11.- THE METAPHOR OF THE TOWERS

This article appears in the blog of Paulo Coelho, which deals with the towers as a partnership or as a metaphor.

For me, every human being is a tower, our consciousness is the connection between the inner world and environment around us. In the same way that consciousness is represented as a flashlight in the metaphor of the museum, every human being has the light, or awareness that can help other people wake up and turn on the light inside of them.

The Tower

The eternal hourglass keeps on turning and from it’s sands emerge The Tower.
Symbolically the tower represents the axis of the world since it unites heaven and earth.
In the Bible, the first tower is the Tower of Babel - built out of human pride and fiercely destroyed by God. From this destruction came the plurality of languages which dispersed humanity. Indeed, since the fall of Adam and Eve never had humanity tried to build again the axis of the world and this first endeavor - being against God’s will - is fiercely fought against.
In Christianity specifically, the tower would always represent humans vanity and misfortune. Yet the lighthouse - which is a tower, emerging from the waves with a light on its top - would have a positive connotation since it’s light would guide the souls in the good direction.
It was only in the middle ages that towers would flourish in Europe since they would harbor the bells that would call in the population.
In China, the tower also has a positive connotation since wise men could better study the heavens. They would then serve as channels of good energy to the earth.
Now you take the floor, what do you associate with the tower?

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Namasté

Nan Miojo Rengue Kio

Manuel Damian

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PRACTICES TO BEGIN

There are things that happen in our life with the purpose of teaching lessons. Sometimes things happen because, we have to practice what we know. And in the end, there are things that happen with the purpose change our life, to help to do the legend of our life a reality.

Practicing meditation helps every person to have more consciousness. To see the things that happen, and to know the reason of the things. Meditations help to solve problems of the life. The world need people with consciousness. We have to live with the practice of meditation, to find peace and happiness. Only with 15 minutes all days you can start to live a new life.

Here are two ways to begin.

The first exercise is to sit relaxed with a sheet and a pen. The second step is to observe the thoughts that come to mind, and make us aware of them, the goal is to remain silent and stop the flow of thoughts flowing unconsciously. To accomplish this, we must write on the sheet, any thoughts that go through the mind spontaneously. We can check at the end of 10 minutes, all ideas that come spontaneously, while the purpose of the exercise was not thinking. The final goal of this exercise is to become aware of the mental body.

The second exercise is to count numbers in sets of 10. The numbers are placed at the end of each breath, after introducing air into the lungs, there is a number, the next step is to remove air from the body. There is another number. The mind will try to think about the next issue of the count while you are inhaling or exhaling, the objective of this exercise is only thinking about the next number when you finish exhaling or inhaling. In this way, the mind must be watching only the breathing until the change between inhalation and exhalation and vice versa.

Namasté
Nan Miojo Rengue Kio
Manuel Damian
http://despertardeconcienciayaccion.blogspot.com/
http://awakeningofconsciousness.blogspot.com/
bulnesmanuel@gmail.com