Elena Sidelnikova – Lessons Enlightenment (страница 7)

Are you saying that a homeless person’s smell should become pleasant to me?

There are different paths. If you don’t separate yourself from the homeless person and feel unity with them, their scent won’t bother you. It will be your scent, and one’s own scent doesn’t bother them.

So, does this mean that a person’s ability to reveal unity with others can be recognized through their smell?

Yes, but we’re talking about a natural scent, not perfumes or fragrances. The same goes for taste, or any other level of perception. When each level of perception recognizes everything as beautiful, that is the consciousness of unity.

So, you sense beauty in everything and everyone – in every smell and every taste?

Yes. Otherwise, you won’t be able to understand the depth. You just won’t immerse yourself in a stench, unaware that it’s unpleasant not because it’s inherently bad but because you are unable to open up your unity with it. Just as it cannot open its unity with you.

Speaking of fragrances, it’s no coincidence that there’s a tradition of burning incense in temples. How can this be explained?

It’s an attempt to create unity, to create an atmosphere of togetherness. If each person in the temple were given a fragrant rose, they would start to open up to its scent and its level of unity. Each person would then have a chance to open up their unity with those who are also inhaling the scent of the rose.

So, it’s better to go pray not in temples, but in a rose garden.

Exactly. In a rose garden, it’s easy to feel your unity, at least with the rose. But there are many places where you cannot feel unity. Therefore, the rose garden is excellent as a start and as a reference point. When you enter a place filled with foul odors, imagine a rose garden – literally. Then you bring the fragrance of the rose garden to that place, manifesting the unity of the rose in the space you have entered. This is how any scent can be used. But your mistake is that you light incense outside of yourselves and fail to find fragrances within you. You need to reveal the scent of the rose from within. You must remember the scent of the rose garden, fixate on it, and find it within yourself, and in any place, activate that scent of the rose garden, as if turning it on. This is not merely a psychological process of adjusting your sensory receptors. It goes deeper. It’s an energetic process, akin to pouring living water into stagnant water. It’s like airing out a room, bringing fresh air into a closed space. In a literal sense, closed, because most of your consciousness is locked.

We have shifted to the fragrance of a flower and its unfolding within ourselves to better understand how to awaken the Buddha within?

Yes. Essentially, it is the same process. You awaken me within yourself.

And in this sense, I am also the path. You can simply awaken the Buddhist consciousness within yourself. That means to reveal the characteristics of Buddhist consciousness within you. But still, it’s the same process. Because then you will follow my path, and in this way, you will awaken me within yourself. But you will awaken a different version of me. Because in each of you, I will manifest differently. And there won’t be a single identical Buddha in each of you. But you can also directly call upon my consciousness from outside, so that, like a rose, I can let you experience the fragrance of my consciousness, the fragrance of Buddhism, so that you can inhale it and try to reunite with me through yourself. Through your own depth. That is why I say: I reside within you, and you reside within me, and we are one.

I am trying to visualize this with my linear mind. I was told that we are all parts, cells of God’s body, and therefore, we literally reside within Him. But you also reside in Him. How then can we simultaneously reside in you? Only if we are also within you. But we are also in Jesus. So, in linear terms, you and Jesus must also be one, and that’s why we reside in each of you, and each of you resides in us. This thesis also seems to make sense. But still, you and Jesus are distinct beings, and you also interact with each other. How can this be understood?

You are intuitively sensing the answer. Try to formulate it yourself. After all, you must awaken the Buddha within yourself. And Jesus within yourself. If I tell you how to do it, you will be trying to follow my path, and that is impossible.

Alright, I’ll try, but correct me if I go wrong. You and Jesus are separate beings. But each of you feels your unity with the other, and therefore, when we speak of Jesus, we are speaking of the Buddha within Jesus, and when we speak of you, we are speaking of Jesus within you. And the Buddha within Jesus is not the Buddha. And Jesus within the Buddha is not Jesus, because in each case there is a certain distinction. Probably the perspective of awareness. But at the same time, it is one and the same, like interconnected vessels. Like two jars in the ocean of consciousness. And each of us, if we seek the Buddha within ourselves, we awaken the Buddha within ourselves. But if we awaken the Buddha within ourselves, we awaken Jesus in the Buddha. And vice versa. If one follows the path of Jesus and awakens Jesus within oneself, one also awakens the Buddha within Jesus. And that is why each resides within the other, and all is one. But I still can’t imagine this spatially. It’s like a nesting doll within a nesting doll, but where is the division between Jesus and the Buddha?

It’s conditional. Moreover, if you seek the Buddha within yourself, you will find Jesus, not the Buddha. And if you seek Jesus within yourself, you will find the Buddha, not Jesus.

I don’t understand.

Because Jesus is searching for the Buddha. And the Buddha is searching for Jesus.

Are you speaking in riddles or allegories?

No. We are both striving to reunite with our wholeness and regain our completeness. Jesus has no need to search for himself within himself. He is already Jesus, the Path of Love. And I have no need to search for the Buddha within myself. I have already acquired him and discovered the Path of Wisdom and Balance. Therefore, as Jesus strives to reunite with me, he is searching for the Buddha within himself. In this way, if you seek him within yourself, you not only reunite with him but also with his path. And conversely, if you strive to seek me within yourself, to find the Buddha within you, you thus also find my path of aspirations. And in seeking, you also strive towards Jesus, whom I have also attained. And there are no stops on your journey. If a person has found the Buddha within themselves, they have already embarked on the Path of Love. If a person has found Christ within themselves, they have already set foot on the Buddha’s path. Because in every person, one way or another, Jesus and the Buddha must meet and embrace, becoming one.

So, does it mean that no matter which path you take, the path of the Buddha or the path of Jesus, the path of wisdom or the path of love, each path will lead to the union of wisdom and love, to the reunification of completeness?

Exactly.

They say: if you meet the Buddha – kill him.

That’s what it’s about. You shouldn’t seek only the Buddha. You must find everything. For the path of the Buddha is only the path of the Buddha; it is, after all, a path of separation, but on a higher level. One must seek the path of unity.

Does that mean that any fascination with a particular religion or sacred scripture is a mistake?

It’s just the beginning of the journey. If you study all sacred scriptures, you will understand that they all speak of the same thing – unity, love, and wisdom.

Thank you for the lesson.

And I thank you for the opportunity to share my oneness with you. I dwell in you, and you dwell in me. And we are one.

Lesson 3. Leave to Return

Hello, Buddha, speak to me.

I am here, oh soul. I am with you. I am in you, and you are in me.

I would like to continue the lessons on enlightenment, if possible.

That entirely depends on you. On your readiness to comprehend it all, to give yourself completely.

Give myself to whom?

To yourself. To the world. To God. To the Universe. To the Creator. It depends only on your willingness to give everything you have. We’ve already spoken about this.

Yes, I remember. You spoke about diving into the depths of oneself, into the unknown. How can one do that?

It’s more like submersion rather than a dive. You float on the surface of the sea, but then you stop trying to stay afloat and allow yourself to sink. You completely relax and surrender to the element of water, which takes you deeper and deeper. But this path is hard for you because you are afraid of losing what is on the surface. You don’t believe that in the depths there is something greater and better than what you can comprehend. Each of you knows that beyond the threshold of death, God awaits, but no one is in a hurry to die and meet God. Thus, the paths of those who have submerged into their depths involve dying while alive. To gradually become the ocean itself into which one needs to dive. For if you become the ocean yourself, you no longer need to dive anywhere – you are the depth.