The body is awareness. There are two sides of the body, the tonal or the known
side, and the nagual or the unknown side. These are called sides for descriptive
terms only. The tonal contains all of the information you have come to know, all
the knowledge you have thus far assimilated. The tonal is responsible for
forming the world that you know. One could say that the tonal is made of an
inventory of all the details and facts we have seen and decided were truths.
There are many different types of tonals, for example a sorcerer's tonal, and a
corrupt or bad tonal. A corrupt tonal is the type of person who contains
negative inventories of the world, possessing and selecting draining attributes,
curses and the sort. A sorcerer's tonal can be pretty much any formation of a
tonal imaginable, depending on the reason. A sorcerer possesses specialised
knowledge that the average man does not. The sorcerer chooses not any kind of
knowledge that graces his path, but is carefully waiting, hunting for a specific
type of knowledge.
The Nagual is the unknown. The nagual exists outside
of our awareness, but comes into us as we live the unknown. We then process this
information, and create our new enhanced inventory based from the experience. A
seasoned warrior will gain cohesion, or stability on new information and lessons
by reliving them, and pondering. This art of gaining cohesion is called stalking
awareness. With practice a warrior can move his awareness to the exact positions
realised in his hunting and his dreaming, or he can guide his awareness little
by little towards the positions found, which is also stalking awareness.
Average people's tonals are conditioned to the point of near immobility,
which means their awareness is totally fixed in his position. We must remember
that this is a feat of awareness that has been carefully practiced and developed
into what it is today. This is done through repetition and habituation. The same
methods are used to free the fixation of awareness. With practice one learns to
dislodge their awareness and gain fluidity. Once awareness is in motion, energy
can flow freely, and one can develop their navigation skills. All of these
pursuits are the knowledges one must hunt and store for themselves. It is their
own relationship with the nagual that they must cultivate.
The rigidness
of the tonal must first be addressed if one is to gain fluidity. We must learn
to be both flexible and unbending, and we must learn to decide. In the immensity
of infinite will there are only choices to be made, for every path already
exists, somewhere out there. We must tell ourselves reality is a position of
awareness. Hunting of this concept should lead to some useful treasures.
Since the average person's awareness is rigid the path offers practices
and descriptions. The first description that comes to mind is the shrinking of
the tonal. This happens when our tonal fails to uphold what it is trying to
uphold, when the inventory fails to know. Our knowledge fails, and something new
takes place, something totally outside our average parameters. Anything can take
place because our natural barriers are down and we know it. Since the tonal
effectively shrinks, it gives the nagual its place in the sun. Humbleness is a
natural trait the warrior develops because he see that the nagual is immense and
powerful compared to the small body of awareness of the tonal. The warrior
works at creating a balanced relationship between the tonal and the nagual. The
two should be made to support each other. The tonal should be a protector and
not a guard. We must allow the nagual to enrich our lives and not cling to our
tonals. This means we must accept that there is a lot that we do not know out
there, and what we think we know is merely a description of something that is
much larger.
Another practice offered in the Toltec way is the abstract
concept of doing and not-doing. Doings are all the actions we do in the tonal
world. Not-doings are actions and steps taken that are performed in the nagual.
In a way it is to do things differently almost magically. It allows the nagual
to flow into our actions and unfold into our lives. To look at a mountain is a
doing in the normal world, to look to see the nagual in the mountain is a
not-doing. The mountain then can become something more and your perception can
shift into the unknown. With a slight movement of awareness one can observe
their actions and see the energies of their actions. All it takes is a new
perspective, a different way to look at something, or do something, and you have
started to move your actions into the nagual.
Since our incredibly
precious energies are all used up and stored in our tonal bodies, and in our
egos, we must learn to conserve ourselves. We must stalk ourselves very closely
and examine our habituated patterns. A large amount of what we are is waisted in
upholding our self-importance. We spend a lot of energy upholding it and in
return our self-importance usually tells us we cant do something because of this
or that reason. As fluid energy that moves freely you can accomplish anything
you want to. The path calls it the energy body, and the energy body can do
anything perfectly. All we have to do is find it and flow. There is no self-pity
here because it is the position of no doubt. Any concept that is limiting the
flow of awareness should be counteracted and eliminated. Any concept that is
destructive should be rethought. One must act in this world, and that is what we
are... actors.
side, and the nagual or the unknown side. These are called sides for descriptive
terms only. The tonal contains all of the information you have come to know, all
the knowledge you have thus far assimilated. The tonal is responsible for
forming the world that you know. One could say that the tonal is made of an
inventory of all the details and facts we have seen and decided were truths.
There are many different types of tonals, for example a sorcerer's tonal, and a
corrupt or bad tonal. A corrupt tonal is the type of person who contains
negative inventories of the world, possessing and selecting draining attributes,
curses and the sort. A sorcerer's tonal can be pretty much any formation of a
tonal imaginable, depending on the reason. A sorcerer possesses specialised
knowledge that the average man does not. The sorcerer chooses not any kind of
knowledge that graces his path, but is carefully waiting, hunting for a specific
type of knowledge.
The Nagual is the unknown. The nagual exists outside
of our awareness, but comes into us as we live the unknown. We then process this
information, and create our new enhanced inventory based from the experience. A
seasoned warrior will gain cohesion, or stability on new information and lessons
by reliving them, and pondering. This art of gaining cohesion is called stalking
awareness. With practice a warrior can move his awareness to the exact positions
realised in his hunting and his dreaming, or he can guide his awareness little
by little towards the positions found, which is also stalking awareness.
Average people's tonals are conditioned to the point of near immobility,
which means their awareness is totally fixed in his position. We must remember
that this is a feat of awareness that has been carefully practiced and developed
into what it is today. This is done through repetition and habituation. The same
methods are used to free the fixation of awareness. With practice one learns to
dislodge their awareness and gain fluidity. Once awareness is in motion, energy
can flow freely, and one can develop their navigation skills. All of these
pursuits are the knowledges one must hunt and store for themselves. It is their
own relationship with the nagual that they must cultivate.
The rigidness
of the tonal must first be addressed if one is to gain fluidity. We must learn
to be both flexible and unbending, and we must learn to decide. In the immensity
of infinite will there are only choices to be made, for every path already
exists, somewhere out there. We must tell ourselves reality is a position of
awareness. Hunting of this concept should lead to some useful treasures.
Since the average person's awareness is rigid the path offers practices
and descriptions. The first description that comes to mind is the shrinking of
the tonal. This happens when our tonal fails to uphold what it is trying to
uphold, when the inventory fails to know. Our knowledge fails, and something new
takes place, something totally outside our average parameters. Anything can take
place because our natural barriers are down and we know it. Since the tonal
effectively shrinks, it gives the nagual its place in the sun. Humbleness is a
natural trait the warrior develops because he see that the nagual is immense and
powerful compared to the small body of awareness of the tonal. The warrior
works at creating a balanced relationship between the tonal and the nagual. The
two should be made to support each other. The tonal should be a protector and
not a guard. We must allow the nagual to enrich our lives and not cling to our
tonals. This means we must accept that there is a lot that we do not know out
there, and what we think we know is merely a description of something that is
much larger.
Another practice offered in the Toltec way is the abstract
concept of doing and not-doing. Doings are all the actions we do in the tonal
world. Not-doings are actions and steps taken that are performed in the nagual.
In a way it is to do things differently almost magically. It allows the nagual
to flow into our actions and unfold into our lives. To look at a mountain is a
doing in the normal world, to look to see the nagual in the mountain is a
not-doing. The mountain then can become something more and your perception can
shift into the unknown. With a slight movement of awareness one can observe
their actions and see the energies of their actions. All it takes is a new
perspective, a different way to look at something, or do something, and you have
started to move your actions into the nagual.
Since our incredibly
precious energies are all used up and stored in our tonal bodies, and in our
egos, we must learn to conserve ourselves. We must stalk ourselves very closely
and examine our habituated patterns. A large amount of what we are is waisted in
upholding our self-importance. We spend a lot of energy upholding it and in
return our self-importance usually tells us we cant do something because of this
or that reason. As fluid energy that moves freely you can accomplish anything
you want to. The path calls it the energy body, and the energy body can do
anything perfectly. All we have to do is find it and flow. There is no self-pity
here because it is the position of no doubt. Any concept that is limiting the
flow of awareness should be counteracted and eliminated. Any concept that is
destructive should be rethought. One must act in this world, and that is what we
are... actors.