Man must be ruled by his emotions instead of being wasted by his intellect. But the man of the world is empty, angry at life and seeking more of this and more of that, thinking that intellect is what better rules himself and prospers the world; however, you look around you and you see all sorts of chaos and destruction happening–i. e., wars nation against nation, rape, murder, vain exploitation of all divine nature, poverty, famine, political divisions and misconducts which hurt peoples, etc. Surely you understand who is guilty of this today, who really rules the world and started all this stupidity…?? Who rules the world by bullying and destroying love and emotional connection…??–Is it woman??–Is it man??
Who heads the mediocre churches and governments…?? Who is blind to the beauty and simplicity of the flower, or rigid to the tears or joy which a work of art can evoke in the heart/in the emotional body…??
There is a great seed of mediocrity stemming from the intellect in all of us, but it is greater so in the unawakened men of the world; and this seed is what drives men to commit all these crimes against all nature, for this seed is the unbalance of his own psyche, for this seed is his poor choice. Man has an emotional body but he chooses to follow society and vanish his emotions from his own life, thus he believes he is driven by intelligence being guided by his intellect, yet he stands blind to the fact that it is his own intellect that which brings destruction and chaos to his relationships and life in general–and especially it is intellect who destroys him from the inside. One cannot know oneself by mere intellect, but one must be in direct connection to one’s own emotional content.
Deep emotions awaken man, elevate the individual and forge the perfect gentleman. Can you see this for yourself….?? So, when man is awakened he denies the dull power of his intellect, he places it as second place; for his emotions come first–for his emotions love, create, understand deeply, connect to all life. Are you yet to awaken as a true man…?? Because rationalization and your mechanical views can take you only so far, but emotions can open all doors and link you to The Infinite.
The Blue Lotus is the symbol of the victory of the spirit over the senses, of intelligence and wisdom, of higher knowledge. From the drawings on the pyramids of Egypt to the smaller lessons written on your own life experiences, all is symbols and messages in life; and so, whomever understands them rules his or her world as a god or goddess. The blue lotus then, victory of our higher self over the lower self, and it is the pure light, the godly energy in the conscience of the Enlightened Man. A blue lotus represents the embodiment of the “perfection of wisdom;” a higher dimension of thought or conscious realm where the mundane life is seen as part of the whole and not the origin of struggle and suffering. Here intuition and insight guide the awakened man.
All is one and we are to understand this wherever we go, for beyond all your troubles, mental frustrations, and self-designed “failures” in life, if you look past those with a meditative mind, within yourself, you shall find the wisdom of a blue lotus…
“Sitting upon a blue lotus.“
Through life the mind has always been the reflection Of the emptiness escaped by man in corrupted games, And it has ruled with tyranny without mercy or affection Which has unleashed the unconscious beast in flames. What is mankind to do in this world so tainted then…?? The chains of Cause and Effect are strong in the lost, For the lost is like the mighty ship set adrift at sea. The blooming flower needs sunlight, it dies in the frost, As man blooms in pure light and dies in mediocre plea.
Sitting upon a blue lotus I see the vapors of turmoil, Immersed in the energy of God I find the purest light Glowing thus in the darkest corners of my human toil; And so, of this I transmute my own vanity and fright. Can you live blissfully without vanity and fright…?? I observe in meditation the ripples of the gentlest void, I vanish all forms of duality and ignorant society affair; I sit upon this lotus and watch the old me being destroyed, O I feel the Feathers of Ascension within me everywhere.
The tests of every day must be allowed to open way for the divine light to enter into our lives, into the way we see ourselves and life itself; in this way we become masters instead of slaves chained to environment and the desires and outbursts of others. And so we are elevated over the daily challenges we face. Because most of us find it easy to be strong and positive in times of happiness and comfort, but the character of a person cannot be forged and elevated in these mentioned times of joy; the opposite is true, it is in times of struggle and hardship where the gold is, where the messages and lessons are hidden and waiting to be discovered by us.
Moments of darkness, of pain, of terrible loss, have a very important reason for existence in the midst of our lives, do they not…??
I do not believe higher awakening and divinity may happen in any of us if struggle, pain, loss, death, and the rest of these fears are not embraced, befriended, conquered, and surrounded by pure love. An individual may be caring, utter nice words, mature in age and experiences lived, prayerful, and read many spiritual books, but he/she still might fear loss, death, and the rest, and so become reactive in times of struggle and pain. He/she then may become of low morals and crooked character, even become mentally, verbally, and/or physically violent with others. And so we can tell this person does not understand the higher nature of his/her own darkness, can we not…?? No, this person escapes the darkness and run towards the light in his/her ignorance, while he/she hides her real face behind the mask of moderation, intellectual and emotional prowess, and piety that he/she wears in public.
There is no measure which is higher and more meaningful than to be a man or woman who stands alone with power and confidence in moments of difficulty, and who shares his/her wise wealth with others suffering necessity and their own moments of darkness. It is precisely this then what gives character and power to a person to celebrate the magnificence of life… Remind yourself then to remain strong and confident in times of pain…
Sex transmutation is a focusing of sex energy into other channels where it adds immeasurably to one’s power of achievement. It is not in any way a lessening of sex energy but rather a shifting of that energy into higher conscience, into higher understanding, into ways of wisdom poured into all behaviors. This is why the world is in such a lost state with wars, prejudice, anger, criminal activity, lies, etc.; for the world does not know sexual transmutation or sex energy transmutation, but its energy is not elevated and purified–i.e., people do not know the terrible things they do, they are overwhelmed by the polluted energy, they use it for terrible darkness.
The great worth and value in living is in the mysteries and lessons yet to uncover and learn, so do not suppose for a second that life is to remain dull and in the same circumstances as right now; for this is the great folly and ignorance veiling the higher conscience of mankind. Life is evolution and destruction of the old, further development and creation of the new; and what is yet hidden to you–the future relationships, the future situations, the future environmental catastrophes, your future health, etc.–is to be given either light or darkness depending on the divine use of your inner divinity by attention and meditation upon yourself and upon those things which you do. For if you do not see the importance of meditating and bringing light onto each situation in your life, then who will…??
All your energy is the energy of life, the energy of sex, the energy of eternal existence and physical birth, the energy given to you by the eaten Fruit of Knowledge from Eden, and the energy which lights your conscience; so you must remain self-aware in all you think, feel, and do, you must transmute into higher understanding and wisdom. Do not allow your dull situations to take you over and bring you down in that abysmal depression, while you forget the higher transmutation of your conscious energy; but be joyous in all you do, hopeful and confident in that light after dark, because the way to reach a better life is to allow the light in your heart to shine ever brighter and reach your very conscience in dutiful meditation, in order for your energy to be cleansed and made purer and see through the veil of your mundane senses.
Transmutation of lower into higher, of misery into joy, of temporal pleasure into eternal happiness, of darkness into light, must be the process akin to breathing; thus, you cannot live without breathing, and you cannot be happy without always transmuting.
That which is not of service to your personal improvement must be allowed to go, especially if your ego feels comfortable doing it and it is keeping you distracted and distanced from maturity and higher conscience. What is true love if not the understanding that you must come first…?? You desire to be able to truly love someone, you desire to find a job you love or develop love for your current job situation, you desire to feel healthier, you desire to feel more tolerance and compassion for others, etc. etc…?? It is an inside job, because all your experiences are you, because all the people with whom you interact daily are you, because all that which you think and feel is you. So you start from you, you awaken to your own higher conscience, you realize that to find love and God in the world and inside yourself you must wake up and lead yourself into a better life.
But your problem is that you cannot see it yet, because you think that the most important thing is to carry the burden of others, that it is to love and take care of others first. You have been poisoned by stupid writings and ignorant people, you believe this to be spiritual when in reality is not–but it is just the game of feeling like the idiot martyr, like the nonsense story of the crucifixion of Jesus which you and most people do not truly understand. This is how poor and pitiful your understanding of love is, and this is why the self-proclaimed “spiritual” people are not spiritual at all.
Love is the greatest essence, the most magnificent and creative force of all bliss; however, you must understand that true love must be built first to be experienced as a human being. People who kill themselves, people who create wars, people who eat unhealthily and without discipline, people who deceive others–Why do you think they act this way…?? Because they haven’t built true love inside them. They just go around spreading joy, or pain, to the world and taking care of others, or hurting others, while ignorantly thinking that this is divine, or even right to do, that this is doing the job of God or some bullshit their egos invent.
But they indeed lack the understanding of true love, for true love is something you build within yourself, you fill yourself with love and then your example, your love expands.
Would you take eating advice from a fat person…?? Would you take relationship advice from a couple who lives arguing and is intolerant to each other…?? Would you marry a person who desires to cut herself or kill herself because she hasn’t found true love inside her yet…?? If you would, then you are one of these people who do not understand what love truly is… Do you want to really know what love is…?? Do you want to be filled with it blissfully…?? Work on yourself first then. Not later. Now…
Is highly important to realize and accept the abysmal differences between religiousness and spirituality, because many people believe in much ignorance that by reading scriptures, by praying at their churches, by repeating their mantras, by following a bishop and being obedient of what he teaches, they are truly spiritual, awakened, and in the path of truth. Isn’t the ego powerful in these people…?? This I know, as all I write here, from my own experience, because I was religious, now I am spiritual; I was man-made and my mind was full of the idiocies of man, now I emptied my mind and communicate with that Source of Divinity in me which does not belong to any man.
And it is simple, is it not…?? When you read this, or when you read scriptures, or when you go to church, even though you might feel “divine love” or “spirituality” being born in you, this is just your mind creating beautiful feelings; this is not a spiritual awakening but just the desire in you to be spiritually awakened. This means you are reading or listening to the experience or to the beliefs of others. Now, this, as beautiful and divine might sound to you, as loving the belief in Jesus or Buddha or some saint, comes from outside of you. Nothing coming from the outside is your reality; it might resonate with you, it might be romantic or spiritual, but that is as far as it goes–just more knowledge stored in your mind and conditioned by your mechanical brain.
Now, can you see for yourself what truth, what spirituality really is…?? It has to wake you up, not wake you up intellectually, because intellect is the ego-mind, and intellect is mere knowledge; but wake you up as in coming from beyond your intellect and the feelings it creates, it has to be you, a deeper realization–which is what awakening is, which is a wholeness in you that changes not only your mind but all your intentions and daily behaviors, and which is your own experience. To be spiritual means to stand up on your own and not follow the crowd, it is to empty your mind from all man-made mentality and to rebel against it–so you can find yourself within yourself, and you can awaken to your own experience.
As I woke up this morning… thousands of warm slivers of sunshine filled my room, Bobby, my little dog barked in the background, I got up and felt taken by the early morning’s energy. Then, a particular thought came to mind: ‘Freedom.’ Freedom…??… I followed my morning routine, toothbrush and stretch, and I kept on hearing the little shrieking with which I had become so enamored by now. Bobby wanted to be let out, enjoy the day and expand his own curiosity, thus immerse himself in the wonderful micro-world of smells. I put his leash on and we started our routine walk, except this time we explored another part of the area. While strolling and courting the sunshine spectrum we also felt the soothing morning breeze upon us, charmingly refreshing, almost magical, and to really be there was a wonderful experience on its own. He was sniffing away as if possessed! “Who knows what sorts of little worlds he finds among the blades of green grass,” I thought while smiling.
My Toy Poodle, Bobby, spotting a bug in our daily morning walks.
As I woke up this morning… Then, the particular thought came to mind again, ‘Freedom.’ But this time I recognized it. Bobby wants freedom! You want freedom! I want freedom! We all want freedom! But not superficial, not the facade of freedom; true freedom, a deeper freedom which has really to do with divinity and not with the flesh. Although the ignorant mind thinks that it has to do with the flesh; but it does not, does it…?? Freedom from stress, freedom from concepts, freedom from this flesh, freedom from our everyday lives– This is true freedom! We all feel this nagging sensation deep inside of us each moment, then thought comes along and gives it a name–which could be ‘Violence,’ ‘Extra eating,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Killing,’ ‘Bullying,’ ‘Warring,’ ‘Traveling,’ ‘Seek relationships,’ ad infinitum. The ego is thought, and thought invades the human experience each second of each day, it is relentless, we need it and yet it brings poisoned ways to translate freedom into what we want. It works subconsciously in the unawakened individual, it starts as a desire to do something, anything, than thought gives it a flavor, a name, an activity…
But it is all about freedom, all we do, all human experience we create in existence; because we all want to come back to Source really, come back to that state of godliness, that eternal essence, or however you call it. But the ego does not allow us to see that all we want is freedom; that is why to be awakened is to know freedom, to be whole and embrace it… Although, I have to say, we can become Enlightened, we can love purely, we can live truly free in our lands, self-sufficient; but we can never be 100% free unless no thought exists, no feeling drives us, and no flesh enslaves us. And what is this absolutely free state…??: Death. Or what we call death, anyway… Now, isn’t it interesting that people live unconsciously, seeking for freedom in all they do, but fearing what they call Death–i.e., fearing the same thing they seek, fearing freedom from all bondage…??… It is the unknown, isn’t it…??: Death… But it is absolute freedom from this mundane jail of pleasure and pain called human experience, and your conscience deeply, beyond your ego, knows this.
Perhaps if we all understand that all we want is freedom, we won’t allow our own egos to drive us into self-destruction, and we won’t destroy the human experience of others by some selfish expression of our own egos.
You are made of vibrations. Your experiences are made of vibrations. The whole world is made of vibrations. So, it is vital for us to understand that because we are vibrations, then it is all about lower and higher vibrations, or it is all about the “manipulation” or management of these vibrations: The lower the vibration, the less spiritually awake we are, thus the less love and happiness we are able to experience. The higher the vibration, the more spiritually awake we are, thus the more love and happiness we are able to experience… Can you see this yourself…??
Humans are more complex beings, right…?? Animals and nature in general can access easier the management of their vibrations, they are more in tune with their godly states–i.e., less knowledge and intelligence means more innocence and simplicity. But we humans eat everything, go everywhere, create hell or heaven, read, have more intricate languages, our egos are much more poisonous, etc. etc.
And for that reason, we must be highly self-aware of the management of our vibrations; and so, you can see the turmoil and stupidity of the world we have made, because most of us do not know, or even ignore, the better management of our own vibrations–in health of body and mind, in thinking patterns, in words or language, in behaviors, in all emotional understanding. Much discipline is lacking in the common individual, is it not…??
So, in your daily living become self-aware, lead yourself to higher vibrations in order to be absolute and enjoy wholeness; but do not seek excuses because of age, culture, race, origin, gender, health. Excuses are just stupid and pointless, you are just lying to yourself; for no matter what your situation is in life, you can always be self-aware and manage yourself to higher vibrations… It all starts in your mind…
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” ~ Buddha.
Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one Master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku. Desiring to show his attainment to the Master, he said, “The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist. The true nature of phenomena is emptiness. There is no realization, no delusion, no sage, no mediocrity. There is no giving and nothing to be received.” Master Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing… Suddenly, he whacked Yamaoka with his bamboo pipe!! This, of course, made the youth quite angry. “If nothing exists,” inquired Master Zen Dokuon, “where did your anger come from..??”
Like this, your own ego does not allow you to see how wrong you can be, how angry you can be, how stubborn you can be, and how unawakened you can be. You are your ego, which means your ego is all what you think and feel, which means that you only see the content of your mind/of your ego. It is easy for you, of course, to see the flaws and wrongness in another; because you are distanced from another’s ego and can see with a fresh perspective in this.
It is extremely important to distance yourself from your own ego/from your own thoughts and beliefs, empty your mind for a while, meditate on emptiness daily, to see with a fresh perspective your own faults and your own stubbornness. In order for you to grow, in order for you to rise above your own mediocrity, you must distance yourself from your own mechanical thinking/from your own ego and reach for deeper insights beyond, to free yourself and see reality as it really is. “I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.”~Michel de Montaigne; French Renaissance philosopher and essayist.
What are life’s encoded messages to guide you through it…?? Why can’t most people see these and be guided to all prosperity…?? What is the very make up of life…??
Every event in life is ruled by law, no randomness or coincidences, and all is a process of beautiful discipline and perfect efficacy, just like the sweet and instinctual dance of two swans in love in a mating/courtship ritual. And like in the romantic swan’s mating ritual, there are hidden messages and meanings, symbols displayed; so, life, the unseen, divine, and creative processes of life, displays symbols and messages, perhaps synchronicity types, to you and to whomever is ready to see them… Life is highly conscious, is it not…??–Or perhaps you haven’t realized how conscious it is yet…
Man lives in duality, his mind is altered by ego and his physical senses, and so he is ruled by lower urges and consciousness; thus, this dimension of lower understanding cannot synchronize and tune in to the higher consciousness of life itself, so is like man becomes blind to the conscious processes of life. Man is life but he cannot see himself, he cannot know himself because he only experiences the lower dimension of his own ego; thus, he misses the whole divinity and beauty dwelling under his own nose. He does not see the heart of life, because he does not see his own heart.
Whoever sees life beyond the facade and the superficiality is truly a god himself; for his vision and understanding surpasses that of the common man, and his higher consciousness synchronizes and tunes into that higher consciousness of life. Life consists of conscious energy to create events and encoded data or “in-formation” to guide or structure those same events; and this encoded data tunes in or links to your inner vision, or to your true knowledge of self, and this helps you see and realize synchronicity types and hidden symbols in your life.
To understand and realize this within yourself is to begin to see more, because life gives us symbols and messages, a map to find and walk our individual path, a compass to observe quietly into ourselves, and thus the way to all wisdom and prosperity to further your human experience here.
- Asa Rodriguez - 