The search for the diamond

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The Search for the Diamond recorded on April twelfth, twenty twenty.

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I want to share with all of you a story that contains a very deep teaching, a deep message. It's about a businessman that lives in a small village that began a small business. In a few years he has he was very successful. As a product of his small business, he accumulated an important amount of money. So he began to be afraid that somebody, a thief, can steal from him the money. So he decided to deposit it on the bank. But then he was afraid that on the trip, because the city was a few days from the village, small village, can be danger too. An assault or you know, thieves can take from him the money. So he went to receive advice from his master. He went to his guru and asked for an idea what to do. The guru told him, what you can do is to invest your money buying a diamond. The diamond is small, you can hide it better than the amount of money, you know. So he went, he did a he went to a jewelry, and he found a diamond that was suitable to invest all the money of his years of hard work. So now he had this all his profit in one stone. The problem was that in the transaction, in some way or other, a thief heared about all the issue. And of course, he found that this is a very good opportunity to show his abilities in his profession. So he was after the businessman. Businessmen arrange his chariot, his horses, and travel. On the way appears, on the road appears the thief. Stop him and ask, please, where he traveled. Say to the city, say, I traveled to the city too. I need your help. My wife is sick, my children. I need medicine, please take me with you. I don't have other way to travel to the city. The men think, okay, you know, I travel alone. Can be more dangerous. At least people will see two guys together. It's different. So he takes him and they continue together. On the way, he needs to stop because take a few days. Stop for sleep. So they open these folding beds and went to sleep. But the thief in the night wake up and begin to look everywhere. Where is the diamond? Everywhere. Didn't found nothing. Next day, same story. They travel all the day. In the evening, darkness, they need to stay, they stop somewhere, did a fire, and they went to sleep. And the thief looked everywhere, under every clothes, box, everywhere. Nothing. The last day, hour before they arrive to the city, the thief says, Sorry, I have to tell you something. I am a thief. I hear about all your story and about the diamond, and I decided to steal it from you. Now everything is over. We arrived at the city. I have I have I am so curious. Where you hide the diamond? The businessman say, tell me, you look everywhere? He say, yes, everywhere. I look over these boxes you have there. I look even near the horses. Everywhere I look. Impossible. I look under your bed. I look in the behind the picture you have there. You say, no, you didn't look under the bed. You say, I look under the bed. You look under my bed. But it is hide the diamond under your bed. I hide it there because I was sure that that is the only place where you will never look. And this story has a very deep message because we look all our life after the diamond of happiness, peace, love, freedom. But we never look under our own bed. We look everywhere. We live in this moment. And this moment is the only time that we can meet with reality. Here is the only place that we can meet with the truth. This moment, the now, is the only moment that is real. And if you pay attention, this moment is full of events. Full of events. In the physical level, mental level, emotional level, energetical level, in the microcosmos level and macrocosmos is full of occurrences. The breathing, the heart palpitate, the blood flow, cells, microorganisms. In the mental level, thoughts, ideas, emotional level, you have feelings, fear, happiness, distress, energetical level. Every single moment is a universe of colors, forms, smell, sounds, it's a universe. Every now is a universe and it's real. But when we look for the diamond of peace, freedom, love beyond this moment, out of this moment, at the same moment that we look for our happiness out of the present, you remain only with imaginations and dreams. Nothing real in your hands. You remain with dreams that you want to fulfill, and you make efforts to fulfill life of efforts to fulfill these imaginations. And sometimes you're able to fulfill them. Sometimes this happens. In the present, you have constant reward, constant salary, constant price. But you look for the random. For those kind of prices that you have one, two in a year, sometimes happens. And never exactly what you dream, but around you look for that. And you dismiss the daily reward. Why this happens? You can give to a child every day vanilla ice cream two times a day. After he finishes food, you give vanilla ice cream every single day. But you cannot say to the child, today I have a price for you, vanilla ice cream. No, because that is normal. You have to give to him one time, month, you give a chocolate. Oh, this is special. But if you give to him every day a chocolate after the food, you cannot give him a price of chocolate. Then you can make a vanilla ice cream. The price should be always random. Every single moment you receive the prize that you can walk. It's constant. You can hear songs, the birds, the wind on the trees. But that you don't look at it as a price. Every single day you can see colors, sunsets, the green of the trees, the red of the birds. You can see people, people you love. But this is not a press. It's like the vanilla ice cream. You can see the stars, and this is not a press. You can see the moon and the sun, you can smell, you can breathe, you can run, you can read, you can talk and express your feelings and emotions. These are not price. You look for a car. Something that is out of this moment. Go and see a person who is blind. What do you prefer, a car or to see? He will laugh. He said, You're crazy. Go for the person who cannot walk and say what you prefer. To walk, to be able to walk by yourself or a Lamborghini. See, no possible even to think about it, obviously. But you go after the dreams. Always the random is more, it is more attractive than the constant. And this moment offers to you infinite gifts constantly. Why? I will tell you the secret. The secret is that we were educated in such a way that for us the important the importance is in the events. The important are the occurrences. The importance is what happens, the objects, the forms, the people. And we don't give any importance to the perception of the events. The reality is not only events. Your reality is not only events, is not only people or situations, colors. Your reality is the perception of all this. But no, we don't put attention to it. We don't pay attention. For us, the attention is totally in the events, in the occurrences, in the people, the situations. And then what happens? Then arise attraction and rejection. Or what the Vedanta call raga and dusha that make you escape from whatever events or occurrences that you don't like, that are painful. Escape from them to some shelter. A shelter that is a place that you like. Means this attitude make your life an escape. An escapist can never be happy. Because he's busy escaping. How can he be happy? He only needs to run and run all his life, escape from the from all these events that he don't like. From the discomfort. And from there we do decisions on the basis of what I like or don't like. Why do you do this? Because I like it. Because the only important thing for us are the occurrences. What happens. And we dismiss that the diamond of the peace, it's never in situations or people or the other or the events. The peace is in the awareness, in the perception, in consciousness. The limitation is in the world of the events. Awareness is infinite, unlimited. The happiness, Ananda, the love. And we define ourselves through occurrences. We define ourselves by the events, by the events of our life. My body is an event. Your nationality is an event. Your profession is an event. Things that happen. But your real nature, it is not an event, is the perception. This diamond of bliss, peace, love is what you are. So it's absolutely constant, not with you, is you. What you are is what you are. Your being is to be. And to be is to be the self. To be is to be consciousness, not to be Chilean doctor, professor, not to be yogi, disciple, guru, to be something, not what happened. But only to be only to be. Whenever you can say I am what I am, whenever you only are, that is meditation. And when you are there is no event. Whenever you are, there is God. There is the diamond. The diamond of your life that is under your own bed. Maybe the only place where you never look your own pocket.