Baba Odùdúwà: About Being and Suffering

Teaching given by Baba Odùdúwà through his Ẹlẹ̀gún (medium) during the Baba Odùdúwà Festival, Saturday, November 4, 2017. Baba Odùdúwà: In this world how many times does the sun rise? Everyday. You are there, and they will be there, even when you cease to exist. (Baba Odùdúwà refers to the spiritual Powers, the Irúnmọ̀le, like Èşù, like the Ìyáàmi Àjẹ́). Day by day the wind blows, and transmits a message to my ears. Question by brother Jaime: In order to receive and receive spiritual messages, would I need to do something? Odùdúwà: Yes, Stop being complex ... Who is the temptation in this world? It is ÈŞÙ ... Note from Awo Ifalenu: In the Esoteric Teaching of Baba Odùdúwà about the Yoruba Tradition, ÈŞÙ is the Thought, it is the Consciousness of the Spirit of Nature, that is why ÈŞÙ is everywhere, ÈŞÙ hears everything and sees everything we do. ÈŞÙ is the one who puts the tests in people’s lives, and takes them away, he opens and closes the roads. The first path that opens ÈŞÙ is in your mind, through a thought, you can do this or that, and with that a path opened you can do things in your life... God does not punish people, ÈŞÙ is the one that rewards or punishes in creation, is the Divine Enforcer of the Law ... Baba Odùdúwà: The human being forgets about the Universe, but the Universe never forgets about the Human Being. If you feed the Earth, the Earth will never be inert. If you take away from the Earth, the Earth will be inert, because you have not fed the Earth. The simplicity in life is the most difficult thing to acquire. And that is what gives involution to people. Brother Jaime Jr asks: Is it possible to achieve the simplicity of life even without renouncing the material side? Odùdúwà: The material part is simple. You have to renounce complexity so that the material part is part of your fulfillment in this life. The Human Being believes that he discovered mathematics, when nature taught him about it ... Sister C: How should I act? Odùdúwà: In a Simple way. Today they suffer for something so simple that it complicates their lives. Do you understand? What do you understand? People who drank from this cup are suffering right now. They suffer for something so simple. The message is for those who suffer. (Note: Baba Odùdúwà drinks his favorite drink that is anisette, and the he tells all the people at the meeting to drink a little bit from the cup, so he could connect with the essence of all those presents.) Day by day the wind carries a message to my ears. What do you think that message is? It's something simple ... WHAT I EXISTS ... And if it's that simple, why do you suffer? Brother Jaime Jr.: What makes you suffer? Odùdúwà: I have no reason to suffer. The one who suffers has reasons to do so. Is as simple as not having reasons to do it. Brother Jaime Jr.; That is, is suffering a choice that we take every day? Odùdúwà: Everything that disturbs the human being will be the cause of his suffering. If you decided not to be disturb, you would never have reasons to Suffer? ... Do you understand? Awo Ifalenu: It's Mental, it depends how you think ... Odùdúwà: As simple as wanting it or not wanting it ... If you do not want to suffer, do not complicate yourself ... In my lands people say; BE HAPPY... If you met with the one who designed everything (God), and he asked you: Why do you Suffer? What would you respond? ... There is only one answer. As complex as they try to see things, the answer will be the same. Do you understand? What do you need to be happy? To Decide to be Happy... What is the Desire? Ifalenu: We want what we do not have, we want what attracts us. Odùdúwà: What can you desire in your life? At what time will they have it? Ifalenu: The moment you decide ... Brother Carlos: We must overcome emotions. Odùdúwà: Emotions are part of your mental programming, emotions are part of your structure and form. They are called construction defects. Brother Jaime: Why are they called construction defects? Odùdúwà: Because it is something that does not work for its evolution. Stop being servile. Ifalenu: Then you have to transcend emotion, or sublimate emotions. Odùdúwà: I lack reasons to suffer. I lack reasons to be happy. I lack reasons to love. I lack reasons to hate. I have everything. You understand lack as non-existence, not having something. Do you understand? They do not understand that lack is not having everything. Do you understand? At the moment that I do not have reasons to love, at the moment that I do not have reasons to hate, in that moment I have Everything ... Do you understand? Brother Jaime Jr.: What were the emotions created for? Odùdúwà: You were given emotions so that you understand that you have it. Brother Jaime: Then comes the power of decision? Odùdúwà: The whole universe, that is Power. When your enemy is about to kill you, and you lack fear, then he can kill you a thousand times, but his victory will be insipid... Do you understand? Ifalenu: Because it does not cause you fear, you transcend it. He wins when you are afraid, but when he does not makes you feel fear, he loses. Odùdúwà: Why do you suffer? Brother Carlos: For fools ... Odùdúwà: For wanting something you already have. And then the universe laughs and admires at your behavior. The universe never asked to be a universe, and everything was granted to the universe... Do you understand? Odùdúwà asked a sister: Why do you suffer? Sister E: Because I have things like attachment, I want to control things. Odùdúwà: who lives under conditions different to you in this planet? Who does not suffer? There is no person in the universe who lacks that. Your problem today is the size of a wall, and tomorrow will be the size of a stone, and the day after tomorrow will be just a memory ..., and the next day will be an experience. Do you understand? Ifalenu: Each time it decreases in power. Brother Carlos: There are people who say: I have killed myself all my life to live. Odùdúwà: All your life you lived like a “Walking Dead" ... Do you celebrate your birthday today? Brother Carlos: Yes Odùdúwà: A wiser year will be. Never ever will you be old, but simply more wiser. Time stops happening when you stop being afraid of it. Now be happy to exist ... Do you understand? Yearning is an expression of life, but it is not Life... Do you understand? What do you learn day by day? What makes you better day by day? What makes you worse day to day? Do you understand? You believe that by just feeling you are alive. So what is it to be live? To live is to do every day - day after day, each reincarnation - reincarnation after reincarnation something that is transcendental ... Being in a state of Transcendental Consciousness. Even I cannot guarantee you that in your sleep and awakening state you are really alive... You can be part of the eternal dream of your death. You will really live when you do something Transcendental ... Do you understand? Question: What is Transcendental? Odùdúwà: It is to pass the ascendant. How could it be Transcendental? Being better than yesterday, or Worse than tomorrow. It is not just about enjoying life, but simply being better as a person, as a daughter/son, as a mother/father, as a sister/brother ... I do not occupy a place that another would like or wish to be in... Do not waste space... They ask: How? Odùdúwà: That this space of life you should take advantage of it by doing something transcendental your life. There may be thousands and thousands of people wishing the place where you are right now. Then when you understand that you will know that You are nothing if you do nothing. You are something if you do something. You are what you do. You are good if you do good. You are evil if you do evil. But you are something ... It is preferable to do something than to do nothing. If you want something, your counterpart is destined to neutralize you ... Do you understand? Question of Brother Jaime: Is that counterpart outside of us or within us? Odùdúwà: There will always be two forces, those that go forward and those that go backwards. One will always try to neutralize the other... Do you understand? The good ones will try to finish off with the bad ones, and the bad guys will try to finish off with the good ones. Never and never will end ... Do you understand? That is the reason why I am "I", neither of them disturbs me, and neither of them I disturb. You have to Know how to be an Opposition. You have to know when to hold the sword and when you have to lower it ... Do you understand? And then it is when Good and Evil cease to exist ... Only You exist... Do you understand? You live believing that there is a good and that there is an evil. You are afraid to step on one side or the other. You do not understand that the universe is composed of the two things, Good and Evil. It's called to Co-exist ... Brother Carlos: You tell us to be good or bad, but not to be lukewarm. Odùdúwà: Choose the direction of your “arrow”, but you can be flexible enough to reach your destination. It's bad to kill someone. It is good to kill for defending oneself (or to save others). You will never ever be subjected; you never ever will be afraid. You never ever have reasons for something. Do you understand? I do not love because I am love. I do not hate because I'm hate. I do not fear because I am fear. I am not happy because I am Happiness. Do you understand? My life is composed in the myth. My life is composed in the legend. My life is built in the air. But they will always have to remember me. What do you understand? You do not even know who I am. You will live under my laws. You will die under my laws. You will fulfill my will, even if it goes against your will. Because even his assumption is my will. I am not GOD, but I have his Powers, because I understand Him, I know how is God like. Never ever will my existence be comparable to the importance that He has in this universe and in everything, but I was born out of his Power. I AM "I" (an ỌLỌ́FIN = a Realized Self or I) Do you understand? I know what you will do, even if you do not know it yet. There are divine laws, and thanks to these laws is that you are going to get in my hands. Do you understand? No one can ever get rid of this. From this he or she is fulfilling my will, even when it goes against his or her will. Do you understand? When will they come to me? When will they be? When will it be an “I” (an ỌLỌ́FIN = A realized Self or “I”)? When will they decide? Awo Ifalenu: That is the reason why this spiritual family or Ẹgbẹ́ (in Yorùbá) is called by the name “Ẹgbẹ́ Ódùn ỌLỌ́FIN” = The Spiritual Family of the Secret of ỌLỌ́FIN, of being able to become an ỌLỌ́FIN, or Realized Self or "I", which is what esoterically this means within the Yorùbá mysteries of Bàbá Odùdúwà. Odùdúwà: Learn from the Power. Know the Power. When you are able to make the world turn in the opposite direction, then you will truly be powerful. Do you understand? How long are you been preparing? Everyday What have you learned? Walking to me will make me tire. Do not put your hand inside the mouth of the crocodile if you know that the crocodile will close it. Do not respond that you have understood something if you have not done it. Do not tell me that you understand because you expect that this is what I would like to hear. "DO NOT WALK", you will get tired. Simply BE. And then YOU will truly have Power. Death contains so many mysteries, it is simply to cease to exist. Death is not to leave this plane, Death is to cease to exist. The human being will live his whole life trying to answer about mine, you must answer about Your own existence. What task does my emissary leave you to do? Brothers said: To find about the Yoruba Kings and about Oranmiyan. All try to give an explanation to my existence, and they do not understand that they must give an explanation to their own existence. Do you understand? I am not royal blood, I am not a crown, I am not a people, simply I Am... Do you understand? Just BE ... Be You in your Life, be You in your moments. And then the door of knowledge will be unveiled before you. Do you understand? Stop feeling Great, stop feeling Little. begin to Exist ... And then you will understand that you are the Life of many lives. So much power that you will never ever get sick. Because you will be able to control the life that exists within you, you will be able to control the life that Life gives you. What is the difference between the cells that make you up? When you understand this you will be able to manipulate that process. So in order that you can understand Death you do not need anything more than to Live. What differentiates the cells that make you up from the life that you have. The cells just grow, they reproduce and die. When you understand this you will be able to manipulate this process. And then you will die when you decide to do so... So in order that you can understand this you do not need anything more than to live ... Understand and comprehend the POWER that I am giving you. If you do not understand it or comprehend it, ask. My Spiritual Emissary will be able to understand the question and formulate the answer. Wars will never ever be won by force; they will be won based on Wisdom ... There is no better warrior than the one who is strong and wise. ALÁÀFÍÀ SE GBOGBO A NI - May Peace be with all of you!