KNOWLEDGE Definition
sth. that we identify and take for granted as real
To my experience, there's only one word to express this concept in English,
Knwoledge
whereas we have two in French
SAVOIR - VOIR ÇA (French) To know = I see that
language of the birds
I see so I think I know
I don't question what I see
What I see is the truth
Knowledge
Connaître : Co-Naitre (French) language of the birds
to be acquainted with/be born together
How about bringing something to life together ...
Now? I don't want to KNOW who you were yesterday.
I want to know you...
I want to know everything
In the Now...
And if I look into the void and admit I know nothing...
Then maybe I could know love...
I don't know what love is
But I can know it in the peace of presence...
If you discover your ignorance and integrate it, you stop fighting against it, and when you stop fighting, you enter into peace.
When you enter into peace, you discover that within human ignorance lies universal wisdom.
Wisdom that, when you reach it,
You reach it, united with all.
It's not a wisdom that excludes others
To make you believe that you are a wise, superior being,
and that others may need 5 or 6 more retreats.
That's not wisdom.
It's hiding my own ignorance
Pretending that I know, that I've understood, that I can see what others can't, when I haven't really managed to get by
Because I AM, in the present, and a human present means I know nothing.
A human present implies that I know nothing because human knowledge is based on the past.
If I'm in the present, it means I don't know how to behave with anyone.
I don't know
I have memories
But memories don't tell me how to relate to you now.
My memory of the relationship with a human being, my memory of the relationship with the participants, my memory of the relationship with my friends, my family...
I only have my memory of how to feel you,
how to feel...
My memories have no informative value
to learn how to relate to the present
because none of these memories make sense
To live the present experience
but we must assume this ignorance
many cultures have turned ignorance into a monster
Imagine realizing that your life is a mirage, that what you need to know about living in the present is not a monster, that you need to run away from it.
Because everything you need to know about connecting with yourself is already here.
Now
You're in bed, you wake up, you roll over, you see your partner and you realize that you don't know how to behave at this moment.
Everything you knew is useless right now...
Everything is built around personal ideasHave you ever thought through and rehearsed in your thought space everything you wanted to say to someone... And by the time you told them, it was all gone?
Because what you're planning has nothing to do with the present...The present holds all the necessary information, it's absolutely perfect...
Entering
The Presence
Are we ready to assume that we know absolutely nothing, that everything we think we know is just an interpretation of reality?
Not long ago, I was watching a baby, screaming and crying ... And I could hear my own thoughts and those of the people with me ... Oh, how difficult this little one is ... He looks anxious. I was struck by what I saw ... Did we really know what this little one was feeling? Or do we think we do? And the intelligent mind will say ... Ah, yes, yes ... I felt it ... From birth, we're taught what we must be and what we must not be, we're taught to reject ourselves and others.And if I look carefully, it's a thought, a thought that runs throughSo if my thought tells me that such and such a person is like this? Is this reality? As I thought it then it becomes real?
We don't have the ability to see you through our thoughts
You don't have the ability to see others through your thoughts.
A thought is a single point of view
An interpretation
My thought at this moment is not this moment.
A thought is an imagination
Can you imagine having an experience with yourself based on an imagination?
I meant ... a Thought
I know my name and I know who I am
And what's more, I have a very clear idea of who you are.
Yes, that's what I'm thinking.
Sorry
That I imagine
"I know who you are
And the way things are
They are as I tell you
And I have the truth
And you must see it"
Can you imagine putting up with that? Yet that's what we do all the time We see the other person and impose our thoughts on them as reality
Ah yes ... I know ...
If I'm in a relationship
I have to behave as I think a relationship should be,
In the end, I miss the possibility of a relationship between you and me
Relationships break down because we don't let them transform us
To be what they should be
It's better to leave the relationship
And love
Leaving the relationship means abandoning the idea of what I believe a relationship to be.
Everything has meaning, only the meaning I choose to give it...
A Meaning is an idea I have about how things should be.
I can't love if I have an idea of love
There's always something missing...
Where does this idea come from
That something is missing
Something to come
Something big
Something who must change
Can you imagine if we said something on a retreat that could really change your life?
What if I had the power to change something in you?
Can you imagine?
Do you understand?
There's nothing to change
Nothing to do
You're waiting for answers, to understand yourself?
To know who you are?
What you need to do?
If we wait to understand life before living it
When we can't understand it
Or understand an emotion or situation in order to live it
We generate unnecessary latency
If I enter into presence ...
Then maybe I can start to observe
Is there a broader way of looking at this situation that benefits everyone?
There's no one here unless you start thinking
Before thinking, there is a complete void
The moment I think
I think you're like that
And if I think I'm like that, I'll be trapped
Because I'll start acting the way I think I am
We've forgotten that we think in a way that's optional it's not my way of being
I'm not happy because something external is causing it
It's never me
that's the pattern of suffering
Am I ready to live in this moment of presence, where I know nothing?
Yes, I've done a lot in my life
But... I know nothing...
Too simple?
If I discover my presence, will I lose myself?
We think that presence is immobility...
No ... presence is pure life ...
Surrendering to life...
Every moment is charged with life
And we spend our time trying to be a better person, without realizing that in trying, we despise what we are now.
So yes, we can tell the other person
You're mediocre, you don't want to change
No, life will take care of that
I accept the way I am now
Shadow and light
I observe myself
Without judgment
I trust
I surrender
I stop trying to control, to mentalize
If not ...
I despise my presence
What is the most authentic and loving thing in the universe?
That which is capable of transforming anything
That which is capable of letting life in, touching you, overtaking you
When you stop defending yourself against life itself
In the face of Love
We constantly defend ourselves against what threatens our hearts
We don't let our emotions touch our hearts
Because we're afraid of it
I think about something, I don't want to think about it
I feel something and I don't want to feel it
Our life becomes a constant refusal
We don't want life
Because we constantly reject it
As everything is pure life, manifesting itself in every moment
I reject life through everything
Every situation, every person
I don't like this person, she has to change....
I don't like this situation, it has to change...
We are puppets of our Mind,
Soulless
We think we know how things should be
You are in this moment
Always have been
Think about it
When have you not been in this moment? Never
Everything calls you to be aware
That here, now
everything is perfect
Only you ... your pattern of suffering ... prevents you from not enjoying this moment ...
Because you keep believing that something has to be different...
Because you make your own laws
The laws of healing, of personal development, of relationships, you decide.
And we like other people to be part of our creation...
There aren't any... sorry... There are no laws...
Only you decide...And what you decide will be your reality...
But you also want to impose your laws on others...
Because you hold the truth, you know it, you've lived it.
And so it must be.
I ALREADY KNOW
It's very difficult to begin to understand
That you live alone,
in your life in your head
Under your own interpretations
That you listen to your own thoughts
Or the thoughts you think about what others think
And if you return to presence
You enter a void
A feeling no one wants to experience
We cling to our own way of thinking
Because beyond
there's absolutely nothing
Opinions and thoughts are alive in our experience
We ignore consciousness and the present whenever we express an opinion about what's going on
We can observe how
A thought
The one that generates pain
Or the one that generates joy
We can make decisions within our minds
When the thought arises, we can't do anything about it
Because it's already there
We've thought it
We've already given birth to it
Imagine giving birth to a child and saying: "No, no, no, I don't want it".
But we give birth to thoughts and we want to kill them
We give birth to thoughts all the time
And we don't know if they're true or not
They're there so that you can become aware of something
And if we navigate this space, we can see the places where our thoughts create conflict.
If you love a conflict from the depths of your being
you welcome it
And that conflict ceases to be in conflict with you
Because you stop being in conflict with it.
And this conflict becomes a moment
In which you learn to love what you didn't know how to love before.
Conflict
There are no conflicts in your life
There are only moments
When you love ... or learn to love
And we've invented a third option
Either I love
Or I can learn to love
Or I Run away
Everything unresolved
Comes back into consciousness to be observed
For you to become aware of
Take pleasure
Enjoy being aware
Aware that you're having an experience you don't like
Enjoy not wanting to experience it
Everything you experience, you want to experience
Absolutely everything
Enjoy it
Love it
And that's how you love life
Welcome your anger, and ask your heart how it feels about your anger? It feels love
And when you fall in love with anger
It transforms All is energy, and energy can never disappear
Energy transforms, you can't destroy anger, you have to transform it
And fall in love with anger
Because you're here to learn to love everything
And the magic in this moment?
I don't have to pretend
And I have the luxury of being honest Of being me
Because I'm not who I think I am
How much time have you spent searching for something?
Have you heard of the spiritual quest? How many years have you spent in therapy? And yet it's so simple
To understand that we know nothing
And that there's nothing to be done.
The voice of the mind interprets everything
And interpretation is a lie
What I see is based on what I interpret
And what I interpret comes from the mind
How can I believe a system that lies to itself?
If I feel bad, I look for who or what is the cause of what I'm feeling Oh, I've picked up an energy from the other and I'm sure that's why I feel bad!
Or I look for who or what can satisfy me
Go away, you don't bring me satisfaction
Don't go, you bring me satisfaction
I'm FEARFUL of him/her touching me, of him/her getting to me
FEAR of losing you
What dynamic Fear - fear
How much energy do you spend every day trying to figure out what's going on?
Have you ever noticed that what you're feeling doesn't make sense until you give it the meaning you want it to have?
What happens when you realize that you're lying to yourself?
Nothing happens...
Because if you try to change it, you're lying to yourself.
When a thought uncovers itself and you try to change it, it locks itself in.
So if you're here because you're looking for a technique, a therapy, to change something, to manipulate yourself.
I'm sorry... it's not working.
You have nothing left... embrace everything...
You don't know who you are...
It's so hard... to dwell on how you feel, to let yourself be completely overwhelmed, to stop in the present.
Definition of Adult: A being who lives in an imaginary world of right and wrong. Of what should be, of what should or shouldn't happen.
It's very painful to think that what happens shouldn't happen.
It's so painful that we can't bear it, and we vomit it out onto others.
The natural state of human beings is to be in love, to feel in love with their own existence and their own life.
Others are part of our lives, and that's why we love others.
This is the natural, simple state of being human.
We complicate it by interpreting it
by believing that it's difficult to love
When we love from the depths of our being
We welcome the other
The other can no longer be in conflict with you
Because you stop being in conflict with them
You live in the moment
in which you learn to love what you didn't know how to love before.
From the otherFrom youThe other is me
For he is the mirror of my thoughts
But it's easier to think that the other is
That we're right about what we see
Asking the other to change
Instead of looking at ourselves
The part of ourselves we haven't yet learned to love
And if there's anything in this text that you think someone else needed to hear ... it's that you were the one who needed to hear it so badly ...
Alison Sarah
I'd like to add here a text that for me is the perfect definition of free will and a gateway to presence
FREE WILL
"God created you in His image. The rest is a choice you made and forgot.
The only way to be happy is to love...
Everything that stands between you and the action of loving everything you see, feel or hear is the result of your ability to choose to experience something other than love.
It is this choice that generates a state of mind in which you can perceive yourself as still separate from your reality...
It's you who evaluates whether a situation can be loved or not, or whether someone deserves to be loved or not. Love doesn't do that; love simply loves."
Sergi T.