[TRANSCRIPTION] One of my biggest integration practices about self-realization is living in the city.
A lot of people ask me and question about how I can live in the noisy city and I always say that for me, after realizing that everything is God, everything is energy and everything is me, it’s all one.
I can’t see the difference between city and nature, and of course I prefer more nature to be in my natural state. It’s more easy, a lot of easy, to be grounded in nature totally.
I can question that. It’s more easy. I understand why people leave the city, go to the mountains or rural places or an island or whatever.
It’s okay. It’s nothing wrong with that. But for me, my direct experience is really to enjoy the city and I can appreciate the aesthetic of the city and the sounds and the smells.
And for me, truly enjoy it because I see beauty in every corner. It’s something like I really love what people can do with their hands and I am so in appreciation and gratitude for people that make buildings, the beauty of the cars, the gardens, the sounds of the birds, the sun rays on my skin, the fresh air, the sky, the colors of the leaves, the different types of trees, the diversity. I love the diversity in the city.
It’s like a big garden. The buildings are the flowers of this garden. I love to see the reflection of the windows, the colors of the sunset or the sunrise, the falling and the changing of the seasons through the trees, through the colors.
I always focus more on nature when I walk in the city and it’s something I enjoyed because, I also walk like I was a tourist in this place. I feel like it’s an adventure, exploration.
I always feel like taking a bus or subway, walking on the street, trying new ways to just walk and I love everything is new.
Every day is something new. So sometimes a tree is not there, sometimes it’s a house different. I don’t know, even the climate is different.
I love climate because it always reminds everything is changing and you can’t put a climate in a box. It’s so free.
And the sounds are something where a lot of people, I don’t remember the word, but it’s something like criticize the sounds.
They are hard to listen sometimes but I don’t focus too much on that and when I listen is you let them go through or feel the sound in your body.
Other times when there are a lot of cars because nearby is a school so when parents go to look for the children, it’s a lot of cars and I feel really this is something maybe silly because for me, really when I don’t put a label or just it’s noise, it’s sound, it’s waves. So when I
listen to the cars I feel like they are waves of the ocean.
It sounds like that when you don’t think it’s a car and I love it because I feel I’m at the beach.
But no, I don’t feel bothered by living in the city. I feel super grateful. I think that is something that helps a lot.
And the other thing is I always think or remember that I am in the right place. If I needed to be in nature or something more natural, I’d be there but for some reason I’m here.
I believe that this state of integration I am in about the city is helping other people. I don’t know.
It’s something I feel that I anchor this Tantra, this Union.
I don’t feel the need to reconnect with nature. Of course I want to go to nature, it’s natural, but I don’t need to run, escape the city. No, I love it.
I love to see the cars, the beauty of the cars, the beauty of the buildings.
When you see it without interpretation, without labels, it’s beautiful because for me everything, absolute everything is made of essence. So that building, that car is made of God.
So you are seeing God in everything and when I see sometimes for example a luxury car, some people have this idea of luxury as something about status. For me it has never been that way. I don’t feel conditioned to think of status. So I see only a car.
I remember one time in a supermarket I saw a car. I don’t know what brand but it was super luxurious and beautiful.
I had to stand there and watch it and I felt the most beautiful unconditional love and beauty of that car because Beauty is everything.
For some reason, I live in the city, and I’m far from hating it like most people. It’s one of my main practices of embodying living my Truth.
It’s not easy, but it’s not resistance.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If tomorrow I move to a house on a hill surrounded by trees, hopefully near a lake, that will also feel good.
A different kind of visual abundance. A more organic, direct form of beauty, but the same essence shining beneath.