07-17-2015, 12:01 AM
The superb embellishment of this Don Juan quote is by glance left, and I wished to repeat it:
"Impeccability begins with a single act that has to be
deliberate, precise and sustained. If that act is repeated long
enough, one acquires a sense of unbending intent which can be
applied to anything else. If that is accomplished the road is
clear. One thing will lead to another until the warrior realizes
his full potential."
Beautiful! And, just in compiling personal notes derived from application of this above phenomenon from warriors abroad, the "deliberate, precise, and sustained" action described above is best sustained if approached with affection...care...attention...fluidity...gentleness...gracefulness/artfulness (but sometimes acute immediacy of action demanded by certain urgent situations might supercede "gentleness"). It has to do with falling in love with the filigree of detail associated with that action within which one is trying to foster unbending intent and impeccability. It's tricky, in the beginning, because there's alot of inertia associated with the drone of doing chores (what a word! "chores"! ) or engaging in "mundane" activities which we've trained ourselves to become bored with and have learned the flyer multitasking technique of given only a modicum of attention to the actual task so that we can think about ourselves with the rest of our attention. So there's momentum established to approach small tasks with this miniscule attention and flimsy energy...because all our energy is being diverted to those self indulgent thoughts...which, again, is the active machinery of predation by the foreign installation! The alternative is much more exciting...and turns mundane tasks into pure magic...into a forum within which the energy body, our double, can merge with us here in this daily dream. Because the double absolutely delights in engaging all the fine energetic details of whatever's going on.....it knows how to truly fall in love what whatever it is doing (sometimes to a fault LOL! but we're getting ahead of ourselves here ).
And so, to avoid getting into another class topic, which swirls around the double, we can summarize with the invaluable technique of applying the mood of impeccability to those tasks...those loculated moments which consist of the beginning of a task through to the end of the task (and the task can be anything at all....tying one's shoes....doing the dishes....starting one's car....making one's bed....the list goes on ). The mood of impeccability is one of careful, loving attention which delights in the fine, thread-like, nitty gritty details of all that's going on within the task itself. Once those fine threads of detail are teased out and paid attention to...then this thrumming energy emerges which helps feed into the silent awareness of those details....kind of like this living machinery slowly comes to life and begins to purr, as if its been waiting for eons for a chance to become active again. This leads to impeccability...which leads to unbending intent....which, as Don Juan said himself...leads to tipping the scales in a warrior's life, after which "One thing will lead to another until the warrior realizes his full potential" !Boom! And our "full potential"....*shiver*...is unfathomable, y'all! There is so much waiting for us, if we can just persist for a little while.
"Impeccability begins with a single act that has to be
deliberate, precise and sustained. If that act is repeated long
enough, one acquires a sense of unbending intent which can be
applied to anything else. If that is accomplished the road is
clear. One thing will lead to another until the warrior realizes
his full potential."
Beautiful! And, just in compiling personal notes derived from application of this above phenomenon from warriors abroad, the "deliberate, precise, and sustained" action described above is best sustained if approached with affection...care...attention...fluidity...gentleness...gracefulness/artfulness (but sometimes acute immediacy of action demanded by certain urgent situations might supercede "gentleness"). It has to do with falling in love with the filigree of detail associated with that action within which one is trying to foster unbending intent and impeccability. It's tricky, in the beginning, because there's alot of inertia associated with the drone of doing chores (what a word! "chores"! ) or engaging in "mundane" activities which we've trained ourselves to become bored with and have learned the flyer multitasking technique of given only a modicum of attention to the actual task so that we can think about ourselves with the rest of our attention. So there's momentum established to approach small tasks with this miniscule attention and flimsy energy...because all our energy is being diverted to those self indulgent thoughts...which, again, is the active machinery of predation by the foreign installation! The alternative is much more exciting...and turns mundane tasks into pure magic...into a forum within which the energy body, our double, can merge with us here in this daily dream. Because the double absolutely delights in engaging all the fine energetic details of whatever's going on.....it knows how to truly fall in love what whatever it is doing (sometimes to a fault LOL! but we're getting ahead of ourselves here ).
And so, to avoid getting into another class topic, which swirls around the double, we can summarize with the invaluable technique of applying the mood of impeccability to those tasks...those loculated moments which consist of the beginning of a task through to the end of the task (and the task can be anything at all....tying one's shoes....doing the dishes....starting one's car....making one's bed....the list goes on ). The mood of impeccability is one of careful, loving attention which delights in the fine, thread-like, nitty gritty details of all that's going on within the task itself. Once those fine threads of detail are teased out and paid attention to...then this thrumming energy emerges which helps feed into the silent awareness of those details....kind of like this living machinery slowly comes to life and begins to purr, as if its been waiting for eons for a chance to become active again. This leads to impeccability...which leads to unbending intent....which, as Don Juan said himself...leads to tipping the scales in a warrior's life, after which "One thing will lead to another until the warrior realizes his full potential" !Boom! And our "full potential"....*shiver*...is unfathomable, y'all! There is so much waiting for us, if we can just persist for a little while.