The Mastery of Love: with Don Miguel Ruiz. Diane: Don Miguel, I understand that you were born into a family of healers - your mother was a curandera and your grandfather a nagual. When I was a kid it was an everyday thing. But I was very, very skeptical. I became even more so when I went to medical school to become a surgeon. It was in my last year of medical school that I crashed my car and had an out- of- body experience. That changed everything. After that experience I began looking for answers. I went searching right away, because I had had the most incredible experience, but there were no words to explain it. It changed my life completely because I understood that my everyday life was not exactly as I had believed. My grandfather used to tell me that life was a dream. He also said that when people finally realized this, the dream could be changed, and then humanity would change. After my accident, everything I had witnessed as a child started making sense. You know that it's one thing to hear about something and another thing to have an experience. After the accident the things my grandfather said were no longer theories for me, they were facts. I knew that I was not my physical body. I experienced myself as a force that moves the physical body. A force that is hard to talk about, but we can see its results and manifestation in everything. It is this force that opens the flowers and it is the same force that moves the stars and moves the atoms. That is what I am and what you are. There is no difference between the force that opens a flower and the force that makes us grow up and the force that makes us grow old. After the accident, my point of reference was changed radically. About don Jose Ruiz; About Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. 64 quotes from The Mastery of Love. Standard YouTube License. Don Miquel Ruiz Desire. Don Miguel Ruiz - Mastery of Love - The Magical Kitchen - Duration: 4:06. The Mastery of Love & The Voice of Knowledge - by Don Miguel Ruiz. The Mastery of Love & The Voice of Knowledge. Don Miguel Ruiz, Las Vegas, NV. This is the official don Miguel Ruiz, author of 'The Four Agreements' Facebook. In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and. The Mastery of Love brings forth more Toltec wisdom and reaffirms the. The Four Agreements teach us guidelines in achieving this mastery of love, and any other mastery the Toltecs. In The Fifth Agreement, don Miguel Ruiz joins his son don Jose Ruiz to offer a fresh perspective on The. I saw that we are used to illusion, or maya. I saw that we misperceive everything. And it is this misperception, this distortion that creates all the problems for humanity. The Toltec Lineage. Then I went even deeper and tried to understand the philosophy of my own lineage. What was left was common sense. This applies to every philosophy, or any human expression. If we take the superstition and mythology from all the philosophies and all the religions, we discover that the underlying message is the same. Because all information comes from inside of us, from Spirit. Diane: Don Miguel, why is it so hard to constantly live in the vibration of love? Don Miguel: We can say that when we were born Love was our normal tendency. If you can, remember how you used to be, or how a baby is before he learns to speak. Babies don't have words to describe what comes out of them when they see their mother, or father, their toys or their pets — they don't know this is Love because they don't have language. But they don't need to know words in order to feel, and what they feel is much more than any poet or writer can explain about Love. Then, as we grow older, we begin to be told how we should be. And we become afraid to be ourselves. We start repressing our emotions — we repress things that used to be very natural, and we feel ashamed about our feelings. We believe that Love will make us vulnerable. We become afraid to be hurt. But it is not Love that hurts us. It is all the lies that we believe that cause us to fear. When we finally stop believing those lies — when we finally have the courage to allow ourselves to feel — we will recover the capacity to Love that was always there. If we practice, we can win the war against the lies. We can become masters — that's why I call it the Mastery of Love. Not because we learn this — no! It is part of the evolution of the human emotional body. Mastery can happen to any of us if we stop being afraid to be ourselves. Diane: That's a big challenge when people have suffered experiences that have hurt them deeply. Don Miguel: Yes, we can see this all around us — humanity has had experiences that were very traumatic, and we have learned that it's not safe to be in Love. But it's exactly the opposite. Love makes us so strong. What we've learned has sabotaged this expression. Diane: In The Mastery of Love you speak of Awareness as one of the three fundamental masteries that can guide us to our true nature. You say this mastery teaches us to be aware of what we really are. What do you mean by ''what we really are.''Don Miguel: Most people think they know what they are. We say, I am a human, I am a man or a woman, and we describe all these characteristics based on our beliefs. But what has happened is that when we are babies, before knowledge — before we ''know'' — everyone tells us what we are. Our mother tells us what we are, and because we are innocent we agree and believe. But what our mother tells us is what she believes about us. And our father projects another image to us, and again we agree. Our brothers, our sisters, the television, all tell us what we are, and we agree. They also tell us what we should be but are not. And we believe that also. We try so hard to become what they want us to be and we practice and practice and practice because we are so afraid of not being good enough for someone else. We are so afraid to be rejected, we are so afraid that they won't like what we do, the way we dress, the way we talk, the way we eat, what we believe. We try so hard to be somebody that will be accepted wherever we go and finally we try to be accepted by ourselves. We create an image of perfection — a picture of what we believe we should be — but we know we are not that image. We try so hard to do whatever we can to clear the voice of our internal judge — we try to be perfect for our husband or for our wife, for the teacher, the guru, the religion, knowing that it is not possible. We all are taught to say, ''We are human, and we are not perfect. No one is perfect.''We are perfect, but we don't see that. We are not aware of what we really are because our attention is so focused on what we are trying to be. We hear people say, ''Oh I'm so afraid that the real me will come someday and will destroy everything.'' You know, in a way this is true. If the real ''us'' comes out, it will destroy all those lies we've believed. When we have the awareness that we are not what we think — this is the first step to recovering what we truly are. And of course practice makes the Master. If we practice, it becomes a way of life. It becomes a habit to always be what we are and not what we want to be — to hear what people really say, not what we want to hear. If we practice, in a short time we will perceive a completely different world — the world as it is, not the way we want or need it to be to satisfy others' points of view or to satisfy our own lies. If we are what we really are, we don't have to justify our existence anymore. We don't need to be ashamed that we are not what they want us to be. Our whole attitude changes. When we know who we are, we will no longer live our lives in conflict with our parents, our beloved, or our children. Everything becomes so wonderful, because we are no longer afraid to Love. And that is the most precious thing that can happen to anyone — the return to Love. Because when we return to Love, life becomes so wonderful and so beautiful. Everything is so romantic! And we see everything through the eyes of Love. And we are no longer afraid to express who we really are and what we want to say. We no longer say yes when we want to say no. We live our lives with integrity again, because we are no longer afraid to be rejected. It's a wonderful way to live. It will improve every relationship that we have, beginning with the relationship with ourselves. Then, a romantic relationship becomes a wonderful thing because we are not afraid to be ourselves and ask for what we want. We no longer take anything personally. We no longer have the need to control our beloved or be controlled by them. And we become a teammate — not competing with each other. It is completely different. Diane: That's beautiful! You say the second mastery is Transformation, which teaches us how to become spiritual warriors. What does this principle mean? Don Miguel: When we discover that most of the conflicts we have are because we believe in many lies, we can choose not to live any longer with these conflicts. Then a battle begins within our head between the lies and the truth. To change lies into truth is what we call Transformation. And this leads to the third mastery, the Mastery of Love. When you no longer believe the lies, then the Light comes and chases the darkness away. You become the way you used to be, with the innocence of a child. This has been called the return to Paradise, or Heaven. I call it the return to Love. It is miraculous. When we live our lives in Love, everything we do becomes a ritual of Love, and life becomes so wonderful. The Mastery of Love is the result of the first two masteries. From the Toltec perspective, everything is made of Love. When we master Love, we align with the Spirit of Life passing through us. We are no longer the body, the mind, or the soul; we are Love. Then every action we take is an expression of Love, and this Love- in- action can only produce happiness. Diane: Relationships seem to be going through a very hard time these days. Many people say they are tired of trying and failing over and over again. How do we keep from attracting the same kinds of relationships? Don Miguel: The main problem is that the relationship with our self is not good. All relationships will be a copy of the first, because the relationship with our Self didn't change. We need to deal with our self- judgment. You know, a few years ago an apprentice came to me and said, ''Miguel, you know I wish I could find the perfect man for me. I'm tired of dealing with the same men and the same problems. All the time it is exactly the same. I wish I could have the perfect man come to me.''I looked at her and said, ''Well, let's say the perfect man comes into your life. He comes for you and wants to be with you.'' Then I told her, ''The way that you treat yourself will be the way you will treat him.
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