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18 LESSONS OF THE LAW OF ONE
Lesson 3: Losing Self Importance
"Warriors fight self-importance as a matter of strategy, not of principle. Your mistake is to understand what I say in terms of morality. The strategy of becoming free of self-importance, and to free up energy for those things that are essential, consists of six elements that interplay with one another. Five of them are called the attributes of warriorship. They are: control, discipline, forbearance, timing, and will. They pertain to the world of the warrior who is fighting to lose self-importance. The sixth element, which is perhaps the most important of all, pertains to the outside world and is called the petty tyrant.
- Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda -
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When one embarks on the paths of Self-Knowledge, one becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for them; and that they must adopt a new way of life if they are going to survive. The first thing one ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a Warrior. The nature of Third density Service To Self existence, leaves one no alternative but to become a Warrior. The term Warrior is used for a Seeker of Esoteric Knowledge who works on him or herself in order to be Free.
In the strategic inventories of warriors, SELF-IMPORTANCE figures as the activity that consumes the greatest amount of energy, hence, the effort to eradicate it. One of the first concerns of the Warrior is to free that energy in order to face the unknown with it.
The action of re-channeling that energy is IMPECCABILITY.
SELF-IMPORTANCE is the Warrior’s GREATEST enemy. It is a needless piece of baggage the Warrior needs to get rid of. Simply because maintaining it is a needless expenditure of energy. There is no ethical value judgment on Self-Importance per se, it simply is superfluous and inefficient and works against the values of CORRECT USE OF ENERGY the Warrior should aspire to. Energy will allow SEEing and SEEing can bring one to Knowledge and Freedom. Self-Importance is a HINDRANCE on the way.
You MUST become aware of the uselessness of your Self-Importance. If you really want to learn, you have to remodel most of your behavior. You take yourself too seriously. You're too damn important in your own mind and that must be changed. You are so goddamn important that you feel JUSTIFIED to be annoyed with EVERYTHING.
Why you’re so damn important that you can afford to leave if things don’t go your way, and you think that shows you have character. Well. that’s nonsense! It shows that you are weak, and conceited! In the course of your life you have not EVER finished anything because of that sense of DISPROPORTIONATE IMPORTANCE you attach to yourself. Self-Importance must be dropped. You must clean out the garbage that a Luminous BEing picks up in the world. Stop being so stiff and stop feeling so SELF-IMPORTANT.
What weakens you is FEELING OFFENDED by the deeds and misdeeds of others. Self-Importance requires that you spend most of your life OFFENDED by something or someone. Because it also requires that you make what others do important to you. To be angry at people means that you consider their acts to be important. It is a projected form of Self-Importance. It is imperative to CEASE to feel that way, and we can only do this by shifting our PERCEPTION.
No matter how much you like to feel sorry for yourself, you have to change that. It doesn't jive with the life of a warrior. The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so, believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.
The acts of others CANNOT be important enough to offset our only viable alternative: our unchangeable encounter with Infinity. It doesn't matter what anybody says or does. You must be an Impeccable Warrior yourself. The fight is right there in your own chest. It takes ALL the time and ALL the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us. And that’s what matters. The rest is of no importance. To be an Impeccable Warrior will give you vigor and youth and power. You need to learn to be dispassionate.
The world of people goes up and down and people go up and down with THEIR world; Warriors have no business following them in their ups and downs. There is NO NEED for us to say anything about others. There is NO NEED for you or for me to regard other’s actions in our thoughts one way or another. The art of sorcerers is to be outside everything and be unnoticeable. And more than anything else, the art of sorcerers is NEVER to waste their power.
Self-importance is not something simple and naive. On the one hand, it is the core of everything that is good in us, and on the other hand, the core of everything that is rotten. To get rid of the self-importance that is rotten requires a masterpiece of strategy.
In order to follow the Path of Knowledge one has to be very imaginative. In the Path of Knowledge nothing is as clear as we'd like it to be. Warriors fight SELF-IMPORTANCE as a matter of strategy, NOT principle.
IMPECCABILITY is nothing else but the proper use of energy. This statement has no inkling of morality. I've SAVED ENERGY and that makes me IMPECCABLE. To understand this, you have to save enough energy yourself.
You must be an Impeccable Warrior yourself. The worst thing we can do is to try to FORCE people to agree with us. We should not try to IMPOSE our will when people don’t behave the way we want them to. The worst thing we can do is bluntly confront human beings. A Warrior proceeds strategically. If one wants to stop another individual, one must always be outside the circle that presses them. That way one can always direct the pressure.
If you think about yourself too much it gives you a strange fatigue that makes you shut off the world around you and CLING TO your arguments. A LIGHT and AMENABLE disposition is needed in order to withstand the impact and the STRANGENESS of the Warrior's path. FEELING IMPORTANT makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a Warrior one needs to be LIGHT and FLUID.
You dwell upon yourself too much. That’s the trouble. Dwelling upon the self too much produces a terrible fatigue. Seek and see the marvels all around you. You'll get tired if you keep looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.
As long as you feel that you're the most important thing in the world, you CANNOT really appreciate the world around you. You are like a horse with blinders; All you see is yourself, as APART from everything else. The distinction of Self-Importance separates you from your environment, preventing you from UNITING with it.
To help you lose self-importance talk to little plants. It doesn’t matter what you say to a plant, what’s important is the feeling of liking it, and treating it as an equal. One who gathers plants must apologize every time for taking them and must assure them that someday their own body will serve as food for them.
So, all in all, the plants and ourselves are even. Neither we nor they are more or less important. From now on talk to the little plants, talk until you lose all sense of importance. Talk to them until you can do it in front of others. You must talk to them in a loud and clear voice if you want them to answer you. The world around us is a mystery, and we are no better than anything else. If a little plant is generous with us we must thank her, or perhaps she will not let us go.
You must talk to the plants you’re going to pick before you pick them. In order to see the plants you must talk to them personally, you must get to know them individually; then the plants can tell you anything you care to know about them. What you fail to understand is that I am not joking. You think everything in the world is simple to understand, because everything you do is a routine that is simple to understand.
The thrust of the Warriors’ way is to DETHRONE SELF-IMPORTANCE. And EVERYTHING Warriors do is directed toward accomplishing that goal. Self-importance CANNOT be fought with niceties. Every effort MUST be made to eradicate it from the lives of Warriors. Without Self-Importance we are INVULNERABLE.
Warriors prepare themselves to be aware, and full awareness comes to them ONLY when there is no more Self-Importance left in them. ONLY when they are NOTHING do they become everything. Shamans have unmasked Self-Importance and found that it is really Self-Pity masquerading as something else.
No matter how much you like to feel sorry for yourself, you have to change all that!
It doesn’t fit with the Life of a Warrior. Self-Importance is the motivating force for every attack of melancholy. A Warrior is someone who SEEKS FREEDOM and sadness is NOT Freedom. WE MUST SNAP OUT OF IT!
Warriors are entitled to have profound states of sadness, but that sadness is there only to make them laugh. The Warrior’s way offers you a new life and that life has to be COMPLETELY new. You can’t bring your ugly old ways to that new Life.
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