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Chapter 5 fourth quarter

Nuggets of Wisdom 奥修 4165Words 2018-03-20
※※※ Use every opportunity in life to develop your ingenuity and your awareness.Ordinarily what we do is use every opportunity to create hell for us and in doing so only you are suffering and because of your suffering you are causing others to suffer. When many people live together, if they all create misery for each other, then that misery goes on multiplying and the whole world becomes hell because of this. As long as the basic things are understood, it can change instantly.Without intelligence, there is no heaven. ※※※ In my opinion, the function of parents is not to help children grow, they can grow without you.

Your function is to support, to nourish, to help that which is already growing. Don't give directions, don't give ideals, don't tell them what's right and what's wrong, let them find it out by their own experience. ※※※ The whole notion that children are your possessions is wrong.They were born through you, but they do not belong to you.You have a past, they only have a future. They will not live according to your will.Living on your terms is almost the same as not living.They must live according to their own will, they must live in freedom, in responsibility, in danger, in challenge.

※※※ Once you understand that your children don't belong to you, once you understand that they belong to existence and you are just a channel, then you have to thank existence that it chose you as a channel of some beautiful children, but you don't interfere with their growth , do not interfere with their potential, you do not impose your own potential on them. They will not live in the same era as you, they will not face the same problems, they will be part of another world, so don't prepare them for the conditions of this world, this society, this era, because then If you don't, you're going to create some difficulties for them, they're going to find out they're not a good fit, they're going to find out they're not qualified.

※※※ Cruelty is a misunderstanding that arises in us because we are afraid of death.We don't want to die, so you want to kill him before everyone else kills you, because the best defense is to attack, and you don't know who's going to attack you. In the animal world, as well as in the human world, there is a great competition, so people just attack without caring who they are attacking or whether he really wants to attack them.But there's no one way to find out who to attack, so it's best not to risk it. When you attack someone, your heart slowly, slowly becomes harder and harder, and then you start enjoying the attack, and this phenomenon can be seen in the animal world, because in the animal world there are also A competition for food and power...

Cruelty is nothing more than a competitive spirit that wants to be number one.If it means violence, let it be violence, but one has to be first.This is the case in the animal world, and it is also the case in the human world.But why rush to number one? Its reason for being is death. ※※※ Cruelty disappears only when you know there is no death, and that's the clue I've found of cruelty.When you experience something immortal in you, then all cruelty disappears, then it doesn't matter, you don't need to run, you can let someone else go ahead of you, because the poor guy doesn't know The world is infinite, life is infinite.

Nothing is lost, if it does not happen today, it may happen tomorrow, and if you can understand, you cannot miss anything. ※※※ In fact, in the struggle and mutual cruelty and violence, you may miss a lot, because the whole process will harden you, will turn your heart into a stone.If your heart becomes a stone, it will miss all that is great, all that is good, all that is joyful. It's hard to explain this to animals, but the real problem is that it's even hard for us to explain it to humans that through competition, through violent ambition and by striving to be first, you're creating a crazy world , and in this world, no one can get any enjoyment, and everyone's life will become very poor.

The only way people can understand is to help them feel their immortal selves, and when they feel their immortal selves, all cruelty disappears.It is because life is short that this trouble arises.If the past and the future are infinite at both ends, then there is no need to rush, or even compete.Life is so rich, so full, that you cannot exhaust it. ※※※ For those who think only of life, living and loving, the past and the future are very beautiful, because they see the past and the future are infinite.They can adorn their past, make it as beautiful as possible, though they have never lived it, they were not there when it was once there, these are only shadows, only reflections.They've been on the road, and while they're on the road, they see a few things, and then they think they've experienced it.

In the past, only death was real, not life. It's the same in the future, only death is real, not life. Those who miss out on life in the past, in order to replace that gap, they automatically dream of the future, and their future is nothing but a projection from the past.Whatever they missed in the past, they pin their hopes on the future, and between these two non-existences is a short moment of existence, and that is life. ※※※ Time is thought to be made of three tenses - past, present and future - which is wrong, time is made of only past and future. Life is what is made of the present.

So for those who want to live, there is no other way but to live in this moment. Only "now" is existential. The past is nothing but a collection of memories, and the future is nothing but your imagination, your dreams.Real existence is here and now. ※※※ "Now" has nothing to do with time, if you are just here and now, then there is no time.There is vast stillness and stillness, nothing moves, nothing passes by, everything comes to a sudden stop. "Now" gives you a chance to dive deep into the waters of life, or soar high into the sky. But there are dangers on both sides -- "past" and "future" are the most dangerous words in the human language.Living the present between the past and the future is almost like walking on a tightrope, with danger on both sides of it.

But once you have tasted the sweetness of the "now" moment, you will not worry about those dangers; once you are in step with life, the rest will not matter. For me, life is everything. ※※※ For those who want to really live -- not to think, but to love; not to think, but to be; There is no other choice.Squeeze the life juice out of this moment completely, because once it's gone it never comes back, once it's gone it's gone forever. ※※※ Life is spread over seventy or eighty years, and death happens in a single moment. It is so condensed that if you live your life rightly, you will be able to enter into the mystery of death, and the mystery of death is : It is just a covering on the outside, inside is your immortality, your eternal life.

※※※ I don't think too much about the future, because the future is born out of the present.If we can take care of the present, then we are taking care of the future. The future will not come for no reason, it will be born from this moment, and the next moment will be born from this moment. If this moment is beautiful, peaceful, and blissful, the next moment must be even more peaceful and blissful. ※※※ Man does not need to transcend nature.I want to tell you that man needs to "realize" nature, which other animals cannot do, and this is the difference between man and animals. You are born a natural being, you cannot go beyond yourself, go beyond yourself as if by lifting your feet you are pulling yourself up.You might be able to jump a little higher, but sooner or later you're going to fall back down and probably break a bone. You cannot fly. That's what people have been doing, people have been trying to elevate themselves above nature, which means going beyond themselves, but they are inseparable from nature.Man has the ability, the ingenuity and the freedom to explore, and if you have explored nature quite completely, then you have come home. Nature is your home. ※※※ This is one of the fundamental laws of life: anything higher is very fragile; Tree roots are very strong, but flowers are not.The flower is very fragile, as long as there is a strong wind, it will be destroyed. It is the same with human consciousness, hate is very strong, but love is not.Love is like a flower, it can be easily crushed by any stone and destroyed by any animal. The higher values ​​of life must be protected. The lower value already has some sort of protection in itself. A stone need not be protected, but a rose bush in a bush next to it must be protected.The stone is dead, it cannot become deader, so it does not need to be protected. But the rose is so alive, so beautiful, so colorful, so attractive, and that is its danger, and that is its strength, but it invites danger, and someone may pick it off.No one will take away the stone, but the flower may be taken. ※※※ To me, seriousness is a disease, and a sense of humor makes you more human and humble.In my opinion, humor is one of the most important parts of being religious. ※※※ Love has to be developed to the highest peak, but that requires some kind of training.People also use training, but not to develop love.I teach some disciplines to get your love right so that your love is not just a biological thing that never reaches your psychological world. Love even has the potential to reach your spiritual world, and at the highest pinnacle it will reach your spiritual world. ※※※ Orgasm is not necessary for reproduction, it is something that opens a window of evolution to a higher consciousness. The experience of orgasm is always non-sexual, and even if you achieve it sexually, it is not sexual in itself. That gives us the insight that maybe it is possible to reach it through non-sexual means, because it is non-sexual, so sex is not necessarily the only way. The person who has had this experience for the first time must have concluded that there may be other ways to achieve orgasm because sex is not necessarily a part of it.There is no sexual color or impression left in it. He must have noticed how it happened, and then it became clear: The very moment that orgasm happens, time stops, you forget about time.Your mind has stopped, you have stopped thinking.There is a deep stillness and a very clear awareness. Naturally, any observer who goes through this experience would think, "If these things—awareness, thoughtlessness, timelessness—could work without sex, then you could bypass sex and get to sex." Orgasm." My understanding is: Man must have first discovered meditation through this. ※※※ Freedom is nothing but making you fully responsible for everything you are and for what you will be. ※※※ There are some people who become very angry and these are the revolutionaries of the country and society, but all their revolutions fail because anything that comes from anger comes from ignorance and it will not create real change. ※※※ It is impossible to change for the better out of anger. I want you to remember one thing: Sadness is just anger reversed, they are not different, it is repressed anger.If you analyze it, then you will understand the fact that hurt can easily turn into anger, and anger can turn into sadness in the same way.They are not two things...perhaps two sides of the same coin. ※※※ The whole world is sad, it's in misery, people have a lot of pain in their hearts, but you don't need to be sad about it, for the simple reason that if you become sad, you join them in creating More grief, but that doesn't help. It's as if people are sick, and when you see their sickness, you get sick too.Your sickness will not make them healthier, it just creates more sickness.To empathize with their illness means to find out why they are sick, what causes their pain and unhappiness, and then help them remove those causes. You have to be as happy as possible, because your happiness will help them - not your sadness.You have to be happy and let them know that it is possible to be happy in this sad world...   ※※※ Anger is always a sign of weakness.
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