I’ve been reading about the Riddles and I’ve been wondering how to approach them. It strikes me that one should attempt to have an intent when trying to solve them, or better said, following the intent of Don Juan leads to the logical conclusion of the riddles. I wanted to align, then, the riddles with the proscribed intents, match them up.

There are four riddles:

• Riddle of the Dreamer Dreamed
• Riddle of the Heart
• Riddle of the Mind
• Riddle of the Spirit

Riddle of the Dreamer Dreamed

Warriors know that the art of dreaming is the riddle of the dreamer dreamed; the double dreams the self and the self dreams the double; once the self learns to dream the double a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double that dreams the self; warriors know that they themselves are a dream; the secret of the double is in the bubble of perception, the capacity of luminous beings to perceive here and there at the same time.

INTENT: Reaching the totality of the self

Warriors know that the totality is the third attention; the tonal-nagual dichotomy, the true nature of the warrior; reaching the second attention makes it and the first attention into a single unit, and that unit if the totality of the self.

Riddle of the Heart

Warriors know that the art of stalking is the riddle of the heart, the riddle of awareness and perception; the world appears to be unalterably factual and objective due to certain peculiarities of perception and awareness; but if different peculiarities of awareness and perception come into play, the things about the world that seem so unalterable and factual change in the blink of an eye.

INTENT: Lighting the Fire from Within

The idea here is that the assemblage point (or the nexus of awareness within the luminous cocoon of humans) can move freely, free to assemble new worlds and new realities. The assemblage point grabs onto bands of awareness, which dictate how and what we perceive.

Riddle of the Mind

Warriors know that the mastery of awareness is the riddle of the mind; the mystery of the luminous beings.

INTENT: Freedom

Warriors know that their ultimate challenge is to dart past the Eagle to be free; the freedom of total awareness; a blast of unlimited consciousness; the Eagle’s gift to man; the third attention; for warriors, dreaming is the freedom to perceive worlds beyond imagination; freedom is an adventure with no end; freedom is the driving force of the warrior; the freedom to fly into infinity, the freedom to dissolve, to lift off; freedom is like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being lit up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is, a mere candle; there is no risk too great for warriors in search of total freedom, even though no warrior knows exactly what true freedom is; total freedom is a dreaming position of the assemblage point; total freedom means total awareness.

Riddle of the Spirit

Warriors know that the mastery of intent is the riddle of the spirit; the paradox of the abstract; the somersault of thought into the inconceivable.

INTENT: Somersault of thought

Warriors know that the somersault of thought is the descent of spirit; the act of breaking the barrier of perception; the moment in which warriors reach their perceptual limits; intent; the spirit; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

 

The energy body moves likes energy, fast and directly.

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References

Tomas, The Promise of Power, (1995), Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Charlottesville, VA.