David Topí: The only way to live

  • 2015

A friend says that existing is not the same as living. He says that to exist is to go through life barely bypassing all kinds of situations and problems, reacting to them and trying to do things without being very clear because we do them, letting ourselves be carried away by the tide of the currents that the environment marks us . To live, on the other hand, is to get carried away by the flow of creative life that is born from the interior of oneself, imbued in the magical energy of everything that exists, and that connects everything with everything, and knowing that the only moment that counts is the present moment, from where, in addition, it is the only moment that represents eternity itself. This description of living sounds pretty words when they are received from the head, and truly resounding when they feel from within the being we are. Take a moment to see which of the two options was the first to resonate.

It is possible that many of you have heard of the ancient Toltec wisdom that Don Miguel Ruiz embodied in his famous "Four Agreements", four rules for life that make the difference between existing and living, between thinking and analyzing life, or feeling and flow with her. The mind thinks and analyzes, the inner being that we are feels and flows.

The first agreement says that you can't take anything personally. Nothing can be said or done to you so that you can take it as if it were something personal against you and you had to get angry or react to it. Nothing is important enough in this life to allow me to get you out of your center, your happiness and your well-being, and this only happens when we consider that something that they tell us, or do to us, has power for it, that is, we take it as something personal against ourselves. When you do not give power to anything external to you to modify your state of peace and inner harmony, nothing and no one has control over us, and therefore, automatically, its effect is diluted in your reality (it does not have to do so in the reality of others). Your action, which does not react, then, on the situation in which you find yourself, is born of your power to make the best decision regarding the event or person you have to deal with, as long as you maintain the conviction that we should not take nothing personally . In addition, in most cases, people manifest outwardly what they carry inside, and therefore, they are not acting against you, but reacting and projecting some facet of their inner world that, possibly, does not come to you or come to you. goes. The same reaction of that person that you take as personal, would have been projected in the same way on another that has nothing to do with you, perhaps thinking that other person who was also something personal against her when she was nothing more than what, who He manifested, reflected from his inner reality.

The second agreement says that nothing can be assumed. Because if you suppose you can reach wrong conclusions. Nobody ever has all the data of any situation, event or experience so that you can understand, understand or manage it as if it were yours. Never assume anything, because you would be inventing yourself, trying to fill in the missing data, with those that you have inside. "I think he said this ..." or "I think he means the other" ... has no real basis. And two people hearing the same thing will suppose two totally different things, possibly none of them being correct regarding the origin of what generated the assumption. Your world is different from the world of the person who said this or that, and you have no idea what components at the level of archetypes, programs and mental patterns that person has that lead them to act or say what they do or say. So, unless you can be in that other person's mind, and feel exactly what he wanted to do or say, you can never assume anything, for the assumptions will always be wrong. In the world of the Toltecs things are not guessed, but they ask and clarify without ever assuming anything. The ego - artificial personality supposes, the inner being or self closes before acting.

The third agreement says that you should never try to do your best. Someone who exists TRIES to do things their best, someone who lives, never tries anything, but DOES their best. Trying is for those who need an excuse to escape from our responsibility to the facts, people or situations, because if you simply try and it does not come out, you can save your face, but that does not make you alive, that only makes you exist for a while more, then to live, you have to give your best at every moment and do things as best we can. You are never wrong if, what you do, you always do with all the meat on the grill, without half measures, and without trying anything. One of those guides with whom we talk from time to time left us a phrase marked with fire in memory, after one of the many sessions that we have already shared with him: “ one has to do what he has to do, and things they are made and point, they are not tried, they are made and point ”. It was a "jolt" when I also avoided, in some way, my own responsibility.

I don't know what this sounds like when you read it, but I do know what it sounds like and how it calmed our classmates when they told us. When you do things the best you can, you give 100% of yourself, and it does not matter that 100% referred to, if it is a lot or a little, if it is more or less than 100% of another person, because that It doesn't matter, because you are you and it can only be you, so if you give 100% of what you are at each moment, you are giving your whole being, potential and energy to something or someone. Nothing else is asked of anyone in this world to move forward on each other's path, and for the common good of all others.

And the fourth agreement says that you have to be impeccable with words and deeds. Words have power, manipulate, hurt, comfort, create illusions, expectations, bring hope, generate pain. Whoever dominates the art of the word dominates the art of influencing others, and the art of bringing happiness or causing sadness. Words are creative, because it is conscious energy with an intention behind that comes out of the person who pronounces them, and words can be poison darts or ointments for the soul. The ancient Toltecs, represented perhaps, for many of us, by Don Juan de Castaneda, based the art of impeccability on not saying or doing anything that did not have a specific objective and based on what it was right to do or say at that time . You can not waste energy foolishly in things, and that is why one has to be impeccable, because only the correct use of the energy of the human being, produces the surplus of the same necessary for spiritual growth, since no internal function can be activated without the necessary energy, and that energy is internal to each one of us, coming from the famous Gurdjieff Triad of Carbon-Oxygen-Nitrogen (what we eat, what we breathe, what we get energetically from the environment). The activation of the higher chakras above the seventh, of the internal psychic and spiritual functions, of the development of consciousness and the empowerment of the spirit for the control of the predatory mind, depend on the existence of excess energy within each one and that has not been wasted existing, reacting, or acting so that we lose strength foolishly. Only the impeccability of acts, thoughts or words generate that energy surplus, which is then automatically directed to where it corresponds for the use of the rest of the mechanisms inherent to the human being that are not activated because there is nothing that can keep them functioning.

Remember that the world is made so that we never have enough energy for ourselves, and that the energy we consume has a very bad quality (low quality food, polluted air, impressions and negative energy environments), so that the energy saving advice It is even more important when you think that, no matter how hard you try, in the western world, we all survive energetically, since we do not get to absorb more than the daily dose of fuel we need to exist another day. If you don't save something from what you get, you can't take the step to live and develop.

Be impeccable, do not assume anything, do not take anything personally and always do your best. Four tips for a single way of life.

By David Topí

David Topí: The only way to live

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