When the individual begins to be truly aware of not being the master of his life, he begins to consider the various possible ways to try to awaken to Reality. Usually a man who tries to reconnect with his Being, although open-minded, cultured and intelligent, finds himself in another world governed by other laws (internal and no longer external) that require a certain degree of resilience, acute receptivity and great willingness to experience what is unknown to the ordinary self.

The starting point for everyone is therefore the awareness of the illusory condition in which they find themselves, first of all because, not contemplating the state of sleep and psychic slavery in which they struggle, they believe themselves to be free, and because, even when they begin to perceive the deception, not having developed a stable internal contact, they still do not possess adequate tools for the necessary internal “orientation“.

Today the masses are fascinated by the “quick and simple” alternatives, very much in vogue through countless magical and pseudo-esoteric practices that, despite the offer of excellent masters and intensive courses, never produce the desired internal realization, indeed, very often what is obtained is a fragmented and partial knowledge of oneself and of the universal Principles, which not only strengthens mental hegemony to the detriment of soul development, but generates well-articulated and much more “educated” states of sleep.

But then, how can we be sure of doing real Work on ourselves and not prey to an illusory compensation?

The Path to Awakening that best fits the historical period is easy to recognize; it is given by consxious effort, voluntary suffering and the art of renunciation.

Consxious effort is conscious Attention, Presence and Bearing; this is Self- Remembering. Voluntary suffering is instead the conscious abandonment of one’s certainties (beliefs), of one’s opinions (points of view), of the mechanical affirmation of oneself (pride), of the desire for reassurance (anger-fear), of the intellectual comfort of one’s absolutist sense of self with its infantile expectations and demands (socio-cultural conformism).

At the beginning, the important thing is to accept that this Work requires a conscious inner struggle to learn and specialize how to separate the “wheat from the chaff”.

The exclusive effort, previously projected to change others and the external world to conform to the mass, is now focused exclusively within oneself; in the absence of this understanding, without a dynamic will and an indefatigable aspiration, one spends one’s entire life searching for a pseudo-knowledge that will certainly produce changes, but there will never be a real inner transformation.

Changing is not transforming at all; transforming is only dying to what you are not to be reborn to what you already are.

With practice you can learn how not to identify with your internal reactions and consequently not to play a cloying role on the outside; the automatic reaction, as a habitual response, is the limit to overcome and make a resource. Without being strong on the outside (mastery, acceptance, affirmation and self-esteem), it is impossible to be strong on the inside (loving what you are), and vice versa.

Every role that man performs by playing a part, is a sort of cross to which one must be nailed in order to learn to be attentive with continuity; it is like being fixed in a frame that represents one’s limit, and this limit in the Work is not something to be avoided, but becomes the virtuous and sacred material on which to operate the transformation.

The crisis as a choice is ultimately voluntary suffering, in other words it is surrendering to what is and therefore it is being consciously participating in the Reality of one’s Being; which finally is realized that it is all that is.

 

Brother, may your purpose be well distinguished in the Mind and vivified in the Heart.

You who yearn for Freedom, do not distract yourself, remember yourself now, never forget it.