Minute to minute, second to second, we constantly focus on personal concerns, so busy thinking, we build a wall to perception.
Although surrounded by eternity, we don’t experience it. Surrounded by eternity, it is inaccessible because we separate and insulate our selves from it.
We exist in a mysterious place.
It is unwise to believe that the world is only as you think it is. It is even more foolish to go into the unknown carelessly, in the wrong frame of mind,
Enlightened beings change, continually enhancing their awareness.
Lasting gains in awareness come by becoming warriors, through life-or-death challenges. Without impetus of a life-or-death situation, we remain unaware.
To the universe, we have no identity; we have only power and effect.
Normal lives do not create the mood of a warrior.
We falsely assure ourselves our world is understandable and safe. When we encounter something we can’t understand, we assume it will be sorted out safely at some point.
Warriors embrace a certain mood, hold themselves accountable for every experience and outcome. The warrior’s mood applies when exposed to extreme unrelenting danger.
Why would anyone in a comfortable life seek this state of being?
Warriors take everything seriously, while laughing at all of it. There are no casual meals. no casual sex, no casual walks in the desert.
Awareness of death gives freedom and abandon, gives power and flair to deeds. Death is always nearby. If we survive this battle, then, we will die another day.
For warriors there is no casual thinking. Every thought is an action that controls awareness and perception.
Perception determines everything. Nothing is real, but everything matters.
To survive, we must be open to the powers that exist all around us, without being annihilated by them.
This world is a mysterious place.
This dreamed world is not our arbitrary choice; it exists to express the intent of the universe.
Once we are cast into the dream, what we do in it is our choice. We are responsible for everything that happens.
Desert Dweller 