04-09-2011, 12:00 AM
The two minds
"Every one of us human beings has two minds. One is totally ours, and it is like a faint voice that always brings us order, directness, purpose, The other mind is a foreign installation. It brings us conflict, self-assertion, doubts, hopelessness: it's ourselves as the me-me center of the world."
***
"We are not naturally petty and contradictory. Our pettiness and contradictions are, rather, the result of a transcendental conflict that afflicts every one of us, but of which only sorcerers are painfully and hopelessly aware: the conflict of our two minds! One is our true mind, the product of all our life experiences, the one that rarely speaks because it has been defeated and relegated to obscurity. The other, the mind we use daily for everything we do, is a foreign installation."
***
"To resolve the conflict of the two minds is a matter of intending it. Sorcerers beckon intent by voicing the word intent loud and clear. Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers beckon intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do."
***
"You have simply run out of time.
Your malady is a very simple one: your world is coming to an end. It is the end of an era for you. Do you think that the world you have known all your life is going to leave you peacefully, without any fuss or muss? No! It will wriggle underneath you, and hit you with its tail."
***
"But an era doesn't really come to an end until the king dies. You are the king."
***
"Any haunting memory of your recollections can come only from your true mind. The other mind that we all have and share is, I would say, a cheap model: economy strength, one size fits all. But this is a subject that we will discuss later."
-ASOI
The petty tyrant serves the function to enliven our false mind. Once this happens, a warrior then reaches a juncture where a choice has to be made, either continue defending oneself through assertions, which is the false mind, or allow that mind its defeat, which is not our defeat, but while we are identified with it it seems that way. Once this false mind is defeated, there is no more petty tyrant. Not even anyone around to boast abotu it. Our true mind in not like the false one in any sense. I remember Don Juan saying the true mind is shy by comparison, due to begin so inactive our whole life. It is the sum total of our experiences. There is no reflection in the true mind, no agreements with me-me. From the perspective of the true mind, we can only accept acts for what they are. The world is chock full of people asserting the false mind. To be in the true mind and see this does not give one a sense of bravado, to enter into that would be to reengage the false mind.
"The end of an era means that the units of a foreign cognition are beginning to take hold. The units of your normal cognition, no matter how pleasant and rewarding they are for you, are beginning to fade. A grave moment in the life of a man!"
"Every one of us human beings has two minds. One is totally ours, and it is like a faint voice that always brings us order, directness, purpose, The other mind is a foreign installation. It brings us conflict, self-assertion, doubts, hopelessness: it's ourselves as the me-me center of the world."
***
"We are not naturally petty and contradictory. Our pettiness and contradictions are, rather, the result of a transcendental conflict that afflicts every one of us, but of which only sorcerers are painfully and hopelessly aware: the conflict of our two minds! One is our true mind, the product of all our life experiences, the one that rarely speaks because it has been defeated and relegated to obscurity. The other, the mind we use daily for everything we do, is a foreign installation."
***
"To resolve the conflict of the two minds is a matter of intending it. Sorcerers beckon intent by voicing the word intent loud and clear. Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers beckon intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do."
***
"You have simply run out of time.
Your malady is a very simple one: your world is coming to an end. It is the end of an era for you. Do you think that the world you have known all your life is going to leave you peacefully, without any fuss or muss? No! It will wriggle underneath you, and hit you with its tail."
***
"But an era doesn't really come to an end until the king dies. You are the king."
***
"Any haunting memory of your recollections can come only from your true mind. The other mind that we all have and share is, I would say, a cheap model: economy strength, one size fits all. But this is a subject that we will discuss later."
-ASOI
The petty tyrant serves the function to enliven our false mind. Once this happens, a warrior then reaches a juncture where a choice has to be made, either continue defending oneself through assertions, which is the false mind, or allow that mind its defeat, which is not our defeat, but while we are identified with it it seems that way. Once this false mind is defeated, there is no more petty tyrant. Not even anyone around to boast abotu it. Our true mind in not like the false one in any sense. I remember Don Juan saying the true mind is shy by comparison, due to begin so inactive our whole life. It is the sum total of our experiences. There is no reflection in the true mind, no agreements with me-me. From the perspective of the true mind, we can only accept acts for what they are. The world is chock full of people asserting the false mind. To be in the true mind and see this does not give one a sense of bravado, to enter into that would be to reengage the false mind.
"The end of an era means that the units of a foreign cognition are beginning to take hold. The units of your normal cognition, no matter how pleasant and rewarding they are for you, are beginning to fade. A grave moment in the life of a man!"