Various doctrines throughout history have understood and expounded that the central problem of human existence is to justify it, which is only done through life itself, through acts that serve as answers. The terminologies vary, as do the recommended paths; what does not vary is the notion of the need for this individual awareness and its implications, that is, the need to act in accordance with the aspirations of one’s intimate nature. Only in this way is possible an affirmation that is worth to the human being as a universal balm. Therefore, by the most diverse means, what the great doctrines teach is the orientation of life around a purpose—and man, defining it, has the mission to strive for its fulfillment.
It Is Really Admirable the Way Swami Vivekananda…
It is really admirable the way Swami Vivekananda interpreted and exposed Hinduism, integrating it, widening its arms and turning it into a legitimate catalyst of positive transformations for the human being. His Raja Yoga is the externalization of a noble, courageous, and stimulating philosophy. Very few authors are capable of deeply understanding the human condition and offering a solution that does not imply forced repression or the fading of the will. Swami Vivekananda, instead of leading to an aggravation of tensions or an eclipse of consciousness, proposes an active mental conduct directed to the elevation of one’s own nature. It builds, magnifies, encourages overcoming. What a great man!
For All the Times I Have Laughed…
For all the times I have laughed at Cioran’s explosive temperament, his wonderful rage in the grocery store line, and countless other situations that I always remember in laughter, it seems that I am now paying for them, and seem that laughter from heaven is directed to me. All the stupid banalities that make up my routine, the door that must open for me to leave my house, the scale that must work so that I weigh and buy food, the sun that must rise so that I know it is day… all these extremely banal things that always work because they have to work, or rather, all the human beings whose function somehow affects me, together and at the same time, fail to fulfill it, but with the whim of interrupting my routine and hindering me with problems that I have no means to solve! Cioran certainly laughs; that is the price: now it is my turn to make him laugh… But it is incredible to note the impossibility of peace in this world. Buddha is a folk character: in the real world, there would be someone to make him mad and ruin his spiritual progress.
Anger, Anger…
“Nothing clutters thought like an access of anger.” It is not only tranquility that is lost, but the construction of long efforts, of long improvement that materializes into a seemingly stable state, collapses entirely and abruptly. It is mental progress that returns to square one. From this, it is repeating the whole process. Buddhists assure us that a lifetime of meditation is lost in one of these impulses. If it is not so, it is certain to spoil before and after. Oh, sadness! Oh, the urge to cry!