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...of humanization that the brain is.
And let’s look at the brain in the embryonic stage.
30% of our neurons have already died
when we are born. And thank God for that,
because God is also a great Architect.
And that architect is a destroyer also.
And that destroyer recognizes what is in excess
so as to reveal what is essential.
To die is to renounce to what is in excess
and to discover that there is nothing that we’re missing,
and that in our being we are integral.
That in our being we are whole.
That in our being we are a flow of conscience
connected in time, in eternity and in space
to the boundless.
If it were not for all that neuronal death,
our neurons would be like a madhouse.
Our brains would be like a madhouse.
Neurons would not connect properly.
Only the neurons that connect survive.
But we’re not going to talk about biological death.
We’re going to talk about death and life
in the human sense. So let us ask ourselves:
Do we live? Do we really live?
And let us ask like the Saint:
I live without living in me,
and such is my waiting,
that I die because I don’t die.
You could die tonight a little bit
to that which you are not.
You could renounce to the not being
and get naked, and remove the masks
and the armors. And be vulnerable
and simple like water is.
And admit that your vulnerability
is your strength. You could return
to that primal state of innocence,
to that state of permanent childhood.
Because the Kingdom of the Soul, the kingdom
of life, the Kingdom of God, the Heavens,
as you may wish to refer to it,
is the Kingdom of Childhood.
It is the Kingdom of Innocence.
You could accept yourself.
You could die to pride and be born to simplicity.
Then life would be beautiful,
Because the ingredient of beauty, the main ingredient,
the main ingredient, is simplicity.
Simplicity restores the essence.
And that essence is your integrity.
Do we live within our selves? That is the question.
We live in life. Or, what do we live for?
That is the essential question.
We die when we don’t live to live.
When we do not live for our being.
When we do not live in our essence.
When we are not in ourselves.
When we go out of our center.
When we get displaced,
we ourselves are the main displaced
person in the world when we postpone life.
We die, definitely, when we postpone
this life as a replacement for eternal life.
And when we don’t recognize that eternity
starts right now, this moment, now and here.
And that eternity is that vortex of peace.
You don’t have to fight against the storm
because your essence is peace.
And your essence is your being.
You could be in yourself,
because when you’re not in yourself,
or with yourself, you are already dying.
Because when you are not in yourself,
or with yourself, you cannot be free.
You are falling into the path of dependency.
And the path of dependency is the path
of true death, the death of your being.
If we look at it from the biological perspective
we discover a very important law.
And that law says that to lose is to gain.
We lose life, we lose health, we gain consciousness.
We gain connection with a higher sphere of consciousness.
That law says that to divide means to multiply.
The laws of life are not the laws of matter.
They are the laws of consciousness.
The laws of matter are the laws of entropy.
They are physical laws that explain
that if I give you ten bucks I’m now ten bucks poorer.
But if I give you a kiss, I’m not one kiss poorer.
And if I give you an embrace, I’m not one embrace poorer.
And if I give you my knowledge, I’m not poorer.
And if I were to give you my love, what would happen?
Would my love be multiplied?
It is the parable of he who sows seeds.
It is the Sermon on the Mountain.
It is the magic of the seeds. Life is a seed.
Let’s look at our hands. The miracle of our fingers.
Our fingers are a miracle.
Writing, art, all this is the poetry of caresses
through our hands.
Because of the creation of the hand,
this hand, we have become humanized.
We transform nature, create technology.
This hand is our most primitive language.
Because when we talk we also talk with the hands,
not only with the language center in the brain.
But if we were to study these fingers
through evolution
this is not the way they were.
They were not free and our thumb was not
the marvelous thing that it is, half the hand.
And it would not have that amazing representation
of almost infinite informational density,
at the level of the cerebral cortex.
If we go back in evolution, these fingers were
stuck together, and we were web-footed.
And we had to swim, but someone, a wise One,
freed our fingers. And that wise One used a chisel.
And that chisel is a chisel of death.
All these fingers that were stuck together
were not created one by one, independently.
After they were together, they were separated
by a chisel that is called the tissue necrosis factor.
And that brings about apoptosis.
And, biologically speaking, apoptosis is
the programmed cellular death.
And we discovered that from the biological
point of view there is a beautiful death,
a form of death that is beautiful.
Orderly, silent. A death that defends life.
A death that opens the channel, the flow of life.
A death that creates the vacuum so
that the other cells can manifest.
And we, doctors, know that when that death fails,
very severe illnesses result.
A good deal of autoimmune diseases
are a failure of death.
Cancer is a failure of death.
Endometriosis is a failure of death.
The result of cells that do not
die when they should, that refuse
to follow their vital rhythm.
That do not follow the music, or the symphony,
of the rest of the cells of the body.
And they exit that symphony.
But when we do not detach,
when we do not let our sons go,
when we do not die to the past,
when we bear the resentments,
the programming and the guilts,
we have another death. And it is psychic death.
We die psychically when we get depressed.
We die psychically when we stop learning.
We die psychically when we adopt the victim’s role.
The victim can never be the apprentice.
We die psychically when we remain frozen
in past programming.
When we get frozen in the future and
in the "should be" of expectations.
We die psychically when
we deny ourselves the present.
We die psychically when we are not
in the presence of ourselves, of our soul.
When we are not conscious of ourselves.
We die psychically when our actions
are not rooted in our hearts.
When we pretend to flower without sap...