The mind
creates strategies, executes calculations, only seeks its own (maybe even only
short-term) benefits, and cannot feel empathy, understanding or love towards
others as a feeling-thinking human could.
When
you deeply realize, that the same human soul shines behind our eyes, you
understand, that we are all the same.
We rejoice and
sorrow as humans the same way, we are enthusiastic or depressed, we laugh or
cry – we experience a wide and colorful scale of emotions.
Whenever
you have the feeling that someone mistreated you, hurt you and you cannot
forgive them, you need to realize that their action was – to their best
knowledge - the only thing possible on their level of consciousness at that
given time. If you had the same life experiences and shared their point of view
of the world, you would act similarly.
Let them be
forgiven, and then embrace this other, differently dressed form of the human
soul.
During a
conversation with someone, disregard the urge to instantly compose and polish
your answer, you should rather take in and accept your fellow with all your
attention: together with their soul, speech, and personality.
If there
are unpleasant feelings hiding in you, then you need to realize, that it is
neither your heart, nor your consciousness that feels the doubts, the fears and
the concerns, but it is the shrunken ego that is cowering and croaking in its
distress.
But if your
heart and soul is filled with love, let it flow free in your body, experience
its wonder and let it burst out of you, and back to your fellows.
You need
not to be concerned about becoming too
sentimental, irrational, when you overshadow the subconscious operating of the
mind. You will see exactly, what there is – and not what you make of it.
You will see the suffering of the Sufferer,
the delight of the Delighted – and with an open heart, with empathy, you will
know exactly what is happening inside them. You take part in their lives then
and there, and so the drama or the tragicomedy of another human life unfolds
before you.
You
are the peacefully, cheerfully contemplating, observing consciousness, who participates
in the game of life: in the dance of forms and the tragicomedy of our plays.
Allow you
to taste, to experience the human existence in its full intensity.
If you
look, then see – do not get lost in the imaginations of your mind. If you eat,
then observe the world of flavors – you will see, your meals become far more
delicious. If you listen to something, surrender yourself to the listening. Be
the sense of seeing, listening, tasting and feeling.
Learn to embrace honestly.
Do not do
it, because you must – but embrace the other with an open heart, with all his
oddities, whims and uniqueness.
Your fellow
human is another unique blossom of life. Because it is a wonder indeed, that
the matter could manifest from the energy-ocean of quantum particles, which
pulsated between existence and non-existence. And then they formed living cells
out of dead atoms. Only to allow us, feeling-thinking, intelligent human beings
to connect and understand another being, sitting in front of a high tech wonder-gadget
on the other side of this intelligent, colorful-loud-fragrant world full of
life. Our existence is an awe-inspiring wonder…
The
existence of everything is a wonder.
The mind
dressed into more and more complex and intelligent forms, in order to experience
itself in every color, taste, shade, creating thought and feeling emotion, so
that in the end – to its greatest amazement – it could discover itself. To wake
from the dream of the forms and realize in astonishment, that the “Ego”, the
mysterious ghost lurking in my body, is exactly the same as the One, the
elusive, spiritual “thing”, that runs through every form.
If the consciousness examines the world through
your eyes, it will see itself smiling back in the reflection of a rock, the
Sun, a blade of grass, a kitten and its fellow human beings.
When you
need to do something that requires your creativity, then thoroughly study the
details and when you feel your mind is “fed” with the information, retreat into
silent, observing consciousness.
Let your
mind build the overall picture in your unconscious, let it sculpture and paint
it – let it work it out. When the desire to act overcomes you again, when you
feel that it is time to intervene in the events, then ask this question with
full consciousness: What do I have to do? – and wait for ideas to emerge from your,
which are born in the creative, intelligent space of consciousness.
Consciously
do what you have to do with full attention, then retire to the silent yourself
for an inspiring recharge, then if you have some more to do, do it.
Your
life will become a pulsing between creative outbursts and peaceful
contemplations.
This is when you live a life, in which you know-feel the depth of
existence: “Yes, I am. I exist. I am thankful!”
(Excerpt from the book "Mindfulness Meditation - Journey into Consciousness" by Ervin K. Kery)
