" Get over the identification of the physical body it is the springboard
route to the Cosmic Conscience. " Daran
" Be completely honest with yourself is the best effort that a human
being can realize". Freud
THE CONSCIENCE CONCEPT THAT WE ADOPT HERE:
Before anything, it is important to distinguish knowledge from conscience.
To be conscientious of something is to live certain knowledge. Conscience
is the internalized knowledge, digested. This way, the simple accumulation
of knowledge is not expressed as conscience.
Taking conscience of something is becoming involved with the
fruit of the knowledge, is being transformed by the knowledge process.
Another important subject: we get used to identify conscience as the ego-conscience.
However, there are levels of conscience beyond the common state of vigil,
of the usual state of conscience. The ego-conscience is only one parcel
of our conscience. Best saying, the ego is not the center of the conscience
and nor its last period of development. In contrast of what the majority
of the occidental schools of psychology affirm, the ego is only an instrument
of the conscience.
"These are historical times. A great transformation is occurring in
the human being’s mind. Old ideas are dying and new ones are being born.
We are starting to evidence that our basic identity is not the mind nor
the body, limited for the birth and death, time and space - but, basically,
it is spirit: an infinite conscience that is universal and eternal. It
is if disclosing that the conscience is not function of the mind, centered
in the physical brain. (...) The conscience is beyond the time and it is
not affected by death. (...) The cosmos, and everything in it, is starting
to be recognized as being an entity: non-separable and conscientious of
the whole, a manifestation of the One, of the Universal Conscience - filled
of love. The singularity of the universe is being recognized as the material
expression of the conscience singularity - which is recognized in the heart
as love. " (Samuel Sandweiss in Spirit and Mind. Sri Sathya Sai Books.
India - translated by Daran).
We can also verify two distinct levels of conscience: immanent
and transcendent. Immanent expresses itself as self-conscience (ontology)
and transcendent as the science of something outside itself.
"In the psychology of yoga, conscience is the basic phenomenon.
It is the underlying reality. It is the central focus around of which all
the conceptual project of yoga is organized. The human development (of
the conscience) isn’t seen as the elaboration of a mental structure as
the ego. On the contrary of this, it is seen as a gradual reveal of an
already present and underlying conscience. This conscience manifests itself
through the forms of the mental structures, but possesses the potential
to become free from these same structures. With the gradual lost of attachments,
it gradually frees from the mental and physical forms, which both express
it, and, at the same time, they overshadow and contaminate it. " (Swami
Rama and others. Yoga and Psychotherapy - The Evolution of Consciousness.
The Himalayan Institute. U.S.A. - translated and underlined by Daran).
We are here privileging the ideas related to the conscience of the
inner world... dimension that is very neglected nowadays. The sped up rhythm
of our lives tends to impose an alienation of our closer necessities, of
our nobler dreams and feelings.
"We can start saying that, even thinking to be waked up, the common
person, actually, is half asleep (...) the contact with the reality is
most partial; almost everything that it judges to be reality (in and outside
of itself) is a set of fictions constructed by its mind (...) Has perception
of the reality until the point when the goal of the survival becomes necessary
for this perception. The conscience of the common person is mainly a false
conscience, made of fictions and illusions, and is precisely of the reality
that it doesn’t have perception (...) I, the accidental, social person,
am separate of myself, the total human being. I am a stranger for myself
and, in this degree, all the other people are strangers to me. I am isolated
of the vast area of human being’s experience and I am a break up of a man,
a cripple who tries only one small part of what is real in itself and of
what is real in the others. " (Erich Fromm in Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis.
Ed. Cultrix
When we redirect a little more of our attention to the Being that it
exists through us, we can reconstruct the bridge (re-ligare = religion)
that connects us with the rest of the Universe. And we can rescue the sacred
dimension of life, which is really beyond the sphere of consuming automatons
of merchandises.
We possess a potential of Being much more ample that the day-by-day
of this materialistic society offers us. "The minus aspect of the taste
of what is new is the vein and frustrating fetching for changing whatever
it costs. Frequently, the fascination for the new, for the different, reflects
a interior poverty. Incapable to find the happiness in ourselves, we desperately
look for it on the outside, in objects, experiences, ways to think or to
behave each time more strange. In short, we move away from the happiness
looking for it where it is not (...) the fascination for always having
more and the horizontal dispersion of knowledge get us away from the inner
transformation. If we only can transform the world transforming ourselves,
it doesn’t matters to have more. (...) On the first sight, the pleasures
of the world are very seductive because they invite to the joy, they seem
just sweetness, and are very easy to the person to involve it. They start
bringing an ephemeral and superficial satisfaction, but we realize that
they don’t fulfill their promises and end up with bitter disillusions.
In the spiritual search, the opposite occurs. In the start, it is austere
(...) But, as it persevere in this process of inner transformation, it
is seen to blunt a wisdom, a serenity and a happiness that impregnate the
entire human being and that, in contrast of those pleasures, are invulnerable
to the exterior circumstances. " (Matthieu Ricard. The Monge and the Philosophy.
Ed. Mandarin).
Our potential of Being is the size of our imagination.
Who knows we could even reconnect with consciences of other dimensions...
"The Self is the Archetype of the order and of the direction on the universe.
It is the unifying center of all psychism and is identical to the inner
God. It is the auto-bright Knowledge, or Light, and shows itself through
the removal of the ignorance. It can never be the object of its knowledge
because it is the subjectivity that knows. The great fallacy of spiritual
fetching is that the act to search hides the Self from the Self. You are
exactly what you are searching for. The final objective isn’t the acquisition
of something new, but the indifference of the selfish ( from ego ) perception
of the conscience contents. Auto-realization (Self-accomplishment) is the
wakening to the fact that we are connected and total dependent of this
internal light. " (Robert Wilkinson- translated by Daran).
Observe that the concept of Self from the psychologist Jung came from
the Hinduism; even so having been restricted comparing to its original
meaning. According to a patient of Jung (as displayed in the book “O Segredo
da Flor de Ouro – Um Livro de Vida Chinês.” Ed.Vozes): "From the
evil a lot of good came to me. Conserve the calm, nothing to restrain,
remaining intent and accepting the reality - taking the things as they
are, and not as I wanted them to be – all of this brought me a knowledge
and singular powers, as I never imagined. I always though that, when accepting
the things, they would dominate me in a way or another; but it wasn’t like
this, because just accepting the things we will able to assume an attitude
before them. Now I will play the game of the life, accepting what they
bring me the day and the life, the good and the evil, the sun and the shade,
that change constantly. This way, I will be accepting myself, with its
positive and negative side. Everything will become more alive. How fool
I was! I intended to force all the things, according to my ideas ".
Daran
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