“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born a reasonable being. We make ourselves into one or the other.”
Carlos Castaneda

Tales of Power

Yoga Sutra – Chapter 1 Sutra 20

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“For others Faith precedes firmness, remembrance, integration and insight”
Translation by Paul Harvey

This sutra describes a kind of positive feedback loop which is rooted in and nourishes faith:

  • Faith leads to resolve, a focused quality of energy.
  • Resolve acts as marker, it highlights the things that need to be done – right action.
  • Right actions leads to attention.
  • Attention to insight.
  • Insight nourishes faith.

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There is another, less functional feedback loop that feeds on and breeds doubt:

  • Doubt leads to heaviness and lethargy, a dispersed quality of energy.
  • Heaviness breeds forgetfulness (of remembering of wrong things).
  • Forgetfulness leads to distraction.
  • Distraction to confusion.
  • Confusion increases doubt.

YS1-20-DoubtDoubt is the fire that consumes wisdom.

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