Italie 2012-12_La force de l'âme

remember what we're talking about here in this kind of evolution is evolution goes from um you go from a stable self structure right stable then dissolution falls apart then integrates again comes together at a higher level right that's how Evolution works at at the level of matter at the level bi biologically and also psychologically and spiritually so you could say part of part of this is really about I how to become a very strong person that's a very easy way to think about all this how do I become a very emotionally morally uh emotionally psychologically morally philosophically and spiritually very strong person how do I become very strong and I don't just mean like you know physically strong because you can be physically strong and be a coward right you can have big muscles and be a coward at the level of your soul you can be weak so that's not this the strength I'm talking about what it might include being physically strong but it's it transcends it infinitely it's a much deeper level so this kind of development that I'm speaking about you know is a really it's it's all encompassing and um I I refer this capacity had would have to do with the strength that we have at the level of our soul how strong is anybody at the level of their own soul so often when I think when I think about the soul and talk about the soul it's um the way I've been describing it has to do with our capacity for virtue for moral virtue or goodness so what is any particular individual's capacity for virtue and goodness what is the individual's capacity for moral virtue or good goodness and in this particular case in other words and so the answer to that is um in the way in relationship to these teachings the the moral virtue and goodness would be relate you could Define it in two ways one is how big are their aspirations because to have very big aspirations you have to be very courageous you can't be a coward right you know you could be crazy and have big aspirations you can be deluded and have big aspirations you can be a fool and have big aspirations but you can also be humble and serious and have very big aspirations right so so on one hand it would be having the courage to have very big aspirations on one hand and the other it has Having the courage not to crumble or not to dis dissolve under pressure now the way the ego works is the way the ego works is because the ego really is I mean the ego has many definitions but in the way I'm speaking about is very wretched right no accountability so the ego the ego since it's so emotionally based the ego basically goes with how I feel right now you understand that's more or less the ego and the way I'm describing it that's what a tend that's what its tendency is it just it kind of goes with the feeling of the moment so if I feel inspired I will say yes without any thought about what I'm doing I say well I better not say this unless I'm thinking long term am I willing to back it up today tomorrow next week next month next year 10 years from now I better not say anything I better keep my mouth shut because I know I'm a coward right but if someone is really arrogant say yes why it just feels so good right now it feels really good you follow and then of course when the weather changes or a few clouds come in the sky they change their mind you say well what happened you say well I don't feel like it but you just said does any of this sound familiar to you I'm sure sure you must know somebody like this the other is if looking through the lens of the ego that maybe that if you can let's say you recognize something is absolutely true right philosophically true morally true and spiritually true right you recognize something is morally philosophically and spiritually absolutely true and you it's you know it you're not any doubt about it and at the same time you realize that you're too much of a coward to respond to it even though you know morally philosophically and spiritually it's absolutely true right and then the problem with that doesn't bother you very much that would mean your soul is not in good shape it means it's okay that's a bad I mean in the way the teachings go and the way I think of it that's not a good place to be so in order to be able to do this not just for the short term but to for the long term what I'm calling the soul is what we need to develop if you don't develop your soul your ego will will win if you don't develop your soul strength if you don't develop your soul strength your ego will Define your destiny so the soul here is the best is what we're talking about is your capacity for ver virtue your capacity for moral virtue you follow and I think that developing your soul in the way that I think about human development is much more important than being an what I call an enlightened person which would mean the enlightenment here is you are directly awake to these non-relative or absolute dimensions of reality and of Consciousness itself which is what enlightenment's all about but I would but I feel Soul development in the way I'm speaking about it is even is more important even than that