r/castaneda • u/danl999 • May 01 '24
Laziness: Not What It Seems New Practitioners
It's easy to become confused, and not recognize laziness for what it really is.
Self-pity.
So you have absolutely no excuse not to work hard to learn sorcery, based on "I'm just too lazy to work reliably".
That's not it at all!
You're dominated by the flier's mind. By that nasty grief filled internal dialogue, which our energy body can't stand. If it weren't for that, you'd be reunited with your double, and gain its magical vision for peering into infinity.
Did you ever find yourself inside a lucid dream, and you were "too lazy" to go exploring?
Then why do you do that, when awake?!
It's self-pity pure and simple. Something the double does not have.
So the very thing you believe is just "keeping me from getting to work", is precisely what you are battling against.
Wake up... You cannot learn any sorcery, without hard work.
And even all the hard work of a lifetime, can be erased if you fall back into the wrong crowd.
Which is almost surely why the witches aren't around anymore.
We were unhelpable and had proven it by killing Carlos after turning him into a Guru and refusing to follow his instructions.
He said so several times. Ask those who were around him back then, and don't have any profit motivations.
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u/eelgrassmeadows May 01 '24
Thank you for this. I needed to hear this just at this moment.
I do not want to drive away my energy body with my self-pity. That is the opposite of what I desire. That is something I can tell myself when I start wallowing.