You ask me: “How can the Infinite be known? I answer you: not through reason. You can know the infinite only through a higher faculty, entering a state in which the divine essence is communicated.”
PLOTINUS
The finite mind, our reason, feeds desire, the pursuit of excitement through the pleasure of the senses pursued with craving, lust and impatience; this leads to wanting more and more, and one will never be full and satisfied! And not only regarding the physical pleasure derived from obtaining but also the mental one relating to becoming: becoming something different from what we are.
It is not Desire nor the balanced pursuit of Physical Pleasure that block us on our spiritual path but rather Attachment and Craving and their consequent frantic pursuit.
Is there a way to live our Life in a balanced way? Simply by not identifying with our desires, thus managing to integrate them into our Personality and observe them from our Essence. To not identify with them, it is enough to observe them without judging them and detach ourselves from them as much as possible, becoming aware that “we are not our desires”. It is only our way of reacting, in our unawareness of the Perfection of Life, to our imperfections.
Desire has power over us and drags us along only if we attach ourselves to it, if we believe it, or if we react against it. Buddhist maxim.
After spending a lifetime doing everything to fulfill our dreams, our projects, our expectations through the “materialization of our ideas,” with enormous efforts supported only by the unyielding iron will of our Personality, we reach a moment in which unconditional surrender takes over everything else!
Thanks to our inner strength, our physical and psychic effort, and the activation of our first three Energy Centers, which allowed us Grounding and Sustenance, Emotional Balance and the activation of our Creative Life Energy, as well as the Manifestation of our Willpower, we have grown strong and beautiful, active and “reactive,” self-confident, capable of not being overwhelmed and determined to obtain what we desire.
But something within us is beginning to awaken! We understand – or rather, we sense – that it is not we who bring all of this about in phenomenal reality but it is the work of “Something” greater than ourselves! Physical action becomes secondary and is guided by “something other” than ourselves, than our human mind. It is as if we began to move with a completely different means of locomotion, extremely more powerful than the one used until now, and paradoxically without needing all the effort that was necessary in the past!
Something is moving us! We then become aware that it is not our own doing that creates all of this: we are part of a super-organized system that moves the pieces (us) for a Greater Good that we still do not fully understand. Then there is no longer “mine,” there is no longer “yours,” there is no “I,” there is no “you”; there is not even “I want this” or “I desire that”!
There is only “I Am”!
Imagination, will, doing, achieving no longer matter. Life unfolds within us without an “I,” egoic and judging, existing anymore. We discover that we are our Consciousness when we stop trying to be any “thing.” We understand that all the theories, all the Scriptures to which we cling, serve to appease the mind that is Fear, giving it something to brood over! We further understand that all spiritual paths exist simply for one reason: to test us!
And to allow our Surrender!
Surrender – as stated many times – does not correspond to accepting a defeat because there is no struggle, no competition. And it is not “our” Surrender: it is the Surrender of our Ego, of our Personality, of our defensive I!
The moment we accept this unconditional Surrender, those compensatory defenses drop, because of which it seems that we must always be fighting, that we must always be waging some battle! We then understand that this is not so!! We take the blinders off our eyes and finally begin to “see”!
If before, whoever “cut us off” or made us waste time with absurd requests sent us into a rage, now this is no longer the case. Whoever “dressed or behaved differently from us” and had a more “eccentric” Personality used to make us wrinkle our nose, now this no longer happens. Even those who caused harm to people or things “without gaining any benefit from it” – for many, the definition closest to absolute stupidity! – now simply cause us pity and great compassion.
The World around us now appears perfect just as it is, without “errors,” without “incongruities,” without “imbalances” even if it might seem exactly that way – mad and unbalanced – as it could appear!
“Everyone is perfect just as they manifest themselves: that is the best version they have managed to create of themselves, and it holds the perfect balance their system needs to survive.”
But the most important thing is that none of this makes it look less perfect to me: I experience it as a perfection of divinity in every human being!
In Total Surrender, whatever reaches us from the “outside” must simply be loved and welcomed, without letting it touch us: as if we were a transparent being.
Everything passes through us and we welcome it, we give Love but we do not judge, we do not refuse, we do not attach ourselves, we do not wish to transform it. We welcome and respect. It is all right! We must never forget that each of us can do exactly what we do at the moment we do it: we cannot do otherwise! So why judge? Why wish to change ourselves or even others?
This Perfection concerns us too! Even if, to our human eyes, blind and judgmental, this does not seem so at all, we too are perfect just as we are, as we needed to create ourselves! Let us then accept ourselves as we are, in our “perfect imperfection” because this is the best result we have managed to achieve! And let us remember:
Everything around me is a hologram through which I project myself! It is the macrocosm of my microcosm.
If there is conflict in me, there will also be conflict in the world around me. This conflict can also be a wait, an unfulfilled expectation – or one fulfilled for which I am not yet ready – a deep lack, a strong attachment, a heavy fear or a serious disappointment. What is “inside,” we manifest “outside” of ourselves according to the Laws of Attraction and of Cause and Effect.
Being in deep disagreement with what surrounds me denotes an imbalance within me. We will then try to understand, to rack our brains, to explain everything to ourselves through our rational mind, but it will be useless. Only Feeling within us will give us the right experience through which we will understand that there is rationally nothing to understand but everything to accept totally and live emotionally within ourselves!
THIS IS SURRENDER!
Surrender to the I Am that Is within you, to Life, to Unconditional Love and to the Light that are Its parts. To surrender is the most spiritually elevated act you can perform, and yet the most intelligent and useful for your evolution and, consequently, for that of all the people around you and of all humanity.
To the extent that you abandon yourself to the Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence of the Higher Consciousness, you, from a perishable, mortal human being, become One with God, you return to that I-AM-GOD that you have always been! But this can happen only and exclusively in one way: through conscious Unconditional Surrender – at the level of your mind – and aware – at the level of your Soul – with complete dedication to the Higher Consciousness, the Supreme Intelligence, the Universal Life Energy that from now on will manifest itself through the transmission, through your body and your presence, of Light, of healing Information and of Love, of Compassion and of Blessing.
This will bring about such tranquility that it will allow you to begin living what is deep within us, what is truer and more necessary! The “scriptures” will truly make sense only when we are able to go beyond those scriptures themselves!
They are like a Koan: once transcended, Truth, Enlightenment arrives.
Knowledge, theory and techniques are nothing but the initial part of the process. It is only when these mental concepts are abandoned that their meaning will be seen, which is often completely different from what is inferred by taking them literally and from the related expectations.
Surrender catapults us immediately into the Unknown. Where space-time no longer rules and where anything can happen! In this non-place, without request, without waiting, without mind, without time, one can live listening to What Is in the Present Moment. That is True Life! That is Connection with Who We Truly Are!
There can only be an actual connection lasting a fraction of a second (but what is time?) And that instant of connection brings us the right information that allows the perfect evolution we needed at that particular historical moment! A single millisecond is truly enough!
Abandon yourself then completely to “Everything has already happened” in the Mind of God of the Vertical, and entrust yourself to “Thy will be done” in the action that allows realization in the three-dimensionality of matter, of the Horizontal!
I am here to bring about in matter what has already happened in spirit in the ether, and to do this I surrender!
This is the symbolic meaning of the Cross.
This is the divine path through which God enlightens us by spreading Himself within us, the path of non-time of the Vertical; the other is the path of men, of time, of allowing divine will to manifest in matter, and it is that of the Spirit which, through physical and mental – but also transcendent – experience, also becomes Holy in disinterested Unconditional Love toward its fellow beings and is therefore that of the Horizontal.
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