Procedimientos y tipos de evaluación

As originally stated, there's no time.

The idea of a procession of moments (or temporal units of uniform value forming a continuous strand of linear time) is merely a device we have collectively developed and subscribed to as an unquestionable constant, by which our experience of living on the planet in a physical mainframe can be measured.

That's all it is: an idea.

Time, as we generally think of it, is not a constant. Time is, as any Taoist or Einstein will tell you, purely relative. If you're engrossed in the moment, the moment will pass in no time, literally. If you're held internally inert in the grip of self-limiting disengagement ^– bored, in other words ^–that moment can last for hours, or at least seem t o.

The deeper function of this device we call 'time' is, in fact, to prevent all the events of your life appearing as if they're all happening at once.

For when seen through the eyes of your spirit body ^–that is, when your spirit body is fully merged in the Tao in the previously described ways, long enough to afford you the clarity to take a glimpse at your life from the (lateral field) perspective of eternity ^–all the events that comprise your life do in fact all happen at once.

Obviously these are only words, and my using them is not intended to convince you of this, but merely to point out what only becomes obvious when you've seen it. As when finally able to see the hidden 3-D picture (in those hidden 3-D picture things).

But what is immediately apparent, no matter how you look at the picture, is that if duration of time is relative to your quality of experience, it is also susceptible to being stretched or shrunk according to your will ^–it being none other than you, yourself, who determines or wills your quality of experience with your own mind. Not only is duration susceptible to expansion or contraction, but also to tone control.

You can fill a time span with pleasure or you can fill it with pain according to how you turn the dial.

This will determine the dynamics of your relationship with that time span and dictate whether you view it as friend or foe.

The relevance of this to you as an urban warrior in post-modern, globally urbanized, high-speed life, where there usually appears to be a scarcity of available time spans in which to take care of business adequately at work, rest and play, is to b e willing to treat time as your friend. I t'll play ball with you and enable you to accomplish everything you want and more. If, on the other hand, you treat time as your enemy, it will become so, and deprive you of valuable moments so you always end up missing deadlines and being late for everything.

Be willing to view the projected time span before you as expansive and able to accommodate all the events with which you desire to fill it, and it will, by the immutable law of yin and yang, the external reflecting the internal and vice versa, bend over backwards to make that possible for you, so friendly is it.

However, view this time span as mean and inadequate, and sure as cosmic egg timers is cosmic egg timers, it will shrink before your very eyes until it disappears into a black hole, and you've missed the moment and its opportunities have passed.

In other words, don't be rude about time, cussing it and exclaiming there isn't enough of the goddamn stuff, and it won't be rude to you.

Conversely, be kind to time and be willing to see its endles s possib ilities and it'll be kind in return.

But that's the point. When, as an urban warrior, you return to the source of all life within where

existence is a constant (eternally), you will trigger the manifestation of endless possibilities within any projected time span, opportunities that otherwise may have lain dormant. That's how the Tao of time works.

And obviously, the more opportunities you have, the greater possibility there is of fulfilling your limitless potential for maximum enjoyment of your life from now on and, by extension, the enjoyment of all those with whom you interact, if only by contagion.

This understanding and appreciation of the malleability of any given time span coupled with a keen ability to prioritize the various projected elements of your intended agenda, as well as a willingness to maintain an appointment book (electronic or paper) and to cross-reference by regularly consulting a reliable timepiece, forms the basis of effective time-management.

But without the following (the other ‘D' word), neither time nor indeed any other resource will do you much good. Because you'll be a mess.

DISCIPLINE

Does the very sound of it make you shudder! As any warrior, post-modern or ancient, will tell you, discipline is essential to survival. Not discipline in an obsessive way. Obsession, literally laying siege to someone or thing, removes the obj ect of obsession's breathing space. When someone or something can't breathe, death quickly ensues. And death is the opposite of what we’re trying to achieve here.

So no obsession with discipline, simply a willingness to obey your own commands, for to rebel against your own self is patently absurd. Not that that stops us. We all rebel against ourselves to some degree from time to time, doing things we enjoy but which destroy us, peopling this planet the way we do  being a case in point, but after all we're human, not machines however hard we try to be otherwise. But

as I s ay, it is a matter of degrees.

Discipline means being willing to obey your own commands enough of the time, without kicking up a fuss, to successfully negotiate your way through any given series of events during any given time span.

If you are disciplined you will do this according to the prior parameters and conditions you've determined by conscious choice, without hating yourself for it and so punishing yourself in some

underhanded way by preventing yourself from manifesting the outcome you want ^–which is (I assume) the absolute, unqualified enjoyment of every remaining moment here. (Otherwise, what's the point?) In other words, there's no point obeying yourself so strictly that you're no longer having fun doing it ^–if you'll excuse me for mentioning something so trite as fun. But without fun in the moment, without each and every available time span being like a funfair ride, no matter how conditions conspire to make you see otherwise, that time span will drag and thus be a waste (of time).

So really discipline is what enables you to have fun. Discipline, for example, enables you to obey yourself to perform your daily ablutions, without which most polite post-modern society would marginalize you, especially on t he cocktail party circuit, and you'd end up all alone and smelly. And that's rarely much fun.

You could in fact make the obvious link and simply say discipline is fun.

Because it's actually fun to command yourself to breathe fluidly, evenly and deeply at this precise moment, for example, and then to experience your body obeying that command and the subsequent sensation of relaxed wellbeing that should hit you just about... now.

It's fun to command your etheric self to resonate with the essence of personal magnetism and then to experience yourself obeying that command only to find beautiful people flocking to you to share the

oys of life.

It's fun to command yourself through all the various stages of spirit-body development (as described in this book), to experience the deepest part of you obey those commands and the subsequent profound transformation of both internal and external conditions that will occur.

It's fun to discipline yourself to remember. And it's fun when you forget.

To do otherwise is not the way of the urban warrior, but of the urban degenerate. And though that may get you invited to certain parties where certain twisted people (and the tabloid press if you're infamous enough) can enjoy watching and documenting your self-destruction, degeneration quickly leads to death. A death of which you will not be adequately internally prepared to take full spiritual advantage in the moment. Which would ultimately be a waste as it only happens once (during this particular lifetime at least).

But as I said, it's by degrees. You mustn't be rigid about it. You mustn't be rigid about anything if you want to retain the flexibility of mind and body necessary to roll with the yin and yang of things as they happen and not get caught in an existential slipstream.

Be gentle with yourself. Gentle, but as the old cliché has it, firm. Be the benign dictator who martial led the many selves and made them as one, the wise and compassionate teacher dealing with a child you love ^–you.

 Just don't mistake compassion for indulgence. Though nat urally indulgence is inevitable, it is essential you exercise discipline in the areas of self-regeneration such as those described herein, and any others of your choice, in order to offset the degenerative effects of that indulgence.

But always do so in a patient and forgiving way. Self-discipline in no way implies self-flagellation. And talking of self-indulgence ...

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