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.We must be daring to attempt it deliberately, but, once there,everything becomes possible.Intent allows sorcerers to live in a non-ordinary world, and tointend a destiny of freedom.For them, freedom is a fact, not just a Utopia."By ignoring the principles of the warrior's way, modern man has wound up in a diabolicaltrap, made up of family, religious and social concerns.He works eight hours a day in order tomaintain his way of life.Then he returns home, where the wife of always awaits him, and hischildren, identical to any other of a billion children, will demand things from him and forcehim to continue in his chains, until his powers are drained and he becomes a useless objectwho sits meditating over his memories in a corner of the house.They told him that this ishappiness, but he doesn't feel happy, he feels shackled.Be Warriors, stop that! Realize your potential and free yourselves free yourselves fromwhatever! Don't impose limits on yourselves.If you can defy the force of gravity and fly,that's great! And if you still have the I impetus to challenge death and buy a ticket to eternity,that is |; tremendous!£¦'¦ "Take a risk! Get out of the trap of self-reflexion and dare to$'¦: perceive all that is humanly possible! A warrior of knowledge£;>¦ makes an effort to be authentic, and he won't accept any compromises, because the objectof his fight is total freedom."Awareness Of DeathOver the years, the need to understand the world had led me to store a lot of scientific orreligious explanations on almost everything, which all had one common denominator: A greattrust in the continuity of man.By helping me to see the universe with the eyes of a sorcerer,Carlos destroyed that sensation in me.He made me see that death is an irrevocable reality,and that to avoid acknowledging it by applying second-hand beliefs is shameful.On one occasion, somebody asked him:"Carlos, what expectations do you have for the future?"He jumped:"There are no expectations! Sorcerers don't have a tomorrow!"---------------------------------------------------------------That night, a large group of interested people had gathered in the auditorium of a privateresidence, near the area of San Jeronimo.When I arrived, Carlos was already there.He wassmiling, busily answering questions.His initial topic was what he called 'not-doing', an activity specially designed to banish anytrace of every-day habits from our lives.He affirmed that not-doing is the favorite exercise ofapprentices, because it introduces them to a marvelous environment and creates a veryrefreshing bewilderment for one's energy.The effect this has on one's awareness they call'stopping the world.'In response to some questions, he explained that not-doing cannot be reasoned out.Any effortapplied towards understanding it, is in fact an interpretation of the teaching - and goesautomatically into the field of 'doing'."The premise of sorcerers for dealing with this kind of practice is inner silence, and thequality of silence required for something so enormous as stopping the world can only comefrom direct contact with the great truth of our existence: That we are all going to die."He advised us:"If you want to know yourselves, be aware of your personal death.It's not negotiable, it is theonly thing that you can seriously own.Everything else may fail, but not death, you can takethat as a fact.Learn how to use it to produce real effects in your lives."Also, stop believing in fairy tales.Nobody needs you out there.None of us is so importantthat it justifies inventing something as fantastic as immortality.A humble sorcerer knows thathis destiny is the same as that of any other living being on Earth.So, instead of having falsehopes, he works concretely and with great effort to escape the human condition, and to reachthe only exit we have: The breaking of our perceptual barrier."While you listen to death's advice, make yourself responsible for your lives, for the totalityof your actions.Explore yourself, recognize yourself, and live intensely, like sorcerers live.Intensity is the only tiling that can save us from boredom."Once aligned with death, you will be able to take the next step: Reducing your baggage to aminimum.This is a prison world, and we must leave it as fugitives; we can't take anythingwith us.Human beings are travelers by nature.To fly and to know other horizons is ourdestiny.Do you take your bed or your dining table with you on a trip? Synthesize your life!"He made the comment that humanity in our time has acquired a strange habit that issymptomatic of the mental state we live in.When we travel, we buy all kinds of useless devices in other countries, things that wecertainly would never buy in our own country.Once we return home, we store them in acomer and end up forgetting their existence - until one day we notice them by chance, andtoss them in the garbage."And we behave this way on the journey that is our life.We are like donkeys carrying a baleof useless sniff, there is nothing valuable there.Everything we did, at the end, when old ageassaults us, only serves to endlessly repeat some sentence or other, like a scratched record."A sorcerer asks himself: What is the sense of all this? Why invest my resources in somethingwhich won't help me at all? The appointment of a sorcerer is with the unknown, he cannotcommit his energy to nonsense.While you walk the Earth, collect something of true valuefrom it, otherwise it wasn't worth it."The power that governs us has granted us a choice.Either we spend life prowling around ourfamiliar habits, or we encourage ourselves to get to know other worlds.The only thing whichcan give us the necessary jolt is the awareness of death."An ordinary person spends his whole existence without ever stopping to reflect, because hethinks that death is at the end of life; after all, we will always have time for it! But a warriorhas discovered that this is not true.Death lives beside us, an arm's length away, permanentlyalert, looking at us, ready to jump at the smallest provocation.The warrior transforms hisanimal fear of extinction into an opportunity for joy.because he knows that ail he has is thismoment.Think as warriors [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]