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 The stalking technique consists of six elements that are linked together. Five of these are what Don Juan called "warrior attributes" and belong to their world; the sixth is the culmination of all five and belong to the everyday world.

The elements are: control, discipline, restraint, ability to choose the right time and the intent. The fucking tyrant is the sixth, but belongs to the outside world.

The tyrant is a person impossible to stand because of his actions and in a power position, so it allows us to use the other elements. The personal importance comes from the high esteem in which we have our personal qualities; a tyrant can destroy anyone who has a minimum self-esteem.

However, for the warrior's apprentice, encountering a tyrant is something to celebrate, since it will force him to reduce his personal importance and will allow him to develop the first four mastery stalking techniques.

What a tyrant also does to a human being is the obsession of what is known, and when an apprentice is defeated by a tyrant, runs the risk of becoming another tyrant.

Nothing can temper an apprentice spirit as encountering a tyrant, which requires a strategy and getting rid of personal importance; the danger of this confrontation is taking the own feelings very seriously, as well as the tyrants actions. With this technique, strategy, and without personal importance, tyrants can be faced and temper the spirit and achieve sobriety and serenity. Control is refining the spirit when its trampled. Discipline is gathering information while being pounded. Restraint is patiently waiting, without anxiety nor resentment, which the tyrant deserves. The ability to choose the right time is the gate which contains the other. The intent is the warrior ability that, with impeccability, achieves the will which is a force that "naturally", sets the lace point of a particular place of the luminous egg, and thus being able to move at will. The intent is the ability to handle the will by own desire. Moving the lace point is the supreme achievement of a warrior.

New seers used the spaniards as tyrants and although for the indigenous people majority the occidentals arrival was a disgrace, for new seers it became a new element that propelled them to develop their knowledge. In our days, when a warrior is defeated by a tyrant, he has the opportunity to retreat, rearrange and later return to the challenge. In colonial times, being defeated by a tyrant could lead to death, now a defeat can be devastating.

"Think about it, what weakens us is feeling offended by the doings and wrong doings of our fellow human beings. Our personal importance requires that we should spend most of our lives offended by someone...