101. The third eye: Preface

 

Consciousness has always been a spiritual task, while ignorance represents renouncing spiritual fulfilment, the full life, and comfort. Our free will and the practice of vigilance are necessary to awaken from ignorance and realize that our consciousness is limitless. When we think, speak, and act unconsciously, why don't we realize that we could be just as capable of thinking, speaking, and acting consciously with the same energy? Throughout human history, there have been civilizations with conscious, high levels of knowledge, as well as less conscious or ignorant civilizations. In the latter case, ignorance was primarily caused by comfort, immersion in matter, the desire for power, and isolation. Ignorance always complicates the simple, while consciousness makes the complex simple. Many believe that to achieve consciousness, it's enough to attend a course, take some training, study for a few hours, and then the miracle happens: we become conscious. Why can't our whole life be dedicated to acquiring consciousness? 

Let's make an inventory for ourselves: how much do we focus on our body, our mind, and material things during the 24 hours of the day, and how much do we focus on our soul? We will see that the time spent on the material (body-mind) far exceeds the time spent on our soul. Nevertheless, we want to be conscious from one day to the next. Due to our awareness, we know that our life is finite, that with each passing day and hour, we are closer to the end. Therefore, we have no time to waste. We must manage the time we have been given, because time is not money, but sacredness. The ignorant person thinks they will live for a hundred years and still have time to focus on their soul. The profit-driven individualist does not recognize that they only have lonely, horizontal relationships and lacks vertical ones. The wise and conscious person knows they cannot afford to live in the past, stored in their memory, nor as a slave to their individualistic desires in the future. We must be present in the ecstasy of the NOW, in the transcendence of time. In this joy and ecstasy, the seeing through our third eye helps us.