Be Vigilance

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Se Vigilancia
--por Gangaji

La vigilancia a menudo se malinterpreta. Por lo general, lo que pasa por vigilancia es un control cuidadoso por parte del superyó. Estoy seguro de que eres muy consciente de este tipo de control: "Oh, no debí haberlo dicho de esa manera. No debí haberlo hecho de esa manera. No debí haber pensado eso. Debí haberme rendido". "Este seguimiento no es vigilancia. Es una imitación de la vigilancia. La palabra vigilancia proviene de la palabra vigil, que significa mantener la vigilia. Velar es una forma de adoración. La vigilancia es una vigilia sagrada, tranquila y pacífica ante la llama de la verdad. (...)
Es un entendimiento erróneo que implica que la vigilancia sea una carga. La carga real es la negación de tu existencia como conciencia misma. La idea de que la vigilancia es una carga proviene del concepto de práctica espiritual. Se te exhorta a que practiques. Tienes que mantener tu práctica. No sé de dónde viene la traducción de la palabra práctica, pero es una mala traducción, porque en inglés práctica significa algún tipo de preparación para un evento real. Practicas para el partido de fútbol. Practicas para tu recital. No puedes practicar para la vida. La vida es ahora. Así que no uso la palabra práctica en términos de vigilancia. Estoy hablando de ser vigilancia. Ser eso ahora. Ya eres eso. Reconócete a ti mism@ como eso, y mantente alerta a tu verdadera naturaleza. Luego ve. Sin buscar nada, ve. [...]
"Esperar y ver" no significa necesariamente sentarte en tu sofá y no moverte nunca. Tampoco significa necesariamente que te levantes del sofá y te muevas. Es mucho más profundo que eso. Una vida activa puede vivirse como vigilancia, y una vida inactiva puede vivirse como vigilancia. Habrá muchas percepciones. Habrá muchas revelaciones y experiencias profundas. En medio de todo, vigila lo que no se ha movido, lo que siempre ha sido hogar, lo que siempre ha sido radiante e impoluto. Habrá percepciones aún más profundas. Disfrútalas a medida que vienen, despídete de ellas a medida que pasan, y mantente atento a lo que no se ha movido, lo que no se ha perdido por la experiencia de la pérdida y lo que no se ha aumentado por la experiencia de la ganancia.
Ser vigilancia. La alegría más profunda de la experiencia humana es estar alerta. No es una tarea. Es la dicha misma. Una dicha que está despierta y atenta a lo que nunca se mueve, a lo que siempre está presente. Sé eso. Entonces verás a esta entidad llamada tu vida desplegarse exquisitamente, como se abre una flor. Cuando comience a morir, morirá exquisitamente, como muere una flor. No necesitas sumergirlo en cera para que permanezca para siempre en una determinada etapa.


Extraído de Freedom and Resolve: The Living Edge of Surrender.
Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Qué significa para ti ser vigilancia? ¿Puedes compartir una historia personal de un momento en que estabas vigilando? ¿Qué te ayuda a estar atento a lo que no se ha movido?


Gangaji es autor y maestro espiritual nacido en Estados Unidos.
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What does being vigilance mean to you? Can you share a personal story of a time you were being vigilance? What helps you be vigilant about what has not moved?

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Rodolfo Caballero
Dec 28, 2022
Just yesterday, I had the experience of the deep alert and then I can see more clare the life. Before, I lost this conection, but, thanks to you for remember me how I can come back at THIS....
BC
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I had the experience of the deep alert and then I can see more clear the life. Just yesterday thanks to you for remember me how I can come back
ST
Dec 27, 2022
Wow! Gangagi's words have opened some inner eye into me. There is so much in this piece for me to think about or not think about and allow my self to experience. I seem to remember times in my life when I was less of an I and much more or completely immersed in just being. I guess that has been when on what we would call a vacation and out in natural settings. So much inner space to explore or perhaps ignore.
I will go to beach today and bury my naked self in sand. And, who knows, perhaps I will Be vigilance.
SU
Dec 27, 2022
Self sovereignty is vigilance. The quest is Who Am I ? Being soul conscious is to be vigilant. It's this faithful understanding-eternal soul is pure, pious, pristine and peaceful. It's orginal in built nature is full of joy, freedom, power, quite
compassion and abundance. Equanimity in equilibrium. Going within helps to realise our innermost core reflected in brightness of sun and tranquil calmness of moon in the service of all living beings. An earnest honest desire backed by meditation with persistence, perciverance and responsibility is the way forward as taught in our scriptures and the self sovereign saints/sages. Aspire for an unexpected friendship to lasting relationship with your own true self. No comparison or analyses.The experience may be unique and different for every seeker. Maturity opens the tresure of borderless truth slowly and steadily. Reveals the real and hides the obvious- physical body and evergreen Soul. I am still a student.
BA
Dec 27, 2022
For me, this is another form of mindfulness. Being awake to what is happening in this moment is mindfulness and vigilance both. This is what I strive for and am lacking so many times in life. So being vigilance, being mindful, meditating on the NOW in this moment is key to living in a happy existence. Even pain and suffering in the moment but also knowing that this will change as well as nothing ever remains the same. We must suffer to also learn what happiness is.
TE
Dec 24, 2022
I often seem to use the word "Awareness" in the same way this author uses "Vigilance", but the same challenges arise for both of those words: a) That some opposite (non-awareness? non-vigilance?) is implied to also exist, and b) There is someone who IS (or isn't) Aware or Vigilant, and perhaps makes that a practice. It seems to me that the infinite Awareness, or bliss of BE-ing has NO actual opposite, only our temporary distractions from it as long as we see ourselves as separate. From the perspective of separation we can appreciate and value Awareness (or not), exercise and practice Vigilance (or not). But perhaps a clearer perspective may be that Awareness actually applies to the larger wholeness within which all of this transient dream of duality plays out?
DD
Dec 23, 2022
Thank you for this wonderful essay. Vigilance seems be what Krisnamurti refers to as pure observance or choiceless awareness, which to me is pure open unadulterated awareness in the present to what is happening, which is what each of us essentially is and we go away from. I like that the author says we are vigilance and says vigilance is sacred and is bliss. There can be vigilance while active and inactive. I am being vigilance when I am aware and present to and with what is happening, free of judgments, prejudices and preconceived notions of any kind. If I am ever that, I am for moments at a time. What helps me be vigilant about what has not moved is knowing that all creation is moving and not moving all the time. For me to be vigilant with creation is for me to be vigilant of what is moving and not moving, what has moved and what has not moved.
KP
Dec 23, 2022
I love this reframe being vigilance as keeping vigil in worship/peace. Thank you. I will need to meditate on this to see what this reframe brings up. I have layers of lived experience of vigilance related to trauma and work with survivors of abuse too, so I have layers of unlearning to do.
JP
Dec 23, 2022
To me vigilance is to remain awake and aware of the reality unfolding ritght in front of my outword and inword eyes. When I keep my outword and inward eyes clear I make wise choices. Light of vigilance helps me see things as they are and not to be deluded.
It is very important to me to remain awakened and aware of the physical, mental, emotional, behavioral and relational dimensions of my life. When I am vigilant abou how I relate to these dimensions of my life everyday lifivin becomes joyful and blissful.
As I have mentioned before awakening and awareness helps me live blissfully. Light of vigilance helps me to live mindfully and fully.
Namaste!
Jagdish P Dave