Yaqui Way Of Knowledge Quotes

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

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 might never live to regret it

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a heart? All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long long paths, but I am not anywhere. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you. Before you embark on any path ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. The trouble is nobody asks the question; and when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point very few men can stop to deliberate, and leave the path. A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Añadió que nada en este mundo era un regalo: todo cuanto hubiera que aprender debía aprenderse por el camino difícil.

No tienes que hacer nada para caer bien o mal. O te acepta o te tira de lado.

The journey by itself was sufficient; any hope of arriving at a permanent position was outside the boundaries of his knowledge.

The awakening to serious, sober consciousness, was genuinely shocking. I had forgotten I was a man! The sadness of such an irreconcilable situation was so intense that I wept.

Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions.... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

No!" he said emphatically. "Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

When a man starts to learn, he is never clear about his objectives. His purpose is faulty; his intent is vague. He hopes for rewards that will never materialise, for he knows nothing of the hardships of learning. He slowly begins to learn — bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts soon clash. What he learns is never what he pictured, or imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, and the fear the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That’s the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue." "But what else can anyone do, don Juan?" "Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

I really felt I had lost my body, don Juan." "You did." "You mean, I really didn't have a body?" "What do you think yourself?" "well, I don't know. All I can tell you is what I felt." That is all there is in reality - what you felt.

- Birds fly like birds and a man who has taken the devil's weed flies as such. - As birds do? - No, he flies as a man who has taken the weed.

تو وقتی از مردم عصبانی می شوی که احساس کنی عملشان مهم است .v

Un hombre va al saber como a la guerra: bien despierto, con miedo, con respeto y con absoluta confianza.

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length-and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That’s the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue." "But what else can anyone do, don Juan?" "Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

¡la claridad! Esa claridad de mente, tan difícil de obtener, dispersa el miedo, pero también ciega. "Fuerza al hombre a no dudar nunca de sí. Le da la seguridad de que puede hacer cuanto se le antoje, porque todo lo ve con claridad. Y tiene valor porque tiene claridad, y no se detiene en nada porque tiene claridad. Pero todo eso es un error; es como si viera algo claro pero incompleto. Si el hombre se rinde a esa ilusión de poder, ha sucumbido a su segundo enemigo y será torpe para aprender. Se apurará cuando debía ser paciente, o será paciente cuando debería apurarse. Y tonteará con el aprendizaje, hasta que termine incapaz de aprender nada más.

I asked him if there was a way in which he could accept just my desire to learn, as if I were an Indian.

I asked him if each of the two spots had a special name. He said that the good one was called the sitio and the bad one the enemy; he said these two places were the key to a man's wellbeing, especially for a man who was pursuing knowledge. The sheer act of sitting on one's spot created superior strength; on the other hand, the enemy weakened a man and could even cause his death. He said I had replenished my energy, which I had spent lavishly the night before, by taking a nap on my spot.

A man who is defeated by power dies without really knowing how to handle it. Power is only a burden upon his fate. Such a man has no command over himself, and cannot tell when or how to use his power.

What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Don't get me wrong, don Juan," I protested. "I want to have an ally, but I also want to know everything I can. You yourself have said that knowledge is power." "No!" he said emphatically. "Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Poco sabía yo en ese tiempo que don Juan no me estaba dando solamente una descripción intelectual atractiva; me estaba describiendo algo que él llamaba un hecho energético. Para él, los hechos energéticos eran las conclusiones a las que él y los otros chamanes de su linaje llegaron a involucrarse en una función que llamaban ver: el acto de percibir energía directamente como fluye del universo.

هرگاه انسان خودش را آماده ی یادگیری کند مجبور است سخت تلاش کند و محدودیت های یادگیری او توسط خود او معین می شوند .

مرد دانا کسی است که سختی یادگیری را صادقانه و براستی دنبال کرده باشد. مردی که بی شتاب و شبهه و تا آنجا که در توانایی داشته به دنبال رموز قدرت و دانش رفته است .

تو همیشه باید به یاد داشته باشی که مسیر فقط مسیر است اگر حس کنی که نباید آن را بپیمایی تحت هیچ شرایطی نباید با آن بمانی.

When a man starts to learn, he is never clear about his objectives. His purpose is faulty. His intent is vague. He hopes for rewards that will never materialize, for he knows nothing of the hardships of learning. "He slowly begins to learn- bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts soon clash. What he learns is never what he pictured, or imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, and the fear the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly. His purpose becomes a battlefield. "And thus he has tumbled upon the first of his natural enemies: Fear! A terrible enemy- treacherous, and difficult to overcome. It remains concealed at every turn of the way, prowling, waiting. And if the man, terrified in its presence, runs away, his enemy will have put an end to his quest.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That’s the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue.” "But what else can anyone do, don Juan?" "Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

No hay nada malo en tener miedo. Cuando uno teme,ve las cosas en forma distinta.

Las drogas, las prácticas ascéticas y los ejercicios de meditación no son fines sino medios. Si el medio se vuelve fin, se convierte en agente de destrucción. El resultado no es la liberación interior sino la esclavitud, la locura y no la sabiduría, la dregadación y no la visión. Esto es lo que ha ocurrido en los últimos años. Las drogas alucinógenas se han vuelto potencias destructivas porque han sido arrancadas de su contexto teológico y ritual. Lo primero les daba sentido, trascendencia; lo segundo, al introducir períodos de abstinencia y de uso, minimizaba los trastornos psíquicos y fisiológicos. El uso moderno de los alucinógenos es la profanación de un antiguo sacramento, como la promiscuidad contemporánea es la profanación del cuerpo (prólogo de Octavio Paz a la edición en español)

Cuando me disponía a partir, decicí preguntarle por los enemigos de un hombre de conocimiento (...). Cuando un hombre empieza a aprender, nunca sabe lo que va a encontrar (...) Sus pensamientos se dan de topetazos y se hunden en la nada. Lo que se aprende no es nunca lo que uno creía. Y así se comienza a tener miedo. (...) Y así ha tropezado con el primero de sus enemigos naturales: ¡el miedo! Un enemigo terrible: traicionero y enredado como los cardos. Se queda oculto en cada recodo, achechando, esperando. Y si el hombre, aterrado en su presencia, echa a correr, su enemigo habrá puesto fin a su búsqueda (...) No debe correr. Debe desafiar a su miedo, y pese a él debe dar el siguiente paso en su aprendizaje, y el siguiente, y el siguiente. Debe estar lleno de miedo, pero no debe deternerse ¡Esa es la regla!. Y llega un momento en que su primer enemigo se retira. El hombre empieza a estar seguro de sí. Su propósito se fortalece. Aprender ya no es una tarea aterradora. Una vez que un hombre ha conquistado el miedo, está libre de él por el resto de su vida, porque a cambio del miedo ha adquirido la claridad (...) Y así ha encontrado a su segundo enemigo: ¡la claridad! Esa claridad de mente tan difícil de obtener, dispersa el miedo pero también lo ciega. (...) Debe hacer lo que hizo con el miedo: debe desafiar su claridad y usarla solo para ver, y esperar con paciencia y medir con tiento antes de dar otros pasos. (...) Y así habrá vencido a su segundo enemigo, y llegará a una posición donde nada puede ya dañarlo (...) Sabrá entonces que el poder tanto tiempo perseguido es suyo por fin (...) Pero también ha tropezado con su tercer enemigo: ¡el poder! El poder es el más fuerte de todos los enemigos. Y naturalmente lo más fácil es rendirse; después de todo el hombre es de veras invencible (...) Su enemigo lo habrá transformado en un hombre cruel, caprichoso. (...) Tiene que llegar a darse cuenta de que el poder que aparentemente ha conquistado nunca es suyo de verdad. (...) Si puede ver que, sin control sobre si mismo, la claridad y el poder son peores que los errores, llegará un punto en el que todo se domina. Entonces sabrá cómo y cuándo usar su poder. Y así habrá vencido a su tercer enemigo. El hombre estará, para entonces, al fin de su travesía por el camino del conocimiento, y casi sin advertencia tropezará con su último enemigo: ¡la vejez! Este enemigo es el más cruel de todos, el único al que no se puede vencer por completo. (...) Este es el tiempo en que un hombre ya no tiene miedos, ya no tiene claridad impaciente; un tiempo en que todo su poder está bajo control, pero también el tiempo en que siente un deseo constante de descansar. Si se rinde por entero a su deseo de de acostarse y olvidar, si se arrulla en la fatiga, habrá perdido su último asalto, y su enemigo lo reducirá a una débil criatura vieja. Su deseo de retirarse vencerá toda su claridad, su poder y su conocimiento. Pero si el hombre se sacude el cansancio y vive su destino hasta el final, puede entonces ser llamado hombre de conocimiento.