Os Versos de Ouro de Pitágoras - #1/3

NEW ACROPOLIS Song: Épefte Vathiá Siopí The Golden Verses of Pythagoras - 1/3 Professor Lúcia Helena Galvão New Acropolis Brazil, 2017 Goodnight! Everyone who knows me knows that my name is Lucia. We are going to start a series and I wanted to share it. You will say: but the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, for those who know, are not that long. Why make a series? Seventy-two sentences to be commented on in a lecture? I would give you about three hours of class and it would be extremely tiring. So that we can comment and feel more comfortable, I

divided it into three parts. Today we are going to see up to verse number 24. Of course, the objective is not to exhaust, nor to talk about the life of Pythagoras including because they know nothing about the life of Pythagoras. Everything is speculation. Some say he never existed. I personally believe he existed, but historical evidence is scarce. The School of Crotona was burned. There was practically nothing left. What remains is said to be a small manuscript with a few lines from Pythagoras. Plato, in his day, says he paid a fortune for it. Even the golden

verses themselves were written by a disciple of his who fled from the fire. So we don't have much of Pythagoras' biography. Pythagoras' biography is more speculation, and sometimes ancient speculation. There are speculations that are from the time and there are more recent ones. So let's brush up on the biography and then let's talk about those first lines. My idea, I'm a study technique teacher, among other little things I like to teach but study technique is something I like to teach because they are simple techniques that give you a set of possibilities of not forgetting things

which is awesome! So I decided: how am I going to make people not forget those golden verses of Pythagoras? I decided to make you a scheme where on the side you have a memorization scheme and study techniques. That is, you will see that they are summarized in topics from 1 to 5, from 6 to 9... and the main ideas are in these topics. In such a way that you will be able to underline a word or two that you already know. This first part is the oaths, the second part is such a thing Because that's

a moral code! The auric verses of Pythagoras are a recipe for you to live day by day. How am I going to live if I don't remember what he said? So if I have some general ideas, some topics in mind evidently it becomes much easier to evoke and live them What he does here is far from theoretical: it's really a moral code that he enforced among his disciples and it worked. Pythagoras' task, it is said, was very difficult, because he went to Egypt, he studied in Egypt. Then he wandered around a lot of places: Babylon,

Persia... they say he even went to India. Then he returned to Greece. Greece was not like Egypt. The disciples were not as disciplined as the Egyptians. They didn't even have that ease, that dedication, that devotion that the Egyptian had. Egypt was a civilization very focused on the sacred. Greece was not so much! So it was difficult to make his disciples assimilate his precepts. He creates a moral code specifically for the men of that time. Let's not say that we are more like Greeks than Egyptians because in fact we are no longer for either of them.

We fell a lot. Our historic moment, from a technological point of view, has skyrocketed. From a moral point of view, it's quite complicated. Because even morality itself is questioned whether there is something valid or not. So we are not even on the level of the Greeks. But anyway, it's plausible code for terms as a goal. It's nothing from the other world. What I find best and most beautiful in this code, in these golden verses which are said to have been really made by Pythagoras, but copied by a disciple of his who escaped the fire. Because

Pythagoras died in the fire. I didn't even have contact with you that there was a fire, right? I'll tell. He died in the Crotona school fire. These verses, at a certain point, he arrives and says: I swear to you that if you use this, it will work. I swear. Imagine what a character the size of Pythagoras is like swearing a code. Taking an oath by a man of that stature is a very serious matter. It's not something to play with! I swear in the name of the sacred quaternary. He makes a formal oath, saying: if

you do it, it will work. This has weight, the first time I read this, I said: Pythagoras swears, he's not kidding! He is not a man to whom an oath is an empty word. He didn't throw words away, that is, a code sworn by a philosopher the size of Pythagoras. Who, by the way, is said to have created the word "philosophy". Who used it for the first time. Not the philosophy itself, but the term. Very quickly, just so you can get a sense of the facts of his life I put it up here, in style,

if one day you are going to do a biographical synthesis and study technique we put it here. Words even I put too much. We put words, and they suggest images to you. Absolutely nothing is used in vain. So I put some topics for us to visualize his life. He is from this period: 570 - 495 BC He could be considered a pre-Socratic philosopher that is, before Socrates and Plato. But often current philosophy does not even consider him as a philosopher. Because he lived in an environment where there were so many rules focused on the sacred,

on the moral who often consider themselves Pythagoras, Plotinus as a sect. It is not considered philosophy. I find that curious. But I'm not going to go into the criteria of why they talk that way. For me he is a philosopher, Pythagoras was a philosopher. He lived at that time then, which a typical period of pre-Socratics even got to live with Thales of Miletus I would have learned something from him. Born on an island called Samos and this island appeared there By the way, his family was successful. His father was a merchant, traveled a lot but

a tyrant named Polycrates showed up there and things got ugly. Tyranny and philosophy never went together in history. It is an enmity that is irreconcilable. Then a tyrant appeared in Samos and Pythagoras could not stay there. He went to Egypt. When he was very well in Egypt, learning, it is not known how long he stayed there, another tyrant appeared there. And it was Cambyses the Persian. He kicked him out. Then he went to Babylon. Babylon, Persia, and then to India. In that region he would have met, somewhere, halfway a citizen he referred to as "the

magician, who taught me a lot". This "magician" no one knows who he is. But it is curious we know that the priests of Zoroaster in Persia were called "mags" Pythagoras' knowledge took into account many things that were also typical of this context: Zoroastrianism. He left said he went to India To India, imagine you! There are Indian writings that remember Yavanacharia, the Ionian master, who passed through here. That is, there was a Greek here, it was good! That Yavanacharia passed through here in such a year. Tired of wandering, he returned to his island again Polycrates, who

was the tyrant, had already died. He founds there, for the first time, a school which he called the Semicircle. Go there and find out where you got that idea. You know that in addition to everything, Pythagoras even created the term "mathematics" as well. The word. He was, among other things, a mathematician. We know a lot of Pythagoras by the theorem Although he gives a series of other things, equally important, for example, the musical notation system, with musical intervals as we know them. Basically it discovers these intervals, these harmonic intervals. He had very broad knowledge in

many areas. Then he decided to leave Samos and go to the south of Italy to a little place called Crotona which for some reason he thought would be more conducive to doing his job. Put a little more wilderness. I think he thought it was more difficult to pass a tyrant over there, as Samos was very busy. He went there and established his school, which was the Pythagorean Museum. The Museum was a system of monasteries, the disciples lived inside. They lived under a very strict discipline. Where that code was lived strictly. In addition to other little

things that are not in this code, such as the obligation to keep a diary. Seems like a silly thing, right? But Pythagoras considered it essential to evaluate what you made of your day. To see if it aligns with your ideal Because if it's not, you fix it tomorrow. If you go a year without correcting, you may be so far from your ideal that there is no more to go back. And a series of doctrines and rules of life, some understandable, others not so much. Some that we perceive to be more truthful, others that seem fanciful.

But this code was strictly enforced. there he marries with that disciple of his called Theanos of Crete. He has a daughter, Myla. If someone is going to have children, this is a good suggestion: Myla Sophia who ended up becoming a disciple of yours too At a certain point, the story is long, I won't go into those details But the fact is that entering the school of Pythagoras was no joke. Because he didn't want to take an ordinary person and make him honest and then pass on the teachings. That would be impractical. The least he wanted

to demand was that the citizen enter honest. He passed on the teachings. So honesty, coherence were considered prerequisites. For you to step inside. I usually joke, sometimes people misunderstand me, it's like it's a kind of college entrance exam. Now imagine an entrance exam that requires the person to be honest, upright, coherent, good... It's a vestibular that doesn't have a prep course in the world, come in handy! So many were disapproved! Because the tests were very hard, to subject the person to situations they were left feeling exposed, ridiculous, or where it was very conducive to lying

That is, situations to see if that person kept his coherence. And there were a lot of people who didn't pass. There is a certain citizen whose name is here somewhere Cylon Cilón was the son of a certain powerful politician from the south of Italy I wanted to because I wanted to get in, but I didn't have any conditions to get in. and it was even rejected because Pythagoras was not kidding. It didn't pass and it didn't pass. Offended by this reproach, he stirred up the people of the town near Croton saying that Pythagoras was a

sorcerer That's a good thing to do. Slander is an easy thing to do, even more so if the citizen is good, has power and still has good rhetoric Slander is a business that spreads easily. As Pythagoras had, among other things, a good astronomical knowledge He had the habit of saying: "look, there's going to be an eclipse" That was fatal! "There's going to be climate change." Who knows about it? Nobody knows! He's the one causing this. He's a witch. There's no way to know these things. So between spreading it, people believing it and getting angry is

a short hop. We know the steps of this process well. There they really demolished, attacked, burned and destroyed the School of Crotona. Pythagoras himself would have perished there. Half a dozen disciples were saved who prolonged Pythagoreanism through history for a few centuries And Lysis would have taken particular care to write the Golden Verses before she forgot them. There were a bunch of people who passed this on I put it here, it doesn't really matter, but it came to us through this Heraclas of Alexandria, 430 AD It was he who first wrote this in Latin. He

was a disciple of Plutarch. He writes it in Latin and it has endured. It began to be translated into Western languages ​​by ?? in the 19th century Anyway, this story went like this And that was Pythagoras. What is known about him, in Plato's time it was already said: "almost nothing is known". Plato lived a century and shortly thereafter We do know that he deduced the entire universe from numbers. That from the decade he deduced the manifestation of the universe from the moment you leave "zero" and go to "one" until "ten" where everything goes back to

"one" and back to "zero". Even "Tractes", which was a representation of 10, for him it was a representation of the manifestation of the universe. For him the purpose of the universe was harmony. He believed in reincarnation, that man would have a divine essence, which passes through several envelopes. Anyway, some elements lasted, and this beautiful moral code, which we are going to get to know. So let's go, talk a little about these Golden Verses of Pythagoras according to the version translated by this citizen: Heraclas of Alexandria This is curious because there was a citizen named, Philo

of Alexandria, who translated the life of another sage, who has nothing to do with Pythagoras, but is responsible for the life of Apollonius of Tyana This Philo said: "Pythagoras was a man who not only knew deeply who he was but who knew deeply and in detail everything he had been in other lives". This information from Philo is a curious thing, I don't know where he heard it from but that reinforces this idea that, within the Pythagorean School, there was actually a belief in reincarnation. Pythagoras himself followed and believed in this idea. But he believed that

the essence of man was to find the number, the essence that exists within each one, the idea that gave rise to it and harmonize it with all the other units of the Universe. That said let's start with our golden code of Pythagoras That is, what would transform, as Plato will say later, men into men of gold. Always remember, because this is an idea that was later very distorted. The other day I heard this on the internet, it really almost killed me. When I say that nothing will ever surprise me on the internet again, the next

day something scandalous appears. So I can't say that. I realized that this tempts karma, as the Indians would say. Because one of these days I was sent a deal saying that medieval alchemists were ambitious who wanted nothing more than to turn lead into gold to mint coins and get rich. I almost died from something like that, because the medieval alchemists, the gold they wanted to make, was the philosopher's gold they wanted to turn men of lead into men of gold It was wisdom they wanted. They were all hermeticists. They were all followers of the tradition

of Hermes Trismegistus. There was no ambitious person wanting to mint money there. Quite the contrary, alchemy is a tradition. We even have a talk about it on YouTube. Tradition very much inherited from all that we are seeing, because Pythagoras learned a lot from Egypt. So when talking about transforming beings into golden beings that's why Golden Verses, men of gold. It does not mean that it will turn into physical gold, but rather, men who are no longer capable of being corrupted by the middle, which is the characteristic of gold. it does not lose its characteristics according

to the environment where it is found. Not even on the human skin that corrupts. If it was a common metal on your finger, it would turn black in no time. Gold, right? Do you know why? He is true to himself. It is independent of the medium. That's what was expected of men and that's what Pythagoras is proposing here. And that's why Golden Verses golden verses to build golden men He swears it works, which is the most special and interesting thing. I've never seen masters of this stature swear at anything. He swears. There is a high

probability that it will be something that really has value. He starts in these verses 1 to 3. They are going to talk about the issue of honor, which is a very interesting thing. It is closely linked to gratitude, recognition, respect, knowing how to see. This ceremonial of life that you will see in eastern traditions, the cult of ancestors, the cult of nature spirits, honoring, recognizing what is most beautiful. Realize that we live in a time where we remember things for the worst. We replaced gratitude with morbidity. Every time I go to talk about Egypt someone:

"But what about Cleopatra?" I'll talk about Rome: "What about Caligula and Nero?" Okay, there's Caligula and Nero, there's Cleopatra, but can't you remember better? My past: "I suffered so much on such an occasion" "So-and-so, do you know?" "I know So-and-so, he talks too much". Does he have no qualities? Do you realize that we remember things by the worst aspect? At that moment the idea was: honor, that is, honor means remembering and thanking each thing for what it had the best. He will start talking about the gods Within a polytheistic tradition Honor first the immortal gods

as the law dictates. Remember, you may have heard about this, and Plato will be a great apprentice of the knowledge of several masters, including Pythagoras and talks about it a lot: you don't honor god or gods because they need it Because they don't need anything, who needs you You who need to remember the divine attributes You need not only to remember, but also to find them within yourself. They don't need anything at all. Yes you Very interesting thing that this Apollonius of Tyana, which I told you about, that Philo immortalizes who is a much later

sage, already from the beginning of the Christian era he enters a temple, they were making an animal sacrifice, that was very common in religions of that time, already a little decadent he enters that temple screaming, that tells Fíllon he enters the screams and says: "Refrain from washing your altars in blood" The only sacrifice that is desirable to the gods is the sacrifice of your "animal self" on altars of wisdom. He understands? What does a divine being, whether a monotheistic or polytheistic tradition What will a divine being, for being divine, need you to have? Is he

not divine? The only thing he needs you to have is his evolution. Because he can't force that. He can't force you to grow up because there's a rather inconvenient law called free will, that you only evolve if you want to. The only thing you can give him that has any value, and he cannot obtain for himself is his evolution. Sacrifice of "thy animal" on altars of wisdom. This is the idea of ​​the "sacred office" Sacred Office of Remembering Divine Attributes Including finding them within oneself, which is the most important philosophical element. Not just seeing the

judges from the outside, but recognizing them from within. In such a way that you communicate with the divine by affinity, and not by fear or desire. I recognize the divine because I feel his attributes within me Honor, justice, kindness. I see inside me. So I lean towards that, I know that if it exists inside, it exists outside too. I lean towards it. It is not a relationship based on interests, desires or fears, but on affinity. The first thing I have to do is recognize the attributes of the divine and seek to develop them within me

First of all, honor the immortal gods, as required by law. Next bow to the oath you took. This is something that I find very curious. How does humanity change in its cultural concepts, right people? Inside we don't change much, no, but the culture sometimes invites us to go upstairs, sometimes it invites us to stay still, sometimes it invites us to get down. Because it is impressive, our historical moment has a horror of compromise! At that time commitment was the best thing in the world, an oath is a commitment Do you know what they said? You

want to climb the mountain, that's an example I'm making up now, but it's like you want to climb the mountain just holding on No. Take a rope, with a hook, hang it up there. If you slip, hold on to the rope, because sometimes you don't fall. That's what a pledge is: I swore, I pledged, I'm not going to end this life without being a little better than when I started. I will be less critical, I will be less selfish, I will be more fraternal I will think more about others when making my decisions. I swore.

When the personality wants to give back, hold on to the rope. You cannot do such a thing. It is something sworn before what is most sacred to you Commitment to him bound you and protected you from falling at the time when the personality weighs and the law of gravity, psychological, knocks us down. The physical law knocks us down from time to time, but it's not so serious, we get up again. But when the psyche falls, it is sometimes difficult to get up. The commitment to love, I didn't commit. I committed myself to humanity, I committed

myself to being a better human being, I committed to making a difference in people's lives. Today we have a horror of commitment. When it falls, where do you hold it? There's nowhere to hold it, it really falls! I don't want to know anything else. You won't even know! Because there's nothing to counterbalance these crises, these inertias that the psyche gives from time to time. These abyss tendencies, which exist in us from time to time, have nothing to counteract. Jung used to say that when he was alive, because between us, I like Jung a lot Those

experiments he did with the unconscious I'm amazed to see how he didn't go crazy. It's a huge risk level for the human psyche! He said: do you know why I come back? For love Love for people, love for humanity, now the commitments I made to my patients If it wasn't for love, I wouldn't go back These dips I take to do these things. Because he worked with alchemy, he worked with a complex symbology sometimes it's a crazy deal when you read that. My God, how did this man not go crazy? He said: because of love.

That is, love was the rope him. Pulled and held and pulled. That's the compromise. All disciples must be sworn to that which is most sacred. Which in general is not communicable to anyone. What is most sacred within me is something that has to be found. Sometimes a person is the image of his father, which was very fair. In front of this image, I commit myself. I won't give up on that, ever in my life. The world will fall apart, but I won't give up. I'll be fair. But nobody is! It doesn't matter. I swore this

pledge before my father's memory. Do you understand? The whole world corrupted, I got to my feet. Because I grabbed the rope. What is the rope? The appointment. Now our culture tells you not to have a rope! What do you think this is? This is an unusual free fall tendency. So it was one of the most important elements: commitment, honoring your oaths. Because it's the only thing that will keep you on your feet when the crises come. Because come, there's no way. Let's talk about nature, the terrestrial geography that has peaks and valleys. We live something

in ourselves part of these terrestrial geographies. Verse 3: Then the illustrious heroes, full of goodness and light. Which is fundamental. Then Plato really hit hard. Because he copied that there, developed this idea as much as he could, as much as he couldn't and a little more. He said: a hero is essential. Do you know why? Let's say you belong to the Greek, Orphic religion, "I believe in Apollo." Okay, Apollo is wonderful. It represents beauty, harmony, hence the name "without poles". If you are a Greek who is inspired by Apollo, but look, Apollo is far from

you. Do you think that in this life you will be like Apollo? It won't work, he's divine, I'm a human being. Is that not enough of an argument for you to be discouraged from growing up? No matter how hard I try, I won't look like him. It's too far. And the citizen who was on your side just now? Who, in a difficult circumstance, channeled the best of what he had and did something great for mankind. He made a great sacrifice, he made a great offering, he dedicated a life to something. Oh no, Fulano is not

Apollo! So-and-so is my next-door neighbor, Dona Tal's son. It's not possible, if he can I can too! Do you understand? If he can, so can I! Just a little while ago I was seeing... this morning I was seeing it in the newspaper a father, who lost a child in that recent attack in Spain and it says the following: i want to hug with a person of islamic religion It was there in a mosque, the one where it was suspected that there had been some involvement with the attack. took the Imam of religion, the current one,

and hugged him and there are photographs of the two embracing "My son is dead, now I want to fight hate." Such a thing is so beautiful. For the level of humanity today, isn't this already a heroic level? AND! This is the kind of thing that had to be remembered, shown, shared. Because when you suffer violence, people respond with hate. Hate makes you equal or violent or similar. You don't fight violence with hate, you resemble it. Because what provoked the violence was hatred. Do you understand? You know what it is? Losing a child! What do I

want now? I want to hug a Muslim. It's what I want to do now. And Nelson Mandela, who spent 26 years in jail and then pardoned everyone and put all the people in his government and reinstated everything. Can you imagine if he hadn't done that? What would have become of the story afterwards? How would it have been completed? Are many people doing this? No! Is a guy that size already a hero? AND! He is perfect? It is not! He must have had a lot of family problems, fought with his wife, separated, married the second one...

But look, the average of humanity would not reach such a level of greatness. Forgiveness, the ability to integrate something like that into your heart. 26 years in a cell, you couldn't do that, why wouldn't you fit? Do you realize that the average of humanity does not reach this? A hero is not perfect. He's not too far away that you lose sight of him. But it's also not too close that it doesn't serve as a reference. The hero is that citizen you say: if he was, then he can be for me too. He recovers one of

the most sacred things, which is faith in humanity. Plato said: there must be a hero. A good State cultivates the memory of its heroes. It is fundamental, it is not an exceptional being. It's a being that, close to the average of humanity, takes a leap. That's enough to remind the man... because reminding man how low we can go, the daily newspaper recalls. But how high? Nobody wants to go down, we want to go up, and this memory is fundamental. So rare are heroes. Then honor your parents... sorry, I skipped one. Verse 4: Then pay homage

to the earthly spirits and show them due respect. That's a Pythagorean thing and it's too Oriental a thing. Because at these times you can really get the suspicion that he's been to India. Because for these people, everything was imbued with life. The earth is impregnated with spirits, with beings that guard everything. So they had such great respect... You realize that curious thing like us today is an inanimate object. This table is crap. I use it anyway. Dilapidate everything, spoil everything. Imagine that humbly this object is serving you and therefore deserves respect. The way you treat

the little things. They believed that everything is endowed with some degree of life. The spirits of earth, water, air, fire, of which medieval alchemy spoke so much Everything is imbued with life. Somehow everything has an essence that is humbly serving you. and that is also in evolution We have a professor of financial economics at New Acropolis who used to say: If you want to know how a person is economically, one of the signs is this, how do you respect your objects at home. The little things. Everything spoiled, everything burst, first defect goes to the trash.

He says: this is one of the things that measure success, balance in financial life I am how I handle my things. Small as they are, the respect you have for them therefore, honor and respect the spirits that are present in nature For them everything is life. This is a theory that later fell into very great disrepute, which is called "pan-teos" What does God in all things mean? Then they created an expression called "pantheism" that became a heresy after the Middle Ages. Pantheism is simply thinking that everything has something sacred and deserves respect. God is everywhere.

That is, this existed within the Pythagorean school. I think it would be nice if it still existed. In all things there is something sacred that deserves respect. Verse 5: Then honor your parents and all members of your family. This seems so obvious, right? It is not! One of these days I was listening to someone talking, it's very fashionable in our historical moment about types of self-help techniques by the way, philosophy has nothing to do with self-help Our historic moment is addicted and sick with selfishness Wouldn't leave my house to teach someone else to do more

stuff on their own, just do it all the time Philosophy is to think a little more about the other. It would alter help, perhaps. A little more fraternity, altruism I don't think it's bad to think about yourself, but manipulating the whole world for our comfort, that is the root of all the world's problems. I'm not exaggerating. The Tibetan tradition says that behind all the problems in the world there is hidden selfishness. We are too selfish. So when he relates to the family, I remembered this episode. The person would say the following, with the best of

good intentions "You must not become alienated at work and fail to honor your family, or stop honoring your friends, always prestige them, you will see that there will be a time when you will need them. When you have a problem, they are the ones you can turn to. When you have a problem, they're the ones you can count on." Wow, what a beautiful thing, everyone applauded. I kept thinking, if I think about family and friends, just because I might need it, This is not friendship, this is a private pension plan! Or is it not? Let's

go and come. "I need it'". For God's sake! It's another human being, there's something divine there! I love it because I love it, not because "I need it." What is that! You realize this business is crazy. It can't be like that. Maybe he needs me, that's good! All the while thinking things might suit me. It's that old Tolstoy story: There are those who go into a forest and only see wood for my fire. That is, "maybe I need it", "maybe it gets cold at home". I'm going to become an ecologist, I'm going to preserve this

forest, because "maybe". Hypothetical imperative: if you cultivate the family, you will have someone to take care of you in the future Come and meet! Categorical imperative: take care of the family because they are human beings and you have an obligation to recognize in another human being a part of the divine, a part of yourself, a part of you. Because we are all like cells of the unit, for what they are and not for what they can give me. Do you understand that this is a delicate thing? I return and reiterate to you, any political, social,

individual or collective problem of society I challenge you to find one where there is no selfishness behind. We get to such a point, I'm sorry, but we manipulate even God Maybe.... I go through a difficulty. Who has to protect me. I've told it in many of my lectures, because I like it a lot, a prayer by an ancient Sufi master, Rabia Davia, strong, I think it's beautiful, which said the following: "Lord my God, if I seek you for the desire of your heaven, cast me out of your heaven." "If I seek you out of fear

of your hell, burn me in your hell." "But if I seek you only for what you are, receive me in the bosom of your glory." Manipulate up to God! Plato used to say that worse than not believing in the gods is believing that you think you can buy them. So be careful with this kind of thing: when he says honor to the family, he really does! Private pension plan, I have nothing against it, as long as you name things right. Family is family, something else is something else, friends are friends, something else is something else.

Beware of selfishness, it is everywhere, especially in one corner, which is within us. And that's where we have to go against him. As I told you, this part is mainly about the importance of honor and the oath which is the summary I made here on the side. At the beginning, he talks about the importance of honor and oath. We close this piece. It is important to keep this idea. Verse 6: Among others, choose as a friend the wisest and most virtuous. You may have heard that Socrates, the philosopher, who was portrayed a lot by Plato,

who was a disciple, except that Plato, when he writes his dialogues, Socrates, who is his character, I think it's more him than Socrates himself. Now there is another book, which tells the story of Socrates, written by another disciple, who is Xenophon. There is a smaller, more human Socrates. I think Plato's Socrates was Plato, Because it is an almost divine being Xenophon at one point shows Socrates meeting a young man, that it was Critobulus, and Socrates comes to him and says: "Go my boy, go after virtuous hearts." Keep around you virtuous hearts You may think: how

selfish? And the non-virtuous hearts, won't he help? He loves everyone, but brings the good ones into his intimacy. Realize? Obvious! Because you have to be there all the time. A deep connection with someone is for you to be a motivation all the time. for that person to grow, and that person a motivation for you to grow. and the ties are established around that, up there. Every bond of deep and true love is a link for us to climb the mountain together. If you slip, I'll be safe, but we'll make it to the top. There's only

one thing I won't do: if you decide to go down, then you go down alone. But if you want to go up, I'll be with you. Take a slide, safe. I slip, you hold. That is, for his intimacy, he brings the virtuous. Amar, loves everyone and tries in some way, through his example, to awaken them to virtue. And the unions, within Plato's books, he himself is inspired a lot by this example of Socrates and says that the unions have to be made around a silent pact... to grow together. To go up always count on me.

To go down, go down alone. This is a very pedagogical recommendation. Anyway, that's the question of friendship, right? Verse 7: Take advantage of his smooth speeches and learn from his acts, which are useful and virtuous. Make sure you are a sum factor in the lives of the people you participate in. He will alert you to something important. You, your friend, the people who live with you more directly, who you brought into your intimacy because it has virtues that are inspiring... It has virtues that are inspiring, but it also has vices. They are dual, they are

in the world, they are not perfect. Taoism says that every light has a shadow behind it. In the material world it is like that. "I'm very organized". If something very complicated happens to you I don't know, lost a job, lost someone you love. Won't it disorganize? Go. Then the clutter is in the shadows lurking at you. Because you are not 100% organized. No matter what happens, I'm organized. No! I mastered most of the cases, but the shadow is there, waiting for an opening to strike. Then you will have dual friends and you yourself are dual.

And when that shadow strikes, do you abandon it? Of course! You join him in the fight of light against shadow. Let me try to make you imagine a situation. A person you know very well, is a friend, is a person who most of the time it is thoughtful, it is balanced, it is lucid. But today it freaked out. Something happened that took the person seriously. She is talking to you. It's as if you saw inside her the friend you know and the tantrum child throwing a tantrum. It's like you split the two and start chatting

with your friend Although the tantrum child who is talking. You ignore. It's like someone else is there. You talk like it's the friend you once knew. This person feels divided and begins to have the strength to fight the tantrum child. She is not one, she is two. I'm going to ignore the tantrum child and go talk to the person I know. I'm giving her strength, I'm calling her up making a call for her to wake up and fight. And the tantrum child, I ignore. At this moment they are there together, it looks like one, but

it is not, there are two. Inside us it's the same thing, it looks like one, but it's not. Are two. There are times when the child will be tantrum And if your friend turns to you and treats you like what he knows you are, he allies with you to fight the tantrum child. You have much greater strength. He's going to talk about it in a way that I think is really beautiful. Check it out. Verse 8: But do not drive your friend away for a small mistake, because power is limited by necessity. Do you know

what that means? A man who no longer has vulgar, gross needs is a being who is no longer even a hero. it's almost like a divine being In our moment, our defects generate limitations, generate needs and our power is limited to those needs. Sometimes he is victorious over them, sometimes he loses. This man's power to remain virtuous is limited by his need at times. The person is in love, lost his girlfriend, the need for this passion, causes his power to be weakened at times. That day, he is out of his mind. He's out of his

mind. That is, the "si" is here and here is his body doing nonsense. It's like you bring him inside you again, calling him to reality. That is, we have limits and these limits sometimes threaten our power. The ideal is that more and more power is imposed over necessity. Our needs coincide with our human nature. But right now we have many needs, that do not coincide at all with the nobility expected of a human being. We are sometimes self-indulgent, sometimes lazy, sometimes selfish, sometimes too passionate. we are attached to ridiculous things, we are vain, and sometimes

these artificial needs give a beating to our power. If I'm your friend, will I abandon you at a time like this? You are an excellent person where the light predominates, but you have a power that at some point will be limited by necessity. At this time count on me! Obvious, always count on me! But at that particular time I will be with you He talks about it very beautifully. That is, this little piece will talk about having a virtuous friend, learning from him, forgiving him, and understand the limits, power, necessity. Here's a little summary: friendship,

how to have a friendship. Cicero speaks highly of this. Friendships are made because of this, they are a pact between what we have best and not a complicity between defects. Complicity between defects, society is full. A bunch of corrupt, dishonest people who band together to steal together. This is not a friendship! Of course! In fact, the first opportunity they get, they divide and steal from each other. This is not a friendship. This is a complicity of defects. It would be good for us to take a look at all the relationships we have in life. For

example, cliques, gossiping groups. Gossip is great for making defense complicity, because it's not fun to gossip alone. You have to have someone who listens, shares and, preferably, passes it on. Lonely gossips have no perspective. It's not that? So, a group of gossips are usually a pact between defects, not virtues. If we were within the Indian tradition, I was going to stop to explain to you how from there karma and collective dharma are born. People unite around their flaws or their virtues. And they attract each other again to be able to pay for the effects that

their defects have generated. Or they attract each other again to continue walking through the virtues they built together. both are pull factors That's another story, it's no use for you to look at me with that little face, which I'm not going to say, because this has nothing to do with me. Phrase 10, that is, it's going to go through another subject, isn't it? You're going to start talking about passions. Verse 10 - Take the following very seriously: you must face and overcome the passions. Remember the centaur. The centaur is the human who rules over the

animal. Trunk of a human, body of a horse, that is, the human who reigns over the animal. The animal is not bad, but it was made to serve you and not the other way around. It is not the rider who carries the horse. This is nonsense. A man who is enslaved by his instincts and passions is a rider carrying a horse on his back. We'll always have elements that interface with the world, which aren't bad, we need them. But they weren't made to make decisions in our lives, they weren't made to dominate. So be careful.

It's not eliminating instincts, they are useful. Not even crushes, they can be fun, they are a good chocolate bar. But be careful that they don't overwhelm you. Take the following very seriously: you must face and overcome the passions Verse 11: First gluttony, then laziness, lust and anger. Everything that, when it rises to your head, makes you carry the horse on your back. That is, who predominates is the animal, no matter the human form. When you use a product from the supermarket, you see if it serves to clean the floor, to wash the dishes, to dust

off. You say: this is a detergent. It's not because of the label, but because of the content. The human label is not enough for you to say: "that's a man" What predominates in there has to be the human. Otherwise it has potential, but it's not there yet. We are human when what predominates in us is human. Right now, we are all very human. Now let's see if someone down there doesn't piss us off in the parking lot. That is, we are fighting to keep the human condition in charge. Which doesn't mean you don't have to

be tough, soft, fair, do whatever it takes. But without losing the center, which by the way can't be fair if you've lost human nature. If you lose human nature, it will be vindictive, just not. Justice demands balance, justice demands impartiality Verse 12: Do not do together with others or alone what makes you ashamed. So anything unworthy, if you don't do it in front of someone, don't do it in front of yourself. Look at this from time to time, because it is so symptomatic and so interesting. My posture when I'm sitting alone at home in my

room the way I handle my objects. It's not for the English to see. There's not a single Englishman within the radius of here to England. That is, me, for myself. Do you know what that means? Self respect. "Respiçare" of knowing how to see that inside me there is something that demands respect. Because otherwise I'm totally a character, created for other people's opinion. And me? Where is my essence? Does she not deserve respect? I have already counted 350 times for you who attend my lectures, one story, but I'll tell 350 more, Why is Pythagoras right and

does reincarnation exist? You are born knowing this. What is the story of that Zen Master that his monastery was falling and the disciples came and said: "Look Master, we're going to have to renovate this monastery because it's going to collapse on our heads." Then the master: "Oops!". These masters are terrible, everything is an opportunity for testing, isn't it? I will put these boys to a test. This with him, thinking. He comes to them and says: "It's true, it's falling, but we don't have the resources!" "You go to the nearest village and steal, because then we

can get resources to renovate the monastery." "Steal everything you can." "Now there's only one condition: don't let anyone see you, because look at the fame of the monastery!" They are generations of respectability. Then steal everything, but on one condition, no one can see you. It generated a deep existential conflict, the disciples "alopram". Is it possible that the master has gone mad? Blah, blah... the end justifies the means... Machiavelli, Zen... all that talk. They were. Then the master gets up and when he enters the monastery there was one who had stayed. He was there doing his

chores, then he said: "My boy, what are you doing?" "Master, I am doing what the Lord has commanded." "What do you mean you're doing what I told you? Look, everyone went to town to steal!" "No, but hold on." "The Lord said not to steal if someone was watching me. I'm watching myself all the time!" It's not that I'm going to steal. Do you know that there is life within you, and life that deserves respect? "Respicere" is knowing how to see. If you don't see that, you won't see anyone else. Will use others. I am permanently

accompanied by my immortal essence and it deserves respect. And if you don't deserve it, nobody will. External respect will only be manipulation. Respect comes from "respicere": to look once more, to know how to see. He's going to talk about that, which is self-respect. Don't do alone what you wouldn't do with others. Why? If I were Robinson Crusoe and I lived on an island, what would I do? Well, this is my moral, these are my principles. You are what you do when the last door closes behind you. It locks behind you. He's going to continue this

little bit, then. We talked about overcoming the passions and developing the modesty that I put here in the summary. Shame is a very different thing from shame. This is Platonic definition. Plato said that shame is a bad thing Let's say I ask her: go there and open the door downstairs, because she locked the entrance and I need you to open up, because there's someone wanting to come to the talk. I am embarrassed. This is bad, a person will stop attending the lecture because you are too embarrassed to open the door. This is bad! Doing what

is bad for a moral fault and not wanting others to know so as not to offend them, this is not shame, this is modesty. I had a moral failure, I will not publish in today's paper. I will try to correct myself secretly, for you I offer the best I have. Or I made a mistake and I say, "I'm ashamed of that." I don't say: "I really did, so what? What do you have to do with it? That's who I am!" Putting your mistakes in the window, that's a lack of modesty. You notice when you make

a mistake and you are ashamed of it, that is, it is modesty, it is a positive shame, you have a chance to correct yourself. And if you make mistakes and are proud, you are lost! Shame is what still gives us an opportunity for reconciliation. Modesty is not pretense. I'm not telling you that I'm perfect, I'm full of flaws. Now, if I invite you to my house, I'm going to put a vase of flowers on the table, not the trash can. The trash can is there in the area. I'm not saying I don't have trash. Of

course I have! I'm not lying to you, nor hiding what I have worse. I am out of dignity and respect, offering you the best I have. I'm not proud of my trash can! But that she is there, she is. I'm not hiding it from you. When you don't have modesty and the possibility of correction, you fall into what people call amorality. The possibility of correction is very small. So one of the things he deals with right now is this issue of modesty. Continuing he will say: And above all respect yourself. We've talked about this quite

a bit, haven't we? Kant uses this concept a lot. He says that the main, the first of the virtues is respect. You don't respect a human being for himself, for his material characteristics. You respect his ability, his humility to bow so that a divine law may come into the world through him. He understands? Let me see, people from my generation must remember that when we were kids... at least I had that in public school, in the first grades... the teacher entered the room, we had to get up. Remember that? Everybody up. One does not stand

up for the person of a teacher, but for the sacrifice that person makes for a profession that in society is not well paid, is not recognized, but he is there sacrificing himself, in order to make some understanding reach those children. You rise before this virtue. No one stands up to a human being. Stand up before the humility that person had of causing a law to come into the world through her. You respect that. For that you have to know how to see. This is "respicere", knowing how to see. Look once more, see in depth. If

you don't have that virtue, you won't have any other. If you are not able to see the most beautiful thing that person manifests, what will you see in them? Appearance. Will use the other as a means, for your pleasure, for your satisfaction, for your interest He says: this is the height of immorality. Using beings as a means and not as an end. If you don't respect them, you don't see them. See a package. That's Emanuel Kant: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals Practice justice with your actions and with your words. That is, coherence Practice justice

with your actions and your words I always tell a story that is a Platonic dialogue called the Gorgias. As in most Platonic dialogues, Socrates was arguing with many people. If so, he was arguing with a sophist. Sophists, I won't go into too much detail, but they were professionals who received money to teach. They taught anything they were paid for. So it wasn't any moral perfection. This sophist, who was arguing with him, was called Callicrates. The main sophist was Gorgias but he was arguing with Callicrates. He comes to him and says the following: look, don't run

away from the dialogue, do you know why? If you convince me you're right, tomorrow you'll find me on the street living what you said. Don't shy away from taking your argument to the end. Because of course, when the sophists were talking to Socrates and they started to lose, they wanted to get away. You have to go all the way to the end because you're right. If you're right, tomorrow you'll find me on the street doing what you're talking about. Have you ever imagined someone having the morals to say something like that? If you convince me

that this thought I've had my whole life, with 53 years of life, is wrong, tomorrow you will find me living something else. It's very consistent for a person to guarantee himself that way, isn't it? I guarantee. Callicles, sorry about the name confusion. He argues with Callicles and he says this. And that's what Pythagoras is saying here, honor. As Helena Blavatsky used to say, honor ??? with practice, be consistent in thought, word, and deed. That is, have I convinced that an idea is true? Tomorrow you have to be in the middle of the street fighting to

live it. Or else there is a certain conflict within you. Between what you reflect, what you think, what you say, what you live. This conflict will make you nobody. One thing cancels out the other and you won't get anywhere. 15. And establishes the habit of never acting thoughtlessly. Within the golden verses this is the most recurrent recommendation. I thought it was funny when I saw that. It is the recommendation that repeats more often. He goes so far as to repeat the same thing 4 times, said in different ways. But always one thing: do not act

without first giving time to reflect and think. Do not act thoughtlessly. It's no use for me to teach you the wonderful moral principles of human history. if when you're going to act you don't think, leaving everything there accumulated in your memory. You do not access. You can know universal wisdom. When it's time to act, don't think. What's the use? Do anything. So this division between knowledge and the application of knowledge requires self-control. It requires you to know how to curb the impulse of passions to think: principles, what do you advise me? And the more you

practice, the faster you become. This is the Platonic concept of courage. Did you know? For Plato, courage does not depend on what you do but based on what you do. Courage is maintaining the domain of reason in situations of fear and desire, pain and pleasure. It's on fire! Ah, I studied all the concepts of fraternity, humanity... But if it's on fire, then nothing, I go out trampling everyone. You know that when it catches fire more people die trampled than burned. That is, fear, I hold panic, maintain the domain of reason. That's a brave citizen. The

animal is wanting to shoot, he holds the reins. Or desire, which is sometimes even worse. Aristotle said that desire is even worse. Do you know why? Fire you know is your enemy and the... What is the name of that fashionable actor, the one who is Angelina Jolie's husband? Brad Pitt. Do you know it's dangerous? Looks, looks interesting... But sometimes it drags you as far out of your life as fire. But Brad Pitt and fire are very different things. Aristotle says: desire is worse. Because you don't recognize him as an enemy and sometimes he ruins your

life as much as fear. He looks like an alido. Maintain the domain of reason! It's not that all the Brad Pitts in the world have to be avoided, no. The moment he betrays your principles, he demands that you lose your dignity, he is as dangerous as fire. Maintain the domain of reason in a situation of fear and desire. This is the Platonic concept of courage. Closing this little piece, I put it for you as a summary: practice of virtues, self-respect, practice justice, think before you act. Practice, respect, reflect. Basically it is the summary of these

three passages that we studied. 16. But he always remembers one fact: that death will come to everyone. 17. And that the good things of the world are uncertain, and as they can be won, so they can be lost. So have no doubts, What is really yours cannot be taken away from you. But what is not yours will be taken from you at some point. Can this here be taken away from me? He can. So it's not mine. So I have to have something that is above that, otherwise my conscience doesn't balance. If I'm fair, it's

very difficult for someone to take that away from me. If I'm honest, if I'm fraternal, it's very difficult. This is really mine and no one will take it away. I have a solid base where my conscience identifies and sits, otherwise I'm in very fluctuating territory. Today I have a job, tomorrow I have nothing. Today I'm famous in Hollywood. That's lost then, two years and you'll go out of style. Today I have such a thing. These things in the world are like that, they obey the terrestrial geography. Terrestrial geography has peaks and valleys. But there's something

in you that's solar, it doesn't fluctuate. And it is there that your conscience is illuminated and established. I often also tell that passage, from that thanatologist doctor, Dr Elisabeth Kubler Ross who treated only terminally ill patients. She talked about it. The more a person has true spiritual values, but remains lucid until the moment of death. Because if you don't have it, death will pull the rug out of it. How does conscience stand without a rug? It doesn't. Then he enters into phenomena of unconsciousness, memory loss, alienation. Because he can't stand the idea of ​​losing everything

he thought was real. Because in the contrast between life and death, you see what is real. What is real? What will you take away. What won't you give? Was not. After a while it dissipates, it goes everywhere, it's nothing! And if there is nothing that falls into that category of reality, your conscience is left without an accent. I did some time ago, I even did that series here with you too who was talking about the book In Search of Wisdom. It's in its entirety on YouTube, there are 15 lectures. It is from a philosopher of

the last century named Sri Ram. There's a passage where he says: have you built your boat yet? Build your boat. Do you know what this is? He says: this is a boat, your conscience is inside it, sailing through the world Only that boat you will lose. How will your conscience continue sailing? A concept you've thought about in depth, make sure it's true. I lived justice, I know it is true. I lived fraternity, I lived a feeling of love that is true, legitimate. A concept that you have of this kind, deeply thought about and experienced, is

a boat. Your conscience no longer sinks. She will enter there and will sail for eternity. I think it's too beautiful. He says: look, if you haven't built your boat, you haven't done anything about your life's essential mission yet. Build your boat. I think that's wonderful. I'm also repeating it to you 365 times because Plato said he has reminiscences. It has. 18. Bear with patience and without murmur your part, whatever it may be. 19. Of the sufferings that destiny, determined by the gods, casts on human beings. There it is very important because the view of Pythagoras,

once again, is identical to the view of ??? in this aspect. Which is the law of karma, cause and effect. It's not that there are gods who are there on Olympus, capricious, who keep throwing rays and flowers over men. It's simply cause and effect If what happens to man is cause and effect, means that it is neither punitive nor vindictive, it's educational. If somehow I have selfishness and life throws me a difficult situation, what is life wanting? It's not that you pay the price for the selfishness you've committed is that you correct, trim the edges

and not be selfish. Karma is educational, pedagogical and not vindictive. He doesn't want to hit you. Once you understand that something he's trying to say, you're probably over him. We have a terrible difficulty understanding this. By the way, be very careful with the way that word is used in society: it's my karma. Have you seen? A person is there going through a difficult situation, he makes no effort to overcome it, does nothing, fully accommodated. It's my karma. Like my karma? No! That's just laziness, it's your complacency. It's like climbing a ladder, here comes a person

who has taken a fall and is rolling. You approach like this from the side and let her pass. It's her karma. For God's sake! It might be her karma to roll over, but it's my karma to be here and be able to do something. If I don't, I'm responsible for that. That is, do you know why we confuse this word so much? Because we are like this with each other. Our system, for example penal, a modern prison, is it educational or vindictive? Do you understand? People do not understand the reaction process as a process that

regenerates but a process that punishes, that punishes. When sometimes something goes wrong, people say: I want justice! Are they wanting that person to regenerate or are they wanting that person to be slaughtered? Realize that today it's a soap opera to talk about it, because there is a whole set of hate lovers. When you say something like that, they say: you are defending impunity. I'm not. Justice knows how to be tough when it has to be tough and it knows how to be soft when it has to be soft. Even Christ, when he had to whip

the merchants in the temple, he did it. No pity or pity. Otherwise they did not understand that they could not desecrate the temple. If they understood with a hug, he would have given a hug. But their language was a whip, it was a whip. But it was an act of love all the same. Or do you think he was angry with the temple merchants? A being of this level has no hate, does not act. Inside is always purity, always balance. Outside, as necessary. As a child, it is also an example that I often repeat a

lot. The child is going to put his finger in the socket, do you kiss him? That's a demagogue. She will die, but she will die adoring me. It's not that? It's a demagogue! Love gives what is necessary for the good of the loved one, and sometimes it is hard. But it does not include hate. Hate does not grant exemption nor does it give the possibility of regeneration. You must have noticed by now. I've seen this happen several times in my life. A person made a mistake. So-and-so goes there and tells her blah blah blah blah

blah She says: yeah, you're right, I'm sorry, I'll get better Then, in another circumstance, if the person makes the same mistake, another citizen goes and talks to him that same blah blah blah. With the same words sometimes. This person is offended. What's that? What are you thinking that I am? How do you talk to me like that? You can write the script, the script, for both to say the same thing, one offends the other not. Have you seen this? The same words spoken by people who have different intentions inside one hurts and the other doesn't

That person feels that there is love and interest in them and that the other is wanting to get even. But the script, the script can be just the same They can even rehearse the tone of voice to speak the same way. One offends and the other doesn't, depending on what he wants for the other, on the feeling behind it. We are more intuitive than we think. This is something that if you stop to look at it, you will see. We are much more intuitive than we think. 20. But try to ease your pain as much

as possible. In other words, don't join that group of "it's my karma and I'm suffering, which is just like that." Is suffering good? No! Pain is educational. Let me learn what she wants to tell me because otherwise she'll mutilate me. This is of no use to me or anyone else. I'm not morbid, I'm not a masochist. Let me see what I have to learn from this to get out of this. The professor who brought New Acropolis to Brazil, Michel Echenique, had an expression: If you went in through the drain, out through the drain, my dear,

and out quickly. Every pipe has two sides. It went in through the pipe, it comes out of the pipe quickly. He doesn't stay in there lamenting: "I went down the drain". Quickly get out of the pipe! Then you already know what a pipe is. I don't go in anymore, I learned. That is, he takes pain as an educational element and reacts, he does not settle for it and remains as victimization. By the way, oh my God in heaven, what a sad historical era ours is! The most common thing nowadays is that you find people talking,

one telling a greater misfortune than the other. And I have the impression that they compete with each other. The other says: "because I suffered", "my father did such a thing". Oh the other one says: "you don't know anything, let me tell you what happened to me!" I have the impression that they are competing with each other. The greater the disgrace, the greater the status, because it is the society of victimization. I don't want to hear about anyone's misfortunes, that's beside the point. Let's see what we have the best. I'm not saying that you don't ever

need to vent to a friend, to work some element. But it doesn't make this kind of subject the tonic of your life. Don't want to pass the image of the poor thing. This is not healthy. It's not healthy for you to want to be pitied. It would be healthy if we wanted to be worthy of admiration, above all of inspiration. May people through us become a little better. Wouldn't that be healthy? It is not healthy to want to be pitied. There is an old prayer that says: Lord my God, have mercy on me. But please

don't let me see. I don't like being pitied against me. So have it, but have it in disguise. Have, but look, hidden. This is worthy. Do you realize how this word, dignity, has a wonderful weight and is strongly associated with the human condition? 21. And remember that fate does not send many misfortunes to good people. Understand this, cause and effect. Of course, sowing is free, but harvesting is mandatory. Then you will have a harvest equivalent to what you sowed to educate and awaken you. There will come a certain time that you will realize that the

harvest is what it takes to make you grow. And you will consider that life's difficulties are not bad. It is important for you to understand this vocabulary that is universal for ancient philosophies The good is what makes you grow, which is not necessarily the same as the pleasant. So sometimes we look back and say: what was the best moment of mine? I remember a difficult moment, but one that made me grow a lot. It wasn't pleasant at the time, but if it weren't for him I wouldn't be what I am. There comes a certain time

when I no longer consider things as misfortunes Because, you see, here we are talking about the good ones. The good commit themselves to the pain of others, that is, the tendency is for them to have more pain than a person who is not so good. The better the human being, the more he commits himself to humanity. It's not that? So he no longer has just his pain, but he already has the pain of a lot of people, but he no longer regards pain as a misfortune. but as an opportunity to seek solutions, to seek answers,

to grow and to help people grow. It is said that Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, at the age of 15 said: I will not rest until I release humanity from pain. Do you know what a proposal of this size is? He did not regard this as a disgrace, considered it an opportunity for growth and service Why do the good have few misfortunes? Because they no longer consider things as misfortunes, but as opportunities for growth and service. of growth and say more and more More and more! Because of course a good one, he's going to commit to

ten people; a better one, with a hundred. There's more trouble! And the very good, with millions! More trouble. But if they have few misfortunes, it is because they are not considering problems as misfortunes, but as opportunities for growth and service Well moving on, we are already closing... 22. What people think and say varies greatly; now it's a good thing, then it's a bad thing. 23. Therefore, do not blindly accept what you hear, nor hastily reject it. Don't wait, we said that about friends when we talked about them a little while ago. Don't expect a person

to be linear because it still doesn't have the level to be so far above terrestrial geography. So, sometimes he will say something that is objectionable, debatable, a point... and you have to consider, analyze and submit to its principles to later judge whether or not you believe in it. Oh I can always trust So-and-so. It's going to be bad. But Fulano is a friend I've known for 30 years, he's always good. Nothing is "always" in the manifested world. Manifested world is the world of one and the other. That is, there will be no occasion that you

can spare yourself from reflecting, submitting to your principles and have an own an own sentence. We are comforters. Let me tell you something that you might already know. Do you know who the sloth's grandmother is? The grand matriarch? It's mental laziness. Then comes psychic laziness and then physical laziness, which is the most harmless of all. Not getting out of bed in the morning is an easy thing to fix. But mental laziness, which is that which does not want to think, does not want to reflect, who just wants to buy a ready-made pack of society's concepts,

which is just pressing play want to buy the software vida and just press play, that's horrible! So I want you to tell me that Pythagoras' verses are good. Because then I read everything, I absorb it, I don't have to judge, analyze, establish my own criteria It won't work, my dear! You won't be able to put a quality seal on things that you can swallow without chewing. By the way, the quality seals, we have seen recently, which are not so reliable. Sometimes they are pre-made. So each situation you will have to analyze, with its criteria, with

its being and submitting to its principles. But he is a friend, he has never failed me! He is a human being. You will not disregard it, nor abandon it, but the elements that life offers you, will have to be analyzed one by one. The same person in different situations In the same situation at different times One by one! You will have to stop, analyze and apply your principles and say: yes, not this one. One of the things that I found curious, with this professor Michel Echenique, gave speeches to crowds, then opened for questions and people

asked very similar questions and he answered totally different things Sometimes it has more to do with what he feels about the intention of the person asking, the need of the person asking, rather than what the person said. I think it's funny because once there was a time, my whole life, I was a girl, I entered the New Acropolis I was 24 years old, I was a girl. People asked him things, he was in a posture that was like this, looking at the floor and I was very curious to see what he was doing. The person

was talking and he was like this. Then one day I went to ask. When people ask you, why are you standing like that, looking at the ground? Do you keep trying to remember the principles of something? No, I keep trying to empty my mind to feel the person. I thought that was the best! I am emptying my mind to feel the person. This person asking this is not the same as anyone else asking this! Let me feel! I thought this deal was fantastic. He is a mature philosopher, he was nothing exceptional, just a philosopher. But

I had this maturity of knowing that each situation is different. You can't use mental laziness. Anyone who asks me that, I'll answer that. I won't, no. And sometimes the question is the same and you can have several answers. Have you ever seen a homeopathic doctor? You arrive at his office with the flu and I have the flu. We are going to come out with two different medications. Do you know why? Because he will ask whose son you are, where you live, that is, he will find you a snooper. But he is going to give the

medicine to a complete human being, who has this symptom. I always give an example of Buddha. A citizen arrives and asks: Master, does God exist? No. Then comes the other: Mestre Does God exist? Yes! The other asked: But does God exist? Perhaps. Then Ananda, who was by his side, was his disciple, said: Buddha has gone crazy, poor thing! Master, what is it, the Lord is being contradictory. All three asked the same thing. Yes, but the first one had a spirit of contradiction, whatever I said he would think otherwise. The second trusted me so I could

tell the truth. And the third was so defiant that there was no point in saying anything, you have to look it up and see for yourself. So I answered according to each one. And finally 24. But if falsehoods are spoken, back off gently and arm yourself with patience. In other words, do not ally yourself with injustice, do not become its accomplice. Doesn't mean you're going to stop and make a moralistic speech and piss off anybody. but simply that he will not participate in what goes against his principles. Just the fact that you have this discreet

and subtle posture of not being in that place, not feeding that kind of thing. Do you know what will happen? In a little while when you arrive, that subject will no longer be talked about. There are people who are like that, people who, just by entering the environment, everyone gets ready in their chair. There are people who, when they enter the café, the subject changes. No, look at So-and-so. Let's change, let's circulate... look at So-and-so. Without that person never having said: "don't talk about it in front of me", nor made a moralistic speech. That in

general when he speaks he is not so reliable. But for what she is, for her presence, for her integrity. She breaks the mood! There are people who sometimes find it funny because... I've seen it happen. People are like: "let's have a happy hour", "let's go to the bar and do something like that". Then Fulano arrives and they go around him. And invite him and him and him and him... Skip the Fulano discreetly If so-and-so goes to happy hour, it will break the mood because we want to talk nonsense and so-and-so.... He never said that we

shouldn't talk nonsense, but it has nothing to do with him. Sometimes people say: if I'm good I'll be alone. No! You will be with good people or people when they want to be good. Because what I've seen happen is that when someone has a serious difficulty and needs help in life, he doesn't look for his happy hour partner, he looks for you. What do you want to be remembered for? We have to choose what we want to be remembered for, what we want to be associated with and be firm about it, be consistent with it.

So that's our first passage, our first part. You see it's dense. They are relatively simple things to understand, but dense to experience. We're going to have two more little pieces of these. Any questions, any doubts? The golden verses of Pythagoras are very easy to find, free on the internet, you can find them everywhere. As for reflecting on one by one and finding a way to bring this into our lives, we don't always do it. I hope you have the opportunity. Each week we will have three lectures. Every week I leave here, and read and reread

this little piece of paper and the summary I wrote. And, think how am I going to do it, to somehow bring this into my life in some way ??? ? That one thing is for sure, Pythagoras wasn't kidding. He swears what he said, that's something that leads a man to good It's the least we can wish for in our life, that it be conducted for good. So that's it, folks. If there are no questions... Does anyone have any questions? Can. Just a question that I was a little in doubt, in the 19 that says: Of

the sufferings that destiny, determined by the gods, casts on human beings. Because, in my mind, the fate determined by the gods... They regard laws as gods. If you were in India they wouldn't speak gods, they would speak for karma, for dharma, but for Greece laws are gods. It's not that there is an arbitrary being that wants something for you but the law of cause and effect to them is an arm of God stretched out over the universe. She is divine. The law is like a being. India in this sense distinguishes a little. So she calls

law law and gods gods. But for Greece, all the laws of the universe are gods. All of them are gods. There is no arbitration. They are divine and perform their role. India also has those who arbitrate the laws, doesn't it? They are called lipikas, lipitakas. But it makes it easier for us to understand why gods are here and laws are here. In Greece everything is divine. But it is not an arbitrary choice, made by an idle god who keeps sending lightning from above Olympus. Which, by the way, if you stop to analyze even the etymology

of the words shows that. Olympus comes from "limbus", that which emerged from limbo That is, Olympus is something that is to be conquered by each of us, bring our consciousness out of limbo, bring it to the fore. Placing the divine at the top of the mountain. Symbolically speaking of the process New Acropolis is an international, independent and non-profit philosophical movement based on Culture, Philosophy and Volunteering.