（外文电子版资料）11. Appendix A to E.docVIP

Appendix A to E Appendix A Alternate beginning to first four paragraphs beginning in the compilation from HYPERLINK file:///C:\\Documents%20and%20Settings\\Pappa\\Skrivebord\\Nye%20innkommende%20b?ker\\Castaneda,%20Carlos\\\\~rmace\\castaneda\\donjuan1.html The Teachings of don Juan? ? ? You will have to make a very deep commitment because this training is long and arduous.? ? ? Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense knowing things that are useless?? ? ? * * *? ? ? Nothing in this world is a gift, whatever there is to learn has to be learned the hard way.? ? ? One can feel with the eyes, when the eyes are not looking right into things.? ? ? You have to be inflexible with yourself if you want to learn.? ? ? You must have command over your resources.? ? ? ? ? ? There is nothing wrong with being afraid. When you fear, you see things in a different way.? ? ? I am going to teach you the secrets that make up the lot of a man of knowledge.? ? ? You will learn in spite of yourself; thats the rule.? ? ? You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. Thats the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue. Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.? ? ? * * *? ? ? A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.? ? ? When a man has fulfilled those four requisites there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his acts lose the blundering quality of a fools acts. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.? ? ? I intend to teach you abou