THE VERTICAL LINE AND THE HORIZONTAL LINE

The cross is one of the simplest geometric figures : one vertical and one horizontal which are in right angle. The horizontal direction is one of ostentation, the dispersion like the water that spreads on a surface. The vertical is that of unification, like the fire that is thrown towards the sky.

The horizontal line is that of matter, the vertical the spirit. These two directions are complementaries. The symbol of the cross invites us to continue doing the work on the subject, taking the vertical direction to return to spirit.

We have to understand the need to enlist the two principles that accompany us continuosly to develop and carry out any objective. The emitter principle that you want to express from a conception of linked ideas through the receiving principle what does of channel to absorb the messages that it captures and must know how to decipher to boost the relevant resorts that give practical precision in the surrounding environment.

We can not set aside one of the principles, because there is no movement at that time. The task is harmonize constantly the function of each one, active and passive, male and female to generate the base that serves as endorsement where to carry out the successive plans that allow us to move from one abstraction to concretion.

The vertical line is hierarchical, indicates the need of respect not only in relationships, but in resources which offers the universe so that from the highest ones going down to the matter to shape our pretensions.

The horizontal line are the established contacts, the dependence we have of nature and other people to cover demands, and in these needs lies the efforts that we make. The evolution, the improvement, it will depend on the appropriate lace with the environment and the established links.

Vertical and horizontal, time and space, combined with the objective of a movement that gives sense to existence with one purpose. Each one of us must find out its specific function in the place it occupies with the characteristics that have. Link the two lines so that our presence in this plan accomplish the objective for which we are precisely here.

QUESTION OF PROPORTIONS

Everything is a question of proportions. ¿ Based on what ? to a context, a singularity, some needs, some objectives. The application of such proportions it will be based on criteria that may be ideal or not, where everything is a matter of experimenting and seeing results.

When someone says I am happy or sad what determines it ? To what facts, sensations ? Which marks the fact of seeing or feeling like that ? What happens between being content or displeased ? What I like or not. What do you like ? What you see, hear, listen ? What makes it nice ? Some sensations. Do these sensatons come from ? Someone fall good or bad. What is the balance in one sense or another ? What he says, what he does, how he says it, how he does it ? Of all people we have known how many have impacted us strongly ? How many have we found interesting ? How many have we found sympathetic or unfriendly ? How many have we had an easy or difficult link ? How many have we learned ? Of all of them in what proportion have we enjoyed the transmitted ?

We are measuring a lot or little depending on multiple parameters taking into account the idyosincrasy itself, which implies the formation of a code of values, which can be diametrically opposed by someone else.

In the subjectivity of what surrounds us, observed from a limited vision, we tend to exaggerate or dispise, raise or reduce, often with a partial view. We believe that we are in disposition to make equable verdicts seeing only small fractions impregnated with preconceived  ideas and sensationallism.

The desire to experience vivid apotheosis they are latent in us, and at the time of truth, the routine, the boring repeatability, the low quality relationships, the mediocrity prevailing in everything, submerges us in a disappointment that we are unable to transform because we don´t know how to do it. And that´s when trivial facts we give them a category of fantastics, because our level does not give form more, and the middle range we raise them to excellence to not collapse in the bleak panorama that accompanies us daily.

SMALL GAINS, LARGE LOSSES

What we want to gain / to obtain ? We pursue a noble or innoble purpose ? The focus is only thinking of the benefit itself or to generate balanced exchanges ? With an impatient projection in the short term, or a gradual solidity pointing to the long term ?

What we want and how tell us our character. Achieve new goals is the dynamizing engine, but we need to know what and why, having to guard for the demands both material and spiritual.

We must ask : Which are the most important gains?  What do you really value to get involved with ? The considered relevant if we get it will report an improvement in some sense ? Will we move forward in some area ?

At every moment we have what we need, if we want more, if we notice shortcomings ¿ Does the voice come from some worldly selfish desires, or of the inner voice that yearns expand the virtues as being ? What we can gain now quickly with unethical maneuvers, becoming loss in time view ¿ is really worth a momentous enjoyment and a long dissatisfaction with discomfort and tension in the way ?

The excess, the abuse, with an incorrect proceding generator of short circuits, satisfies temporarily and disconnects from the abundance to end poverty. The lack of initial clarity in the purpose and in the process with the subsequent consequences, ends up converting the desired welfare in discomfort, and the supposed gain in loss.

If the achieved is with illicit means, taking advantage of others, creating seeds of discord, perhaps the instinctive inferior nature will be satisfied, but in the way we will lose the virtues, deep wound will occur, and the potential light to generate splendor in our lifes it will end up empty for being driven from the dark.

It is wothwhile to move away from eternal value pursuing ephimeral values that sooner or later will dilute ? Sacrifice the highest by the lowest ?

Where we intend to project interests, towards what uphold us or towards a degradation for what has been done and caused ?

We must desire to win for improve the external conditions from the internal improvement, From the abstraction to the concretion to engage body and soul in a way of constant progress.

THE CONCEPT OF HAPPINESS

How can the concept of happiness be defined ? Probably the thing that can merge connecting the inside and outside with a sensation of welfare.

Everyone follows the happiness so it´s supposed to provide pleasantly through some facts, of experienced ones.

Each one is different, and therefore the conceived as happiness by someone it will not be for another. Many factors come into play, from personal evolution and goals, until the means of action, circumstances and execution possibilities.

The imagined as a source of enjoyment, once experienced can be a disappointment, a kind of balloon that is deflated by placing expectations on oscillating external factors.

What is to be happy ? Why ? What are the codes that incline in this regard ? What do we have to notice to make this statement ? How can be happy if what surrounds us constantly hangs from a thread ? What can do happy ? Have brilliant ideas ? The result of certain actions ? What difference of parameters is there between the materialist and some with spiritual restlessness ? What is the difference between happiness and joy, satisfaction and content ?

The " sensation " of happiness must be combined the one that flows from us with the field where we are located. A combination of thought and feeling with an emotional component that grants value to certain characteristics considered important or significant for us.

Why someone is happy and why someone not ? For the capacity or the incapacity to cling to the surrounding environment.

Because of being rich must be happy ? No. Because of being poor must be unhappy ? No. The fact to have only means greater possibilities to get resources and choice. What we means by happiness is a rewarding sensation product of a combination of factors that vibrate with our kindness.

We can not be happy if we are selfish, if we are indifferent to the suffering of other people or animals, if we don´t know to treat correctly the neighbour. The longed for happiness only can come from sharing, giving and serve, to worry sincerely for others. The ability to create union nexus to facilitate the best of each one through intelligence and sensitivity.

For more different than others, this must be the way.

THE CRITICISM ( II )

The criticism is useless if there is not a transformation and improvement.We can express disagreements, that they´ll leave all the same if there is not subsequent action with the will to straighten the dissonances. 

In front of two antagonistic positions criticizing each other. who is well routed ? The one who looks for the final harmony with a focus and overall incidence.

Of everything that we got to criticize, what is true and what is false, what is exaggerated and what does not, what is real and what is imaginary ? Too lightly think of anything from a very limited perspective, believing that we know enough of the subject when in fact is much more the ignorant than the well known damaging much of the comments, and finally undermining the background  by the forms.

If we don´t see the bigger picture how can we have the boldness to crticize a small portion of a context that escapes to our perception and understanding ? What happens individually and collectively has a goal, is a part of a chained plot to push up to the higher level in our expressions.

We can discover the origin, the cause of a crisis, in the indidual and social, but the fact of criticize the one that generate chaos, frustration and tension it does not help to solve the dilemma that puts us to the test forcing us out of comfort for the uncomfortable.

Mistake,stumble several times, is part of the learning. When we are not sufficiently accurate we must stop, observe where is the error, correct and prepare to keep climbing new steps.

We are not here to satisfy continually the ego desires. Our function is turn us into righteous, and this needs to be replaced the judgment with the component of implicit criticism in mercy, but only will be possible increasing the wisdom that allows to see clearly injecting the essential sensitivity doses towards others and their circumstances.

When harmony rests inside is manifested outside, this is what must be done at any time and there is no longer any criticism because we are only pending to do the right in every moment.

THE CRITICISM ( I )

What drives to criticize ?  The eagerness of perfection. ¿ How can we know what is appropriate in each case taking into account our shortcomings, ignorance and imperfections ? In the background  most of times, it is because others say or do what we do not like from our ideal perspective according to the idiosyncrasy forged over the years.

There are occasions where criticism has a foundation for its evidence, but in these cases it should be more an observation, a reflection, to correct what damages.

How is possible that in front of the same fact someone criticize and others defend it ? Who is right ? If one of the parties expose irrefutable arguments, how can the other misrepresent the happened before the evidence ?

Everyone criticizes and everyone has been criticized. We are sure that we have the possession of the truth, but this is an ego product. To know where the corect or incorrect one lies requires a consciousness in constant expansion, to instruct spiritually, do not let yourself be affected emotionally to preserve the equanimity, and leave personal interests out of context to issue the fair verdict.

Criticism is a judgment, fixing ourselves in a small portion. We don´t know what is the hidden trigger of why are occurring certain facts, why have been pronounced certain words or performed actions and the echo caused.

If at all times it happens what must happen, which seems incorrect from a superficial observation and lack of referents, it´s correct from subtlety.

If crticized in principle according to our beliefs, tastes and convictions, after a while it becomes a profit ¿ was it citicized or was it an opportunity ?

ACCUMULATING DAYS

We are acmulating days, where the important is not the quantity but the quality of these.

In the increase of add life ¿  we do this by acquiring virtues, improving habits, treat others correctly, set new plans for personal improvement ?

What are doing good during the day to be remembered, worth it ? We are wandering because there is no other remedy, or we have a concern that allow us to go beyond subsistence ?

How many of us know why is it here and now in this dimension, the cause of their presence and  the specific task to perforn ? How many between us made this question ? Why we want to live ? For what ?

We live conscious, semi-conscious or unconscious ? What motivates us to preserve our continuity here ? With what purpose ? Why the desire of many earthly years when close relationhips are a disaster in a great number, when we are unable to modify harmful ancestral behavior for us and those around us, when having the most information and access to knowledge we don´t know how to live healthy nor make a productive use of these potential resources ?

We improve the tools of everyday use, but we continue immersed in the discord. Before there was a kind of danger, and now there are others created by voracity and clumsy.

Why we want accumuilate days ?  To follow the same spiritual poverty ? To perpetuate the petty,selfishness, ignorance ?  To fight against each other in order to impose their own desires ? Or we want accumulate days to clarify the sense, the goal and the purpose of a transient existence where the more deep is beyond of our comprehension and limited consciousness of this physical world ?

NOT TO DO WHAT WE HAVE TO DO

Not to do what we have to do how many things we have to do ! Want to preserve the privileges obtained with bad manners damaging a large part of the population, generating considerable conflicts, where far from solving the problematic background it gets worse by shielding the established position with the means of indispensable force without the slightest sensibility or consideration, exercising power without ethics or moral, manipulating laws and what is convenient to perpetuate.

Only is good and valid the one that suits and interest to the stablishment, and if they are threatened don´t doubt to act with all despotism, lies and perversions, imaginable and unimaginable, turning what can be solved in sensible form and longing for justice, in a nightmare and permanent revulsion with the purpose of maintaining wicked interests.

Affairs that can be solved with dialogue, with respect, follow without finding an exit for years or decades because they are imposed over and over again the brutal forms that don´t have any consideration  using all means at their fingertips to preserve petrified conditions that are rotten from the root spreading increasingly to all areas.

These few dominators get dirty and dirty the population with primary approachess and the bestiality that show the words and actions.

Those who believes themselves great they are portrayed with their smallness, preventing the advancement of those who have progressive projects because in the society continues imposing the rudeness to the intelligence, the violence to the peace.

And so the time goes by, those who try to live like deads in perennial immobility, and those who want to move forward and they can not because again and again the aggressiveness and barbarism still prevails unfortunately paying all us the consequencees.

ALWAYS BETWEEN TWO PARTS

We find always between two parts. The one that begins and the one that ends. Between the action and the rest, silence and noise, day and night, give and receive. When we are in one side of the balance the other is not there, but is also a link between what is and goes giving way to a new situation. In fact everything is a link and there is no emptiness but a change. This indicate the transitory nature on one side, and the need to harmonize continuously so that wherever we meet during the day we are coupled in an appropriate way.

Do we know how to extract profit from each part ? When we start a project we are well enough ready to get a profit in a short or large term ? The end of a stage, a cicle, of a job, of a relationship, have they brought some kind of expansion and improvement ? The daily occupation is driving me wherever I am supposed I have to go there for my peculiarities, talents and purposees ? Or I simply try to survive without any other defined objective ?

The words, the conversations in which I participate, are edifying, inspiring, or it´s a simple talking to talk ? Is it better what I say or what I don´t say ?

We often do not know how to be comfortable neither in a side nor in the other if we have acquired before an inner tranquility that is accompanied by an uplifting project of personal and social implication. The dilemmas between what we do or not, what we take or let, what we want or what we reject, it submerges us in this going forward unavoidable but not satisfied and disconforme powerless to straaighten out the general context as we would like to being immersed in the immediate with a narrow margin of maneuver to reverse it.

We  will never develop the potential in full, why in the way the own shortcomings and those who cross in the way, they keep us in lethargy of not being awake as it would be necessary nor complete asleep. And so, if we don´t know to take advantage of what each part of the polarity offer, we will remain incomplete with the feeling of unsatisfctory void that accompanies us continuously.

MINIMUM ESSENCE

What is left of all experimented ? Whatever it is from everything preserves only a minimum essence.

Of the ingested food only the indispensable for good function remain, and the unserviceable is eliminated.

If we attend a conference, at the end will only remember some nuances, and after a few days it will still wane more.

Of the learned in a course for more dominion what we got to get, we will retain a portion, the rest will be forgotten along the way.

What do we keep in the memory of a trip ? For more than we liked it, finally only sparks of a landscape, a monument, a restaurant. Very little compared to everything seen.

Of a friendly encounter, of enriching debates, for more than in a moment we had them savored, a small fraction is what will remain if there is something left after one time.

What have we taken advantage really of the day ? What benefit we have obtained ?  It´s more the rage useless in banal occupations or in edifying actions ?

Nor do we take advantage of our potential nor of everything that is at our fingertips. Pursuing trivialities we are disconnected from the essence. Putting the secondary as the objective, on the way we lose the main thing.

Only the subtle is preserved of which we live, which is or can be useful. Also disagreable memories, and they are just keep to awaken consciousness and decipher the message to discover the subtlety.

Let´s misappress the valuable one as if it were not, hurrying in the indispensable one by the prevailing superficiality, and in the end everything will be diluted if we have not been able to feed and cultivate the essence.