LIVING THE
WARRIORS ROADWAY
Developed/Written by Oscar De Los Santos
Transcribed/Edited by Joan Bell
SECTION 3, VOLUME 1
The Four Masteries
The Ancients saw that all knowledge essentially falls into
four categories. The pursuit of this knowledge led to the discovery of
the four masteries. Due to our failing biosphere, our failing society and
culture and our failing planet, many of these teachings have resurfaced
and may be found under different names. For our purposes, we will
maintain what is not an exclusively Toltec tradition and keep the words of
the four masteries within this context. The four masteries thus are the
Mastery of Awareness, the Mastery of Dreaming, the Mastery of Intent and
the Mastery of Love. Technically there are only three Masteries, the
fourth, the Mastery of Love can not be conquered but is rather one that a
Warrior must Yield to in order to learn it’s secrets.
A Metaphoric Way of Seeing the Four Masteries
(This is not to be seen as an accurate account of the
development of the Four Masteries, but rather a way of putting them into
some context.)
Once there lived a very intelligent but ordinary Shepherd
boy. One day while tending his sheep he came to the edge of a cliff.
Looking down he saw his whole village for the first time. He marvelled at
the pattern that the roads and houses formed and realized that the people
themselves would not be aware of the patterns or would have planned these
patterns.
From the height of the cliff looking down, he realized
that he could see friends about to meet one another without them knowing
it. He could see events about to unfold which, from the ground level
would be imperceptible to those involved.
He wondered to what degree he himself, at that moment, was
part of that pattern that he himself could not see. The pursuit then to
discover what he could not see and that patterns that his life formed
became the route to the first mastery; the Mastery of Awareness.
He discovered as he expanded his awareness by taking in
more details, that he was able to understand more and was able to perceive
how things fit together. He understood that nothing was separate from
anything else.
As his daily practise of becoming more acutely aware
increased, he noticed that there were certain things, certain obstacles
that stood in the way of his ability to expand his awareness
indefinitely. These became his natural enemies, these things he found
within himself and in due time he learned to conquer these through various
techniques.
One day while resting under a tree he fell asleep as was
customary for him to do at this time of day, however something remarkable
happened. Although he was asleep he was also very much awake. His
awareness training had brought him to a state of lucidity. Thus he then
discovered the second Mastery; the Mastery of Dreaming.
The Mastery of Dreaming opened a whole new world and
universe to explore, discover and understand. He learned that the
techniques of awareness training he had learned during his waking time
also applied to the dream time. He also discovered that somehow these two
worlds were related and that very little divided them.
After much exploration, the subtle force that divided the
two worlds became impossibly thin, to such a degree that he was no longer
able to distinguish one world from another. This was not a question of
reality and non-reality or which one was more real, but rather which was
his place of origin. He discovered that all these different worlds had
different rules and that the only constant was himself. He discovered
that various parts of him were imbedded in different worlds and that he
could move or shift some embedded parts from one world into the next.
That made everything real or made everything a dream. Because of the
natural confusion that this created he had to learn to navigate through
the realms by choosing what realm he wanted to crystallize in. This was
particularly difficult because certain worlds had magnetic or sticky
properties.
Sometimes he found himself locked in a nightmarish world
and other times, in various paradise spaces which were also difficult to
leave. It was concern for his sheep that forced him to learn how to
re-integrate himself in the world that had the sheep in it. That was the
world he had become most familiar with. Thus he discovered the third
mastery, the Mastery of Intent.
He discovered he had to cultivate enough personal energy
to muster intent and that once intent had been used it could not be undone
but could be counter-intended which required twice as much energy.
Through this practice he discovered that death is an illusion because
there is always another world to wake up into. Certain behaviours and
attitudes conserve the energy needed for intent and others expended it.
The impeccable behaviour which he applied to his life in order to conserve
personal energy to move intent is what forged him into the first spiritual
warrior.
His life was no longer measured in days but in moments;
not places but states of being; not being trapped by space or time, having
or getting, living or dying, everything became a continuous streaming
emanation from some unknown source.
While traversing the many worlds, realms and kingdoms of
eternity, anything and everything was his, he could intend it, create it
or become it. There was a great dissatisfaction in his perpetual play for
all the beings that he conquered were dreams within dreams. Nothing was
impossible any longer. This led him to seek significance because
everything else could be given any meaning which revealed nothing.
It was in a moment of absolute silence, in a space between
spaces that he encountered the fourth mastery. He experienced Love and
recognized it as The Source.
All of his intent, all of his skill, all of his experience
traversing the infinite realms could not place him at the eye of The
Source. It seemed that the more he chased it the further away it
receded. When he was most still it was closest. It was when he was most
still he could feel it, experience it. As soon as he reached to grab it,
it would flee again. After much chasing he decided he could never reach
it and so he yielded and was overcome by it. And so the greatest of all
the discoveries the fourth mastery, the Mastery of Love, which is not at
all a mastery, but is ones’ Master.
The four parts were fused into one. Division no longer
existed, it never had. He recognized The Source as himself; a dream
dreaming itself. With the fourth mastery he discovered the pearl of great
price, the most profound of all great things, the reason for meaning and
life...purpose.
COMMENTARY
The First Mastery – Awareness
To enter the world of the Spiritual Warrior one must
cultivate awareness. This is to be understood as awareness of ones self,
the world and The Source. There are various methods, techniques and
exercises that assist in the expanding of ones own awareness. The more
aware one becomes the more present they are. True awareness is not
limited by space or time and therefore it can anywhere or everywhere. The
key is “You are where your awareness is”. Awareness is presence,
perception. It is the exercise of seeing which is not an optical
phenomena reliant on physical eyes. Daydreaming with our eyes open, we
still see images although they are not in front of us physically. In
dreaming we see images, again not reliant on our physical apparatus.
There is also imagining, visualizing and remembering to name a few. None
of these require physical eyes but they do require awareness.
The Second Mastery – Dreaming
In the west, to be considered a dreamer is not a desirable
thing. However, it is the dreamers who have brought the world so much of
it’s art, music, poetry, architecture...the list is long. The practise of
dreaming is to a Spiritual Warrior is the art and science of maintaining
consciousness while undergoing various degrees of duress or
forgetfulness. Often times in dreaming one is not at all aware that
minutes or hours before they were not where they are now. Learning to
dream is the cultivation of awareness to a degree that permits a Warrior
to remain present at the moment of death. Death, like sleep, induces a
state of forgetfulness or in it’s truest sense
mind-less-ness; being without mind. If an individual has not cultivated
enough personal presence at the moment of death they enter a lucid dream
state from which they have no recollection of any former life. This of
course makes it impossible for them to make any choices concerning
reincarnation or self-existence. This is an imperative Mastery to
practise simply because one could enter a nightmare world from which they
could never awaken. We have arrived here again or a place like this
because we were unable to hold steadfast to true reality. We are
currently embedded in the illusion which gives the appearance of
separateness from The Source. It is our task to truly awaken. To
cultivate enough personal energy and awareness to puncture eternity and
enter infinity. In other words.....to return Home.
The Third Mastery – Intent
Free will is an exercise in volition. Volition is an
exercise of intent. Intent requires energy and self-presence called
awareness. It is not until we have fostered enough power to choose, truly
to choose that we can then decide, from the core of our being, to
surrender to the hands of the Maker. Until we have conquered our fears by
recognizing the illusions that they truly are we can not surrender
ourselves, our ego, our personal individuality, to return to the One.
All fears emanate from the belief that we can die, be
injured or hurt. This in turn comes from the idea that we are somehow
separate from the things we create. That gives us the sense that we are
individual, mortal and finite, which we are not. We are Spirit.....We are
the Source.....We are one. Until we accept this we continue to be
Spiritual Beings at the whim of a physical dream that is quickly becoming
a nightmare. The Ancients understood that reality is a dream we dream
together. To change the world is to dream a new dream.
The Fourth Mastery – Love
No true words describe Love. Love can only be known by
direct experience and to say it can be known at all is inaccurate.
Without this fourth Mastery there is absolutely no significance to
anything anyone does at all. It is the core of life itself. The
animating principle to our existence and to all existing emanations.
To say that life was created is to say that it is finished
and therefore can not grow. Things that are not growing are dying or
simply do not exist. To say that life is an evolution is to say that it
can never be finished which means we can never achieve completion. We can
never experience our true divinity which is our birthright. Therefore as
seers, it becomes self-evident that existence is a continuous streaming
emanation and this is proof that things exist because of Love. To
clarify, Love as a perpetual streaming emanation is like fire. A fire
that burned a million years ago is the same as a fire which burns today,
perpetually different while always remaining the same.
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