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FROM FREUD TO THE BUDDHA

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Even though Freud said many things which proved being wrong, he generalized and made standard the idea that we live in the bubble of an unresolved past that colors the present, and if only for this we should feel grateful to him. While this was not Freud's goal, this realization is but a first step for any true spiritual path. Usually, and often unconsciously, we build our action upon an attempt to escape this unresolved past and so doing we usually manipulate the present and spoil it or even detroy it. This is why on a spiritual path we rather remain in our unresovled past-bubble, observe it, soak into it, and consume it to the flame of consciousness until only remains consciousness, just like in a crucible only remains gold. Consciousness is BEING in us or Reality's INFINITE essence and as such it is everything there "IS". This is what we call spiritual meditation. We observe our inner sky and the passing clouds that cross its space and we let them fall in rain,

KNOW THYSELF AND LEAVE THE WORLD IN PEACE.

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Our brain is a fantastic device. Indeed, with its 100 billion neurons each sharing an average of 10.000 connections with other neurons, our brain represents a kind of computer one cannot find on the marketplace of the new technologies, even in Silicon Valley. Mostly that recently scientists realized the 900 billion gliale cells of our nevrax also transmit information but only on a chemical mode. Even if our brain continues perfecting itself long after birth it is totally operational since the last months of gestation. Medicine calls infantile amnesia the fact that we do not remember what happened during the two or three first years of our lives and they consider this blindness as perfectly natural. It may be perfectly "normal" for those who unconsnciously fear remembering what happened then, and since they constitute the vast majority of people this represents the norm, but it is not natural at all. It is even totally illogical according the most basic standards for a