Elena Sidelnikova – Lessons Enlightenment (страница 6)

How do I do that?

Simply ask yourself: are you ready to lose everything?

I don’t know. Probably not. Rather, it depends on what for.

For gaining everything.

These are such general words. They seem theoretically understandable, but for us, it’s still an abstraction. It turns out we have to lose everything for something unknown.

Exactly.

Are you saying we need to learn not to fear the unknown?

Yes. Because the unknown doesn’t exist.

You’re talking about diving into the depth, meaning that if we dive into the depth of Spirit, we lose our personal aspects?

You lose your partiality and gain your depth. You gain everything. You no longer need to explore every flavor; you will acquire all possible flavors. You no longer need to explore every scent; you will encompass all scents. You no longer need to explore every shade of color individually; you will hold all possible shades of all colors. For example, you won’t isolate the red color for study but will dive into the properties of red light, gaining its depth, its richness. Here’s a similar analogy: you don’t examine the shades; you immerse yourself in the richness of red color.

You’re saying the unknown doesn’t exist. Does this mean that when my consciousness becomes whole, I will somehow know everything, and therefore, the unknown doesn’t exist?

You will simply become everything. Can “everything” not know something?

We’re all learning the art of creation. From the perspective of creation, what is the process of diving into depth? I mean, when we learn creation through separation, we choose different colors each time, deciding how to lay them on the canvas of the Tapestry of the Universe. But if we follow the path of immersion, how does creation happen then?

You still have to master the creation of form. But this is the creation of unity. Like comparing a flat picture to a three-dimensional one. Think of your cartoons or movies. You paint the plot of the picture by applying colors to the canvas. But that picture is two-dimensional. Then, if you follow the path of immersion, you give the painting depth, starting with three-dimensionality, and you immerse yourself in it. It’s like stepping into a television screen or entering a painting, passing through it as a portal into the depth of your creation. And there, too, you paint a profound picture and immerse yourself in it.

But this is the process of creating realities, right?

Yes. Exactly.

So, the process of creating realities with our minds, as a process of creation, is the combination of the path of separation into form and the path of immersion into depth?

All your actions, all your awareness, is such a combination in different proportions for each of you. This is precisely why each person’s path is so unique.

Will you teach us how to dive into the depth?

I will tell you about this path. The path into the depth of Spirit.

Did Jesus follow a different path?

You can ask Him that. He walked the path of Love.

What are the differences?

The difference lies in the way of joining, in the path of attaining one’s unity. He showed you the way of reunification of every external form with its unity. And this can be done through love, which is the feeling of connection with all forms. You love your child, and therefore you are ready to take on her suffering and pain. This is the path of compassion. This is the path of love. The path where you unite with your child and ease her suffering. You merge with her and for a moment become one with her. You are ready to give her everything you have, that is, to cease to exist for her sake. This is the path of love. The path where the form does not feel its unity and suffers in its separation. And therefore, you give it your strength and the feeling of unity with you. Because since you love her, you already feel unity with her. Jesus loved and loves all in this way. He feels, he is aware of his unity with everything and gives everyone the opportunity, through his channel of love, to reunite with their own unity. It’s like reunification from the outside. Like a process of hugging, where two people simply connect for a while, exchange energies, and feel their unity. In this sense, Jesus constantly embraces the whole world. All that exists.

I, however, walk the path of discovering my unity from within. I tell you: I am in you, and you are in me. We are one. You can find me within yourself. And I can find you within myself. For we are not divided. For all divisions are conditional. In me is all the detail of the world. And in you is all the detail of the world. The only difference is that these are different details.

Different? If we are one, how can these details be different?

Because you have your depth, and I have mine. We are different, and yet we are one, and we are the same.

Wait. You probably mean that there is some depth accessible to everyone, which connects all, that is, the Absolute. And each of us, in our own way, explores and discovers the same depth. But then it turns out that everyone has their own Buddha.

Exactly. Everyone has their own Buddha. And everyone discovers him in their own way. They discover their Buddha within themselves.

By Buddha, do we mean a certain level of consciousness, or directly you?

Directly me. Let’s not talk about me first, because it will be hard for you to understand. You smell a flower and feel its fragrance. The scent of a lily or a rose. But this is an external path. At the moment of perceiving the scent of the flower, you reunite with it. And this is the path of Love, the path of Jesus. You love the flower when you inhale its beautiful fragrance.

Sorry to interrupt. But if I smell something that has a really bad odor, does it also count as the path of love, even though I don’t like that smell?

Yes. Because you are separated from it. Do you love your own smells? Mostly, you don’t even distinguish them. But in a bad smell, you distinguish, you separate. But in reality, there is not a single smell outside of you that is not literally present within you.

Do you mean that I can reveal this smell within myself? Or that my body contains all smells, including bad ones, but I just don’t notice them because I’m used to them?

Not because you’re used to them, but because they are your smells, you are one with them, they are part of you. Therefore, it’s not a habit but actually a level of unity. When you perceive a being outside of you as separate, you perceive its smells as separate from you. And that’s why some become unacceptable to you.

Why some in particular? By this logic, the scent of a rose should also become unpleasant to me, because the rose is separate from me.

It’s about the rose.

The rose?

Yes. Because the rose has learned to reunite with you.

Has the rose learned, while I haven’t?

Exactly. The rose can unite with anyone who smells it. This is the level of a beautiful flower, a high level of development within the plant kingdom, and therefore a level of attaining unity. This is why anyone who smells a rose perceives its scent as delightful: they begin to feel a sense of unity with the rose because it knows how to become one with a person. On the other hand, plants or other entities that emit unpleasant smells have simply not learned how to achieve their unity outside of themselves, to give their unity, to restore it every time during interaction and communication.

So, does this mean that people have different scents? And if I think someone smells nice, does it mean I can find my unity with them?

No. It means that the person can find unity with you because the scent is theirs, and the perception is yours. If the process is mutual, you both perceive each other’s pleasant smells. As an example, the secretions of a baby almost have no odor.

But that’s because the baby’s food is milk.

No. That’s because the baby’s food is love. Love is passed through the mother’s milk to the child.

What about wet nurses or artificial milk?

You’ve sensed this correctly. In those cases, love is transmitted to a lesser extent, or not at all. However, there are many instances where wet nurses convey love through their milk, a love that simply resides in their hearts for all children. That’s why their milk is abundant, and they generously give it to other children without seeing them as strangers in that sense.

You’re opening up so many new topics for me that we’re constantly straying from the topic of enlightenment.

No, we aren’t straying. We’re diving deeper into it.

So, breastfeeding is not just about nourishing the baby’s physical body but about literally transmitting love through a flow of energy. Is that the connection between the mother and child?

You’re catching on quickly. Although the nourishment of the physical body is present, it’s not primary. The first part is more important.

So, if a person emits unpleasant smells, like a homeless person, does that mean they don’t see unity with me?

It also means that you don’t see or feel unity with them. It’s a mutual process, of course. When you smell a rose, it gives you its love and sense of unity with you. You, receiving this sincere and pure gesture, respond to it and open up to it, open up to this scent. You don’t reject it, and in doing so, you allow it to unite with you. For the rose only smells when it unites with you. Likewise, you only emit a scent when someone leans in to smell you. But when you see a homeless person, you’re already predisposed to separate yourself from them, and they do the same. Your scents mutually reject each other, and you don’t accept one another.