Os Versos de Ouro de Pitágoras - #2/3 - Lúcia Helena Galvão

New Acropolis Song: Greek Song (Épefte Vathiá Siopí) The Golden Verses of Pythagoras Commentary in the light of applied philosophy in 3 classes (2nd class) Lúcia Helena Galvão New Acropolis, Brasília | 2017 Good evening everyone once again. I think I've met everyone out there. I placed two sheets on your chair, because we are doing "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras" in three episodes. Since there is a possibility that some of you have not come last week, last week we covered this sheet. Today, we are working with the second. We already have the reading of this first page

on YouTube. It was posted today. Next week we will be finishing the part of "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras." It is always interesting to remember that we are talking about a philosopher, who must have lived you really should, because there is very little insurance on your life, in the sixth century B.C. Most famous for a school of philosophy in Crotona, Magna Graecia in southern Italy, a school called Museum, where inside, was dedicated to Apollo and the Muses, where within that school, a very strict moral code was practiced, In addition to an enormous amount of knowledge,

that we know Pythagoras had. We know that he was not only the creator of the word "philosophy", as well as the word "mathematics". He devoted himself to mathematics, he devoted himself to music. But an element that was basic, is that Pythagoras demanded a very strict moral conduct from his students, who were actually called disciples. He considered that knowledge could not be given to someone who did not have a and who knew what he was going to do with that knowledge. That is to say, a solid moral base that would guarantee the use that was going

to be given to that knowledge. I commented a lot in our first conference that this is curious, because nothing is asked today. That is, if you put knowledge in the wrong hands, you run the risk of it being used against humanity and the greatest damage we have does not come from unsuspecting hands, It comes from very well prepared hands, very well armed, for a knowledge that they had no moral support to sustain. So this is an element that within the Pythagorean school there would be no danger of it happening. The Pythagorean school was destroyed by

fire. In fact, it was criminally burned by a student who failed to penetrate there. In that school, it seems to me that most of the people died. A disciple of Pythagoras, that's what they say, no one knows exactly what happened, but a disciple named Lysis, later, when he goes to Metaponto, he would have transcribed from memory these 72 moral maxims that were required of all the Pythagoreans. The Pythagoreans were divided into those who were beginners, zacosmatocoi, who at first only listened, and the mathematicians, who were the most advanced and knew all the rules by heart.

So when he leaves school, even though he left with nothing, remember and write these maxims from memory, and then they will be transcribed much later, already in the fourth century after Christ. That is, we saw all this, the fifth century after Christ, we saw all this last week. We even saw precept number 24. I told you that the idea is to break it into pieces, to chew each precept. Understanding makes things much easier to apply. So let's stop to imagine, a man, who is considered, perhaps, one of the wisest in history, certainly if we were

to consider philosophers, seekers of wisdom, or even a little more than that, in history, if we were to take the top 10, Pythagoras would probably be in the middle. When a man selects 72 rules of life, he must be "the top of the top." It's not that? And also, we are going to see in our article today, there came a time when he stopped and swore to this moral code. He swears if you do this it will work. In other words, these Golden Verses of Pythagoras have a very great weight. A probably authentic text, because

it is written very shortly after the episode of the burning of the Crotona school and of a very interesting moral weight. I made it for you, for those who come today for the first time, who can not understand this scheme on the sheet, a summary in topics, in such a way that the main ideas are more easily retained, and in the end I keep going next week, to do a summary of the summary, because we have the main ideas. It would be nice if we had the main ideas memorized, so you can use them. For

a long time I carried these sheets in my bag, but it is not so easy you are facing a life situation. A person, I don't know, is shameless with you, Wait a minute, I'll get my Golden Verses from Pythagoras. Sometimes not. When you memorize it, you find it easier to integrate it with your response to life. Therefore, Pythagoras required and was one of the recommendations, that this was memorized by his older students. Then let's go there! In sentence number 25. "Fulfill faithfully on all occasions what I now tell you." At all times, we have to

remember your recommendation, It is based on the so-called perseverance and perseverance, two virtues. Perseverance is always doing it, and constancy is always remembering why you're doing it. Perseverance without constancy can become automatic pilot, and constancy without perseverance can turn into good intentions, which are not carried out. Perseverance, always do it. Constancy always... To the scene! - Why are you doing this? - Because I want to get there. - Oh! Alright! You can continue! This continuity is what will guarantee that things are effective. We talked about this a bit at the beginning and I reiterate, there

is no moral code that I know of, neither of that tradition, nor of any other, in humanity, that's hard to do for a minute. I even talked about the "Noble Eightfold Path of the Buddha", which is to overcome pain. It is not difficult to do in a minute. Right thought, right intention, right action, right way of life. Wait a minute, anyone does. The difficulty of these moral codes is a second minute, third, fourth, fifth, then it gets complicated. That is, perseverance and constancy. It's keeping the car moving all the time. It is always knowing. Know

instantly, many are not complicated, know and practice instantly. The problem is that you stay in the reins of what you chose to be. That is to say, that is why it warns, be careful with discontinuity, be careful with oscillation, with several senses of life, competing within the same life and nullifying the effectiveness of each one, it follows that you are not going anywhere. 26 "Do not let anyone with words or actions force you to do or say what is not best for you." This is very interesting! There is almost a conditioning, in our historical moment,

which had a very strong doctrinal reinforcement in the 19th century, various disciplines reinforced this, even in literature this was very strong, which is the idea that man is a product of the environment. Remember? determinism, naturalism, a handful of isms that existed at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. I once made a collection with some of my students and we discovered that they had eight lines of thought, in literature, art and science, in this historical period, who, one way or another, said that man was a product of the environment. That

is, it was a bombing to the place, even the statistical principles worked with it, situate man as a product of a mass tendency without the capacity for individuality. If you notice, this is a starting point in any classical tradition: man is the product of himself. You can get carried away by the middle, out of ignorance or indigence, indifference, but it can be built from the inside out. It can be absolutely unique to the environment in which it lives. and history was not written by the masses, it was written by individual men, that stood out and

that broke with that inertia, and found a different direction, that after a time many followed, but that at first it was generally scandalous. You will hardly see a brilliant man understood by his contemporaries. So this idea that we shouldn't look for answers to our behavior, justifications of what we are, in the middle, but in our moral principles. We are not here to contradict the environment, but we are not here to serve it wholeheartedly either. Affective deficiency is sometimes a curious element, because to be accepted in the group, I see myself from the psychological, from the

mental to the physical, according to group rules. Look, you'd better save yourself than go into the abyss with the crowd. If the crowd goes to a wonderful meadow, I'll go with them, but if they go to the abyss, I will not go with them. We would have to be able to guarantee ourselves and for that to have roots, have depth, have a weight of soul, have interior life, that would guarantee you to analyze everything that life offers you, according to your principles, and never justify, think, feel or do something because others do it, because that

was never an outlet to build anyone's identity. So, when he says: "we must not let the other determine what we do", we are perfectly aware of this when it comes to material circumstances. It gets difficult when it's the other human being. In relation to the human being, we have our Achilles heel. If you go down the street and a dog barks at you, do you bark at it? No! He is a dog, I am a human being, I don't bark. He can bark all he wants, not me. Do you realize that human beings sometimes, He's

so animalized at the time, he's so brutalized, is not so different from a dog? We all have our doggy moments sometimes, unfortunately. We are so stupefied, so blind, that we are not much different from a dog. That moment, Why are you going to take that as a determinant of how you have to react? Do not delegate to the other the right to decide what you are going to do, whatever it is, be it a stone, a plant, an animal or another human being, whatever it is, I do not delegate to the other the right to

decide. By the way, the Indian tradition tells a very beautiful story, where it talks about a hero, and the Hindu tradition is polytheistic, there is a God before him, who is Indra. He had to choose between Indra's heaven and honesty. He opts for honesty, leaves Indra and walks away. Have you heard about that? It is a very beautiful story. A young prince who walked through Indra's heaven with his dog, He went through a lot of difficulties, summing up the story a lot. He arrives, Indra opens the gates of his heaven and says: - Welcome prince!

But not this dog! - Imagine, a mestizo, you will enter with this animal. - No, not that dog! Look at his faithful friend, who had been through so much hardship with him, It is very dishonest to abandon a friend like that, at a time like this, between Indra's heaven and the dog, he stays with the dog. Then go. I don't need Indra's heaven. The dog goes into metamorphosis and was also a God, it was the Dharma. If I had given up a dog to enter Indra's heaven, he did not deserve Indra's heaven. Do you understand?

What does my action depend on? Of my principles. He was worthy of it. My action depends on my principles, does not depend on opinion or Indra, whoever This coherence, this respect, which is one of the things that this code will talk about a lot, it comes from the fact that we have inner life, breathe, look once more, know that there is life inside you, that this life has to be considered. We cannot only consider those who appreciate us from the outside, but what or what we appreciate from within and respect in the first place, if

not, you will not respect anyone else, you will have a game of interests with the world, but true respect you don't respect others, you don't know how to see others, if you don't see yourself, in depth. A matter of parallelism, superficial in relation to myself, superficial in relation to you, in relation to everyone. "Think and deliberate before acting so as not to commit foolish actions." I told you in the last class that this is one of the most repeated precepts. We have him here, and at 40 he's going to say the same thing: think before

you act, think before you act. You see, I can give you the most wonderful instructions in the world, the golden verses of 10 different philosophers, if they had golden verses, transmit all the most beautiful things that have been written about humanity, This is stored in the mental plane and when it comes to acting you don't think, don't use any of that act with anger, with fury, with impulse. What is the point? You realize that all information is useless, when you don't hold the reins of your animal self, don't you have training? Plato called it courage.

Knowing how to maintain control of reason in extreme situations, which are usually fear and desire. Stop to think. It is a bit of an embarrassing detail, but it is important that we keep it in mind. That, by the way, this moral code was made to bring within us, compare with what we have today to know what are the edges that we have to polish. If we make the most important decisions of our life, especially those that had a certain emotional charge, because they were important You will realize that in most of them we decide emotionally.

The majority of them. We do not rightly decide, using our highest principles, we decide emotionally. Now stop to think about another important aspect as well. Imagine that the kingdoms of nature, we share them with some beings, for example, the physical plane with the mineral kingdom, the energetic plane with the vegetable kingdom, the emotional plane with animals, and on the mental plane we enter alone. So when you decide through emotions, it is no different, for example, if you had a dog. Ridiculous situation number 2, I already gave ridiculous example number 1, they are the best for

us to stay, You come home, you have to make an important decision, take your dog, put two identical feeders, one to the left, the other to the right, and release, if it is from the left it is yes, if it is from the right it is no. You would say: it's crazy! What is the difference between the inner dog and the outer dog? None! Everything is dog! These are impulsive decisions. based on interests, on fear or desire, on the duality of animal consciousness. There is nothing human about him and the outside dog is not that

different from the inside. Decide out of panic, fear, desire or passion. It's the mouse in the maze, go out of fear or go out for the cheese. There is nothing human about this duality. This would seem ridiculous, but when we decide from emotions, We don't think it's so ridiculous we think we have a very strong identity with our emotions, that we don't really have our emotions are often not to say, in almost all cases, the result of conditioning. I like it because? They taught me to like it. Maybe you could teach yourself taste things more

qualified than that, refine the taste, if you insist, you can succeed, you can rebuild yourself emotionally, learn to want the good and reject the bad. If you find yourself rejecting things that are constructive, they are good, and those who accept things that go against their principles can change even their physical taste, even the perception of the taste of food is changed by a matter of will. This is not you, this is conditioning. If I had been born elsewhere, I would like some things and reject others. How many times have we rejected good things due to

emotional whims. Because I am like that! No, you are not like that! You are like that! If that's not good for you, rebuild, change. This is called character building. Character formation, speaking in very clear Portuguese, is learning to love the good and reject what is bad from the point of view of human principles, values ​​and virtues and not from the point of view of particular opinions. It is what takes us to the apex of the human pyramid, values, virtues and wisdom. By the way, we talked a bit last week that even the temple is measured

like this, by steps towards that apex of the pyramid. Otherwise you had illusory time, clock time and not real time. Real time is measured by steps towards the human ideal. And if you didn't give any, He has not entered time, he is in the primordial chaos, Chronos entered, time. We have to cross Chronos to get to Zeus, on Olympus. Nor did he set foot in time, because time is displacement towards the human ideal. It is growing as a human being. Continuous... "Think and deliberate before acting so as not to act foolishly, for it is the

nature of a wretched man to act and speak thoughtlessly." Miserable here, it does not mean in the pejorative sense of wanting to offend the citizen, but miserable in the sense that he lives in misery, in pain, because you are constantly suffering the consequences of actions that were not yours. You know that story about "he was crazy"? Did you ever say that? Why did I do this? He was crazy. You were outside of yourself. But for that you have to know who you are to be able to notice when you are outside, and more and more

to correct these escapes from himself. Plato used to say that one of the most fundamental things you have to fix is ​​identity. Who are you? Imagine if Plato came here and asked you: - Who are you? This is a very disturbing question, because we don't know what to say. I think it is the shortest and most disturbing question there is. We began to take out the identity card, CPF, email, WhatsApp. Imagine Plato looking at this stack of paper like this. - My son, are you that? - And if you lose that, who are you? You

realize that this was not going to convince you. What would convince Plato? I mean, I am a person whose meaning in life is justice. I will not leave the world without becoming more beautiful than I am today. He will say: - Oh! so i know - Lúcia is a person who seeks justice. - Term! I already know who you are. When I find you looking for something else it's not fair, I know, you're crazy. And then you have to analyze what was there that was so attractive, that it robbed you of yourself. 'Cause the next

time you walk by spend with special attention not to fall 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th time on the same element. This is a war strategy, I was shot down by this enemy, I will study the enemy, And the next time I pass it might knock me down again but it will be a little harder, I will pass better prepared. The things that I steal from myself, I have to handle them and develop a strategy, a response to them before they show up. Then you will see that he talks a lot about the need for a diary,

which is a daily reflection on how you behaved today in relation to your meaning of life, your identity, you can't leave it for tomorrow, we'll have to have that every day. So the miserable man is the one who lives submerged in the pain of not even knowing why, he is not true to himself. He feels that he has betrayed himself, he feels that he has hurt himself, but has no conscience. You know that joke we make: "I didn't even see the license plate of the truck that hit me." "I don't know how I got there."

what happened to me? I know when I saw it I was into something that had nothing to do with me, Talking about things I don't agree with behaving inappropriately with what I believe, I was swept away. I was very poorly defined in my direction, in my identity, 'Cause I'm being swept away too easily And that is one of the main sources of suffering, not knowing who you are. "But do what will not bring you trouble later and will not cause you regret." The one that will not bring you afflictions, the one that will not cause

you regret. He will treat more how that hurts you. We must have this ethics, this courtesy first with ourselves, which could be summed up in one word, dignity. Respect yourself. This is something curious because our historical times have accelerated at a speed that seems impressive to me. I remember my grandmother still talked about those times, where people plucked a mustache to sign a contract, and people trusted: "it's my name! You don't need to sign anything!" "Here's a mustache that guarantees I'll give it back to you." There was a certain dignity in the name, what worries

you, that is, my mustache hair, I have value. Today, you make 300 stamps at a notary and it is absolutely useless. There is nothing that guarantees men some kind of ethical behavior in society, if they do not respect themselves, dignity. Dignity is inner life, recognize that inner life and not want to expose yourself to situations that you do not deserve, he didn't want to hurt himself. So I don't deserve it, I'm not going down to that. It has nothing to do with me, it has nothing to do with my identity and it doesn't fulfill me

at all. Knowing how to choose the things in life that do not hurt you. Which does not mean that we are with the medieval code. Pythagoras is long before the Middle Ages and has nothing to do with it. The moral code of Pythagoras does not exclude that we have pleasures, that we have fun, that we enjoy life, on the contrary, as long as you don't exchange these pleasures for your principles. Some of you may have seen a talk I gave on YouTube, a series of lectures called "In Search of Wisdom", of a philosopher named Sri.

RAM. If you haven't seen it, check it out, it's very interesting. One of the things he said is this phrase that is very famous: "I walk towards my ideal. If a gentle breeze blows, I delight in the gentle breeze, if it's scorching hot, I suffer scorching heat, but none or the other get me out of the way". I don't run after the breeze and I don't run from the sun, I stay true to my way, now if things come, I live them with all possible dignity, but they have no power over me. It's very interesting,

sometimes I have to stop, because 50 examples of the same thing come to mind. I say, wait! Calm! Calm! Calm! Because it's very interesting how all philosophers talk about the same thing. Kant has a passage that is wonderful, what he says in "Essay on the beautiful and the sublime". It says: - You arrive before a very high mountain in the Alps, Faced with an angry ocean, the first thing you have is fear. - Our! How powerful they are! Shortly after he says: - A feeling of dignity has to come. - They are powerful, but so

am I. - They can kill me, but they can't corrupt me. - There is something in me that they cannot bring out with all their power. - You can't steal my dignity. - They can take my physical life, but my dignity, Nothing and no one can take away, that's why I am so great before them, how much are they before me. - I do not steal their dignity if they do not allow it, And they don't steal mine if I don't let them. Dignity is what makes man capable of imposing himself on circumstances, If not,

it's a toy. a feather in the wind, goes where the wind commands. So, this issue, of course, within a moral code is very important, the virtue of dignity. "It doesn't do anything that you're capable of understanding." This is complemented by the following: "However, learn what is necessary to know, so your life will be happy." There is an Indian prayer, Vedanta, which says: "Lord, my God! May you do your best today, but may you do more tomorrow." I am going to the limit of my possibilities today, but tomorrow my limits will be wider. What I am

going to do today, I have to understand and approve according to the principles that I have today, but that tomorrow I see more and that allows me to be able to do more, reach more human beings, reach deeper inside of me. So, what life proposes to you today, you have to analyze it and submit to your principles, Don't do anything mechanically. Plato spoke in his laws that every law should have an explanatory preamble, because a law is not generating mechanicity, it is generating consciousness. That's why we have the ethical problems we have today, because we

think that a law is to generate a mechanical obedience. Law is to generate a state of consciousness, in such a way, that in another time you no longer need that law, and if it does not generate a state of consciousness, when it falls, you have a bunch of poorly trained animals again. So, we have to understand what we do. Every thing. every situation Sometimes the same situation at different times in life, Reflect, perhaps now the answer is the other, let me see the possibilities I have now. Look, there's no way, people! You can't put labels

on life. If there is a field where laziness is fatal, it is on the mental plane. Every time you do something like that, I answer you like this: it's comfortable, but it's false. Inexorably false! Every time life presents you with a situation, you will have to look, see the principles behind, see the particularity of this situation and issue a sentence that only applies to this situation. It is never repeated in history. They want ready-made answers, and those who give ready-made answers are generally manipulating, because you know that there will not be a single answer, that

will serve for very different situations. Each moment of life will be covered with a particularity that will never be repeated again. Some of you must have seen it at a conference I don't even remember what it was anymore. I have repeated this example several times as well. When did a person come to the Buddha and ask him: - Lord, is there a God? He said no! Another came and asked: - Lord, is there a God? He does! The third came: - Lord, is there a God? - What do you know! The next disciple, Ananda, who

was very curious, fortunately, because if not, we would not understand anything. Ananda says: - The Lord was contradictory, he answered the same question with three different things". - I answered the same Ananda, you heard wrong! - In that way? - The Lord said yes, no, you know. - Yes, but the first one was a contestant, whatever he said, he would think otherwise. - I told him no, so he will think so. - The second was a man who trusted me. - Then what I told him would take into account, so I said yes. - He'll

think so. - The third is the type of man who does not accept anything unless he finds it himself. - So, I told him: you are the one who knows. - He will look for it and has a chance to find it and if I told him, he would not accept it. - I answered in order to bring them as close as possible to something that was just for the three of them. That is, be careful with labels, with easy answers. The easy roads lie. So, knowing how to analyze every situation in life, but try

to make sure the next day we have more items. It has many things. That is why sometimes I take a book and I propose to take the same book, that I read 20 years ago, 10 years ago, with my marks, with my notes to look at and say: today I would not comment on this again. Today I would no longer say exactly that. Because there are other elements that life gives you. Do you consider other points of view! No! That's not entirely correct, you should have considered such a thing. This is good, this is a

sign that there has been a bit of growth, small as a life is worth. That is to say, having that healthy aspiration to push our trenches a little more, tomorrow, for us, for each other, for humanity. Remember Plato: "The best thing we can do for those we love is to grow." Continuous... "In no way forget the health of the body." Here's a sequel that has to be read together, mind you. "Do not forget in any way the health of the body, but give it food in moderation, necessary exercise and also rest for your mind". "What

I mean by the word moderation is that extremes should be avoided." The Stoics said: "nothing in excess". So the body is a vehicle. I have a vehicle parked downstairs and I think most of you if you don't live very close, must have too. We treat him well, don't we? He keeps the tires calibrated, mechanically he takes care of them in the best possible way, he takes care of us. This is also a vehicle and of course we are going to treat it well, but if I approach you and say: - Do not come to the

conference next week because you will wear out the tires of your car. It will run, it will spend, but you will say: - It was made to run. Has no sense. So, I would be going to the extreme of wanting to save this vehicle so much, to the point of putting it between the cotton and turning it into a meaning of my life. Or on the other hand, drive with these tires out of calibration, ruin them, blow them up, never inflate them, I didn't want to know anything about what was going on. because there have

been moments in history where it was considered that mistreating the body, had some spiritual merit. Mutilate the body, treat it in any way, nothing in excess either. Today we have both. There are those who consider that there is merit in mistreating the body and there are those who consider that the body is the showcase of their identity and live according to it. Careful! Just half. In neither situation does the body benefit. The body benefits when it is treated fairly. That is to say, when he is given what corresponds to him, but when he allows himself

to be served. Remember the example of the candle that I gave a million times already, you will remember this example. I like the candle so much that I don't want it to melt. I don't turn on Look! She already falls into the trap. In Brasilia with that dryness, everything falls apart without you turning it on and it dies. This here dies without being born as a candle, because the identity of the candle is to give light. You never let her give birth, but she died anyway. This here is going to die anyway, giving or not

giving light, be human or not So don't be unfair to him to the point of wanting to save him so much that you won't let him do it, Say what you came for, fulfill your role. I will keep your car so much that I will not let it transport you from one place to another, because he came for this. So, the fair means. However, he adds, be careful not only to take care of the body. The application of these principles is also mind. We could apply to the four elements, what the Greeks called personality, mind,

emotions, energy and physical plane. Mind, according to these traditions, Pythagoras is no different, is considered as part of that material structure that the Greeks called personality, that comes from person, mask, the mask you wear on the stage of life, but the actor is back there, it is your immortal essence. This mind, being part of the personality, It obeys laws that are not identical, but similar to those that exist on the physical plane. So if you eat something and he does not check that the food is healthy, he does not cleanse the body, he does not

bathe, he does not excrete what is left over, I can't imagine how long a person would have to live like this and in what state would that physical body be. The mind obeys similar laws on its plane. You feed it anyway, you don't purify it, it does not get rid of what weighs it down, what contaminates it. Don't you think we can have a mental deformity? Be careful, because the laws are similar. Also be careful with the health of the mind, with balance and perception, that everything we assimilate on the mental plane, it also generates

poisoning if it is not healthy. Brasiliense has a curious hobby. There is nothing interesting playing in the cinema, but I have nothing to do, I'll see what happens. Have you ever fallen for that philosophy and seen a terrible movie? Then they got an image that sometimes still pops up in your head years later, a vulgar and crude image of a bad movie that you went to see, when there were a thousand more options. How many times have we done this? A refusal, crude, vulgar, unnecessarily violent, that does not illustrate anything, it does not have an

idea behind it. That is contamination that sometimes takes us years to get rid of. Every time that image arrives, it knocks down our consciousness. That is, taking care of the mind, with all levels of the personality, equivalent to those you have with the body, even because that's where the ills of the body in general come from. Plato's theory of ideas: "everything comes from the subtle to the concrete." Physical imbalances, in general, come from the subtle planes. Continuous... "Get used to a decent and pure life, without luxuries." Vices are considered, so to speak, more animal, that

has vices of all kinds for all planes, but the grossest are sloth, gluttony, and lust. Denser, lower. Attachment to material things. You enter more subtle planes, on the energetic plane there would be greed, greed. On an emotional level, there would be envy, jealousy, competition, pride. On a mental level, he would have intellectual vanity, arrogance. Do you realize that each plane has its own vices? Then it is a matter of working from the densest to the most subtle. If we don't control even our most disgusting part, it is difficult to go to the second step, nature

does not make leaps. Laziness, gluttony and lust are the "animal self" in its densest manifestation, thicker We would have to guarantee that we are a bit like Centaur, Greek, the human dominating the animal and not the other way around. We have the "I-animal" reins. It is a tip for those who have not yet attended, there is a conference that I really like, which is "Human Evolution According to Oriental Tradition", There are 10 nankin balls. Has anyone seen this talk on YouTube? There are 10 balls of ink, of a man dealing with a bull. It's the

story of a human being's life, dealing with that bull, There are times that the bull dominates him, there are times that the bull dominates him, Until the end of the story I will not tell, It is the story of the human condition, from ignorance to wisdom. There were no text people, it was just 10 balls of ink. Very very interesting. So you see this fight with the "animal self" to dominate it, to subdue it, it is not bad. You will see that it is the same as we have in medieval alchemy, the "open black", the

descent into hell to see the zoo that you have inside, not to eliminate them, but to educate them, to put them in their rightful place. Instincts are an interface we make with survival, we need them, but they cannot dominate our life, they are in the wrong place, just like the dog can't decide the important things in my life. Nor can I let instincts be the direction of my life. So let yourself be dominated by laziness, gluttony and lust, never. It is the grossest step of the human condition. "Avoid all things that cause envy." Think of

something that... Taoism talks about it all the time and I've been reading the Tao Te Ching these days, we are doing this series. Taoism says all the time that envy is not something that depends only on the one who practices it, because many times we victimize ourselves. Oh! People are jealous of who I am, poor me. Lao Tzu constantly says that envy has to do with how you brag about your success. You hurt people. The way you flaunt your success, when it's filled with vanity, selfishness, hurts others. People feel that you have something, that it

is only for you, it is not for everyone, it is not for sharing, it is not for the general good. So, always, envy is polarized with selfishness. When you selfishly brag about success, you will hurt those who failed, those who do not have that success, those who have not yet achieved it. If you flaunt it selflessly, people will feel benefited by your victory. Won! Hurrah! It will be good for all of us. There are people who are like that, who do not hurt their victory, who do not weigh their virtues, not sharp on what you

get. Imagine what level of responsibility we assume for ourselves that everything in the universe is dual, we take some responsibility for ourselves when someone envy us, by the way, you flaunt your successes. That is interesting. The level of power we have in a relationship is perhaps greater than we imagine. There are no things that depend only on the other. In the dual world, everything depends on one and the other. Nothing manifests with 100% responsibility on one side. That would not be dual. And don't overdo it. She lives like who knows what is honorable and decent.

That is, to find the golden mean, the balance in all things. For this reason, always pondering, weighing, from a consultation with your internal self, inner life, a dialogue at every moment. A passage from Taoism says that a sage, when you look into the eyes of a sage - I find this passage very beautiful, I keep imagining it - a very high-ranking sage, he says when you look into his eyes, It seems that his gaze is deep, it is as if he were a portico of a corridor, where there is a dialogue inside, holding at that

moment, a dialogue between a man and a God. Within the eyes of every sage. Deep down, there is a dialogue between a man and a God. Within her, what is sacred in man, he is arguing with the human to know what to do now. He always has this consideration of applying his principles, at every moment of the journey. Nothing is rushed, nothing can stop being human, And when I do, it's important that I record it in my memory. know why I stopped responding as a human being, because I stopped being myself, that I analyze, record

and try not to repeat. He goes on to say that it is his diary's recommendation. "Do not let yourselves be moved by greed or avarice. It is excellent to use the right measure in all these things." Greed or avarice, which is the desire to possess or protect material goods. It is, so to speak, one of the vices of the physical-energetic plane, more energetically than physically. Careful! What happens to more subtle planes and gets complicated. It's one thing for me to be greedy for my apartment, my car, Another thing is that I am greedy for my

image, for what people think of me, to have a status in society, to have positions and honors. You know that as you progress to more subtle levels, it becomes more difficult to win. Helena Blavatsky says that greed can even enter the spiritual plane. The more subtle it gets, the harder it is for you to win. I always tell a story that older people, They already know me, they've heard it 300 times, they're going to forgive me, but there are some that are really good, there is no way. He was a Zen master and there was

a prince who wanted to be his disciple. This prince insisted, insisted, and could not be accepted and did not know why. That prince was very generous, in that kingdom there was no misery, everyone had everything, he distributed the goods very generously. One day he comes to this teacher and asks him: - Master, what is selfishness? And the teacher takes the opportunity to teach him a lesson. The teacher turns red, has an angry face and says: - What a silly question! - How can you be stupid to ask me such a stupid question! The prince will

jump from that height. - Hold on! - Who do you think you're talking to? Respect me, I am a prince. What are you thinking of me? The teacher smiles and says: - See, this is selfishness! In this plan, you don't hand over a single coin. What others think of you, what they consider you, your honors. That is, your pride, on that level, total selfishness. And it is a plane where it is more difficult to be generous. It becomes more and more complicated, more subtle, more difficult for you to understand. When you know something, for example,

has an intuition, a deep vision of life, and you don't have that impulse to share to make it useful to other people, there is also egoism. On the more subtle level, on the mental level, he says it gets more complicated. Imagine, we're here because there was a man who got away burned, He lost everything, he was left alone with his own body, but before I died, I had to write this here, it will be useful to someone. Imagine if there was selfishness on the mental plane of Lysis, we wouldn't have the Golden Verses. How much

do we have because someone back there won selfishness. We also have this debt with the future. "Only do the things that can't hurt you and decide before you do them." Remember that I told you that this is one of the most repetitive things. Submit everything to your principles. The Egyptians said: "Wash your thought, your word and your action in the waters of the heart." "The heart of man is the greatest mystery in the world." The heart, for them, was the idea of ​​a center, of essence, around which everything revolved. That center, essence, that identifies with

your best virtues, with the most human aspect, everything has to go through there, everything has to be filtered by your human condition. "Decide before you do them." As I said, this is repeated several times throughout the code, that is, it must be important. Learn to have courage maintain control of reason, maintain lucidity in extreme situations, and when we can't reflect on this and develop a strategy for re-passing because life is cyclical and interactive, when we go through something equivalent, we go through in better conditions. We learn from our mistakes. When we learn from our mistakes,

they are just as useful as our successes. Everything in life is profitable. If there was a moment in your life that had nothing to teach you, I would have already been removed from your life. This is Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They also usually know what they are saying. Everything has something to teach us. "When you lie down never let sleep come close to your tired eyes, until you review with your higher consciousness all your actions of the day". "Question: What did I do wrong? What did I do right? What duty did

I not fulfill?" "Recriminate yourself for your mistakes and rejoice in your successes." Look, this is the daily recommendation. But today I speak in a newspaper and I already see people frown. We associate the diary with an adolescent thing. Dear diary, roll the lyrics like this, don't you? - Today I ate French fries. The journal has a very simple mathematical Cartesian equation. My ideal is there. Did I take a step towards this ideal today or did I stay put? Or did I take a step in the opposite direction? If I took a step in the opposite

direction, why? What was I going to get? What attracted me more than my own identity? Tomorrow I develop a strategy to reverse this. If I take a hundred steps in that direction, without realizing it, without evaluating, without bringing my conscience, It may be that at a certain moment I stray so far from my ideal that it no longer works, there is no return. So, at each step, assess in which direction it was taken and why, and correct yourself the next day, realize what was behind it, bring it to light, to the motivations that rob us

of ourselves, the elements that drew us off the tangent of our true trajectory. Which is robbing myself and strategizing for tomorrow. Remember that I also comment a lot in my lectures on time planning that Jung gave. I thought that was impressive. I will master such a trend. Then my physical body will say such a thing, I will answer such a thing. I will dominate, I will develop such a virtue. Then my vanity will say such a thing, I will answer such a thing. He already imagined what his defects were going to say and he already

responded. The defects had not yet opened their mouths and he already knew what was going to manifest inside him, the forces of resistance and how you would respond to them, and he even gave the defects a physical name, I don't know how he didn't go crazy with that, but it worked. His planning was based on being. This year I will overcome such bad trends, I will grow in that direction, I will have to face such resistance and I will face it with these tools. That is, there was no time for your defect to open its

mouth and you already responded. So it will work and most likely it will. A level of self-knowledge, of knowing how to deal with internal adversities. Remember that this is repetitive. Sun Tzu's "Art of War". "The true warrior does not fight, he is so victorious over himself that the external war never calms down". Dhammapada Buddhist: "Greater than he who defeats a thousand men in battle is he who defeats himself." Everyone is saying the same thing. The battle itself is within us and if you won this, everything outside is easier. "Everything else will be given in addition.

Seek first his kingdom." That is, put yourself in their place, everything will be easier. So the diary was an aid to awareness. When you bring awareness into your life on a daily basis, do you know what will happen? When you are committing something that violates your principles, it violates your dignity, conscience will say: - You will have to suppose that at night in the newspaper, you see? - It is not better! The alarm goes off right away, you no longer have the benefit of impunity. - Look! That's what you're going to do tonight, huh! -

Ten o'clock, we meet! Do you realize you can't slip away? It's not possible! Then you start to be alert. Roger Scruton says it's like an owl sitting on your shoulder all day, it is so. You did something... oops! Better shut up, there is no more. So it's interesting. You bring awareness in short periods to life. “Fully practice all of these recommendations.” Sorry! I skipped the 44. "Recriminate yourself for your mistakes and rejoice in your successes" Like a child, learn to value. The boy took two steps and fell, the mother thought it was funny, today he

gave three and fell, he found it even more amusing, he took three small steps. Realizing that there is something within us that is developing, that it is like a child, be careful, cheer up. - Oh! I made that mistake every day. - Now I took a breather of two days between one and the other. - Oh! I win! - I'm getting better! Value your successes, have skills. If you don't know how to drive yourself, you won't know how to drive anyone else. and the world needs drivers, people who with good will, good intentions, know how

to lead others. The first thing is to consider our personality, as our director, founder of New Acropolis, says, Professor Jorge Angel Livraga. He said: "Consider your personality as your first disciple." The first person you have to educate is your personality, so be discreet with that. You will not hurt her unnecessarily. Correct the defects, but value the small successes and take them step by step. How to encourage a child who has already taken three steps. "I fully practice all of these recommendations. Meditate well on them, you must love them with all your heart." It is one

thing to do something because Pythagoras said: another is that you fall in love. How cute! How I would like to be like that! You will have triple the stimulus to do it. You understand the right thing and you love it. It is the emotional plane and the mental plane in the same direction, it is already a double force. That is, learn, fall in love, love what is noble, fair and good. Purify the flavor. Learning to love this code as a privilege that came into our lives. You will have much more possibilities to practice. Is there

no more beautiful way to live than this? And that in us we had the privilege of having come into our hands. "They are the ones who will put you on the path of Divine Virtue." That is, these rules that I have been talking about so far, they will put you on the path of overcoming the ordinary human condition, and get closer to your immortal essence. They will stand you up before the world. Then it comes with this sentence which for me is the strongest part of the code: "I swear by the one who transmitted the

Holy Quaternary to our souls." I swear. "That source of nature whose evolution is eternal." I mean, It is as if you imagine that we have an immortal essence up here, which is often depicted as a triangle, a triad, a trinity, trimurte in India, often as three, the Egyptian pyramids, the Cornish cones of the Celts, three is closely associated with the sacred. Imagine that this is reflected in the waters of matter, on the material plane. And it casts a shadow down here. And this shadow, at first, is all deformed, and it has to be corrected to

look more and more like this here. Here is an eternal evolution for you to become a perfect reflection of this here. The day we have this, we come to this symbol. Where the two embrace. The Star of David, the Seal of Solomon, or whatever you want to call it. Where spirit and matter embrace. Your personality is in the image and likeness. It is as if you imagine the hand of the Spirit wearing a glove and the glove is perfect, It gives you all the flexibility to act. Spirit and matter united in the same direction, in

the same way. But meanwhile, there is the so-called "eternal evolution" towards that meeting point. Who gave you this vehicle to sculpt matter in its image and likeness through it? These divine beings, I swear in their name, who granted you the Sacred Quaternary, those four elements in which you live. This is no joke, people! Pythagoras to swear a code in the name of something so sacred, He knew what he was talking about. He practiced it and lived it. It's something very serious, I think. A very big weight. A master of this greatness will swear something. Even

more in his name. One of the things he recommends even more here: "Consecrate the things you are going to do." It is easier to be faithful to them. He is enshrining this code. He is swearing. "Never start a task without first asking for the blessing and help of the Gods" This is very beautiful! Beautiful! Anything for you... because sometimes it seems very theistic, because it is within a context of the Greek religiosity of the time. But everything that is associated with the sacred fulfills that same function. There is an anthropologist from the last century, Mircea

Eliade, who said: "The sacred is the function of giving meaning." In fact, it gives meaning to our lives. Life is organized as a circumference that is organized around a center. tell you the sacred, if you don't want to get into theistic or theological frameworks, the sacred is the image of your father. How virtuous he was, how just he was, how hard-working he was, how upright he was. Alright! Every time you go to do something, think! It is a second that you will spend on it. I will do it on your behalf. Pull the name, pull

the image. Do you think you will be able to do things anyway? Do you think you are going to vulgarize this action? I would not present this as a vulgar action. When you consecrate yourself, you automatically tend to care and do the best you can, because it's like you're willing to do that action as an offering and you are not going to put anything at the feet of something that for you has so much nobility, has so much value. The Sufi school, which was the internal school of Islam, Sufism, they had what they called Dicre,

that it was a state of perpetual mental prayer. I was doing anything to make sure you don't get sidetracked, don't lose focus, he doesn't just do things anyway, they were in a "state". They chose something that was incommunicable, something that for them had a very sacred value, It could be a prayer, an image of a person, an image of a God, whatever it was, and they repeated it in their minds all the time. This set the tone, the background, of what was being done in life. Do you realize that when you are in an environment

and there is a certain type of music, Does it generate a mood predisposition according to the level of the music that is played? What if you put a background in your mind, all the time chosen by you? Do you realize that we play and stop in our mind? You play a song in the street sometimes, if you don't pay attention, it's on your mind all day. You have to go there, stop and start something else, because sometimes it is something very rude and gives a tonic of bad mood, irritation, You see, it's a backdrop that's

spinning there, maybe, a circular idea. You have to know how to put a suitable background, a suitable setting, to that play that is going to take place at that moment, to that scene at that moment. Then the evocation of the sacred, the consecration, the offering, ensures that you do things to your best advantage. The sacred is the function of giving meaning. This is a passing secret that I certainly used. I imagine his disciples must have done this all along. Anything, at least things at the beginning of the day, the beginnings and the endings, are like

that. He spoke, for example, in relation to the newspapers, that on the last day of our lives, we will review throughout life. Mentally, everyone does it. It is much easier, to do it without anguish and without pain, if you are used to doing it every day. That is, in every little death, because every night is a little death, you do this review in life. He's used to doing it. You have been purifying life for a long time. He is accustomed every day to die in things and be born in others. Every day you kill the

bad tendencies in you so that new things are born. Then the big death will not surprise you, because the small one you already know very well. You are familiar with that. You know the logic of nature. Some things die, others are born, and the great circles of life continue. "When you make a habit of all this, you will know the nature of gods and immortal men." That is, you will know the best, the highest and the noblest that is within you. When you make it a habit. You know what it means? I will act What

did Plato say you should do in this circumstance? Are you guided by principles that you consider noble, just and good, not because Plato spoke, but because you reflected and came to that conclusion. Much better still will be when that circumstance occurs and you automatically respond that way. It means that these principles are no longer Plato's, they are yours, you integrated them, now it is part of your body. Something falls to the ground, I go with that hand, it's mine, that hand. Imagine with principle. One thing happens, I automatically go and answer him. with a determined

reaction that is no longer Plato's, It's mine, I integrated it, it's part of my body. As if it were a hand, a leg, a look, it is my response to life. Through Plato, I tried, I assimilated, I integrated. The more we make it a habit, the more it becomes noticeable to us, allowing, sorry! Perceiving what is behind this heap of contaminations, of contaminations, of illusions, of waste, of noise, there is in the world and we see the essences, ours and things. The secret of seeking wisdom, morality, is nothing more than a great way to clean,

remove everything that is not, so that there remains a certain silence, a certain lucidity, where we can see ourselves and the life around us. I always quote a phrase from Tolstoy that says: "There are those who pass through a forest and only see wood for their fire." The citizen did not go there, he never saw the life in a forest, he only thought of his campfire. At a certain point, stop the voices of selfishness, manipulation. Inteligere, choose between. Out of everything out there, who am I? Who are you? What is life? In other words, morality

is one big cleanup job. She will help you remove all these excesses. Everything that is not, banishing illusions. What is cannot be extinguished, it cannot cease to be, neither in time nor in space. Therefore, morality cannot do anything with essences, but remove all coverings that block our view, both within and without. He says if you do it, you'll see. Do, always do, love, incorporate as a habit, when you look you will see yourself and you will see people. And he swears. I think it has a good chance of success. It's not a joke, it's not

a bluff. He testifies with his own life. Good... I recommend that after you take a look at the phrases, where I put a summary of it, the main ideas, for us, try to grasp the logic, memorize, and next week, we'll take the last 20 sentences, we'll go up to 72. At the end I put a summary that are the main topics, so that we have at least this engraved in our mind, in such a way, that from these main themes, you can deduce, without memorizing word for word, deduce the general logic of the code from

the golden verses. For example, you are going to give a conference like this, a small detail of oratory, at least i do it that way I put the ideas and from that idea I deduce several sentences. This is life basically, you take the heart of things, the essence, and the rest develops from that. If you get some ideas from the code, from those ideas you are able to deduce the phrases that make them explicit, in every moment of your life, what to do in every moment of your life, but we must bear in mind the

ideas, the ideas that govern this code. While you don't have them, fold them up and keep them in your bag for a while, because it's worth it. Any questions so far? "When you go to bed, never let sleep come close to your tired eyes." In fact, there is continuity here with the next sentence. Look at it in conjunction with the following and you'll see that it makes sense. I should not have capitalized the following. I copied it as it was in the source. "When you go to bed, never let sleep come close to your weary

eyes, until you check, with your superior consciousness, all your actions of the day". That is, do not fall asleep without doing your journal. It's that story. No! but... A diary made in themes, in the way that I told you, well done, It will take you about five minutes if you do it right, if you do more or less, two, three minutes. So you say: - I can't stand two, three minutes, I'm very tired. - There's chocolate cake in the fridge. - Oh! I'm not that tired, the fridge is close! That is, the chocolate cake rule

is foolproof, everyone has two or three minutes for him, not for the newspaper. You realize that there is a hierarchy of priorities. Maybe you don't like chocolate cake so much, or something else, but there is something that would get you out of bed and into the kitchen. Realize that it is a hierarchy of priorities. Turn it into a meeting point with your own inner life. and learn to savor it. As the most anticipated date of the day, learn to love it, but it is acquired through habit. He does not admit the possibility of going to

bed without having made an analysis of your day. Preferably, write some words that are, because otherwise the thought is very fleeting, you think you thought, in fact, he didn't care. Record two or three words that you can re-read later, in some sense to yourself. You will notice that it becomes more and more simple, like you, because you learn to live with your own subterfuges that we made up to fool ourselves. Then you start to have some ability to deal with the traps of the mind, with the excuses of personality to justify always doing the same

things, It's never your fault, it's always external circumstances. You'll pick up the thread, but that's while you practice. There are no such rigid rules that make it work, no. It will work as you become observant and track yourself. Begin to observe your own responses. - I didn't do what I had to do again, why? - Oh! By the neighbor! For the love of God. If you didn't have a neighbor, you moved to a place that had such a neighbor. You need someone to justify you. You begin to collect your excuses, you begin to pull the

strings, to collect the true causes, but that is only with practice. You will realize that, in effect, the sixth sense and you will do what your heart tells you, It doesn't have much to do with emotions. This is somewhat intuitive. Nature does not jump. It is said that the intuitive is an attribute of the Being. Your spiritual essence. This is above the mind. If you haven't even developed your mind, who will say what comes next. Realize? What corresponds to us at this moment is to guide our action according to universal principles, the good, the beautiful,

the just, the noble, the true, you will realize that by organizing your life like this, have the opportunity to move to the next step, every once in a while you have a spark or two of insight. But if you don't, don't think you're going to skip your mind and fall into intuition. Nature does not jump. And it's good that even though we don't have much mental control, I have a certain doubt in those hunches of intuition that arise, because they cannot be more than emotional blows. They may be. They could be emotional blows. imagine a

person... People! our flaws... That would give for one more conference. I was talking about the strategies we have to discover. Our flaws fight to live and are strategists. Imagine, you are lazy. Laziness is not going to come up to you and say: - Do not get out of bed, I'm very lazy! That would be immoral and you would react. She will see what you believe. - I believe in intuition! - Oh! - I sense that today I should not get out of bed! Believe in astrology. - No! Today is my astral hell, I must not

leave the house! Meaning, she will take what you believe in and dress up as that. You need to be careful, because if it goes against your principles, it can be anything, I won't do it. I don't trust that much, I still don't have that much intuition. And contradict principles at that time, no. Intuition is more spiritual than principles, it should push me up, not down. I already said it in several conferences, that I once saw a platonic sloth. This I never forgot. Platonic sloth. New Acropolis is volunteer work. And I began to set up a

school, a little school, where I did everything. When we start, it's us, the chairs and a comic. I was cleaning the room, tidying up, a student came. He came, he was something like that, he sat down. In the end he came to say: - Master, I wanted to help you. - But Plato says that each one has to dedicate himself to a single function, which is that which is congruent with its nature. - I do not have the nature of a janitor, so it would not be consistent with Platonic justice. I said: - Ready! A

platonic sloth, she had never seen it. There is intuitive laziness, platonic laziness, astrological sloth, new age sloth, sloth of everything you can imagine. Bobeou, she embodies. I mean, you have to know where it takes you. At odds with a universal principle, beware! Intuition is nobler than principles, it will not bring you down. In our time it is good to be careful with subterfuges, that we are preparing justify not doing what we should be doing. And we have a lot ready. We take external accomplices, we create confusion in life, we do everything, deep down, to boycott

ourselves. Thank you so much! And just complementing that, one time a person asked me a question. - This from the newspaper, I'm afraid, Why would someone take it and invade my privacy? I said: - Look! I think you are not understanding well. What are you going to put in that journal? Imagine a person who takes your journal and says: - Today I was not consistent with the principle of justice and I will analyze why I was not. I might even learn something from it, maybe you'll post it later. You are not going to write the

life of your neighbor, nor the privacy of anyone, because that is absolutely inconsequential and useless. These news of the day, imagine if ten years from now they will make a difference in your life. A newspaper when it is well done, in ten years you will read it, It is interesting to show the strategy that led you to be what you are. It shows the build process itself. A diary if someone reads it is even an inspiration for him to grow too, there is absolutely nothing. By the way, you make that privacy... If you don't keep

a journal, it will be private even to you, because you won't see what is happening in your life. It is important that you see this privacy of the Self. Where is it going or is it going nowhere? it has to express itself for you to see it. You have to make the Self express itself in the world so that you can see it. So be careful not to confuse it with the vulgar notion of a journal. This newspaper that we think that if the other reads it, it will invade my privacy, You're putting useless stuff

in that journal. And if there are only philosophical things, I guarantee that whoever reads your diary is very philosophical. It is even worth borrowing it. Most will not be interested. You won't be interested in that. Do you understand that? An opportunity to consciously bring the Self onto the scene of life. And if you don't, it will be so private you won't even know it. It originates... I gave you the first version, which is the version of Herocles of Alexandria. Of course, at certain times, I also read Oliver's Fabri, who is a classic who translated these

verses into French, but at first I took the original version of Herocles of Alexandria, 430 BC Which was first translated into Latin and then translated into several languages. Fabri do Oliver makes a very famous translation, back in the 19th century. I have a book, including yours, of course I compared the two to pick up some elements, but the bases of this tradition are original to Herocles. I can't tell you what languages ​​it was in, I couldn't tell you. He must have gone through several, because Portuguese is a language, which usually comes at the end of

the story. Therefore, I compared two versions to see if the essentials were maintained. New Acropolis is an international, independent, non-profit philosophical movement. based on Culture, Philosophy and Volunteering.