7th Dialogue
Seeker: Hello Satyavan, It is hard this silence for those who never did it. In my attempts at meditation is still difficult to keep the focus on "nothing", or should it be in me? Either way it is still difficult ... but thinking on the other hand is already easier than earlier this year, where I was completely lost :)
Sometimes I wonder what is to abandon everything to find my Self. Should I literally abandon the life I lead and go for isolation?? Go to the Himalayas or an ashram? Should I quit my job, my family, and my possessions literally? Is that letting go of attachment? The issue of self-realization doesn’t come out of my head and I end up feeling bad for the constant slips and with such a mundane life. And what about day to day issues? Shouldn’t I worry about them? Or is it to solve them without worrying? Would this be the same as a lack of faith?? :)). I'm sorry about the childish questions but they are inevitable for me.
Seeker: Hello Satyavan, It is hard this silence for those who never did it. In my attempts at meditation is still difficult to keep the focus on "nothing", or should it be in me? Either way it is still difficult ... but thinking on the other hand is already easier than earlier this year, where I was completely lost :)
Sometimes I wonder what is to abandon everything to find my Self. Should I literally abandon the life I lead and go for isolation?? Go to the Himalayas or an ashram? Should I quit my job, my family, and my possessions literally? Is that letting go of attachment? The issue of self-realization doesn’t come out of my head and I end up feeling bad for the constant slips and with such a mundane life. And what about day to day issues? Shouldn’t I worry about them? Or is it to solve them without worrying? Would this be the same as a lack of faith?? :)). I'm sorry about the childish questions but they are inevitable for me.
Satyavan: Good day my friend, these are indeed
unavoidable questions for the one who is being "called", because this
"calling" begins to question everything that was established, begins to
mess with all the structures that you called your life. Insofar as time
passes the issue of self-realization will absorb all the attention,
until there is no more attention for anything else, in other words it
will remove the importance of everything else, returning your awareness
to the pristine state. In this process inevitably a lot will change, the
said world may apparently continue the "same" but for you nothing will
ever be the same ...
Whatever has to be done will be done! If you have to go to the Himalaya, you will! If you have to go to an Ashram, you will! If you have to stay there, you will stay! Any scenario will do, that which determines where the body will be is the body’s destiny. All these questions arise in front of the inevitable; remember that all the apparent changes are not changes, but only the unfolding of the inevitable. Instead of trying to change the scenario, recognize and surrender to the force that is behind all this, and let yourself go. The upheaval is inevitable for those who struggle against the inevitable! Even if you cannot fully detach from that which you call your life, how about a fluid attachment ... like a boat in the port is attached to a rope, which allows the oscillation of the boat with the tide without compromising the boat’s structure, if it was attached with something rigid, the rise or fall of the tide, would break the boat ... The process is unfolding, and there is no way to stop it, see where does this restlessness comes from, and surrender to this force.
Whatever has to be done will be done! If you have to go to the Himalaya, you will! If you have to go to an Ashram, you will! If you have to stay there, you will stay! Any scenario will do, that which determines where the body will be is the body’s destiny. All these questions arise in front of the inevitable; remember that all the apparent changes are not changes, but only the unfolding of the inevitable. Instead of trying to change the scenario, recognize and surrender to the force that is behind all this, and let yourself go. The upheaval is inevitable for those who struggle against the inevitable! Even if you cannot fully detach from that which you call your life, how about a fluid attachment ... like a boat in the port is attached to a rope, which allows the oscillation of the boat with the tide without compromising the boat’s structure, if it was attached with something rigid, the rise or fall of the tide, would break the boat ... The process is unfolding, and there is no way to stop it, see where does this restlessness comes from, and surrender to this force.
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