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about things, you see. They're prejudices. And so our society, and our societies, have been living out of arrogant people's opinions, or people's arrogant opinions about themselves, about others, about the way things should be in their societies and their families and their friendships and their relationships. It's like we have made a terrible mess by living out of our prejudicial opinions, and we must go deeper, we must go wider, and we must go higher than that if we are to match the evolutionary process that is sweeping us along, you see. MISHLOVE: I'm under the impression from your writings that your work is grounded in what people sometimes call the perennial tradition, the primordial tradition -- that is, the spiritual wisdom that seems to come from the great mystics and teachers of all cultures and almost all ages. ISANAMADA: Yes. Yes, that's true. MISHLOVE: That when you talk about Principle, with a capital P, you're referring to something along those lines. ISANAMADA: Yes. And bridging back to what you were talking about earlier in your question, you were saying so many different religions or groups or whatever have very strong opinions about what the law is, what the basic teachings are. I feel that these years we really must be able at least to see that we've got to stop arguing about who's right and who's wrong. And I guess a very important part of the work that I have brought forth as the Call to Greatness, the teachings of the course in congruence, is that the ego, which is a stage-specific phase of our evolutionary process, the ego holds itself separate and right, and when we move beyond that stage of evolution, when we transcend it in truth, we realize that there is no right, or that it's all right, and that what we must do is make the highest choice, given that everything is right. MISHLOVE: You mentioned the ego. ISANAMADA: And that's getting too abstract. MISHLOVE: Well, we'll come around again. It is abstract, but sometimes these abstract truths are quite profound, and while they may be difficult to grasp, I think if we try and approach it from a few different angles we'll be able to illuminate the question. And so what I'd like to go back to is the word you used, the ego. You know, we banter it around so easily in our conversation. I think it possibly means different things to different people, and I suspect you're using it in a very particular way that I'd like you to amplify. ISANAMADA: All right. Well, I feel because I was a seeker, of understanding at least -- trying to figure my life out when I was a young woman and growing up and a middle-aged woman -- I did a lot of reading and taking courses and trying to figure it all out, how to do it. And what I realized, that in the last thirty years a lot of information about the ego has been given to our Western culture, to our Western
society, but there's a lot of confusion about what that ego is. MISHLOVE: There's a whole branch of psychology called ego psychology. ISANAMADA: Really! I didn't know that. MISHLOVE: Part of psychoanalysis generally. ISANAMADA: All right. So anyway, even having read so much about the ego myself, having spoken to a lot of people who talked about the ego this way and that, I in a very inspired moment was given a picture of what the ego is, and a very simple explanation of it as a mechanism, as a psychological mechanism that is a vital part of our humanity. And so I have drawn that, and I have taught that very simple model of the ego to many people over the last nine years. Very basically, the ego is our past; it's an accumulation of experiences that we have had, and conclusions we have drawn based on those experiences. But it's also -- the kind of mechanism that it is, the function that it is psychologically, causes us to feel separate as an egoic being. And it causes us to reflect very clearly into the past and have a very difficult time seeing what's going on right here in the present moment. MISHLOVE: So if I were to paraphrase you, I might say that you're defining the ego as the part of ourselves that we typically identify with based on our life history. ISANAMADA: Yes. MISHLOVE: And you're suggesting that we limit ourselves when we do that. ISANAMADA: Well, the ego is the limitation. It's very difficult even to talk about this, because we have identified ourselves as like we actually have no identity except the ego. It's like the ego is our identity, and yet it is not us. It's not who we are. But we have been made to believe that's who we are. We are so much more than that. MISHLOVE: And our self-expression, the way you speak of self-expression, is so much more than that. ISANAMADA: Yes. And of course the way I speak about Self-expression is with a capital S. There is the lower self, which is the ordinary personality, the lower mind, the ego self, which is a very important -- in fact we couldn't be here, we couldn't experience life in this realm, in the third dimension, without our wonderful ego function. MISHLOVE: Self with a small s. ISANAMADA: With a small s. But the ego is only to allow us to be here and to become transcendent to that littleness, and to become the greatness that we really are, here in our human life -- to become more fully human as that greater Self. MISHLOVE: You used the word intuition earlier in terms of accessing Principle, with a capital P, and I suspect that it's through our intuition, our inner knowing, that we also access our Self, with a capital S. ISANAMADA: Well, I say that our inner Self is our capital Self. MISHLOVE: I see. ISANAMADA: I say that our outer self is just a shell, and it's a surface veneer, and
just behind that, or just under that, or just over that, or around it, or whatever, is this glorious reality that is the truth of us. It is the Self-expression that is demanding to be made. MISHLOVE: And I have to say you write about it very eloquently and poetically, suggesting that the very birth of the universe is part of who we are, and the death of the universe is within us, and the great truths of existence itself, and purpose and destiny -- these are part of our real inner being. ISANAMADA: Yes. And I guess I would even say that they're not a part of us, they are us. It's like we are a part of them. We are an integral part of that great wholeness, and all of the dynamics of creation are the dynamics of us. All of the laws of the universe are the laws of us. All of the expressions and the creation is us, it's who we are; like we're so much more than we have assumed. We are so much more than we have ever been ready to be before. And my premise is, and my true feeling is, that we are ready now, we are truly ready, to embody and be great, really. And I also am feeling that many people who are awakening these days do not understand what's happening with them, in them, as them, and that part of my work to do is to tell them, "You're awakening, and this is what awakening means, and this is what we do about it." MISHLOVE: You went through an extraordinary transformation of your own, and I believe in your book More Than Me you write about it as an event that really took place in 1984, and that left you a very, very different person. Not everybody awakens in such a dramatic fashion. ISANAMADA: Yes, and I will say that the awakening began in 1984, and of course it continues. But the drama of the first year and nine months, year and ten months,ywas devastating, at the same time that it was the most wondrous and loving and comfortable experience. It was all of that at the same time. I had no idea what was happening to me, and no one seemed to be able to tell me, but I began to ask questions that I had never asked before, and even though I couldn't get the answers in my outer world, there was an experience going on inside of me that said, "I know something that I don't know," and I just kept honoring that as my world fell apart, my life completely fell apart around me, and over time I lost everything, including all of the people who were most dear to me -- family, my long-term lover, all of my possessions. I lost my whole life, and realized after the summer of 1985 that I had actually lost myself, and that I began to experience myself as a completely different identity, but not in a weird way. I
was just completely changed. MISHLOVE: When you speak of people awakening today and not really knowing what's happening to them, I guess you can say that because in a sense you've been there. ISANAMADA: Yes. Yes, because I was there, and really reaching out to try to find help and understanding, because I was in different periods very aware that I was close to losing my mind, close to losing my sanity. I was going through a very dark, dark night of the soul and didn't know it. But anyhow, I learned about that afterward, and then also because I've been standing in front of and sitting with people now for all these years in doing my work that I have been called to do, and I see the tremendous gap between what's going on with these people and their ability to understand it, you see. MISHLOVE: Well, many people go through spiritual crises, and they don't have a support system. They're not in touch with the perennial wisdom. ISANAMADA: Yes. MISHLOVE: I suppose one of the dangers today is that we live in an era of-- you might call it a spiritual supermarket, where you can take your pick of thirty or forty different kinds of meditations, and how many different styles of physical exercise, and yoga, and people offering you truths of their own making, from every street corner, practically. And I think what you seem to be suggesting to people is that the answer is ultimately -- is them; it is their process. It's not to be found through any of these other offerings necessarily, although they can sometimes be helpful. ISANAMADA: Yes. And I will say that the transformational process, as we all know, takes place from inside out; it's an -- what do they say? -- an inside job, and all that. However, I feel that the universe itself is so intimately involved in the transformation of our species at this time, and that all the blessings of all the teachings being given in a supermarket fashion, in a supermarket society, that it's really perfect -- you know, it's the way that our society will assimilate, somehow, the teachings. It's like we're being spoon-fed, and we're being given it through intravenous feedings. It's like it's coming at us every way, every which way, toward the society that is awakening even though it doesn't know it is. And I know for myself, from the time that I had the first moment, that books began to fall off the shelves or show up somehow, and those books, I held onto them. They were my lifeline, you know. And when I would go and sit in front of a teacher, even though I might not understand exactly what he or she was talking about, somehow it fed me and strengthened me and gave me hope about something that I didn't even understand that was going on inside me. It made me feel somehow OK for twenty-four hours. MISHLOVE: We began talking about Self-expression, and I get the sense from your
book, A Call to Greatness, that regardless of what disciplines a person may engage in, or what teachers a person may seek in trying to understand their own awakening, probably the greatest tool is that they speak truthfully about what is happening. ISANAMADA: Yes, yes, yes. And I feel that yes, to what you said; but I feel that people actually must be taught, and that they can learn it very fast -- how to retune themselves to get in touch with that intuitional level, to begin to be able to read themselves. They can't read themselves. They need to be able to read themselves. When they're able to do that, then they can begin to speak the truth of themselves, rather than to come from the level of opinion. MISHLOVE: You say it's easily taught. ISANAMADA: It's easily learned, it's easily learned. I feel that we're so ready as a society, we're so ready to become the truth. In fact I say in the book that my experience of it is that we're so ready that it seems amazing that it hasn't already happened -- that we've ever been incongruent. MISHLOVE: That we've ever been -- ISANAMADA: That we've ever been incongruent -- that's how ready we are. MISHLOVE: Well, we have less than two minutes now. I wonder if we could leave this segment with a message to our audience about how do we learn, for people who are still struggling. Is there something you can -- ? ISANAMADA: Well, I feel most necessary is the point at which we realize that we are imprisoned in our own emotions and in our own mind -- that we must be aware that we are captive, we have been captured in a lower level of mind than is the truth of ourselves. Once we can acknowledge that, then we're ready to begin to learn, and we begin by learning what's holding us captive, and learning to read the human emotional response, and to be able to observe how the ego is showing up in our very own lives -- not in just other people, but how it's running our life -- and how to begin to make the higher choice consciously. It's bringing consciousness to what has been unconscious before. MISHLOVE: And this for you is really the essence of Self-expression. ISANAMADA: This is the foundation on which Self-expression stands. MISHLOVE: IsanaMada, thank you so much for sharing this. ISANAMADA: Thank you. MISHLOVE: I can see that these are truths that you've wrought out of the cauldron of your own growth, and indeed they're very valued. Thank you for being with me. ISANAMADA: Thank you so much for inviting me.
Um verdadeiro amigo!Um verdadeiro amigoNao esta longe,Um verdadeiro amigoNunca foge,Compartilha do ontem, do hoje e do amanha com as mesmas forcas.Um verdadeiro amigoNunca discute sem razao,Cede, aperta, cobra mas renova ao amigo o coracao.Um verdadeiro amigoChora com sua dor,Grita com o seu sofrimento,Lamenta o seu lamento.Um verdadeiro amigoDescobre o mal cedo, eleva o dia so para ter ver sorrir,Tem na fe incansavel a realizacao da vitoria.Um verdadeiro amigoCresce e nunca esquece,Compartilha seu sucesso e na nossa vida traz tambem o progresso. Um verdadeiro amigo e assim,Diferente, imbativel, louco, sincero, leal,fiel ate escrito nos sonhos que nao se precisa de papel.Sem escrita, sem formas, sem denominacoes e muito menos aparicoes.Amigo, amigo simplesmente amigo...de Jose Renato da Silva Jr. E preciso cultivar o relacionamento como uma fragil flor que requer carinho.Hoje, ao atender o telefone que insistentemente exigia atencao, o meu mundo desabou.Entre solucos e lamentos, a voz do outro lado da linha me informava que o meu melhor amigo, meu companheiro de jornada, meu ombro camarada, havia sofrido um grave acidente, vindo a falecer quase que instantaneamente.Lembro de ter desligado o telefone, e caminhado a passos lentos para meu quarto, meu refugio particular.As imagens de minha juventude vieram quase que instantaneamente a mente. A faculdade, as bebedeiras, as conversas em volta da lareira ate altas horas da noite, os amores nao correspondidos, as confidencias ao pe do ouvido, as colas, a cumplicidade, os sorrisos....AHHHHH... os sorrisos....Como eram faceis de surgir naquela epoca. Lembrei da formatura, de um novo horizonte surgindo... das lagrimas e despedidas, e principalmente, das promessas de novos encontros. Lembro perfeitamente de cada feicao do melhor amigo que ja tive em toda a vida: em seus olhos a promessa de que eu nunca seria esquecida. E realmente, nunca fui. Perdi a conta das vezes em que ele carinhosamente me ligava quando eu estava no fundo do poco.Ou das mensagens - que nunca respondi - que ele constantemente me enviava, enchendo minha caixa postal eletronica de esperancas e promessas de um futuro melhor.Lembro que foi o seu rosto preocupado que vi quando acordei de minha cirurgia para retirada do apendice. Lembro que foi em seu ombro que chorei a perda de meu amado pai. Foi em seu ouvido que derramei as lamentacoes do noivado desfeito.Apesar do esforco para vasculhar minha mente, nao consegui me lembrar de uma so vez em que tenha pego o telefone para ligar e dizer a ele o quanto era importante para mim contar com a sua amizade. Afinal, eu era uma mulher muito ocupada. Eu nao tinha tempo.Nao lembro de uma so vez em que me preocupei de procurar um texto edificante e enviar para ele, ou qualquer outro amigo, com o intuito de tornar o seu dia melhor. Eu nao tinha tempo.Nao lembro de ter feito qualquer tipo de surpresa, como aparecer de repente com uma garrafa de vinho e um coracao aberto disposto a ouvir. Eu nao tinha tempo.Nao lembro de qualquer dia em que eu estivesse disposto a ouvir os seus problemas. Eu nao tinha tempo.Acho que eu nunca sequer imaginei que ele tinha
problemas.Nao me dignei a reparar que constantemente meu amigo passava da conta na bebida. Achava divertido o seu jeito bebado de ser.Afinal, bebado ou nao ele era uma otima companhia para mim.So agora vejo com clareza o meu egoismo.Talvez - e este talvez vai me acompanhar eternamente - se eu tivesse saido de meu pedestal egocentrico e prestado um pouco de atencao e despendido um pouquinho do meu sagrado tempo, meu grande amigo nao teria bebido ate nao aguentar mais e nao teria jogado sua vida fora ao perder o controle de um carro que com certeza, nao tinha a minima condicao de dirigir.Talvez, ele, que sempre inundou o meu mundo com sua iluminada presenca, estivesse se sentindo sozinho.Ate mesmo as mensagens engracadas que ele constantemente deixava em minha secretaria eletronica, poderiam ser seu jeito de pedir ajuda. Aquelas mesmas mensagens que simplesmente apaguei da secretaria eletronica, jamais se apagarao da minha consciencia.Estas indagacoes que inundam agora o meu ser nunca mais terao resposta. A minha falta de tempo me impediu de responde-las.Agora, lentamente escolho uma roupa preta - digna do meu estado de espirito - e pego o telefone. Aviso o meu chefe de que nao irei trabalhar hoje - e quem sabe nem amanha, nem depois ...., pois irei tirar o dia para homenagear com meu pranto a uma das pessoas que mais amei nesta vida.Ao desligar o telefone, com surpresa eu vejo, entre lagrimas e remorsos, de que para isto, para acompanhar durante um dia inteiro o seu corpo sem vida, eu TIVE TEMPO!PS: Ja fazem muitos anos que escrevi este desabafo no diario de minha vida. Em parte para aliviar a dor que acoitava minha alma.Hoje estou casada, tenho dois filhos e todo o tempo do mundo.Descobri que se voce nao toma as redeas da tua vida o tempo te engole e te escraviza.Trabalho com o mesmo afinco de sempre, mas somente sou "a profissional" durante o expediente normal.
Corremos de um lado para o outro esperando descobrir a chave da felicidade... Esperamos que tudo que nos preocupa se resolva num passe de magica.Achamos que a vida seria tao diferente, se pelo menos fossemos felizes.E, assim, uns fogem de casa para serem felizes e outros fogem para casa para serem felizes...Uns se casam para serem felizes e outros se divorciam para serem felizes...Uns fazem viagens carissimas para serem felizes e outros trabalham alem do normal para serem felizes...Uma busca sem fim.Anos desperdicados.Nunca a Lua esta ao alcance da mao, nunca o fruto esta maduro.Nunca estamos satisfeitos.Mas, ha uma forma melhor de viver! A partir do momento em que decidimos ser felizes, nossa busca da felicidade chegou ao fim.A felicidade nao tem nada a ver com conseguir. Consiste em satisfazer-nos com o que temos e com o que nao temos. Poucas coisas sao necessarias para fazer feliz o homem sabio, ao mesmo tempo em que nem a maior de todas as fortunas satisfaria a um inconformado.Enquanto nos tivermos alguma coisa a fazer, alguem a amar, alguma coisa a esperar, seremos felizes.Entao Lembre disso: a unica fonte de felicidade esta dentro de voce, e deve ser repartida.Repartir alegrias e como regar uma planta: sempre algumas gotas acabam caindo sobre voce mesmo.Na incerteza do amanha... Aproveite o hoje para ser feliz ! O SORRISO dura um instante, mas ha casos em que nao da para esquece-lo pelo resto da vida. Tem um valor incalculavel, mas esta ao alcance de todos o pobre nao tem desculpa de nao ter condicoes de da-lo e o rico, de dizer que nao precisa dele.O sorriso e o resultado da contracao dos musculos em que os olhos se iluminam e os cantos da boca se curvam ligeiramente para cima em uma expressao de contentamento. O sorriso de um bebe, logo nas primeiras semanas, encanta os pais, que nao escondem seu orgulho. Esses primeiros sorrisos sao involuntarios, apenas um reflexo. Os cientistas explicam ainda que sao iguais ao sorriso de pessoas que estao sonhando e parecem estar relacionados com sentimentos intimos e com atividades do sistema nervoso central. Mesmo nos adultos, esse sorriso reflexo pode ocorrer apos uma refeicao ou enquanto ouvem musica.Passadas cerca de seis semanas, o bebe ja reage com um sorriso ao ver certo rosto ou ouvir determinada voz. O sorriso social , voluntario e consciente , anima a quem o recebe, seja bebe seja adulto. Nao so isso, mas dizem que exerce tambem uma influencia positiva na saude fisica. Os fonoaudiologos Mirtha Manno e Ruben Delauro, que gerenciam a clinica de auto-ajuda La Risa y la Salud, disseram que sorrir, o mero gesto em si, produz um estimulo eletrico que age sobre a hipofise. Essa glandula, por sua vez, reage liberando endorfinas substancias quimicas no cerebro que dao uma sensacao de bem-estar a pessoa.Outra razao para sorrir e o efeito positivo que ele exerce nos outros. Um sorriso sincero comunica nossos sentimentos sem palavras, seja um sorriso de cumprimento, de solidariedade, seja de encorajamento. Pode acontecer que so de vermos numa foto o sorriso cativante de
uma crianca reajamos automaticamente com um sorriso tambem. O sorriso de uma pessoa amiga pode ser muito benefico, deixando-nos mais descontraidos e com mais coragem e disposicao para enfrentar frustracoes ou problemas. A Biblia recomenda: Nao negues o bem aqueles a quem e devido, quando estiver no poder da tua mao faze-lo. (Proverbios 3:27) Sorrir e um gesto bem simples, mas produz um bem para nos e para os outros. Faca um esforco para compartilhar com os outros essa dadiva de valor incalculavel um sorriso amigo!Fonte: http://pt.shvoong.com/society-and-news/news-items/128709-poder-um-sorriso/#ixzz1L1MdUIAL