I NEVER miss a day of practice.
Sometimes I have to cut it short to write things down, but then the next day I make up for it in the morning.
We need to go further each day, or the road is too long for a single lifetime.
Yes, but that kind of observation created the idea of “enlightenment”.
Totally bogus and designed for stealing money.
They convinced themselves that the meagerest of results, is the whole thing.
Like a little kid thinking if he hits the baseball just once and it goes really far, he’s mastered baseball.
“The Home Run Kid”.
That’s Buddhism.
But yes, you do get to see the world as wonderful and magical, and even feel “bliss” when the wind blows over you.
It’s just not the actual goal.
As long as there’s a “you”, you aren’t even close.
As a beginner forcing practice every day burnt me out and pushed me to frustration. Of course, I had a dirty link (still do) and I didn’t get any magic. Later i dropped it and had a massive interval of 3 weeks. Later I just started doing gazing just for the case of doing it (which cleared my intention a bit). That gave me a massive boost to see puffs even in daylight. After that, I lost it due to huge indulgent due to my business financials. Now finally getting back to where i was, and really wondering how to shrink tonal (or get I to exist less). Working on that now, finding good results in “drowning in the dream” and letting puffs and white smoke do its own dances without much of my attention
It sounds like you’re hoping to pretend your sorcery so as to cut corners, and aren’t actually following the instructions.
But it’s typically impossible for me to know something like that for sure.
More like hoping to cut corners… but there is.no way around tensegrity and hard-core work to sweat
It pays off! Just remember that.
I got a late start last night, and when I finished the room was filled to the brink with magical objects.
Then the alarm went off…
I leave for work at 4:30AM so I can work on animations.
I discovered Cholita had bought a shower curtain, which was luxurious compared to nothing to stop water from spraying all over the bathroom. And she didn’t remove the shower head!
Cholita’s been slightly better lately.
Asians are smarter about shower/baths, and tile their entire bathroom with a drain. Sometimes the shower itself is just a sprayer nozzle hooked to the faucet on the sink. You just stand there next to the toilet, and wash off.
A giant bathtub in some asian countries would be considered obscenely wasteful of space. A whole Turkey and a giant oven to bake it in? Unthinkable. Better get used to steamed turkey drumsticks.
I was driving down the street on the way to work, and realized the entire sky was purple!
There were weird objects forming in the darkness all along the road.
A voice said, “This is the discarded part. Tossed out as useless. Unreal. Lovely, isn’t it?”
I was still in silent knowledge mode.
I realized you could keep it all the time, by finding the right “feeling” about things around you.
That won’t get you there however. You can’t imagine how to “feel” and make any progress.
That’s kind of what other systems do. Convince their followers you can “cop an attitude” and get somewhere.
So they abstain from things, pretend to be kind, wise, or whatever they can come up with, to copy the fake teachers they follow.
None of that will work! You can be totally saintly, and still no magic. Conversely, you can be a total bastard like the Nagual Julian, and be up to your ears in miracles.
The point is, you have to get there first!
THEN, your attitude might make it possible to sustain it longer.
Work first, change later.
My impression was that the danger Don Juan and others were concerned with was not the IOB’s ‘scaring you to death’, or otherwise harming you directly. The danger was more along the lines of being trapped somehow, of becoming bound to the IOBs and their world(s), which is antithetical to freedom.
It’s pretty much where all of the old seers went.
And are still alive to this day.
But keep in mind, Julian had to go there.
He didn’t make it to the 3rd attention.
And for a while, the witches were saying at workshops that don Juan didn’t make it either.
And we might have to rescue him.
Then even worse, Carlos didn’t use that method to preserve himself.
He found a third alternative we don’t know about.
So it’s not really a binary thing for us.
Better to work hard to reach silent knowledge, and worry about that other stuff later.
It’s not like there’s an alternative.
At least, I can’t find any on the internet that aren’t clearly the same old thieves making up stuff.
It’s possible that as a group, we could “rescue” ALL of the old seers.
Carol Tiggs rescued the death defier.