Προφητικά όνειρα!

Ο Νικήτας είναι ένας επιτυχημένος επιχειρηματίας.

Η ζωή του φαίνεται τακτοποιημένη, σχεδόν προβλέψιμη.
Σύζυγος, δύο παιδιά, καθημερινότητα σε σταθερή τροχιά.

Μέχρι που αρχίζουν τα όνειρα.

Όνειρα παράξενα. Επίμονα.
Σαν να έρχονται από ένα βάθος που ο ίδιος είχε ξεχάσει ότι υπάρχει.

Αρχίζει να τα παρατηρεί.
Προσπαθεί να τα κατανοήσει, να τα αποκωδικοποιήσει.

Και καθώς τα όνειρα ξεδιπλώνουν τον κόσμο τους, ανοίγεται μαζί τους και μια ρωγμή.

Μια σιωπηλή απομάκρυνση.

Μια μοναχική πορεία που δεν είχε ονομάσει ακόμη. 

 

 Απόσπασμα:

«Τώρα, η αμφιβολία έκανε την εμφάνισή της με αιφνιδιαστικές εισβολές στον νου του. Εκείνος έκανε πως δεν την έβλεπε, νομίζοντας πως, γυρίζοντας το κεφάλι του, εκείνη θα εξαφανιζόταν, αλλά η αμφιβολία είχε ήδη διαταράξει τον σταθερό του κόσμο και μικρές ρωγμές διέτρεχαν ήδη τους γερά χτισμένους τοίχους του.»

  

Ο Νικήτας είναι ένας από τους ερημίτες του βιβλίου Επτά Ερημίτες

Releasing the Bonds of Need into the Light

 

The truth is that everything changes, and nothing remains the same.

In the time we are living in, change is even faster and more intense, as it is triggered by events that force the natural flow of things and lead our lives into difficult situations. These situations call for introspection and observation—but above all, for a new way of seeing—so that we may preserve our inner balance.

A world that seeks to evolve through Freedom, and a world that seeks to submit to control. Many people have lost friends, relatives, and have seen relationships of all kinds dissolve under these conditions. Many masks have fallen—and will continue to fall—under the pressure placed upon humanity. We are led to question what we have lived and shared in the past, and the alienation and disconnection we experience today. All of this causes pain.

Feelings live within us and remain in motion. The point is not to be swept away by them like quicksand, but to be able to observe what is unfolding on Earth from another perspective, so that we do not sink.

This new way of seeing could be a perspective beyond the individual, beyond relationships and situations as we have known them. My approach resembles stereoscopic depth images—those images that reveal their subject only when you stop focusing on the surface and allow your gaze to move beyond it, into depth.

Through this perspective, we can look at relationships as we once structured them and understand which needs they were fulfilling. Our needs are not something to condemn; they are natural and necessary for the development of our experience. Yet as we grow—and especially under these demanding conditions—it becomes important to look at ourselves with honesty.

What moved me to create this relationship with this person?

What has changed since then, at least for me?

It is important to recognize these changes. It is also important to acknowledge that we both gave and received, that something was shared. This awareness helps us understand where we now stand. Beyond simple human contact and communication, what truly matters is the creation of meaningful and authentic connections.

We release the bonds of need into the Light.

In this way, I no longer carry people and my relationships with them within me through the old structures I once created. I accept them after an inner cleansing has taken place, and I allow a relationship to exist on a higher level than before.

With the same spirit of release, I leave outside my life anything and anyone who is incompatible with me or whom I can no longer manage in an honest and balanced way.

Visualize these bonds being cut.

Everything that once bound you to people and situations that are no longer necessary for you.

Send into the Light the bonds of need that were formed through lack, and keep only the people—and the bonds of Love—that truly connect you.  

Children as the Saviors of Our Becoming

 

We have grown accustomed to seeing children in relation to their size—their physical presence, their dependence on older people, and above all, their relationship with us as their parents.

Yet the era that Gaia has entered—and, consequently, the era humanity is now entering—calls us to look beyond the image we perceive. It invites us to move past our long-held perceptions and beliefs and to recognize, more essentially and truthfully, the principles, beings, and relationships that shape our lives.

As parents, we carry responsibilities and obligations that arise from our role.

But when we look at our children slightly beyond this role—when we observe them rather than define them—we begin to realize that our children are catalysts: beings who come to transmute and release all the negative patterns that have manifested in our lives.

All limiting beliefs and actions, all negative energetic patterns that define us, inevitably become—whether we wish it or not—elements that influence our children and accompany them through life.

Within a reciprocal relationship of influence aimed at evolution, children enter our lives as messengers of healing, having chosen us in order to touch the darker aspects of our being and transform them into light.

They do so because they cannot act otherwise—because they do not wish to carry forward the burdens of ancestral energy that hinder their own evolution.

Behind their small stature and what adults often perceive as awkward behavior, children are psychically equipped beings, capable—through their own experiences and choices—of transforming what has immobilized and burdened not only their parents, but generations of ancestors before them.

As the vibrations of the Earth accelerate, so do the opportunities to follow this remarkable evolutionary movement of the planet.

Our perception becomes faster and more expansive.

The limiting ego and its fears begin to recede, while consciousness brings forth the information that is useful and appropriate for us.

Children are not only the future of humanity; they are also the salvation of the present and the past.

They carry within them the primordial potential of humankind—and woe to those who abuse or exploit them.

By extending the hand of our heart toward our children, we take a step together into the new dimension of the Earth.

The Earth already exists within this new dimension, which is defined by the speed at which our consciousness moves—a speed that determines how swiftly our intentions and choices materialize in our lives.

Anything that binds us to low vibrations belongs to the past and can no longer stand or manifest in the present.

We therefore stand before our responsibility:

either as parents, recognizing and honoring our children so that they may fulfill their mission, or as adults without children, recognizing and honoring the child within.

At great speeds, time dissolves.

Thus, in the present moment, we are able to witness how everything heals. We can return to every childhood we have lived and move forward to every future version of ourselves, consciously choosing what resonates at the highest frequency—for ourselves, and therefore for humanity.

May we succeed. 💗

Το νερό πάνω!

 

 

Ο Bernard είναι ένας Γάλλος ζωγράφος. Τα τελευταία πέντε χρόνια ζει σε ένα ελληνικό νησί.

Οι πίνακες που ζωγραφίζει, αντί για ουρανό και ατμοσφαιρικό φόντο, κατακλύζονται από νερό. Ζωγραφίζει ακατάπαυστα και πουλά τα έργα του στους τουρίστες που περιφέρονται στο νησί. Οι παράξενοι πίνακές του ασκούν μια ανεξήγητη γοητεία στους ανθρώπους.

Ο Bernard,  είναι ένας από τους ερημίτες, στο βιβλίο Επτά Ερημίτες.

"Ο Bernard άφησε πάνω στον βράχο το πινέλο του και κοίταξε στο βάθος του ορίζοντα. Το βλέμμα του πλανήθηκε πάνω στο νερό της θάλασσας και το φως του ήλιου, που ταξίδευε κι αυτό στα μικρά αλλεπάλληλα κύματα. Μετά χανόταν στο βάθος του ουρανού και της θάλασσας, εκεί που το φως αναδυόταν άλλοτε χλωμό κι άλλοτε ζωηρό, ανάλογα με την ώρα της ημέρας.

Έριξε το πινέλο του μαζί με τα υπόλοιπα στο βάζο με το νερό, αφού το ξέπλυνε πρώτα καλά, και μετά κοίταξε τον πίνακα που είχε αρχίσει να παίρνει μορφή. Τα χρώματα αναδύονταν ζωηρά και φωτεινά, αφήνοντας τη φαντασία να ξεχωρίσει το νερό που ταξίδευε στο ποτάμι, τα υδρόβια δέντρα και τις φιγούρες των ανθρώπων, που ψάρευαν στις όχθες του ποταμού και έσπρωχναν με τα μακριά κοντάρια τους τις αυτοσχέδιες βάρκες τους, από τον βαρύ ουρανό που έσταζε από τα μαβιά του σύννεφα και τους έδινε την αίσθηση του νερού όταν κινείται ή της υγρασίας που έχει διαποτίσει όλο τον ουράνιο θόλο. Κάθισε για καμιά ώρα ακόμα, μέχρι τα χρώματα του δειλινού να ξεδιπλωθούν στη θάλασσα, και μετά μάζεψε τα εργαλεία, το τελάρο και το καβαλέτο του και άρχισε να ανηφορίζει το ανώμαλο πέτρινο δρομάκι, καμιά πενηνταριά μέτρα μέχρι το σπίτι του."

Απόσπασμα 

The Memories of the Body

 

As we are ONE with all our bodies—whether we are aware of it or not—life experiences and their imprints leave their marks upon our entire being.

The more conscious we become, the more we are able to understand the ways in which events affect our body, our emotions, and our thoughts.

If our body has suffered an injury, if our emotions have been wounded, or if our thoughts are unpleasant, the influence from one part of us to the other is inevitable.

Thus, if we wish to intervene and transform one of our fields—for example, the physical body—we may first work on the emotional and mental ones.
We have witnessed this happening successfully through meditation, emotional care and acceptance—both from the environment and from the individual toward themselves—through various forms of energy healing (such as flower remedies, sound therapy, and others), and even through placebo healing.

By reaching into our subconscious, we see healing taking place on both physical and psychological levels, through hypnosis and deep relaxation.

Our physical body is also influenced by the memories carried by the soul from its previous incarnations, bearing marks and characteristics in its current embodiment, through the canvas of the fifth etheric body.
(Comparable cases are documented in the book Reincarnation and Biology by Ian Stevenson)

As we all seek the great gift of health—one that allows us to live creatively—it is essential to come to know and understand ourselves.
It is very important to listen to ourselves and give ourselves the attention we deserve.
It is equally important not to leave ourselves at the mercy of others’ opinions.
For each one of us is unique.

But “as above, so below.”
Through this Hermetic principle, we may meditate upon the unity of our physical existence with that of the planet that hosts us, of the Solar System, of our Galaxy, and so on.

Reflecting on the functioning of our own being, we realize that just as our inner parts influence one another, a similar process takes place within the components of the Earth.

Imagine that you are the Earth.
A part of you is burning—your hand or your leg.
Your blood is being contaminated.
Your hair is being violently torn away.
How deeply is the emotional and mental field of the Earth affected?
Or does it have none?
Is it merely inert rock and water?

Yet we know that water is an Entity that responds to our thoughts and emotions.
As for the value of stones, we are already aware of their remarkable properties.
After all, we ourselves are largely made of water—just like the planet that hosts us.

And of course, we are not alone on Earth.
Millions of other life forms live here as well.

We are connected to the entire planet.
The memories of the planet’s body are part of our own history—
the history that was written, the one being written now, and the one yet to come.

Whether our individual existence is enough to seriously affect the planet may be open to many interpretations.
But whether the planet can affect the lives of the beings it hosts—and human life in particular—requires little contemplation.

With this image—of a very small human being, or billions of tiny humans, walking upon a vast body that carries its own memories, including those caused by us humans—I leave your imagination to wander.

We are all connected.
Therefore, we all influence one another, positively or negatively, just as we do within our own inner parts.

We are also connected to our past and our future.
Thus, we carry choice and responsibility within the time frame that we perceive as human beings.

What we do not know is how the Earth will regulate its own healing—on its physical, emotional, and mental levels.
And I cannot imagine it, for we are speaking of forces and dimensions incomparably greater than our own existence—and there is no need to go further.

Please envision a harmonious and favorable future for ourselves and for our descendants—and act accordingly.

Truly, how would we wish to live upon Gaia?
To live with Gaia—or detached from her?
And is that even possible?

Everything is inscribed. —
our experiences and our actions.

Inscriptions

Everything is inscribed.

Scattered marks, superficial,

Deep wrinkles,

Ravines and chasms.

Small landscapes,

so that you may glimpse the infinite.

—Swollen veins—

Rivers that never reached their mouths.

—Fiery eyes—

Lava of life, condensed.

Everything is inscribed.

They become marks upon bodies,

Ethereal patterns.

They resemble trees, stars, and shells.

They change, they transform—

but everything is inscribed.

 

From the poetry collection Cosmos (Greek edition). 

P’isqusha ! Ένα μικρό πουλί!

 

P’isqusha, στη γλώσσα των Κέτσουα, σημαίνει μικρό πουλί. 

Ο Μάριος είναι ταξιδευτής.  

Τριγυρίζει όλον τον κόσμο, και όταν επιστρέφει, διηγείται στους φίλους του ιστορίες.  Κατά βάθος όμως, είναι ένας ερημίτης. Ένας άνθρωπος που δραπετεύει από τη δική του ζωή, παρατηρώντας προσεκτικά τις ζωές των άλλων. 

Στο διήγημα "Ένα μικρό πουλί", ο Μάριος σχεδόν εκμυστηρεύεται στον φίλο του ένα μικρό συμβάν που έζησε στην πόλη Σούκρε της Βολιβίας. 

Μικρά, καθημερινά, σχεδόν αδιόρατα γεγονότα,  συμβαίνουν στη ζωή μας.  

Είναι συχνά οι αθόρυβοι μοχλοί της κατανόησης και της αλλαγής.

Το ερώτημα είναι αν θα μπορέσουμε να τα αντιληφθούμε — και αν θα σταθούμε για λίγο μαζί τους. 

Ο Μάριος είναι ένας από τους ερημίτες του βιβλίου Επτά Ερημίτες.

  

“Meditation” or Mental Cultivation (Bhāvanā)

 

The Buddha said:

“O bhikkhus, there are two kinds of illness. What are these two? Physical illness and mental illness. There are people who enjoy good physical health for one or two years… even for a hundred years or more. But, O bhikkhus, rare in this world are those who remain free from mental illness even for a single moment, except for those who are free from mental defilements.”

The teaching of the Buddha, and especially his method of “meditation,” aims at the creation of a state of perfect mental health, balance, and equanimity. It is unfortunate that almost no other aspect of the Buddha’s teaching has been so deeply misunderstood as “meditation,” both by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

As soon as the word “meditation” is mentioned, one immediately imagines an escape from the activities of daily life: adopting a particular posture, like a statue in some cave, or in a monastic cell, or in some place cut off from society, daydreaming, or sinking into some kind of mystical or mysterious contemplation or ecstasy. True Buddhist “meditation” does not mean any such form of escape.

The Buddha’s teaching on this subject has been so poorly understood or so wrongly interpreted that in recent times the method of “meditation” has been degraded and reduced to a kind of formalism or ritual, almost mechanical in its routine.

The word “meditation” is a very poor substitute for the original term bhāvanā, which means “cultivation” or “development,” that is, mental cultivation or mental development. Literally speaking, Buddhist bhāvanā is mental cultivation in the fullest sense of the term.

It aims at cleansing the mind of defilements and disturbances such as passion, hatred, ill will, sloth, worries, restlessness, and doubt, and at cultivating qualities such as concentration, awareness, intelligence, will, energy, analytical ability, confidence, joy, and equanimity. These qualities ultimately lead to the attainment of the highest wisdom, which sees the nature of things as they truly are and realizes the Ultimate Truth, Nirvana.

This, essentially, is Buddhist “meditation” (vipassanā), Buddhist mental cultivation. It is an analytical method based on reflection, awareness, vigilance, and observation.

 Excerpt from “What the Buddha Taught” by Walpola Sri Rahula.