Chapter 2 first quarter

※※※ Live totally, live intensely so that each moment becomes golden, so that your whole life becomes a succession of golden moments.Such a person can never die, because he possesses the power of the Greek Midas: everything he touches becomes gold. ※※※ The only real responsibility is to go to your own potential, to your own intelligence and awareness, and to act accordingly. ※※※ You are not born a tree, you are born a seed and you have to grow to the point where you will flower, and that flowering is your fulfillment and fulfillment. That flowering has nothing to do with power, it has nothing to do with money, it has nothing to do with politics, but it is definitely about you, it is a personal advancement.

You have to be a celebration of yourself. ※※※ The desire for utopia is basically the desire for personal and social harmony, that harmony has never existed, you have always been a mess personally and socially. Society is divided into different cultures, different religions, different countries, and these are all based on superstitions, and none of the divisions is correct. These divisions show that man is divided within himself.These are projections of his own inner conflicts.He is not one within him, so he cannot create a society, a human being without him. That reason is not external.

The outside is nothing but a reflection of the person on the inside. ※※※ No one takes individuals seriously, and that's the root cause of all problems. Because individuals seem so small and society seems so large, it is thought that if we can change society, individuals will change. But it will not be so, because "society" is just a word, in fact there are individuals, not society.Society has no soul, you cannot change anything in it, you can only change individuals, no matter how small it may seem. Once you know the science of how to change individuals, it can be used with individuals anywhere.

My sense is that one day we will achieve a harmonious society that is far better than anything utopian idealists have conceived for thousands of years. The real truth will be far better than that. ※※※ You have never been quite satisfied with who you are, with what existence has given you, because you are always distracted and distracted.You are always being led to something other than what nature wants you to be, you are not moving toward your own potential. You try to be what others want you to be, but it is unsatisfactory, and when it is unsatisfactory, logic says, "Maybe that's not enough, add a little more." And then you Go for more and you start looking around.

Everyone wears a smiling mask and looks happy, so everyone is deceiving everyone else.You also appear in a mask, so others think you are happier than them, and you think others are happier than you; the grass on the other side of the fence always looks greener, and they think your grass is greener when they look at your grass .It really does look greener, denser, and better-grown, and that's the illusion created by distance. As you get closer, you start to see that it's not.But people keep their distance from others, even friends, even lovers, keep their distance from each other, getting too close is dangerous, they may see your true face.

You have been misguided from the start, so no matter what you do, you will remain miserable.You see someone rich and you think that money might bring you happiness.Notice how happy that person looks, so we go after money; someone looks healthy, so we go after health; appearance, then we will follow him.You are always following others. ※※※ Societal manipulation makes you never think about your own potential, and the whole misery comes from not being yourself.Just be yourself and then there will be no pain, no competition, no worry that other people have more and you don't have more. If you want the grass to be greener, you don't need to look to the other side of the fence, you want to make the grass greener on this side of your fence.It's such a simple thing to make grass greener.

Man must be rooted in his own potentialities, whatever they may be.When you can do this, the world will be so satisfied that you cannot believe it. ※※※ To be "live" means to have a sense of humor, to have a deep loving quality, to have a playful mood. I am completely against all life-denying attitudes.For too long, reverence for God has been made life-denying.Make it life-affirming.The mood of the game, the sense of humor, love and respect have to come together. The reverence for life is the only reverence for divinity, for there is nothing more sacred than life itself. ※※※

Man is born with a great treasure, but at the same time he inherits the characteristics of the whole animal.One way or another, we must take the animal out and create a space where those treasures can come into consciousness and be shared, because one of the qualities of those treasures is that the more you share it, the more you own it . ※※※ We have so many problems because we never pay attention to them, we never fix our eyes on them to figure out what they are. Give your life to the beautiful things, don't give your life to the ugly, because you don't have much time and energy to waste.Our life is so short, our source of energy is so small, it would be foolish to waste it in sorrow, anger, resentment and jealousy.

Use it in love, use it in some creative act, use it in friendship, use it in meditation, use your energy to do something that will take you to a higher place, when you go The higher you go, the more energy sources you'll have at your disposal. It's all about how you do it. ※※※ It is one of the fundamental truths of life that no man is an island, and it must be well remembered.The reason I emphasize this is because we often forget it. We are all part of the same life force, we are all part of one oceanic existence.Basically, love is possible because at our deep roots we are one.If we are not one, then there cannot be love.

※※※ Man still carries with him many animal instincts -- his anger, his hatred, his jealousy, his possessiveness, his cunning.All that is condemned in man seems to belong to a very deep-seated unconscious.The whole work of spiritual alchemy is how to remove the past of these animals. If these animal pasts are not removed, man will be divided, the animal past and his humanity cannot exist together, because the human nature has the opposite quality to the animal nature, so all man can do is become a hypocrite. As far as formal behavior is concerned, he will follow the ideals of human nature - love and truth, freedom, non-possession and compassion.But it is still only a very thin layer. The hidden animal nature will come out at any time, and any accident may bring it out. Whether it comes out or not, our inner consciousness is divided.

This divided consciousness is always sending out longings and questions: How can I become a harmonious whole as an individual?The same is true for the whole society. How can we make society a harmonious whole?To become a whole without war, without conflict, without class, without color, without social class, without religion, and without nation. Perhaps we should not simply change society and change its structure, but also think more about meditation and changing individuals. This is the only possible way in which we will one day be able to abandon all divisions in society.But first they have to be dropped within the individual, and they can be dropped. ※※※ There isn't a single thing that's labeled "Truth" -- the day you can find that, and open that box and see what's inside and say, "That's great! I have found the truth! " There is no such box. ※※※ The reason why people talk about the truth and remain in the world of lies is clear, because there is a longing for truth in their hearts; they cannot be truthful, so they feel ashamed before themselves, so they They start talking about the truth, but only talk about it, and it's too dangerous to live by it, they can't take that risk. The same is the case with "freedom", everyone wants to be free.They talk about freedom, but no one is really free, and no one really wants to be free, because with freedom comes responsibility, it doesn't come by itself.It is easier to depend on others, you don't have to be responsible, that responsibility is on the person you depend on. So people create a schizophrenic way of life.They talk about truth, they talk about freedom, but they live in lies, in slavery of every kind, because every kind of slavery frees you from some responsibility. A man who really wants to be free has to accept great responsibility, he cannot put his responsibility on anyone else, whatever he does, whatever he is, he has to be responsible. ※※※ A truly nonviolent person is one who kills no one and harms no one because he is against killing and against hurting.If someone starts to hurt him, he is equally against hurting; if someone starts to kill him, he is also against killing.He will not allow it. He never initiates any violence, but if someone initiates violence against him, he will fight like hell, only in this way, those who are non-violent can remain independent, otherwise they will be slaves, they will become very poor, And was robbed again and again. ※※※ Being yourself can satisfy you and give meaning to your life.Just being yourself and growing according to your nature will bring you the fulfillment of your destiny. ※※※ To be unpredictable, to be constantly changing.Never stop changing, never stop being unpredictable, only then can life be a joy to behold. When you become predictable, you become a machine. The machine is predictable. It was the same yesterday, it is the same today, and it will be the same tomorrow. It remains unchanged.Every moment is changing, that is the prerogative of man. The day you stop changing, you die in a subtle way. ※※※ Bet everything and become a gambler! Risk everything because the next moment is uncertain, so why bother?Why worry? Live dangerously, live joyfully, live without fear, live without guilt.Live, but don't have any fear of hell, or any greed for heaven. Just live. ※※※ Every mistake is an opportunity to learn.Just don't make the same mistakes over and over again because that's stupid.Make as many mistakes as you can and don't be afraid because that's the only way nature will let you learn. ※※※ Religiousness simply means a challenge to grow, it is a challenge to enable the seed to reach its ultimate peak expression, to bring forth thousands of blossoms that emit the fragrance that is hidden within it. That fragrance I call religious. ※※※ Everyone lives a miserable life, and he wants to find some reason somewhere to explain to himself why he or she is miserable, so society has given you a good strategy: judge. First, naturally, you judge everything about yourself.No one is perfect, no one can be perfect, perfection doesn't exist, so judgment is easy.You are not perfect, so something will show your imperfection, and then you will be angry, you will be angry with yourself, you will be angry with the whole world: why am I not perfect?Then you look with just one idea -- to find imperfection in every human being. Then you want to open your heart -- because, naturally, unless you open your heart there will be no celebration in your life, your life will become almost dead, but you don't To be able to do it directly, you have to destroy all your old habits from the root. So the first thing is: stop judging yourself. Stop judging and start accepting all your imperfections, all your frailties, all your mistakes and all your failures.Don't ask yourself to be perfect, that's just asking for something impossible, and in doing so you will be frustrated. After all you are only one person. ※※※ Just watch the animals, watch the birds: they have no worries, no sorrows, no frustrations.You won't see a buffalo whimsical, it's completely content to eat the same grass every day, it's almost enlightened!There is no tension, it is very harmonious with nature, it is very harmonious with itself, with everything. The buffalo will not form a party to make a revolution, he will not form a party to change the buffalo into a super buffalo, to make the buffalo religious, and to make the buffalo virtuous.All animals don't care about these human concepts at all. They must all be laughing: "What the hell are you doing? Why don't you just be who you are? Is there a need to be someone else?" So the first thing to remember is this: accept yourself deeply. ※※※ Do not condemn lust. The whole world has been condemning the carnality, and because of their condemnation, the energy that can flower in the carnality turns into inversion, envy, anger and hatred, a dry life without juice. Sensuality is one of the greatest blessings of being human, that is your sensitivity, that is your awareness, that is your awareness that permeates your whole body. ※※※ For ages parents have carried with them the idea that the child belongs to them, that the child must be their copy.A copy is not a beautiful thing, and existence does not believe in a copy, it is only happy with the original. You have to help them grow beyond you, you have to help them not to imitate you.That's really the parent's job -- to help the child not to imitate.Children are really good at imitating, so naturally, who will they imitate? --Parents are the closest people. So far, parents are happy to say their little ones look just like them. The father feels very proud, because his son is like him, then a life is wasted, because in this case, his son is not needed, and he is enough. Because of this false notion that you feel proud when a child imitates you, we create a society of imitators. ※※※ Obedience requires no intelligence, all machines are obedient, and no one has ever heard of a disobedient machine. Obedience is also very simple, it takes any burden of responsibility off of you, there is no need to react, you just do whatever you are told.Responsibility lies with the source that issued the order.In a way, you are very free and you are not condemned for your actions. ※※※ Religiousness is not something to believe, but something to live, to experience; not a belief in your head, but a flavor of your being.