2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 20:57
If we take a look at some seminar on spiritual growth, we will see a strange picture. Half of the participants are emaciated middle-aged women with sad eyes who do not eat meat or have sex.
In the photo: Rajneesh shows how to make "okay" correctly
A slightly smaller part is the youth, which will plug any Guru in terms of paper knowledge and jambs smoked in Goa into the belt. The rest are a composite hodgepodge of the deaf, the blind, and the bent-legged.
About ladies with sad eyes, which can be observed at any esoteric party, you probably more or less understand everything.
This sadness grows due to the lack of dough and sex, and these two factors, which for an ordinary woman are lethal forcing neophytes to switch to vegetarianism, are the only way not to go crazy completely. But this is not a solution to the problem, but a road to a dead end.
For if two such restrictions can be sustained, then three together for a person from our society is a deadly dose.
As for the youth, we were all young and curious. Everyone wanted to change the world or at least do something for immortality.
pictured: one visit to Goa adds +100 to Karma
Was carefree and naive
Turtle youthful look.
Everything around seemed wonderful
Three hundred years ago! (C)
The remaining motley audience comes to such seminars for a thousand different reasons, which can be reduced to one fraction.
Above - lack of money. Below is the problem of the present tense. The problems can be different. A hedgehog picked up in the forest last summer died. The fish in the aquarium has died. The neighbor did not give the 50 rubles he had taken "until payday."
All this is a vicious circle. There is no money, because the problem is pressing and all the energy is spent on solving it. There is no solution, because I want to eat and all the time is spent looking for my daily bread.
In general, as my grandmother used to say, "if there is no money in the house, tie a broom to your ass."
Unfortunately, I never found out what she meant. Whether it was a Zen koan or just a call to sit on a broom and fly into a pipe, we do not know today.
But my grandmother worked until the last day of her life, gave birth to seven children, was moderate in food, prayed a lot and never bothered herself with nonsense.
But let's return to spiritual searches, self-development and the light of shining Nibbana.
In the life of a Hindu, from which we take an example in terms of spiritual practices, there are four stages. I will use simplified terminology so that the idea is clear to everyone.
The first stage is apprenticeship, school, which lasts approximately until the wedding.
The second is family, children, home and all the material things that are associated with it.
The third stage is hermitage. And the fourth is vagrancy.
The last two symbolize liberation from all attachments and the search for enlightenment.
Everything else fits in the first two periods. Everything material, passionate, extraordinary. A life filled with desire and suffering, love and hate, acquisitiveness and survival.
When does the second stage end and the third begins? Logically speaking, this is the age of 50-60 years, when a certain material well-being is achieved, children are adults, and all debts to society are given.
Why is everything wrong with us? Or more precisely, why do we have everything through the butt again?
Our seekers of Truth become Oshov sannyasins at 18-25 years old or Hare Krishnas, toil with foolishness for five, ten, or even more years, and by the age of forty they come to a state of feverish excitement, sunken eyes and vegetarianism.
pictured: young people become Hare Krishnas in order to feel the unknown with their own hands
That is, the Mahatmas, Upanishads, Maha-Yogis and Babaji tell them one thing, and our stubborn esochteniks do everything in their own way, and then complain about the result. And at parties where Ukrainian yogis, Belarusian vegans and Russian sannyasins gather, one can hear the following conversations:
-Well, how do you like advaita?
- You know, something didn't go. I'm hooked on Tantra now.
-Well. You are more accurate there, I have been engaged in Tantra for a whole month, and for half a year the member is not worth it.
And sighing, they continue to chat about Kali Yuga, an era in which humanity has no chance of development, about the overwhelming samskaras of the jiva and treacherous vrittis swinging in the stream of consciousness like cow cakes in the murky waters of the Ganges.
Therefore, on occasion I remembered a parable. Once a wise man was asked:
"Teacher, what will happen to us after death?" The elder only laughed and said nothing. One day, the disciples asked him why he never answers this question.
- Have you noticed that those who do not know what to do with this one are interested in the afterlife? - answered the old man. “They just need another life to live as stupidly as the first.
- And yet, is there life after death, or not? - persisted one of the students.
“Is there life before death - that is the question,” answered the sage.
How to isolate your purpose from the general mass? When will all these insignificant little people realize that we are no match for them? How to quickly and without pain go beyond the mind? Which capsule should I prefer blue or red?
And isn't all this talk the ravings of an old, crazy turtle?
If we imagine that the whole world is energy, and this is so, then where are we in this flow?
I have already said that a person resembles a kettle. Think of "yoga for dummies", "Kant for dummies", "Upanishads for dummies" and so on.
There are two holes in the teapot. Energy flows into one and flows out of the other. That is, we get energy from food, water, sun and love, and we spend it from the instinctive-motor center for sex, anger, pity, guilt, resentment, fear.
In an ordinary person, if he is not focused on some task, there are certainly more holes. Castaneda has everything written about this, I will not repeat myself.
Let's take it for granted:
1. The more energy a person has, the less problems and bad thoughts he has.
2. The less bad thoughts, the more effective it is.
A bad head does not give rest to the legs. Many movements, no achievements. Make the fool pray to God, he will break his forehead.
All these proverbs were invented long before the Bhagavad-Gita appeared in Russia as presented by Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
In the picture: the enlightened Master Swami Prabhupada, shows the second method of how to make goodies
This means, again in a very simplified way, the human task is to accumulate energy and use it efficiently. It's a simple formula that produces amazing results.
Especially if you know the secret. Not that secret from the movie "The Secret" in which you just write on a piece of paper what you want and it all appears for you, but the secret that EVERYTHING HAPPENS BY ITSELF.
A person just has to get to the handle. The kettle should boil and boil. Trash and a thousand useless thoughts should be replaced by one.
pictured: the person as he is
What it will be depends on the individual taken. Someone will act like a real samurai and make themselves hara-kiri. Someone will go to Puna to absorb sattva from the speeches of Rajneesh's disciples. Someone will leave the family, leaving young children. Someone will start reading Zeland to try to find the best for themselves in the space of options.
I suggest making money
Why money and not hemorrhoids or stomach ulcers?
Everything is very simple. Money is stabilized energy. Yes, now someone will scream that this is a placebo, the metal of the Devil and the secret plan of the Jewish Masons who worship Baal Zebub. People with sad eyes who love and suffer will shout it. They love money and suffer from a lack of it.
Have you ever won money at a casino? Did you feel an incredible rise in strength when you were able to earn a significant amount? Do you remember that feeling of self-confidence, the power to move mountains, when you hold big money in your hands?
If not, try it and then tell me whether I'm right or not.
What do I want to say?
1. Enlightenment is sure to come. Not in this incarnation, so in the next. If you accumulate enough energy that will connect your Sahasrara, tired of thinking about the meaning of life, with the Architect of the Universe.
2. It takes concentration and meditation to get enough energy. The easiest trick is not to focus on the lotus flower in your heart, but on stock quotes, prices for honey from farmers and in stores, or comparing prices for Omega watches on Alibaba and ebay.
When you earn your first money and meditate on it, you will understand that you are on the right Path. All these social ladders, Maslow's pyramids, castes, varnas and other rubbish were invented for a reason.
The energy of money (if you are not a prophet and not a Bodhisattva) leads you to the top, where, sitting in Vajrasana, or better by standing in Prasarita Padottanasana, you will bequeath your fortune to charity to everyone in need, as did Andrew Carnegie, Tim Cook or Warren Buffett …
Pictured: millionaire and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was a real enlightened Yogi and bequeathed his fortune to charity
A phrase belonging to him reads: A man who dies rich, dies disgraced
And then, having become a beggar of your own will, you will rush with Krishna straight to Valhalla, and you will laugh from infinity at the efforts of both the Demiurges and the seekers of Truth.
3. The game of money is akin to the Glass Bead Game. It is exciting, requires perseverance, intelligence and, most importantly, an understanding that this is a game.
In children's games, laughter and fun, because play gives energy …
The winner is always the one who is not tied to the result.
And yes.
First money, then enlightenment. But not vice versa.
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