This is a whole technique that counteracts habits or exchanges them with others. We must develop a plan because it cannot be all at once, so that, little by little, we leave a certain habit until reinhabiting, reinhabiting, and adapting. When you achieve that, you become someone else because a person is just a set of habits.
And so, in general terms, it's perfect that before we start meditating, we take a few moments of tranquility to relax. Because if we start meditating as someone who does something that has to end at such and such a time, there is very little that can be achieved with meditation exercises. One must be prepared to enter meditation. To be silent and to allow, perhaps, the Golden Temple to enter us first. And then, with serenity, do all the themes we want.
But there are many ways to meditate. The meditation exercise introduces us to the habit of reflecting, of being aware of having enough serenity to realize more things than we are used to.
So, there was a time when I was walking down an ordinary street in Buenos Aires with Don Santiago, and I was always thinking about the themes of meditation, as we are talking about now, whether to do it like this or that. Don Santiago let me talk, talk, and talk until I ran out of what I had to say to him, and in an instant, he said to me: did you pay attention to the sidewalk you are walking?" Yes, I said, I'm walking on the sidewalk. Did you pay attention to the fact that these tiles were placed in mosaics? Did you think about who put them in? How much he worked to make them so well placed for you to walk on. How much he worked to make them so well placed for you to walk on. And that was the answer to all my questions about meditation. To realize it.
Every single thing that we have in life gives us messages. The chair I'm sitting in. This notch that she has and that makes her so beautiful. Who thought of it? Who designed it in a drawing? Who dedicated hours and hours for me to have this chair today?
Everything we wear, every floor we walk on, and every concept we have has been given to us by someone. When we realize that, we will experience an incredibly more extensive expansion than in any other exercise. Each is an opportunity to expand our understanding and become aware of many other things.
We have received an impressive heritage from thousands of years of humanity. And we are enjoying them as if they came out of nowhere, without thinking about the millions and millions of hours of life and suffering that this implies and has implied for me to have this today. And we are not grateful. We don't feel grateful. We don't feel committed. We don't feel indebted to anyone. We feel like we own all of this and whatever we want for it, and we don't realize that we didn't do something to get what we received. And we continue like this if we don't start by stopping the imbroglio we have in mind. One way to do this is to hook ourselves into the themes of meditation and learn to focus, to penetrate what things tell us, what habits tell us, what choices tell us, what we believe, and what we give ourselves. All of this tells us something. Like this mosaic on the sidewalk that I walk on.
So, if we learn to meditate, everything is a reason for meditation. I remember a quote from Picasso, not literally, but its meaning. It was something like that. Inspiration always comes to the artist. But she must find him working. Because if I close the window and leave, if inspiration comes, it won't find anyone to inspire.
And I see an analogy with the exercise of meditation. The exercise of meditation prepares us so that when the illumination of the Divine Mother arrives, we will be prepared to receive the spiritual discovery. Like the painter who even comes to him but needs to be painting, he will never paint if he is smoking in a bar or chatting with friends; it isn't easy to receive inspiration.
And so, in general terms, it's perfect that before we start meditating, we take a few moments of tranquility to relax. Because if we start meditating as someone who does something that has to end at such and such a time, there is very little that can be achieved with meditation exercises. One must be prepared to enter meditation. To be silent and to allow, perhaps, the Golden Temple to enter us first. And then, with serenity, do all the themes we want.
But there are many ways to meditate. The meditation exercise introduces us to the habit of reflecting, of being aware of having enough serenity to realize more things than we are used to.
So, there was a time when I was walking down an ordinary street in Buenos Aires with Don Santiago, and I was always thinking about the themes of meditation, as we are talking about now, whether to do it like this or that. Don Santiago let me talk, talk, and talk until I ran out of what I had to say to him, and in an instant, he said to me: did you pay attention to the sidewalk you are walking?" Yes, I said, I'm walking on the sidewalk. Did you pay attention to the fact that these tiles were placed in mosaics? Did you think about who put them in? How much he worked to make them so well placed for you to walk on. How much he worked to make them so well placed for you to walk on. And that was the answer to all my questions about meditation. To realize it.
Every single thing that we have in life gives us messages. The chair I'm sitting in. This notch that she has and that makes her so beautiful. Who thought of it? Who designed it in a drawing? Who dedicated hours and hours for me to have this chair today?
Everything we wear, every floor we walk on, and every concept we have has been given to us by someone. When we realize that, we will experience an incredibly more extensive expansion than in any other exercise. Each is an opportunity to expand our understanding and become aware of many other things.
We have received an impressive heritage from thousands of years of humanity. And we are enjoying them as if they came out of nowhere, without thinking about the millions and millions of hours of life and suffering that this implies and has implied for me to have this today. And we are not grateful. We don't feel grateful. We don't feel committed. We don't feel indebted to anyone. We feel like we own all of this and whatever we want for it, and we don't realize that we didn't do something to get what we received. And we continue like this if we don't start by stopping the imbroglio we have in mind. One way to do this is to hook ourselves into the themes of meditation and learn to focus, to penetrate what things tell us, what habits tell us, what choices tell us, what we believe, and what we give ourselves. All of this tells us something. Like this mosaic on the sidewalk that I walk on.
So, if we learn to meditate, everything is a reason for meditation. I remember a quote from Picasso, not literally, but its meaning. It was something like that. Inspiration always comes to the artist. But she must find him working. Because if I close the window and leave, if inspiration comes, it won't find anyone to inspire.
And I see an analogy with the exercise of meditation. The exercise of meditation prepares us so that when the illumination of the Divine Mother arrives, we will be prepared to receive the spiritual discovery. Like the painter who even comes to him but needs to be painting, he will never paint if he is smoking in a bar or chatting with friends; it isn't easy to receive inspiration.