Qué nos puede ayudar a aceptar sentimientos incómodos o situaciones que nuestra mente no desea? Dejar de desear no es la respuesta, porque esto implícitamente le da peso a lo externo y la represión sólo genera más caos.

Todos somos lo mismo y eres tú, timeless and formless writing this in order to help to bring consciousness to the material world in order to modifiy it and to start to enjoy it.

We can only do what we are able to do. Often, this is interpreted as mediocrity or complacency, but that is not the case. Sometimes we fall into the fallacy that we can achieve and obtain everything we set our minds to. This is true, of course, but only to a certain point. No matter how hard we strive to be the best at something: (i) there are many factors beyond our control; and (ii) if it stems from the ego, it will always want more and never be satisfied; therefore, sooner or later, this goal will cause more suffering than the happiness or pleasure it generated. The first point is vital. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that many things are outside of our control. When setting goals, we must take this into consideration—not as a way of accepting limitations, but as a way of helping our minds find peace. We will do what we can do. The rest is out of our hands. Applying this to our daily lives can bring us tremendously closer to living well and in peace. We must love the life we were given to live. The moment we accept the life we were given, feel grateful for it, and do not wish to trade it for any other, we become alchemists. We catalyze the pain we have carried and transform it into joy and peace. Making peace with what is heals both the soul and the mind.

Let's keep on breaking down the mechanics of our mind in order to better understand it: # 1. Our ego is the part of our mind that is in charge of protecting us, it is our survival mechanism. # 2. Our mind analyzes the world through its senses, primarily through what it can see and feel. # 3. Taking this into consideration, we may conclude that our ego will seek to protect us through what it can see and feel, and that only includes material stuff, because material stuff is what the mind can perceive. The mind can't protect you with something it cannot perceive, because it doesn't know it is there. Why is this relevant? Understanding this may get us closer to a peaceful and good life. Why can it get us closer to a peaceful and good life? Because what we described is part of the reason we are not living a peaceful and good life. Why is it part of the reason we are not living properly? By trying to protect us, our mind seeks stability in an unstable world in which the only means it has at its disposal is what it can perceive and what it can perceive is only material stuff that by essence is unstable and always changing. If we stop and think this for a moment, the material and external world (including thoughts and emotions), is always changing. Literally absolutely every moment is different. It is impossible to have two exact moments, literally exact. Absolutely everything changes. Thus, it is logical that our mind will never be able to rest because it is looking for salvation and stability in an all time changing world. What is this good for? Understanding this may get us closer to breaking our identification from our mind. The only real peace and stability can never be in the material world, it is impossible, because everything in the material world is always changing. Real stability is beyond what our mind can perceive. The twisted part of this is that we already have what we are seeking for. In fact, we are not seeking it, it is our mind and it is seeking it because it can't perceive that we have it.

Art is, by excellence, the proof that confirms the existence of the "real" world we discussed in the previous post. There are many people in the world, including Einstein, who discovered and confirmed the existence of this "real" world. Einstein even denied ownership of his work because he knew he was not the inventor per se. When our mind quiets to the degree that it allows our natural state of being to flourish, the human body we inhabit becomes the channel through which the divinity of "God"—of the All—is expressed. This is the relationship between spirituality and art. God is the source of all creativity, and art is its representation and expression. We can see God in everything we do, day by day, quite literally. We can see it in nature and in part of the human creations.