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eugzol в посте Metapractice (оригинал в ЖЖ)
"Act like a warrior and select the items of your world. You cannot surround yourself with
things helter-skelter any longer. I tell you this in a most serious vein. Now for the first time
you are not safe in your old way of life."
"What do you mean by selecting the items of my world?"
"A warrior encounters those inexplicable and unbending forces because he is deliberately
seeking them, thus he is always prepared for the encounter. You, on the other hand, are never
prepared for it. In fact if those forces come to you they will take you by surprise; the fright
will open your gap and your life will irresistibly escape through it.
The first thing you must do, then, is be prepared. Think that the ally is going to pop in front of
your eyes any minute and you must be ready for him. To meet an ally is no party or Sunday
picnic and a warrior takes the responsibility of protecting his life. Then if any of those forces
tap you and open your gap, you must deliberately strive to close it by yourself. For that
purpose you must have a selected number of things that give you great peace and pleasure,
things which you can deliberately use to take your thoughts from your fright and close your
gap and make you solid."
"What kind of things?"
"Years ago I told you that in his day-to-day life a warrior chooses to follow the path with
heart. It is the consistent choice of the path with heart which makes a warrior different from
the average man. He knows that a path has heart when he is one with it, when he experiences
a great peace and pleasure traversing its length. The things a warrior selects to make his
shields are the items of a path with heart."
"But you said I'm not a warrior, so how can I choose a path with heart?"
"This is your turning point. Let's say that before you did not really need to live like a warrior.
Now it is different, now you must surround yourself with the items of a path with heart and
you must refuse the rest, or you will perish in the next encounter. I may add that you don't
need to ask for the encounter any longer. An ally can now come to you in your sleep; while
you are talking to your friends; while you are writing."
"For years I have truly tried to live in accordance with your teachings," I said. "Obviously I
have not done well. How can I do better now?"
"You think and talk too much. You must stop talking to yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"You talk to yourself too much. You're not unique at that. Every one of us does that. We carry
on an internal talk. Think about it. Whenever you are alone, what do you do?"
"I talk to myself."
"What do you talk to yourself about?"
"I don't know; anything, I suppose."
"I'll tell you what we talk to ourselves about. We talk about our world. In fact we maintain our
world with our internal talk."
"How do we do that?"
"Whenever we finish talking to ourselves the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we
kindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our
paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we
die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die.