The Mastery of Stalking

[Mornings Son]

The Mastery of Stalkingfrom http://femalewarrior.net/
The very first principle of stalking is that a warrior stalks himself, don Juan said. He stalks himself ruthlessly, cunningly, patiently, and sweetly. There are four steps to learning it: Ruthlessness should not be harshness, cunning should not be cruelty, patience should not be negligence, and sweetness should not be foolishness. These four steps have to be practiced and perfected until they are so smooth they are unnoticeable. ~ Carlos Castaneda, The Power of Silence
All warriors who are interested in strengthening their link with intent must practice this. Stalking is not limited to those with a predilection of stalking, it is applicable to dreamers as well. Don Juan said, A warrior needs focus. Heightened awareness is like a springboard. From it one could jump into infinity. He stressed, over and over, that when the assemblage point was dislodged, it either became lodged again at a position very near its customary one or continued moving on into infinity. As committed warriors we must diligently stalk the dream into infinity.
When Silvio Manual screamed Intent!! Intent!! Intent!! he was able to move himself and others into a state of heightened awareness; to open the portal of intent. This was not because he screamed the words, anyone can scream the words. It was because he had become a master of stalking and intent and could move his assemblage point at will.

[shamanka]

harshness, cruelty, negligence and foolishness are but subjective perceptions of a warrior who has little experience of unconcern.

'so smooth they are unnoticeable', in this context imo, means that the concepts mentioned above, and, the four stances of stalking, have become to hold no value as separate stalking practices....perception has become fluid enough, to recognize when a stalk has occurred, and awareness has shifted without hesitation and concern for its delivery, due to the trigger being recognized and released (by various methods at first then by spontaneous intention moving into unconcern)in the stalked awareness.

Awareness stalks awareness..it is only the ingrained perception of the skimmings of the rational mind, that disallows further growth, therefore it is those skimmings and fixations that seek out stalkers who can release them into freedom...who cares how they do that? The desire of our awareness creates those scenarios, disruption of fixed perception is any warriors challenge and that is what the nagual path is all about..all the way into infinity....

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