Struggle
_I: You told me you would teach me how to fight... Well... I'm ready.
_AM: Good. Tell me, what is the most insignificant struggle of your life?
_I: Umm I don't know.
_AM: You should know.
_I: Why?
_AM: Because it is the basis of the great battles that you will have to fight.
_I: Well, the thing is, I'm not an aggressive person, I don't usually put my energy into fighting every day. I try to think that it is not necessary to fight about things.
_AM: Who said you have to fight or be aggressive to fight?
_I: Ah… Isn't that the same? I always said that it seemed somewhat absurd to say “let's fight for peace,” or “warrior of light,” because they are antitheses in themselves. They are not?
_AM: Yes, they are, but that does not imply that they are not possible truths, or truths that you need to live. Look, we have to clarify something very important on this path of consciousness, and that is where you want to go on it.
_I: In what sense?
_AM: Exactly, in what sense, in what direction. The answers to what we talk about today probably have nothing to do with what some people expect, and this is not because it is true or not, but because of the direction they are heading on this path. People who seek the evolution of the Earth, of Humans, of Society, must understand the fundamentals of the struggle to achieve their goals. People who strive for Enlightenment, to find absolute peace, to expand into the cosmos beyond what is human and terrestrial, then they must learn to let go of the fight as a means, although to achieve this they must go through a battle.
_I: Which one?
_AM: That of the internal world. We could say that being human, you have two paths. If you wish to work for the world around you, here, now, you must learn what fighting in the external world entails. But if you seek to expand, get out of here, enlighten yourself, then the battlefield will be the internal world.
_I: You fight outside to be here, fight inside to leave here. But, if struggle implies battle, then are you telling me that polarity, opposition, confrontation is necessary? How can war, fighting, be a form of spiritual path?
_AM: To delve deeper into these topics, we will have to understand the origin of the words we will use. Fight, it has nothing to do with Fight. Pear, both in Spanish and English (fight), comes from the Indo-European word “pek”, which means hair, to comb. This form of aggression is called this because it is related to outbursts in which people grabbed each other's hair and wrestled their heads. Fighting is literally “grabbing by the hair.” Fights are an unconscious and animal reaction, based on innate aggression due to disputes over territory or reproduction. “Aggression” is a strange word that describes moving towards a place, advancing on something, not as a product of a reaction, but due to an internal pulse in a hostile manner. It comes from “Ad” (towards) and “gressus” (walked, walk), therefore it is the act of advancing towards the other. Its counterpart would be “Regression”, which would be going back what has been traveled, or walked, which gave rise in English to the word “lamentarse” (to regret). The “hostile” statement refers to that which comes from outside, that is, the foreigner; Coming from the Indo-European word “ghos”, it speaks of those who come from outside and are received in a place (hence words like hospital, hotel, hostel, guest, hospitable). Although foreigners were not always well received, since sometimes they involved conflicts, wars, and therefore, they were considered "hostilis", derived from "hostis", strictly related to someone who comes from outside and attacks a town, group. , nation.
_I: Wow… How crazy to see all this from this vision… It changes a lot. So, what does fight mean?
_AM: Fight comes from the Latin word “luctari”, which in turn comes from the Indo-European “leug”, which means “to turn, to bend”. In English, the definition would be “struggle”, which etymologically refers to stumbling, unlike in Latin languages, it implies something rigid that breaks, and therefore, implies the need to bend to continue. This same Latin etymology gave a fundamental word that expanded to two very different concepts but related to the two bases of the animal unconscious of reproduction and defense.
_I: Which ones?
_AM: First of all, the word that came from “leug”, which today you know as “luxation”.
_I: The separation of two bones by a sudden force.
_AM: Yes. That force speaks of turning, twisting, bending, which also makes us understand its connection with the root of something “lax”, loose, weak, that can bend easily. This is how the words that define the bases of our animal mind arise: “luxus” (lust, luxury) and “luctus” (fight).
_I: Luxus referring to sexuality and luctus referring to survival and defense...
_AM: And can you imagine why?
_I: Well, thinking a little “sexually”, it occurs to me why you have to be flexible in lust…
_AM: And you think well. Flexibility is essential in the sexual act. But also in the fight. For early humans, the outward appearance of a sexual act and an act of defense looked exactly the same, like a twisted situation, in which bodies rolled around flexibly, sweating, screaming, biting. Wrestling as a sport, in some cultures, involved the techniques of wrapping around the opponent, trapping him with legs and arms. Males, like many animals today (and many humans also continue to do so), at the time of the fight usually collide their heads, face to face, pushing each other while staring into each other's eyes. This technique is biologically a remnant of the act of fighting in which animals fought with their heads and even antlers, as well as something used in sexuality. The symbol represents marking the territory: whoever moves the other using only the force of his eyes and his head, removing him from the center of him, has won the battle, or has won the pair to mate.
_I: Now I understand those absurd reactions of many men when fighting. It is an animal memory.
_AM: Yes. But now, let's get to what really interests us. Fighting, as you will see, does not talk about fighting, but about marking territory, relating to others, and being flexible.
_I: You just broke my idea of what it means to fight.
_AM: That's the idea. To fight, you have to know how to become flexible. Today, the teacher who came to you in the pyramid made several things clear to you, and he did it with your body.
_I: It's true! Now I realize. He made me stand up like an Egyptian statue, and he had me bend my front knee to show how to put all my strength in front, and bend my back knee to show withdrawal. But he told _I: “No one who escapes fights, the only reason you take steps backwards, becoming more flexible in retrogradation, is to regain strength from the axis and be able to move forward with greater force.” You only go back to move forward with greater security, never to escape.
_AM: The famous withdrawal is recognizing yourself as flexible to do something fundamental. On a mental level it is called “reflecting”, on an emotional level it is called “turning point”, and on a physical level it is known as “flexibility”.
_I: Wow… I don't know why this surprises me so much. In my life I always thought that I should avoid fighting, confrontation (just putting my forehead against that of another), that I should flee from conflict, from fighting, because I considered them synonymous with fighting, aggression, hostility... And they are not. Now I realize some situations that have made me silence myself many times.
_AM: Like what?
_I: Well... I was never a reactionary person, and my first response to any conflict is silence, withdrawal, crying. I consider myself a coward. Maybe it's a defense mechanism that prevents me from acting, saying what I think, expressing myself. And at the slightest external reaction, I feel paralyzed. Rarely in my life have I been able to look directly into someone's eyes and set boundaries, or get angry, much less fight. My grandmother told me that when I was going to primary school, one day I told her that a boy had hit me, and she asked me why I didn't do anything about it, and my answer was: “so that the teacher doesn't punish him.” My grandmother told _I: “baby, I don't know if you are very good or very stupid” (Child, I don't know if you are very good or very stupid, in Argentine). The truth is, I don't know if it was out of goodness, precisely, but out of cowardice, out of fear. She kept me quiet. Then I started speaking to people, but my message was always neutral, I never spoke against anyone, because I don't consider myself capable of being against something or someone. I always want to build from point 0, from gray, without blacks or whites, and I consider that responding to criticism only puts us further into that vibration. But now, when you talk about this, I wonder: how long is silence complicit in allowing criticism to become reality? As they say, he who remains silent grants. To what extent will the search for neutrality make us slaves of a reality by living prisoners of our ideologies? To what extent are kindness and neutrality balanced, and begin to become betrayers of justice? And so now I realize that society does the same thing. It is silent, out of fear, out of fear of reacting, of losing comfort, out of refusal to fight, we remain rigid, letting the world devour us. Is non-reaction a weapon that we provide to opposing forces?
_AM: Reflect. Neutrality only exists in the middle of the two polarized forces. Harmony is only possible in the dance between the positive and the negative. What you seek to achieve in life by becoming a Gray Man, a Coherent Man, in the Axis, does not make you exempt from the struggle, but rather the center of it. Well, to stay on the axis, it must be flexible. The spinal column is made up of 33 vertebrae from the moment you are born, meaning that the axis of your being, which supports what you are, is only capable of achieving its mission by being 33 times flexible. Reflect. Silence is not the key to transformation, but to analysis and contemplation. Without silence, there is no thought, there is no reasoning, without silence, you will only act by reaction, driven by your subconscious. So, the word is liberation, it is letting go, it is transformation. The turning point is that moment when you have asked yourself the question: you are a prisoner of your beliefs about what you should be. In order to transform the world, you must confront the rigid patterns of the world, and it will do no good for you to become one more. Transcending the fear of what you will say is the key to your fight.
_I: What happens to me is that, every time I have expressed an opinion about the transformation of the external world, there are millions of options that are positioned against others, and conflicts begin, and I have not come to question, I have come to build, I don't want to put a bit of energy into fighting to defend my ideas, so I keep quiet. That's wrong?
_AM: It's not bad, it's an option. But let me show you something: your path is bathed in illumination, and therefore, your path is written in neutrality and silence, in which struggle is unnecessary. Your royal path is that of the being that seeks the cosmos, and therefore you naturally live from non-conflict, from proposing instead of decomposing. However, that is what you have come to teach, to educate, but it is not your purpose. That already lives in you, but your task is the opposite. It is coming into this world, looking into its eyes, and reminding it of what it must transform, and to do so, you must confront the world. You must become flexible, bend your knees, bow to the world, and look it in the eyes. With what you bring from the other planes, you must face the inharmonious aspects of it.
_I: That is to say… Take sides.
_AM: Oh no... Just start from one point. You should never take sides in something that is already obsolete, because you would be fighting other people's battles. Your mission is to fight your own battles, from enlightenment, from neutrality, from education. You don't have to fight with anyone, your sword is education, your weapons are words. The struggle is to bring the world to flexibility, to perform the act of reflection, and to bring them to the turning point. “On your knees,” the teacher told you today.
_I: And he put his staff on my shoulders.
_AM: Knight of the Blue Maiden, who launches into battle against the Dragon.
_I: Saint George... It is the message that Merlin said in Montserrat, on February 7, 2012.
_AM: You, like many others, are the knight who goes into battle, to free the Blue maiden, the Earth, from the oppression to which it is subjected. And to achieve this, he must face the Dragon: the kundalini, his chakras, his energy, his emotions. The first fight you have to fight lives in you, that fight that your body, your soul and your spirit live. What is your little struggle?
_I: Get up every day, and keep doing what I'm doing.
_AM: What is your biggest struggle in this world?
_I: Achieve the transformation of Society according to the Evolution of the Earth.
_AM: If you manage to overcome the smallest battle: waking up every day, you will prove to yourself that one day you will wake up the world. But you must first win this fight of your own: wake up every day as you hope the world wakes up.
_I: I've never seen it like that… It makes sense.
_AM: Your body asks for flexibility: exercise, do something new in your daily life. Your soul asks you for a turning point: stop hiding and face from the heart the emotions that you repress for fear of not being accepted. Your spirit calls for you to reflect: the neutrality you seek is only possible in the balance of both forces of polarity. Your daily struggle is everyone's struggle, your small battles will be the great victories.
_I: So, I must learn to respond, to take my side in things, to not remain silent in the face of injustice, or things poorly said or done.
_AM: Being neutral is not being blind, deaf and mute to appear stable, but rather being observant, knowing how to listen, and pronouncing the correct words. The fight, then, is not cursing or judging, the fight is not silencing others, the fight is not starting war with the enemy, the fight is recognizing yourself as empowered by the mission you have, the role you fulfill. The fight is saying the right words, it is showing the right paths. Passionately defend consciousness (luctus and luxus), without positioning yourself in the rigidity of a posture, but in the flexibility of joint learning. The first one you must defeat in this fight is yourself. Remember: all hostility coming from the external world is not an enemy, but a different point of view. Starting the war with a different point of view will only lead to senseless massacre, but the fight will lead you to reflection, inflection and bending, where with love, passion and education, you can respond from your point of view, nurturing visions. to the world.
_I: Many have told me not to pay attention to criticism, to follow my path as if they did not exist, not to waste time responding. And I have that same opinion. Tell me what should I do?
_AM: You will only lose energy when you respond completely to the battle, considering it the focus of all action. When you consider that whoever makes the judgment must be transformed and corrected, you will be losing the battle. However, when instead of responding to criticism or conflict, you respond to the world, your words will be nutrients for others.
_I: I'm not understanding well...
_AM: The struggle of a wise man is not with an individual, the struggle of a wise man is to educate the world by his example. Silence is sometimes the best response of a wise man, silence is his weapon in the fight of the inept. The words of a wise man become weapons to raise awareness among learners. Sometimes, the war of an individual becomes the peace of a people.
_I: By this you mean that, when things like trials, criticisms, responses, struggle happen, you should respond through education and teaching, but not waste time convincing the adversary, but rather educating those who listen.
_AM: That's right. Learn to use the energy of true struggle, and you will win the battle for consciousness. What were the three keys to the fight that you must carry out in your life?
_I: Reflection, Inflection and Flexion.
_AM: Breathe, and like every day, your fight begins. Arise, Knight of Consciousness. Wake up, and wake up the World.