worked check
Imagine your notes say: “I can find page 11 and draw the top character from memory. I still confuse Dumo with Dai Ko Myo. I practise for ten minutes on Sundays, but not on weekdays. I want to ask whether the teacher uses the page-60 ceremony.”
That is a useful starting point. Your next steps might be: label the two symbols on separate pages, choose one five-minute weekday practice, and take the ceremony question to the teacher. You do not need to fix everything before reading the next chapter.
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Sources and further reading
- Level 3 manual, page 11 — Master-symbol reference.
- Level 3 manual, page 13 — Symbol use as an aid to focus.
- Level 3 manual, page 60 — The Level 3 ceremony described in the next chapter.
- After a third-degree course — First-party guidance on continuing practice and the meaning of course completion.