10-29-2011, 12:02 AM
Don Juan said then that in the strategic inventories of warriors,
self-importance figures as the activity that consumes the greatest
amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it.
"One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy
in order to face the unknown with it," don Juan went on. "The
action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability."
He said that the most effective strategy was worked out by the
seers of the Conquest- the unquestionable masters of stalking. It
consists of six elements that interplay with one another. Five of
them are called the attributes of warriorship: control, discipline,
forbearance, timing, and will. They pertain to the world of the
warrior who is fighting to lose self-importance. The sixth element,
which is perhaps the most important of all, pertains to the outside
world and is called the petty tyrant.
He looked at me as if silently asking me whether or not I had
understood.
"I'm really mystified," I said. "You keep on saying
that la Gorda is the petty tyrant of my life. Just what is a petty
tyrant?"
"A petty tyrant is a tormentor," he replied. "Someone
who either holds the power of life and death over warriors, or simply
annoys them to distraction."
Don Juan had a beaming smile as he spoke to me. He said that the
new seers developed their own classification of petty tyrants.
Although the concept is one of their most serious and important
findings, the new seers had a sense of humor about it. He assured me
that there was a tinge of malicious humor in every one of their
classifications because humor was the only means of counteracting the
compulsion of human awareness to take inventories and to make
cumbersome classifications.
The new seers, in accordance with their practice, saw fit to head
their classification with the primal source of energy- the one and
only ruler in the universe- and they called it simply 'the tyrant'.
The rest of the despots and authoritarians were found to be,
naturally, infinitely below the category of the tyrant. Compared to
the source of everything, the most fearsome and tyrannical men are
buffoons. Consequently, they were classified as petty tyrants,
pinches tiranos.
He said that there were two subclasses of minor petty tyrants. The
first subclass consisted of the petty tyrants who persecute and
inflict misery but without actually causing anybody's death. They
were called little petty tyrants, pinches tiranitos. The second
consisted of the petty tyrants who are only exasperating and
bothersome to no end. They were called small-fry petty tyrants,
repinches tiranitos, or teensy-weensy petty tyrants, pinches
tiranitos chiquititos.
I thought his classifications were ludicrous. I was sure that he
was improvising the Spanish terms. I asked him if that was so.
"Not at all," he replied with an amused expression. "The
new seers were great ones for classifications. Genaro is doubtless
one of the greatest. If you'd observe him carefully, you'd realize
exactly how the new seers feel about their classifications."
He laughed uproariously at my confusion when I asked him if he was
pulling my leg.
"I wouldn't dream of doing that," he said, smiling.
"Genaro may do that, but not I, especially when I know how you
feel about classifications. It's just that the new seers were
terribly irreverent."
He added that the little petty tyrants are further divided into
four categories: one that torments with brutality and violence,
another that does it by creating unbearable apprehension through
deviousness, another which oppresses with sadness, and the last which
torments by making warriors rage.
"La Gorda is in a class of her own," he added. "She
is an acting, small-fry petty tyrant. She annoys you to pieces and
makes you rage. She even slaps you. With all that she is teaching you
detachment."
"That's not possible!" I protested.
"You haven't yet put together all the ingredients of the new
seers' strategy," he said. "Once you do that, you'll know
how efficient and clever is the device of using a petty tyrant. I
would certainly say that the strategy not only gets rid of
self-importance, it also prepares warriors for the final realization
that impeccability is the only thing that counts in the path of
knowledge."
He said that what the new seers had in mind was a deadly maneuver
in which the petty tyrant is like a mountain peak and the attributes
of warriorship are like climbers who meet at the summit.
"Usually, only four attributes are played," he went on.
"The fifth, will, is always saved for an ultimate confrontation
when warriors are facing the firing squad, so to speak."
"Why is it done that way?"
"Because will belongs to another sphere, the 'unknown'. The
other four belong to the 'known'; which is exactly where the petty
tyrants are lodged. In fact, what turns human beings into petty
tyrants is precisely the obsessive manipulation of the known."
MY COMMENT:
This concept of using the petty tyrants in our
lives in order to advance us in Spiritual Power is amazingly useful when
properly adapted. In my view the Ultimate Tyrant is the force behind
this Western human culture that has numbed people to the fact that the
Earth is a Living, Sentient Being. The Tyrant numbs people to this truth
and is intent on raping the Earth to death for the sake of financial
profit. Everywhere you go supposedly "normal" people are a part of the
machinery of this invisible 'beast'. We are all made guilty and as one
advances in the Spirit of the Intent of the Universe of course you will
find yourself rubbing against the invisible beast of this Earth raping
system. This is most clear to me when I come back from a power spot in a
deep waking trance state. I am very rudely awakened by the system and
it can extremely difficult for me to do things in the world before I
allow myself to readjust to this unnatural way of existence.
So,
to me, an Earth raping and destroying society is filled with petty
tyrants that I can use to better myself through stalking. The average
person complains while the true warrior strives to use EVERYTHING and
EVERYONE to his or her advantage. I am still learning, but I am always
on the alert when I deal with humanity and strive to be ready to use ANY
petty tyrant who crosses my path to my overall advantage.
I'm
sure YOU must realize that, to me, this is a forum full of petty
tyrants. Very petty indeed, but I am grateful that I am USING YOU to my
advantage whether you realize it or not and for this, as don Juan would,
I thank you
self-importance figures as the activity that consumes the greatest
amount of energy, hence, their effort to eradicate it.
"One of the first concerns of warriors is to free that energy
in order to face the unknown with it," don Juan went on. "The
action of rechanneling that energy is impeccability."
He said that the most effective strategy was worked out by the
seers of the Conquest- the unquestionable masters of stalking. It
consists of six elements that interplay with one another. Five of
them are called the attributes of warriorship: control, discipline,
forbearance, timing, and will. They pertain to the world of the
warrior who is fighting to lose self-importance. The sixth element,
which is perhaps the most important of all, pertains to the outside
world and is called the petty tyrant.
He looked at me as if silently asking me whether or not I had
understood.
"I'm really mystified," I said. "You keep on saying
that la Gorda is the petty tyrant of my life. Just what is a petty
tyrant?"
"A petty tyrant is a tormentor," he replied. "Someone
who either holds the power of life and death over warriors, or simply
annoys them to distraction."
Don Juan had a beaming smile as he spoke to me. He said that the
new seers developed their own classification of petty tyrants.
Although the concept is one of their most serious and important
findings, the new seers had a sense of humor about it. He assured me
that there was a tinge of malicious humor in every one of their
classifications because humor was the only means of counteracting the
compulsion of human awareness to take inventories and to make
cumbersome classifications.
The new seers, in accordance with their practice, saw fit to head
their classification with the primal source of energy- the one and
only ruler in the universe- and they called it simply 'the tyrant'.
The rest of the despots and authoritarians were found to be,
naturally, infinitely below the category of the tyrant. Compared to
the source of everything, the most fearsome and tyrannical men are
buffoons. Consequently, they were classified as petty tyrants,
pinches tiranos.
He said that there were two subclasses of minor petty tyrants. The
first subclass consisted of the petty tyrants who persecute and
inflict misery but without actually causing anybody's death. They
were called little petty tyrants, pinches tiranitos. The second
consisted of the petty tyrants who are only exasperating and
bothersome to no end. They were called small-fry petty tyrants,
repinches tiranitos, or teensy-weensy petty tyrants, pinches
tiranitos chiquititos.
I thought his classifications were ludicrous. I was sure that he
was improvising the Spanish terms. I asked him if that was so.
"Not at all," he replied with an amused expression. "The
new seers were great ones for classifications. Genaro is doubtless
one of the greatest. If you'd observe him carefully, you'd realize
exactly how the new seers feel about their classifications."
He laughed uproariously at my confusion when I asked him if he was
pulling my leg.
"I wouldn't dream of doing that," he said, smiling.
"Genaro may do that, but not I, especially when I know how you
feel about classifications. It's just that the new seers were
terribly irreverent."
He added that the little petty tyrants are further divided into
four categories: one that torments with brutality and violence,
another that does it by creating unbearable apprehension through
deviousness, another which oppresses with sadness, and the last which
torments by making warriors rage.
"La Gorda is in a class of her own," he added. "She
is an acting, small-fry petty tyrant. She annoys you to pieces and
makes you rage. She even slaps you. With all that she is teaching you
detachment."
"That's not possible!" I protested.
"You haven't yet put together all the ingredients of the new
seers' strategy," he said. "Once you do that, you'll know
how efficient and clever is the device of using a petty tyrant. I
would certainly say that the strategy not only gets rid of
self-importance, it also prepares warriors for the final realization
that impeccability is the only thing that counts in the path of
knowledge."
He said that what the new seers had in mind was a deadly maneuver
in which the petty tyrant is like a mountain peak and the attributes
of warriorship are like climbers who meet at the summit.
"Usually, only four attributes are played," he went on.
"The fifth, will, is always saved for an ultimate confrontation
when warriors are facing the firing squad, so to speak."
"Why is it done that way?"
"Because will belongs to another sphere, the 'unknown'. The
other four belong to the 'known'; which is exactly where the petty
tyrants are lodged. In fact, what turns human beings into petty
tyrants is precisely the obsessive manipulation of the known."
MY COMMENT:
This concept of using the petty tyrants in our
lives in order to advance us in Spiritual Power is amazingly useful when
properly adapted. In my view the Ultimate Tyrant is the force behind
this Western human culture that has numbed people to the fact that the
Earth is a Living, Sentient Being. The Tyrant numbs people to this truth
and is intent on raping the Earth to death for the sake of financial
profit. Everywhere you go supposedly "normal" people are a part of the
machinery of this invisible 'beast'. We are all made guilty and as one
advances in the Spirit of the Intent of the Universe of course you will
find yourself rubbing against the invisible beast of this Earth raping
system. This is most clear to me when I come back from a power spot in a
deep waking trance state. I am very rudely awakened by the system and
it can extremely difficult for me to do things in the world before I
allow myself to readjust to this unnatural way of existence.
So,
to me, an Earth raping and destroying society is filled with petty
tyrants that I can use to better myself through stalking. The average
person complains while the true warrior strives to use EVERYTHING and
EVERYONE to his or her advantage. I am still learning, but I am always
on the alert when I deal with humanity and strive to be ready to use ANY
petty tyrant who crosses my path to my overall advantage.
I'm
sure YOU must realize that, to me, this is a forum full of petty
tyrants. Very petty indeed, but I am grateful that I am USING YOU to my
advantage whether you realize it or not and for this, as don Juan would,
I thank you