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El Templo de Oro
por José Luis Kutscherauer Director de Cafh1
¡Revitalicemos nuestro vínculo con la fuente misma de nuestra vocación! Retornemos una y otra vez al Templo de Oro que se asienta en el corazón, al palpitar cadencioso, al silencio, a la simplicidad.
Revitalizar el vínculo con la vocación es preguntarme qué significa para mí el compromiso de desenvolverme espiritualmente. Es responderme con honestidad cuánto de mi vida estoy dispuesto a comprometer para lograrlo. Es saber por qué elegí recorrer este camino y qué sentido tiene para mí hacer este esfuerzo. Es tomar conciencia de que todo lo que hago debiera orientarse a cumplir ese objetivo. Es verificar cuán unida está mi voluntad al propósito de mi existencia.
Busquemos la inmovilidad interior, la paz del alma, la quietud que nos permite contemplar nuestra vida como un todo; busquemos comprender, participar y elegir cada paso con sabiduría, desde lo profundo de nuestro ser.
La mística del corazón nos enseña a buscar armonizar la fijación en nuestro centro interior con una actividad exterior fructífera, útil y eficiente.
Esta dualidad se expresa a través de las ideas de Presencia y Participación.
La Presencia se logra cuando dejamos de saltar de un objetivo a otro y nos fijamos interiormente en un objetivo único, trascendente: en cumplir nuestra vocación, que es llegar a ser un alma sustancialmente unida a la Divina Madre.
La Participación nos permite superar el peligro de quedar centrados en nosotros mismos al hacernos tomar conciencia de que somos en todo y en todos.
La aparente contradicción que implica vivir simultáneamente en Presencia y en Participación se resuelve a través de la Reversibilidad que nos impide caer en la dispersión y nos mantiene en la idea única de ofrendarnos sin esperar nada a cambio. La Reversibilidad nos otorga la flexibilidad de poder participar con todas las almas, en todos los aconteceres de la vida y del mundo, sin quedar por eso atrapados en acciones y sin perder de vista nuestra vocación.
Para lograr este estado de simplicidad que nos lleve a vivir en Presencia y Participación, ser una fuente de paz y transmitirla, usemos los medios que el método de Cafh² nos brinda.
Valgámonos de la oración, que nos conduce a ser humildes al reconocer que hay algo que nos supera; y a desarrollar fe en las posibilidades del ser humano al trabajar sobre nosotros mismos sin apoyarnos en el estímulo de ver resultados.
Valgámonos de la elevación del pensamiento y la invocación a lo divino que nos recuerda hacia dónde vamos, nos hace conscientes de nuestro destino y de nuestra razón de ser.
Valgámonos de la práctica de la meditación que nos enseña a relacionarnos con lo trascendente y a hacer que ese contacto nos mueva a desenvolvernos.
Valgámonos de la reflexión que nos permite darnos una pausa para discernir con claridad y así aprovechar las enseñanzas que nos brinda la vida.
Valgámonos del ejercicio de detención que nos induce a desarrollar paciencia y comprensión y nos hace dueños del presente, de nuestros impulsos y pasiones.
Busquemos la lectura edificante que nos inspira y nutre lo mejor en nosotros.
Hagamos una práctica habitual del acto contrario que nos lleva a trascender nuestros gustos e inclinaciones para lograr responder a las necesidades reales y poder unirnos a todas las almas sin distinciones.
Revitalicemos el vínculo con nuestra vocación, con el momento más luminoso de nuestra existencia, para que su fuerza nos lleve a dar un nuevo salto en nuestro desenvolvimiento para el bien de nuestra alma y de todas las almas.
Busquemos con todo nuestro ser ingresar en un nuevo ámbito de posibilidades. Abramos esa puerta sin temor a perder esa comodidad que nos aletarga, esa seguridad que no es más que una ilusión, ese lugar que hoy ocupamos pero que mañana nos veremos obligados a dejar.
Busquemos el templo interior donde podamos permanecer en adoración de amor a los pies de la Divina Madre, ante el misterio de la vida y de la muerte. Busquemos la paz, la luz, la medida justa de todas las cosas. Irradiemos alegría, serenidad, amor.
© 2012 Orden Cafh
Todos los derechos reservados1 Cafh: La palabra Cafh tiene raíces antiguas, para los miembros de Cafh, simboliza el esfuerzo del alma para alcanzar la unión con Dios. Al mismo tiempo representa la presencia de lo divino en cada alma. El texto "El Templo de Oro" es un extracto del mensaje del Director a la Asamblea Anual de Cafh en Mar del Plata, Argentina, en mayo 2012.
2 Método: El Método de Cafh está basado en sus enseñanzas y es de carácter ascético-místico. "Ascético" porque presupone dedicación y esfuerzo ordenado y regular para influir en forma positiva sobre hábitos de conducta y tendencias personales. "Místico" porque sus recomendaciones nos orientan a recorrer el camino hacia la unión divina a través la participación consciente y progresiva con todos los seres vivientes. Para ver enseñanzas de Cafh, hacer click aquí: https://www.cafh.org/es/ensenanzas-y-cursos.html
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Meditación sobre lo Desconocido
por Sally Sommer
(Esta meditación se lleva a cabo como una conversación con la Divina Madre. Yo pido por ayuda, luego espero en silencio, y entonces Ella responde.)
Divina Madre, temo a lo Desconocido. Permanece como un espacio vasto, oscuro, más allá de la luz de mi pequeña esfera familiar de conocimiento. ¿Cómo me puedo atrever a abrirme hacia lo Desconocido?
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Yo soy lo Conocido y lo Desconocido. Soy la oscuridad y la luz que te guía. No hay nada que temer. Llega más allá de tu mundo familiar y abraza las posibilidades sin fin de lo Desconocido. Abraza la totalidad de la vida.
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Meditation on the Unknown
by Sally Sommer
(This meditation is set up as a conversation with the Divine Mother. I ask for help, I then wait in silence, and then She responds.)
Divine Mother, I fear the Unknown. It lies like vast, dark space beyond the light of my small, familiar sphere of knowledge. How can I dare to open to the Unknown?
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I am the Known and the Unknown. I am the darkness and the light that guides you. There is nothing to fear. Reach beyond your familiar world and embrace the endless possibilities of the Unknown. Embrace the whole of life.
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The Gift of Love
by José Luis Kutscherauer, Director of Cafh1
en español
Though the address below was delivered privately to an assembly of members of Cafh in Olmué, Chile, in May 2018, Seeds believes that everyone who is dedicated to spiritual unfolding for their own good and the good of all human beings will find it inspiring and helpful. For information about the teachings and fundamental ideas of Cafh, go to www.cafh.org.
Audio Introduction
Let us cherish the grace we have received: the gift of having the power to love! The greatest intrinsic gift we possess is the capacity to love and the best thing we have to give is love.
Let us nourish this gift, the most valuable faculty with which we have been endowed! May our love expand permanently until we encompass the entire universe. Each particle we include reveals the immeasurable greatness of eternity.
Just as the sun does not discriminate on whom it sheds its light and warmth, let us love without making differences and without disregarding the slightest expression of this inner power.
Much of humanity's suffering is due to lack of love. All the doors are open so that we may reach the maximum expression of love, without underestimating any of the stages that can take us there. Our teachings lead us along a path that does not stress negative attitudes such as fear or competition as the means that move us to unfold. Rather, it appeals to the unfolding of our consciousness and to strengthening the values that we naturally harbor in our hearts.
There is no feeling more universal than love. Love leads us to live for the common good and to work so that our relationship with our fellow human beings may be a source of wellbeing. But love does not develop on its own. It is a value which is nurtured by the noblest expression of the will. Of the innumerable expressions of the will, the most elevated is love, since it always benefits, strengthens, comforts.
There is a vital need to increase the number of souls who, moved by love, are able to grow in serenity, clarity of thought and power to reflect and act for the well-being of the world. Our great challenge today is to be able to counteract the influence of the innumerable distractions which capture our attention, calling us, with increasing intensity, to live focused on our self-satisfaction without attending to our work, our relationships and, what is even more important, to our inner life. Only by dissipating the veils of illusion and strengthening our inner values will we be able to reorient ourselves so our life may be directed toward the common good.
Our only real possibility of loving is in the present. We lose the sense of fulfillment which each moment offers us when we abandon the present in order to seek satisfaction in what we were able to attain in the past or in illusions of the future. There are so many good moments that we missed because we distanced ourselves from the present!
Implicit in love is the attitude of presence, of offering, which begins with interest and attention placed on the object of our affection. If we are not attentive, we miss reality and life, which only occur here and now.
At the beginning of our development we all respond to the instinct of conservation. In the measure in which we develop, that force centered only on ourselves gradually expands until we reach Substantial Union with the Divine Mother.
Let us consider and appreciate the expansion of love, departing from that first manifestation which is the desire to live, the love of life. Life appears at first as a blind instinct that drives us to seek self-satisfaction. At the same time it moves us to unfold. It is the driving force moving us to improve. This force can lead us to seek wealth and power, to seek knowledge or, also, to develop a high degree of spirituality.
Due to the fact that we possess self-awareness we are able to perceive our instincts. This allows us to reflect on their nature and learn to orient them. It does not make sense to try to suppress our instincts. What does make sense is to learn to exercise our freedom in order to transform the power of selfishness and the search for self-satisfaction into generosity and participation.
Our task is to carry out systematically the practice of going to the depth of our consciousness and to discover there which elements foster the expansion of our love and which are the obstacles that delay it.
If we make wise use of what we experience and come to know through our daily life, we learn to direct our efforts toward harmonizing human with universal values, those which integrate us to the totality of life in the universe. As we unfold, our desires align themselves with those values, so that they cease to be unattainable goals and begin gradually reflecting themselves in our being.
It is a fact that there is a connection between everything that exists in the universe. There is no particle isolated from the rest. Any event that occurs anywhere in the universe affects everything else. To become permanently aware of this reality means, on the one hand, that each one of us is a field of forces and that we are free to use them. On the other hand, it means that we are responsible for how we radiate those forces. Through our willingness to unfold, we can become a powerful focus of love, ready to offer ourselves any time, anywhere.
In the beginning, the love moving us to preserve our own life leads us to attack in order to survive. As it expands, that love becomes defensive. We defend what we feel we are and belongs to us. We defend the projection of ourselves, both in the source of food and in the family. Both the maternal instinct and the instinct to join as a couple are born from this love.
From that first emergence out of the shell of oneself, to making countless sacrifices for the sake of others, we are moved to unfold by the defensive instinct. We fight to preserve what we have achieved; this struggle reinforces our attachments. This leads us to focus our love on our instruments: our body, our soul. The love of our body leads us to love everything that gratifies our senses. It is interesting to observe that, up to a certain point in our unfolding as human beings, we maintain ourselves as if we were an island, without sensitizing ourselves to the needs of others, seeking only our own pleasure.
Our teaching tells us that the supreme end in the life of the soul is to discover the spark of the divine present in our hearts. At a given moment, we feel the calling to respond to this reality. We are aware of the fact that the divine within us is the same as that in each being, in each expression of life. This leads us to expand our love enabling us to understand, assist and love our fellow human beings. Without understanding, without the ability to feel that we are one with another being, love remains very limited. We take a step further when we dedicate our love to another human being. Although we seek a response and demand love, we also give everything for the person we love. As we unfold, the small circle that delimits our existence expands. We love our children, the extended family and even related groups. By becoming aware of the fact that we possess that extraordinary power, we deepen our love, we become sensitized, we perceive the pain and joy of others and even make them our own. Compassion is born in us, leading us to suffer for others and also to seek their welfare.
This is how the expansion of our consciousness, that is, our inner unfolding, leads us step by step to love for the sake of loving; beyond seeking a compensation, we live with a feeling of fulfillment due to the simple act of loving. We learn to love everyone equally, transcending differences, because we perceive the divine spark animating them. From the depths of our being we understand what each person is: a human being, with infinite possibilities. It is no longer a person´s behavior that determines how we perceive what a soul is. We understand that behavior is changeable, modifiable and the product of circumstances and choices, some perhaps mistakenly made due to ignorance.
When that love that makes no differences is directed to one person in particular, true friendship becomes manifest. This love does not vary with circumstances, because we expect nothing from the person we love and only seek to give ourselves. There is no obstacle, characteristic or doubt to interfere with the free flow of our love.
Pure love, as it expands, leads us to intuitively feel the divine presence in any expression, for it reminds us of the divine presence in creation.
And beyond these experiences we are able to envisage the state of union which can be attained when love is permanent. It is through our soul, through each soul, that the divine will is expressed. When we reach this state, we no longer seek to be something different and separate. Our search is focused on identifying ourselves with the undifferentiated essence of life.
From our spiritual dwelling in the heart, may we multiply our love to reach all souls. May each of our hearts be a pulsating source of love willing to give without expecting anything in return.
© 2018 Cafh
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Notes
1. Cafh: The word Cafh has ancient roots; for the members of Cafh it symbolizes the effort of the soul to attain union with God. At the same time it represents the presence of the divine in each soul.
