Even if one is not a native stalker, everyone should practice it. This isn’t really a rule, but in a practical way it is very much so. The first place to practice stalking is in our jobs.
What does this mean?
As with a post I placed some time ago on the Householders Path, the key words are non-resentment and unreserved giving of oneself. The stalkers purpose is to effect change in self. Not to change others - change self. We use our tasks in the world to apply a powerful lever on our habitual state, esp our state of mind.
So the primary principal is to enter the work place with the intention of having it strip our self-importance bare. We accomplish this by NEVER feeling resentment to the job or the manager or our fellow workers, and applying everything we have - the rule of DEMAND.
Here are some tips I have painfully learnt along the way.
1. Don’t overlook the power of our mundane job in our spiritual path. It is critical.
2. Court your boss. Never think of your boss as an idiot - no matter the truth. From the moment you start a job, focus on your boss, and get on his/her side. Also the next bosses up. There are two techniques to accomplish this:
First there is a ‘way’ to psychically attune yourself to the person. This comes from within - it is a real stalkers magical skill, and took me many years to acquire. I always had a knack of getting off side with my bosses - it was never my fault! They were dickheads with personal problems. Then as I grew older, I realised it was up to me to ALIGN with them.
Second, respond to their requests IMMEDIATELY. Not ‘in a minute’, or ‘just when I finish the last job you gave me’ or anything else. JUMP UP and respond to her every wish instantaneously.
3. Never waste time or energy ‘regarding others’ or getting involved with work place politics. Just don’t do it, unless you have a specific purpose as part of your stalking - even still avoid all petty squabbles, and gossip.
4. Work hard. Learn everything that avails itself. Become the person who is given the keys. Use work to flush out the concerns of the personality. Put in far more time than you are paid for. I once had an experience with this - when I was young I had a job for awhile at my father’s company. I and two others were given a task late in the day that had to be finished that day. The other two pissed of at 5pm. At 5.30 I had the shits - why should I finish the job, when the others left? It wasn’t fare - so I went home. Who got into trouble - the CEO’s son of course. But I was just beginning my whole new approach to life, and this experience stuck with me ever since - I was wrong.
It had nothing to do with the others - whoever they were, they were irrelevant. I should have finished that task, no matter it took me till 4 in the morning - it is my life, and I need every opportunity to strip the crap from my baggage, and build my will. I now know, when I say I’ll do something, I do it. Simple, no big deal - nothing gets in the way. Nothing will I allow to stand before me and my ultimate purpose - which manifests in the smallest task I agree to.
The task of a stalker is to banish the false self. Part of that is to use the world to cut off nourishment to the spoilt personality, the one who wants to be recognised, praised, and craves attention.
Success in the work place is not only good for the wallet, but the first rule for a stalker - to master.
……
You may have trouble with this part about one’s boss. That is because you see it through your socialised eyes. You see it ‘personally’. Stalking is very different - there is no place for the personal. We take anything as a tool – your boss? We are not interested in him or her personally in the slightest. We see this as an opportunity to know spirit, and to dance to its command instantaneously! Your boss is such a wonderful tool, because no only are we full of attitudes about ourselves and our boss, how we hate being told what to do by arseholes, and you we need to be treated with respect and dignity, but the boss’s commands and wishes can be a true exercise pad for our real boss – the bird.
Stalking is immense fun, there is no room for sour-pusses. They are light and full of mischievousness, as they play around their heavy associates.
However I want to add one thing. After a social discussion of different types of yoga, someone turned to Gurdjieff and asked him what type of yoga he taught. His response was a Russian word, and the author said it was not simply translatable in English (interesting in itself), but that it meant responding to a command instantly, with out the slightest moment of delay or consideration.
…………
Some do not understand the meaning of the practice called stalking. It has been mooted that stalking means to trick your poor unfortunate companions through life, with contempt and relish in torture. No, my dear brethren, that thought is erroneous. Stalking is quite different.
It’s unfortunate consequence is magical control of one’s world.
DJ had a most wonderful example of blunt stalking for CC, when he physically turned his head, holding for a long time. Stalking is manipulation of the world in a most sophisticated way to create an effect inside of ourselves. DJ’s experience in the place of the man who shot him. How he related to the top woman. Sucking up! That’s an understatement of ludicrous proportions. His studied her with the intent of a man who knew his very life was dependant on how he could keep her on side. This is serious stuff, we are all fighting for our lives.
So DJ shifted CC’s focus of view, which shifted his world view, and thus him, in a powerfully symbolic way. But we as stalkers have the one purpose of stalking, to create that shift inside of us. This is a sophisticated shift, one towards awakening of our awareness of so much that is available within us. Thus we tackle the world like a huge dog, as we lie around beneath it, play fighting, knowing it could bite your head at any moment.
I recently had to take a maremma dog to the vet, and he was a huge dog - I’ve seen this guy fly off the edge, and there was no way you’d want to be at the other end of that. On the chain, he refused to move - he had never been on a chain in his entire life, they live in the paddock with the sheep, they are big white woolly dogs that bounce everywhere. Shit! How were we to get him inside the combi, let alone hanging on to him on the trip to town. Still in the end I picked him up, he was soft and meek. I hoped anyway, but apart from a small incident with the vet, he was perfect. Poor bugger, he has grass seeds inside, we expect him to die. That’s what it like out here. So there I was holding him with fascinated and intense attention... you never knew, and he had a beautiful nature - to think I used to think him a wild unpredictable and very dangerous if mistake made type of beast.
Thus we look at our world with the shrewd manoeuvre of using its intense demand of focus to shrink the conformed mind. To discover new horizons within ourselves.
But far from creating fear and repression in the world around a stalker of the third world, health and vitality spring forth. A true stalker heals outwards as she heals inwards.
But there is a formidable barrier to entering this perception, and it must be evicted - no other options are available I’m afraid - not as if you could keep it as a little doggy, this querulous toad of a creature - tell it to piiissofff!
Go empty, go empty young man. use your world to heal self - only a healthy self can be left behind with out some regret - heal self.