- E.)
A WARRIOR'S LIFE
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1. PATH WITH A
HEART
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- DESTINY OF A WARRIOR
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- THE FORCE THAT RULES OUR DESTINIES IS OUTSIDE
OF OURSELVES AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR ACTS OF
VOLITION.
- The force that rules our destinies is outside
of ourselves and has nothing to do with our acts of volition. ..in
view of my total lack of control over the forces which decide my
destiny, my only possible freedom in that ravine (story of ravine
SRP,248) consisted in tying my shoelaces impeccably. SRP,248. ..as
average men we would never know that it was something utterely
real and functional - our connecting link with intent - which gave
us our hereditary preoccupation with fate. CC , POS,
63
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- I WON'T SAY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO FULFILL YOUR
DESTINY, BECAUSE THERE IS NO DESTINY.
- I won't say that you're about to fulfill your
destiny, because there is no destiny. TOP,143.
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- THE COURSE OF A WARRIOR'S DESTINY IS
UNALTERABLE.. THE CHALLENGE IS HOW FAR HE CAN GO WITHIN THOSE
RIGID BOUNDS, HOW IMPECCABLE HE CAN BE WITHIN THOSE RIGID BOUNDS.
- The course of a warrior's destiny is
unalterable.. the challenge is how far he can go within those
rigid bounds, how impeccable he can be within those rigid bounds.
If there are obstacles in his path, the warrior strives impeccably
to overcome them. If he finds unbearable hardship and pain on his
path, he weeps, but all his tears put together could not move the
line of his destiny the breadth of one hair. EG,106. ....In the
life of a warrior there is only one thing, one issue alone which
is really undecided: how far one can go on the path of knowledge
and power. That is an issue which is open and no one can predict
its outcome. I once told you that the freedom of a warrior has is
either to act impeccably or to act like a nincompoop. TOP,241.
Power comes only after we accept our fate without recriminations.
SRP,85.
- ..it did not matter what our specific fate was
as long as we faced it with ultimate abandon. POS,116
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- IT IS ALWAYS UP TO US INDIVIDUALLY TO FULFILL
OR TO FLUB OUR FATE.
- It is always up to us individually to fulfill
or to flub our fate. TSC,161 A warrior could not possibly leave
anything to chance, that a warrior actually affected the outcome
of events by the force of his awareness and his unbending intent.
SRP,110. We choose only once..we choose to be warriors or to be
ordinary men. A second choice does not exist. Not on this earth.
SRP,245
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- CHOOSING A
PATH
-
- THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PATH AND THAT EACH ONE
IS ONLY A PATH
- The devil's weed is only one of a million
paths. Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must
always keep in mind a path is only a path; TDJ,106
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- ALL PATHS ARE THE SAME, THEY LEAD NOWHERE: TO
YOUR DEATH
- All paths are the same: they lead nowhere.
They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own
life I could say I have traversed long,long paths, but I am not
anywhere. TDJ,106 .....I have learned that the countless paths one
traverses in one's life are all equal. Oppressors and oppressed
meet at the end, and the only thing that prevails is that life was
altogether too short for both. SR,143
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- CHOOSING
A PATH WITH HEART
-
- A WARRIOR MUST CHOOSE TO FOLLOW A PATH WITH
HEART
- in his day-to-day life a warrior chooses to
follow the path with heart. it is the consistent choice of the
path with heart which makes a warrior different from the average
man. SR,217,218.
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- THE THINGS A WARRIOR SELECTS TO MAKE HIS
SHIELDS ARE THE ITEMS OF A PATH WITH HEART.
- The things a warrior selects to make his
shields are the items of a path with heart.
SR,217,218.
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- HOW
DO YOU KNOW IT IS A PATH WITH HEART?
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- LOOK AT EVERY PATH CLOSELY AND DELIBERATELY.
TRY IT AS MANY TIMES AS YOU THINK NECESSARY
- I warn you. Look at every path closely and
deliberately. Try it as many times as you thing necessary. TDJ,106
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- ASK YOURSELF" DOES THIS PATH HAVE A HEART?"
- Then ask yourself and yourself alone, one
question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My
benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood
was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it.
I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart?TDJ,106 A
diablero is a diablero and a warrior is a warrior. or a man can be
both. There are enough people who are both. But a man who only
traverses the paths of life is everything. Today I am neither a
warrior nor a diablero. For me there is only the traveling on the
paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. there
I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse
its full length. And there I travel-looking, looking,
breathlessly. TDJ,182.
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- TO KNOW IF IT HAS A PATH WITH HEART YOU MUST
HAVE CLARITY WHICH COMES FROM A DISCIPLINED LIFE
- To have such clarity you must lead a
disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a
path, and there is no affront(insult), to oneself or to others, in
dropping it if that is what your heart tells you what to do.
TDJ,106
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- WHEN THE WARRIOR IS AT ONE WITH THE PATH, HE
EXPERIENCES A GREAT PEACE AND PLEASURE TRAVERSING ITS
LENGTH.
- he knows that a path has heart when he is one
with it, when he experiences a great peace and pleasure traversing
its length. SR,217,218
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- IF THE PATH HAS HEART THEN IT MAKES FOR A
JOYFUL JOURNEY, IT MAKES YOU STRONG, THE OTHER WILL MAKE YOU CURSE
YOUR LIFE, IT WEAKENS YOU
- My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does
this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it
doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has
heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long
as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you
curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
TDJ,106
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- A PATH WITH HEART IS EASY, IT DOES NOT MAKE
YOU WORK AT LIKING IT. A PATH WITHOUT HEART IS NEVER EASY, YOU
HAVE TO WORK HARD EVEN TO TAKE IT.
- Does this path have a heart? If the answer is
no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.. the
trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally
realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is
ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to
deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never
enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it... a path with
heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it. TDJ,158.
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- LEAVING A
PATH
-
- IF YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD NOT BE ON A PATH, YOU
MUST NOT STAY WITH IT UNDER ANY CONDITIONS
- if you feel you should not follow it, you must
not stay with it under any conditions. TDJ,106
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- YOUR DECISION TO KEEP ON THE PATH OR TO LEAVE
IT MUST BE FREE OF FEAR OR AMBITION
- But your decision to keep on the path or to
leave it must be free of fear or ambition. TDJ,106 I have told you
that to choose a path you must be free from fear and ambition. But
the smoke blinds you with fear, and the devil's weed blinds you
with ambition. the desire to learn is not ambition. It is our lot
as men to want to know, but to seek the devil's weed is to bid for
power, and that is ambition, because you are not bidding to
know.... and the next thing, the path without a heart will turn
against men and destroy them. it does not take much to die, and to
seek death is to seek nothing. TDJ,159.
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- THE
WORLD OF DAY-TO-DAY LIFE
-
- THE WORLD OF MEN IS THE ONLY WORLD WE CAN
CHOOSE.
- You think there are two worlds for you - two
paths. But there is only one. The protector showed you this with
unbelievable clarity. The only world available to you is the world
of men, and that world you cannot choose to leave. You are a man!
TDJ,150
- The protector showed you the world of
happiness where there is no difference between things because
there is no one there to ask about the difference. But that is not
the world of men. The protector shook you out of it and showed you
how a man thinks and fights. That is the world of man! TDJ,150.
And to be a man is to be condemned to that world. You have the
vanity to believe you live in two worlds, but that is only your
vanity. There is but one single world for us. We are men and must
follow the world of men contentedly. TDJ,151.
-
- THERE IS NO WAY TO ESCAPE THE DOING OF OUR
WORLD, SO WHAT A WARRIOR DOES IS TO TURN HIS WORLD INTO HIS
HUNTING GROUND.
- This is your world...pointing to the busy
street outside the window. You are a man of that world. JTI,214..
and out there, in that world, is your hunting ground. There is no
way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to
turn his world into his hunting ground. As a hunter, a warrior
knows that the world is made to be used. So he uses every bit of
it. A warrior is like a pirate that has no qualms in taking and
using anything he wants, except that the warrior doesn't mind or
he doesn't feel insulted when he is used and taken himself.
JTI,214.
-
- A WARRIOR DOESN'T EVER LEAVE THE ISLAND OF THE
TONAL. HE USES IT.
- A warrior doesn't ever leave the island of the
tonal. He uses it. TOP,153. This is your world you can't renounce
it. It is useless to get angry and feel disappointed with oneself.
All that proves is that one's tonal is involved in an internal
battle; a battle within one's tonal is one of the most inane
contests I can think of. The tight life of a warrior is designed
to end that struggle. From the beginning I have taught you to
avoid wear and tear. Now there is no longer a war within you, not
as it used to be, TOP,153.
-
- LIVING
ITSELF IS SUFFICIENT IN THE JOURNEY
- You have everything needed for the extravagent
journey that is your life. I have tried to teach you that the real
experience is to be a man, and that what counts is being alive;
life is the little detour that we are taking now. Life in itself
is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. TOP,56.
- DJ synthesized the rationale of his whole
knowledge in the metaphor that the most important thing for him
was to find a path with heart and then travel its length, meaning
that the identification with the amenable alternative was enough
for him. The journey by itself was sufficient; any hope of
arriving at a permanent position was outside the boundaries of his
knowledge. TDJ,198.
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- 2.
THE MIND/RATIONAL
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- WHAT IS THE MIND?
-
- THE MIND IS NOTHING BUT THE SELF-REFLECTION OF
THE INVENTORY OF MAN
- The mind, for a seer, is nothing but the
self-reflection of the inventory of man. If you lose that
self-reflection, but don't lose your underpinnings, you actually
live an infinitely stronger life than if you had kept it.
FFW,139.
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- WHAT
DOES THE MIND DO?
-
- THE HUMAN MIND NEVER RESTS.. IMAGES, HOPES,
REGRETS,IMPULSES.. MOST OF THE TIME IT WANDERS
- The human mind...never rests..it goes here,
there,ceaselessly moving through sensations, images, thoughts,
hopes,regrets, impulses. Occasionally it does solve a problem or
make necessary plans, but most of the time it wanders at large,
simply because we do not know how to keep it quiet or profitably
engaged. EE,M,58. This desire for attention not only leads us into
affections of dress, speech and gesture; it also divides our
consciousness. EE, M,171.....peace of mind cannot depend on
external circumstances. EE, M, 210.
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- HOW
DO SORCERERS USE/CONTROL THEIR MINDS?
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- SORCERER'S HAVE TO CULTIVAT THE MIND IN
WHATEVER FORM THEY CAN
- ..sorcerers have to cultivate their minds, in
whatever form they can. TAOD, 8...
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- ONLY WITH SOUNDNESS OF MIND CAN AWARENESS BE
ENHANCED
- In order to enhance awareness, there is no
risk we should not run, no means we should refuse. Bear in mind,
however, that only soundness of mind can awareness be enhanced.
TAOD,184... only a human being who was a paragon of reason could
move his AP easily and be a paragon of silent knowledge...
POS,243...Since all acts were predetermined and obligatory, a man
of knowledge needed soundness of judgement. This concept did not
imply common sense, but did imply the capacity to assess the
circumstances surrounding any need to act. TDJ,193.
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- THINKING
-
- BY THINKING HE MEANT THE CONSTANT IDEA THAT WE
HAVE OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD.
- by thinking he meant the constant idea that we
have of everything in the world. SR,84
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- THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF THINKING
- there are two types of thinking.... POS,133
One was average day-to-day thinking which was ruled by the normal
position of his AP. it was muddled thinking that did not really
answer his needs and left great murkiness in his head. POS,133 The
other was precise thinking. it was functional, economical and left
very few things unexplained. Don Juan remarked that for this type
of thinking to prevail the AP had to move. Or at least the
day-to-day type thinking had to stop to allow the AP to shift.
Thus the apparent contridiction, which was really no contradiction
at all. POS,133 the only way to think clearly is to not think at
all...POS,133
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- OUR THOUGHTS CAUSE OUR BODY TO MOVE ALONG A
CERTAIN PATH
- whenever we have a thought.. our energy moves
in the direction of that thought. Thoughts are like scouts; they
cause the body to move along a certain path. TSC,72.
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- PURPOSE OF TRAINING THE INTELLECT AS A WAY TO
KEEP THE MIND OCCUPIED SO THAT GETTING TO THE DOUBLE BECOMES
EASIER.
- ..training the intellect is a bona-fide
sorcerers subterfuge. by deliberately keeping the mind occupied in
analysis and reasoning, sorcerers are free to explore, unimpeded,
other areas of perception. In other words, while the rational side
is busy with the formality of academic pursuits, the energetic or
nonrational side, which sorcerers call the double is kept occupied
with the fulfillment of sorcery tasks. in this way, the suspicious
and analytic mind is less likely to interfere or even notice what
is going on at the nonrational level.TSC,xii.
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- WOMEN SHOULD DEVELOP THEIR
INTELLECT
- They (the sorcerers) felt it is indispensable
that women develop their intellects and enhance their capacity for
analysis and abstraction in order to have a better grasp of the
world around them. TSC,xii
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- REALIZATIONS/UNDERSTANDING
NEW THINGS
-
- THERE
ARE TWO KINDS OF REALIZATIONS
-
- 1) EMOTIONAL OUTBURSTS
- Realizations are of two kinds. One is just pep
talk, great outbursts of emotion and nothing more. FFW,219. That's
the trouble with people that go wild, they go wild both ways.
Yesterday you were all questions, today you are all acceptance.
TOP,76 .....don't count on emotional realizations. Let your AP
move first, then years later have the realization.
FFW,203
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- 2) AS A RESULT OF A SHIFT OF THE
AP
- The other is a product of a shift of the AP;
it is not coupled with an emotional outburst but with action. The
emotional realizations come years later after warriors have
solidified, by usage, the new position of their AP. FFW,219
...realizations are a dime a dozen; they don't amount to anything
in the life of warriors, because they are cancelled out as the AP
shifts. FFW,265.
-
- THE NEED FOR UNEMOTIONAL REALIZATIONS, ONE
NEEDS SOBRIETY, NOT EMOTIONALITY
- the new seers placed the highest value on deep
unemotional realizations.. to understand one needs sobriety, not
emotionality. Beware of those who weep with realization, for they
have realized nothing. There are untold dangers in the path of
knowledge for those without sober understanding FFW,71
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- TO HAVE A TRUE REALIZATION (I.E. TO MOVE THE
AP) ONE NEEDS PERSONAL POWER
- it doesn't matter what one reveals or what one
keeps to oneself...everything we do, everything we are, rests on
our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word uttered to
us might be sufficient to change the course of our lives. But if
we don't have enough personal power, the most magnificent piece of
wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn
bit of difference. TOP,14...I'm going to utter perhaps the
greatest piece of knowledge anyone can voice. let me see what you
can do with it. Do you know at this moment you are surrounded by
eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity, if you
so desire? Do you know that you extend yourself forever in any of
the directions I have pointed to?..Do you know that one moment can
be eternity? This is not a riddle; it's a fact, but only if you
mount that moment and use it to take the totality of yourself
forever in any direction. you didn't have this knowledge before..
Now you do. I have revealed it to you, but it doesn't make a bit
of difference, because you don't have enough personal power to
utilize my revelation. yet if you did have enough power, my words
alone would serve as the means for you to round up the totality of
yourself and to get the crucial part of it out of the boundaries
in which it is contained. We are luminous beings ..and for a
luminous being only personal power matters. TOP,15.
-
- PERSONAL POWER DECIDES WHO CAN OR WHO CANNOT
PROFIT BY A REVELATION
- Personal power decides who can or who cannot
profit by a revelation; my experiences with my fellow men have
proven to me that very, very few of them would be willing to
listen; and of those few who listen even fewer would be willing to
act on what they listened to; and of those willing to act even
fewer have enough personal power to profit by their acts.
TOP,225....It'll take years for you to convince yourself and then
it'll take years for you to act accordingly. JTI,85.....To be
convinced means that you can act by yourself. JTI,157.
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- LEARNING
-
- LEARNING AT THE BEGINNING THE PERSON IS NEVER
CLEAR ABOUT THEIR OBJECTIVES FOR HE DOES NOT KNOW THE HARDSHIPS OF
LEARNING
- When a man starts to learn, he is never clear
about his objectives. His purpose is faulty; his intent is vague.
He hopes for rewards that will never materialize, for he knows
nothing of the hardships of learning. He slowly begins to
learn-bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts
soon clash. TDJ,84.
-
- LEARNING IS NEVER WHAT ONE EXPECTS
- What he learns is never what he pictured, or
imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what
one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, and the fear
the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly.
His purpose becomes a battlefield. TDJ,84.
-
- DRASTIC THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN FOR YOUR BODY TO
LEARN
- Very drastic things have to happen to you in
order for you to allow your body to profit from all you have
learned. JTI,213.
-
- LEARNING IS LIKE GOING TO WAR... WITH ABSOLUTE
CONFIDENCE
- ...One goes to knowledge or to war with fear,
with respect, aware that one is going to war, and with absolute
confidence in oneself. Put your trust in yourself, not me.
SR,88.... A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake,
with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to
knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and
whoever makes it will live to regret his steps. TDJ,52.
- I asked him why this was so and he said that
when a man has fulfilled those four requisites there are no
mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions
his acts lose the blundering quality of a fool's acts. If such a
man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle,
and there will be no pitiful regrets over that. TDJ,52.
-
- TO LEARN SOMETHING WE MUST BE CHALLENGED
CONTINOUSLY....
- The path of knowledge is a forced one. In
order to learn we must be spurred. In the path of knowledge we are
always fighting something, avoiding something, prepared for
something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater,
more powerful than us. The inexplicable forces will come to you.
Now it is the spirit of the water hole, later on it'll be your own
ally, so there is nothing you can do now but to prepare yourself
for the struggle. SR,214. Only as a warrior can one survive the
path of knowledge. SR,214
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- RATIONALIZING/SEEKING
EXPLANATIONS
-
- TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING AT ONCE IS NOT
POSSIBLE
- Your problem is that you want to understand
everything and that is not possible. if you insist on
understanding you're not considering your entire lot as a human
being. Your stumbling block is intact. Therefore, you have done
almost nothing in all these years. You have been shaken out of
your total slumber, true but that could have been accomplished
anyway by other circumstances. SR,258,259. You're chained! You're
chained to your reason. SR,260. There's nothing to understand.
understanding is only a small affair, so very small. SR,260
..there is no way to speed up understanding and that to dislodge
the AP is not enough. FFW,285 The act of dwelling on explanations
will put us right back where we don't want to be; that is, we'll
be thrown back into a view of the world, this time a much larger
view. TOP,238. In both cases there is no hope, ever, to understand
or to explain what we are witnessing. TOP,267,268.
-
- EVERYONE SHOULD SEEK EXPLANATIONS BUT NOT
NECESSARILY CONVENIENT ONES
- Sorcereres are men. We're creatures of
thought. We seek clarifications. Your flaw is to seek convenient
explanations, explanations that fit you and your world. What I
object to is your reasonableness. A sorcerer explains things in
his world too, but he's not as stiff as you. ..you're after the
reflection of your own idea. TOP,12.... (sorcerers should look for
explanations)..it's your duty to put your mind at ease. Warriors
do not win victories by beating their heads against walls but
overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over the walls; they don't
demolish them. TOP,55.
-
- WARRIORS SHOULD NOT MAKE THINGS
INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTO AN INVENTORY OF THE FIRST
ATTENTION
- but there is a danger of turning something
incomprehensible into something somber and foreboding... hence his
recommendation was to keep incomprehensible things
incomprehensible rather than making them part of the inventory of
the first attention. FFW,276.
-
- RATIONALIZING SOMETHING DOES NOT VERIFY IT NOR
WILL IT ALTER OUR LIVES
- I was merely intuiting a truth, and that to
reason it out was not to verify it. FFW,53 ..he went on to say
that conclusions arrived at through reasoning had very little or
no influence in altering the course of our lives. FFW,53 Hence,
the countless examples of people who have the clearest convictions
and yet act diametrically against them again and again; and have
as the only explanation for their behavior is the idea that to err
is human.. FFW,53 our rationality alone cannot come up with an
answer about the reason for our existence. Every time it tries,
the answer turns into a matter of beliefs.... FFW,54,55 (Real and
true changes in the person comes only from experiences with the
spirit, not intellectual discussions... this is why twelve step
programs are effective (person is at the end of their rope, thus
the spirit is more available to them).. and why people turn to
religion... Faith moves mountains.
-
- THE ONE WAY BRIDGE FROM REASON TO SILENT
KNOWLEDGE IS CALLED PURE UNDERSTANDING
- And the other one-way bridge, from reason to
silent knowledge, was called pure understanding. That is, the
recognition that told the man of reason that reason was only one
island in an endless sea of islands...any human being who had both
one-waybridges working was a sorcerer in direct contact with the
spirit, the vital force that made both positions possible. POS,
243, 244
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- WISDOM
-
- WISDOM ALWAYS COMES TO US PAINFULLY AND
SLOWLY
- wisdom always comes to us painfully and in
driblets.POS, 72..
- Knowledge is a most peculiar affair...
especially for a warrior. Knowledge for a warrior is something
that comes at once, engulfs him and passes on. Knowledge comes
floating like specks of gold dust, the same dust that covers the
wings of moths. So, for a warrior, knowledge is like taking a
shower, or being rained in by specks of dark gold dust. TOP,33.
-
- THE BODY RALLIES ITS KNOWLEDGE IN A SLOW
AFFAIR, REGARDLESS OF OUR DESIRE
- there is no way on earth that we can order
anyone or ourselves to rally knowledge. it is rather a slow
affair; the body, at the right time and under the proper
circumstances of impeccabiltiy, rallies its knowledge without the
invervention of desire. EG,273.
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- KINDNESS IS NEEDED WITH WISDOM
- there is no completeness without sadness and
longing, for with out them there is no sobriety, no kindness.
Wisdom without kindness and knowledge without sobriety are
useless. FFW,12.
-
- KNOWLEDGE GATHERS ENERGY AND THEREFORE
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
- Knowledge gathers energy, therefore knowledge
is power. TSC,106. Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds.
What is the sense of knowing things that are useless. TDJ,24.
Knowledge is power. It takes a long time to harness enough power
to even talk about it. JTI,152...
-
- The reason why people can't use any knowledge
given to them is because they first need to learn to do it..like
reading or writing.. its a skill to be learned, that's all (good
thought..needs to be reworded though.) 6/20/94
- Shouldn't it be action is power? because even
if you know how to do it but you do not have the strength/ability
then all is for naught. 5/31/97
-
- KNOWLEDGE IS FRIGHTENING
- Knowledge is frightening..but if a warrior
accepts this frightening nature of knowledge he cancels out its
awesomeness. TOP,33.
-
- THE ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE IS CONSIDERED
INTELLIGENCE IN THE SORCERER'S WORLD
- In order to be intelligent in my world... you
must be able to concentrate, to fix your attention on any concrete
thing as well as on any abstract manifestation.
TSC,88.
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- 3.
MAKING CHANGES
-
- MAKING CHANGES IN OUR LIVES
-
- WE CAN NEVER REALLY CHANGE UNTIL WE DROP OUR
HUMAN FORM
- A warrior must drop the human form in order to
change, to really change. otherwise there is only talk about
change.. it is useless to think or hope that one can change one's
habits. SRP,141. One cannot change one iota as long as one holds
on to the human form.... SRP,141. During the years with DJ I had
certainly experienced a steady lessening of personal ties with the
world, but that had taken place on an intellectual plane; in my
everyday life I was unchanged until the moment I lost my human
form. EG,113.
-
- CHANGES ARE DIFFICULT AND HAPPEN VERY SLOWLY
SLOW
- Unfortunately, changes are difficult and
happen very slowly; sometimes it takes years for a man to become
convinced of the need to change...it took me
years...JTI,79
-
- WE CAN GIVE UP THINGS JUST LIKE THAT
- People hardly ever relize that we can cut
anything from our lives, any time, just like that.
JTI,8.
-
- WHEN A CHANGE DOES HAPPENS IT HAPPENS
FAST
- The changing I'm talking about never takes
place by degrees; it happens suddenly. And you are not preparing
yourself for that sudden act that will bring a total change.
JTI,82.
-
- TO CHANGE WE MUST MEET THREE
CONDITIONS
- To change we need to meet three conditions...
TSC,62. first we must announce out loud our decision to change so
that intent will hear us. TSC,62. Second, we must engage our
awareness over a period of time: We can't just start something and
give it up as soon as we become discouraged. TSC,62. (I think for
me the most difficult thing was to really want to change...a good
hunter changes his ways as often as he needs. JTI,79 ...the more
stubborn you are the better it'll be when you finally succeed in
changing yourself. JTI,80. Third, we have to view the outcome of
our actions with a sense of complete detachment. This means we
can't get involved with idea of succeeding or failing. TSC,62.(a
warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his
business to try to change, even though he won't be able to. That's
the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. SRP,141
Follow these three steps and you can change any unwanted feelings
and desires in you. TSC,62.
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- THE WARRIOR IS NEVER DISAPPOINTED WHEN HE
FAILS TO CHANGE
- The warrior is never disappointed when he
fails to change. SRP,141
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- 4.
STRATEGY
-
- HOW DOES A WARRIOR LIVE?
-
- A WARRIOR PROCEEDS STRATEGICALLY
- ...A warrior proceeds strategically.
JTI,xi....A warrior lives strategically... SR,204 ....Life for a
warrior is an exercise in strategy..but you want to find the
meaning of life. A warrior doesn't care about meanings. SR,181
When I speak of designs, I mean sublime designs; manuvers for a
daring spirit. TSC,95.
-
- A WARRIOR NEVER CARRIES LOADS HE CANNOT
HANDLE
- a warrior never carries loads he cannot
handle. SR,204
-
- WHEN WE ACT WITH OUR FELLOW HUMANS WE MUST
FOLLOW THE DOING OF STRATEGY
- When he has to act with his fellow man, a
warrior follows the doing of strategy and in that doing there are
no victories or defeats. in doing there are only actions...
JTI,227
-
- THE DOING OF STRATEGY ENTAILS THAT ONE IS NOT
AT THE MERCY OF PEOPLE
- the doing of strategy entails that one is not
at the mercy of people.. at that party you were a clown, not
because it served your purposes to be a clown but because you
placed yourself at the mercy of those people. You never had any
control and thus you had to run away from them. You should have
not gone there at all, or else go there to perform a specific act.
JTI,227
-
- AVAILABILITY
OF A WARRIOR
-
- A WARRIOR IS NOT AVAILABLE
- A warrior is not a willing partner; a warrior
is not available, SR,180...If a hunter wants to travel at night or
if he wants to kept awake he must make himself available to the
wind.JTI,66... a warrior is never available; never is he standing
on the road waiting to be clobbered. Thus he cuts to a minimum his
chance for the unforeseen. What you call accidents are, most of
the time, very easy to avoid, except for fools who are living
helter-skelter. SR,182. therein lies the secret of great hunters.
To be available and unavailable at the precise turn of the road.
JTI,66...
-
- TO BE AVAILABLE DID NOT MEAN TO HIDE OR TO BE
SECRETIVE BUT TO BE INACCESSIBLE.
- that to be available did not mean to hide or
to be secretive but to be inaccessible. It makes no difference to
hide if everybody knows that you are hiding..at one time in my
life I, like you, made myself available over and over again until
there was nothing of me left for anything except perhaps crying.
JTI,66...you must take yourself away..you must retrieve yourself
from the middle of a trafficked way. Your whole being is there,
thus it is no use to hide; you would only image you are hidden.
Being in the middle of the road means that eveyone passing by
watches your comings and goings. JTI,67. you lost her because you
were accessible, you were always within her reach and your life
was a routine one...it was an unusual routine and that gives you
the impression that it is not a routine, but I assure it is. you
stayed with her day after day, until the only feeling that
remained was boredom...JTI,69.
- To be unavailable means that you deliberately
avoid exhausting yourself and others. JTI,70
-
- TO BE INACCESSIBLE MEANS TO TOUCH THE WORLD
AROUND YOU SPARINGLY.
- ..to be inaccessible means to touch the world
around you sparingly. You don't eat five quail; you eat one. you
don't damage the plants to make a barbecue pit. You don't expose
yourself to power of the wind unless its mandatory. You don't use
and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing,
especially the people you love. JTI,69 ...that to be inaccessible
does not mean to hide or to be secretive..it doesn't mean that you
cannot deal with people either. A hunter uses the world sparingly
and with tenderness, regardless of whether the world might be
things, or plants, or animal, or people or power. A hunter deals
intimately with his world and yet he is inaccessible to that same
world....he is inaccessible (even though he is in the world every
day)..because he is not squeezing his world out of shape. he taps
it lightly, stays as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves
away leaving hardly a mark....JTI,70.
-
- TO WORRY IS TO BECOME ACCESSIBLE
- ....To worry is to become accessible,
unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything
out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get
exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.
JTI,70
-
- INVENTORIES
USED AS STRATEGY
-
- WE ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE INVENTORY OF OURSELVES
BUT WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO WORSHIP IT
- The Eagle doesn't command us to worship our
inventory; it commands us to take it, that's all. FFW,92 Yet the
way out of obeying the commands (the Eagle's emanations) is in
obeying them... In the case of the inventory of the first
attention... seers take it, for they can't disobey. But once they
have it they throw it away. FFW,92
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- WARRIORS TAKE STRATEGIC INVENTORIES OF
ESSENTIAL BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS TO CONSERVE ENERGY
- warriors take strategic inventories.. they
list everything they do. then they decide which of those things
can be changed in order to allow themselves a respite, in terms of
expending their energy. this inventory only covered behavioral
patterns that were not essential to our survival and
well-being...FFW,31.
-
- 5.
DEATHAS AN ADVISER/AID
-
- WHAT IS WRONG WITH THINKING YOU ARE GOING
TO LIVE FOREVER?
-
- WE DON'T THINK ABOUT OUR ACTS
- Our most costly mistake as average men is
indulging in a sense of immortality. It is as though we believe
that if we don't think about death we can protect ourselves from
it...POS,120 ....Most people move from act to act without any
struggle or thought... JTI,85
-
- OUR ACTS ARE BORING/LIFE IS BORING
- Without the awareness of death he would be
only an ordinary man involved in ordinary acts. He would lack the
necessary potency, the necessary concentration that transforms
one's ordinary time on earth into magical power. Thus to be a
warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, become
keenly aware of his own death. SR,150. Power is showing you that
death is the indispensible ingredient in having to believe.
Without the awareness of death everything is ordinary, trivial. It
is only because death is stalking us that the world is an
unfathomable mystery. Power has shown you that.
TOP,114.
- ..without an awareness of the presence of our
death there is no power, no mystery. Having to believe that the
world is mysterious and unfathomable was the expression of a
warrior's innermost predilection. Without it he had nothing.
TOP,115.
-
- WE BECOME TIMID
- ...if you are going to die there is no time
for timidity, simply because timidity makes you cling to something
that exists only in your thoughts. it soothes you while everything
is at a lull, but then the awesome, mysterious world will open its
mouth for you, as it will open for every one of us, and then you
will realize that your sure ways were not sure at all. being timid
prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men. JTI,85.
....Your continuity only makes you timid..your acts cannot
possibly have the flair, the power, the complelling force of the
acts performed by a man who knows he is fighting his last battle
on earth. In other words, your continuity does not make you happy
or powerful. JTI,84.
-
- HOW
IS DEATH RELATED TO A WARRIOR?
-
- DEATH FOLLOWS A SORCERER ALONG THE
PATH
- By the time knowledge becomes a frightening
affair the man also realizes that death is the irreplaceable
partner that sits next to him on the mat. Every bit of knowledge
that becomes power has death as its central force. Death lends the
ultimate touch, and whatever is touched by death indeed becomes
power. A man who follows the paths of sorcery is confronted with
imminent annihilation every turn of the way, and unavoidably he
becomes keenly aware of his death. SR,150.
-
- DEATH IS A WARRIORS ONLY WORTHY
OPPONENT
- Sorcerers say that death is the only worthy
opponent we have..death is our challenger..we are born to take
that challenge... life is the process by means of which death
challenges us.. death is the active force..life is the arena and
in that arena there are only two contenders at any time: oneself
and death...we are passive..POS,122
-
- WARRIORS CHOOSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR EVENTUAL
DEATH
-
- to bring that awareness to the foreground..
that my volition alone was the deciding factor; in other words, I
had to make up my mind to bring that awareness to bear witness to
my acts. SRP,205.
-
- DON JUAN'S ALLY HAS SHOWN HIM
- (CC asks how DJ knows all of this).. I have my
ally. The little smoke has shown me my unmistakable death with
great clarity. That is why I can only talk about personal death.
SR,196. I know it because my ally has guided me to that stage.
(when death enters you luminous gap) SR,197,198
-
- DON JUAN'S COMMENT ON THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE
DEAD
- I don't understand why those people talk about
death as if death were like life (refferring to the Tibetan Book
of the Dead) SR,194
-
- DEATH IS A MUCH BETTER ADVISOR THAN
SELF-PITY
- Death is considered by a warrior to be a more
amenable adviser, which can also be brought to bear witness on
everything one does, just like self-pity, or wrath....after an
untold struggle you had to learn to fell sorry for your self..but
you can also learn in the same way to feel your impending end, and
thus you can learn to have the idea of your death at your
fingertips. As an adviser, self-pity is nothing in comparison with
death. TOP,234.
-
- HOW
DO WARRIORS MAKE THEMSELVES ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR
MORTALITY?
-
- SYMBOLIC
DEATH
-
- SYMBOLIC DEATH/REBIRTH/TICKET TO
IMPECCABILITY: YOU MUST INVALIDATE THE CONTINUITY OF YOUR OLD
LIFE
-
- for any sorcerer to have complete certainty
about his actions, or about his position in the sorcerer's world,
or to be capable of utilizing intelligently his new continuity, he
must invalidate the continuity of his old life. Only then can his
actions have the necessary assuredness to fortify and balance the
tenuousness and instability of his new continuity...modern
sorcerers call this process of invalidation.. the ticket to
impeccability, or the sorcerer's symbolic but final death.
POS,198.
- a sorcerers' ticket to freedom was his
death... and now we are equals in our condition of being
dead....the sorcerers' grand trick is to be aware of being dead.
POS,201... we can only really change if we die...
POS,254.
- There is nothing in this world that a warrior
cannot account for. You see, a warrior considers himself already
dead, so there is nothing for him to lose. the worst has already
happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his
acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has
witnessed everything. TOP,32.
-
- HOW
DO WARRIORS USE DEATH AS THEIR ADVISORS?
-
- DEATH REMINDS A WARRIOR THAT LIFE IS SHORT SO
THERE IS NO TIME TO GET CAUGHT UP IN THE PETTINESS OF
LIFE.
-
- ...the key to all these matters of
impeccability is the sense of having or not having time. As a rule
of thumb, when you feel and act like an immortal being that has
all the time in the world you are not impeccable; at those times
you should turn around, look around, and then you will realize
that your feeling of having time is idiocy. there are no survivors
on this earth. (???)
- An immortal being has all the time in the
world for doubts and bewilderment and fears. A warrior...cannot
cling to the meanings made under the tonal's order, because he
knows for a fact that the totality of himself has but a little
time on this earth. TOP,191. There's no future..the future is only
a way of talking. For a sorcerer ther is only the here and now.
TOP,203 The thing to do when you're impatient..is to turn to your
left and ask advice from your death..an immense amount of
pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if
you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that
your companion is there watching you. JTI,34. Think of your death
now..it is at arm's length. It may tap you any moment, so really
you have no time for crappy thoughts and moods. None of us have
time for that. JTI,39. Death is the only wise advisor we have.
Whenever you feel..that everything is going wrong and you're about
to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your
death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters
outside its touch. Your death will tell you, "I haven't touched
you yet". JTI,34. One of us here has to ask death's advice and
drop the cursed pettiness that belongs to men that live their
lives as if death will never tap them. JTI,35. This, whatever you
are doing now, may be the last act on earth. it may very well be
your last battle... If this were your last battle on earth, I
would say that you are an idiot...you are wasting your last act on
earth in some stupid mood. JTI,82 How can anyone feel so important
when we know that death is stalking us. JTI,34...
-
- DEATH BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN PEOPLE
-
- I would say that the best of us always comes
out when we are against the wall, when we feel that sword dangling
overhead. TOP,143. in the face of the unknown, man is
adventurous... it is a quality of the unknown that give us a sense
of hope and happiness... man feels robust, exhilarated. Even the
apprehension that it arouses is very fulfilling... man is at his
best in the face of the unknown..FFW,49,50
-
- DEATH MAKES PEOPLE CHANGE
- ...if you don't think your life is going to
last forever, what are you waiting for? Why the hesitation to
change. JTI,81. I insisted that to be bored with the world or to
be at odds with it was a human condition...DJ says..change it..if
you do not respond to that challenge you are as good as dead.
JTI,81.
-
- DEATH ALLOWS US TO HAVE COURAGE TO FACE
ANYTHING BECAUSE WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE
-
- warriors live with death at their side, and
from the knowledge that death is with them they draw the courage
to face anything...the worst thing that could happen to us is that
we have to die, and since that is already our unalterable fate, we
are free; those who have lost everything no longer have anything
to fear. FFW,260,261. the only deterrent to our despair was the
awareness of our death, the key to the sorcerer's scheme of
things. His idea was that the awareness of our death was the only
thing that could give us the strength to withstand the duress and
pain of our lives and our fears of the unknown... SRP,205. The
spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining,
nor is it geared to winning or losing. the spirit of a warrior is
geared only to the struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's
last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him.
In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free
and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his will is
impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs. SR,215. a warrior is
never under siege. To be under siege implies that one has personal
possessions that could be blockaded. A warrior has nothing in the
world except his impeccability, and impeccability cannot be
threatened. EG,215. She has nothing to lose any more. She's lost
everything already. When one has nothing to lose, one becomes
courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still
cling to. SRP,96. One is better off with nothing except one's
purpose and freedom. SRP,136. ...lets say that a rule of thumb for
you should be that when you come to see me you should come
prepared to die...if you come here ready to die, there shouldn't
be any pitfalls, or any unwelcome surprises, or any unnecessary
acts. Everything should fall gently into place because you're
expecting nothing. TOP,152. to put your life on the line in order
to back up your decisions, and then do quite alot more than your
best to realize those decisions. TAOD,155.. I have heard you say
time and time again that you are always prepared to die. I don't
regard that feeling as necessary. I think it is a useless
indulgence. A warrior should be prepared only to battle.
SR,215.
-
- THE IDEA OF DEATH GIVES US
SOBRIETY
- The idea of death is of monumental importance
in the life of a sorcerer.. the knowledge of our impending and
unavoidable end is what gives us sobriety. POS,120 without a clear
view of death, there is no order, no sobriety, no beauty.
Sorcerers struggle to gain this crucial insight in order to help
them realize at the deepest possible level that they have no
assurance whatsoever their lives will continue beyond the moment.
That realization gives sorcerers the courage to be patient and yet
take action, courage to be acquiescent without being stupid.
POS,120
-
- DEATH KEEPS A WARRIOR SHARP/CLEAR
- A warrior thinks of his death when things are
unclear...because the idea of death is the only thing that tempers
our spirit. SR,47. if I did not think of my death, my entire life
would be only a personal chaos... what else can a man have, except
his life and his death? SR,96.
-
- DEATH MAKES A WARRIOR TAKE ACTION LIKE IT WAS
THEIR LAST ACT ON EARTH
- if we move, it's only when we feel the
pressure of death. Death sets the pace for our actions and
feelings and pushes us relentlessly until it breaks us and wins
the bout or else we rise above all possibilities and defeat
death...POS,122 Focus your attention on the link between you and
your death, without remorse or sadness or worrying. Focus your
attention on the fact that you don't have time and let your acts
flow accordingly. Let each of your acts be your last battle on
earth. JTI,84...only under those conditions will your acts have
their rightful power. otherwise they will be, for as long as you
live, the acts of a timid man. JTI,85. I wanted to convince you
that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going
to be here for only a short while...JTI,81. A hunter...assesses
every act; and since he has intimate knowledge of his death, he
proceeds judiciously, as if every act were his last battle. Only a
fool would fail to notice the advantage a hunter has over his
fellow men. A hunter gives his last battle its due respect. It's
only natural that his last act on earth should be the best of
himself. It's pleasurable that way. it dulls the edge of his
fright. JTI,85 There are some people who are very careful about
the nature of their acts. Their happiness is to act with the full
knowledge that they don't have time, therefore their acts have a
peculiar power...acts have power.. especially when the person
acting knows that those acts are his last battle. There is a
strange consuming happiness in acting with the full knowledge that
whatever one is doing may very well be one's last act on earth. I
recommend that you reconsider your life and bring your acts into
that light. JTI,83
-
- DEATH FORCES US TO MAKE DECISIONS WITH FULL
RESPONSIBILITY AND NO REGRETS
- he must fully understand that his choice is
his responsibilty and once he makes it there is no longer time for
regrets or recriminations. His decisions are final, simply because
his death does not permit him time to cling to anything.
SR,151.
-
- DEATH MAKES A WARRIOR DO THINGS DELIBERATELY
AND WITH ENTHUSIASM
- And thus with an awareness of his death, with
his detachment, and with the power of his decisions a warrior sets
his life in a strategical manner. the knowledge of his death
guides him and makes him detached and silently lusty; the power of
his final decisions makes him able to choose without regrets and
what he chooses is always strategically the best; and so he
performs everything he has to with gusto and lusty effciency.
SR,151 When a warrior has acquired patience he is on his way to
will. he knows how to wait. his death sits with him on his mat,
they are friends. his death advises him, in mysterious ways, how
to choose, how to live strategically. SR,152. In a battle for
one's life..a warrior should use strategically use ever means
available. EG,216.
-
- DEATH MAKES A WARRIOR BECOME SUFFICIENTLY
DETACHED THAT HE/SHE BECOMES A MASTER OF HIS CHOICES
- But to be concerned with death would force any
one of us to focus on the self and that would be debilitating. So
the next thing one needs to be a warrior is detachment. the idea
of imminent death, instead of becoming an obsession, becomes an
indifference. SR,150. Only the idea of death makes a man
sufficiently detached so he is incapable of abandoning himself to
anything. Only the idea of death makes a man sufficiently detached
so he can't deny himself anything. A man of that sort, however,
does not crave, for he has acquired a silent lust for life and for
all things of life. He knows his death is stalking him and won't
give him time to cling to anything, so he tries, without craving,
all of everything. SR,151
- A detached man, who knows he has no
possibility of fencing off his death, has only one thing to back
himself with: the power of his decisions. he has to be, so to
speak, the master of his choices. SR,151
-
- WHAT
FINALLY HAPPENS BETWEEN SORCERERS AND DEATH?
-
- SORCERERS DEFEAT DEATH AND GO FREE
- sorcerers defeat death and death acknowledges
the defeat by letting the sorcerers go free, never to be
challenged again.POS,122
-
- OLD
AGE: THE FINAL STRUGGLE OF A WARRIOR
-
- AVEARAGE OLD MEN THINK THE WORLD HAS NO MORE
MYSTERY
- an average man doesn't do this though. (treat
the world as a mystery) The world is never a mystery for him and
when he arrives at old age he is convinced he has nothing more to
live for.SR,220 An old man has not exhausted the world. he has
only exhausted only what people do. But in his stupid confusion he
believes that the world has no more mysteries for him. What a
wretched price to pay for our shields. SR,220. To turn that
magnificence out there into reasonableness doesn't do anything for
you. here,surrounding us, is eternity itself. To engage in
reducing it to a manageable nonsense is petty and outright
disastrous. TOP,37.
-
- WHEN YOU BECOME OLD SOME PEOPLE BEGIN TO
SUSPECT THEIR TRUE NATURE BUT IT IS TOO LATE
- Don Juan asserted that during our active lives
we never have the chance to go beyond the level of mere
preoccupation, because since time immemorial the lull of daily
affairs has made us drowsy. It is only when our lives are nearly
over that our hereditary preoccupation with fate begins to take on
a different character. It begins to make us see through the fog of
daily affairs. Unfortunately, this awakening always comes in hand
in hand with loss of energy caused by aging, when we have no more
strength left to turn our preoccupation into a pragmatic and
positive discovery. At this point , all there is left is an
amphourous, piercing anguish, a longing for something
indescribable, and simple anger at having missed out. POS, 63
-
- FOURTH NATURAL ENEMY OF MAN: OLD
AGE.
- The man.. will be, by then, at the end of his
journey of learning, and almost without warning he will come upon
the last of his enemies. Old age! This enemy is the cruelest of
all, the one he won't be able to defeat completely, but only fight
away. This is the time when a man has no more fears, no more
impatient clarity of mind - a time when all his power is in check,
but also the time when he has an unyielding desire to rest. If he
gives in totally to his desire to lie down and forget, if he
soothes himself in tiredness, he will have lost his last round,
and his enemy will cut him down into a feeble old creature. His
desire to retreat will overule all his clarity, his power, and his
knowledge. TDJ,87... But if a man sloughs off his tiredness, and
lives his fate through, he can then be called a man of knowledge,
if only for a brief moment when he succeeds in fighting off his
last, invincible enemy. That moment of clarity, power and
knowledge is enough. TDJ,87.
-
- WARRIORS FIGHT THEIR DEATH
- A warrior does not abandon himself to
anything; not even his death. SR,172.....To die with elation is a
crappy way to die. A warrior dies the hard way.. His death must
struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.
TOP,76.
-
- PLACE TO DIE/TIME OF YOUR DEATH/DEATH
DANCE
- Every warrior has a place to die. A place of
his predilection which is soaked with unforgettable memories,
where powerful events left their mark, a place where he has
witnessed marvels, where secrets have been revealed to him, a
place where he has stored personal power. A warrior has an
obligation to go back to that place of his predilection every time
he taps power in order to store it there. He either goes there by
means of walking or by means of dreaming. And finally, one day
when his time on earth is up and he feels the tap of death on his
left shoulder, his spirit, which is always ready, flies to the
place of his predilection and there the warrior dances to his
death. JTI,153. Every warrior has a specific form, a specific
posture of power, which he develops throughout his life. It is a
sort of dance. A movement that he does under the influence of his
personal power. If a dying warrior has limited power, his dance is
short;if his power is grandiose, his dance is magnificent. But
regardless of whether his power is small or magnificent, death
must stop to witness his last stand on earth. Death cannot
overtake the warrior who is recounting the toil of his life for
the last time until he has finished his dance. Any man that hunts
power has to learn that dance. You must add the other movements
yourself as you go on living. Every new one must be obtained
during a struggle of power. So, properly speaking, the posture,
the form of the warrior, is the story of his life, a dance that
grows as he grows in personal power.JTI,154.
- A warrior is only a man. A humble man. He
cannot change the designs of his death. But his impeccable spirit,
which has stored power after stupendous hardships, can certainly
hold his death for a moment, a moment long enough to let him
rejoice for the last time in recalling his power. We may say that
that is a gesture which death has with those who have an
impeccable spirit. He said that the rabbit thumping he had taught
me was the first movement of the dance that a warrior groomed and
enlarged throughout his life, and then executed in his last stand
on earth. JTI,228.
-
- SOMETIMES
A WARRIOR CAN ACTUALLY ESCAPE DEATH
-
- ESCAPING
ACCIDENTAL DEATH
- sorcerers when faced with an accidental death
can move their AP with such speed that they can go to other
universes or burn within (ultimate freedom)... sorcerers commanded
their death. They died only when they had to. POS,213.
IMMORTALITY
- THERE IS NO WAY TO ASPIRE TO IMMORTALITY
AS LONG AS MAN HAS A COCOON.
- there is no way to aspire to immortality as
long as man has a cocoon. FFW,249.
-
- THROUGH AWARENESS, OUR PERSONAL AWARENESS DOES
NOT DISPERSE BUT EXPANDS AND UNITES WITH THE WHOLE
- A chance not to die was one of these
possibilities (when our wherehouse is empty).. the best
explanation of this extravagant alternative was offered by the
sages of Ancient China. TSC,111 They claimed that it is feasible
for one's personal awareness, or te, to link up knowingly with the
all-encompassing awareness or Tao. Then when death comes, one's
individual awareness is not dispersed in ordinary dying, but
expands and unites with the greater whole. TSC,112. there is a
belief handed from the ancient sorcerers, that if we would be able
to use our bodies as a weapon-or, put in modern terms, if we would
empty our wherehouses-we would be able to slip out of the world to
roam elsewhere. TSC,103. (we would go to) the realm of not-being,
to the shadow's world... it is believed that once our warehouse is
empty, we would become so light that we could soar through the
void and nothing would hinder our flight. Then we could return to
this world youthful and renewed...at this moment it is just a
belief...but moments, like all things, are known to change.
TSC,103.
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- BEING AWARE OF TIME IS A SPECIAL STATE OF
AWARENESS THAT PREVENTS US FROM AGING QUICKLY AND DYING IN A FEW
DECADES...
- Being aware of time is a special state of
awareness that prevents us from aging quickly and dying in a few
decades... TSC,103. For a seer, the truth is that all living
beings are struggling to die... what stops death is awareness.
FFW,91
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- WHERE DID DJ GO?: DESCRIPTION OF LITTLE RED
BUGS.
- Where did DJ go? (description of little
red bugs. SRP,284.)
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