A Warrior s LifeE.) A WARRIOR'S LIFE 1.

PATH WITH A HEART DESTINY OF A WARRIOR THE FORCE THAT RULES OUR DESTINIES DO WITH OUR ACTS OF VOLITION. The force that rules our destinies do with our acts of volition. ..in forces which decide my destiny, my IS OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES AND HAS NOTHING TO is outside of ourselves and has nothing to view of my total lack of control over the only possible freedom in that ravine (story

of ravine SRP,248) consisted in tying my shoelaces impeccably. SRP,248. ..as average men we would never know that it was something utterely real and functional - our connecting link with intent - which gave us our hereditary preoccupation with fate. CC , POS, 63 I WON'T SAY THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO FULFILL YOUR DESTINY, BECAUSE THERE IS NO DESTINY. I won't say that you're about to fulfill your destiny, because there is no destiny. TOP,143. THE COURSE OF A WARRIOR'S DESTINY IS UNALTERABLE.. THE CHALLENGE IS HOW FAR HE CAN GO WITHIN THOSE RIGID BOUNDS, HOW IMPECCABLE HE CAN BE WITHIN THOSE RIGID BOUNDS. The course of a warrior's destiny is unalterable.. the challenge is how far he can go within those rigid bounds, how impeccable he can be within those rigid bounds. If there are obstacles in his path, the warrior strives impeccably to overcome them. If he finds unbearable hardship and pain on his path, he weeps, but all his tears put together could not move the line of his destiny the breadth of one hair. EG,106. ....In the life of a warrior there is only one thing, one issue alone which is really undecided: how far one can go on the path of knowledge and power. That is an issue which is open and no one can predict its outcome. I once told you that the freedom of a warrior has is either to act impeccably or to act like a nincompoop. TOP,241. Power comes only after we accept our fate without recriminations. SRP,85. ..it did not matter what our specific fate was as long as we faced it with ultimate abandon. POS,116 IT IS ALWAYS UP TO US INDIVIDUALLY TO FULFILL OR TO FLUB OUR FATE. It is always up to us individually to fulfill or to flub our fate. TSC,161 A warrior could not possibly leave anything to chance, that a warrior actually affected the outcome of events by the force of his awareness and his unbending intent. SRP,110. We choose only once..we choose to be warriors or to be ordinary men. A second choice does not exist. Not on this earth. SRP,245 CHOOSING A PATH THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PATH AND THAT EACH ONE IS ONLY A PATH The devil's weed is only one of a million paths. Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind a path is only a path; TDJ,106 ALL PATHS ARE THE SAME, THEY LEAD NOWHERE: TO YOUR DEATH All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long,long paths, but I am not anywhere. TDJ,106 .....I have learned that the countless

paths one traverses in one's life are all equal. Oppressors and oppressed meet at the end, and the only thing that prevails is that life was altogether too short for both. SR,143 CHOOSING A PATH WITH HEART A WARRIOR MUST CHOOSE TO FOLLOW A PATH WITH HEART in his day-to-day life a warrior chooses to follow the path with heart. it is the consistent choice of the path with heart which makes a warrior different from the average man. SR,217,218. THE THINGS A WARRIOR SELECTS TO MAKE HIS SHIELDS ARE THE ITEMS OF A PATH WITH HEART. The things a warrior selects to make his shields are the items of a path with heart. SR,217,218. HOW DO YOU KNOW IT IS A PATH WITH HEART? LOOK AT EVERY PATH CLOSELY AND DELIBERATELY. TRY IT AS MANY TIMES AS YOU THINK NECESSARY I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you thing necessary. TDJ,106 ASK YOURSELF" DOES THIS PATH HAVE A HEART?" Then ask yourself and yourself alone, one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: Does this path have a heart?TDJ,106 A diablero is a diablero and a warrior is a warrior. or a man can be both. There are enough people who are both. But a man who only traverses the paths of life is everything. Today I am neither a warrior nor a diablero. For me there is only the traveling on the paths that have a heart, on any path that may have a heart. there I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge for me is to traverse its full length. And there I travel-looking, looking, breathlessly. TDJ,182. TO KNOW IF IT HAS A PATH WITH HEART YOU MUST HAVE CLARITY WHICH COMES FROM A DISCIPLINED LIFE To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is no affront(insult), to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you what to do. TDJ,106 WHEN THE WARRIOR IS AT ONE WITH THE PATH, HE EXPERIENCES A GREAT PEACE AND PLEASURE TRAVERSING ITS LENGTH. he knows that a path has heart when he is one with it, when he experiences a great peace and pleasure traversing its length. SR,217,218 IF THE PATH HAS HEART THEN IT MAKES FOR A JOYFUL JOURNEY, IT MAKES YOU STRONG, THE OTHER WILL MAKE YOU CURSE YOUR LIFE, IT WEAKENS YOU My benefactor's question has meaning now. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse

your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. TDJ,106 A PATH WITH HEART IS EASY, IT DOES NOT MAKE YOU WORK AT LIKING IT. A PATH WITHOUT HEART IS NEVER EASY, YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD EVEN TO TAKE IT. Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.. the trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it... a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it. TDJ,158. LEAVING A PATH IF YOU FEEL YOU SHOULD NOT BE ON A PATH, YOU MUST NOT STAY WITH IT UNDER ANY CONDITIONS if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. TDJ,106 YOUR DECISION TO KEEP ON THE PATH OR TO LEAVE IT MUST BE FREE OF FEAR OR AMBITION But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. TDJ,106 I have told you that to choose a path you must be free from fear and ambition. But the smoke blinds you with fear, and the devil's weed blinds you with ambition. the desire to learn is not ambition. It is our lot as men to want to know, but to seek the devil's weed is to bid for power, and that is ambition, because you are not bidding to know.... and the next thing, the path without a heart will turn against men and destroy them. it does not take much to die, and to seek death is to seek nothing. TDJ,159. THE WORLD OF DAY-TO-DAY LIFE THE WORLD OF MEN IS THE ONLY WORLD WE CAN CHOOSE. You think there are two worlds for you - two paths. But there is only one. The protector showed you this with unbelievable clarity. The only world available to you is the world of men, and that world you cannot choose to leave. You are a man! TDJ,150 The protector showed you the world of happiness where there is no difference between things because there is no one there to ask about the difference. But that is not the world of men. The protector shook you out of it and showed you how a man thinks and fights. That is the world of man! TDJ,150. And to be a man is to be condemned to that world. You have the vanity to believe you live in two worlds, but that is only your vanity. There is but one single world for us. We are men and must follow the world of men contentedly. TDJ,151. THERE IS NO WAY TO ESCAPE THE DOING OF OUR WORLD, SO WHAT A WARRIOR DOES IS TO TURN HIS WORLD INTO HIS HUNTING GROUND. This is your world...pointing to the busy street outside the window. You are a man of that world. JTI,214.. and out there, in that world, is your hunting ground. There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground. As a hunter, a warrior knows that the world is made to be used. So he uses every bit of it. A warrior

is like a pirate that has no qualms in taking and using anything he wants, except that the warrior doesn't mind or he doesn't feel insulted when he is used and taken himself. JTI,214. A WARRIOR DOESN'T EVER LEAVE THE ISLAND OF THE TONAL. HE USES IT. A warrior doesn't ever leave the island of the tonal. He uses it. TOP,153. This is your world you can't renounce it. It is useless to get angry and feel disappointed with oneself. All that proves is that one's tonal is involved in an internal battle; a battle within one's tonal is one of the most inane contests I can think of. The tight life of a warrior is designed to end that struggle. From the beginning I have taught you to avoid wear and tear. Now there is no longer a war within you, not as it used to be, TOP,153. LIVING ITSELF IS SUFFICIENT IN THE JOURNEY You have everything needed for the extravagent journey that is your life. I have tried to teach you that the real experience is to be a man, and that what counts is being alive; life is the little detour that we are taking now. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. TOP,56. DJ synthesized the rationale of his whole knowledge in the metaphor that the most important thing for him was to find a path with heart and then travel its length, meaning that the identification with the amenable alternative was enough for him. The journey by itself was sufficient; any hope of arriving at a permanent position was outside the boundaries of his knowledge. TDJ,198. 2. THE MIND/RATIONAL WHAT IS THE MIND? THE MIND IS NOTHING BUT THE SELF-REFLECTION OF THE INVENTORY OF MAN The mind, for a seer, is nothing but the self-reflection of the inventory of man. If you lose that self-reflection, but don't lose your underpinnings, you actually live an infinitely stronger life than if you had kept it. FFW,139. WHAT DOES THE MIND DO? THE HUMAN MIND NEVER RESTS.. IMAGES, HOPES, REGRETS,IMPULSES.. MOST OF THE TIME IT WANDERS The human mind...never rests..it goes here, there,ceaselessly moving through sensations, images, thoughts, hopes,regrets, impulses. Occasionally it does solve a problem or make necessary plans, but most of the time it wanders at large, simply because we do not know how to keep it quiet or profitably engaged. EE,M,58. This desire for attention not only leads us into affections of dress, speech and gesture; it also divides our consciousness. EE, M,171.....peace of mind cannot depend on external circumstances. EE, M, 210. HOW DO SORCERERS USE/CONTROL THEIR MINDS? SORCERER'S HAVE TO CULTIVAT THE MIND IN WHATEVER FORM THEY CAN ..sorcerers have to cultivate their minds, in whatever form they can. TAOD, 8... ONLY WITH SOUNDNESS OF MIND CAN AWARENESS BE ENHANCED In order to enhance awareness, there is no risk we should not run, no means we should refuse. Bear in mind, however, that only soundness of mind can awareness be enhanced. TAOD,184... only a human being who was a paragon of reason could move his AP easily and be a paragon of silent knowledge... POS,243...Since all acts were predetermined and obligatory, a man of knowledge

needed soundness of judgement. This concept did not imply common sense, but did imply the capacity to assess the circumstances surrounding any need to act. TDJ,193. THINKING BY THINKING HE MEANT THE CONSTANT IDEA THAT WE HAVE OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD. by thinking he meant the constant idea that we have of everything in the world. SR,84 THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF THINKING there are two types of thinking.... POS,133 One was average day-to-day thinking which was ruled by the normal position of his AP. it was muddled thinking that did not really answer his needs and left great murkiness in his head. POS,133 The other was precise thinking. it was functional, economical and left very few things unexplained. Don Juan remarked that for this type of thinking to prevail the AP had to move. Or at least the day-to-day type thinking had to stop to allow the AP to shift. Thus the apparent contridiction, which was really no contradiction at all. POS,133 the only way to think clearly is to not think at all...POS,133 OUR THOUGHTS CAUSE OUR BODY TO MOVE ALONG A CERTAIN PATH whenever we have a thought.. our energy moves in the direction of that thought. Thoughts are like scouts; they cause the body to move along a certain path. TSC,72. PURPOSE OF TRAINING THE INTELLECT AS A WAY TO KEEP THE MIND OCCUPIED SO THAT GETTING TO THE DOUBLE BECOMES EASIER. ..training the intellect is a bona-fide sorcerers subterfuge. by deliberately keeping the mind occupied in analysis and reasoning, sorcerers are free to explore, unimpeded, other areas of perception. In other words, while the rational side is busy with the formality of academic pursuits, the energetic or nonrational side, which sorcerers call the double is kept occupied with the fulfillment of sorcery tasks. in this way, the suspicious and analytic mind is less likely to interfere or even notice what is going on at the nonrational level.TSC,xii. WOMEN SHOULD DEVELOP THEIR INTELLECT They (the sorcerers) felt it is indispensable that women develop their intellects and enhance their capacity for analysis and abstraction in order to have a better grasp of the world around them. TSC,xii REALIZATIONS/UNDERSTANDING NEW THINGS THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF REALIZATIONS 1) EMOTIONAL OUTBURSTS Realizations are of two kinds. One is just pep talk, great outbursts of emotion and nothing more. FFW,219. That's the trouble with people that go wild, they go wild both ways. Yesterday you were all questions, today you are all acceptance. TOP,76 .....don't count on emotional realizations. Let your AP move first, then years later have the realization. FFW,203

2) AS A RESULT OF A SHIFT OF THE AP The other is a product of a shift of the AP; it is not coupled with an emotional outburst but with action. The emotional realizations come years later after warriors have solidified, by usage, the new position of their AP. FFW,219 ...realizations are a dime a dozen; they don't amount to anything in the life of warriors, because they are cancelled out as the AP shifts. FFW,265. THE NEED FOR UNEMOTIONAL REALIZATIONS, ONE NEEDS SOBRIETY, NOT EMOTIONALITY the new seers placed the highest value on deep unemotional realizations.. to understand one needs sobriety, not emotionality. Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing. There are untold dangers in the path of knowledge for those without sober understanding FFW,71 TO HAVE A TRUE REALIZATION (I.E. TO MOVE THE AP) ONE NEEDS PERSONAL POWER it doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself...everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word uttered to us might be sufficient to change the course of our lives. But if we don't have enough personal power, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn bit of difference. TOP,14...I'm going to utter perhaps the greatest piece of knowledge anyone can voice. let me see what you can do with it. Do you know at this moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity, if you so desire? Do you know that you extend yourself forever in any of the directions I have pointed to?..Do you know that one moment can be eternity? This is not a riddle; it's a fact, but only if you mount that moment and use it to take the totality of yourself forever in any direction. you didn't have this knowledge before.. Now you do. I have revealed it to you, but it doesn't make a bit of difference, because you don't have enough personal power to utilize my revelation. yet if you did have enough power, my words alone would serve as the means for you to round up the totality of yourself and to get the crucial part of it out of the boundaries in which it is contained. We are luminous beings ..and for a luminous being only personal power matters. TOP,15. PERSONAL POWER DECIDES WHO CAN OR WHO CANNOT PROFIT BY A REVELATION Personal power decides who can or who cannot profit by a revelation; my experiences with my fellow men have proven to me that very, very few of them would be willing to listen; and of those few who listen even fewer would be willing to act on what they listened to; and of those willing to act even fewer have enough personal power to profit by their acts. TOP,225....It'll take years for you to convince yourself and then it'll take years for you to act accordingly. JTI,85.....To be convinced means that you can act by yourself. JTI,157. LEARNING LEARNING AT THE BEGINNING THE PERSON IS NEVER CLEAR ABOUT THEIR OBJECTIVES FOR HE DOES NOT KNOW THE HARDSHIPS OF LEARNING When a man starts to learn, he is never clear about his objectives. His purpose is faulty; his intent is vague. He hopes for rewards that will never materialize, for he knows nothing of the hardships of learning. He slowly begins to learn-bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts soon clash. TDJ,84.

LEARNING IS NEVER WHAT ONE EXPECTS What he learns is never what he pictured, or imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, and the fear the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly. His purpose becomes a battlefield. TDJ,84. DRASTIC THINGS HAVE TO HAPPEN FOR YOUR BODY TO LEARN Very drastic things have to happen to you in order for you to allow your body to profit from all you have learned. JTI,213. LEARNING IS LIKE GOING TO WAR... WITH ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE ...One goes to knowledge or to war with fear, with respect, aware that one is going to war, and with absolute confidence in oneself. Put your trust in yourself, not me. SR,88.... A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps. TDJ,52. I asked him why this was so and he said that when a man has fulfilled those four requisites there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his acts lose the blundering quality of a fool's acts. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that. TDJ,52. TO LEARN SOMETHING WE MUST BE CHALLENGED CONTINOUSLY.... The path of knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn we must be spurred. In the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, prepared for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater, more powerful than us. The inexplicable forces will come to you. Now it is the spirit of the water hole, later on it'll be your own ally, so there is nothing you can do now but to prepare yourself for the struggle. SR,214. Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge. SR,214 RATIONALIZING/SEEKING EXPLANATIONS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING AT ONCE IS NOT POSSIBLE Your problem is that you want to understand everything and that is not possible. if you insist on understanding you're not considering your entire lot as a human being. Your stumbling block is intact. Therefore, you have done almost nothing in all these years. You have been shaken out of your total slumber, true but that could have been accomplished anyway by other circumstances. SR,258,259. You're chained! You're chained to your reason. SR,260. There's nothing to understand. understanding is only a small affair, so very small. SR,260 ..there is no way to speed up understanding and that to dislodge the AP is not enough. FFW,285 The act of dwelling on explanations will put us right back where we don't want to be; that is, we'll be thrown back into a view of the world, this time a much larger view. TOP,238. In both cases there is no hope, ever, to understand or to explain what we are witnessing. TOP,267,268. EVERYONE SHOULD SEEK EXPLANATIONS BUT NOT NECESSARILY CONVENIENT ONES Sorcereres are men. We're creatures of thought. We seek clarifications. Your flaw is to seek convenient explanations, explanations that fit you and your world. What I object to is your reasonableness. A sorcerer explains things in his world too, but he's not as stiff as you. ..you're after the reflection of

your own idea. TOP,12.... (sorcerers should look for explanations)..it's your duty to put your mind at ease. Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls but overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over the walls; they don't demolish them. TOP,55. WARRIORS SHOULD NOT MAKE THINGS INCOMPREHENSIBLE INTO AN INVENTORY OF THE FIRST ATTENTION but there is a danger of turning something incomprehensible into something somber and foreboding... hence his recommendation was to keep incomprehensible things incomprehensible rather than making them part of the inventory of the first attention. FFW,276. RATIONALIZING SOMETHING DOES NOT VERIFY IT NOR WILL IT ALTER OUR LIVES I was merely intuiting a truth, and that to reason it out was not to verify it. FFW,53 ..he went on to say that conclusions arrived at through reasoning had very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives. FFW,53 Hence, the countless examples of people who have the clearest convictions and yet act diametrically against them again and again; and have as the only explanation for their behavior is the idea that to err is human.. FFW,53 our rationality alone cannot come up with an answer about the reason for our existence. Every time it tries, the answer turns into a matter of beliefs.... FFW,54,55 (Real and true changes in the person comes only from experiences with the spirit, not intellectual discussions... this is why twelve step programs are effective (person is at the end of their rope, thus the spirit is more available to them).. and why people turn to religion... Faith moves mountains. THE ONE WAY BRIDGE FROM REASON TO SILENT KNOWLEDGE IS CALLED PURE UNDERSTANDING And the other one-way bridge, from reason to silent knowledge, was called pure understanding. That is, the recognition that told the man of reason that reason was only one island in an endless sea of islands...any human being who had both one-waybridges working was a sorcerer in direct contact with the spirit, the vital force that made both positions possible. POS, 243, 244 WISDOM WISDOM ALWAYS COMES TO US PAINFULLY AND SLOWLY wisdom always comes to us painfully and in driblets.POS, 72.. Knowledge is a most peculiar affair... especially for a warrior. Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him and passes on. Knowledge comes floating like specks of gold dust, the same dust that covers the wings of moths. So, for a warrior, knowledge is like taking a shower, or being rained in by specks of dark gold dust. TOP,33. THE BODY RALLIES ITS KNOWLEDGE IN A SLOW AFFAIR, REGARDLESS OF OUR DESIRE there is no way on earth that we can order anyone or ourselves to rally knowledge. it is rather a slow affair; the body, at the right time and under the proper circumstances of impeccabiltiy, rallies its knowledge without the invervention of desire. EG,273. KINDNESS IS NEEDED WITH WISDOM there is no completeness without sadness and longing, for with out them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless. FFW,12.

KNOWLEDGE GATHERS ENERGY AND THEREFORE KNOWLEDGE IS POWER Knowledge gathers energy, therefore knowledge is power. TSC,106. Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless. TDJ,24. Knowledge is power. It takes a long time to harness enough power to even talk about it. JTI,152... The reason why people can't use any knowledge given to them is because they first need to learn to do it..like reading or writing.. its a skill to be learned, that's all (good thought..needs to be reworded though.) 6/20/94 Shouldn't it be action is power? because even if you know how to do it but you do not have the strength/ability then all is for naught. 5/31/97 KNOWLEDGE IS FRIGHTENING Knowledge is frightening..but if a warrior accepts this frightening nature of knowledge he cancels out its awesomeness. TOP,33. THE ABILITY TO CONCENTRATE IS CONSIDERED INTELLIGENCE IN THE SORCERER'S WORLD In order to be intelligent in my world... you must be able to concentrate, to fix your attention on any concrete thing as well as on any abstract manifestation. TSC,88. 3. MAKING CHANGES MAKING CHANGES IN OUR LIVES WE CAN NEVER REALLY CHANGE UNTIL WE DROP OUR HUMAN FORM A warrior must drop the human form in order to change, to really change. otherwise there is only talk about change.. it is useless to think or hope that one can change one's habits. SRP,141. One cannot change one iota as long as one holds on to the human form.... SRP,141. During the years with DJ I had certainly experienced a steady lessening of personal ties with the world, but that had taken place on an intellectual plane; in my everyday life I was unchanged until the moment I lost my human form. EG,113. CHANGES ARE DIFFICULT AND HAPPEN VERY SLOWLY SLOW Unfortunately, changes are difficult and happen very slowly; sometimes it takes years for a man to become convinced of the need to change...it took me years...JTI,79 WE CAN GIVE UP THINGS JUST LIKE THAT People hardly ever relize that we can cut anything from our lives, any time, just like that. JTI,8. WHEN A CHANGE DOES HAPPENS IT HAPPENS FAST The changing I'm talking about never takes place by degrees; it happens suddenly. And you are not preparing yourself for that sudden act that will bring a total change. JTI,82. TO CHANGE WE MUST MEET THREE CONDITIONS To change we need to meet three conditions... TSC,62. first we must announce out loud our decision to change so that intent will hear us. TSC,62. Second, we must engage our awareness over a period of time: We can't just start something and give it up as soon as we become discouraged. TSC,62. (I think for me the most difficult thing was to really want to change...a good hunter changes his ways as often as he needs. JTI,79 ...the more stubborn you are the better it'll be when you finally succeed in changing yourself. JTI,80. Third, we have to view the outcome of our actions with a sense of complete detachment. This means we can't get involved with idea of succeeding or

failing. TSC,62.(a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. SRP,141 Follow these three steps and you can change any unwanted feelings and desires in you. TSC,62. THE WARRIOR IS NEVER DISAPPOINTED WHEN HE FAILS TO CHANGE The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change. SRP,141 4. STRATEGY HOW DOES A WARRIOR LIVE? A WARRIOR PROCEEDS STRATEGICALLY ...A warrior proceeds strategically. JTI,xi....A warrior lives strategically... SR,204 ....Life for a warrior is an exercise in strategy..but you want to find the meaning of life. A warrior doesn't care about meanings. SR,181 When I speak of designs, I mean sublime designs; manuvers for a daring spirit. TSC,95. A WARRIOR NEVER CARRIES LOADS HE CANNOT HANDLE a warrior never carries loads he cannot handle. SR,204 WHEN WE ACT WITH OUR FELLOW HUMANS WE MUST FOLLOW THE DOING OF STRATEGY When he has to act with his fellow man, a warrior follows the doing of strategy and in that doing there are no victories or defeats. in doing there are only actions... JTI,227 THE DOING OF STRATEGY ENTAILS THAT ONE IS NOT AT THE MERCY OF PEOPLE the doing of strategy entails that one is not at the mercy of people.. at that party you were a clown, not because it served your purposes to be a clown but because you placed yourself at the mercy of those people. You never had any control and thus you had to run away from them. You should have not gone there at all, or else go there to perform a specific act. JTI,227 AVAILABILITY OF A WARRIOR A WARRIOR IS NOT AVAILABLE A warrior is not a willing partner; a warrior is not available, SR,180...If a hunter wants to travel at night or if he wants to kept awake he must make himself available to the wind.JTI,66... a warrior is never available; never is he standing on the road waiting to be clobbered. Thus he cuts to a minimum his chance for the unforeseen. What you call accidents are, most of the time, very easy to avoid, except for fools who are living helter-skelter. SR,182. therein lies the secret of great hunters. To be available and unavailable at the precise turn of the road. JTI,66... TO BE AVAILABLE DID NOT MEAN TO HIDE OR TO BE SECRETIVE BUT TO BE INACCESSIBLE. that to be available did not mean to hide or to be secretive but to be inaccessible. It makes no difference to hide if everybody knows that you are hiding..at one time in my life I, like you, made myself available over and over again until there was nothing of me left for anything except perhaps crying. JTI,66...you must take yourself away..you must retrieve yourself from

the middle of a trafficked way. Your whole being is there, thus it is no use to hide; you would only image you are hidden. Being in the middle of the road means that eveyone passing by watches your comings and goings. JTI,67. you lost her because you were accessible, you were always within her reach and your life was a routine one...it was an unusual routine and that gives you the impression that it is not a routine, but I assure it is. you stayed with her day after day, until the only feeling that remained was boredom...JTI,69. To be unavailable means that you deliberately avoid exhausting yourself and others. JTI,70 TO BE INACCESSIBLE MEANS TO TOUCH THE WORLD AROUND YOU SPARINGLY. ..to be inaccessible means to touch the world around you sparingly. You don't eat five quail; you eat one. you don't damage the plants to make a barbecue pit. You don't expose yourself to power of the wind unless its mandatory. You don't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people you love. JTI,69 ...that to be inaccessible does not mean to hide or to be secretive..it doesn't mean that you cannot deal with people either. A hunter uses the world sparingly and with tenderness, regardless of whether the world might be things, or plants, or animal, or people or power. A hunter deals intimately with his world and yet he is inaccessible to that same world....he is inaccessible (even though he is in the world every day)..because he is not squeezing his world out of shape. he taps it lightly, stays as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away leaving hardly a mark....JTI,70. TO WORRY IS TO BECOME ACCESSIBLE ....To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to. JTI,70 INVENTORIES USED AS STRATEGY WE ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE INVENTORY OF OURSELVES BUT WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO WORSHIP IT The Eagle doesn't command us to worship our inventory; it commands us to take it, that's all. FFW,92 Yet the way out of obeying the commands (the Eagle's emanations) is in obeying them... In the case of the inventory of the first attention... seers take it, for they can't disobey. But once they have it they throw it away. FFW,92 WARRIORS TAKE STRATEGIC INVENTORIES OF ESSENTIAL BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS TO CONSERVE ENERGY warriors take strategic inventories.. they list everything they do. then they decide which of those things can be changed in order to allow themselves a respite, in terms of expending their energy. this inventory only covered behavioral patterns that were not essential to our survival and well-being...FFW,31. 5. DEATHAS AN ADVISER/AID WHAT IS WRONG WITH THINKING YOU ARE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER? WE DON'T THINK ABOUT OUR ACTS Our most costly mistake as average men is indulging in a sense of immortality.

It is as though we believe that if we don't think about death we can protect ourselves from it...POS,120 ....Most people move from act to act without any struggle or thought... JTI,85 OUR ACTS ARE BORING/LIFE IS BORING Without the awareness of death he would be only an ordinary man involved in ordinary acts. He would lack the necessary potency, the necessary concentration that transforms one's ordinary time on earth into magical power. Thus to be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, become keenly aware of his own death. SR,150. Power is showing you that death is the indispensible ingredient in having to believe. Without the awareness of death everything is ordinary, trivial. It is only because death is stalking us that the world is an unfathomable mystery. Power has shown you that. TOP,114. ..without an awareness of the presence of our death there is no power, no mystery. Having to believe that the world is mysterious and unfathomable was the expression of a warrior's innermost predilection. Without it he had nothing. TOP,115. WE BECOME TIMID ...if you are going to die there is no time for timidity, simply because timidity makes you cling to something that exists only in your thoughts. it soothes you while everything is at a lull, but then the awesome, mysterious world will open its mouth for you, as it will open for every one of us, and then you will realize that your sure ways were not sure at all. being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men. JTI,85. ....Your continuity only makes you timid..your acts cannot possibly have the flair, the power, the complelling force of the acts performed by a man who knows he is fighting his last battle on earth. In other words, your continuity does not make you happy or powerful. JTI,84. HOW IS DEATH RELATED TO A WARRIOR? DEATH FOLLOWS A SORCERER ALONG THE PATH By the time knowledge becomes a frightening affair the man also realizes that death is the irreplaceable partner that sits next to him on the mat. Every bit of knowledge that becomes power has death as its central force. Death lends the ultimate touch, and whatever is touched by death indeed becomes power. A man who follows the paths of sorcery is confronted with imminent annihilation every turn of the way, and unavoidably he becomes keenly aware of his death. SR,150. DEATH IS A WARRIORS ONLY WORTHY OPPONENT Sorcerers say that death is the only worthy opponent we have..death is our challenger..we are born to take that challenge... life is the process by means of which death challenges us.. death is the active force..life is the arena and in that arena there are only two contenders at any time: oneself and death...we are passive..POS,122 WARRIORS CHOOSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR EVENTUAL DEATH to bring that awareness to the foreground.. that my volition alone was the deciding factor; in other words, I had to make up my mind to bring that awareness to bear witness to my acts. SRP,205. DON JUAN'S ALLY HAS SHOWN HIM (CC asks how DJ knows all of this).. I have my ally. The little smoke has

shown me my unmistakable death with great clarity. That is why I can only talk about personal death. SR,196. I know it because my ally has guided me to that stage. (when death enters you luminous gap) SR,197,198 DON JUAN'S COMMENT ON THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD I don't understand why those people talk about death as if death were like life (refferring to the Tibetan Book of the Dead) SR,194 DEATH IS A MUCH BETTER ADVISOR THAN SELF-PITY Death is considered by a warrior to be a more amenable adviser, which can also be brought to bear witness on everything one does, just like self-pity, or wrath....after an untold struggle you had to learn to fell sorry for your self..but you can also learn in the same way to feel your impending end, and thus you can learn to have the idea of your death at your fingertips. As an adviser, self-pity is nothing in comparison with death. TOP,234. HOW DO WARRIORS MAKE THEMSELVES ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR MORTALITY? SYMBOLIC DEATH SYMBOLIC DEATH/REBIRTH/TICKET TO IMPECCABILITY: YOU MUST INVALIDATE THE CONTINUITY OF YOUR OLD LIFE for any sorcerer to have complete certainty about his actions, or about his position in the sorcerer's world, or to be capable of utilizing intelligently his new continuity, he must invalidate the continuity of his old life. Only then can his actions have the necessary assuredness to fortify and balance the tenuousness and instability of his new continuity...modern sorcerers call this process of invalidation.. the ticket to impeccability, or the sorcerer's symbolic but final death. POS,198. a sorcerers' ticket to freedom was his death... and now we are equals in our condition of being dead....the sorcerers' grand trick is to be aware of being dead. POS,201... we can only really change if we die... POS,254. There is nothing in this world that a warrior cannot account for. You see, a warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing for him to lose. the worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything. TOP,32. HOW DO WARRIORS USE DEATH AS THEIR ADVISORS? DEATH REMINDS A WARRIOR THAT LIFE IS SHORT SO THERE IS NO TIME TO GET CAUGHT UP IN THE PETTINESS OF LIFE. ...the key to all these matters of impeccability is the sense of having or not having time. As a rule of thumb, when you feel and act like an immortal being that has all the time in the world you are not impeccable; at those times you should turn around, look around, and then you will realize that your feeling of having time is idiocy. there are no survivors on this earth. (???) An immortal being has all the time in the world for doubts and bewilderment and fears. A warrior...cannot cling to the meanings made under the tonal's order, because he knows for a fact that the totality of himself has but a little time on this earth. TOP,191. There's no future..the future is only a way of talking. For a sorcerer ther is only the here and now. TOP,203 The

thing to do when you're impatient..is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death..an immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you. JTI,34. Think of your death now..it is at arm's length. It may tap you any moment, so really you have no time for crappy thoughts and moods. None of us have time for that. JTI,39. Death is the only wise advisor we have. Whenever you feel..that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, "I haven't touched you yet". JTI,34. One of us here has to ask death's advice and drop the cursed pettiness that belongs to men that live their lives as if death will never tap them. JTI,35. This, whatever you are doing now, may be the last act on earth. it may very well be your last battle... If this were your last battle on earth, I would say that you are an idiot...you are wasting your last act on earth in some stupid mood. JTI,82 How can anyone feel so important when we know that death is stalking us. JTI,34... DEATH BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN PEOPLE I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel that sword dangling overhead. TOP,143. in the face of the unknown, man is adventurous... it is a quality of the unknown that give us a sense of hope and happiness... man feels robust, exhilarated. Even the apprehension that it arouses is very fulfilling... man is at his best in the face of the unknown..FFW,49,50 DEATH MAKES PEOPLE CHANGE ...if you don't think your life is going to last forever, what are you waiting for? Why the hesitation to change. JTI,81. I insisted that to be bored with the world or to be at odds with it was a human condition...DJ says..change it..if you do not respond to that challenge you are as good as dead. JTI,81. DEATH ALLOWS US TO HAVE COURAGE TO FACE ANYTHING BECAUSE WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE warriors live with death at their side, and from the knowledge that death is with them they draw the courage to face anything...the worst thing that could happen to us is that we have to die, and since that is already our unalterable fate, we are free; those who have lost everything no longer have anything to fear. FFW,260,261. the only deterrent to our despair was the awareness of our death, the key to the sorcerer's scheme of things. His idea was that the awareness of our death was the only thing that could give us the strength to withstand the duress and pain of our lives and our fears of the unknown... SRP,205. The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. the spirit of a warrior is geared only to the struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his will is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs. SR,215. a warrior is never under siege. To be under siege implies that one has personal possessions that could be blockaded. A warrior has nothing in the world except his impeccability, and impeccability cannot be threatened. EG,215. She has nothing

to lose any more. She's lost everything already. When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to. SRP,96. One is better off with nothing except one's purpose and freedom. SRP,136. ...lets say that a rule of thumb for you should be that when you come to see me you should come prepared to die...if you come here ready to die, there shouldn't be any pitfalls, or any unwelcome surprises, or any unnecessary acts. Everything should fall gently into place because you're expecting nothing. TOP,152. to put your life on the line in order to back up your decisions, and then do quite alot more than your best to realize those decisions. TAOD,155.. I have heard you say time and time again that you are always prepared to die. I don't regard that feeling as necessary. I think it is a useless indulgence. A warrior should be prepared only to battle. SR,215. THE IDEA OF DEATH GIVES US SOBRIETY The idea of death is of monumental importance in the life of a sorcerer.. the knowledge of our impending and unavoidable end is what gives us sobriety. POS,120 without a clear view of death, there is no order, no sobriety, no beauty. Sorcerers struggle to gain this crucial insight in order to help them realize at the deepest possible level that they have no assurance whatsoever their lives will continue beyond the moment. That realization gives sorcerers the courage to be patient and yet take action, courage to be acquiescent without being stupid. POS,120 DEATH KEEPS A WARRIOR SHARP/CLEAR A warrior thinks of his death when things are unclear...because the idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit. SR,47. if I did not think of my death, my entire life would be only a personal chaos... what else can a man have, except his life and his death? SR,96. DEATH MAKES A WARRIOR TAKE ACTION LIKE IT WAS THEIR LAST ACT ON EARTH if we move, it's only when we feel the pressure of death. Death sets the pace for our actions and feelings and pushes us relentlessly until it breaks us and wins the bout or else we rise above all possibilities and defeat death...POS,122 Focus your attention on the link between you and your death, without remorse or sadness or worrying. Focus your attention on the fact that you don't have time and let your acts flow accordingly. Let each of your acts be your last battle on earth. JTI,84...only under those conditions will your acts have their rightful power. otherwise they will be, for as long as you live, the acts of a timid man. JTI,85. I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while...JTI,81. A hunter...assesses every act; and since he has intimate knowledge of his death, he proceeds judiciously, as if every act were his last battle. Only a fool would fail to notice the advantage a hunter has over his fellow men. A hunter gives his last battle its due respect. It's only natural that his last act on earth should be the best of himself. It's pleasurable that way. it dulls the edge of his fright. JTI,85 There are some people who are very careful about the nature of their acts. Their happiness is to act with the full knowledge that they don't have time, therefore their acts have a peculiar power...acts have power.. especially when the person acting knows that those acts are his last battle. There is a strange consuming happiness in

acting with the full knowledge that whatever one is doing may very well be one's last act on earth. I recommend that you reconsider your life and bring your acts into that light. JTI,83 DEATH FORCES US TO MAKE DECISIONS WITH FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND NO REGRETS he must fully understand that his choice is his responsibilty and once he makes it there is no longer time for regrets or recriminations. His decisions are final, simply because his death does not permit him time to cling to anything. SR,151. DEATH MAKES A WARRIOR DO THINGS DELIBERATELY AND WITH ENTHUSIASM And thus with an awareness of his death, with his detachment, and with the power of his decisions a warrior sets his life in a strategical manner. the knowledge of his death guides him and makes him detached and silently lusty; the power of his final decisions makes him able to choose without regrets and what he chooses is always strategically the best; and so he performs everything he has to with gusto and lusty effciency. SR,151 When a warrior has acquired patience he is on his way to will. he knows how to wait. his death sits with him on his mat, they are friends. his death advises him, in mysterious ways, how to choose, how to live strategically. SR,152. In a battle for one's life..a warrior should use strategically use ever means available. EG,216. DEATH MAKES A WARRIOR BECOME SUFFICIENTLY DETACHED THAT HE/SHE BECOMES A MASTER OF HIS CHOICES But to be concerned with death would force any one of us to focus on the self and that would be debilitating. So the next thing one needs to be a warrior is detachment. the idea of imminent death, instead of becoming an obsession, becomes an indifference. SR,150. Only the idea of death makes a man sufficiently detached so he is incapable of abandoning himself to anything. Only the idea of death makes a man sufficiently detached so he can't deny himself anything. A man of that sort, however, does not crave, for he has acquired a silent lust for life and for all things of life. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything, so he tries, without craving, all of everything. SR,151 A detached man, who knows he has no possibility of fencing off his death, has only one thing to back himself with: the power of his decisions. he has to be, so to speak, the master of his choices. SR,151 WHAT FINALLY HAPPENS BETWEEN SORCERERS AND DEATH? SORCERERS DEFEAT DEATH AND GO FREE sorcerers defeat death and death acknowledges the defeat by letting the sorcerers go free, never to be challenged again.POS,122 OLD AGE: THE FINAL STRUGGLE OF A WARRIOR AVEARAGE OLD MEN THINK THE WORLD HAS NO MORE MYSTERY an average man doesn't do this though. (treat the world as a mystery) The world is never a mystery for him and when he arrives at old age he is convinced he has nothing more to live for.SR,220 An old man has not exhausted the world. he has only exhausted only what people do. But in his stupid confusion he believes that the world has no more mysteries for him. What a wretched price to pay for our shields. SR,220. To turn that magnificence out

there into reasonableness doesn't do anything for you. here,surrounding us, is eternity itself. To engage in reducing it to a manageable nonsense is petty and outright disastrous. TOP,37. WHEN YOU BECOME OLD SOME PEOPLE BEGIN TO SUSPECT THEIR TRUE NATURE BUT IT IS TOO LATE Don Juan asserted that during our active lives we never have the chance to go beyond the level of mere preoccupation, because since time immemorial the lull of daily affairs has made us drowsy. It is only when our lives are nearly over that our hereditary preoccupation with fate begins to take on a different character. It begins to make us see through the fog of daily affairs. Unfortunately, this awakening always comes in hand in hand with loss of energy caused by aging, when we have no more strength left to turn our preoccupation into a pragmatic and positive discovery. At this point , all there is left is an amphourous, piercing anguish, a longing for something indescribable, and simple anger at having missed out. POS, 63 FOURTH NATURAL ENEMY OF MAN: OLD AGE. The man.. will be, by then, at the end of his journey of learning, and almost without warning he will come upon the last of his enemies. Old age! This enemy is the cruelest of all, the one he won't be able to defeat completely, but only fight away. This is the time when a man has no more fears, no more impatient clarity of mind - a time when all his power is in check, but also the time when he has an unyielding desire to rest. If he gives in totally to his desire to lie down and forget, if he soothes himself in tiredness, he will have lost his last round, and his enemy will cut him down into a feeble old creature. His desire to retreat will overule all his clarity, his power, and his knowledge. TDJ,87... But if a man sloughs off his tiredness, and lives his fate through, he can then be called a man of knowledge, if only for a brief moment when he succeeds in fighting off his last, invincible enemy. That moment of clarity, power and knowledge is enough. TDJ,87. WARRIORS FIGHT THEIR DEATH A warrior does not abandon himself to anything; not even his death. SR,172.....To die with elation is a crappy way to die. A warrior dies the hard way.. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it. TOP,76. PLACE TO DIE/TIME OF YOUR DEATH/DEATH DANCE Every warrior has a place to die. A place of his predilection which is soaked with unforgettable memories, where powerful events left their mark, a place where he has witnessed marvels, where secrets have been revealed to him, a place where he has stored personal power. A warrior has an obligation to go back to that place of his predilection every time he taps power in order to store it there. He either goes there by means of walking or by means of dreaming. And finally, one day when his time on earth is up and he feels the tap of death on his left shoulder, his spirit, which is always ready, flies to the place of his predilection and there the warrior dances to his death. JTI,153. Every warrior has a specific form, a specific posture of power, which he develops throughout his life. It is a sort of dance. A movement that he

does under the influence of his personal power. If a dying warrior has limited power, his dance is short;if his power is grandiose, his dance is magnificent. But regardless of whether his power is small or magnificent, death must stop to witness his last stand on earth. Death cannot overtake the warrior who is recounting the toil of his life for the last time until he has finished his dance. Any man that hunts power has to learn that dance. You must add the other movements yourself as you go on living. Every new one must be obtained during a struggle of power. So, properly speaking, the posture, the form of the warrior, is the story of his life, a dance that grows as he grows in personal power.JTI,154. A warrior is only a man. A humble man. He cannot change the designs of his death. But his impeccable spirit, which has stored power after stupendous hardships, can certainly hold his death for a moment, a moment long enough to let him rejoice for the last time in recalling his power. We may say that that is a gesture which death has with those who have an impeccable spirit. He said that the rabbit thumping he had taught me was the first movement of the dance that a warrior groomed and enlarged throughout his life, and then executed in his last stand on earth. JTI,228. SOMETIMES A WARRIOR CAN ACTUALLY ESCAPE DEATH ESCAPING ACCIDENTAL DEATH sorcerers when faced with an accidental death can move their AP with such speed that they can go to other universes or burn within (ultimate freedom)... sorcerers commanded their death. They died only when they had to. POS,213. IMMORTALITY THERE IS NO WAY TO ASPIRE TO IMMORTALITY AS LONG AS MAN HAS A COCOON. there is no way to aspire to immortality as long as man has a cocoon. FFW,249.

THROUGH AWARENESS, OUR PERSONAL AWARENESS DOES NOT DISPERSE BUT EXPANDS AND UNITES WITH THE WHOLE A chance not to die was one of these possibilities (when our wherehouse is empty).. the best explanation of this extravagant alternative was offered by the sages of Ancient China. TSC,111 They claimed that it is feasible for one's personal awareness, or te, to link up knowingly with the all-encompassing awareness or Tao. Then when death comes, one's individual awareness is not dispersed in ordinary dying, but expands and unites with the greater whole. TSC,112. there is a belief handed from the ancient sorcerers, that if we would be able to use our bodies as a weapon-or, put in modern terms, if we would empty our wherehouses-we would be able to slip out of the world to roam elsewhere. TSC,103. (we would go to) the realm of not-being, to the shadow's world... it is believed that once our warehouse is empty, we would become so light that we could soar through the void and nothing would hinder our flight. Then we could return to this world youthful and renewed...at this moment it is just a belief...but moments, like all things, are known to change. TSC,103. BEING AWARE OF TIME IS A SPECIAL STATE OF AWARENESS THAT PREVENTS US FROM AGING QUICKLY AND DYING IN A FEW DECADES... Being aware of time is a special state of awareness that prevents us from

aging quickly and dying in a few decades... TSC,103. For a seer, the truth is that all living beings are struggling to die... what stops death is awareness. FFW,91 WHERE DID DJ GO?: DESCRIPTION OF LITTLE RED BUGS. Where did DJ go? (description of little red bugs. SRP,284.)