Reflections on self-awareness, in the world...
Consciousness cannot be explained only in terms of physiological functioning and it certainly has its own nature and reality. The observed is never separated from the observer, the image cannot replace the substance. The mental identification of forms and names is not enough to complete the picture of life by giving it a wholeness. Therefore, in search of a common matrix, independent and at the same time all-encompassing, I questioned myself and I investigated the nature of the one who questions himself. I called this reflecting on reflection: Lay Spirituality.
My path towards the realization of the unity of life began in 1973, during a profound "spiritual" experience obtained in the presence of my Master Swami Muktananda. From that moment on, I learned to recognize the environment, people, everything that manifests itself in the world, as a projection of the same consciousness. Consciousness and matter are not separate. In consideration of this, my life took on a new meaning and not seeing the division between the self and the other, my actions also conformed to this awareness. Everything manifests itself in every single part and every part participates in the whole.
Later I found that this perception also had a similarity with the descriptions of bioregional feeling and deep ecology. Putting this holistic feeling into practice is the spontaneous result of that initial experience, but it is not a traced path, it is essentially an ability to respond to different situations in the most appropriate way without having to resort to the built based on memory. Not that memory becomes useless or harmful, on the contrary it acquires new meaning in consideration of the enrichment that it receives with each new experience, without having to submit to the obligation of a payment with previous experiences, so that it is not a trap in which to remain entangled. Recycling of memory is the ability to recover in other forms those ways that served to satisfy other and different experiences and situations. Therefore, not memory in the repetitiveness of speech but in increasing the ability to respond. It is useless to try to give detailed explanations .. it could only be defined: capacity for growth.
Paolo D’Arpini
My path towards the realization of the unity of life began in 1973, during a profound "spiritual" experience obtained in the presence of my Master Swami Muktananda. From that moment on, I learned to recognize the environment, people, everything that manifests itself in the world, as a projection of the same consciousness. Consciousness and matter are not separate. In consideration of this, my life took on a new meaning and not seeing the division between the self and the other, my actions also conformed to this awareness. Everything manifests itself in every single part and every part participates in the whole.
Later I found that this perception also had a similarity with the descriptions of bioregional feeling and deep ecology. Putting this holistic feeling into practice is the spontaneous result of that initial experience, but it is not a traced path, it is essentially an ability to respond to different situations in the most appropriate way without having to resort to the built based on memory. Not that memory becomes useless or harmful, on the contrary it acquires new meaning in consideration of the enrichment that it receives with each new experience, without having to submit to the obligation of a payment with previous experiences, so that it is not a trap in which to remain entangled. Recycling of memory is the ability to recover in other forms those ways that served to satisfy other and different experiences and situations. Therefore, not memory in the repetitiveness of speech but in increasing the ability to respond. It is useless to try to give detailed explanations .. it could only be defined: capacity for growth.
Paolo D’Arpini