The Mastery of Love: Toltec Wisdom

To be Toltec is a way of life. It is a way of life where there are no leaders and no followers, where you have your own truth and live your own truth. The Toltec becomes wise, becomes wild, and becomes free again.

There are three masteries that lead people to Toltec. First is the mastery of awareness, this is to be aware of who we really are, with all the possibilities. The second is the mastery of transformation - how to change, how to be free of domestication. The third is the mastery of intent. Intent from the Toltec point of view is that part of life that makes transformation of energy possible, it is the one living being that seamlessly encompasses all energy, or what we call God. Intent is life itself, it is unconditional love. The mastery of intent is therefore the mastery of love.

 When we talk about the Toltec path to freedom, we find that they have an entire map for breaking free of domestication. They compare the judge, the victim, and the belief system to a parasite that invades the human mind. From the Toltec point of view, all humans who are domesticated are sick. They are sick because there is a parasite that controls the mind and controls the brain.

The food for the parasite are the negative emotions that come from fear. If we look at the description of a parasite, we find that a parasite is a living being who lives off of other living beings, sucking their energy without any useful contribution in return, and hurting their hosts little by little. 

The judge, the victim, and the belief system fit this description very well. Together they comprise a living being made of psychic or emotional energy, and that energy is alive. Of course it is not material energy, but neither are emotions material energy. Our dreams are not Material energy either, but we know they exist. 

The Toltecs believe that the parasite - the judge, the victim, and the belief system - has control of your mind, it controls your personal dream. The parasite dreams through your mind and lives its life through your body. It survives on the emotions that come from fear, and thrives on drama and suffering. The freedom we seek is to use our own mind and body, to live our own life, instead of the life of the belief system.

 At best, being a warrior gives us an opportunity to transcend the dream of the planet, it is a place of Joy, a place where we are happy, where we are free to love and be who we really are. We can reach heaven while we are alive, we don't have to wait until we die. God is always present and the Kingdom of heaven is everywhere, but first we need to have the eyes and ears to see and hear that truth. We need to be free of the parasite.

- excerpt from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz