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A WARRIOR'S LIFE
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6. UNBENDING
INTENT
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- WHAT IS UNBENDING INTENT?
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- A SPECIAL STATE OF MIND REQUIRING A RIGOUROUS,
FIERCE PURPOSE
- a rigourous, fierce purpose - a special state
of mind called unbending intent. POS,166..a sort of
single-mindedness human beings exhibit; an extremely well-defined
purpose not countermanded by any conflicting interests or
desires...POS,224 the catalyst to trigger a sorcerers unchangeable
decisions or as a converse: their unchangeable decisions were the
catalyst that propelled their AP to new positions, positions which
in turn generated unbending intent. POS,225.., POS,212
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- THE FORCE CREATED WHEN THE AP WAS IN ANOTHER
FIXED POSITION
- the force engendered when the AP was
maintained fixed in a position which was not the usual one.
POS,224
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- ALONG WITH SUSTAINED EFFORT IT IS A BASIC
QUALITY FOR WARRIORS
- two basic qualities of warriors: sustained
effort and unbending intent. FFW,214.
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- WHY
IS UNBENDING INTENT IMPORTANT FOR SORCERERS?
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- TO REVIVE THE CONNECTING LINK WITH
INTENT
- The average man's connecting link with intent
is practically dead, and the sorcerers begin with a link that is
useless, because it does not respond voluntarily. POS, 57. In
order to revive the link sorcerers needed (unbending intent)
Error! Not a valid link.
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- YOU MUST HAVE UNBENDING INTENT TO GET TO THE
CRACK IN THE WORLD
- To get there a man must exercise his will. he
must... develop an indomitable desire for it, a single-minded
dedication. But he must do it without the help of any power or any
man. The man by himself must ponder and wish up to a moment in
which his body is ready to undergo the journey. that moment is
announced by prolonged shaking of the limbs and violent vomiting.
The man usually cannot sleep or eat, and wanes away. When the
convulsions do not stop the man is ready to go, and the crack
between the worlds appears right in front of his eyes, like a
monumental door, a crack that goes up and down. when the crack
opens the man has to slide through it. TDJ,182.
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- TO BECOME A MAN OF KNOWLEDGE WE MUST NOT GIVE
UP
- ...in order to become a man of knowledge one
must be a warrior not a whimpering child. one must strive without
giving up, without a complaint, without flinching, until one sees,
only to realize then that nothing matters. SR,88.You have to have
an unbending intent in order to become a man of knowledge. SR,126
..all we needed to do in order to trap our second attention was to
try and try. All of us stopped the world by gazing at dry leaves.
You .. did it with power plants. SRP,258.
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- WITH UNBENDING INTENT A SORCERER WAS CAPABLE
OF CONTROLLING HIS FEELINGS
- .. there were lots of things that could drive
a man mad, especially if he did not have the resolution, the
purpose, required for learning; but when a man had a clear,
unbending intent, feelings were in no way a hinderance, for he was
capable of controlling them. TDJ,110
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- WAITING
FOR YOUR WILL
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- SORCERER MUST WAIT FOR HIS WILL
- Perhaps the first thing that one should do is
to know that one can develop the will. A warrior knows that and
proceeds to wait for it. Your mistake is not to know that you are
waiting for your will. SR,145.It is very difficult if not
impossible, for the average man to know what he is waiting for. A
warrior, has no problems; he knows that he is waiting for his
will. SR,146 I knew I was waiting and I knew what I was waiting
for. Right there is the great joy of warriorship. FFW,43 We go day
to day doing nothing. We are waiting. I will not tire of repeating
this: we know that we are waiting and we know what we are waiting
for. We are waiting for freedom. FFW,133 you must wait patiently,
knowing that you're waiting, and knowing what you're waiting for.
That is the warrior's way. SR,142 If you two decide to return to
this earth...you will have to wait like true warriors until your
tasks are fulfilled. TOP,276
- You must wait without looking back. You must
wait without expecting rewards. And you must aim all of your
personal power at fulfilling your tasks...If you don't act
impeccably, if you begin to fret and get impatient and desperate,
you'll be cut down mercilessly by the sharpshooters from the
unknown. TOP,277.
- It is up to us as single individuals to oppose
the forces of our lives. I have said this to you countless times;
only a warrior can survive. A warrior knows that he is waiting and
what he is waiting for ; and while he waits he wants nothing and
thus whatever little thing he gets is more than he can take. If he
needs to eat he finds a way, because he is not hungry; if
something hurts his body he finds a way to stop it because he is
not in pain. To be hungry or to be in pain means that the man has
abandoned himself and is no longer a warrior; and the forces of
his hunger and pain will destroy him. SR,142.
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- A WARRIOR LEARNS WITHOUT ANY HURRY BECAUSE HE
KNOWS HE IS WAITING FOR HIS WILL
- I would say that the warrior learns without
any hurry because he knows he is waiting for his will;
SR,152
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- HAVING WILL AND PATIENCE TO BUILD WHATEVER YOU
WANT
- A warrior has to use his will and his patience
to forget. in fact, a warrior has only his will and his patience
and with them he builds anything he wants. SR,145.
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- SHOULD KNOW THE NEED FOR WAITING FOR THE MOST
APPROPRIATE TIME TO LET GO OF SOMETHING THAT WE HOLD
- DJ used to stress the need for waiting for the
most appropriate time to let go of something that we hold.
EG,59
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- 6. MAKING
DECISIONS
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- HOW
DOES A WARRIOR MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS?
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- YOUR BODY KNOWS IF YOU MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE
OR NOT
- the reason why there is no way to do that
(imagining what your choice would have been instead of someone
else's) is because there are only right and wrong choices...if you
make a wrong choice your body knows it; and so does the body of
everyone else; but if you make the right choice the body knows
that and relaxes and forgets right away that there was a choice.
You reload your body, like a gun, for the next choice. If you want
to use your body again for making the same choice, it doesn't
work. TOP,212.
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- A RULE OF THUMB FOR A WARRIOR.. IS THAT HE
MAKES HIS DECISIONS SO CAREFULLY THAT NOTHING THAT MAY HAPPEN AS A
RESULT OF THEM CAN SURPRISE HIM, MUCH LESS DRAIN HIS
POWER
- A rule of thumb for a warrior.. is that he
makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a
result of them can surprise him, much less drain his power...to be
a warrior means to be humble and alert. TOP,152
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- BE CAREFUL AND DELIBERATE IN MY ACTIONS SO AS
NOT TO EXHAUST MY LIFE FORCE IN VAIN. WARRIORS DON'T DO ANYTHING
JUST TO AMUSE THEMSELVES.
- ..be careful and deliberate in my actions so
as not to exhaust my life force in vain. EG,247. warriors don't do
anything just to amuse themselves.. POS,71.
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- A WARRIOR IS IMPECCABLE WHEN HE TRUSTS HIS
PERSONAL POWER REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT IS SMALL OR
ENORMOUS.
- a warrior is impeccable when he trusts his
personal power regardless of whether it is small or enormous.
JTI,168.
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- ONCE YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION LEAVE IT
BEHIND
- Worry and think before you make any decision,
but once you make it, be on your way free from worries or
thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting
you. SR,47. His recommendation was that I should not have remorse
for anything I had done, because to isolate one's acts as being
mean, or ugly, or evil was to place an unwarranted importance on
the self. JTI,183. Warriors do their utmost, and then, without any
remorse or regrets, they relaxed and let the spirit decide the
outcome. POS,200 In this affair the only possible course that a
warrior has is to act consistently and without reservations.
TOP,14.
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- WARRIORS
NEED TO BE AWARE OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON THE
PATH..
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- BEING WIDE-AWAKE: ALWAYS KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE
DOING
- Since all the obligatory acts had a definite
purpose, a man of knowledge had to be wide awake; that is he
needed to be capable at all times of matching the definite purpose
of every obligatory act with the definite reason that he had in
mind for desiring to act. TDJ,197. ....You are aware of everything
only when you think you should be; the condition of a warrior,
however, is to be aware of everything at all times. TOP,177. a
warrior must notice everything... there lies his advantage.
SRP,184. and if he involves himself with something, you can be
sure that he is aware of what he is doing. SR,180
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- HAVING CLARITY
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- But in order to have such a powerful and clear
view, sorcerers have to reset their total being, and that takes
both understanding and power. Understanding comes from
recapitulating their lives, and power gathers from their
impeccable acts. TSC,212.
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- BEING AWARE AND KEEPING CONTACT WITH INNER
VOICE
- You yourself know that something in the
warrior is always aware of everything. It is precisely the aim of
the warrior's way to foster and maintain that awareness. The
warrior cleans it, shines it, and keeps it running. TOP,67 It's an
inner voice that tells you what's what. TOP,67 I knew perfectly
well that there is something inside me that always knows what's
what. I also knew that I supress its capacity to advise, because
what it tells me is usually contrary to what I expect or want to
hear. TSC,100.
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- USE
OMENS TO GUIDE YOU
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- BY BEING AWARE OF THE EXPECTED FLUX ONE WAS
SUPPOSED TO DETECT THE MOST SUBTLE CHANGES. THAT DELIBERATE
AWARENESS OF CHANGES ACCOUNTED FOR THE RECOGNITION AND
INTERPRETATIONS OF OMENS AND OF OTHER UN-ORDINARY
EVENT.
- By being aware of the expected flux one was
supposed to detect the most subtle changes. that deliberate
awareness of changes accounted for the recognition and
interpretations of omens and of other un-ordinary event.
TDJ,197.
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- AFTER A LIFETIME OF PRACTICE.. SORCERERS KNOW
IF THE SPIRIT IS INVITING THEM TO ENTER THE EDIFICE BEING FLAUNTED
BEFORE THEM... SO THEY ARE ALWAYS FOREWARNED, ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THE
SPIRIT HAS IN STORE FOR THEM.
- ..After a lifetime of practice.. sorcerers
know if the spirit is inviting them to enter the edifice being
flaunted before them... so they are always forewarned, always know
what the spirit has in store for them. POS,56 Sorcerer's always
took a first event of any series as the blueprint or the map of
what was going to develop subsequently. SRP,190.
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- INTERPRETATING
OMENS
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- EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO A WARRIOR COULD BE
INTERPRETED AS AN OMEN.
- Everything that happened to a warrior could be
interpreted as an omen. SRP,152. Crows flying or cawing are never
an agreement. JTI,20.
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- THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE (OF INTERPRETING OMENS
CORRECTLY)IS BY FOLLOWING ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS I HAVE BEEN GIVING
YOU, STARTING FROM THE FIRST DAY YOU CAME TO SEE ME..IN ORDER TO
HAVE POWER ONE MUST LIVE POWER.
- (How do you make the correct interpretations?)
the only way to be sure is by following all the instructions I
have been giving you, starting from the first day you came to see
me..in order to have power one must live power.
JTI,133.
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- WHEN A SORCERER INTERPRETED AN OMEN HE KNEW
ITS EXACT MEANING WITHOUT HAVING ANY NOTION OF HOW HE KNEW IT...
SORCERERS HAD A SENSE OF KNOWING THINGS DIRECTLY..HOW SURE THEY
WERE DEPENDED ON THE STRENGTH AND CLARITY OF THEIR CONNECTING
LINK.
- Every act performed by sorcerers.. was either
performed as a way to strengthen their link with intent or as a
response triggered by the link itself..so sorcerers must be always
looking for manifestations of the spirit..indications or omens.
POS,29
- ...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with
the same intensity and consistency, but only sorcerers, are
attuned to such revelations. POS, 31...Intent creates edifices
(silent voice of intent or the ulterior arrangement of the
abstract, knowledge without words, outside our immediate
comprehension.. to know the abstract directly without the
intervention of language..POS,45,46) before us and invites us to
enter them POS, 43 .....when a sorcerer interpreted an omen he
knew its exact meaning without having any notion of how he knew
it... sorcerers had a sense of knowing things directly..how sure
they were depended on the strength and clarity of their connecting
link. POS,31
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- MISTAKES HAPPEN FOR SORCERERS WHEN READING
OMENS ONLY WHEN PERSONAL FEELINGS INTERVENE AND CLOUD THE
SORCERERS' CONNECTING LINK WITH INTENT.
- mistakes happen for sorcerers when reading
omens only when personal feelings intervene and cloud the
sorcerers' connecting link with intent. POS, 31
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- WHEN
EVERYTHING LOOKS BAD, THERE IS ALWAYS A CUBIC CENTIMETER OF
CHANCE...
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- CENTIMETER
OF CHANCE
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- A WARRIOR MUST ALWAYS BE READY.
- A warrior must always be
ready..TOP,277.
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- ALL OF US HAVE A CUBIC CENTIMETER OF CHANCE
AND ONLY A WARRIOR WHO IS ALERT PICKS IT UP
- All of us, whether or not we are warriors,
have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our
eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and
a warrior is that a warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks
is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic
centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess to
pick it up. JTI,234
- Chance, good luck, personal power or whatever
you may call it, it is a peculiar state of affairs. It is like a
very small stick that comes out in front of us and invites us to
pluck it. Usually we are too busy, or too preoccupied, or just too
stupid and lazy to realize that that is our cubic centimeter of
luck. A warrior..is always alert and tight and has the spring, the
gumption necessary to grab it. JTI,234.
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- BEING FLUID FOR THE CUBIC CENTIMETER OF
CHANCE
- That dying man is one of the cubic centimeters
of chance that power always makes available to a warrior. the
warrior's art is to be perennially fluid in order to pluck it.
TOP,114.
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- WARRIORS ALWAYS HAVE A CHANCE/THEY DO NOT
HINDER OTHER PEOPLE
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- Warriors always have a chance, no matter how
slim. He made me see that I was a warrior myself and that I
shouldn't hinder Pablito with my thoughts. He said I should turn
them off and let Pablito be; that the impeccable thing for me to
do was to help Pablito in spite of what I knew about him.
SRP,153.
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