02-11-2013, 12:00 AM
Generally speaking, a seeker has to walk the path knowing it is a solitary road. If you're fortunate enough to have someone to share it with, that's awesome. If not, remember that you are doing it for you, and for no one else. There's a great bit in one of the CC books about "your person must die"
Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda...
THE ACTIVE SIDE OF INFINITY
I think everything boils down to one act: you must leave your friends. You must say good-bye to them, for good. It's not possible for you to continue on the warrior's path carrying your personal history with you, and unless you discontinue your way of life, I won't be able to go ahead with my instruction.
Your friends are your family, they are your points of reference. Therefore, they have to go. Sorcerers have only one point of reference: infinity.
You must simply leave, leave any way you can.
You have never been alone in your life. This is the time to do it. I don't want your body to die physically. I want your person to die. The two are very different affairs. In essence, your person has very little to do with your body. Your person is your mind, and believe you me, your mind is not yours.
I'll tell you about that subject someday, but not while you're cushioned by your friends.
The criteria that indicates that a sorcerer is dead is when it makes no difference to him whether he has company or whether he is alone. The day you don't covet the company of your friends, whom you use as shields, that's the day that your person has died.
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Whenever this subject was raised on The Sorcerer's World (my forum), it always led to controversy but also to a greater understanding of what the warrior's path really is.
QS
Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda...
THE ACTIVE SIDE OF INFINITY
I think everything boils down to one act: you must leave your friends. You must say good-bye to them, for good. It's not possible for you to continue on the warrior's path carrying your personal history with you, and unless you discontinue your way of life, I won't be able to go ahead with my instruction.
Your friends are your family, they are your points of reference. Therefore, they have to go. Sorcerers have only one point of reference: infinity.
You must simply leave, leave any way you can.
You have never been alone in your life. This is the time to do it. I don't want your body to die physically. I want your person to die. The two are very different affairs. In essence, your person has very little to do with your body. Your person is your mind, and believe you me, your mind is not yours.
I'll tell you about that subject someday, but not while you're cushioned by your friends.
The criteria that indicates that a sorcerer is dead is when it makes no difference to him whether he has company or whether he is alone. The day you don't covet the company of your friends, whom you use as shields, that's the day that your person has died.
****
Whenever this subject was raised on The Sorcerer's World (my forum), it always led to controversy but also to a greater understanding of what the warrior's path really is.
QS