Human nature is transcendence, integration and discrimination
Do what you are.
You are like a seed that is programmed to grow and develop into a tree.
The seed does what it is, it grows into a tree.
Do what you are.
It is our nature to do what we are, but we don't do it because the self stands in the way.
The self is our worries, fears, phantasms...
It is all the things we do and think that we have to do instead of doing what we are.
Just stop it.
Do what you are.
Integration and transcendence are two sides of the same coin.
Integration reveals the unitive meaning behind separated phenomena. It unifies them by the discovery of the common underlying meaning.
Transcendence brings back that meaning into phenomena. It changes their nature and direction and gives them sense in relation to the common meaning.
Integration and transcendence are a feedback loop constantly growing and rising in a spiral integrative and transcendent movement.
Responsibility is not the heavy burden many people might think.
Responsibility is not a heavy weight placed on your shoulders.
Responsibility is freedom from all compulsions, all compulsive
cravings or repulsions, from animal conditionings.
Responsibility is the real freedom for YOU to create life from
your inner source of life, not thirsting for life on the outside
where it never is.
I heard some "gurus" say that it would be great if we could stop feeling remorse or guilt about the past.
Live for the moment, they say, the past is gone, forget the past and you are free...
Well, It isn't really just that simple...
The paradox is that without taking responsibility for what you did in the past, you can't take responsibility for the present.
If you say "it just happened, and so what?" you exteriorise what you did, you make something exterior of it, when in fact YOU did it.
Taking responsibility for what you did is not some unproductive guilt, it is the integration of your acts in yourself, it is a process of learning and taking responsibility for the present, because the present is not "just happening", YOU are doing it as YOU did whatever YOU did.
Taking responsibility for what you did is taking responsibility for yourself here and now, integrating what you did in yourself here and now and learn how you didn't take responsibility before.
Really, it is impossible to take responsibility for the present if you don't take responsibility for what you did in the past.
For those who believe in Karma, this responsibility taking is the real point behind Karma. You can only be liberated from Karma when you take full resonsibility in the present for whatever you did in the past, and instead of running from it, act now on the basis of that responsibility taking.
Only if you take full responsibility for the past, can you be liberated from the past.
Only then are you living in the present as it is.
Only then are you fully YOU, completely responsible of YOU and acting from the present.
Laws are a human institution.
I respect laws as much as I respect those humans who made them
or enforce them.
Honesty comes naturally to the honest but can be tricky for the
dishonest
For the possessor of a soul, it is self evident that casual sex goes
against the very nature of that soul.
Animals don't usually feel that contradiction.
To be "open minded" means to be "soul closed".
To be sexually "liberated" means to be spiritually enslaved, spiritually degenerated.
There are two kinds of sex.
There is the one where "meaning" is in the sex itself. This one is taking people apart as they are just a tool, a thing for each other.
The other one is where sex is a way of expressing the full human being and the fully human union. This one brings you closer together.
(Couples that have a future in plan should think hard if they want to practice the first kind)
If you let the outer world fill your heart, it will make it empty.
The sun makes flowers grow in the garden but scorches them in the desert.
Remember, Light is Light's friend, but it has no mercy for darkness.
They say that the hard question in neuroscience is why does the brain
need consciousness.
Perhaps the right question is why consciousness has a need for a brain?
Amor sagitta est, quae cor perforat vivumque facit.
(Love is an arrow that pierces the heart and makes it alive)
Rational, reasonable, inspirational and flowery speach is fine, but sometimes a swift and resolute kick in the ass may be just what the doctor ordered.
(I must confess a certain propensity for that "treatment".)
Many have tried to explain humor unsuccesfully.
The answer is simple: the essence of humor is freedom.
Humor is freedom and God is the greatest jokester.
(Advice: take that last one about God, with a grain of salt)
So you woke up tired, frightened, depressed, worried and sad.
Those are not problems happening to you, those are, in their full context, things that you are actually doing. Those are actions you are doing right now.
So, instead of solving your "problems", you might as well stop what you are doing and do something else.
Morality has two sources, one is exterior, the other is interior.
The exterior one is obvious and is simply the fact that human society is based on exchange. Morality or ethics are based on the exchange of rights and obligations between the participants of the space of exhange. It is the regulation of that space.
The inner source is the deepest level of motivation of humans in any action, including the space of exchange. Deeper than just material exchange, society is a place of expression of the human nature, the true expression of ourselves, and true human nature is transcendence.
So the inner source of morality and also the source of human values is simply the transcendent nature of those who associated into the human system of exchange.
Is the true nature of an arrow, the bow that has shot it or the target
that it will hit?
Isn't the nature of an energy the place where it aims to go?
Human nature is not the nature of the monkeys we have left but the
nature of the gods we have the potential to become.
On Postmodernism:
As the faith in its absolute Divine source dissapears, morality is
relativised and even rejected.
Its detractors should ask themselves if these religious beliefs were not
a symbolic, non scientific attempt by our ancestors to culturally
articulate the transcendent dimension of the human nature, the very
thing that makes us human?
For humans, biology and culture go hand in hand.
You can't even learn to walk or talk without the cultural factor.
You need culture to activate and develop certain biological potentials
existing in the heart of your biological nature, which could not manifest
themselves whithout culture.
Religions were in a large part cultural articulations of the
transcendent dimension of our biological nature.
If you reject religions, take great care not to reject your transcendent
nature with them.
Don't throw away the baby with the water.
Some less than brilliant representatives of the scientific community try to find our true nature in our evolutionary origins
These "thinkers" feel that if they found what kind of monkeys or apes our simian ancestors were, they would find the "Holy Grail" of anthropology, the "secret of our true nature"!
This conception is as nonsensical as claiming that the nature of lungs would basically be the same as the nature of digestive organs because lungs probably developed from some pocket in the digestive organs of a fish.
The same could be said about the claim that the nature of birds wings is the same as legs, because wings developed from anterior legs.
In the same way lungs can't digest food and have a totally different function, structure and nature than intestines, in the same way wings serve the purpose of flying and not crawling, our nature is not the nature of monkeys anymore.
Our nature is what we are now, the true potential that exists in our biological structure and which struggles to express itself.
Our true nature is the transcendent potential of our nervous system. It is the "new" order, the structural organisation that completely transforms all the meanings of the elements developed previously to it. It gives a new, uniquely human meaning to the whole structure that we are.