Encounters With The Nagual: Part 2 - Chapter 14. The Minimal Chance.

Encounters With The Nagual © 2004 by Armando Torres:

Part 2 - Chapter 14. The Minimal Chance.

During a lecture, Carlos was explaining to us various methods naguals had used to help their apprentices.

One of those present interrupted him, saying, "Carlos, you always say that without the nagual there is no freedom, but that is because you had a teacher! What can we do; those of us who were not so lucky?"

He screamed, "That is not true. You do have all the information you need.

"What more do you want? Do you hope to get everything for free, and without any effort? If you believe, that somebody else will do the work for you, you are severely mistaken."

In a reproachful tone, Carlos made fun of the human laziness which makes us hope that others will do things for us, and thus give us the greatest possible advantage. He called this 'the antithesis of a warrior's behavior.

Carlos explained, "All that a man needs is 'the minimal chance'; to be made aware of the possibilities discovered by sorcerers. A warrior does not go around hoping the old sorcerers will come, and kick him in the butt, to make him move.

"A warrior is ahead and he or she says, 'I can do it! And I can do it alone!'"