{"id":21133,"date":"2020-10-29T01:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T01:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johndavidsatsang.international\/be-as-you-are.html"},"modified":"2020-12-24T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:37:40","slug":"se-como-eres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johndavidsatsang.international\/es\/blog-posts-es\/se-como-eres\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9 como eres"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\tI have observed that amongst spiritual seekers there is some confusion about the topic of change. Often people have glimpses, moments or times when the identification with the thoughts, emotions and all the things that normally tie people down, breaks down. The invitation is to a deep acceptance of our True Nature, which is the Self or the silence that occurs when the thoughts become still and when we do not identify with them. This is the goal of our spiritual life \u2013 to absolutely be as we are. This is an amazingly egoistical idea because the divine wisdom, has put you into a particular situation and you are saying no, you want to change it. But it is also a little bit subtle because there is this deep priority or desire to reach Self-realisation and then to live in this realisation. There is another approach to life. You have an inner desire or longing to become Self-realised, to become unattached to the thoughts. You realise that right now you are absolutely identified with the false self, with the illusory self, and that you are playing out in your life your own particular soap opera. You simply accept yourself, the false self, as you are. Life has a tendency to give you exactly what you want. If you want to be rich, you can become rich. If you want to be Self-realised, you can become Self-realised. \u2018Be as you are\u2019 is an invitation to accept yourself exactly as you are in this moment without any self-judgement. \u2018I am not okay the way I am, I have to change.\u2019 My recommendation is to completely accept yourself as you are in this moment and at the same time have the goal or longing to come to Self-realisation. When we can accept ourselves in this moment we suddenly discover that life becomes much more easy because we are not putting onto the realities of daily life some kind of philosophy or idea about how we would like to be.
But in daily life they find it not easy to come back to this transcendence and often they feel very strongly that they are wrong and should change.<\/span><\/p>\n
It is very common among spiritual seekers to have self-judgements in everyday life, to have the idea that you are not okay and that you should change. This is a subtle mistake because implicit in this idea of changing is that I am going to change because I don\u2019t think I am okay as I am.<\/p>\n
Therefore, as you judge yourself not realised now, you think you need to change something so that you can be realised in the future.
There is a paradox! Change has to happen but you can\u2019t do the change because the \u2018you\u2019 that wants realisation doesn\u2019t exist. This \u2018you\u2019, in fact, is an illusion. You are a creation of your conditioned mind.
You are identified with your conditioned mind, and this \u2018you\u2019 simply doesn\u2019t exist. You believe that it does exist and therefore you also believe you can change so that one day you can be as you are. Then of course life becomes very complicated.<\/span><\/p>\n
A deep self-acceptance that right now you are exactly as you\u2019re meant to be, exactly in the place you are meant to be and you are exactly doing what you are supposed to do. See that these things are changing but they are not changing because you are changing them.
Change simply happens and if you have the longing to become Self-realised there will be a movement of change to bring you to this Self-realisation.<\/p>\n
This is a completely wrong way of thinking and nothing happens, except that you are constantly making yourself unhappy. You can\u2019t change like that and you realise that your judgements about yourself have been going on for a long time and haven\u2019t brought you very much.
Existence is not separate from what is. You are also not separate from what is. And \u2018what is\u2019 includes everything: emotions, feelings, everything. If you are bored, be bored. If you are happy, be happy.
If you are pissed off, enjoy it. We always have the idea that we have to change pissed off into something nice. Nothing has to change. Anyway, how can you change it?<\/p>\n
We just trust our navigation system, our own being and live our life in presence from moment to moment, a very simple flow.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t