11-13-2017, 12:00 AM
"It is up to us as single individuals to oppose the forces of our lives. Only a warrior can survive. A warrior knows that he is waiting and what he is waiting for and while he waits he wants nothing and thus whatever little thing he gets is more than he can take. If he needs to eat he finds a way, because he is not hungry; if something hurts his body he finds a way to stop it, because he is not in pain. To be hungry or to be in pain means that the man has abandoned himself and is no longer a warrior and the forces of his hunger and pain will destroy him."
Opposing the forces of our lives is the not-doing of abandoning ourselves to the moment to moment pre-conceptions in our minds and of placing importance on whatever it is we are facing in that moment no matter what the odds might be in our thoughts. The thing is that we are in a certain situation right now and that is a moment that stretches into infinity and never ends. This moment now is happening has happened will go on happening and even death will not stop right now from occurring. It's unarguable though that what goes on in the right now does change.
So since this moment is happening and we are in it what are the options that we have in front of us? If you give this question a bit of thought you can go around stretching your options further than you could've ever imagined and that is if you don't shackle yourself with what you think stops you from being or doing who or that which you want to be or do. Our options in totality are infinite we are facing pure potential sparked up by imagination and crafted, set and carved in reality. A secret is that reality can, does and will change.
The more I look at it I see that opposing the forces of our lives the way Don Juan has described in that paragraph is not so much opposition but more letting go of their momentary effects and going with the flow. It is a surrender to the right now to what is happening and what we are creating the distinction between which can become quite vague. Opposing the forces is not about banging our heads into them until they crash down or somehow go under our control. One starts effectively opposing a force when he/she sees it as part of this occurring moment which is being created right now in which he/she is currently already experiencing that which is being created and decides to act, to change the situation despite what is going on. Without giving up the power of ones action and ability to change everything about and around oneself or in other words abandoning oneself to the force he or she is trying to deal with. With that being said we're already in the circumstance of some creation be it fear, suffering, hate, hunger maybe even love for the adventurous ones right now!
Having in mind that something is occurring right now inside of us as well as outside the distinction between which can become quite vague it is quite easy to see that we already are where we are, experiencing from our point of view, thinking, feeling and doing. So if we are unhappy about what we are thinking, feeling, doing and what effects that is producing what forces it is calling up in action or about the near or distant future there is always a way to change what is being created or will be created for you. This can be the most strenuous task that we can undertake but it can also be the easiest and most joyful glide through life that one can wish for.
To be continued...
Opposing the forces of our lives is the not-doing of abandoning ourselves to the moment to moment pre-conceptions in our minds and of placing importance on whatever it is we are facing in that moment no matter what the odds might be in our thoughts. The thing is that we are in a certain situation right now and that is a moment that stretches into infinity and never ends. This moment now is happening has happened will go on happening and even death will not stop right now from occurring. It's unarguable though that what goes on in the right now does change.
So since this moment is happening and we are in it what are the options that we have in front of us? If you give this question a bit of thought you can go around stretching your options further than you could've ever imagined and that is if you don't shackle yourself with what you think stops you from being or doing who or that which you want to be or do. Our options in totality are infinite we are facing pure potential sparked up by imagination and crafted, set and carved in reality. A secret is that reality can, does and will change.
The more I look at it I see that opposing the forces of our lives the way Don Juan has described in that paragraph is not so much opposition but more letting go of their momentary effects and going with the flow. It is a surrender to the right now to what is happening and what we are creating the distinction between which can become quite vague. Opposing the forces is not about banging our heads into them until they crash down or somehow go under our control. One starts effectively opposing a force when he/she sees it as part of this occurring moment which is being created right now in which he/she is currently already experiencing that which is being created and decides to act, to change the situation despite what is going on. Without giving up the power of ones action and ability to change everything about and around oneself or in other words abandoning oneself to the force he or she is trying to deal with. With that being said we're already in the circumstance of some creation be it fear, suffering, hate, hunger maybe even love for the adventurous ones right now!
Having in mind that something is occurring right now inside of us as well as outside the distinction between which can become quite vague it is quite easy to see that we already are where we are, experiencing from our point of view, thinking, feeling and doing. So if we are unhappy about what we are thinking, feeling, doing and what effects that is producing what forces it is calling up in action or about the near or distant future there is always a way to change what is being created or will be created for you. This can be the most strenuous task that we can undertake but it can also be the easiest and most joyful glide through life that one can wish for.
To be continued...
