All human beings,
All of us,
From the beginning of time,
Have experienced confusion in one way or another.
Confusion is the lack of clarity of how we can live well on our path on this earth.
And so,
Throughout time,
Leaders have established ways in which we can plant or direct our thoughts.
And religions and philosophies have appeared,
Traditions.
And like this,
Throughout all of the times of humanity,
There have always been other people telling us the best way to live,
The best way to act.
And this is how the conditioning started to be born.
Everything that has conditioned our way to see life the way we think.
And we have arrived in this point where what confuses us the most as humanity is our thoughts,
Our scattered thoughts.
We're going to speak about a teaching from an elder.
An indigenous elder from the Putumayo rainforest,
Amazon rainforest in Colombia.
When I lived with the indigenous people,
I was in my search.
But I had so much information,
So many ways and conditioning ideas that came from so many sources.
That I experienced very huge overwhelm in my thinking.
Because I didn't know what I should follow to live a good life.
And I tried many different things.
That came from many different traditions and religions and writers.
Until there came a moment where I felt lost.
And one time I asked an elder,
I said,
Grandfather,
What is the best way to direct my thoughts?
Because I feel like I'm going crazy.
And the elder smiling,
He gave me a teaching that changed my life.
Hijo,
Hay dos maneras poderosas de llevar el pensamiento.
The elder said,
My child,
There are two powerful ways to direct or to do with your thoughts.
¿Cuáles son,
Abuelo?
And what are they?
I said.
La primera.
The first one.
La más poderosa.
The most powerful one.
Es silencia tu mente.
Is to make silence in your mind,
He said.
Haz silencio,
Hijo.
Make silence.
Y yo le pregunté,
Abuelo,
¿qué quiere decir hacer silencio en mi mente?
And I said,
Grandfather,
What does that mean,
To make silence in my mind?
Entonces yo le dije,
Abuelo,
¿no pensar?
So I asked,
Grandfather,
Is it to not think?
El abuelo dijo,
No.
And the elder said,
No.
El pensar es natural,
Es fluido.
He said,
Thinking is natural,
It's fluid.
El pensamiento siempre va a fluir como el aire que entra y sale.
Thinking,
Your thoughts will always flow naturally like the air that comes in and goes out.
Simplemente sucede.
It simply happens.
Así que el pensamiento es una vibración que está fluyendo a través nuestro.
So our thoughts are a vibration that is flowing through us.
En sí,
Silenciar la mente.
In itself,
To make silence in your mind.
No consiste en pelearse con ese acto natural de la vida.
Does not consist of fighting with this natural act of life.
Consiste en el enfoque.
It consists of focus.
Solamente enfoca tu pensamiento en algo que se sienta bien.
Simply focus your mind,
Focus your thoughts on something that feels good.
Escucha el viento,
Dijo el abuelo.
Listen to the wind,
Said the elder.
Y el pensamiento va a retornar.
And the thoughts will come back.
Es normal.
It's normal.
Pero retorna tú también a escuchar el viento.
But you return once again to listen to the wind.
O los pájaros.
Or the birds singing.
O el río.
Or the river.
O si estás en tu casa,
Puedes poner una música bonita,
Suave y escuchar esa melodía.
Or if you are at home,
Play some music that you can listen to,
That is soothing,
That you like,
That you can listen to.
Es encontrar un punto de enfoque.
It is to find a point of focus.
Pero que sea divertido.
But make it fun,
Make it enjoyable.
Que no se trate de hacer un esfuerzo que antes te va a agotar.
It's not about making an effort that will drain you.
Que sea divertido.
Make it fun.
Asegúrate de que disfrutes ese sonido que estás escuchando.
Make sure that you are enjoying the sounds that you're listening to.
O puedes enfocarte en tu respiración,
Que el aire entra y sale.
You can focus also on your breath,
Feel the air that comes in and goes out.
Pero disfruta el acto de respirar.
And enjoy the act of breathing.
Ponte consciente del deleite de respirar.
Become conscious of the natural delight of breathing.
Y entonces la mente se va silenciando poco a poco.
And so the mind starts to calm down and become silent little by little.
Y lo que va a suceder.
And what will happen.
Es que vas a empezar a sentir paz.
Is that you will begin to feel peace.
Vas a empezar a sentir un bienestar que viene de todas partes.
You will begin to feel well-being that comes from everywhere.
Vas a empezar a sentir amor.
You will begin to feel love.
Así que enfócate hasta que sientas paz.
So focus until you feel peace.
Y ese es un uso fino que le puedes dar a tu pensamiento.
And this is a fine use that you can give to your thoughts.
Silenciarlo a través del enfoque.
To silence it through focus.
Así ese silencio se vuelve en tu refugio.
And in this way the silence becomes your refuge.
Y le pregunté al abuelo.
¿Y cuál es la otra manera?
Porque usted dijo que había dos maneras de darle un uso fino al pensamiento.
And I asked the elder.
And what's the other way?
You mentioned two ways to focus or make use,
The best use of my thoughts.
Porque a veces es difícil silenciar la mente.
Because sometimes it's hard to silence my mind or my thoughts.
O es difícil enfocarla.
Or it's difficult to focus it.
Y le dijo el abuelo.
Entonces si te es difícil enfocarte,
Por lo menos piensa bonito.
So the elder said if it's hard for you to focus,
Then at the very least think beautifully.
Pensar bonito.
Think beautifully.
Es alinear tu pensamiento con tu corazón.
This means to align your mind or your thoughts with your heart.
Podemos traer memorias de cosas bonitas.
We can bring memories of beautiful things.
O podemos crear visiones de cosas que soñamos para nuestra vida.
Or we can create visions of things that we dream of for our life.
Siempre podemos sintonizar en algo hermoso.
We can always attune ourselves and resonate with something beautiful.
Como cuando estamos viendo la televisión.
It's like when we are watching TV.
Que empiezan a pasar muchos canales de programas que no nos gustan.
That different channels and possibilities appear.
Many that we don't like.
Pues yo tengo el control,
Yo elijo en que programa sintonizar.
But I have the remote control and I choose what I want to watch.
Asimismo nuestro pensamiento.
In the same way is our thoughts.
Podemos elegir que pensar.
We can choose what to think.
Cuando llegan pensamientos desagradables.
When unpleasant thoughts come up.
No sintonizamos en ellos.
We don't stay there watching and feeding that.
Los dejamos pasar.
We let them pass.
Y entonces esas dos maneras de direccionar nuestro pensamiento.
Son la forma más hermosa y elevada para usar nuestra mente.
So these two ways of directing our thoughts.
They are the most elevated and beautiful things that we can do to make a fine use of our thoughts.
Siempre al principio es un poco más difícil.
Always at the beginning it's a little bit harder.
Pero cuando lo hacemos y lo hacemos y lo convertimos en un hábito.
But as we do it and do it and make this into a habit.
Con el tiempo.
Vamos a vernos dueños y señores de nuestra propia vida.
We will see ourselves as owners of our own life.
Silenciar la mente te da mucho poder personal.
Silencing our mind gives us a lot of personal power.
Porque nuestro pensamiento fluyendo en la densidad nos gasta mucha energía.
Because our thinking flowing in density drains a lot of our energy.
Y cuando nos enfocamos esa energía se queda con nosotros.
But when we focus that energy stays within us.
Y cuando pensamos bonito.
And when we think beautifully.
Esa energía es una vibración muy elevada que va resonando adentro nuestro.
That energy is a very elevated resonance that begins to stay within us and impregnates our being.
Entonces nos vamos a ver por la vida simplemente más felices,
En paz.
So we will see ourselves going through life simply more happy and at peace.
Pero eso nace de direccionar nuestro pensamiento.
But this is born from directing our thoughts.
Muchas gracias.
Much.
