Neo Religio: A Path for the 21st Century
Neo Religio concentrates on the essence of the path to awakening, leaving complete freedom for each human being to reach it using his or her own methods. The most important thing is understanding, with understanding, sincere work and joy, each human being will be able to reach his blossoming in his own way, without rules or fixed ideas, respecting and loving others.
In this age, is necessary a religion that breaks the ideologies of false religions that have confused and controlled humanity throughout time. A religion without dogmas, without scriptures, without priests, a religion that only transmits the essence of being alive: Love, enjoy, create and celebrate with awareness.
A religiousness that liberates you from the boundaries that enslaved you.
The enlightened masters created methods and ways for understanding adapted to their times, after their death, religions as such died with them and went into decay to the point of putrefaction.
Humanity, in its perpetual slumber, has completely misinterpreted the messages and teachings of the enlightened masters of the past. The consequence of these misinterpretations have been false religions, which are the "corpses" of the teachings of the enlightened masters.
One only needs to look closely at these false religions to see that they are the "corpses" of the teachings of the enlightened masters.
No enlightened master would have wanted to have followers, imitators. Each human being is unique and unrepeatable, authentic religion is an existential path, an individual journey. Simply imitating the ritualistic part, chanting mantras and doing Yoga postures is impossible to reach awakening and later enlightenment. Only understanding and sincere practice are necessary, each individual must find his or her own "Yoga" or method to remain in a constant state of balance and awareness. Each human being must earn the truth for himself, enlightenment will never come by simply imitating a series of ritual practices or exercises.
Meditation is the only practice that works, however, without the correct understanding, it becomes a futile practice, only useful to calm the chaos in the mind, true growth will never be possible without correct understanding and correct work.
There are many methods of meditation, each being is unique, therefore, not all methods are for everyone. An exploration of these methods will be necessary for each one to find the ones that best suit his or her being.
However, the practice of meditation has as its purpose that the practitioner reaches a state of no-mind, of mental sliencio so that the being can flourish and be realized. However, the methods of meditation are only a bridge to reach a state that must ultimately endure without the need for any method, a state of permanent no-mind.
Neo Religio is the essential foundation to first destroy all the false ideas in the mind and give the seeker the necessary tools and understanding to live the flowering. They are like musical notes, the basis for each being to create its own music suited to its own uniqueness.
What true love is?
Love is the food of the soul, existence is made of it. True love can only be born from awareness, the purest freedom, only then love becomes spiritual. The love that you know it is just a projection of the Ego.
In order to love yourself and the rest of existence, you must first free yourself from everything false, unreal and unnecessary that society has put in you.
As your inner world becomes richer and more spacious, so will your capacity to love, as if your being were a vessel. The main obstacle is that your space is too small and full of elements that prevent you from being able to fill and expand: ideals, moralities, thoughts, doctrines, conditionings, and so on.
True love and meditation are two sides of the same coin, one without the other is impossible. As you empty yourself and create space, your capacity to love will also grow, for the main barrier, the ego, is the noise of the mind that occupies and corrupts your inner space.
Describing in words the state of pure love is completely useless, it will only create more ideas in your mind. If you wish to know what it is you must reach it by yourself, with the right work and understanding.
What right awareness is?
Awareness is the key to being self-directed, balanced, and free in every aspect of your life.
The first most important thing to understand and have the courage to recognize is that the human being is asleep. Even when you think you are "awake," you are not.
What you think of as "living" is only a dream. You dream at night, you dream during the day but you are never really awake.
Unless your eyes are really opened, until you create the necessary space within you to be filled with the light of consciousness, your awakening is not possible.
You are actually dreaming, day and night. Sometimes you dream with your eyes open, sometimes with your eyes closed, but you are still living a dream life, you are still not connected to the authentic reality.
Your thoughts are part of your dreams, your desires, your creations, whatever you do, because everything you do is done in accordance with your own state of mind
Inner silence, reaching the permanent state of no-mind, is the only way to wake up from your perpetual sleep. Only a community of meditators, with awareness will be able to live in harmony and in a state of pure love. Any other situation will be nothing more than a delusion, with the mind in a dream state.
Silence is the space in which one awakens, and the noisy mind is the space in which one remains asleep. If your mind continues chattering, you are asleep. Sitting silently, if the mind disappears and you can hear the chattering birds and no mind inside, a silence … this whistle of the bird, the chirping, and no mind functioning in your head, utter silence … then awareness wells up in you. It does not come from the outside, it arises in you, it grows in you. Otherwise, remember: you are asleep.
Awareness is the only thing that will give you a real life, awake from the dream you have been living for thousands of lifetimes. Together, with awareness, true love will blossom within you and with it your life will take on a completely different quality, alive and vibrant.
This reality, this universe, is an existential university for you to expand your consciousness. These are the phases of this progression: sleep, awakening, self-realization, enlightenment.
Reaching enlightenment means that you have already learned the lesson of this reality, what awaits after that remains a mystery that you will have to discover for yourself.
-Zohar
What does awakening mean?
Only when one awakens can the real journey begin. Everything you have done before will have been a preparation for the awakening, the real initiation to begin.
Awakening from your dream happens when the realization that you are not the mind, but something much deeper, a presence that has always been and always will be. When this happens, then, your efforts will not be based on ideas, they will be your own experience, then a true thirst will awaken in you.
Experiencing and realizing that the mind is not you is absolutely necessary in order to move forward, hard work will await you to continue progressing, because the mind is very astute, it will do everything possible to keep your attention and attachment to it, it will look for a thousand and one ways to trap you.
The only thing that can save you is to remain in a state of total and absolute alertness and witnessing. The mind, which is a lifeless, hollow, soulless element that only exists as a shadow of what was or false projections of what could be. Your true self only exists in the eternal now, if you remain well alert little by little the mind and its shadow, the Ego, will lose strength in the grip they have on your soul, on your being.
This is the state of consciousness, it consists of being "in between", the mind can trap you again and fall back into the dream or you can continue ascending and thus move towards mastering it.
What does self-realization mean?
Self realization is the journey of reaching your deeper center, you innermost nature. Then you become alert, contented and fulfilled. Then your life become a great celebration
As your level of awareness and alertness increase, then, the essential being will begin to express itself in this reality and with it you will begin to discover "who you are" and to express the talents that existence has placed in you. Happiness and joy will flourish more and more, in this state is when you will begin to be able to really love others, because you will begin to truly love yourself. Then your life will become a sharing of your being with existence. This stage will not be easy, because in a sleepy and confused society, there will be many obstacles that others will put before you for your realization.
True compassion will begin to grow in you, because then you will be aware of the state in which others are, anger and hatred will be transformed, the clarity that provides the true understanding that the experience has given you, will help you stay on the journey towards ascension.
The frustration will occur, your new vision of the world born of the truth and clarity of your being, will collide with the lies and confusion that exists in the outside world. You must move alert and aware of the situation and circumstances that occur around you. The healthiest and most suitable scenario for your growth would be to be close to other beings who are at a level of consciousness that can match yours. Then you will be able to nurture each other and in this way, your progress will be less bumpy because others will mirror you and vice versa.
For the first time your life will manifest the truth that is within you. You must learn how to do it with a balance between the truth of your being and the lies of the outside world. Patience and compassion should be the cornerstones, otherwise you could easily be crushed by other beings in a dream state.
May Joy be the compass for the journey to your enlightenment
True joy is the closest thing to your essential being from the point where you will find yourself. Joy is never static, it is alive, dynamic, constant readjustment and balance will be necessary to keep you in it.
Joy is a state of being in which you "let go", to be in joy, it means that you have had to fill yourself with it before. Joy, if not shared, like any blocked energy, turns into poison. Let your most intimate joy be the guide to know if you are on the right path or not. Joy does not work with thinking or with the mind, joy is something that happens in your heart, it is a feeling not a thought. If you are rationalizing about whether you are joyful, then something has gone wrong and you need to get back on track. Joy and love are very close, if not shared they stagnate and corrupt. Let your life be a celebration, enjoy, share and remember, never lose your alert level, because when you "let go" there is a tendency to lose your alert level, then the mind will fight back because it will do everything possible to that you be your slave and not the master, as naturally it should be.
If you are progressing in your expansion and growth of consciousness, then you will be able to find joy even in the smallest thing, existence will be a great paradise and life a divine gift.
Art always accompanies joy, they are never separate, in the same way that creativity is the manifestation of these energies on the apparently physical plane.
Try to be creative in everything you do, not only in the ordinary arts, even a smile can be expressed with creativity and joy at the right time and place.
If you are really in the process of self-realization, then you will feel that for the first time in your life you are "right", in what always should have been, your life was only a preparation for this moment to come.
Your life will not have a certain destination, but it will have a direction, the mind will no longer be what guides your life, but intuition, something much more subtle born of silence, of the state of no-mind.
Being a unit means that you have embraced all polarities, you will not be able to be constantly in a state of joy, you will have to recharge in solitude, in your meditation.
Contrasts are necessary for a full life, night and life, life and death. Remember, if you go to an extreme, whatever it may be, it means that the mind has caught you again without you realizing it.
Final words:
Walking on the path to enlightenment is not a straight line path, rather a zig-zag journey.
Balance is fundamental, the mind will always try to catch you and make you move towards extremes, with fixed and static ideas. The real balance requires constant alertness and readjustment, like walking a tightrope, "being in the middle" consists of moving from one side to the other, little by little, as this existential art grows in you, you will be able to readjust by using less tilt to one side or the other.
The path to enlightenment is a personal path, it can never be the same for everyone, in some moments of your life you will be able to share it with others, but it can never be a fixed idea, for each being it will be different, since life is a constant flow , there is no manual that can show you how to respond to each present moment from your inner being.
Neo Religio, has been created to only give you tools and understanding so that you can walk the path on your own. They are only the bases, the musical notes for you to make music with the authentic and unique style that is inside you.
If your thirst to find the truth that exists within you is true, you will feel that as you advance on the path an internal rebellion will begin at the same time. This rebellion is a rebellion of your essential being, captive and imprisoned by the veil of lies and unconsciousness against your thirst and passion for the truth. This process is normal at first, little by little, when you reach a more constant state of inner silence, the mind will lose the power it has over you. Then the mind will gradually move to its rightful place, as an instrument to manifest your creativity born of your being.
Later, when you gradually fill yourself with awareness, love and joy, that rebellion will move to the outside world, not in the form of a fight, but in the form of transmutation. You will feel great compassion for the people around you, then you will see the state of unconsciousness and sleep in which they are.
Try not to force things, forcing is extreme and can sometimes be violent, first help yourself, that's enough work. Help others by setting an example with your own life, let your energy bathe them, that's the best way. Be you the first change, a transformation that very few will be able to perceive, may your energy and flourishing be the weapons for the awakening of our brothers and sisters.