Why should we eliminate the self-love of our inner psychology? Self-love means loving oneself, and is there a postulate that says "to love one's neighbor as oneself"? We will try to clarify this question below:
The highest step beyond intellectual culture, episteme, is humility.
There are many "wise" ones full of themselves, who have attachment to themselves for possessing vast intellectual knowledge. When they are praised, "as you are worshiped", they enjoy pleasure and express an often involuntary smile. When they are criticized or offend, they grieve and blaspheme.
Whoever possesses pride within himself lives under the law of the pendulum oscillating from one side to the other, in one time is enjoying pleasure in another time is sad. The professional who is not recognized for his effort goes into depression. A woman who gets a compliment after tidying up for a party enjoys pleasure.
We, a greater part of humanity, have neither integral wisdom nor a permanent center of consciousness because of the self-love or unconscious love of the ego and the personality.
Those who comply with the biblical decalogue conquer a humility, but for the summary of the decalogue it is necessary understand the aleph letter of the Hebrew alphabet, as it is leading to the letter of the phrase "... to love one's neighbor as oneself." We are going to love ourselves or have self-love.
Emmanuel Kant, philosopher of Königsberg, in his book Critique of Pure Reason, introduces the concept that "the exterior is only the reflection of the interior," reaffirming what the ancient Hebrew Kabbalists taught about the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, aleph, which is an icon of a man with one arm pointing up and the other down, indicating that what is above is like the one below, the macrocosmos (outer universe) is the reflection of the microcosmos ( inner universe of man).
"Love God under all things and the neighbor as yourself." This taught the most exalted sage who stepped on this planet. In this summary of the biblical decalogue, we can see the expression of the exterior and the interior in a living letter. This phrase reminds us to love the creative principles that are outside of us in the macro-cosmos (Light, Heat and Sound or Father, Son and Holy Spirit or Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva or Osiris, Isis and Horus ... according to culture), to love the unfolding of these principles that are in the next or other living beings and to love oneself means to love the Self, the unfolding of the trinity within ourselves, in the micro-cosmos man.
It is necessary to understand that there is conscious love and unconscious love. Love is law, but conscious love.
We must love ourselves, as the Rabbi of Galilee teaches, but this love must be a conscious love, that is, we must love the Being and not the Ego. Self-love is a psychological defect that we carry within, it is an unconscious love of the ego and personality. This passion we have for ourselves, this self-love, is the root of pride and vanity. It is necessary to use the scalpel of self-criticism to discern self-love.
For example: Pride is the whim of owning an old collector's car to keep at home (I'm proud of my car), the vanity is show up walking around with a flaming car latest model (I'm vain with my car).
Self-Love, Pride and Vanity must be eliminated, just like all the other defects we carry within us. Eliminating Pride, Vanity, and Self-Love, unleashes in us the virtue of Humility. This is done through scientific methods:
- Remembering yourself (Feeling: who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?),
- Self-observation (Divide in 2: Observer and Observed),
- Meditation (Blue Time),
- And the super sexual dynamics (alchemical transmutation).
Bibliography: The Revolution of the Dialectic and Unveiled Pistis Sophia - Samael Aun Weor.
Comments
Post a Comment