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WALKING TO THE LIGHT
Psychointegration
Session
06/Jul/2007
By Jorge Raul
Olguin
In the spiritual world there are plenty of pathways to reach the
Absolute, infinite pathways. Even in our world, the planet Earth, there are
plenty of routes: Catholic apostolic, Christian, Christian dissidents, who call
themselves evangelical or Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Shintoist , Buddhist ...
there are a lot of routes.
I
can say that although it is important to have a pathway for those who need to
hold on to something besides than themselves, until they learn to hold on to
themselves, it is still a good result because somehow they come closer to what
the spiritual part is. The failure is that many of these routes are doctrinaire,
quite dogmatic, they sow fear and a misunderstood respect to the alleged
Creator, they lead their disciples based on a system of rewards and punishments:
“Do such work and you will get a reward, if you are indifferent you will be
punished and so on,” when the right thing, the real issue is that our actions
bring consequences, they can be a good or bad consequences according to our own
actions, if they are altruistic or hostile. This is the real message, although
there are several ways we can approach God, the correct way is by doing
altruistic actions, absolutely altruistic actions.
We have a great enemy, which is our ego and its roles, the person who
has roles of ego is offended easily, he/she gets angry. An egotistical person is
very touchy, I even know many people who began in the path of Light and due to
various reasons, while walking the path, they became touchy, they were offended
and failed, they left the Path of Light and they feel resentful. It is easier to
blame the environment around them instead of taking responsibility of their own
actions, because the ego never takes responsibility and the person, who is
controlled by the ego, makes other people responsible of that failure. And the
problem of making other people responsible is that that the person is never
going to be responsible for his/her own actions, and second; that person will
have a tremendous resentment; that person is going to feel rejected, he/she will
feel that others did not approved him/her, and we already know that seeking the
approval of others is also a role of ego.
Although there are people who have no knowledge, there is no
justification to fall prey to those roles of ego, but I also know many people
who have great knowledge and they also fell prey to those roles of ego and that
is more serious because the responsibility of the person who has more knowledge
is greater, and if that person allows the ego to take control over his/her
behavior, it’s a potential liability... so to speak.
There is no method, except Psychointegration; that somehow eradicates the ego and its
roles and integrates them into a central Self, there is
no particular method to keep control of these roles. What I always say: ‘We
should be like spectators of that movie we call life,’ and if we learned to look
at things from the outside, as if we were behind the glass, we would see that
sometimes it sound ridiculous to our ears these whimsical attitudes, these
positions that make us become stubborn, absolutely touchy, full of prejudice and
so on.
One can never reach the Light with prejudice and being touchy, it’s
one of the biggest weaknesses the human being has, one of the greatest
weaknesses.
Another role of ego is to live always competing. We do not have to
compete against anyone, we have to compete against ourselves in order to be
better every day, but never, at least not for now, to aim infallibility because
we are fallible, we are beings looking for perfection, but it will take a lot
time for it, until we merge with the Creator.
Meanwhile, we are in the quest and
we should not be cruel to ourselves, maybe we can be demanding to be every day a
better person, but not cruel to ourselves when we fail at something and
condemning ourselves. I myself, as a teacher, make mistakes every day, but I
learned a very valuable lesson, I learned to laugh at myself, not to laugh at my
failures, I learned to laugh at myself and at my mistakes. However, I know that
if I fail God will give me another opportunity to redeem myself tomorrow and try
to do that same work, not for me, but for others.
However, I know many people who walked the path of Light and in the
first or second problem they found, they already abandoned that path. And not
only did they abandon it, they blamed others for their abandonment, and that is
more damaging because they don’t take their own
responsibility.
The most important thing on the path of Light is keep moving, neither
slow nor fast, we must go on, but never forgetting to enjoy the meanwhile
because it’s an aphorism that I wrote many years ago: "The goal is the quest,"
which means that to reach that goal, first, the quest should be
enjoyed.
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