CONSCIENCE

" Get over the identification of the physical body it is the springboard route to the Cosmic Conscience. " Daran
" Be completely honest with yourself is the best effort that a human being can realize". Freud

THE CONSCIENCE CONCEPT THAT WE ADOPT HERE:

Before anything, it is important to distinguish knowledge from conscience. To be conscientious of something is to live certain knowledge. Conscience is the internalized knowledge, digested. This way, the simple accumulation of knowledge is not expressed as conscience.
 Taking conscience of something is becoming involved with the fruit of the knowledge, is being transformed by the knowledge process. Another important subject: we get used to identify conscience as the ego-conscience. However, there are levels of conscience beyond the common state of vigil, of the usual state of conscience. The ego-conscience is only one parcel of our conscience. Best saying, the ego is not the center of the conscience and nor its last period of development. In contrast of what the majority of the occidental schools of psychology affirm, the ego is only an instrument of the conscience.
"These are historical times. A great transformation is occurring in the human being’s mind. Old ideas are dying and new ones are being born. We are starting to evidence that our basic identity is not the mind nor the body, limited for the birth and death, time and space - but, basically, it is spirit: an infinite conscience that is universal and eternal. It is if disclosing that the conscience is not function of the mind, centered in the physical brain. (...) The conscience is beyond the time and it is not affected by death. (...) The cosmos, and everything in it, is starting to be recognized as being an entity: non-separable and conscientious of the whole, a manifestation of the One, of the Universal Conscience - filled of love. The singularity of the universe is being recognized as the material expression of the conscience singularity - which is recognized in the heart as love. " (Samuel Sandweiss in Spirit and Mind. Sri Sathya Sai Books. India - translated by Daran).
 We can also verify two distinct levels of conscience: immanent and transcendent. Immanent expresses itself as self-conscience (ontology) and transcendent as the science of something outside itself.
 "In the psychology of yoga, conscience is the basic phenomenon. It is the underlying reality. It is the central focus around of which all the conceptual project of yoga is organized. The human development (of the conscience) isn’t seen as the elaboration of a mental structure as the ego. On the contrary of this, it is seen as a gradual reveal of an already present and underlying conscience. This conscience manifests itself through the forms of the mental structures, but possesses the potential to become free from these same structures. With the gradual lost of attachments, it gradually frees from the mental and physical forms, which both express it, and, at the same time, they overshadow and contaminate it. " (Swami Rama and others. Yoga and Psychotherapy - The Evolution of Consciousness. The Himalayan Institute. U.S.A. - translated and underlined by Daran).
We are here privileging the ideas related to the conscience of the inner world... dimension that is very neglected nowadays. The sped up rhythm of our lives tends to impose an alienation of our closer necessities, of our nobler dreams and feelings.
"We can start saying that, even thinking to be waked up, the common person, actually, is half asleep (...) the contact with the reality is most partial; almost everything that it judges to be reality (in and outside of itself) is a set of fictions constructed by its mind (...) Has perception of the reality until the point when the goal of the survival becomes necessary for this perception. The conscience of the common person is mainly a false conscience, made of fictions and illusions, and is precisely of the reality that it doesn’t have perception (...) I, the accidental, social person, am separate of myself, the total human being. I am a stranger for myself and, in this degree, all the other people are strangers to me. I am isolated of the vast area of human being’s experience and I am a break up of a man, a cripple who tries only one small part of what is real in itself and of what is real in the others. " (Erich Fromm in Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. Ed. Cultrix
When we redirect a little more of our attention to the Being that it exists through us, we can reconstruct the bridge (re-ligare = religion) that connects us with the rest of the Universe. And we can rescue the sacred dimension of life, which is really beyond the sphere of consuming automatons of merchandises.
We possess a potential of Being much more ample that the day-by-day of this materialistic society offers us. "The minus aspect of the taste of what is new is the vein and frustrating fetching for changing whatever it costs. Frequently, the fascination for the new, for the different, reflects a interior poverty. Incapable to find the happiness in ourselves, we desperately look for it on the outside, in objects, experiences, ways to think or to behave each time more strange. In short, we move away from the happiness looking for it where it is not (...) the fascination for always having more and the horizontal dispersion of knowledge get us away from the inner transformation. If we only can transform the world transforming ourselves, it doesn’t matters to have more. (...) On the first sight, the pleasures of the world are very seductive because they invite to the joy, they seem just sweetness, and are very easy to the person to involve it. They start bringing an ephemeral and superficial satisfaction, but we realize that they don’t fulfill their promises and end up with bitter disillusions. In the spiritual search, the opposite occurs. In the start, it is austere (...) But, as it persevere in this process of inner transformation, it is seen to blunt a wisdom, a serenity and a happiness that impregnate the entire human being and that, in contrast of those pleasures, are invulnerable to the exterior circumstances. " (Matthieu Ricard. The Monge and the Philosophy. Ed. Mandarin).
Our potential of Being is the size of our imagination.
Who knows we could even reconnect with consciences of other dimensions... "The Self is the Archetype of the order and of the direction on the universe. It is the unifying center of all psychism and is identical to the inner God. It is the auto-bright Knowledge, or Light, and shows itself through the removal of the ignorance. It can never be the object of its knowledge because it is the subjectivity that knows. The great fallacy of spiritual fetching is that the act to search hides the Self from the Self. You are exactly what you are searching for. The final objective isn’t the acquisition of something new, but the indifference of the selfish ( from ego ) perception of the conscience contents. Auto-realization (Self-accomplishment) is the wakening to the fact that we are connected and total dependent of this internal light. " (Robert Wilkinson- translated by Daran).
Observe that the concept of Self from the psychologist Jung came from the Hinduism; even so having been restricted comparing to its original meaning. According to a patient of Jung (as displayed in the book “O Segredo da Flor de Ouro – Um Livro de Vida Chinês.” Ed.Vozes): "From the evil a lot of good came to me. Conserve the calm, nothing to restrain, remaining intent and accepting the reality - taking the things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be – all of this brought me a knowledge and singular powers, as I never imagined. I always though that, when accepting the things, they would dominate me in a way or another; but it wasn’t like this, because just accepting the things we will able to assume an attitude before them. Now I will play the game of the life, accepting what they bring me the day and the life, the good and the evil, the sun and the shade, that change constantly. This way, I will be accepting myself, with its positive and negative side. Everything will become more alive. How fool I was! I intended to force all the things, according to my ideas ".                     Daran

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