09 - ENCONTRANDO A MORTE COMO A UM AMIGO - SÉRIE SRI RAM, leitura comentada - Lúcia Helena Galvão

Finding Death as a Friend Lúcia Helena Galvão, Brasilia, 2016 Today we follow this theme that I know it scares a little. It's curious right? Talk about death. No one likes to talk about her, like If the fact that we do not talk about death would make her not approach us. When we turn our backs on something, The most that can happen is that this thing gets us in the back. There is no way to escape death. Just remembering, we are within the cycle of this book. The idea is to talk about all the chapters of

this book "in search of the wisdom" of an author, Sri Ram, who died in 1973, that is, a recent author. How is a very special book, I wanted to include it in the project of talking about all its chapters. We are already in the 9th chapter. It's just 15. And today he will talk about this theme: Finding death as a friend. And the idea is to really discredit death, do with what death and life are not that different. The synthesis I would make this theme today would be that. The idea is to discredit death and

Learn to live with her still within life. Let's see how this happens. It is very common for Sri Ram to be inspired by other authors. You will see that our next chapter, The song of life is a beautiful chapter. Chapter 10 is my favorite of the book. He will be very inspired by a book called "The Light of the Way." Today will be a Platonic chapter. He speaks all the time of Plato, which made me very happy, Because I also really like Plato. And Plato commented by Sri Ram He is an excellent author commenting on

another excellent author. Plato, in his work in general, although this is debatable, because there are some works that are not considered authentic, legitimate, some apocryphal. In general, it is classified as 9 Tetralologies This platonic work. One of the tetralologies is the one that deals with the death of Socrates. Socrates, his Greek master, who at 80 years old was condemned, by the city of Athens, to drink the cicuta, that is, to drink poison, to die, for having perverted Youth, among other accusations. Is something very curious to consider that Athens, in such a corrupt moment, It was

Socrates who was perverting his youth. But anyway, very debatable. He was already a 80 -year -old man and is sentenced to drink the cicuta. After 10 years living with Plato, who was his main disciple, Plato honors him in his works, Putting Socrates as the main character Of almost all of them. Almost all dialogues They have Socrates as the main character. Because Socrates even writes absolutely nothing. So we have these 4 works, which are "Eutifron", from the moment Socrates arrives at court. It was a curious thing. We think we live in a single moment in which

human defects created situations complex to live in society. But look ..., it was never very easy. Human defects have always been very active. When we talk about ancient Greece, don't think that everyone there was Socrates and Plato. For you to condemn a person in ancient Greece was A very easy thing. Athens? very easy! Any citizen arrived and glued an accusation on the court wall, and they chose the jurors through what they They called white pebbles and black pebbles. You went out in the middle of the street, took a pebble, if you had taken a white

pebble, anyone, any citizen of course, because not It was all who were citizens, could be jurors. And the person himself defended himself, and depending on how friendly the jurors were, was acquitted or condemned, sometimes to death, by a foolish accusation. On one occasion, let me remember who the character was ..., I don't remember now! Was a Greek general from Athens, that there was an idea in Sparta to make an attack on him, because he was very good, an excellent military, and had been inflicting many defeats to Sparta. Then, finally, in the Spartan Council, They came

to the conclusion that they did not need worry about killing the Athenians, because the Athenians themselves killed. And in fact this general, soon after he was a war hero, Having saved the city of Athens, he was sentenced to death. And had to escape from Athens. I already remember his name, He is a well -known character. Anyway, the fact is that Athens had these inconsistencies, and Socrates, when he arrives at court, called to know of your accusation, It is the first dialogue: "Eutifron", Where he meets a young man who was about to make a charge to

his own father. And then it is discussed about compassion, the mercy. Very interesting this dialogue! Soon after comes the "apology" of Socrates, where is Socrates himself defending himself before the court. Then comes the "critic", which is the moment when One of his disciples tries to save him and rescue him from prison. And finally, one of the most beautiful of all the platonic work, the "fedon", which is Socrates in the final moments, In the last hours before you die, Even the moment he has already taken the poison. Then these 4 dialogues, especially the "fedon", are quite

commented by Sri Ram, because he says it is very difficult for you to see A person die so serenity And this be documented moment at moment. A person confront death with such haughtiness. In the history of humanity, This being documented in this way is a rare fact. So it is very valid to know the death of Socrates and how a philosopher behaves in the face of death. He will start talking about it! He will say something curious. In "Fedon", when their disciples enter the Socrates, It was 3 hours to be executed. Is a 80 -year

-old man, and was stuck in irons, with grills. Imagine you why a man 80 years old needed shackles. But he was arrested like this! And when they enter his cell, had just taken off the shackles, and catch it rubbing the leg, that was painful, of course. When people ask what had happened, Do you think he talks about something personal? Oh my leg hurts, nothing! He says: "How curious is human consciousness, because pleasure is simply the opposite of pain. " Minutes ago I felt pain, now I feel pleasure. That is, one at the same level as

the other. Pleasure as the simple relief of pain, And the mind is in this polarity. It's funny that right? That he never speaks personal! "Oh, as I am suffering, they put me in shackles And now my leg is hurting., Never!" Look how curious the human mind is, lives in a duality. This is very interesting! Says the old Chinese proverb ... You may have heard, because it is very well known, "Mediocre men speak of other men, Common men speak of things, and wise men speak of ideas." And Socrates is like this ... One does not see

he descending to the staff at any time. So it is interesting the placement it does, because it is a fact that this pleasure we consider as so good and so important It is simply a relief from pain. It is that critical moment of anesthesia at the dentist. When you arrive with the toothache it gives you an anesthetic. Isn't it a paradise? Do not angels sing "hallelujah"? Simply because you had a pain and suddenly it was taken. Both are on the same plane, it's nothing superior. It is a simple dialogue of opposites that keeps the man

stuck. In pleasure he is afraid of pain, in pain he is expecting pleasure, He doesn't leave ... Don't leave that level. Sri Ram will say that when they give him the poison, He begins to describe the effect of poison on his body, And keep dialoguing ... This dialogue is mainly focused on a theme, which is the existence of the immortal soul, the immortality of the soul. The citizen is dying. Give the cicuta to him and ask him to walk a little And then feels, and he says: I no longer feel my feet, and keep philosophizing

... I no longer feel the legs, and continues to philosophize ... Until he himself lies and covers his head with the sheet. Okay, now it's over! It's curious! And this with a serenity and dealing with ideas until the last minute. And it is very interesting what Sri Ram says, that we have to consider, that when a human being achieves this, It is a sign that we all have this potential, this possibility. The heritage of a human being who reveals itself It is the heritage of all human beings who is hidden. Therefore, one who is victorious

gives hope to all humanity. If you read the book one day ... you may have heard Talk about Bhagavad Gita, which is an Indian classic, For those who are already school students, they know well! Then after Bhagavad Gita comes a book called Uttara Gita, which is the continuation. Uttara gita says: "Whenever you feel downcast, Whenever you feel in discouragement, 0: 09: 57.030.0: 10: 04.050 Look at the horizon and sees Arjuna, the prince who is victorious under a mountain of his enemies.," That is, the prince who won himself. Look on the horizon and see that someone

won. And if anyone won, you can too! Isn't that interesting? If you think you won't give, look at who you got it. If you think victory is impossible, Look at the one who was victorious. Hence Plato said that the idea of the hero was so important be cultivated in human memory, This hero who won himself. So it's very curious! And he says he's rare in Story that you see something like this. The certainty of the soul and the good acceptance of death by a philosopher. And it would be absurd, because Socrates said that this was

possible The whole life, and life put him in test. He honored this proof! The whole life he He says death could be viewed serenity. Ever wonder? At the time of your death you have no serenity? He honored! He honored truths with practice. And this is an unique episode in human history. Sri Ram will say something very interesting, That we look at the birth and sunset every day, For our senses this is an undisputed fact, No one will say that the sun is not born or put it. It looks obvious! But it is not! It sounds

true, but it is not! We know that the sun is not born nor does it put any things, He is paradinho there in the center of the solar system. Not so paradinho because the system is moving around the center of the galaxy, but in relation to Earth it is very paid, Who is moving is us. And however, that is real It seems to contradict evidence that our senses They show, because we see him climbing and down. But despite this, there is an underlying truth, That is not that! And today science has proven that. If you

were going to say such a thing in the Middle Ages, They would die of laughing at you, "how is the sun born or put it? I see him born and put it. " Not everything you see is true, There are underlying truths. So you look at A dead body and says, "Died, it's over!", And it may not, although you are seeing. There may be an underlying truth, there may be A life that perpetuates itself beyond that body. So first thing, it doesn't take that seriously what seems to you as evidence, because our criterion for testing

evidence It's kind of weak, leaves something to be desired! Sometimes in the future, we laugh at the evidence of the past. Things are not quite like that, So exact. So there can be a Truth underlying physical death. Why don't we try to think of these terms? If this has so often happened in history. And then he talks about dialogue, 3 hours left for death of Socrates. Your wife enters with your children, Then their disciples enter, and start to dialogue. He proposes to his disciples that they begin to give ideas regarding the reason the soul is

immortal. Dialogue is a very interesting thing ... Beautiful to do, only so hard, because it requires everyone to know that it does not own the truth. If anyone thinks is the owner of the truth, A person who thinks he is, ends the dialogue, Lock! It generates discussion, hits mouth. So the dialogue requires a certain humility and know that it is not known. So everyone will opine and he, Socrates, It conducts the arguments. Then the people say, "Isan´t the soul like the music of a lyre, The body is the lyre and the soul is the sound

that comes out of the lyre ", Beautiful the idea ..., only he says: But not, as Carlos Drummond de Andrade would say: It's a rhyme, but it's not a solution. do you know why? Because if that were so, When the lyre break, where's the song? The soul would be dependent on the body. They say: "The soul can be like a fire, the body as if it were The wood that burns, and the soul the fire that comes out." neither! Because the wood is over, The fire ends together, and the soul tends to last and precede

the body. This is interesting because he considers it. He does not rebut in such a simplistic way. He will say why he thinks it is not so. Plato in another dialogue will speak That this way of thinking is very curious ..., He says that this way of thinking would generate in the future a very materialistic way of doing philosophy. What is curious ..., Because it happens exactly as he said. Not only in terms of existence of the soul, But in many subjects, Plato is almost ... I wouldn't say he's a seer, He is very logical.

He foresees things that today are reality, as if he had lived last week. The political guesses His are accurate, it's an impressive thing! It really looks like he read today's newspaper, It seems that he saw the result of the last municipal elections. He is very accurate on his political guesses, and humans too, as someone who know more or less the elements that Composes the human psyche and its analysis combinatory as well as what it can give. So Plato says: "This way of thinking that the soul is byproduct 0: 15: 01.140.0: 15: 08.070 of the body

will generate in the future several forms IRRELIGIOUS OF PHILOSOPHY .. THERE .. PAUSE!" Let's take a pause. For you to read Plato, To read Sri Ram, by the way, here, among us, I don't want to discourage you, but every good author, It will require you to redo your vocabulary. Do you know why? because ours words are too empity, we don't know exactly what we're talking about. So be careful not to make prejudice. Religion for Plato is not what we Think as religion, it is not an institution with a sign: "Religion". He speaks of religion as

"religion", as "religare", like what brings together heaven and earth. The connection of plan of ideas and the material plan. He speaks of religion as it raises man to his essence. And he says, "What should be religious?" All! Know what? All! The way, for example, we clean this room, If I clean thinking you will come here and will watch this lecture, Maybe you like it, maybe make a difference in your life, this is a religious act, elevates, Reread something ideal, raise my conscience. If I clean a glass trying to see More clearly, this is a religious

act. But If I simply do things thinking of the result for me Its not religious ... it is a horizontal line. Do you understand this idea? Much later, also a very interesting citizen, Immanuel Kant, he says a similar phrase: "What cannot be sacralized, 0: 16: 37.960.0: 16: 44.190 It is a sign that it should not be done." explaining, this is one of the moral precepts that Kant uses that I find it very beautiful. Think of a thing that has a sacred meaning for you, It may be your father's image, if it was an excellent father,

It can be a character history that inspires you a lot, can be a prayer, It can be any situation in life that for you inspires you to something very high. Every time you are going something, You should be able to stop and say: I do in the name of it., Because if this is fair and It must be done, it should be sacralized. I do in the name of my father., "I do in the name From such a thing I believe, such a feeling. " If you can't do this without shame, You can't do it,

this is a sign that You should not be doing. Because still the simple attitudes of life would give to sacralize. What is not sacralizable, It is a sign that it is not moral, that it should not be done. Isn't that interesting? Gives an amplitude in the concept of moral, gives a moral aspect metaphysics, that Kant was so concerned about doing. Then, Sri Ram will say something very curious, and Plato several times adds by saying: The truth is necessarily religious, That is, she raises, she makes a "religare", But not everything that is regarded today as religious

it is true, that is, the reciprocal not always it's true. Just as man is made of one and the other, the dark and the luminous, The world too, the institutions all too. So the reciprocal is not necessarily true, not everything that is Considered religious necessarily is true. Now the truth, if it is legitimate, necessarily It is religious. Raises, bridges a bridge between two worlds. Hence it is said that the wise man It was a kind of pontiff, with the feet on the earth and the head in the plane of ideas. Would communicate the two worlds.

So continuing has a passage from Plato, in another dialogue, Called: "The Republic", the last chapter It is so different from the rest of the book that the people say: This was not Plato who wrote., But was! There he speaks in a way that It is no longer logical, it is almost a myth, A revelation. He talks about a man, er, That would have died, really died! Of death died, as my grandmother said, and back from beyond To tell people what is valid And what is not in life. Exactly this idea that Death and life generate

contrast that generates awareness. So er from the world of the dead to life, exactly to say that What is valid in man's life are Values, virtues and wisdom. It is considered a metaphysical episode of Plato. The validity of life is this that you build yourself, the construction of things is a secondary product. Continuing, There is another passage that counts on the life of Socrates, that Sri Ram will also mention, who says they arrived For Socrates and asked: Socrates, where do the living come from? Then Socrates, sometimes he was kind of funny ... He turned and

said, "What do you mean where the living comes from? Where do the dead come from? "The question returned. Then they said: "What a most beastly question, Of course the dead come from the living! " And he replied, "What a most beastly question, Of course the living comes from the dead! " that is, it is obvious, it is a vicious circle, An eternal return, and everything in the universe would be like this. Not quite a vicious circle, a virtuous circle, It is the circle of life, the eternal return. Logical, Plato, as well as Sri Ram and

several authors, believes in the idea of reincarnation. I'm not putting it here as a premise nor as absolute truth, But realize that the idea has a logic, a philosopher takes as a possibility and considers the ideas, Do not reject anything a priori. It is not a condition for everybody to read Plato to believe in reincarnation, but what is interesting, Is that Sri Ram puts, is that Plato is showing that everything in the world is that way, the opposites They generate each other, this is a law of nature. Where does the dark come from? Wasn't it

light that ceased? Where does the light come from? Wasn't it the darkness that was enlightened? The hot was not the cold that got warmer, and vice versa? The hot comes from the cold, The light of darkness, the soft of the resistant, the living of the dead why would it be different? The opposites In fact, it is generated in Egypt also in the caibalion. The opposites generate each other, The day generates the night, the night generates the day, and vice versa, and so forever. So maybe with death and life is also the same thing. It is

a hypothesis that Plato leaves so that other generations in the future prove. There are some things that he deduces logically: What is justice!, "What is love!", But from time to time he plays some ideas And it says, "You prove. You from the future if you see!" And this is an exciting and suggestive idea to be demonstrated, who wants to prove do it, But that's it, it is what it is. Do you remember Chicó? I don't know, I just know it's like that! That is, this Platonic suggestion is Then to be demonstrated to this day. Well,

one of Socrates' arguments in this dialogue, which is the "fedon", he says: "Imagine the concepts that you have of things through the senses And the reason that processes these sensory information ", all the concepts you have from Things are comparative, they are adjectives. Do you think this chair is small? Why? Because you know the big and compare with it. Do you think its's soft? Because you know the resistant. Large, small, soft, resistant, left, right, north, south, everything is comparative, adjectives require multiplicity, require Comparation. Now when you speak for example, justice, love, truth, Fraternity, you cannot

define them compared to nothing, but just for themselves. There is no way you can define: Love is the absence of hatred, no! You may have no hatred and do not love anything, none of no. You can't compare with anything. Justice is the absence of injustice, no. It may be that the person is not unfair, But it's not fair either. The third is not excluded, the fourth and fifth. It has numerous possibilities. Justice is not defined by comparison, Love is not defined by comparison, good ... They only define themselves, it is an essence, which is more

felt than explained. This is not an impression that came from the senses. The senses would not be capable to define such a thing. So where did these concepts come from? He says: The soul brought with it these concepts. It is what he calls reminiscence. The soul brought With it these concepts and they have nothing to do with the sensory. If you are not seeing No one fair around you, and I tell you: There is no justice. I'm not seeing, But I know its there somewhere, including Inside me it is, it does not depend on Observation,

it does not depend on meanings. It is a certainty, an intimate experience that the soul brings with it. Well, if the soul brought Something with it, what do you deduce from that? That it existed before the body. If it existed Before it will exist later, obviously. If you prove that there were things that were born before the body, means that there are things that will survive him. This is one of many arguments he uses within this Dialogue, it's just an example that Sri Ram uses. He spends all the last hours before he dies demonstrating that

the soul is immortal, and dies with the greatest security. He will use a concept, which then Aristotle will explore A lot, who says that everything that is composed One day it will dissolve and will dilute in its components. The H2O one day will be hydrogen again and oxygen, this will decompose. If something is composed, it will decompose. Then he comes to the conclusion that if the soul lasts, It cannot be composed, it has to be A pure substance, one. It has to have the quality of being one. And this conclusion is great, guys. It's interesting

how Plato was concatenating the arguments. Because if you take a concept, the concept of God, which is a complex concept, You can't put any adjectives on this concept, except "one". If you realize the idea of God associated with the absolute, Any adjective you give him you limit him. If you say, "He's red." So he's not blue, so he is not absolute. It has it and the blue, there are two! If you say, "He's square." Not round, already has the square and the round, have two. He is no longer absolute with any adjective you give to

him. The only thing you can say from the divine is: "one", There is nothing out of it. One and absolute. So what is the conclusion that we arrive from it? If you have anything in the universe manifested that also has this quality to be one, it is like a footprint of the world of ideas in the concrete world. This allows us to see God in all things. What is one, what is not divided, It is a piece of divine that passes inside of beings, like that wire of necklace that passes inside the accounts, which the

Indians call "Sutatma", the wire that passes inside all beings. If we have, for example, the sunset, that we talked badly about it while ago, Now let's talk well. I gave this example For you last week, You look at the sunset, you can't take anything. Let's put another little red., No! No perfectionist painter would add more red in the sunset, Nor wouldn't even take a little yellow, neither would put or take anything. He is perfect, he is one. What you does not take anything or put anything is a sign that There is a perfect moment of

nature. It is one, so it is a Divine footprint. If there is something inside you, he too It is a Divine footprint. When you see a person has an honorable act, is equal to A sunset, nothing left or lacking anything. In a moment of justice, in a love, Ah, he could have been a little more loving, Not. If it's love, it's love, it's complete In itself, nothing missing or in extra. And then you start to see God in all things, that is, if the soul is like that, It is a Divine footprint. It's like we

tear the veil of illusions and found some reflexes of unity in the midst of multiplicity, in everything that is enough for yourself. There is nothing left, nothing is missing, it is one! It is the footprint of God in the manifested world, It is the footprint of unity in multiplicity. It's an interesting thing he also says that it is, the soul, more or less awakens than the other, but unchanging. Have you called someone "apart"? At least mentally? If you did that, You committed a sophism, besides offending The citizen, because no one is distressed. It seems that

we all have, in essence, A soul that is of the same substance and the same nature, like a little thread that passed inside the accounts of all necklaces. What we have different inside of all continues is the level of consciousness That you have of it. It is the story of the cup, go there and put a cup of coffee in the ocean, What do you have a little bit about? Of ocean water. Now go there with a bucket, What do you have inside it? ocean water. Has the quality or quantity changed? Only the quantity! So

what simply A more ignorant person has different of a wiser person is consciousness of what is divine, perfect and unchanging within it, But it does not mean that one has this essence and the other does not. All are equally qualified in the universe, in essence, but more or less aware of this. I always give an example to my students where I turn off the light, then I come with a flashlight and illumino you, then I expand the focus, take it I can say, "First you arrived, then she, then she ...", But if I squeezed the

switch, I would see that all World is here all the time. This is an illusion. The illusion of time displacement is the displacement of light, of my conscience. And so it is also the human soul, it is there all the time, We saw or did not see, but it does not mean that it does not exist or cease to be. It is equally qualified for everyone, so never call someone from without soul again, Nor mentally, because this concept does not exist. And the nature of life. The soul has nature Of life, it is not a

mental creation. This is very appropriate, because in his time, that hasn't been so long, 1973, For younger people for a long time, right? For me It was yesterday ... it was already a time, as until today, The idea was existentialist. I exist, And then I invent my essence, My spirit, for fear of death. And we still live this same time, from the point of view of thought We didn't move much, and we think everything that is metaphysical, everything that is spiritual, Everything that has endure is an invention man to survive psychologically The idea of death.

And he was already protesting against it, The soul is not a mental invention. Perhaps the body is an invention of the soul, the opposite no. Hence that story of saying, "I have a soul." You should say, "I have a body." The reality is in what remains. What is passing is necessarily illusory. Continuing our story ... Socrates, already with the glass of cicuta in hand, with that cold blood, from a philosopher of the level he had, He says, "Get virtues and wisdom in life!" An authentic philosopher has its directed to truth and virtues. He knows that

among things of value that He has to purchase, the real ones are these. I do not know if You already read, I already insisted a lot, I don't know if I I convinced someone, reading the prophet, by Khalil Gilbran, I gave lectures on all the chapters of this book To see if I was convincing. There's one that he talks about the houses, which he says: "Why do you lock your doors? What is so precious in your houses? 0: 31: 15,600.0: 31: 21,600 Do you have justice in your house? the kindness? 0: 31: 21.600.0: 31: 26.070

The fraternity? the good? If you don't have" None of this, what are you protecting? You have nothing worth it. That is, why So much protection? What do you have of real value? In the end we realize that A person in the face of death is like this, Not to think about the amount of digits of your bank account, she thinks automatically how much she grew up in life and how much allowed people to grow through it. At this time it is clear what has value And what does not have, what is real and what is

not. It is the contrast that causes consciousness. So he will say that an authentic philosopher I should seek, because philosophy is a mood of improvement and not perfection. We are constantly seeking this, all of us. An authentic philosopher is the one who year makes a list of things that he most loves in life, and from one year to another, it has to win places on the podium a little more justice, a little more balance, fraternity, of kindness, of compassion. "Ah .., I love a lot of things, but the fraternity He left the 6th and went

to 5th place. So I grew up!" Among the things I love the most has to be real things, because otherwise From death I will be waving hands. And at that time You do not support consciousness, you have no Sustain yourself, because it loses all that is real. Then the mind directed to virtue. You must know a phrase from that creator of clinical psychology, a great thinker, which was Carl Jung, that said that the man of the twentieth century, who speaks so much about economics, is the lavish, And they squander the most precious, the spirit. That

is, the opportunity to have real things We squandered, we don't devote time to that. You fight hard to be a little less selfish, it may be that you can A little bit like that. As an effect of luck, Let's see what paints, won't get anything! Because this is extremely difficult when You are focused and objective. When it is not, Forget it, it won't get anything. It is a great effort to combat selfishness as well as many other addictions. All of them They are very good in fight, so it's not so so easy. Well, says Sri

Ram, and I agree with him in gender, number and degree, the following: "Philosophy today is an argument extensive within an ordinary life .." That is, we do not necessarily put the philosophy As a search for values, it became a search for information. Don't be angry with me or him, but it is a conclusion that You must take into consideration. The argument that I always do: imagine a situation Half Banal, someone asks you for a borrowed amount And you have this amount to lend, Then you want to know: "What guarantees I have that you are going

pay me? ". Then I tell you: "I have 4 university titles, between them is a master and doctor degree, Do You get confident" That I am going to pay you? I wouldn't be. Because this, unfortunately, does not guarantee much. It should, but unfortunately it does not guarantee. Isn't that curious? That the amount of Information does not generate human quality as Required result. In fact, if we look the great problems of our current society, from the economic, social point of view, it will be What is the result of cultured or uncultivated man? Who causes the great

crises will be What is the uncultivated or is the cult? Nor would it be right to use that word "cult", because "cult" comes from "cultivate", to put the seed deeply on earth so that they sprout and seek the sun. That is, this is neither culture, nor information, nor education, we couldn't use that word either, That is, we would have to create another word. This is information, it is quantity, extension. I.e, lots of information within an ordinary life, a life that did not transmute into Nothing because of that information. You don't give better answers to the

circumstances because of that. That old example that we give in the classroom, a citizen who is giving a speech about fear, And when a rat comes in he is the first that jumps on the table. That is, it is not information that gives you answers to life, It does not prepare it better to respond to life. He says philosophy is love to truth, And love implies action. Love cannot be merely a theory. "Acts for me to see you." SOCRATES Say, then let's see if this Your movement takes into account the ideas of which you speak.

Have you stopped to think about it? People ... there's a lot of word for us Think about it. If you talk, for example, I understand what you are saying., What can I assume? that at the time you move you will take this into consideration. If I tell you: "I understand that the chair It is halfway through it. " I understand, I understand, I understand, puff ... I bumped into my chair, I didn't understand! When I moved in this room, I would have to take the obstacles into consideration. I see what you understand and believe in

the way how you move in the world, And not for what you say. Isnt it like this? Act for me to see you., Get out moving there that I will see what you understand and really believes. But theory, quantitative, As Shankaracharya said, a medicine does not produce Effect just because you have pronounced your name. This is merely a sum of information, with nothing of formative behind it. Philosophy is love for truth, and love implies action. "Truth produces change of interest, from the senses (ephemeral pleasure) for the noble and authentic." So we really have to evaluate

... I love to give that Time Administration Course in January. In January, Administration and Planning Of the time they fit well, right? Everyone is wanting to plan their year. Then they just plan things: "What I'm going to do.", "Where I go.", What I'm going to buy. "What I will undo." They don't plan "what I'm going to be." What will be the defect that I will give a polite this year, For him to get a little smaller. You realize that the failures you had in relation to things last year were for virtues that you didn't have.

Then you plan to Do things again ... Go fail again, Because you keep not having virtues. Continues to have no economic control to Buy that thing. Well, I didn't plan for that, I won't buy it again. It is not that having or stopping having things is good or bad. It is necessary or not. But the prerequisites to that You interact with the world effectively are In the field of "being", not the "to have". Do you plan it? This year I will be a little less selfish .. We generally don't do that. Mechanics is to Plan

actions, things, possessions ... and nothing more. So we do not turn our interest to the noble and authentic. "With the mind focused on the truth and wisdom, The philosopher is prepared to die ..." The person will say, "Wow, what a morbid citizen. So I don't I want to know of virtues or wisdom. " I don't want to prepare to die, what a horrible thing. Why is he saying that? Last week, we even talked a little about it. Do you want to grow? Every day something dies in you, And every day another is born. A thing

of this Size, but dies. My tendency to do such a thing died today, And a new possibility was born. My tendency of not greet the person in the elevator died today. Ah .. It's nothing! It's something yes! Another possibility was born. Every day you die here and It is born here, dies here and is born here. Do you know what happens? You become familiar with death. Next time the greatest, the death of the physical body: Hi, I know you for a long time!, An intimate friend, I lived with you all my life. Then discredit death,

Because you learn to live with her. Do you understand that? It becomes an intimate friend. For a person who fears death Nothing dies in her ... spends her entire life and she's the same. It only changes on the outside. Only biology fulfilled Your cycle, psychology: frozen. She lets nothing die, either lets nothing born. Hence the philosopher dies every day a little And it is born a little every day. I put this collection of phrases for you Last week, here for the end From the book you will have already decorated, that Sri Ram talks a lot

about it, which is Abandon your life if you want to live. This is the voice of silence, Tibetan. "Truth I say to you that no one will enter 0: 40: 16,080.0: 40: 22,095 in the kingdom of heaven if not born again.," remember? Jesus Christ and Nicodemus. It is dying that it is born to eternal life. It's his day today, right? St. Francis of Assisi. I.e, You die on this level and are born in this! It is not for me to be afraid of death, I live dying and live born. Regeneration, Spring ... Human Spring. So

the philosopher is prepared to die Because he knows how the process works. He lives like this. Life and death go together, And therefore neither ceases to be present at no time. Neither here nor anywhere else to Where I go. And that becomes obvious. Although he talks about death with so much Naturalness, Plato condemns suicide. He says: "The world is a prison of ignorance, but We should not evade this prison without permission. " There is an ancient philosophy, especially Roman, Stoic, that they said we came to the world for a need for experience. It's how you

go to school for a need for learning. If you have not learned, you do not run away from school. How did you say? "Don't run from the class because you still did not learn what you had to learn." Does not escape the world before it gives you the Teaching you came here to seek. Then it is interesting, that you will see, that Socrates refuses to escape the prison. When your disciple, who is Criton, Go to his cell and say, "Socrates, let's go, let's run away." Do you know this story? He arrives at the cell ...

Criton was one of the few Socrates disciples who had money. He was a rich man. He bribe the guard And says, "Socrates, let's go!" Then Socrates says, "Go where? My dear!" "For God's sake, Socrates, don't philosophize now. I paid the guard there at the door, 0: 42: 13,990.0: 42: 16,960 We have a few minutes to escape, let's go!" Run away from what? My dear! "Ah Socrates, escape death!", Socrates laughs out And he says, "Who runs away from death? Have you seen someone? Either you walk to her or she walks to you. In my case, it

is better to preserve the initiative! " Who runs away from death? He knew that if he ran away, he would be a traitor, would be condemned to ostracism, would be seen as a coward, and all his ideas would fall like contempt. And he had many people who had inspired for a lifetime. He had lived under the laws of Athens and would not betray them the moment they turned against him. Anyway, he had several arguments. The fact is that he refuses to escape And stays until the last moment and accepts what the Citizens of Athens had

intended for him. So suicide is not recommended. Plato never recommends that. Life has something to tell you, only come out when you are invited. Remain until you learned the last drop of the lesson that life has to teach you. A book that talks a lot about this is Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead). At first, classic book, None talks about death in a morbid way. They teach you to live, so They don't have to be afraid of any of them. Tibetan book of the dead, which is the bard thodol, Egyptian book of the dead,

which is the book of the hidden home. No good classic book that speaks of death is morbid. You can read quietly. Teaches to live, because the two are closely linked. He says, "The body is not ours, and that's why we have a responsibility to use it properly. " Who does the body belong to? The nature. So much so that she will take it back. It's hers, it's a loan. And like you is staying inside a room that The inn "Nature" lent to you, Take care of this room, because it's not yours, You will have to

return it. Lao Tsé said that the sages of old behaved as if they were guests of a very ceremonious host. Isn't nature ceremonious? Look how she tidies her house! If we don't get in and mess it, look how She tidies her house. And you are a guest of nature. Behave like a guest of a very ceremonious host. And this is interesting for us to think. A materialistic man and a spiritualist man, Who cares better about your body? The materialist is crazy about his body, but does not take care so well As for the spiritualist, who

does not identify with it. Isn't that curious? The spiritualist who deidentifies of the body, it respects the body, respect what is good for him, respect its limitations, gives what it needs Much more than the materialist, that puts the body in a beady. It's curious, right? The body is the first that benefits, and that It is one of the arguments that Plato himself puts. To live properly prepares for death. As we talked: Death and life go together every day, And at the last moment it will be so too, it won't change. The philosopher does not want

death, but welcomes it. because it is familiar with this idea of regeneration. Every day letting something new spring into it. So face it as a natural process. Duality does not exist only at the end of life, there is in each Life Day. And if there is no duality in your day, It is a sign that you are stagnant because it should have. Should have something dying for something born, Otherwise we are not growing. This is the idealist. It has an ideal and every day has to climb a step toward this. And every step is death

of something and the birth of something else. This is the normal process of life. "The philosopher seeks to break free from the body paying attention to the subjects of the soul .." This is interesting! You will notice that Sri Ram says all the time, in all Chapters he talks about it. Soul subjects already exist within you. We have such an artificial idea that We think that soul affairs is to think In angels playing arpa. If you has compassion for the pain of humanity, This is the subject of the soul. If you have a love deep

by someone and would like to qualify This love is the subject of the soul. If you would like that the world was a fairer place, This is a subject of the soul. Remember that story that we are a mixture of one and the other. There are already both essency within us. And what will grow? What you value, what you feed. Do you remember that platonic "case"? What today is on the internet ... funny right? They give a thousand authors to the same thought. We go crazy, we don't know who it is. Today I was listening

to a song on YouTube, And when I saw, "Beethoven". Never that Beethoven composed this! I think for The song to becomes famous they put "Beethoven" And then they exchange, put their names. Anyway, the internet has these curious things. But the fact is that this thought is platonic. He says you consider that inside you There is a man and an animal tied. The animal wants to walk towards animal interests, that are the instinct, and the man wants to walk in the direction of human interests, which are values, virtues and wisdom. How each one wants to go

to one side and they are tied, one will have to drag the other. Who will drag who? Who is stronger. And who will be stronger? Who you feed the most. And when do you feed? Each thought, word and action have only one spoonful of food in the mouth of one and the other. What you strengthen and invests, The core of consciousness in which you focus will grow. But at that moment there are both. They exist within you body affairs and soul affairs. Your identification will make one or the other more strength and give the direction

of your life. A superficial identity or deep. This is a very old platonic "case". He says: "The philosopher enjoys the pleasures that arrive, but without anxiety. " This is a beautiful phrase of Sri Ram, which I don't know Someone who expresses it so well. He says: "I walk toward my ideal. If a soft breeze blows, I delight with the soft breeze. If it makes a caressing heat, I suffer from the caulifesting heat. But one or the other get me out of my way. " Isn't that interesting? It does not have no problem. No one is

medieval, No one will stick a hood not to Feel pleasure, because this is ridiculous. Pleasure is part of life, pain also does. Now the problem is that you have an ideal, A goal, a dream, and if the breeze goes there ... Oops, let me go after her. The sun comes from here, let me run from it. That is, neither nor the other steals to myself. This is fidelity to yourself. This is consciousness. No one or the other get me out of the way. I know that you already have to go to class, we are already

concluding. So enjoy the pleasures that arrive, but without anxiety. Anxiety is born from you wanting other things More than your ideal of life wants. More than you want to know yourself. Something It is more important in your life than your sense of life. Do you know what you can conclude from this? That you have no sense of life. The sense of life cannot be second place, otherwise you Do not reach. He has to be the first always. "The philosopher purifies his intelligence and fruity your spiritual independence or Mukti (freedom)." Mukti is freedom in Sanskrit. Freedom

has to do with purity. You keep the channel through which intelligence, Goodness, generosity flows to the world. If you obstruct this channel, do you know what you will be? What the wind commands. Where the wind blows, you go. Because if you do not have internal determination, You will have external determination. It will be what the collective tells. Do you realize this? Or you are the result of yourself or it is the fruit of the wind, the world. Where the wind blows "there I go". He does not own himself. So there are not two options. Or

you are on the wheel driving your vehicle or is in the back seat with your eyes blindfolded by someone. Where? I don't know, and why? Neither. But some interest you will be fulfilling, not yours. So necessarily freedom has to do with purification. Keep the channel cleared. Remember that I spoke to you last week, From a poem by a poet named Rumi? That he says: "Do not seek love. Search to keep unobstructed the obstacles you built so that love pass through you .." That is, open the door, that love passes! Do not seek to build love.

No one builds. Love is a force of nature, Just let it pass through you. And he goes say that the philosopher purifies his intelligence. And Sri Ram will argue at length about it. His hypothesis is as follows: In our present day intelligence is A rare phenomenon. What do you think of this? Rare! People in general who accumulate information without depth become naive, easily manipulable. With little depth, therefore with little ability to analyze and discernment. You take an experienced, mature, sagaz ... It is very difficult to fall into these blows that our society today is full

of them. We in general live with very naive people, very easily manipulable. The schemes with which people play are very silly. I know you are already tired of hearing about it, But I always remember? My grandmother's. There's no way! Yesterday there at Asa Sul I was told that I will do A lecture "precepts of the grandmother of Lucia." I'm almost doing it really. Because she's an illiterate old lady. And you came to her and tried to roll her ... "What are you thinking, boy? You are going with The flour and I'm already coming with Beiju

.." She looks at you. It's over. It was shrewd, shrewd, a simple person. It is not common to see naive people nowadays? And sometimes very "cultured", manipulable for anything. Even the political schemes that Manipulate seem that they are becoming increasingly silly. Increasingly blatant, superficial! People are getting naive. Lack of Intelligence generates a dislike, an ingenuity. It's a difficult thing, that something protects man ... By the way, Epiteto said this: "Protect your mind and it will protect you." It is a difficult thing that something protects man If he has no intelligence awakened. Very complicated to live

the herd psychology. And he says intelligence is a rare phenomenon. Exactly Because people are superficial. They do not know themselves. "When the past no longer dominates, Or directs the present, a new being is born in us." I'm no longer the sum of what happened to me two, Four, six, eight, ten years. I learned from all this And with all this arsenal of information, I look clean for the present. With all this essence of all that I lived, I look clean for the present. And not with trauma, With prejudice, with this load behind me. Being dragged

by life outside. At this point we are creations of the past. Almost an application of this personal historical about all things New that appears. So things don't have how to be seen. They are all labeled According to the personal experience I had. They are not seen with a clean look that allows you to see deeply. We are a fruit of the past. And we still think this Past is our identity. Everything is passing ... as its name says: It happened! That is, disposable. His essence is in the look with which I see the world. Being

body and soul in the present moment. "Internal purity gives the highest quality in operation 0: 54: 29.032.0: 54: 34.338 of all aspects of being: intense intelligence and concentrated as a flame .." So from the moment you get a state of purity and purifies itself from selfishness, purifies the contamination of prejudice, of ready -made ideas of your past, Through you flows the energy of life and maximizes all its potential. Basically the whole chapter he will talk a little about it. The life flow when passing through you, will develop intelligence, will develop all Human potentials. Will take

you to the fullest Human potential, if you let the flow of life through you. The shadows were born because men became opaque. This is Taoism. The light passes you, bumps into dust and generates shadow. If the light passed you and you were a channel Uncloged, it would bring light to the world. The shadows were born in the world because men became opaque. This is Taoism. Saying basically the same thing. Isn't it curious? It is the same voice that echoes in the four corners of the world. Socrates said he dreamed of the same thing constantly. Someone

has the experience of having had repeated dreams Whole life? It is a very interesting experience. Socrates said that all his life he dreamed of Someone telling you that he should make music. And he said he fulfilled this request, Philosophy is the music that is made with the soul. The musician knows how to use a lyre, he knows how to use a flute, And I know how to use all the things in life to produce harmony. The philosopher produces harmony with all aspects of life. And he says: "Everyone who produces beauty with an instrument, One day

you will have to produce with everyone. " That is, every beauty seeker will one day have to be Philosopher, which is music that is made with the soul. "In proportion to the purity of your mind, It will be the serenity of his death." Let's repeat. In proportion to the purity of your mind, It will be the serenity of his death. You can't improvise. It is a lifelong purification process. Remember the Buddhist philosophy, who also talks about it. Purity is power. "Happiness is not pleasure, but purity of mind and heart, that comes naturally, without having to

be sought." That is, human happiness has to do with peace, serenity. Internal stability that allows it Being in the world while being in yourself. Like a lighthouse that illuminates the ocean around you without leaving to be where it was created and built. From yourself you illuminate the world around you. He does not betray himself to bring light anywhere in the world. That is, from this faithfulness of itself, which is purity From mind and heart, man finds happiness. Then you remember that Kant phrase. He used to say that human happiness is Something you always find when

there is no search. That's weird! You seek human duty and human happiness arises as a byproduct. If you seek happiness as the main objective, Do you know what you will want? Be happy at any price. And the price can be too expensive. It can be a happiness inhuman, which costs the suffering of the other, It costs the pain of the other, what the other has. This will not be a human happiness. Now seek justice, fraternity ... As a byproduct happiness will arise, and this is human. This is interesting to think. That is, purity is peace

of heart that comes from the one who seeks to live as a human being. "Seek your kingdom in the first place and all other things will be added to you." Remember? A universal precept. "Only through the soul do we see the essence of things And only the essence differentiates every thing." "The autonomy of the soul in relation to the body In this world it generates insightful intelligence." Insightful intelligence comes from you know who you are In the midst of those things you just be. Who are you in the middle of all this shell, all this

memory accumulation, of biological, psychological elements that you absorbed from the middle, from the family ... Who are you in the middle of all this. Intelleger is to choose from. The maximum intelligence is identity. And if I know how to choose me Even, I can also see the essence of things around me. If I am not merely utilitarian. I know how to use things, But I don't know what they are, and I don't know what I am either. Finally, "for free man, life and death are the same." This person with a bicycle or without the bike

continues to walk. One of these days I went to imply with the librarian ... From time to time it is good to imply with some professionals. I told him "the books are running out, so there will be no more. It will be all digital. What do you think?". I thought he would get angry, but he said: "Look, as long as the information is not over, The support for me does so much. 0: 59: 45.015.0: 59: 50.020 If you put the information on a stone, it is good. Put on a papyrus, that's good. 0: 59: 50.020.0:

59: 53,800 As long as the information is not lost, I am not attached to supports!" Besides he disarmed me, he still gave me a good philosophical teaching. Because a spiritualist man also isn´t attached to supports, as long as life proceeds. The support changes, up front is something else. Will have a support, I don't know what it will be, but life goes on. So ... so much. Physical life is simply a support for The great life, which will continue to support other things. With bike or without bike. We understand This essence, this mystery of life -

He puts these two phrases at the end that I I brought you, that I find very beautiful - It makes us have reflections like this. Two Indian classic books: One is the bhagavad gita and the other is Ramayana, That I put on my own, because I love this epic. Bhagavad Gita says: The sages do not regret either the living or the dead. There is something better to regret, such as ignorance, cruelty. Because this is a form of death in life that does not let you progress. It makes life stagnant. And this beautiful phrase of Ramayana,

who is Rama, the Prince, Speaking to his brother, Bharata, who says: "The heart, Bharata ... Attentive to your heart, not the sufans. 1: 01: 17.007.1: 01: 24.047 There lives the soul, clear, never stained, Seeing everything we do or intend to do. 1: 01: 24.047.1: 01: 29.930 So let the man be silent and find his heart. 1: 01: 29.930.1: 01: 38.028 This is the only safe salvation. Life is bright and colorful For a fleeting moment, like sunset. 1: 01: 38.028.1: 01: 44.110 Then it goes, and who can stop it from going? Therefore, Bharata, 1: 01: 44.110.1:

01: 50.006 Since you are in this dangerous body, you deplore your own condition. 1: 01: 50.006.1: 01: 54.511 Tooth your self, and you don't regret anything anymore!." I find it very beautiful. MIDDA THE FACT you are imprisoned and stagnant. Mouth the ignorance. Death and life you don't even know what they are! You are mourning something you don't know if you will lose, Because you don't know what it is! Maybe you never lose your life. Why are you crying for her? Cry for ignorance. Welts your prisoner Inside a blindness cell, of ignorance. Mouth yourself and no

more at all! The rest let life follow your flow. Life is fair! Do not mourn for the loss of something That you don't even know if you will really lose. Do not anticipate! Live every moment as a human being must live. The sages do not regret either the living or the dead. Well, that's it. I brought you a double stimulus to read Sri Ram and Plato. We went through four dialogues. Hope It may be a good reflection base for you.