The Bag Or The Life! A Dilemma That Helps You Wake Up

There are two things that I have a hard time understanding: the lability of life, which sometimes depends only on the tip of a knife in the hands of the soulless on duty, and the fact of focusing a lifetime on getting honors, triumphs, careers, money , fashions and pomps, when in reality we only have what our skin covers and even that will be lost.

A revealing dream that helps us wake up

And I think of what Lanza del Vasto relates from a dream:

“I dreamed that I was walking as night fell, and the path entered a forest blacker than night. I was alone, unarmed. I was afraid to move forward, afraid to go back, afraid of the noise of my steps, afraid of falling asleep in that double night.

I heard rustling in the forest and had a start. I saw the eyes of animals shining between the trunks and I was more afraid. Then I didn’t see anything and I was scared, more scared than ever.

Then a shadow came out of the shadow and blocked my way. ‘Let’s go! Soon! The bag or your life!’

I was almost comforted by that human voice, because at first I had thought I was meeting a ghost.

He said: “If you defend yourself to save your life, first I will take your life and then the bag. But if you give me your bag just to save your life, first I will take the bag and then your life.”

My heart went wild, my heart rebelled, turned around. And in that great shock I woke up, relieved by the reality of possessing my breath and my life.

And I understood at the same time that my dream had shown me the pure reality of the fragility and strength of my life and my purse. “

Know how to detach

Letting go of what surrounds us – property, achievements, money – may be one of the things that cost the most. Also objects and even animals that we consider our property and that seem to be part of us.

But doing so not only avoids moral or psychological suffering ; it also awakens new ways of understanding, feeling and living a healthier life.

Detachment prepares for death … and for life.

The stock market or life is the most aggressive proposition that they can make to us and sooner or later they will make it to all of us. And not only that, we will have to renounce the bag and life regardless of the order.

There are situations that return us to the reality of our transitory existence, put us in the dilemma and reveal our deepest reality.

They touch a bottom from which life becomes more joyful: every moment is valued and enjoyed, both in the stock market and in life. I do not have to envy any fortune or any life, because none is more important than mine.

Perhaps not all of us live this dream and revealing awakening, but we can imagine ourselves in that situation and come out of it releasing fear and anguish. This helps to assimilate less serious daily threats but that alter us and to recover with more mental and emotional energy.