The Power of the Dragon - Step Six

As a human, you are a bridge. You have to understand that.
Once you do, then you have to see it.
In order to do that, you ought to focus your attention on it.
And then, as you're seeing the bridge,
You can cross it.
But keep in mind there is no other side,
The point is only to enjoy the crossing...

The process of focusing your attention requires that you find first: the Focus of your Attention. This is absolutely necessary if you want to do two things: moving it and maintaining it on something.

Then you have to accomplish one of the highest feats a Warrior can perform. You have to move and maintain the Focus of your Attention on the bridge, and in the same time, moving it and maintaining it on the Unknown, if you want the walk to be an enjoyable stroll.

All of this is quite easy to say (and yet...), but in any case, doing all this is much more difficult. It implies unflagging practice and creative variations in order to be mastered. Both things you'll never reach without Intent.

Well! Here you are my young apprentice, at the bottom of everything; and those are your tasks:

The Mastery of Intent.
The Mastery of Attention.

Then you'll be able to master Awareness, and ultimately become a Seer...

So, what do you think?

- I'm lost!

Fine! Thus it begins...

Interlude - Buddha and the Nazgul

- Master?

Yes?

- What's Buddha doing?

He's meditating.

- Yes, but who is this creature behind him, and what is he doing?

He's the Witch-King of Angmar, the Leader of the Nazgul; he's about to strike.

- Oh! And... is Buddha aware of that?

Of course!

- So, why doesn't he move?

Because he has nothing to fear.

- How is it possible he doesn't fear that monster?

Well, because Buddha realises it is only a statue!

- Wow, Master, sometimes you blow my mind! I mean, I'm sorry, but I can't find any logic in your answer.

It's because you didn't ask the right question first...

The Power of the Dragon - Step Five

Long ago, I took a look at my life, and I had to admit: "well, actually, I don't know where I'm going..."

But instead of being afraid of that, instead of striving to find out, I asked myself a question:

Have I any possibility to know?

The answer was straight: "Honestly? No."

Then I took the most important oath in my whole life: "Since what I know is always easy, finite and temporary, and since what I don't know is difficult, infinite and timeless, I choose 'not to know', forever. What I know is always something I must get rid of; what I don't know is and will ever be out there, waiting for me..."

And then, barely noticing it at first, I began to fly...

The Power of the Dragon - Step Four

My dear Humans,

My old friend Juan told me once this is the path:

"First you take the decision to become an Apprentice.
After you change your views upon yourself and the world,
Then you take the decision to become a Warrior,
and thus you're able of the utmost discipline and control over yourself.
After acquiring forbearance and timing,
Then you take the decision to become a Man of Knowledge.
And once you've learned to 'see',
You have become a Seer.
The Seer has his own path to walk, but it can't be described..."

And today, after years of digging, I finally and clearly see how much he was right. He's deeply right, beyond good and evil, beyond creeds, beyond semantics, beyond the method you chose to learn with.

As a Dragon, I have my own way of saying this, but I learned to recognize the Truth whatever the shape it may take.

Hmm... Well, do you know any good method to learn?

Yeah... someday we'll talk about that too...