03-19-2012, 12:09 AM
"Death is the gateway to infinity. A door made to the exact measure of each of us, which
we will all pass through someday, returning to our origin. Our lack of understanding
impels us to see it as a common reducer. But no, there is nothing common about it;
A girl who took part in this conversation was clearly affected by his words, andcommented that the obsessive presence of death in his teachings was a detail that contributed to darken them. She would have liked a more optimistic emphasis, more focused on life and its accomplishments.
Carlos smiled and replied:
"Oh sweetheart! Your words show a lack of deep experience with life. Sorcerers are not
negative, they don't seek the end. But they know that what gives value to life is having an
objective worth dying for.
"The future is unpredictable and inevitable. Some day you won't be here anymore, like
this, you will be gone. Do you know that the tree for your coffin has probably been cut
already?
"For the warrior and for an ordinary man, the urgency of living is the same, because
neither knows when they will take the last step. For that reason we have to be attentive to
death, it can jump at us from any corner. I knew a guy who went up on a bridge and
urinated above a passing electric train. The urine touched the high voltage cables, which
gave him an electrical shock and burned him to cinders on the spot.
"Death is not a game, it is reality Without death, there would not be any power in what
sorcerers do. It involves you personally, whether you want it to or not. You can be so
cynical that you discard other topics of these teachings, but you cannot make fun of your end, because it is beyond your power to decide, and it is implacable."Destiny's coach will take all of us, without distinction. But there are two kinds of
travelers: warriors who can leave with the totality of themselves, because they have finetuned
every detail of their lives, and ordinary people, with boring existences, without
creativity, whose only hope is in the repetition of their stereotypes until the end; people
whose end won't make any difference, whether this end happens today or in thirty years.
We are all there, waiting on the platform of eternity, but not everyone knows it.
Awareness of death is a great art.
"When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he
has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you
can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life
become extraordinary for him.
"For this, a sorcerer learns how to live again. He tastes each moment as if it were the last
one. He doesn't waste any effort on feeling dissatisfied, nor does he throw away his
energy. He doesn't wait until he becomes old to ponder the mysteries of the world. He is
ahead, he explores, he knows and marvels.
"If you want to make space for the unknown, you must be aware of your personal
extinction. Accept your destiny as the unavoidable fact that it is. Purify that feeling,
become responsible for the incredible event of being alive. Don't beg in the presence of
death; it will not condescend to those who give in. Invoke it, aware that you came to this
world to know it. Challenge it, even knowing that whatever we do, we don't have the
smallest chance of conquering it. She is as gentle with the warrior as it is merciless with
the ordinary man."
After this lecture, Carlos gave us an exercise.
"It concerns an inventory of your loved ones, of everybody who concerns you. Once you
have classified them according to the degree of feeling that you have for each, you will
take them, one by one, and pass them through death."
A murmur of consternation rippled through the listeners.
Making a soothing gesture, Carlos added:
"Don't get scared! There is nothing macabre about death. What is macabre is that we
cannot face it with deliberation,.
"You should do this exercise at midnight, when the fixation of our assemblage point is
loosened and we are willing to believe in ghosts. It is very simple; you will evoke your
dear beings through their inevitable end. Don't think about how or when they will die.
Simply make yourself aware that some day they won't be there anymore. One by one they
will leave, God knows in which order, and it doesn't matter what you try to do to avoid it.
"When evoking them in this way, you won't harm them; on the contrary! You will be
seeing them in the appropriate perspective. The focal point of death is prodigious, it
restores the true values of life."
we will all pass through someday, returning to our origin. Our lack of understanding
impels us to see it as a common reducer. But no, there is nothing common about it;
A girl who took part in this conversation was clearly affected by his words, andcommented that the obsessive presence of death in his teachings was a detail that contributed to darken them. She would have liked a more optimistic emphasis, more focused on life and its accomplishments.
Carlos smiled and replied:
"Oh sweetheart! Your words show a lack of deep experience with life. Sorcerers are not
negative, they don't seek the end. But they know that what gives value to life is having an
objective worth dying for.
"The future is unpredictable and inevitable. Some day you won't be here anymore, like
this, you will be gone. Do you know that the tree for your coffin has probably been cut
already?
"For the warrior and for an ordinary man, the urgency of living is the same, because
neither knows when they will take the last step. For that reason we have to be attentive to
death, it can jump at us from any corner. I knew a guy who went up on a bridge and
urinated above a passing electric train. The urine touched the high voltage cables, which
gave him an electrical shock and burned him to cinders on the spot.
"Death is not a game, it is reality Without death, there would not be any power in what
sorcerers do. It involves you personally, whether you want it to or not. You can be so
cynical that you discard other topics of these teachings, but you cannot make fun of your end, because it is beyond your power to decide, and it is implacable."Destiny's coach will take all of us, without distinction. But there are two kinds of
travelers: warriors who can leave with the totality of themselves, because they have finetuned
every detail of their lives, and ordinary people, with boring existences, without
creativity, whose only hope is in the repetition of their stereotypes until the end; people
whose end won't make any difference, whether this end happens today or in thirty years.
We are all there, waiting on the platform of eternity, but not everyone knows it.
Awareness of death is a great art.
"When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he
has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you
can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life
become extraordinary for him.
"For this, a sorcerer learns how to live again. He tastes each moment as if it were the last
one. He doesn't waste any effort on feeling dissatisfied, nor does he throw away his
energy. He doesn't wait until he becomes old to ponder the mysteries of the world. He is
ahead, he explores, he knows and marvels.
"If you want to make space for the unknown, you must be aware of your personal
extinction. Accept your destiny as the unavoidable fact that it is. Purify that feeling,
become responsible for the incredible event of being alive. Don't beg in the presence of
death; it will not condescend to those who give in. Invoke it, aware that you came to this
world to know it. Challenge it, even knowing that whatever we do, we don't have the
smallest chance of conquering it. She is as gentle with the warrior as it is merciless with
the ordinary man."
After this lecture, Carlos gave us an exercise.
"It concerns an inventory of your loved ones, of everybody who concerns you. Once you
have classified them according to the degree of feeling that you have for each, you will
take them, one by one, and pass them through death."
A murmur of consternation rippled through the listeners.
Making a soothing gesture, Carlos added:
"Don't get scared! There is nothing macabre about death. What is macabre is that we
cannot face it with deliberation,.
"You should do this exercise at midnight, when the fixation of our assemblage point is
loosened and we are willing to believe in ghosts. It is very simple; you will evoke your
dear beings through their inevitable end. Don't think about how or when they will die.
Simply make yourself aware that some day they won't be there anymore. One by one they
will leave, God knows in which order, and it doesn't matter what you try to do to avoid it.
"When evoking them in this way, you won't harm them; on the contrary! You will be
seeing them in the appropriate perspective. The focal point of death is prodigious, it
restores the true values of life."