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Doing what you believe in — YouTube from the CEC Library

Narrated by Moisés Esagüi1 min read

You need to grow gradually and with awareness, leave everyone in peace without becoming attached, and allow spouses, children, and relatives to be free as well.

Doing what you believe in
Video · 3 min 24 s · Watch on YouTube

Summary

Growing gradually and with awareness requires doing good for yourself and everyone else, being free, and allowing others to be free as well, without holding them back through attachment. Moisés and his brother had that freedom to follow their own paths and live abroad, with their father's acceptance.

Source transcript

This can be complicated in a person's life. I speak from personal experience: my brother and I followed the path we wanted, including deciding to live abroad. When I made that decision, my father asked why I wanted to live abroad, and I replied that it was so I could feel free. He said, "Then go." My brother went through the same situation. People with closed mindsets tend to imprison their children, or the children end up imprisoning themselves. This is not healthy, because it prevents creativity and the accomplishment of good things.

We need to do good for others and for ourselves; otherwise, everything becomes tangled and we are unable to grow. That is not the meaning of our life. Look at the current state of the planet: a total crisis, with Russia attacking Ukraine and the United States sending bombs to Ukraine to destroy Russia. There is no one with the common sense to question why we are fighting or doing foolish things. We need to grow little by little and be aware of this; otherwise, we end up binding other people, beginning with marriages, children, and relatives. We end up believing that they should be happy at our expense, but that is not possible. We should leave everyone in peace, calm, and well. How can we do that without becoming attached to people? We need to be free and allow others to be free as well. And, of course, we should help everyone, not just one person, nor two, nor three, nor four, but everyone.

Questions raised by this material

  • How can I be free without restricting the freedom of those close to me?

Keywords

freedomattachmentfamilyhelping others

How to cite

Esagüi, M. (2022, November 18). Doing what you believe in [Video]. Center for Consciousness Studies. https://centrodeestudos.org/en/library/doing-what-you-believe-in/