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44 PHILOSOPHY IS NOT ENOUGH

 

The life dedicated to meditation and concentration that characterizes philosophers is feminine, and the outgoing and ordinary life that most people lead is masculine, but complete happiness can only be obtained when both are combined. Philosophy belongs to the vertical and cold dimension, and life based on the emotions provided by the senses and work belongs to the horizontal and warm dimension, and only when the human being adequately combines both dimensions can he achieve balance. The general society would use more physical life and less mental life, and the philosopher would use mental life more than physical life, but both need both dimensions to be happy. Philosophy is mainly energy and classical life is mainly matter. It is true that in certain situations it is valid to dedicate oneself to philosophy, especially when someone is capable of overtaking the rest, but it is a mistake to think that one can only live from philosophy, because a man can have all the wisdom in the world but if You only find entertainment in philosophy, you can feel a certain emptiness because philosophy, like energy, only produces force and reaction when combined with matter, that is to say that philosophy is great and sometimes it is good to dedicate yourself to it exclusively but in terms general and absolute only when combined alternately with common life, work, partner and children is it possible to feel complete. With this, what I am trying to demonstrate is that the life of a prophet like Jesus is not as ideal as many imagine, because his situation is, in reality, exceptional and unstable, and that is why his desire is, in reality, to live as A normal person. These great prophets may have been ahead of the rest in the metaphysical understanding of the universe and thus are in some way intellectually superior to them, but only when those around them share and understand these principles can prophets be truly happy.

The truth is that in life it is very difficult to have everything at the same time, because a person who tries to dedicate himself only to deep meditation is going to have difficulties to have a woman or a normal life because meditation pushes towards isolation. However, to achieve the perfect balance between the horizontal, material, warm and salty dimension that represents common or extroverted life, and the vertical, spiritual, cold and sweet dimension that deep meditation represents, it is necessary that there be a harmonic relationship between the common life and the meditative life, because when a philosopher dedicates himself only to the spiritual life at the same time he loses the fruits of the material life. This shows that those who believe that the great philosophers like Jesus or Zoroaster are happy only for being intellectually superior are wrong, because happiness can only be achieved when life contains both dimensional aspects, therefore, the task that they do only has felt exceptionally. It is true that discovering the great philosophical secrets of the universe is exciting, but the life of a philosopher can only be complete when he manages to live surrounded by those who understand him and have the same evolutionary level.

In reality, what characterizes a normal life is having a job, a wife and children, however, in this situation it is very difficult to engage in deep meditation because these tasks take the mind away from concentration and push it towards an extroverted life. But that does not have to prevent you from spending time on both situations and thus obtaining the fruits of both dimensional planes. To achieve this, it is necessary to live an extroverted life as a rule to compensate for the requirements of the material dimension, but it is also necessary to spend some time in deep meditation as an exception, to compensate for the requirements of the spiritual dimension. This is how balance can be achieved in both dimensional aspects. That is to say that the normal thing is to dedicate most of our time to extroverted tasks and only a small part to introverted tasks, in the same way, those philosophers who dedicate all their time to meditation would do the same but in reverse, because their Homework would represent an exception to the general rule. However, even in these cases, his dream is to return with his teachings to deliver them to society and live with the rest of the people as just another man. 

The exclusively meditative and introverted attitude of a spiritually elevated philosopher is not normal, but occurs when he overtakes the people he lives with in his ability to understand the world around him. Because the true dream of a philosopher is not to be at home meditating as he normally does. He always dreams of traveling to different places or interacting with other people, this shows that his introverted attitude is not something normal but exceptional, but not only for him but for all human beings. Deep down, the dream of an inspired philosopher is to spend time meditating with the intention of returning to the world with his discoveries, delivering them to humanity, and then living with them as a normal man, because the logical thing is that people live relating to each other in a harmonious way. This means that the only thing that can explain the introverted attitude of a philosopher or a prophet is his greater capacity to understand the world around him. That difference, pushes him to distance himself from others and through his imagination try to see in his mind that ideal future world in which he would like to be, that is, a world full of beings with the same evolutionary level where he can be one more with them. . This shows that meditation is not an end in itself, but a means to discover the future and feel close to that ideal world. The introverted way of living that a spiritually elevated philosopher has is, therefore, a problem on a spiritual level, because in reality, every being with these characteristics distances himself from others because it is through this meditation that he manages to imagine and feel united to those Wonderful worlds that he dreams of, but in reality his true desire is to live interacting normally with the rest of the people who have the same level of evolution. So when you find yourself surrounded by people who don't understand you, your only chance to feel close to that perfect humanity is through your own imagination.

A philosopher is as if the pole were a battery charged with electricity that needs to be connected to the other pole to eliminate its potential difference, the philosopher would be the pole that yields energy in the form of knowledge, and society would be the pole that receives that knowledge. When that communication occurs, the prophet gives his knowledge to society and reduces his difference with it and society increases its knowledge to equal that of the prophet, in this way, everyone becomes united. It is like the potential difference that is created between a cloud charged with electricity and the earth ready to receive that electric charge. The ray, then, represents the moment in which a prophet communicates with the world and gives him his potential for knowledge. That is to say that in reality, the dream of a philosopher or a prophet is to share their knowledge with society to stop being different and thus be able to live a normal life with them. The situation of an inspired philosopher is, therefore, an unstable and energetically charged situation, therefore, he looks for a way to free himself from that burden and thus acquire the stability that comes from joining, and living in peace, with the rest of society.