03-08-2012, 12:06 AM
I have something to add on essence, sense, meaning of Don Juans teachings, as its an imperative giving the sense and meaning, a touch of universal Spirit.
A man, any man, deserves everything that is a man's lot: joy, pain, sadness, and struggle.
The nature of his acts is unimportant as long as he acts as a warrior. If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it- purge it, make it perfect- because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile. Not to fix the spirit is to seek death, and that is the same as to seek nothing, since death is going to overtake us regardless of anything.
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, and our manhood.
If you read on warriors spirit, Don Juans words, its humanity itself, spirit of man, its good.
In buddhism, in Dharma, the good and evil are defined simply as skillful=good and unskilful=evil - action of speech, body and mind.
In this regard, the marker of truth, the truth, to find the truth means to be happy.
Its a path of heart.
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, as warriors we must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. If we feel that we should not follow it, we must not stay with it under any conditions.
Our decision to keep on a path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. We must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatory: Does this path have a heart?
All paths are the same. They lead nowhere. A path without a heart is never enjoyable.
On the other hand, a path with heart is easy: It does not make a warrior work at liking it. As long as a man follows a path with heart, he is one with it.
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so; believing that someone is always doing something to us.
Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.
To read the quotations from the wheel of time book, Don Juans words on warriors spirit this morning was very refreshing.
A man, any man, deserves everything that is a man's lot: joy, pain, sadness, and struggle.
The nature of his acts is unimportant as long as he acts as a warrior. If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it- purge it, make it perfect- because there is no other task in our entire lives which is more worthwhile. Not to fix the spirit is to seek death, and that is the same as to seek nothing, since death is going to overtake us regardless of anything.
To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, and our manhood.
If you read on warriors spirit, Don Juans words, its humanity itself, spirit of man, its good.
In buddhism, in Dharma, the good and evil are defined simply as skillful=good and unskilful=evil - action of speech, body and mind.
In this regard, the marker of truth, the truth, to find the truth means to be happy.
Its a path of heart.
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, as warriors we must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. If we feel that we should not follow it, we must not stay with it under any conditions.
Our decision to keep on a path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. We must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatory: Does this path have a heart?
All paths are the same. They lead nowhere. A path without a heart is never enjoyable.
On the other hand, a path with heart is easy: It does not make a warrior work at liking it. As long as a man follows a path with heart, he is one with it.
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so; believing that someone is always doing something to us.
Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.
To read the quotations from the wheel of time book, Don Juans words on warriors spirit this morning was very refreshing.