Don Miguel Ruiz: The Toltec Art of Life and Death
This is only the story about Miguel. This is not just so for me, but this is the truth for every single human being. You live your story, and you have all those people that you know, but they are your story and not the real ones. They are just a copy of the ones that are real. Then, your mother, for example, she is not really your mother, she’s the image you have of her. You hear for example her voice in your head, but that’s not really your mother, it’s an extension of you because you are the main character which is a reflection of life.
Life is being reflected in your neurons, which creates an entire reality which is the human mind. We share this reality with words, which becomes a language, and that’s how we explain everything. That’s how we try to understand everything, by using the words that we learn. That is how we master an entire language. Every time that you dream, you dream it in the language you know, and you cannot dream or think in another language. The great part of the story is that we face the conflict that is seen in every single human mind. This conflict is seen in entire humanity. When you can understand this conflict in your mind, you can see that entire humanity is exactly the same. The conflict that is in Miguel’s story is not really between good and bad, like the way we are already thinking for millenniums. The entire conversation is based on lies, and this is how Miguel is facing Lala (= a representation for knowledge), who based everything on knowledge in everything that she learned. We then understand that knowledge is being created by words and these words are a reflection of the truth, and therefore, Lala is just a reflection of the truth.
We accumulate all those lies in our mind but it’s important to understand that we can corrupt our own mind and this leads to the fact that we create superstitions. Then we start defending the superstitions that we create. This is the conflict that exists in everyone’s mind. But the truth that we have to get out of the conflict is the truth itself. By understanding that the lies create our superstitions, we begin understand humans the way they
We accumulate all those lies in our mind but it’s important to understand that we can corrupt our own mind and this leads to the fact that we create superstitions. Then we start defending the superstitions that we create. This is the conflict that exists in everyone’s mind. But the truth that we have to get out of the conflict is the truth itself. By understanding that the lies create our superstitions, we begin understand humans the way they are. But we will also understand the reason of injustice, the reason of violence and even the reason of war, because we try to impose our superstitions onto everybody else.
