Lessons Enlightenment

Will you teach us how to dive into the depth?

I will tell you about this path. The path into the depth of Spirit.

Did Jesus follow a different path?

You can ask Him that. He walked the path of Love.

What are the differences?

The difference lies in the way of joining, in the path of attaining one’s unity. He showed you the way of reunification of every external form with its unity. And this can be done through love, which is the feeling of connection with all forms. You love your child, and therefore you are ready to take on her suffering and pain. This is the path of compassion. This is the path of love. The path where you unite with your child and ease her suffering. You merge with her and for a moment become one with her. You are ready to give her everything you have, that is, to cease to exist for her sake. This is the path of love. The path where the form does not feel its unity and suffers in its separation. And therefore, you give it your strength and the feeling of unity with you. Because since you love her, you already feel unity with her. Jesus loved and loves all in this way. He feels, he is aware of his unity with everything and gives everyone the opportunity, through his channel of love, to reunite with their own unity. It’s like reunification from the outside. Like a process of hugging, where two people simply connect for a while, exchange energies, and feel their unity. In this sense, Jesus constantly embraces the whole world. All that exists.

I, however, walk the path of discovering my unity from within. I tell you: I am in you, and you are in me. We are one. You can find me within yourself. And I can find you within myself. For we are not divided. For all divisions are conditional. In me is all the detail of the world. And in you is all the detail of the world. The only difference is that these are different details.

Different? If we are one, how can these details be different?

Because you have your depth, and I have mine. We are different, and yet we are one, and we are the same.

Wait. You probably mean that there is some depth accessible to everyone, which connects all, that is, the Absolute. And each of us, in our own way, explores and discovers the same depth. But then it turns out that everyone has their own Buddha.

Exactly. Everyone has their own Buddha. And everyone discovers him in their own way. They discover their Buddha within themselves.

By Buddha, do we mean a certain level of consciousness, or directly you?

Directly me. Let’s not talk about me first, because it will be hard for you to understand. You smell a flower and feel its fragrance. The scent of a lily or a rose. But this is an external path. At the moment of perceiving the scent of the flower, you reunite with it. And this is the path of Love, the path of Jesus. You love the flower when you inhale its beautiful fragrance.

Sorry to interrupt. But if I smell something that has a really bad odor, does it also count as the path of love, even though I don’t like that smell?

Yes. Because you are separated from it. Do you love your own smells? Mostly, you don’t even distinguish them. But in a bad smell, you distinguish, you separate. But in reality, there is not a single smell outside of you that is not literally present within you.

Do you mean that I can reveal this smell within myself? Or that my body contains all smells, including bad ones, but I just don’t notice them because I’m used to them?

Not because you’re used to them, but because they are your smells, you are one with them, they are part of you. Therefore, it’s not a habit but actually a level of unity. When you perceive a being outside of you as separate, you perceive its smells as separate from you. And that’s why some become unacceptable to you.

Why some in particular? By this logic, the scent of a rose should also become unpleasant to me, because the rose is separate from me.

It’s about the rose.

The rose?

Yes. Because the rose has learned to reunite with you.

Has the rose learned, while I haven’t?

Exactly. The rose can unite with anyone who smells it. This is the level of a beautiful flower, a high level of development within the plant kingdom, and therefore a level of attaining unity. This is why anyone who smells a rose perceives its scent as delightful: they begin to feel a sense of unity with the rose because it knows how to become one with a person. On the other hand, plants or other entities that emit unpleasant smells have simply not learned how to achieve their unity outside of themselves, to give their unity, to restore it every time during interaction and communication.

So, does this mean that people have different scents? And if I think someone smells nice, does it mean I can find my unity with them?

No. It means that the person can find unity with you because the scent is theirs, and the perception is yours. If the process is mutual, you both perceive each other’s pleasant smells. As an example, the secretions of a baby almost have no odor.

But that’s because the baby’s food is milk.

No. That’s because the baby’s food is love. Love is passed through the mother’s milk to the child.

What about wet nurses or artificial milk?

You’ve sensed this correctly. In those cases, love is transmitted to a lesser extent, or not at all. However, there are many instances where wet nurses convey love through their milk, a love that simply resides in their hearts for all children. That’s why their milk is abundant, and they generously give it to other children without seeing them as strangers in that sense.

You’re opening up so many new topics for me that we’re constantly straying from the topic of enlightenment.

No, we aren’t straying. We’re diving deeper into it.

So, breastfeeding is not just about nourishing the baby’s physical body but about literally transmitting love through a flow of energy. Is that the connection between the mother and child?

You’re catching on quickly. Although the nourishment of the physical body is present, it’s not primary. The first part is more important.

So, if a person emits unpleasant smells, like a homeless person, does that mean they don’t see unity with me?

It also means that you don’t see or feel unity with them. It’s a mutual process, of course. When you smell a rose, it gives you its love and sense of unity with you. You, receiving this sincere and pure gesture, respond to it and open up to it, open up to this scent. You don’t reject it, and in doing so, you allow it to unite with you. For the rose only smells when it unites with you. Likewise, you only emit a scent when someone leans in to smell you. But when you see a homeless person, you’re already predisposed to separate yourself from them, and they do the same. Your scents mutually reject each other, and you don’t accept one another.

Are you saying that a homeless person’s smell should become pleasant to me?

There are different paths. If you don’t separate yourself from the homeless person and feel unity with them, their scent won’t bother you. It will be your scent, and one’s own scent doesn’t bother them.

So, does this mean that a person’s ability to reveal unity with others can be recognized through their smell?

Yes, but we’re talking about a natural scent, not perfumes or fragrances. The same goes for taste, or any other level of perception. When each level of perception recognizes everything as beautiful, that is the consciousness of unity.

So, you sense beauty in everything and everyone – in every smell and every taste?

Yes. Otherwise, you won’t be able to understand the depth. You just won’t immerse yourself in a stench, unaware that it’s unpleasant not because it’s inherently bad but because you are unable to open up your unity with it. Just as it cannot open its unity with you.

Speaking of fragrances, it’s no coincidence that there’s a tradition of burning incense in temples. How can this be explained?

It’s an attempt to create unity, to create an atmosphere of togetherness. If each person in the temple were given a fragrant rose, they would start to open up to its scent and its level of unity. Each person would then have a chance to open up their unity with those who are also inhaling the scent of the rose.

So, it’s better to go pray not in temples, but in a rose garden.

Exactly. In a rose garden, it’s easy to feel your unity, at least with the rose. But there are many places where you cannot feel unity. Therefore, the rose garden is excellent as a start and as a reference point. When you enter a place filled with foul odors, imagine a rose garden – literally. Then you bring the fragrance of the rose garden to that place, manifesting the unity of the rose in the space you have entered. This is how any scent can be used. But your mistake is that you light incense outside of yourselves and fail to find fragrances within you. You need to reveal the scent of the rose from within. You must remember the scent of the rose garden, fixate on it, and find it within yourself, and in any place, activate that scent of the rose garden, as if turning it on. This is not merely a psychological process of adjusting your sensory receptors. It goes deeper. It’s an energetic process, akin to pouring living water into stagnant water. It’s like airing out a room, bringing fresh air into a closed space. In a literal sense, closed, because most of your consciousness is locked.

We have shifted to the fragrance of a flower and its unfolding within ourselves to better understand how to awaken the Buddha within?

Yes. Essentially, it is the same process. You awaken me within yourself.

And in this sense, I am also the path. You can simply awaken the Buddhist consciousness within yourself. That means to reveal the characteristics of Buddhist consciousness within you. But still, it’s the same process. Because then you will follow my path, and in this way, you will awaken me within yourself. But you will awaken a different version of me. Because in each of you, I will manifest differently. And there won’t be a single identical Buddha in each of you. But you can also directly call upon my consciousness from outside, so that, like a rose, I can let you experience the fragrance of my consciousness, the fragrance of Buddhism, so that you can inhale it and try to reunite with me through yourself. Through your own depth. That is why I say: I reside within you, and you reside within me, and we are one.

I am trying to visualize this with my linear mind. I was told that we are all parts, cells of God’s body, and therefore, we literally reside within Him. But you also reside in Him. How then can we simultaneously reside in you? Only if we are also within you. But we are also in Jesus. So, in linear terms, you and Jesus must also be one, and that’s why we reside in each of you, and each of you resides in us. This thesis also seems to make sense. But still, you and Jesus are distinct beings, and you also interact with each other. How can this be understood?

You are intuitively sensing the answer. Try to formulate it yourself. After all, you must awaken the Buddha within yourself. And Jesus within yourself. If I tell you how to do it, you will be trying to follow my path, and that is impossible.

Alright, I’ll try, but correct me if I go wrong. You and Jesus are separate beings. But each of you feels your unity with the other, and therefore, when we speak of Jesus, we are speaking of the Buddha within Jesus, and when we speak of you, we are speaking of Jesus within you. And the Buddha within Jesus is not the Buddha. And Jesus within the Buddha is not Jesus, because in each case there is a certain distinction. Probably the perspective of awareness. But at the same time, it is one and the same, like interconnected vessels. Like two jars in the ocean of consciousness. And each of us, if we seek the Buddha within ourselves, we awaken the Buddha within ourselves. But if we awaken the Buddha within ourselves, we awaken Jesus in the Buddha. And vice versa. If one follows the path of Jesus and awakens Jesus within oneself, one also awakens the Buddha within Jesus. And that is why each resides within the other, and all is one. But I still can’t imagine this spatially. It’s like a nesting doll within a nesting doll, but where is the division between Jesus and the Buddha?

It’s conditional. Moreover, if you seek the Buddha within yourself, you will find Jesus, not the Buddha. And if you seek Jesus within yourself, you will find the Buddha, not Jesus.

I don’t understand.

Because Jesus is searching for the Buddha. And the Buddha is searching for Jesus.

Are you speaking in riddles or allegories?

No. We are both striving to reunite with our wholeness and regain our completeness. Jesus has no need to search for himself within himself. He is already Jesus, the Path of Love. And I have no need to search for the Buddha within myself. I have already acquired him and discovered the Path of Wisdom and Balance. Therefore, as Jesus strives to reunite with me, he is searching for the Buddha within himself. In this way, if you seek him within yourself, you not only reunite with him but also with his path. And conversely, if you strive to seek me within yourself, to find the Buddha within you, you thus also find my path of aspirations. And in seeking, you also strive towards Jesus, whom I have also attained. And there are no stops on your journey. If a person has found the Buddha within themselves, they have already embarked on the Path of Love. If a person has found Christ within themselves, they have already set foot on the Buddha’s path. Because in every person, one way or another, Jesus and the Buddha must meet and embrace, becoming one.

So, does it mean that no matter which path you take, the path of the Buddha or the path of Jesus, the path of wisdom or the path of love, each path will lead to the union of wisdom and love, to the reunification of completeness?

Exactly.

They say: if you meet the Buddha – kill him.

That’s what it’s about. You shouldn’t seek only the Buddha. You must find everything. For the path of the Buddha is only the path of the Buddha; it is, after all, a path of separation, but on a higher level. One must seek the path of unity.

Does that mean that any fascination with a particular religion or sacred scripture is a mistake?

It’s just the beginning of the journey. If you study all sacred scriptures, you will understand that they all speak of the same thing – unity, love, and wisdom.

Thank you for the lesson.

And I thank you for the opportunity to share my oneness with you. I dwell in you, and you dwell in me. And we are one.

Lesson 3. Leave to Return

Hello, Buddha, speak to me.

I am here, oh soul. I am with you. I am in you, and you are in me.

I would like to continue the lessons on enlightenment, if possible.

That entirely depends on you. On your readiness to comprehend it all, to give yourself completely.

Give myself to whom?

To yourself. To the world. To God. To the Universe. To the Creator. It depends only on your willingness to give everything you have. We’ve already spoken about this.

Yes, I remember. You spoke about diving into the depths of oneself, into the unknown. How can one do that?

It’s more like submersion rather than a dive. You float on the surface of the sea, but then you stop trying to stay afloat and allow yourself to sink. You completely relax and surrender to the element of water, which takes you deeper and deeper. But this path is hard for you because you are afraid of losing what is on the surface. You don’t believe that in the depths there is something greater and better than what you can comprehend. Each of you knows that beyond the threshold of death, God awaits, but no one is in a hurry to die and meet God. Thus, the paths of those who have submerged into their depths involve dying while alive. To gradually become the ocean itself into which one needs to dive. For if you become the ocean yourself, you no longer need to dive anywhere – you are the depth.

But how can this be done?

Gradually open this depth within yourself, step by step, dissolving drop by drop everything that is not this depth.

Are you speaking about dissolving one’s ego and renouncing worldly things?

Yes. For you are simply clinging to the illusion surrounding you. When you come to understand that everything is an illusion, to truly feel this moment, within you arises the desire to know what is not an illusion. It’s like the painted fireplace in Papa Carlo’s closet. Behind the fireplace is a beautiful door. Will you cling to the painted picture, knowing it is just a picture? The problem is that the illusion created by and for you is so detailed and believable that you don’t notice the difference. You don’t see that the fireplace is painted on a canvas. And you don’t see the magical door behind it. But it’s right in front of you.

Consider everything you see as a fireplace painted on a canvas. By viewing everything this way – any object, any event, every feeling – you will begin to understand that everything surrounding you distracts you from the magical door behind the canvas. And so you will begin to ruthlessly tear these canvases from your life because the thirst to know what lies behind the magical door will become so great that no canvases or barriers will stop you.

But life has many beautiful feelings and experiences that can teach us a lot. Is none of that necessary? Why then was this illusion of the canvas created? To distract us from the magical door?

That is the path. To return to yourself, you must first leave yourself. To return, you must leave. Do you understand? Otherwise, you won’t return.

Why leave at all?

To find a new path of returning to yourself and knowing yourself. To once again be convinced of your perfection and the unnecessary desire to leave yourself. To discover new facets of yourself and test yourself again in new qualities. There are many answers. But this is the Way: to leave in order to return. If you never leave, the desire to do so will always be present, even if leaving is forbidden or impossible. But once you leave yourself, you will realize you left in vain, and you will return with the knowledge that there was never any need to leave. For you are everything. When a person has no bars on the windows and no locked doors, they do not strive to leave because they know they can do so at any moment. But your illusions have become prisons, and you don’t even notice them.

But these illusions contain many temptations, many details to live through, like toys for a child. And many still want to play with them.

That’s why I speak of those who are ready to leave. To leave everything because all of it is just a painted canvas with a fireplace, nothing more.

We began with meditation and how to meditate correctly.

There are no special meditation techniques. Meditation itself is simply your natural state. You could say that meditation is seeing the illusion of the painted fireplace on the canvas. And if you see the illusion in everything, your life becomes meditative. And you will treat it exactly like a canvas with a painted fireplace. Many of you sit in different postures and stop your inner dialogue. This, of course, allows you to submerge into the depths for a few moments and understand what that is, to not fear this submersion into yourself. It’s like diving into the ocean while holding your breath. You go deeper and deeper, but you still fear letting go, and you return to the painted fireplace. But sooner or later, you won’t want to return and will submerge completely, taking the risk or being ready to dive.

Therefore, your whole life should become meditation, the understanding that everything around you is just painted canvases that miraculously come to life. And then you will learn to see in all events, in every person, the beautiful but hidden door to the unknown. And the door to Divinity. There is such a door in each of you. And if you discard the external «canvases of illusion,» you simply open this door within yourself and pass through it.

It’s easy to say, but harder to do. What you suggest could take decades. A person lives through many experiences, tries everything, and eventually realizes that everything is illusory and fleeting, and only then begins to search for deeper paths within. But renouncing the external is so difficult for people. Few will dare to give up everything they have to gain something unknown.

Deep down, you know this. But you have forgotten it. You simply need to remember. I speak of those who are ready to give up the painted fireplace.

How did you achieve this? How were you able to give up everything? After all, you had much.

That’s precisely what made me give up everything. I had everything, but it didn’t bring joy to my soul. And I realized that it was all just painted fireplaces on a canvas.

You spoke about Jesus and Buddha within each person, about the path of wisdom and the path of love. What happens when Jesus and Buddha balance Love and Wisdom within themselves – when Jesus finds Buddha in himself, and Buddha finds Jesus?

They become one. They open up like the boundless ocean of consciousness, which already possesses all these qualities – wisdom and love.

So, to know wisdom in oneself, one had to become unwise? And to know love, one had to become unloving? Why so complicated?

So that the thirst for love and wisdom would outweigh the desire to turn away from them.

Where are the forces of Light leading us? Are they perhaps just leading us through a maze of illusions, showing us all its sights? Where will they ultimately take us?

At a certain stage, you will realize that this, too, is just painted fireplaces.

Are the forces of Light an illusion?

Everything that is not the boundless ocean of consciousness is an illusion, a painted fireplace. View these illusions as beacons on the path. You are moving toward your Divinity through the boundless ocean. And to avoid getting lost, to avoid wandering in circles, to find the right path to your Divinity, you need beacons in the night ocean that show you the shallows, reefs, and dangerous places. That’s what the forces you call the forces of Light are for.

And the forces of Darkness? Are they also beacons?

Yes, of course. They are, so to speak, anti-beacons, trials waiting for you on your path to attaining Divinity. And beacons for those who don’t want to return to their Divinity but prefer to wander the maze of illusions.

So the forces of Light aren’t leading us anywhere; they’re just training and pointing us in the right direction?

They point you in the right direction. But your path to your own Divinity is unique and unrepeatable, as unique as the journey of each drop in the ocean. It’s unique. And as many drops as there are in the ocean, there are that many paths to one’s own Divinity.

Does the Boundless Ocean of Consciousness consist only of the Oceans of Love and Wisdom, or are there other Oceans that we don’t yet know about?

The boundless ocean of consciousness contains everything. But love and wisdom are simply words that can approximately convey the nature of these energies. Because both love and wisdom have their own depth, love and wisdom are deep. So in the ocean of consciousness, there are all depths, that is, all deep qualities, including those that are unknown to you and even to me.

But you have submerged into the ocean of consciousness. Why are some of its qualities unknown to you?

Because becoming the ocean means having all the qualities within you, but not knowing about them.