The Death Bed Drill: Waking The Warrior NOW Before It's Too Late!
Life seems to fly by doesn't it! And Time seems to speed up as we get older...
The fact is of course we could die at any moment! We have no clue when death will strike. One of the things that is common to all spiritual traditions is what is known as 'Death Awareness.' Most Spiritual traditions have some kind of 'Death Awareness' training. Many have images of skeletons or skulls that act as reminders. Apparently some monks used to sleep in coffins! And many a Yogi has meditated in grave yards.
Traditional Meditations have you imagining yourself looking at your gravestone or seeing your loved ones looking at you as you sit in your death bed. Indeed there are many ways to increase your 'death awareness.'
The Death Bed Drill is a very profound kind of 'Death Meditation' because it has the added impact of utilising your Personal Timeline. The fact that you are witnessing your entire 'Personal History' unconsciously and consciously all at once impacts your neurology more. I will be explaining Timelines shortly as you read on...
Most people, most of the time are walking around as if they have the old Oasis Song playing in their heads, "Gonna live f-o-r-e-v-e-r!"
Of course this is far from the truth of reality. So doing meditations and exercises to increase your 'death awareness' actually puts you more in touch with reality. If you've never experienced these kinds of perspectives before, don't worry because as you will discover with, "The Death Bed Drill," it can actually be a very profound and liberating experience!
Carlos Castaneda wrote several books about a Yaqui Shaman, Don Juan Matus, who demonstrated how to live a more courageous, 'spiritual warrior' way of living. He actually suggested imagining having 'death as your advisor' on your left shoulder. Here is an extract with Castaneda's, Don Juan:
"How can anyone feel so important when we know that death is stalking us? The thing to do when you are impatient is turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you."
"Death is a wise adviser that we have… One… has to ask death's advice and drop the cursed pettiness that belongs to men that live their lives as if death will never tap them! If you do not think of your death, all your life will be just personal chaos!"
"The warrior knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything… And thus with an awareness of his death,… and with the power of his decisions a warrior sets his life in a strategic manner… and what he chooses is always strategically the best; and so he performs everything he has to with gusto and lusty efficiency! Life for a warrior is an exercise in strategy. Without the awareness of death everything is ordinary, trivial. It is only because death is stalking us that the world is an unfathomable mystery."
As you will soon find out, getting some 'Death Awareness' will literally put 'your whole life into perspective' in a very useful and empowering way!
The fact is of course we could die at any moment! We have no clue when death will strike. One of the things that is common to all spiritual traditions is what is known as 'Death Awareness.' Most Spiritual traditions have some kind of 'Death Awareness' training. Many have images of skeletons or skulls that act as reminders. Apparently some monks used to sleep in coffins! And many a Yogi has meditated in grave yards.
Traditional Meditations have you imagining yourself looking at your gravestone or seeing your loved ones looking at you as you sit in your death bed. Indeed there are many ways to increase your 'death awareness.'
The Death Bed Drill is a very profound kind of 'Death Meditation' because it has the added impact of utilising your Personal Timeline. The fact that you are witnessing your entire 'Personal History' unconsciously and consciously all at once impacts your neurology more. I will be explaining Timelines shortly as you read on...
Most people, most of the time are walking around as if they have the old Oasis Song playing in their heads, "Gonna live f-o-r-e-v-e-r!"
Of course this is far from the truth of reality. So doing meditations and exercises to increase your 'death awareness' actually puts you more in touch with reality. If you've never experienced these kinds of perspectives before, don't worry because as you will discover with, "The Death Bed Drill," it can actually be a very profound and liberating experience!
Carlos Castaneda wrote several books about a Yaqui Shaman, Don Juan Matus, who demonstrated how to live a more courageous, 'spiritual warrior' way of living. He actually suggested imagining having 'death as your advisor' on your left shoulder. Here is an extract with Castaneda's, Don Juan:
"How can anyone feel so important when we know that death is stalking us? The thing to do when you are impatient is turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you."
"Death is a wise adviser that we have… One… has to ask death's advice and drop the cursed pettiness that belongs to men that live their lives as if death will never tap them! If you do not think of your death, all your life will be just personal chaos!"
"The warrior knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything… And thus with an awareness of his death,… and with the power of his decisions a warrior sets his life in a strategic manner… and what he chooses is always strategically the best; and so he performs everything he has to with gusto and lusty efficiency! Life for a warrior is an exercise in strategy. Without the awareness of death everything is ordinary, trivial. It is only because death is stalking us that the world is an unfathomable mystery."
As you will soon find out, getting some 'Death Awareness' will literally put 'your whole life into perspective' in a very useful and empowering way!
