“Master is he who leads you to be your own Master!” (Saul Arpino)
Ramana Maharshi said: “Know your mind, so as not to be deceived by the mind” Do you see how many images appear in a dream, how many characters who seek and escape each other, who love and hate each other? But there is only one dreamer….
To awaken to yourself from whatever identity you recognize yourself as in the dream, accept that one, stop at that one and from there observe and discover the observer. Do not wait deluding yourself that you will be able to wake up if you are dreaming of being someone else, a more prepared or more likeable character… Whatever character in the dream you find yourself in, accept it.
Osho said: “Accepting ourselves for what we are is the basis for spiritual awakening”. In fact, accepting ourselves does not mean giving up our own growth, rather it means that we accept to grow starting from what we are. In this way, growth will not be a choice but a spontaneous movement. It is the blossoming of intrinsic perfection that finds an expressive form, without effort, without anger or frustration, without sacrifice, without the use of memory, without atonement, without hope…
Can you tell me then where is placed, what is the purpose, that suffering, that self-control, that has accompanied your search up to now? Where is the projective utility of the self that seeks itself? How many “I”s are there in you? Where is that one who seeks and the other who is sought? Where are the lives spent struggling towards perfection and where are those future lives to complete it? What does “I am young, I am old, I am male, I am female” mean? Are you not present here and now, pure consciousness, beyond every external distinction? And you always will be!
Listen, you are always, absolutely, and whoever in your dream says something sensible, it is you who says it. Recognize that message as yours, look at the moon and leave your finger alone, discover the essence and do not be fooled by the reflection...
Paolo D’Arpini - Committee for Lay Spirituality
P.S. According to Ramana Maharshi, everything we experience is established from the moment of birth, our freedom lies in feeling involved, reacting with desires or repulsions towards the experience. Desires and repulsions produce thought forms that are subsequently projected into other "incarnations" (not meaning incarnations of the same entity). In short, these thought forms produce new names and new forms that seek completion. It is a spontaneous mechanism of the evolution of consciousness in space-time. However -always mentioning Ramana Maharshi" from the point of view of the Self (absolute impersonal Consciousness) there is no progress or regression but from the point of view of the mind evolution is continuous. And furthermore, if we assume a detached attitude it does not mean that our predispositions cannot interact with situations. Detachment allows a better performance. But even this attitude is somehow "determined" by the evolutionary process in progress..." (P.D'A.)
Testo Italiano:
“Maestro è colui che ti porta ad essere il tuo stesso Maestro!” (Saul Arpino)
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