E.) A WARRIOR'S LIFE
 

6. UNBENDING INTENT

 
WHAT IS UNBENDING INTENT?
 
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
 
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
 
ALONG WITH SUSTAINED EFFORT IT IS A BASIC QUALITY FOR WARRIORS
two basic qualities of warriors: sustained effort and unbending intent. FFW,214.
 
WHY IS UNBENDING INTENT IMPORTANT FOR SORCERERS?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
WAITING FOR YOUR WILL
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
6. MAKING DECISIONS
 
HOW DOES A WARRIOR MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS?
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
WARRIORS NEED TO BE AWARE OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS ON THE PATH..
 
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
 
HAVING CLARITY
 
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.
 
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.
 
USE OMENS TO GUIDE YOU
 
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.
 
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.
 
INTERPRETATING OMENS
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
WHEN EVERYTHING LOOKS BAD, THERE IS ALWAYS A CUBIC CENTIMETER OF CHANCE...
 
CENTIMETER OF CHANCE
 
A WARRIOR MUST ALWAYS BE READY.
A warrior must always be ready..TOP,277.
 
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.
 
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.
 
WARRIORS ALWAYS HAVE A CHANCE/THEY DO NOT HINDER OTHER PEOPLE
 
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.