SELF-ASSURANCE

The pressure of the society in which we live directs us to think that problems are always an essential part of our lives and forces us to live with torture,  tribulations of not having an internal peace that allows us to be happy and cheerful. Without knowing that the nature has provided each of us with the aptitude necessary to knock down in a simple and rapid way these mental barriers, real psychic obstacles that limit or invalidate our innate aptitude for solving them.

R/Emerson was reflecting: "Life consists about what a human being thinks”. If you think about the success, you create a spiritual climate that makes the success possible. If you think about the defeat, already you are more close to it. These intellectual shackles do not have tangible existence, it is necessary to try to suppress them for means purely spiritual. To obtain this result, I use the universal principles, their applications have relieved and recovered, across the ages thousands of generations. Is the message that will provide an instrument of enormous efficacy to solve our conflicts that are neither big nor small, but it depends on the grade of worry that you give to it.

Four are the fearsome enemies of our inner  peace, and almost always, one of them projects its ominous shade in our lives already troubled by some problem.

Resentment. Many are the messages that I get on my emaill telling me about people who is convinced that the author of their woes is someone other than themselves, and their state of mind is boiling for the heat produces a repressed anger. That resentment crying to get out of the chest is very damaging to the person who feeds it with the object that serves oas fuel. the burden of ill will exhaust the energies of the strongest. Prevents all communication conciliatory. It's very difficult to get neutralize those feelings, you have to be at a high level to achieve it and forget it. There is only one remedy for resentment: forgiveness. Sometimes it can take a long time to forgive because there failed efforts to eliminate this poison.

Guilt and remorse. A hidden or cloaked remorse, does not vanish by itself. we are filling it digs into the consciousness of anxiety and fear. The only way to get rid of this terrible host is sincerely repent of what we have done, make firm purpose of amendment, apologize and repair, to the same extent of the damage inflicted, if any, and directly or indirectly solicit forgiveness to the offended person. The damage of guilt and remorse we must bury deeply or forget. Once buried guilt and remorse the person regains peace of soul.

Lack or absence of self confidence. It is important to open all the strengths and values, and the best way to resolve the conflicts is to help others settle their own. Be useful improve your self image  and perseverance in believing that you can solve everything, so will sink deep into your spirit twilight corners, where slowly but surely drive out the self-doubt. Not always easy. In this world there is nothing more difficult than changing a way of thinking, but it is possible. I know because I've seen many succeed in this arduous undertaking.

Very often attach excessive importance to potential problems that can arise. Why not use all our energy to achieve our goals, rather than spend it worrying about what might happen? Act without fear! Minimizes risks, and do not allow fear stop you. So everything that we dream or think culminate in success. The mind does not really know the difference between something imagined and something real. There you will have overcome fear and raise your self-esteem. The confidence is an assertion that we believe in our own decisions and actions. The confidence is never inherited, it is learned. Self-esteem includes subjective assessment that someone does. It is being aware of one's own values ​​and with that awareness we can trust our ability. Although to know what we are capable is essential self-knowledge.

Worry. This fourth enemy is more commonplace. The worry as certain wise man said, is a persistent thread of muddy water that runs through the spirit. "If we are not careful," he adds, "it will dig wide channel which will go in all our thoughts."   During so many years we received millions of negative messages in the media and it seems to take away hope from people living at the foot of slopes and slaves of the ups and downs of the lives of others, to co-workers , neighbors, a world of terror around us if we follow these speculations of trouble. The truth is, that most of the disasters and calamities are produce by ourselves with our fears and ideas that imprison us, but if we are positive nothing will happen no calamity never stumble and that is worse condition our live.

A remedy that advocates against excessive worries is having a clear idea of ​​the emotional and physical damage that worries can cause us. The constant and acutely worries affects our circulation, heart, nervous system and glandular. Not die gripped by doubt.  So we have to take life in a sport way  enjoying all around us, doing what we like without concerns, changing the tone of our inner life, having faith in our potential and qualities without anticipate events, that's the best medicine I know for worries and to find inner serenity.

Problems and more problems, and always problems. The world will continue running over them, but you should not complain or despair because you're not going to solve them worrying, but getting sick. Throw from your spirit mistrust, resentment, regret and the continued concern and you will be amazed to see how confidence will come to replace it, the compassion that forgives, the faith that illuminates and gives joyful serenity. And there you  give to your life great victories and glorious achievements.

LET'S SOW HAPPINESS

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

It says that while there beside me anyone who suffers; I have no right to think of my own happiness. These words sound good, but are fallacious. They look real, but deep down, are wrong. The first observation of the human mystery, jump to our eyes like a series of evidence as these: the beloved feel love, only beloved can love. The beloved can not stop loving.

Instead, people that are suffering make others suffer. The failures need bother and throw their darts at those who succeed. The spiteful people flood their vital environment with bitter resentment. Only feel happy when they can see that everything goes wrong, then we all losers. The failure of others is their relief for own failures, and are compensated for their frustrations with the defeats of others, and  they scattering to the four winds negative news often distorted and magnified. A frustrated person is truly frightening.

The people who are controversial in the family or at work, being perpetually a thorn and fire for the others, are so because they are in eternal conflict with themselves. They do not accept anybody because are not accepted by their own self. They sow divisions and hate around them because they hated themselves. We will make the others happy to the extent that we are happy. The only way to truly love your neighbor is reconciling with yourself, accepting and loving serenely what you are.

The prescript “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” Constitutes a high ideal, and is necessary to start for loving ourselves.  On this matter some may argue that is being selfish. To affirm this, without major nuances, remains as superficiality. Indeed find ourselves without another purpose than to be happy, would be equivalent to be enclosed in a narrow circle of a maternal womb. If someone looks wildly for his own happiness, making it the last purpose of their existence, is fatally destined to death, like Narcissus; and death means solitude, sterility, emptiness, sadness. In its last instances, the egoism advances always accompanied and illuminated for tragic resplendence; selfishness is equal to death, that is to say, the egoism always finishes in desolation.

To be happy means, specifically to suffer less. As the suffering sources dry off, the heart begins to fill with pleasure and freedom. And to feel alive constitutes already, without much ado, a small inebriation; but the suffering ends up by blocking this inebriation.  After all, there is no other choice but this: suffer or live. The suffering makes the human suffer an agony. Eliminating suffering,the human being the human being, automatically recommences to live, to enjoy that happiness that we call life. As we manage to pull up the roots of the sorrow and pains, it raises the thermometer of the inebriation and of the vital pleasure. To live, without much ado, is already to be happy.

And if we achieve that people can live, the expansive force of this vital pleasure will release joy to the fellow men/woman with spring resplendence and concrete commitments, and this way we are managing the new man, reconciling with the suffering, unite with the pain, pilgrim towards freedom and love.

LISTENING THE SILENCE

No virtue can work without this vast space in itself

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMÁN VILLENA

The silence can not exist if there is no sound, reason why is necessary to make the exercise of silence to reach the sound. Silence has a particularity, to force the person to observe the thoughts and to know the inner self. Therefore this mystery is not discovered in the world, is found and it is learned in the heart of the humans who seek to improve their existence. Silence, although seems strange to say, can help the human beings to find answers to our own mystery.

There are three types of silence:

- The physical silence that consists of not speaking and strictly not to generate noise.

- Mental silence is reduced not to think.

- Spiritual silence is to get at total silence to find the field of the supreme manifestation.-

The steps to find silence are: Silence like an exercise; and the meditation.

The first step is silence by the silence, we need the willpower to execute it. It is to learn to control the exact handling of the words. In order to achieve this silence is necessary to concentrate the attention in elements more subtle almost imperceptible the ones we are not accustomed to listen, like the heart beating, the crack of the floors, the breathing, etc.

The other step is to be silent to listen: If we are in the magnanimous nature and we chose to remain silent and to suspend all human action and show a humility and respect that we are going to learn to listen the messages of the nature through the wind, the water, the trees. All this constitutes a food to our spirit to feel the pure messages without prejudices and intentions.

The third is meditation: It is a step beyond silence in itself. No longer it is a food for the soul but it constitutes the divine essence. The meditation allows us to realize physical silence and mental silence, where is no longer the will, but exist a bigger force that makes us to be in silence in our mind. In that moment we must accept the thoughts as a river, we have flowing ideas until comes a time that only silent and energy flows.

The concentration of the energy and the attention in the soul, without apprehension, desires, without anxieties, let that energy become essential. The life that we have has little solitude, but the same is loaded of pains, sorrow, conflicts, joys, but we become insensible because we are never complete alone, since we are tied to yesterday, to the memory; and we took these loads that do not allow us to leave the past, and only when we confronted and we solve at the precise moment we arrived at the solitude. It is important to reach the loneliness and give importance to this space in the search of the virtues and the freedom.

No virtue can work without this vast space in itself, silence is necessary to us to touch our inner self we need that big space , without any experience, influences, that is to say we must be empty, - vessel must be empty to be fill with the new-, and our quiet spirit has the ability of being clear. The unique goal is to generate a state of mind able to dominate the thinking and if we do not settle down true foundations against the fear, pain, anxiety we will not be able to have a free spirit of self-torture.

The space and silence are necessary to go beyond the limitations of brings back to consciousness. The question is; How an active spirit can be in calm? We can mold it, chasing an ideal that consists of having a calmed spirit. but has no effect if we act with rigor as it becomes stagnant. Exercising control in any form is repression, that is to say a conflict is exerted, and most of our lives are disciplined by the outside pressures of the society, the family, sufferings, experiences, our conformism to an ideology and its structure. These disciplines are fatal, we must avoid them through eliminating the repressions and fears.

Again we asked ourselves. How to do it? This is not like to discipline ourselves and soon to acquire the freedom. The freedom must be at the beginning and not at the end. To understand is to be free of the conformism. The same act of learning is discipline, that is to say becomes clearer to understand the nature of the things and the whole structure.

Silence allows the encounter with ourselves, is one step to another level of sound, more harmonious, thus silence can not be described, like everything known can be describe, the only way to get rid of the well-known is dying every day, so that the cells of the brain are always fresh and innocent, But this quality is not only of the beauty of silence, this silence is a small beginning as if you move from a cave towards the immensity of the ocean and we cannot understand it verbally but we have understood the structure of consciousness.

THE SUPPER THAT KEEPS THE HISTORY AWAKE

THE SUPPER THAT KEEPS THE HISTORY AWAKE

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMÁN VILLENA

De Vinci the genius. A man who left in his paintings symbolics signs, gestures and veiled tracks that allude to hidden messages, a reserved legacy to those who assumes the challenge to decipher their symbolism.

The metaphysics that sustains his work The Last Supper, led to his invention of the technique of chiaroscuro-modeling of the forms by contrast between light and shadow, and the sfumato, consisting of eliminating the lines, diluting them in a kind of fog that produces an illusion effect of immersion in the material reality.

This atmospheric perspective - the landscaping backgrounds of his pictures are another constant of his work, also it was learned for the great Renaissance masters, Rafael, Sanzio and Andrea the Sarto. His method of composition - that reaches the summit with The Last Supper already announces in his precocious adoration of the wizards. The latest painting cannot be understood without his legacy and achievement.

Mary Magdalene or John?

Many students of the symbolism play with this question, indicating that in the painting the essential bread or chalice is not there. It is possible to be interpreted that the chalice absence implies that Maria is the saint Grail inverted. Leonardo da Vinci communicates in this work his conviction that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and were the founders of the Merovingia dynasty in France.

That she was going to be the leader of his Church. That Peter did not approve it, and that she was the authentic Saint Grail. The question in what is the base of this asseveration? It explains to us: that the personage who has considered John is in fact Mary Magdalene; by the position of Jesus and Maria forming a “M”; by a hand without body, supposedly the one of Peter, that uses a knife; and because there is no chalice: so the chalice must be Mary. Leonardo meant with this interpretation that his descendants are to his right.

The real problem is the result of our lack of familiarity with the “types”. In his Treaty of the Painting, Leonardo explains that each personage must be painted in accordance with their age and condition. A wise man has certain characteristics, old woman others and the children another. A classic type, like in many pictures of the Renaissance, is the “student”. The favorite, the proteges are always very young men, totally shaved and of long hair, in order to transmit the idea that not yet they have matured, not sufficient enough to have their way. Throughout the Renaissance, the artists painted thus to Saint John. They always represented him like a beardless young person, without the strong and resolute appearance of the man.

Another meaning

It is important to know that the Master studied the translation done by Ficino of the Asclepios, given work to Hermes Trismegisto, in which it was taught how the priests of the Pharaohs gave life to the statues of their temples and Da Vinci applied those techniques in his great work. Javier Sierra range, in his book Secret Supper, confirms the distribution of the disciples of the Cenacle. There are four groups of a three, to represent the four elements of nature, and he even assigns to each of them a specific zodiacal sign. Thus to Simon - who is to the right end of the table corresponds Aries. To Thaddeus, Taurus. To Mark, Gemini. The sign of Cancer is for Philip, for James the Major. Virgo for Thomas. And the balance of Libra for John or Magdalene, has an important symbolic here, when considering to the (a) young like an element adjuster of the future church. Scorpion for Judas, Sagittarius for Peter, Capricorn for Andrew, Aquarius for James the Minor and Pisces for Bartholomew. Each disciple have a correspond answer and Jesus in the center incarnates the ideal of the sun. It is a talisman work.

Also according to the distribution, Da Vinci assigns a letter to each disciple who is seated in the divine table. John and James occupy the places that Christ promised to them. along to Philip, Sapient among the twelve, the only one who pointed out himself, telling where we need to find our salvation. The remaining group of apostles was solved with identical rapidity. Mateo, the disciple whose name, means “gift of promptness", already augured a quick outcome.

And Leonardo baptized like Nevus, the diligent one. His letter added to the Omega of the Taddeo formed a legible syllable already “N-O”. then add to it C , the resulting panorama felt like an evocative: four groups of three letters, with a vowel always in center and an enormous one to presiding over the scene let themselves read a stranger and forgotten magical formula MUIT NEM TO the NOC. That extracted of an Egyptian text its means Mut, wife of Amon “the Hidden one”, the great God of the Pharaohs. But as Leonardo da Vinci always wrote the other way around, and is necessary to read reflecting it in the mirror, means IT CONSOLE A-MEN-TUM, like the knot of the table cloth. The secret of the 13 personages represented in his painting incarnates the thirteen letters of the Consolamentrum, unique sacrament admitted by the pure men (the Cataros), an invisible, intimate spiritual sacrament.

LIVING WITH THE SENSES

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

On having spoken about the silence, it is necessary to remit us to the quietude and to live with all the senses. For it I am going to transcribe some exercises of meditation that Anselm Grün narrates to us. It is not a question of proposing big targets. Rather, the exercise consists of remaining gathered precisely without much ado in ourselves, of being present in the proper senses and of experiencing the world with them.

It is necessary to look for a quiet space, out of the city – if it is possible to do it in a country - or in a quiet sector of the city. This first exercise is easy, in the first ten minutes of daily walk, to limit yourself to look: What do I see?, to notice the scenery, the gardens, the flowers, the field, the forms of the trees. To observe the sky and how does play with the clouds. It is not a question of a curious look: the eyes do not stroll around constantly of a side for other. Is to be completely immersed in seeing. In seeing the amazing beauty of the creation, to perceive the force of the nature. That's why for the Greeks, the sight is the most important sense for the meeting with the power of the universe. Do not watch as a spectator, but as merge with the sight.

This is also what means “contemplation“: looking it is possible to discover the bottom of the things and there, in its depth, to discover the knowledge of the nature. To "meditate" means also: to look inwards, to visualize the proper light. The light of the sun that guides our look towards the interior light of the soul. There to discover the power that generates the universe not like a certain image but like foundation of all the images.

Then, during another ten minutes try to limit oueselves to listening. What do I hear when I walk along the scenery listening attentively? I hear the rustle of the wind, of the field, of the birds, the barking of the dogs, the noise of the city. And I hear my own steps. When everything is immersed in the listening, finally also listen in all the noises the quietude, not disturbing the peace, makes it perceptible. And sometimes, in the middle of a lot of noise not to hear anything, but only the calm, those are wonderful moments, since we will not listen to cars that circulate along any place, or noise of any class, at that time the absolute calmness reigns. And then we hear a light rustle again. It is something delicate that makes audible for us the calmness that wraps us. To listen always has a mystery aura. In what we hear we perceive, in the fund, the audible.

In the ten following minutes, to devote ourselves only to smell. I smell the scenery, the fragrance of the flowers, the trees, the field, of the shrubs that rise at the edge of the way. If we concentrate completely in smelling, we will state that every scenery has its own smell and that a scenery smells of different form in the morning than in the evening, of different form after raining that while it rains or that when it shows the sun, of different form in winter than in spring, summer or autumn. We smell the diversity.

The smell is a sense loaded with emotions.With the smell, there comes to us the memory of the smells of our infancy that were important, who were transmitting a safety sensation. But also the affronts that we experience of children are associated often with certain smells. When we smell, the thoughts stop fluttering in us. Then, we are completely in one of our senses, in our body, not in the mind. To smell communicates us with intense experiences of our infancy, adolescence and also ripeness. we remember our holidays and we it associate at once the smell with our adventures, with the good moments that we spend in certain places and the smell causes in us a feeling of freedom as well as a safety sensation, and at the same time, there is in this fragrance a slight sign of transcendency, of mystery. It is clear that, the harmony of the cosmos itself touched us.

Next, we try to have the senses focus only in our skin. We notice the wind, which sometimes caresses us tenderly or it is up to our bones. We feel the heat of the sun in our face. Then is when we wonder about the mystery of the creation. We extend the arms and perceive its powerful energy that wraps and encourages us. We feel the sun, the wind and how is so good to us. Or we touch the grass, the flowers, the leafs, the crust of a tree. There we can concentrate entirely at once in touching, of experiencing the calmness. Now only we perceive. We are immersed in feeling and that pacifies us.

When we are overturned in the tact, we touch something that is major than we are. We are not satisfied neither with comparing the different experiences, nor with evaluating them from a scientific point of view. We touch in the things the untouchable, the excellent mystery. Then, by means of the tact, all that surrounds is calmed down. Everything is silenced and does not speak any more than of the indescribable.

When we walk along the nature with all the open senses, it stops the tumult of the numerous thoughts. Rather, we are immersed in looking, listening, smelling and feeling. The thoughts remain completely awake, for example, when we smell come to our mind certain fragrance of the infancy, of the youth, of the first kiss or hug, but we do not continue reigning on it. Our thoughts do not stroll everywhere. We are in the moment, we are in our senses and this way we calm down. The senses moor to the spirit and plunge it in the quietude.

For many persons to walk along the nature is an important footpath towards the quietude and the meeting with our-self that is the microcosm and we slide to the macrocosm to feel its nobility and power that goes out to our visible, audible, odorable and palpable.

OUR WISDOM

What is indispensable to understand is the Being owns by right the quality of a “true man”

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

Confucius teaches that there are two classes of wise people, by birth, while others do so through their efforts. We must remember here that the wise person as he understood, represents the highest degree of the Confucianism hierarchy and at the same time constitutes the first grade of the Taoist hierarchy, being placed thus in certain way in the limit point where the domains exoteric and esoteric meet.

In these conditions, we may wonder whether, when speaking of a wise person by birth, Confucius had wanted to designate in this way only the human who by nature own all the required qualifications to accede and without no other preparation to the hierarchy of knowledge, consequently, did not have any necessity to strive in climbing little by little, by means of more or less long and laborious studies to the degrees of exterior hierarchy. It is very possible effect and even constitutes the most likely interpretation; such sense is, by the way, so much more legitimate whatever that implies the recognition at least that there are beings who are destined, by his own possibilities, to move immediately beyond that exoteric dominion.

All effective knowledge constitutes a permanent acquisition obtained by the Being once and for all, and nothing could never make lose it. Therefore, if a being who has reached a certain degree of accomplishment in an existence state, that advance to another state, will take the knowledge that has been acquired, who will appear then like “innate” in that new state; this clearly, on the other hand, is a realization that remains incomplete, without the passage to another state would not have any conceivable sense, in the case of the being that happens to be in the human state, this is the one who has particularly interested in here, this one accomplishment has still not arrived at the overcoming of the conditions of the individual existence; this one can be extended from the most elementary degrees to the point nearest to those who in the human state are up to perfection. We say only to the closest point, because, if the perfection of an individual state indeed had been achieved, the being would not have to go through another individual state.

Also it is possible to be spoken of a being who already reached a certain degree of realization before being born to the human state, will own by birth the degree corresponding to this accomplishment in the human world, degree that can go from the one of wise person to the one of the “true man”. Nevertheless we would not have to think that in the present conditions of the terrestrial world, this innate wisdom can pronounce spontaneously, as happened at the primary time, because evidently is precise to consider the obstacles in our media . The Being will have then to overcome these obstacles, which means that absolutely he is not exempted, as it would be possible to be supposed erroneously, of the entailment to a “initiatory chain”, in the absence of which, in a human state, he would remain equal to as he were when entering, and as immersed in a species of spiritual "dream” that does not allow him to go more far towards his realization.

Could still be possible, with rigor, expressing externally wisdom without having necessity to develop a gradual an state of the wise person, because is still  in the upper limit of the exoteric dominion; but, for everything that is beyond, the initiation itself, at the moment, an indispensable condition, and, moreover, sufficient; in the unique case in which this condition does not exist is where the realization is descendant , since presupposes the ascending realization has been fulfilled until last term; then this case is evidently different from  that we are considered now.

This being apparently is going through the same degrees that the initiate who simply has started from the state of the ordinary man, but the reality is however very different; indeed, not only the initiation, instead of not being in the virtual beginning, will be immediately effective, but also “will recognize” these degrees, of a form that can be compared to the “platonic reminiscence” and even is without a doubt, one of the meaning of it.

This case would be comparable in the order of the theoretical knowledge, someone who already is aware of certain doctrinal truths, but is incapable to express them because does not have at his disposition the appropriate terms, and that, from the moment when he is resolute to announce them, recognize them in their sense without experiencing any difficulty for assimilation. It may even happen that, when is in the presence of the rites and initiatory symbols, these appear as a well-know, in a manner, somehow, “timeless”, because he owns everything further and independent of the particular forms, constitutes the own essence.

Another consequence of what we have said. is to walk on the initiatory road, a being as the one that we spoke does not have any necessity of aid from a exterior human Guru, since in fact the action of the true inner Guru operates in him from the beginning, making the intervention evidently unnecessary of all “provisional substitutes”.

Some being feel the need to look for the initiation, which only indicates that they are ready to enter this path and does not mean they have been in the same path in another state, these confusion is because, before all initiation, they have seen some “brilliance” more o less vague, of psychic order rather than spiritual, in sum does not have anything of extraordinary and no more special than any “premonition” which may occasionally have every man whose faculties are a little less limited than the present humanity, and that, for this reason, is less locked up in the corporal modality of his individuality, which on the other hand, of general way, not even implies necessarily that he is truly qualified for the initiation.

All this does not represent insufficient reasons to try to be able to do without a spiritual Teacher and yet to reach an effective initiation, not less than to exempt ourselves of all personal effort in views to this result; the truth to say that there is a possibility that exists, but also belong but to a very small minority, although, in sum, we practically must not even take into account. Who own this possibility will be always consciousness of it at the opportune moment, a certain and doubtless way, and that is to say, is the unique thing that matters; as far as the others, if they are let drag by theirs vain imaginations and they give credit to them, behaving consequently, they will be taken to the most annoying deceptions.