The Teachings of Don Juan.

[Guest guest]

I am going to teach you the secrets that make up the lot of a man of

knowledge. You will have to make a very deep commitment because the

training is long and arduous.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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[Guest guest]

" 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."

 

 

A man does not go to knowledge wide awake. He only becomes

wide awake when he has full knowledge.

 

Fear will not take one to knowledge. In the end, fear is an

obstacle to knowledge. To have full knowledge is to have no fear.

 

Absolute assurance is only possible when full knowledge is

attained. Without full knowledge, absolute assurance is

ego-speaking.

 

Yes, respect is an essential ingredient of going to knowledge.

 

 

To claim to be wide awake and to have absolute assurance

while not yet knowledgeable, even though working toward

knowledge is certain to result in actions that will have 'the

blundering quality of a fool's acts' and therefore be mistakes for

which he will be held karmically accountable.

 

But, it is true that such mistakes should be acknowledged, be

learned from and yet not contain regret, only resolve not to repeat

them.

 

Om namah Sivaya

 

Omprem

 

 

, "Thilakshan

Jeyarajah" <dianic_dreams> wrote:

> I am going to teach you the secrets that make up the lot of a

man of

> knowledge. You will have to make a very deep commitment

because the

> training is long and arduous.

>

> 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.

>

> 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.

>

> Continued..

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[Guest guest]

You say it like you've read it in a book. :-)

 

, "omprem" <omprem> wrote:

> " 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."

>

>

> A man does not go to knowledge wide awake. He only becomes

> wide awake when he has full knowledge.

[Guest guest]

"A man does not go to knowledge wide awake. He only becomes

wide awake when he has full knowledge."

 

I'm already in the middle of writing one book. Perhaps this

thought will become the seed of my next book, although it seems

a little too logically obvious.

 

Feel free to use this comment with or without attributing it back to

me.

 

So Hum

 

Omprem

 

, "Thilakshan

Jeyarajah" <dianic_dreams> wrote:

> You say it like you've read it in a book. :-)

>

> , "omprem"

<omprem> wrote:

> > " 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."

> >

> >

> > A man does not go to knowledge wide awake. He only

becomes

> > wide awake when he has full knowledge.