08-13-2015, 12:01 AM
To beckon death-ground, requires some effort on your part. I would tell you upon this reading to choose a destination at least one hour away that you've never been to, that you will abscond all else to visit within twenty four hours. This is a very effective technique to shatter conditioned alignment by simplicity of decision. Before you continue reading, I want you to stop and choose this destination now as though you would hypothetically comply...
Okay now, I promise if you make the commitment this very moment to actually manifest THIS contrived choice, it will affect interactive dynamics forevermore with astounding benefit. In THIS moment's notice-- say 'yes,' THIS is doable-- and SO it will be done. If you have chosen affirmatively--WAIT a full two minutes to absorb THIS before you continue reading.
Do you notice the myriad mindful machinations. SEE???? How many mitigating factors, excuses, doubts, and descriptions of conflict arise immediately thereafter?
It isn't that these thoughts are completely void of relevance; it is however to point out that to escape the snare of your conditioned way and to pronounce explicit self-actualization takes jolts of sorts. Don Juan also points to this need of extraordinary novelty to loosen the grip of the first attention. More than that however, I highlight one's choice as a matter of empowerment. It takes cultivation and resonation of such choices to give bottom to the day when your death-ground presents. I tell you now to accept this idea that death-ground will surely be in your path.
The difference is clear. ONLY ONE way to make such a trip is the autonomous CHOICE adhered to, all the rest is reactionary distraction. The trip is a microcosm of life.
Awareness to choose definitively, and then obedience therewith, is a needed practice to obtain freedom.
{YET, know that none of the work pertains to far-reaching goals; the intimacy with such empowering practices goes to immediate qualitative states of presence; though, there is cumulative value in experiencing these states. If you ask the question "What is this and that going to do?"-- the answer is nothing.}
I have been a self-reflective person; I parlay life into a tidy box. I admit I'm soft (untested).
Still, there are fundamentals I speak of that you would be wise to adhere to. Don Juan talked about the seers of Mexico who were advanced, but who mistook certain values in a tonal environment. The Spaniards literally clobbered them. There is a message: Don't digress from grounding in the first attention carelessly.
I like my warrior's box. I have figured life out, and have balance. When people survive a catastrophe they feel blessed with a second birth, but this is usually a temporary thing as the coarse mundane reality erodes the blessing with time.
One must pay attention to the workings of why it is possible to be enlightened, and stay that path with self-directives. Primarily, my objectivity challenges the fluctuations that arise:
I'm happy when... I'm sad when... I'm angry when... I'm nostalgic when... I'm kindhearted when... and so on-- often based on current events. I SEE this is not good, because it demonstrates my dependency on conditioned feelings. Yet, the reptiles have their reactionary 'avoid pain' and 'obtain pleasure' as the way of being-- believe it that I'm not knocking this either.
I won't get into the human stem brain working its way up to the frontal lobe thingy here. Suffice it to say that when it comes to the very happy infatuation of love's beginnings, it is the human stem brain at work. {The male often does not reach as far up as the stem, and actually thinks with his dick (lol)}
Whatever, the human frontal lobe is hardly of any use as it stands, and yet one needs its capacity to reason over the emotional mid-brain to understand the nagual's way. Do you really think you can be a warrior if whatever physiological conditions of the day hold sway to make you feel good and bad?
Some magical pass is supposed to change this? NOT!!
Pay attention to detach and objectify your states of mind!!! Then a defining *death-ground opportunity will present itself, and you will understand empirically that you prevail by choosing so. Then you will learn the value of shifting attentions as a free person.
*Death-ground here refers to a crucial moment of deciding as far reaching consequences are looming (perhaps physicality of life and death), where no conceivable right choice presents. It is possible to experience one's essence, and choose WHATEVER with absolute staunch abandon, to realize beyond fate and death the raw power of your own existence. This is embodied in heightened awareness of physical presence and one's acute intent to choose freely as the only choice that could ever matter, and underscores affirmation to be one's self.
When speaking of the proper tonal I surely make no reference to status per se; I DO refer to the right perspective in engaging the tonal and subsequent attentions. Abstractions out or further into one's rabbit hole should not be an exercise in stupidity, but rather exploration and formation by its knowledgeably attuned author. {Comes a time to be authentically and predominantly the creator of your world (ala serloco)}
.... to the old town.
Okay now, I promise if you make the commitment this very moment to actually manifest THIS contrived choice, it will affect interactive dynamics forevermore with astounding benefit. In THIS moment's notice-- say 'yes,' THIS is doable-- and SO it will be done. If you have chosen affirmatively--WAIT a full two minutes to absorb THIS before you continue reading.
Do you notice the myriad mindful machinations. SEE???? How many mitigating factors, excuses, doubts, and descriptions of conflict arise immediately thereafter?
It isn't that these thoughts are completely void of relevance; it is however to point out that to escape the snare of your conditioned way and to pronounce explicit self-actualization takes jolts of sorts. Don Juan also points to this need of extraordinary novelty to loosen the grip of the first attention. More than that however, I highlight one's choice as a matter of empowerment. It takes cultivation and resonation of such choices to give bottom to the day when your death-ground presents. I tell you now to accept this idea that death-ground will surely be in your path.
The difference is clear. ONLY ONE way to make such a trip is the autonomous CHOICE adhered to, all the rest is reactionary distraction. The trip is a microcosm of life.
Awareness to choose definitively, and then obedience therewith, is a needed practice to obtain freedom.
{YET, know that none of the work pertains to far-reaching goals; the intimacy with such empowering practices goes to immediate qualitative states of presence; though, there is cumulative value in experiencing these states. If you ask the question "What is this and that going to do?"-- the answer is nothing.}
I have been a self-reflective person; I parlay life into a tidy box. I admit I'm soft (untested).
Still, there are fundamentals I speak of that you would be wise to adhere to. Don Juan talked about the seers of Mexico who were advanced, but who mistook certain values in a tonal environment. The Spaniards literally clobbered them. There is a message: Don't digress from grounding in the first attention carelessly.
I like my warrior's box. I have figured life out, and have balance. When people survive a catastrophe they feel blessed with a second birth, but this is usually a temporary thing as the coarse mundane reality erodes the blessing with time.
One must pay attention to the workings of why it is possible to be enlightened, and stay that path with self-directives. Primarily, my objectivity challenges the fluctuations that arise:
I'm happy when... I'm sad when... I'm angry when... I'm nostalgic when... I'm kindhearted when... and so on-- often based on current events. I SEE this is not good, because it demonstrates my dependency on conditioned feelings. Yet, the reptiles have their reactionary 'avoid pain' and 'obtain pleasure' as the way of being-- believe it that I'm not knocking this either.
I won't get into the human stem brain working its way up to the frontal lobe thingy here. Suffice it to say that when it comes to the very happy infatuation of love's beginnings, it is the human stem brain at work. {The male often does not reach as far up as the stem, and actually thinks with his dick (lol)}
Whatever, the human frontal lobe is hardly of any use as it stands, and yet one needs its capacity to reason over the emotional mid-brain to understand the nagual's way. Do you really think you can be a warrior if whatever physiological conditions of the day hold sway to make you feel good and bad?
Some magical pass is supposed to change this? NOT!!
Pay attention to detach and objectify your states of mind!!! Then a defining *death-ground opportunity will present itself, and you will understand empirically that you prevail by choosing so. Then you will learn the value of shifting attentions as a free person.
*Death-ground here refers to a crucial moment of deciding as far reaching consequences are looming (perhaps physicality of life and death), where no conceivable right choice presents. It is possible to experience one's essence, and choose WHATEVER with absolute staunch abandon, to realize beyond fate and death the raw power of your own existence. This is embodied in heightened awareness of physical presence and one's acute intent to choose freely as the only choice that could ever matter, and underscores affirmation to be one's self.
When speaking of the proper tonal I surely make no reference to status per se; I DO refer to the right perspective in engaging the tonal and subsequent attentions. Abstractions out or further into one's rabbit hole should not be an exercise in stupidity, but rather exploration and formation by its knowledgeably attuned author. {Comes a time to be authentically and predominantly the creator of your world (ala serloco)}
.... to the old town.