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 ''you cannot do. The other, is to says: “I am not like that, I am not”, and repeat that you are not like that. But I promise that the time will come when you realize that you are like that..." C.C.	  ''

THE UNAVOIDABLE APPOINTMENT

In this story, Don Juan tells Castaneda something very important, something he felt, like an omen, when he was about to encounter Castaneda at the bus station. He said that he foresaw the end, and at first he thought it was the end of his life. But later realized it was the end of his ancient lineage. A very important sign for a man of knowledge. The power sent Castaneda to him and at the same time the instrument that ended the legacy of twenty-seven naguales, which began before the Spanish conquest.

This data is relevant, because in fact, an ancient lineage ends with Don Juan and perhaps with Castaneda, a new type of lineages is born. Modernized Toltec. This could explain the current confusion surrounding the Castaneda legacy heirs. Everyone expected that Castaneda disciples are able to structure a proposal which responds to the need that the Toltec knowledge reaches a greater number of people. The truth is that death is required for re-birth.

Don Juan talks to him about death, of how the luminous egg has a part with a luminosity variation and that when it opens, death furiously enters to disintegrate and melt it at infinity. The death of his friend Bill is skillfully handled by Don Juan and makes him see that the problem is that common people think that they have all the time in the world to doubt or err. Tells him that the difference between a warrior and a common man, is that the warrior knows he does not have time and acts accordingly. Death makes him be alert.

Don Juan tells him that ancient shamans believed that there was sadness in the universe and Toltecs knew the "universal sadness dart". Don Juan tells him the great Garrick.

''"»The shamans condition —don Juan continued—, is that sadness is abstract for them. Does not come from greed or need something or personal importance. It does not come from the I. It comes from the infinite. The sadness you feel for not having been grateful to your friend already tends toward that direction..." C.C.''

THE RUPTURE POINT

In Toltequity teachings, there is a point in which the apprentice will have to "break" with his old being and the old world. This breakdown leads to the "inner silence", that is, “stop the internal dialogue”; in other words, stop the “common perception of the world". Then everything that surrounds them ceases to be as it has always been and the apprentice perceives the world in different ways, through his senses, not through the mind.

As with many ancient teachings, the Toltec knew that if the mind stops the description of the world around, the world changes. Therefore, the inner silence, is sought by these ancient people in different ways but with the same results, this is the thought cessation.

These techniques seek to reach the true human being nature, the Toltecs called it, "total freedom". When this point is reached, the human being stops