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.Under these circumstances, to change the fixationbecomes an exhausting task."To break the trap of fixation, one should try any recourse.In most cases, only a push comingfrom the outside can cause the movement of a person's assemblage point.When we have agreat, great deal of luck, we receive that push through the blow of a nagual."Once the initial displacement is achieved, the warrior should fight for control of his attention,by means of exercises of intent and practicing dreaming.Dreaming is the escape door for thehuman race, and it is the only thing that can give our existence its appropriate dimension."Dreaming And AwakeningCarlos had a great ability to turn conversations towards the practical side of things.In spite ofthe extraordinary sharpness of his intellect, he hated it if conversations sank to the level ofmere speculations.I often watched how he in an ingenious but firm manner would unravel theargumentation of the most rigid speakers, confronting them with the topic of results.In my case, his method for silencing my attacks of rationality consisted of reducingeverything to an immediate proposition and, according to him, something not very difficult:The control of dreams.However, for me dreaming was the hardest aspect of his teaching.First, because I could notdistinguish the concept of 'dreaming' from ordinary dreams, which are two totally differentthings for a sorcerer.Second, because the idea of focusing my attention on sleeping instead ofon awakening was contrary to everything that I had learned in my philosophical search.Both these considerations very quickly made me avoid dreaming, without ever accepting it asan authentic and reachable possibility.Whenever I listened to him talking about it, I was filledwith apprehension.And I justified all this by saying to myself that such an irrational topicwasn't even worth the pain of trying to analyze it.That afternoon he asked how my practice was going.I admitted that my prejudices hadprevented me from making a serious decision and, not surprisingly, I had not obtained anypositive result.He commented:"Maybe you just haven't been lucky.My teacher said that each human being brings his basicinclination with him at birth.Noteverybody can be a good dreamer, some find stalking easier.The important thing is that youinsist." But his words didn't console me.I began explaining to him that my incredulity seemed to bethe result of some mental block, implanted in my earliest childhood.He didn't allow me to finish.Making an imperative gesture with his hand, he replied:"You have not done enough.If you promise yourself that you will not eat, or pronounce asingle word, until you dream, you will see what happens! Something in your interior becomessoft, the dialogue gives in and.kaboom!"Keep in mind that, for you, dreaming is not just an option, it's something basic.If you don'taccomplish it, you cannot continue on the path."Alarmed by his words, I asked:"But what do I have to do to achieve it?""You must want to do it!" he answered."It is as simple as that.You are exaggerating thedifficulty of this exercise.Dreaming is open to everybody, because to start, it barely requiresthe minimum of deliberation that is necessary to learn how to type or to drive a car."I commented that it was very difficult for me to understand how the handling of dreams couldtake us to internal awakening.He observed:"You are confused by the words.When sorcerers speak of dreaming and awakening, the termsdon't have anything to do with the physical states you know.I don't have any choice but to useyour language, because otherwise you would not understand me at all.But if you don't doyour part, and put aside everyday meaningsand try to penetrate the meaning of what I'm telling you, you will never get out of this state ofmistrust."I can only guarantee you that, once you discard the laziness that prevents you from facing thechallenge, and attack dreaming directly and without hesitations, your mental mess will clearup by itself."I apologized for my stubbornness and asked him to elucidate the meaning of dreaming oncemore.Instead of getting involved in a theoretical explanation, which was what I wanted, Carlos gaveme an illustration."Imagine a confirmed believer, one of those who cannot do anything without requestingpermission from his god beforehand.Once he falls asleep, what happens with his convictions,where do they go?"I didn't know what to answer.Hecontinued: "They turn off, like the flame of a candle in the wind.When you dream, you are not the ownerof yourself.Your visions are isolated bubbles, without connections to each other and withoutmemory of the self.Of course, the force of habit will almost always take you to dreams whereyou are yourself, but you might be brave or a coward, young or old, man or woman.Truly,you are only an assemblage point which moves at random, nothing personal."For the ordinary man, the difference between being awake and dreaming is that in the firststate his attention flows with continuity, and in the second it flows in a disordered manner; butin both experiences, the degree of participation from the will is minimal.A person will wakeup in the place where, as always, he puts on his personality like a shirt and goes out to fulfillhis routine tasks.Upon falling asleep, gets disconnected again, because he doesn't know hecan do something else."The everyday wakefulness doesn't leave us room to stop and wonder if this world that we areperceiving now is as real as it seems.And the same thing must be said of any ordinary dream;while it lasts, we accept it as an unquestionable fact, we never judge it; or, to put it in morepractical terms, we never intend to remember, while inside the dream, some command oragreement made while awake."But there is another way of directing attention, and the result of that can neither be called'dreaming' nor 'awake', because it starts from a deliberate use of intent.What happens there isthat we take charge of our awareness, and it is the same whether we are sleeping or awake,because it is something that transcends both states.That is the true awakening, to take chargeof our attention!"The Toltec teachings emphasize dreaming [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Under these circumstances, to change the fixationbecomes an exhausting task."To break the trap of fixation, one should try any recourse.In most cases, only a push comingfrom the outside can cause the movement of a person's assemblage point.When we have agreat, great deal of luck, we receive that push through the blow of a nagual."Once the initial displacement is achieved, the warrior should fight for control of his attention,by means of exercises of intent and practicing dreaming.Dreaming is the escape door for thehuman race, and it is the only thing that can give our existence its appropriate dimension."Dreaming And AwakeningCarlos had a great ability to turn conversations towards the practical side of things.In spite ofthe extraordinary sharpness of his intellect, he hated it if conversations sank to the level ofmere speculations.I often watched how he in an ingenious but firm manner would unravel theargumentation of the most rigid speakers, confronting them with the topic of results.In my case, his method for silencing my attacks of rationality consisted of reducingeverything to an immediate proposition and, according to him, something not very difficult:The control of dreams.However, for me dreaming was the hardest aspect of his teaching.First, because I could notdistinguish the concept of 'dreaming' from ordinary dreams, which are two totally differentthings for a sorcerer.Second, because the idea of focusing my attention on sleeping instead ofon awakening was contrary to everything that I had learned in my philosophical search.Both these considerations very quickly made me avoid dreaming, without ever accepting it asan authentic and reachable possibility.Whenever I listened to him talking about it, I was filledwith apprehension.And I justified all this by saying to myself that such an irrational topicwasn't even worth the pain of trying to analyze it.That afternoon he asked how my practice was going.I admitted that my prejudices hadprevented me from making a serious decision and, not surprisingly, I had not obtained anypositive result.He commented:"Maybe you just haven't been lucky.My teacher said that each human being brings his basicinclination with him at birth.Noteverybody can be a good dreamer, some find stalking easier.The important thing is that youinsist." But his words didn't console me.I began explaining to him that my incredulity seemed to bethe result of some mental block, implanted in my earliest childhood.He didn't allow me to finish.Making an imperative gesture with his hand, he replied:"You have not done enough.If you promise yourself that you will not eat, or pronounce asingle word, until you dream, you will see what happens! Something in your interior becomessoft, the dialogue gives in and.kaboom!"Keep in mind that, for you, dreaming is not just an option, it's something basic.If you don'taccomplish it, you cannot continue on the path."Alarmed by his words, I asked:"But what do I have to do to achieve it?""You must want to do it!" he answered."It is as simple as that.You are exaggerating thedifficulty of this exercise.Dreaming is open to everybody, because to start, it barely requiresthe minimum of deliberation that is necessary to learn how to type or to drive a car."I commented that it was very difficult for me to understand how the handling of dreams couldtake us to internal awakening.He observed:"You are confused by the words.When sorcerers speak of dreaming and awakening, the termsdon't have anything to do with the physical states you know.I don't have any choice but to useyour language, because otherwise you would not understand me at all.But if you don't doyour part, and put aside everyday meaningsand try to penetrate the meaning of what I'm telling you, you will never get out of this state ofmistrust."I can only guarantee you that, once you discard the laziness that prevents you from facing thechallenge, and attack dreaming directly and without hesitations, your mental mess will clearup by itself."I apologized for my stubbornness and asked him to elucidate the meaning of dreaming oncemore.Instead of getting involved in a theoretical explanation, which was what I wanted, Carlos gaveme an illustration."Imagine a confirmed believer, one of those who cannot do anything without requestingpermission from his god beforehand.Once he falls asleep, what happens with his convictions,where do they go?"I didn't know what to answer.Hecontinued: "They turn off, like the flame of a candle in the wind.When you dream, you are not the ownerof yourself.Your visions are isolated bubbles, without connections to each other and withoutmemory of the self.Of course, the force of habit will almost always take you to dreams whereyou are yourself, but you might be brave or a coward, young or old, man or woman.Truly,you are only an assemblage point which moves at random, nothing personal."For the ordinary man, the difference between being awake and dreaming is that in the firststate his attention flows with continuity, and in the second it flows in a disordered manner; butin both experiences, the degree of participation from the will is minimal.A person will wakeup in the place where, as always, he puts on his personality like a shirt and goes out to fulfillhis routine tasks.Upon falling asleep, gets disconnected again, because he doesn't know hecan do something else."The everyday wakefulness doesn't leave us room to stop and wonder if this world that we areperceiving now is as real as it seems.And the same thing must be said of any ordinary dream;while it lasts, we accept it as an unquestionable fact, we never judge it; or, to put it in morepractical terms, we never intend to remember, while inside the dream, some command oragreement made while awake."But there is another way of directing attention, and the result of that can neither be called'dreaming' nor 'awake', because it starts from a deliberate use of intent.What happens there isthat we take charge of our awareness, and it is the same whether we are sleeping or awake,because it is something that transcends both states.That is the true awakening, to take chargeof our attention!"The Toltec teachings emphasize dreaming [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]