Is life symbolic? Is it? This is the fundamental question of what we are going to discuss today?
There is only a chance for life to be symbolic if life has a purpose. The symbol is a symbol that points to take you to some idea. To do so, you need to want to get there.
If life has a point of arrival, it wants to take everyone to the fullness of the human condition. Then it is possible for it to create symbols because the symbol is a little arrow that points to the world from where it came. And the little arrows pointing you to somewhere only serve if you want to go there.
If you are conscious and want to make this displacement, then there is something that is fundamental: you believe that the world is cosmos and not chaos, that things do not happen for nothing, that they all have a meaning, and that life wants to take you to a place that is the fullness of the human condition. Values, virtues, and wisdom. When you learn to speak the language of life, everything that it manifests as a symbol points to this objective.
Life is intelligent, it is not chaotic, and it is directed. It has a purpose. It knows where it wants to take you.
And true symbols help you in that direction. Did you understand this well? Then the premise Whoever believes that the world is chaos will not want to know about symbols, this has no meaning, there is no possibility, the symbol will point to where if no one wants to get anywhere, so I always use this example: if you want to build a house, first you hire an architect who goes there and makes the house plan, then the engineer comes, the foreman starts building looking at the plan, knowing where he wants to go, and that is why he has a chance to really build your house the way you want it.
If he didn't have a plan, didn't know what he was building, he wouldn't do anything, he would spread construction material everywhere and wouldn't do anything. We also don't have a goal, a plan of what we want to build, we don't do anything. We spread life energy to every corner in a totally scattered way and we don't do anything.
And life, then, has a goal and is intelligent. These are two fundamental premises so that we can get into the subject of symbols, because then, of course, if I want to get somewhere, symbols are signposts that point there, right? When I want to reach the human ideal, I understand the symbolic mentality.
I see that all symbols point to this human ideal, which is even a way for us to distinguish what is truly a symbol from what is fantasy on our part, which could very well happen. We'll talk about this later. There's a fine line, right?
We have to be very lucid to know if we're fantasizing, inventing symbols, and what are really symbols that we perceived from nature. The theory of responsibility is a name that I usually give to an idea of the historical philosophers Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the great historical philosopher. I think that most of you must have heard of Stoicism because it's in fashion now.
It's a very important moral school, very significant from the past. Since we're in a very violent moral crisis, everyone goes after moral schools. Therefore, Stoicism is everywhere.
There are even books for Wall Street, because businessmen decided to be historical. So it's very fashionable. Marcus Aurelius was a historical philosopher.
He has this phrase that I call the theory of responsibility, which he says the following: "Nothing happens to man that is not proper to man. Therefore, nothing happens to Lucia, for example, that is not proper to Lucia. To each of you that is not proper to you.
from you, that is, things do not come by mistake, things do not go wrong, they come to us exactly because our need for experience to grow called, invoked these things into our lives. It is as if we had come into the world with an encrypted card of the experiences that I have to go through in order to grow. I came here to stop my anger, to stop my anxiety, to organize myself better.
Let's say that I have these defects and I want to polish these edges in this life, to get rid of these defects. Everything that can provide experience that helps you get rid of these defects tends to be attracted to your life as if it were a magnetic card, because your need for experience is calling, so nothing happens. to man that is not characteristic of man, this is very interesting because it is a thought that helps us banish the idea of chance, things happen to me by chance, due to bad luck, I find this story of bad luck to be a very curious concept, why on earth would a human being have bad luck because he was awarded the prize in some cosmic contest for everything to go wrong for him, what is bad luck, this is something absolutely without logical foundation, it makes no sense whatsoever for a person to have bad luck, they may be having a series of negative experiences that want to lead them towards a another direction that is not the one she is taking but it is not bad luck that life is all pedagogical she wants to say something with it so sometimes people are very skeptical when we talk about a directed and meaningful life they believe in bad luck I don't believe in bad luck honestly no I think it is an invention without any logic no one has bad luck they have repetitive experiences that are trying to say something so life is all symbolic learning to read this is very important for us to understand we are going to talk here about a dimension of symbols a dimension that has a lot to do see with the theory of car gustav jung the great psychiatrist in his analytical psychology he talked about synchronicities I'm going to talk a lot about synchronicities but symbolic language is much more than synchronicity imagine that I want to say something to one of you and you don't want to listen to me and I keep insisting is it important or look at me here I want to talk to you and you don't pay attention and you turn around and you talk to someone else I 'm there trying to talk to you and at some point I lose my patience because patience can be a lot but at some point it ends I lose patience I hold you by the shoulders and shake you listen to what I want to tell you well shaken this is a synchronicity life is already appealing to you so when a synchronicity happens oops I was disconnected because she is already leaving for days in fact with you they are very strong facts and very explicit let's say she really held your shoulders and is shaking it means that she gave several indications before and you didn't want to see maybe you could even remember the facts previous ones and see that gently you were already being led towards this but gently it wasn't enough, you know, life needed to appeal a little here come the synchronicities but life as a whole is symbolic and this symbolic life manifests itself in the simple facts of every day there is an Eastern tradition that says that life is entirely pedagogical if there was a moment that had nothing to teach us it would have already been removed from our life because life leaves no voids nature leaves no voids if there was a moment in your life that had nothing to teach you teaching it would have already been removed from your life, so if you arrive at your window in the morning, this view from your window in the morning is very romantic, you know, every little scene, every thing you see, every moment of your day, you stop a little from the mechanics and look at the world around you, every moment is trying to tell you something and when we manage to decode these moments it's wonderful because you realize that that was fundamental for you, it was what you needed to hear .
for example, rain, we are looking out the window and a heavy rain comes, the heavy rain shakes the trees violently, it is a beautiful spectacle, I don't know if you have ever seen it, it's kind of violent, but it is beautiful, you know, a tree shaking with the wind and the rain is beautiful, the storm after the storm passes, that pile of leaves on the ground is also beautiful, then you look and say: "man, nature knows how to do beautiful things even when it is destroying" then you look away a little and you see a newly built apartment building, already ugly, poorly finished, already with leaks, then you look and say: "Wow, human beings do great things even when they build and nature does beautiful things even when they destroy. " there is something strange behind this, what is the principle of man's action, which is so different from that of nature, and if you stop for a moment to reflect, you will realize that nature strictly follows the laws of life, what in the east is called dharma, the arm of god extended over the cosmos, the law that takes all beings evolution nature does not deviate it strictly complies with this law while the human being deviates has free will and can deviate and when deviating he does things that do not lead to universal good but to selfish desires on his part instead of following dharma he follows karma he seeks what in that building is the minimum cost with maximum profit and sometimes something that has been ready for a year is already ugly it is already poorly finished it is already showing signs of aging whether when you look at these two things you are looking at nature or photography of dharma and karma nature is always beautiful dma the things we do ugly karma you in an observation like this you learn to see dharma and karma in front of you simply by looking at a storm in the window it is a teaching of ours when we stop to observe there were times in my life when I told myself the following: every day at least one teaching was a time that drove me crazy because I had to be attentive all the time and decoding because a lot comes but we don't always succeed but it was very fruitful. quite interesting one of these days in the backyard of my house it was raining and I wanted to pull all the water down the drain because the backyard the cement was poorly placed it has uneven levels so the water tends to run to the lowest places and makes a dirty little puddle there with dirt and I was there with a squeegee pulling that water down the drain and suddenly I realized that it was escaping from my sides and going to the little area I said: "my conscience is the same, if I don't have the will to take it in the right direction it will go to the lowest point and dirtier if I'm not aware of it it goes to the lowest and dirtiest point if there is no will if there is no determination things flow towards the most comfortable, in other words lower in general dirtier an observation like this because of the squeegee in the puddle in the yard has a message there is a message everywhere in every corner I used to pick up objects in the classroom with my students in the classroom and tell me what the symbolism of this is then once I picked up a chair and we discovered that the chair has two two ideas in it one is the ability to give rest, which is your four legs, sorry, they are the ability to balance, they are balance and the other is the shell where you sit, which is the possibility of giving rest, that is, the virtue of balance and the virtue of generosity that receives you so favorably so that you can rest in nature .
of a human being together balance with generosity look what a great man you won't have who represents on the human plane what the chair does on the plane of inanimate beings it gives a moment of rest it gives a moment of consolation it helps the tired walker in other words a chair has a teaching to give you a ladder has a teaching to give you the whole world is symbolic and is trying to tell you every moment and there is also a detail that is important because a symbol does not have a single meaning there is a writer that I really like from the 19th century Helena petrovina blava who is a great philosopher helena blava who said that every symbol is a house with seven keys with seven doors as you go deeper into yourself you get more layers of the symbol deeper layers the same symbol okay I get it now I decode this symbol according to my conscience now I'll go there in 5 years if I grew up in that time of 5 years when I look at that same symbol I'll see deeper things get a book that is very interesting that has given you a great learning keep that copy so you don't say that the book was different keep that copy in 5 years a period of time in which you believe you have grown up go there and read the same book marked by you again the same book you will see things that you say: "no it's not possible it must not be the same book" this wasn't here when I read it the first time and it was you weren't prepared to see this has already happened to you to reread and understand much more means consciousness has shifted and therefore access to deeper contents of the symbol according to helena blavat this happens seven times until you reach the heart of the symbols and the symbols are all scaled I go deeper I take layers closer to the world of ideas closer to the world of ideas saying that a symbol can take man to god as it pulls him towards deeper and deeper meanings until you cross and get there on the plane of ideas spiritual plane ideal plan um so they all have levels of depth but none of them remain silent before us if we want to hear if we look at things with the spirit of a learner for every corner of your life there are symbols and some sensational ones right but in everyday life this is not synchronicity this is simply the pedagogy of life it is something that we should and must learn to do yes we should and must but they are more subtle therefore they require a very great learning spirit they require you to be asking questions to life it demands that you are seeing the answers that you believe kaung he even said this that synchronicities tend to happen to those who are predisposed to not believe because it's as if nature speaks, it won't speak to those who don't listen, right ? paying attention and learning to speak this language of life all the time, that would be ideal, um, there are more explicit moments, these are exactly the synchronicities that we're going to talk about, it's possible to dialogue with life, this is an example, I usually say that I'm going to make a list of my most popular examples and this one would be among the first places, and everyone should know that it's the example of the queue, remember, you get in a queue, the queue you joined doesn't move and the one next to you next to the neighbor on the other side also walks, then you say: "what the hell? bad luck let me change line come here" what happens this line stops moving it's the one you were in then this happens where in the supermarket at the bank in traffic everywhere you go and you react like: "wow I'm unlucky.
" This could happen to you and not to me This is a totally random and superficial view, what is the other possibility? I look at this and ask: "What is life trying to tell me with this? Is it suggesting that I am a little anxious?
Is it trying to say that my sense of self-importance is very high? That's right and the experiences stop happening no longer does that same thing happen over and over again, in other words, life told you, you heard, now it's moved on to another scene, like the school series, I understood what was there in the first grade, I move to the second, I move to the third, our entire pedagogical method is nothing more than an imitation of nature's pedagogical method, so when we start to position ourselves in the face of the messages it sends and change, reposition ourselves in the face of life, you start to realize that the messages start to change, eventually after a few years pass you will have enormous curiosity because it gives you the impression that there is an interlocutor behind the scenes of life talking to you sending him a ball you catch it and reposition it he sends another you have the impression that there is someone behind the scenes of life talking to you out of curiosity to see the face of this hidden interlocutor who is communicating with you you have learned to speak the language of life the language of life is a symbol and we must really prepare ourselves more and more to believe in giving a vote of confidence in life to the nature that it is cosmos and not chaos that does not exist chance and start to establish this dialogue so that you can understand how things are happening synchronously and how intelligent the movement of life is as it brings you exactly what you needed to do our best and observe what life brings us . teaching where there is no way to lead us to do what we want and due to inexperience we trust too much and really take that direction.
I had a student many years ago with the experience I was talking about. This student was a young man who had some difficulty finding his way into the job market. He lived with his parents and had this difficulty.
One day he said to me: "look, I received a job offer" I said: "wow, that's wonderful" and he: "no, but I refused" he refused, why is it because I went to the window to observing what life was telling me then came a group of yellow butterflies this butterfly is a symbol of freedom so I understood that I wasn't supposed to accept the job I made that landscape smile that we have to do but inside me there was a single word lazy asshole it's not obvious this seems like a joke but it actually happened so be very careful because the symbols as I already told you they point to the human ideal if there is something that is pointing to a weakness that you want you are wanting to go there he didn't want to accept that job life was too comfortable So if there is something that is pointing you towards this comfort zone and you suspect that the noble, the just and the good is here, opt for the noble, fair and good because you probably didn't understand the symbol, you probably created a fantasy so when in doubt, always what is your duty as a human being is the highest because a true symbol has to be pointing to go to the noblest, if it isn't, it's because it wasn't, right, it wasn't truly a symbol, a symbol pointing to laziness, what kind of symbol is this symbol, pointing to weakness, that doesn't exist, so be very careful so that we can be serious. In our work to identify the symbols of life, don't fall into the paradoxes of yellow butterflies, after that I discovered that they are very dangerous and so, guys, it's good to have you here in another video on our channel, I sincerely hope that you enjoyed the content that we prepared with so much care, as always, all credits and links to the full video are in the description so that you can further explore this fascinating topic, you, like us, are passionate about self-knowledge, seek to connect with your spirituality, yearn for wisdom and are following your own journey of growth.
