Introduction
What You Think determines what You Do; and what you do determines what you are. This equation is simple and applied in the three-dimensionality of our dual reality. However, who determines Thought? The values ? Awareness? The feelings? If so, where are values, feelings and conscience housed? This essay seeks not to give the answer to this question, the millennial schools of thought have already mentioned it in various ways: who determines Thought is the Spirit. The purpose of this reflection exercise is to provide some elements for analysis and link the teachings of the sciences of the spirit to the practice of leadership and its importance to achieve a comprehensive and harmonious sustainable development.
Who better than Israel Regardie, to invite us to this voyage of discovery, that is why I would like to quote an excerpt from the preface of his book "A Garden of Pomegranates, An Introduction to Kabbalah":
The old advice: ' Know yourself ' is now more compelling than ever. The pace of science has accelerated to such an extent that today's discoveries frequently make yesterday's equations obsolete, almost before they can be written on the blackboard. It is not surprising then that there are so many mental patients. Man was not created to spend his life at a crossroads, one of which leads to a place unknown to him, and the other to the threatened annihilation of his species.
In view of this situation, it is doubly reassuring to know that, even between chaotic concepts and conditions there is still a door through which man, individually, can enter a vast storehouse of knowledge, knowledge as secure and immutable as the rhythmic step of Eternity. "
Transcending the mind
The mind is a powerful tool, the eastern schools of thought teach us to control and transcend it. The mind is powerful, so powerful that it can control reality. Suffice it to face the dilemmas of the Schrödinger cat experiment (1) or the Thomas Young experiment where photons choose to be wave or particle according to the observer's consciousness (2).
However, Drunvalo Melchizedek in his book "Living in the Heart" tells us: "When we create from the mind, we create both polarities of our intention." The mind creates using thought, and thoughts follow the path of logic, in such a way that it will always generate both sides of the polarity, since logic moves between opposites; before a problem the mind opens to generate the positive and negative. As an example Drunvalo Melchizedek gives us: “if we pray for peace, the mind will have to think of peace and war”, in a marked duality. This duality maintains a perception of separation. This feeling of separation is a determining factor that generates a selfish and limited thought, where there is no room for integration. As integration is not possible, there is no place for ecological awareness.Since it is necessary to understand the unity of nature and the human species.
Under the duality approach, leaders will have to address the problem of sustainable development in terms of profit and loss. Between company and society. Opposite and irreconcilable concepts. Any action taken will be limited and incomplete, something will always be lost, since everything is separate. This illusion is what in Buddhist doctrine is called "maya": the illusory reality of separation. All decision making will always involve losing the least, and not a win-win relationship. Harmony is simply not possible under a dualistic mindset.
Dual reality is an illusion, it truly does not exist, nothing is separate. Any action, no matter how small, can have monumental implications. Chaos theorists say it in their metaphor of the flutter of the butterfly, a small action will have great effects. Everything is integrated into an intimate and harmonious structure.
Transcending Duality
Drunvalo Melchizedek calls this conflict of separation: duality. The Thought Trap. The Separation Trap. The human being and nature, separated. Disunited. Outsiders. That is the trap of reason, "I am something different from the world" the leader must understand that everything is integrated, that nature and human beings are one. A totality, there is nothing in this universe separate from us, nor are we separate from the cosmos.
The Tao te ching says:
“Everybody takes the beautiful for the beautiful,
and that's why they know what the ugly is.
Everyone takes good for good,
and that is why they know what evil is.
Because, being and non-being are mutually engendered.
The easy and the difficult complement each other.
Long and short are formed from each other.
The high and the low are approaching.
The sound and tone harmonize with each other.
Before and after succeed each other. "
The same symbol of tao, formed by ying and yang, the opposites, hot and cold, black, dark and light white, are not separated, it is commonly believed that they are two united halves, when in reality it is a single symbol that teaches integration of the opposites, Unity. The true reality. The whole is one.
The leader must understand the Unity, once he understands that there is no separation, the conflicts of the intellect will stop, there is no gain without sacrifice or perfect law, the traps of reason will be discovered and the vision will be clear, then the Spirit will permeate the thought and harmony will reign on the planet. Because it is the idea of separation that denigrates nature, which creates inert concepts where there is life, and makes us believe that we are masters and lords of the planet when we are the same living organism. One unit.
Finding the spirit. Unity consciousness
We must then transcend the mind. The mind is powerful, but it is only a tool. We must transcend duality to see the Union, to see the truth. But now the question arises how do I do it? Deepak Chopra tells us about it “Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think that the heart is soft and sentimental. But is not. The heart is intuitive; it is holistic, it knows the whole, it knows all the relationships that exist. It does not have a profit or loss orientation. "
Only through spirit can we see reality as it is: ONE. And we access the spirit through the heart.
The mind creates logically, the heart however is completely different. The heart creates through dreams and images, and they manifest through feelings and emotions. This form of creation does not use logic and therefore does not have to be logical therefore it is free from duality.
Let us reflect on this paradox, proposed by Drunvalo Melchizedek: "when a baby is conceived, the human heart begins to beat before the brain is formed." How can this be possible? Based on the findings of the Heart Mathematics Institute who have discovered that the heart has its own brain. Which is very small, it has around 40 thousand cells, but it is all that the heart needs.
But also the scientists of the Institute of Mathematics of the Heart have made an even greater discovery: "They have proven that the human heart generates a larger and more powerful energy field than any other organ in the body, including the brain inside the skull" in the doctrines of the Spirit will call this Chakra. It is a vital center where the wisdom of unity is found. The old saying: "ask your heart" is not wrong.
Just as thought resides in the brain, spirit resides in the heart. It is consciousness that makes both thought and spirit work in union. The biggest trap that exists is to believe that thought and spirit are separate. It is through consciousness that the Union Bridge is built. The totality.
Awakening conscience is not easy, but today's leaders must possess not only managerial, technological and human relations skills, much less a false sense of motivation and morality sold by a commercial DVD is necessary. It requires a true work of introspection, of reconstruction and construction of the I AM, but this is the first step to take. In the words of Confucius: "a long journey begins with the feet." This reflection pretends to be the beginning of that journey.
By way of conclusion: Transcend the limits.
Alejandro Jodorowsky tells us in his book Psychomagic: “The intellect is compressed by the head, and when the eyes are closed, one is in darkness. Closing your eyes is like being in a prison. Every time I close my eyes, I go into a dungeon. "
In doing so, he invites us to carry out an exercise of liberation.
“What we have to do is say to ourselves: 'That blackness that I see is the blackness of the universe, so that every time I close my eyes, I enter cosmic space.' We must start from this idea! You have to create it! "
Jodorowsky himself says "I closed my eyes and imagined a light, and I put the light as far as possible in that infinite universe that I could not reach." In this way, to whatever direction the light moves, the infinite sea of possibilities, growth and creation will be ahead.
To enter into spiritual knowledge is to find a key to reality, to obtain the correct vision that allows us to contemplate unity. To put light where the shadow of separation is present. Understand then that you are that light yourself. And that every act coming from within you will be fully affecting the whole.
So let's close our eyes and start over.
(1) The uncertainty principle is based on the "Schrödinger's cat" paradox. In a closed and opaque box is put a cat, a bottle of poisonous gas, a radioactive atom with a 50% probability of disintegrating and a device that, if the particle disintegrates, would break the bottle, causing the death of the cat by poisoning. Therefore, the fate of the cat depended on a single atom that would act according to quantum mechanics, so the entire system would be subject to its laws. The so-called “Copenhagen interpretation” indicates that these laws work in the following way: as long as we do not open the box, the cat is both dead and alive and that only the action of opening the box and observing it reduces the probabilities to one of them.
(2) Thomas Young's famous double slit experiment, applied to photons, highlighted the mysterious influence of an observer on quantum mechanics. In the experiment, individual photons are fired towards a distant screen, partially obstructed midway by a wall that contains two slits. Experience has shown that, if it is not found through which of the slots a photon passes, it appears to interfere with itself, suggesting that it behaves like a wave, traveling through both slits as if they were one. a photon "chooses" to behave as a wave or as a particle, and that this choice serves the observer's purpose even when the observer's pretension is maximally delayed and exerted at random.
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