La Mentira

Eongar

Dagobah Resident
He recopilado los comentarios sobre la mentira que me han parecido más relevantes de Gnosis I de Mouravieff. Si es posible, dejo más abajo el texto traducido al inglés para corrección, ya que me gustaría publicarlo en el foro principal. Gracias.

La Facultad de mentir

[...]La Facultad de mentir es el tercer elemento constitutivo de nuestra vida fáctica que ayuda a ésta a proporcionar esa apariencia de continuidad en la Personalidad. Podemos comprender sin dificultad el rol que desempeña la facultad de mentir si tratamos de representar lo que sería nuestra existencia en caso de que esta posibilidad nos fuera negada. Los choques y conflictos que deberíamos enfrentar nos harían la vida imposible. En este aspecto las mentiras nos sirven de topes, como los topes de los vagones de ferrocarril sirven para amortiguar los choques. Es así como la facultad de mentir hace menos contradictoria nuestra vida y contribuye a darnos la impresión de continuidad. Una vez más nos encontramos ante el hecho de que nos atribuimos facultades que sólo poseemos como posibilidades a desarrollar. Tenemos la pretensión de ser veraces. Pero decir la verdad y vivir en la verdad es una posibilidad que sólo será posible mucho más tarde, como consecuencia de un trabajo asiduo sobre nosotros mismos. Entretanto estamos condenados a mentir y el que lo niega está atestiguando la dificultad en que nos encontramos para mirar la verdad de frente.

[...]Vivimos en un mundo regido por la mentira. Mentir y robar son los elementos dominantes del carácter humano, sea cual sea la raza, la casta o la confesión. Cualquiera que afirme lo contrario, profiere simplemente una mentira más. El hombre miente porque en un mundo regido por la mentira, no le es posible hacer otra cosa. Es necesario agregar a esto, una particularidad a primera vista paradojal, que el progreso de la civilización, fruto de la cultura intelectual aumenta en proporciones considerables la necesidad de mentir.[...] De todas formas el hombre siente que no debería mentir. En su fuero interno, sobrevive una vaga reminiscencia de la pureza de la conciencia no pervertida de antes de la caída de Adán. Todo ser normal y sano siente más de una vez esta nostalgia de una vida no corrompida y la amarga tristeza de estar preso en ese engranaje de estafa moral y material.
Sin embargo, el hombre se deja ligar más en más estrechamente en la vida, porque esa facultad de mentir le da la maravillosa impresión de poder arreglarse mejor en las situaciones difíciles. Pero él olvida que una vez proferida, la mentira obliga. Porque el hecho imaginario así creado exige un contexto adecuado que, a su turno, debe, sino coincidir, al menos concordar con las circunstancias en las que vivimos y actuamos. Si se trata de hechos insignificantes, lo más a menudo la mentira no produce consecuencias serias, por el contrario, a falta de un contexto adecuado, una mentira grave conduce inevitablemente a una catástrofe en la medida de la importancia del problema.

Si se retoma distintos aspectos de este terna, el análisis de la mentira permite distinguir las siguientes modalidades:
—mentira a los otros;
—mentira a sí mismo;
—mentira inútil.
A estos casos de mentiras es necesario agregar casos particulares:
—la hipocresía que afecta una virtud, un sentimiento loable con la intención de engañar a personas de buena fe.
—La mentira integral caracteriza a la persona que, a fuerza de mentir y de engañar en toda ocasión, termina por creer en sus propias mentiras y así pierde todo sentido de la verdad.

[...] la hipocresía debe estar profundamente enraizada en la Personalidad del ser humano para convertirse en un elemento de su comportamiento. Vencer esta tendencia en sí mismo requiere esfuerzos considerables y dolorosos. Ningún trabajo esotérico fructífero puede ser realizado por aquel que no se ha desembarazado previamente de ese vicio. Es asimismo riesgoso para un hipócrita ponerse a la búsqueda del Camino. Porque de antemano está condenado al fracaso. Lo mismo es para aquel que se ha convertido en la víctima de la mentira integral.
Sin embargo es muy raro que las personas que sufren esos defectos, se interesen en la enseñanza esotérica. Orientada hacia la Verdad, esa enseñanza ejerce sobre aquellos que sufren esas anomalías psíquicas, una fuerte repulsión. Así podemos concentrar nuestra atención en los casos más difundidos que revelen las cuatro modalidades enumeradas antes.

[...]En cuanto a los esfuerzos tendientes a suprimir la mentira a si mismo, ellos producen otras consecuencias importantes. Porque esa mentira arrastra raíces profundas. Situaciones paradojales se presentan a veces en ese dominio. Algunas son de una sutileza psicológica tal que es difícil hacerlas salir de la oscuridad. Será suficiente evocar el caso de matrimonios donde uno de los cónyuges, habiendo comprendido que esa unión es un error, persiste de todas formas en intentar convencerse de lo contrario, y si es de naturaleza afectuosa, redobla la amabilidad frente a su pareja como si se tratase verdaderamente de su ser polar. Lo absurdo de la situación alcanza al colmo si la pareja reacciona adoptando una actitud correspondiente, sin sentir para nada un lazo sincero y espontáneo de ternura. Este verdadero “juego del amor" se hace evidentemente para gran provecho de la Ley General. El riesgo desde el punto de vista esotérico, es que, por la fuerza de la costumbre, tal situación no tome para uno de los esposos —o incluso para los dos—el valor de un amor verdadero. La mentira a sí mismo de esta naturaleza en las personas amables y de buena fe, a veces dura decenas de años y produce al fin de cuentas trágicas desilusiones.
El hombre que comienza a luchar contra la mentira a sí mismo debe estar prevenido de estas dificultades y el posible derrumbe de ciertos valores, o aun de todos ellos, a los cuales ponía precio. Pero sucede también que tales derrumbes internos se producen en seres que no están próximos al trabajo esotérico y que enseguida van a buscar allí alguna cosa más sólida y más permanente. Todos deben saber que el verdadero trabajo esotérico comienza sólo después que el neófito ha pasado por un fracaso total y sus dioses caídos por tierra.


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The Faculty of lying

[...] The Faculty of lying is the third element establishing the factual life it helps to provide the appearance of continuity in
Personality. We can readily understand the role played by the faculty of lying if we try represent what our lives would be if
that this possibility was denied us. Clashes and conflicts that should make us face life impossible. In this aspect lies we serve buffers, as the tops of railroad cars serve to absorb the impact. Thus, the power to lie less contradictory life
and helps to give the impression of continuity. A Again we face the fact that we attribute powers and possess only opportunities to develop. We claim to be truthful. But tell the truth and live in truth is a option will only be possible much later, as a result of diligent work on ourselves. Meanwhile we are doomed to lie and deny it is witnessing the difficulty in which we to look the truth in the face.

[...] We live in a world ruled by lies. Lying and stealing are the key elements of human character, regardless of race, caste or creed. Any to the contrary, simply utters a lie more. The man lies because in a world governed by
lie, you can not do otherwise. It is necessary add to this, a special at first sight
paradoxically, that the progress of civilization, the result of intellectual culture growing at a rate the need to lie considerable .[...] Of all forms the man feels that he should lie. In its Deep inside, survives a vague recollection of the
purity of conscience perverted before Adam's fall. Everyone feels more normal and healthy a Once this nostalgia for a life not tainted and bitter sadness of being caught in this spiral of moral scamand material. However, men and women are more and more link closely in life, because that power lie gives a wonderful impression to cope better in difficult situations. But he forgets that once uttered, lying forces. Because the fact imaginary
thus created requires an appropriate context, which in turn should, but agree, at least consistent with the
circumstances in which we live and act. If it is insignificant fact, most often not the lie produce serious consequences, on the contrary, in the absence proper context, a serious lie leads inevitably to a catastrophe in the measurement of
importance of the problem.

If it takes up various aspects of this theme, the Analysis of lying to distinguish the following
modalities:
-Lying to others;
-Lying to himself;
-Lying useless.
In these cases you need to add cases lies private:
-Hypocrisy that affects a virtue, a sense commendable with the intent to deceive persons of good faith.
- Lie-integral characterizes the person who, strength of lying and cheating at every opportunity, ends to believe their own lies and so loses all sense of truth.

[...] Hypocrisy must be deeply rooted in Personality of the human being to become a element of their behavior. Overcoming this tendency itself requires considerable effort and painful. No esoteric work can be carried out fruitful
for someone who has not previously rid of that vice. It is also risky for a hypocrite made Search the Way. Because of advance is doomed to failure. The same goes for anyone who has become in the victim of lies integral. However it is very rare that people who experience defects, are interested in the esoteric teaching. Facing the Truth, that teaching has on
those suffering from mental abnormalities such, a strong repulsion. Thus we can focus our attention on most widespread cases revealing the four modes listed earlier.

[...] As for efforts to suppress lie to yourself, they produce other consequences important. Because that drag roots lie
deep. Paradoxical situations sometimes occur in that domain. Some are psychological subtlety it's hard to make out of the darkness. Will enough to evoke the case of marriages where one of the spouses, having realized that this union is a mistake anyway persists in trying to convince him Otherwise, if nature is affectionate, redoubled kindness in front of your partner as though indeed of his being polar. The absurdity of situation reaches its peak when the couple reacts
adopting an appropriate attitude, without feeling for loop nothing sincere and spontaneous affection. This real "game of love" is obviously for much benefit from the Act. The risk from the point esoteric view is that, by force of
usual, this situation does not take to one's spouse -Or even for the two-the value of true love. The
lie himself of this nature in people kind and in good faith, sometimes lasting decades and
produces in the end tragic disappointments. The man who begins to fight against the lie to themselves
same should be forewarned of these difficulties and potential collapse of certain values, or even all them, which put price. But it also happens that such internal landslides occur in people who do not are close to the esoteric work and will soon
look there something more solid and more permanent. Everyone must know that true esoteric work begins only after the novice has undergone a total failure, fallen gods of earth.
 
Hi Eongar,

I copied the relevant excerpts from the English copy, it should include those in Spanish that you are referring to:

The faculty of lying is the third element in our factitious life. It helps
substantially to give it a semblance of continuity. We can easily realize
the role played by this faculty of lying if we imagine what our existence
would come to if this possibility were taken away. Life would become
impossible, due to the shocks and conflicts which we would have to face.
In this way, lies serve as buffers, like the buffers of railway carriages which
soften shocks. It is this faculty of lying which makes our lives less of a
rattle, and contributes greatly to the impression of continuity life gives us.
We are brought back once again to the fact that we attribute to ourselves
faculties which we do not possess — except as possibilities for develop-
ment: we pretend to be truthful because telling the truth and living a
truthful life are possibilities which can become real; but they can do so
much later, after we have worked hard and long upon ourselves. In the
meantime we are condemned to lie. Whoever denies this only testifies to
our difficulty in facing the truth.

(4)

We must linger a while on the question of lying, a question of great
importance to which we must return more than once. The faculty of
Iying is a function of our imagination, a creative faculty. Before we create
anything we must imagine what it is we wish to create. This gift belongs
only to humans. Animals never possess it.

It is thanks to this gift of imagination, a divine gift, that we have the
faculty of lying. We lie for different reasons, wishing generally to ame-
liorate situations which seem to us unbearable or difficult to accept. Lies
thus open the way for mechanisms of rationalization or of justification,
which are ways of 'patching up'. We shall see further on how the entangled
behaviour of persons round about us provokes many shocks, creating
difficult and sometimes insoluble situations of human relations, veritable
Gordian knots. It is thus in the utmost good faith that we resort to lies.
This being so, the attitude of the esoteric Doctrine towards lying is clear
and realistic. It does not require us to stop lying from the start, because
nobody can carry out such a resolution. However, if man cannot stop lying
to others, the same cannot be said as far as he himself is concerned. He is
therefore asked to stop lying to himself— and this in a definite way. This
requirement is absolute, and we can easily understand why. The objective
of esoteric work is the march towards Consciousness, which means towards
Truth. It would be a contradictio in objecto to try to approach the truth while
continuing to lie to ourselves or to believe in our own lies. We must
therefore eliminate any attempt to lie to ourselves: on this point no com-
promise can be tolerated, no excuse admitted.
But while in our present condition we cannot live without lying to
others, we must at least be conscious of our lies.
There is, nevertheless, another recommendation which we can make in
this domain. In the ensemble of our lies to others, tolerated esoterically, we
must exercise ourselves to distinguish between those lies which are in-
dispensable or inevitable, those lies which are simply useful, and those
which are not. The Doctrine asks those who study it to fight energetically
against those useless lies.

It is only by training of this nature that we shall progressively be able to
master the rooted tendency to lie which exists within us. Every attempt to
hurry things, so far as lying to others is concerned, though it be a noble
attempt, is doomed to early failure. We live in a world which is immersed in
lies and moved by lies. It is to be noted that the Decalogue, which imposes
observable commandments on man, does not forbid him from lying except
in a small sector of human relations; that of bearing false witness, and also in
situations where he is already badly predisposed to someone.


If we refer to the different aspects of this subject, an analysis of
lying ermits us to distinguish the following modes:
— Lying to others;
— Lying to oneself;
— Useful lies;
— Useless lies.
To these classic cases of lying, one must add two particular cases:
— Hypocrisy: the pretence of virtue, of praiseworthy sentiments, with the
intent to deceive persons of good faith;
— The integral lie: this characterizes that person who, from a habit of lying
and cheating on every occasion, ends by believing his own lies and thus
loses all sense of truth.
These two last cases are the hardest to cure: hypocrisy, in fact, must be
deeply rooted in the Personality of the human being to become an element
of his behaviour. To overcome this tendency within oneself requires
considerable and painful efforts. No fruitful esoteric work can be under-
taken by anyone who has not first rid himself of this vice. It is dangerous
for a hypocrite even to start searching for the Way, as he is condemned to
fall in advance. It is the same for him who has become a prey to integral
lying. Nevertheless, if these lies are not soiled with hypocrisy, meaning
that if the intentional mythomaniac element is entirely lacking, this case is
easier to cure than the preceding one.

It is anyway rather rare for persons suffering from these defects to
become interested in esoteric teaching. Oriented towards the true, this
teaching exercises a strong repulsion on those who suffer from these
mental anomalies. Thus we can now concentrate our attention on the
more widespread cases, which are related to the four modes listed above.
One can say in general that all men lie in these four ways, and those who
approach esoteric work do not escape from this rule. It is only the intensity
which differs from one person to another. Setting aside cases who lie for
the sake of lying, at the root of lying we can distinguish a whole series of
motives; they can spring from the baseness of our natures or be inspired by
the noblest sentiments. For example, we do not tell the truth to persons
who suffer from a malady which is hopeless. We lie sometimes to attenuate
the brutal effect of bad news. On the other hand, there exist cases where we
try to ameliorate the effects of facts by lies not out of hypocrisy but, if we
can say so, out of a taste for the marvellous and for the miraculous. Such
cases deserve our attention because they are out of the ordinary. We may
remember the text of the liturgical prayer by which, Jesus addressing
Himself to the Father, said: 'Thy word is Truth'? This creative force of
the Word, of the logos, which is the Son's very nature, lies within us in our
inmost heart.

We must note that we currently attribute to the subconscious world
phenomena and messages which really come from higher levels of Con-
sciousness. Moved by vague recollections, the man of good faith and a
generous heart sometimes feels the need of bringing consolation, a note of
optimism, and so distorts the facts by presenting them in a favourable
light. It is doubtless a praiseworthy attempt, but it is ineffective because of
the insufficient means available. For our word is not yet a word of Truth. If
they had had the power of the word of Jesus our lies, taking miraculous
power, would actually have improved the facts. The facts, however, re-
main in the same context as they were, before the man of good faith
attempted to improve them. This sort of lie could be defined as an attempt
to perform a miracle with insufficient means.

[...]

The man who starts to struggle against lying to himself must be fore-
warned of these difficulties, and of the possible collapse of some or all his
greatest values. But it also happens that such inner collapses are produced
in people who never approached esoteric work, but afterwards come to
search for something more solid and permanent. All should know that true
esoteric work only begins after the novice has passed through a general
bankruptcy, and has had his gods helplessly thrown to the ground.
 
Very Thanks, Psyque. And now, that ´s ok?

The faculty of lying:

The faculty of lying is the third element in our factitious life. It helps
substantially to give it a semblance of continuity. We can easily realize
the role played by this faculty of lying if we imagine what our existence
would come to if this possibility were taken away. Life would become
impossible, due to the shocks and conflicts which we would have to face.
In this way, lies serve as buffers, like the buffers of railway carriages which
soften shocks. It is this faculty of lying which makes our lives less of a
rattle, and contributes greatly to the impression of continuity life gives us.
We are brought back once again to the fact that we attribute to ourselves
faculties which we do not possess — except as possibilities for develop-
ment: we pretend to be truthful because telling the truth and living a
truthful life are possibilities which can become real; but they can do so
much later, after we have worked hard and long upon ourselves. In the
meantime we are condemned to lie. Whoever denies this only testifies to
our difficulty in facing the truth.

(4)

We must linger a while on the question of lying, a question of great
importance to which we must return more than once. The faculty of
Iying is a function of our imagination, a creative faculty. Before we create
anything we must imagine what it is we wish to create. This gift belongs
only to humans. Animals never possess it.

It is thanks to this gift of imagination, a divine gift, that we have the
faculty of lying. We lie for different reasons, wishing generally to ame-
liorate situations which seem to us unbearable or difficult to accept. Lies
thus open the way for mechanisms of rationalization or of justification,
which are ways of 'patching up'. We shall see further on how the entangled
behaviour of persons round about us provokes many shocks, creating
difficult and sometimes insoluble situations of human relations, veritable
Gordian knots. It is thus in the utmost good faith that we resort to lies.
This being so, the attitude of the esoteric Doctrine towards lying is clear
and realistic. It does not require us to stop lying from the start, because
nobody can carry out such a resolution. However, if man cannot stop lying
to others, the same cannot be said as far as he himself is concerned. He is
therefore asked to stop lying to himself— and this in a definite way. This
requirement is absolute, and we can easily understand why. The objective
of esoteric work is the march towards Consciousness, which means towards
Truth. It would be a contradictio in objecto to try to approach the truth while
continuing to lie to ourselves or to believe in our own lies. We must
therefore eliminate any attempt to lie to ourselves: on this point no com-
promise can be tolerated, no excuse admitted.
But while in our present condition we cannot live without lying to
others, we must at least be conscious of our lies.
There is, nevertheless, another recommendation which we can make in
this domain. In the ensemble of our lies to others, tolerated esoterically, we
must exercise ourselves to distinguish between those lies which are in-
dispensable or inevitable, those lies which are simply useful, and those
which are not. The Doctrine asks those who study it to fight energetically
against those useless lies.

It is only by training of this nature that we shall progressively be able to
master the rooted tendency to lie which exists within us. Every attempt to
hurry things, so far as lying to others is concerned, though it be a noble
attempt, is doomed to early failure. We live in a world which is immersed in
lies and moved by lies. It is to be noted that the Decalogue, which imposes
observable commandments on man, does not forbid him from lying except
in a small sector of human relations; that of bearing false witness, and also in
situations where he is already badly predisposed to someone.


We live in a world ruled by lies. Lying and stealing are the key elements of human character, regardless of race, caste or creed. Any to the contrary, simply utters a lie more. The man lies because in a world governed bylie, you can not do otherwise. It is necessary add to this, a special at first sight paradoxically, that the progress of civilization, the result of intellectual culture growing at a rate the need to lie considerable .[...] Of all forms the man feels that he should lie. In its Deep inside, survives a vague recollection of the purity of conscience perverted before Adam's fall. Everyone feels more normal and healthy a Once this nostalgia for a life not tainted and bitter sadness of being caught in this spiral of moral scamand material. However, men and women are more and more link closely in life, because that power lie gives a wonderful impression to cope better in difficult situations. But he forgets that once uttered, lying forces. Because the fact imaginary thus created requires an appropriate context, which in turn should, but agree, at least consistent with the circumstances in which we live and act. If it is insignificant fact, most often not the lie produce serious consequences, on the contrary, in the absence proper context, a serious lie leads inevitably to a catastrophe in the measurement of
importance of the problem.


If we refer to the different aspects of this subject, an analysis of
lying ermits us to distinguish the following modes:
— Lying to others;
— Lying to oneself;
— Useful lies;
— Useless lies.
To these classic cases of lying, one must add two particular cases:
— Hypocrisy: the pretence of virtue, of praiseworthy sentiments, with the
intent to deceive persons of good faith;
— The integral lie: this characterizes that person who, from a habit of lying
and cheating on every occasion, ends by believing his own lies and thus
loses all sense of truth.
These two last cases are the hardest to cure: hypocrisy, in fact, must be
deeply rooted in the Personality of the human being to become an element
of his behaviour. To overcome this tendency within oneself requires
considerable and painful efforts. No fruitful esoteric work can be under-
taken by anyone who has not first rid himself of this vice. It is dangerous
for a hypocrite even to start searching for the Way, as he is condemned to
fall in advance. It is the same for him who has become a prey to integral
lying. Nevertheless, if these lies are not soiled with hypocrisy, meaning
that if the intentional mythomaniac element is entirely lacking, this case is
easier to cure than the preceding one.

It is anyway rather rare for persons suffering from these defects to
become interested in esoteric teaching. Oriented towards the true, this
teaching exercises a strong repulsion on those who suffer from these
mental anomalies. Thus we can now concentrate our attention on the
more widespread cases, which are related to the four modes listed above.
One can say in general that all men lie in these four ways, and those who
approach esoteric work do not escape from this rule. It is only the intensity
which differs from one person to another. Setting aside cases who lie for
the sake of lying, at the root of lying we can distinguish a whole series of
motives; they can spring from the baseness of our natures or be inspired by
the noblest sentiments. For example, we do not tell the truth to persons
who suffer from a malady which is hopeless. We lie sometimes to attenuate
the brutal effect of bad news. On the other hand, there exist cases where we
try to ameliorate the effects of facts by lies not out of hypocrisy but, if we
can say so, out of a taste for the marvellous and for the miraculous. Such
cases deserve our attention because they are out of the ordinary. We may
remember the text of the liturgical prayer by which, Jesus addressing
Himself to the Father, said: 'Thy word is Truth'? This creative force of
the Word, of the logos, which is the Son's very nature, lies within us in our
inmost heart.

We must note that we currently attribute to the subconscious world
phenomena and messages which really come from higher levels of Con-
sciousness. Moved by vague recollections, the man of good faith and a
generous heart sometimes feels the need of bringing consolation, a note of
optimism, and so distorts the facts by presenting them in a favourable
light. It is doubtless a praiseworthy attempt, but it is ineffective because of
the insufficient means available. For our word is not yet a word of Truth. If
they had had the power of the word of Jesus our lies, taking miraculous
power, would actually have improved the facts. The facts, however, re-
main in the same context as they were, before the man of good faith
attempted to improve them. This sort of lie could be defined as an attempt
to perform a miracle with insufficient means.

[...]

As for efforts to suppress lie to yourself, they produce other consequences important. Because that drag roots lie
deep. Paradoxical situations sometimes occur in that domain. Some are psychological subtlety it's hard to make out of the darkness. Will enough to evoke the case of marriages where one of the spouses, having realized that this union is a mistake anyway persists in trying to convince him Otherwise, if nature is affectionate, redoubled kindness in front of your partner as though indeed of his being polar. The absurdity of situation reaches its peak when the couple reacts
adopting an appropriate attitude, without feeling for loop nothing sincere and spontaneous affection. This real "game of love" is obviously for much benefit from the Act. The risk from the point esoteric view is that, by force of
usual, this situation does not take to one's spouse -Or even for the two-the value of true love. The
lie himself of this nature in people kind and in good faith, sometimes lasting decades and
produces in the end tragic disappointments.

The man who starts to struggle against lying to himself must be fore-
warned of these difficulties, and of the possible collapse of some or all his
greatest values. But it also happens that such inner collapses are produced
in people who never approached esoteric work, but afterwards come to
search for something more solid and permanent. All should know that true
esoteric work only begins after the novice has passed through a general
bankruptcy, and has had his gods helplessly thrown to the ground.
 
Eongar said:
Please, Someone could pass me a link or mail a copy of Gnosis I? thanks

Hi Eongar, to my knowledge, Gnosis I is still under copyright, so it would be illegal to 'pass you a link'. Are you unable to purchase the book?
 
I have not been prudent, sorry. I have the book in Spanish, but I'd like to have it in English. It was just that. Better to let the issue
 
The Text is right translation?

Cuando se produce un choque que penetra de lleno en un humano, éste puede llegar a reaccionar de una manera que ni él mismo se podría esperar. Este humano, por mucho que sepa de la existencia de una gran multitud de yoes que pugnan en cada momento por el dominio de la mente y la existencia y que por tanto sabe que eso puede solventarse, se dejará llevar por aquel yo que ha surgido antes que los demás sin importar las consecuencias. Después, cuando este hipotético humano se encuentre más sereno y por tanto menos nublado por la emoción que ha desencadenado una situación concreta, llegan las lamentaciones. Uno toma consciencia de que su reacción mecánica no es beneficiosa y que ha errado; este darse cuenta es bueno en un principio, pero cuando pasado el tiempo la situación se vuelve repetitiva convirtiéndose en una constante en la vida, el trabajo interior se refleja en el estado de la persona; ése momento, cuando uno mismo puede ver que está haciendo lo mismo que antes de tener un conocimiento de lo que ocurre en su interior, es el momento oportuno para saber que no se está comprometido con el Trabajo, que tan sólo todo lo que uno sabe son palabrerías dichas y estudiadas por otros y que, en definitiva, todo el conocimiento adquirido es inútil si no se pone en práctica.
Ya decía el taoísta Liu I- Ming en sus Estribillos de Lamento:
Muchos practicantes lo único que hacen es saltar a la cuerda; en cuanto conocen una o dos frases zen [o de cualquier disciplina del conocimiento] fingen ser grandes eremitas, tras haber hecho un poco de meditación se autodenominan sabios superiores. Ese tipo de personas es insustancial, sospechosa y vacía; solo hablan para engañar a los demás, pero se engañan a sí mismos.
¿Cuál de ellos está deseando despertar y buscar la verdadera tradición?

La humildad en el Trabajo es uno de los pilares básicos para ponerse en marcha. Y el conocimiento, si se ha adquirido cuando uno no está preparado, puede convertirse en vanidad, y eso, por consiguiente, se torna en mentira hacia uno mismo y hacia los demás.



What I will say is just what I've seen in myself and sometimes others, so do not want to generalize.

When a shock fully enters into a human, it can react in a way that not even he expected. This man, however much they know of the existence of a multitude of selves that struggle at every moment the domain of the mind and the existence and therefore knows that this can be overcome, he indulged in self that has emerged before the other no matter the consequences. Then, when this hypothetical man is more serene and therefore less clouded by the emotion that has resulted in a specific situation, coming sorrows. One made aware that their mechanical response is not beneficial and has erred, this realization is good at first, but when last time the situation becomes repetitive becoming a constant in life, the inner work is reflected in the state of the person-that moment when one can see for yourself who is doing the same thing before having a knowledge of what goes on inside is the time to know that you are not committed to The Work, that only all that one knows are those babblings and studied by others and ultimately all the knowledge is useless if it is not implemented.

It said the Taoist Liu I-Ming in his regret Chorus:
"[...] Many practitioners all they do is jump rope, known as a sentence or two zen [or any discipline of knowledge] pretend to be great hermits, having done some self-styled meditation senior scholars . Such people are unsubstantiated, suspect and empty talk only to deceive others, but they deceive themselves.
Which one is willing to wake up and find the true tradition? "

Humility at work is one of the pillars to get started. And the knowledge, if acquired when one is not prepared, it can become vanity, and that, therefore, becomes a lie to oneself and to others.


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When a shock fully enters into a human, it can react in a way that not even he expected. This man, however much they know of the existence of a multitude of selves that struggle at every moment the domain of the mind and the existence and therefore knows that this can be overcome, he will allow to be carried away by that I that has emerged before the other ones no matter the consequences. Then, when this hypothetical man is more serene and therefore less clouded by the emotion that has resulted in a specific situation, sorrow comes. One becomes aware that their mechanical response is not beneficial and has erred, this realization is good at first, but when time goes by the situation becomes repetitive becoming a constant in life, the inner work is reflected in the state of the person - that moment when one can see for oneself that one is doing the same thing as previously before having the knowledge of what goes on inside. That is the right time to know that you are not committed to The Work, that only all that one knows are those babblings said and studied by others and ultimately all the knowledge is useless if it is not implemented.

Like the Taoist Liu I-Ming said in his Regret Chorus:

"[...] Many practitioners all they do is jump rope, they know a zen sentence or two [or any discipline of knowledge] they pretend to be great hermits, having done some meditation they call themselves senior wisemen. Such people are unsubstantiated, suspects and empty. They talk only to deceive others, but they deceive themselves.

Which one is willing to wake up and find the true tradition? "

Humility at Work is one of the pillars to get started. And the knowledge, if acquired when one is not prepared, it can become vanity, and that, therefore, becomes a lie to oneself and to others.
 
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