THIS LIFE

Although it may seem incredible, it is certainly very true that this so much hackneyed modern civilization is frightfully ugly, it does not fulfill the transcendental characteristics of aesthetic sense, and it is devoid of inner beauty. We boast a great deal of those same old hair-raising buildings which resemble real mouseholes. The world has become tremendously boring, the same streets as always and horrible housing everywhere.

All these have become tedious, be it North or South, East or West of the world. The same usual terrifying, nauseating and barren uniform. "Modernization!", the crowds exclaim. We resemble vain peacocks with our fine clothes and shiny shoes, although all around us and throughout the world there are unhappy, undernourished and wretched millions.

Natural, spontaneous and ingenuous simplicity and beauty, without any artifice nor conceited make up, have disappeared in the female sex. Now we are modern, that is life. People have become dreadfully cruel, kindness is not found, nobody has compassion for anyone any more.

The display windows of luxurious stores are glimmering with extravagant merchandise which the less fortunate definitely cannot afford. The outcast in our society can only gaze at silks and jewels, costly bottles of perfume and umbrellas for the rain; look but not touch, a torment similar to those of Tantalus.

People of these modern times have become extremely gross. The perfume of friendship and the fragrance of sincerity have radically disappeared. People cry in anguish, overburdened with taxes; the whole world has problems; we are owed and we owe; we are taken to court and ordered to pay money, having none; worries ravage our brains; nobody lives in peace.

Bureaucrats, with their smugly curved paunches on which they psychologically sustain themselves, juggle mentally with politics in absolute unconcern for the grief of the peoples. Nowadays nobody is happy, least of all the middle-classes, who find their backs to the wall, facing the sword. Rich and poor, believers and nonbelievers, merchants and beggars, cobblers only exist because they have to live, they drown their torments with beer and wine and become drug addicts in their search for escape from themselves.

People have become malicious, suspicious, distrustful, cunning and perverse; nobody believes anybody any more. Every day new conditions are invented: certificates, all kinds of restrictions, documents, credentials, etc, and anyway, none of these serves its purpose any more, those who are crafty mock all this nonsense, they do not pay, they evade the law even if they may be imprisoned. No job brings happiness.

The sense of true love has been lost and people marry today, divorcing tomorrow. Family unity has been lamentably lost, organic modesty does not exist any more, lesbianism and homosexuality have become commonplace.

To know something about all this, to try to understand the causes of so much corruption; to inquire, to search, is certainly the purpose of these shared moments and writings with you, here on.

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The global family.

FREEDOM

The sense of Freedom is something which has not been understood by Humanity yet. Very serious mistakes have been made about the concept of Freedom, which is always presented in a more or less erroneous way. Certainly, we fight for a word: we come to absurd conclusions, commit all kind of abuses and shed blood on the battlefields.


The word Freedom is fascinating, everybody likes it. Nevertheless, we have not true comprehension of it; confusion exists in relation to this word. It is impossible to find a dozen people for whom the word Freedom has the same meaning and in the same way. In no way could the term Freedom be comprehensible for subjective rationalism.

Each person has different ideas about this term: people's subjective opinions lacking in any objective reality. When the question of Freedom is laid out, there is incoherence, vagueness, incongruence in each mind.

Freedom, beautiful word, charming term; how many crimes have been committed in its name! Unquestionably, the term Freedom has hypnotized the crowds; the mountains and the valleys, the rivers and the seas have become stained with blood by the spell of this magic word... So many flags, so much blood and so many heroes have succeeded one another in the course of history, every time that the question of liberty has been put onto the gambling table of existence.

Unfortunately, after every independence achieved at such high price, slavery continues within each person. Who is free? Who has achieved the freedom everybody talks about? How many people have emancipated? It is painful to answer this...

The adolescent yearns for freedom; it seems incredible that many times, although we have food, clothes and shelter we want to run away from the house of our parents searching for freedom. It is incongruous that the teenager who has everything at home wants to escape, to run away from his home, fascinated by the term freedom. It is strange that enjoying all kinds of comforts in a happy home we may want to lose what we have, to travel around the world and be submerged in suffering.

It is right for the unfortunate one, the pariah in life, the beggar, to yearn truly for leaving the dirty hovel, but for the well-off child, mother's golden boy, to want to escape, to run away, is incongruous and even absurd; however, this is how it is; the word Freedom fascinates, bewitches, although nobody can define it in a precise way.

That the maiden may want freedom, that she may yearn for changing home, that she may want to get married so as to escape from the home of her parents and live a better life, is partly logical because she has the right to be a mother; however once she is living as a wife she finds that she is not free and that she must continue carrying the chains of slavery with resignation.

The employee, tired of so many rules wants to be free and if he manages to become independent he finds himself with the problem that he is still a slave of his own interests and worries. Certainly, everytime that we fight for Freedom we find ourselves disappointed despite triumphing. So much blood shed pointlessly in the name of Freedom and yet, we continue to be slaves of ourselves and of others.

People fight for words which they never understand even if explained grammatically in dictionaries. Freedom is something that can only be achieved within ourselves. No one can achieve it outside himself. Riding upon the air, is a very Oriental phrase which allegorises the sense of genuine Freedom.


Nobody could really experience Freedom as long as his consciousness remains bottled in the oneself, in the myself. Understanding the self, me, what I am, is urgent when we very sincerely desire to attain Freedom. In no way could we destroy the shackles of our enslavement, without having previously comprehended all this question of "mine", all that has to do with the "I", with tie myself. What does slavery lie in? What is it which keeps us enslaved? Which are the obstacles? All this is what we need to discover.

Rich and poor, believers and nonbelievers, all are actual prisoners although they may consider themselves free. As long as the consciousness, the essence, the most dignified and decent part within us, continues to be bottled in the oneself, in the myself, in the self, in my cravings and fears, in my desires and passions, my preoccupations and violence, in my psychological defects, we will remain imprisoned.

The sense of Freedom can only be wholly comprehended when we have annihilated the fetters of our very own psychological prison. As long as the "self exists, the consciousness will stay imprisoned; to escape from that prison is only possible through Buddhist annihilation, by dissolving the "I", by reducing it to ashes, to cosmic dust. The free consciousness, devoid of "I", absolutely lacking the myself, without desires, without passions, without cravings and fears, directly experiences true Freedom.

Whatever concept of freedom is not Freedom. The opinions we may hold about Freedom are very far from being Reality. The ideas we may form on the subject of Freedom have nothing to do with genuine Freedom. Freedom is something we have to experience in a direct way and this is only possible by psychologically dying, by dissolving the "I", by ending the myself forever. It would be of no use to continue dreaming of Freedom, if at any rate we carry on being slaves.

It is better to see ourselves as we really are, to carefully watch all these shackles of slavery that keep us imprisoned. Auto-knowing ourselves, auto-seeing what we interiorly are, we will discover the door of authentic freedom.

Fear: Its Beginning, Middle and End.

Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or physiological. When there is complete attention there is no fear. But the actual fact of inattention breeds fear; fear arises when there is an avoidance of the fact, a flight; then the very escape itself is fear.
Fear and its many forms, guilt, anxiety, hope, despair, is search for security; it is there in so-called love and worship; it is there in ambition and success; it is there in life and in death; it is there in physical things and in psychological factors. (...)
Though it is sought after, blindly and with reason, is there ever inward certainty, inward continuity, permanency? There is not. The flight from this reality is fear. The incapacity to face this reality breeds every form of hope and despair.
Thought itself is the source of fear. Thought is time; thought of tomorrow is pleasure or pain; if it’s pleasurable, thought will pursue it, fearing its end; if it is painful, the very avoidance of it is fear. Both pleasure and pain cause fear. Time as thought and time as feeling bring fear. Thought is the whole process of consciousness, the open and the hidden; thought is not merely the thing thought upon but the origin of itself. Thought is not merely belief, dogma, idea and reason but the centre from which these arise, This centre is the origin of all fear. (...)
When this whole process of thought, time and fear is seen, not as an idea, an intellectual formula, then there is total ending of fear, conscious or hidden. Self-understanding is the awakening and ending of fear.
And when fear ceases, then the power to breed illusion, myth, visions, with their hope and despair also ceases, and then only begins a movement of going beyond consciousness, which is thought and feeling. It is the emptying of the innermost recesses and deep hidden wants and desires. Then when there is this total emptiness, when there is absolutely and literally nothing, no influences, no value, no frontier, no word, then in that complete stillness of time-space, there is that which is unnameable.

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Who are "our" in "our guests" refers to please?

The global family.

THE ANTICHRIST

Sparkling intellectualism as manifest functionalism of the psychological "I", is without doubt the ANTICHRIST. Those who suppose the ANTICHRIST to be a strange personage born somewhere on the Earth, or coming from another country, are certainly completely mistaken. The ANTICHRIST in no way is a particular individual, but all individuals. Obviously, the ANTICHRIST lies deep within every person and expresses itself in a multiple form.

The intellect put at the service of the spirit is useful; the intellect divorced from the spirit becomes useless. From intellectualism without spirituality arise rogues, vivid manifestation of the ANTICHRIST. Obviously, the rogue in himself and by himself is the ANTICHRIST. Unfortunately, the present world with all its tragedies and miseries is governed by the ANTICHRIST. The chaotic state in which the present humanity finds itself is undoubtedly due to the ANTICHRIST. The iniquitous one about whom Paul of Tarsus talked in his epistles, is certainly a harsh realism of our times. The iniquitous one has already come and manifests itself everywhere. It certainly has the gift of ubiquity. It discusses in the cafes, negotiates at the United Nations, sits comfortably in Geneva, conducts laboratory experiments, it invents bombs, remote-controlled rockets, asphyxiating gases, bacteriological bombs, etc, etc, etc.

The ANTICHRIST, fascinated with his own intellectualism, which is exclusive of the know-alls, believes that it knows all of nature's phenomena. The ANTICHRIST, believing itself omniscient, bottled among all the compost heap of its theories, rejects directly anything that might resemble God or be adored.

The ANTICHRIST's self-sufficiency, its pride and arrogance, is something unbearable. The ANTICHRIST mortally hates the Christian virtues of faith, patience and humility. Everybody goes down on one knee before the ANTICHRIST. Obviously, the latter has invented ultra-sonic aeroplanes, wonderful ships, splendid cars, surprising medicines, etc.

Under these conditions, who could doubt the ANTICHRIST? Whoever may dare nowadays to pronounce himself against all these miracles and prodigies by the son of perdition, condemns himself to the gibe from his fellowmen, to sarcasm, to irony, to being called stupid and ignorant. It takes work, to make the serious and studious people understand this. They in themselves react, offering resistance.

It is clear that the intellectual animal mistakenly called man is a robot programmed with nursery, primary, secondary school, college, university, etc. Nobody can deny that a programmed robot functions in accordance with the programme, it definitely would not be able to function if the programme were removed.

The ANTICHRIST has elaborated the programme with which the humanoid robots of theses decadent times are programmed. It is extremely difficult to make these statements, to emphasize what I am saying, because it is out of programme. So serious is this matter and so terrible the absorption of the mind, that not even remotely would any humanoid robot suspect that the programme is of no use, because he has been arranged accordingly with the programme, and to doubt it would seem to him a heresy, something incongruous and absurd. It is absurd for a robot to doubt its programme; it is something absolutely impossible, because his very same existence is due to the programme.

Unfortunately, things are not as the humanoid robot thinks them; another science exists, another wisdom unacceptable for humanoid robots. The robot humanoid reacts and he has a cause to react, because he has not been programmed for another science, neither for another culture, nor for anything different from its usual programme. The ANTICHRIST has elaborated the programmes of the humanoid robot; the robot humbly prostrates itself before its master. How could the robot doubt the wisdom of its master?

The child is born innocent and pure; the essence expressing itself in every child is greatly precious. Unquestionably, nature deposits in the brain of the newborn babies all those wild, natural, cosmic, spontaneous data that are indispensable for capturing or apprehending the truths contained in any natural phenomenon perceptible to the senses. This means that the newborn child would be able by himself to discover the reality of any natural phenomenon. Regrettably, the ANTICHRIST's programme interferes in there, and the marvellous qualities that nature has placed in the brain of the baby are soon destroyed.

The ANTICHRIST forbids you to think differently; every baby that is born must be programmed, by order of the ANTICHRIST. There is no doubt that the ANTICHRIST mortally hates that precious sense of the Being, known as "faculty of instinctive perception of cosmic truths". Pure science is different from the compost heap of university theories that exist here, there and over there; it is something inadmissible for the robots of the ANTICHRIST.

Many wars, famines and diseases have been propagated by the ANTICHRIST all over the Earth's surface, and there is no doubt that it will continue propagating them before the great catastrophe comes. Unfortunately, the hour of the great apostasy announced by all prophets has already come, and no human being would dare to pronounce himself against the ANTICHRIST.