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)Eyes of a Blue Dog
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then she looked at me. I thought that she was looking at me for the first time. But then, when she turned around behind the lamp and I kept feeling her slippery and oily look in back of me, over my shoulder, I understood that it was I who was looking at her for the first time. I lit a cigarette. I took a drag on the harsh, strong smoke, before spinning in the chair, balancing on one of the rear legs. After that I saw her there, as if she'd been standing beside the lamp looking at me every night. For a few brief minutes that's all we did: look at each other. I looked from the chair, balancing on one of the rear legs. She stood, with a long and quiet hand on the lamp, looking at me. I saw her eyelids lighted up as on every night. It was then that I remembered the usual thing, when I said to her: 'Eyes of a blue dog.' Without taking her hand off the lamp she said to me: 'That. We'll never forget that.' She left the orbit, sighing: 'Eyes of a blue dog. I've written it everywhere.'
I saw her walk over to the dressing table. I watched her appear in the circular glass of the mirror looking at me now at the end of a back and forth of mathematical light. I watched her keep on looking at me with her great hot-coal eyes: looking at me while she opened the little box covered with pink mother of pearl. I saw her powder her nose. When she finished, she closed the box, stood up again, and walked over to the lamp once more, saying: 'I'm afraid that someone is dreaming about this room and revealing my secrets.' And over the flame she held the same long and tremulous hand that she had been warming before sitting down at the mirror. And she said: 'You don't feel the cold.' And I said to her: 'Sometimes.' And she said to me: 'You must feel it now.' And then I understood why I couldn't have been alone in the seat. It was the cold that had been giving me the certainty of my solitude. 'Now I feel it,' I said. 'And it's strange because the night is quiet. Maybe the sheet fell off.' She didn't answer. Again she began to move toward the mirror and I turned again in the chair, keeping my back to her. Without seeing her, I knew what she was doing. I knew that she was sitting in front of the mirror again, seeing my back, which had had time to reach the depths of the mirror and be caught by her look, which had also had just enough time to reach the depths and return--before the hand had time to start the second turn--until her lips were anointed now with crimson, from the first turn of her hand in front of the mirror. I saw, opposite me, the smooth wall, which was like another blind mirror in which I couldn't see her-- sitting behind me--but could imagine her where she probably was as if a mirror had been hung in place of the wall. 'I see you,' I told her. And on the wall I saw what was as if she had raised her eyes and had seen me with my back turned toward her from the chair, in the depths of the mirror, my face turned toward the wall. Then I saw her lower he eyes again and remain with her eyes always on her brassiere, not talking. And I said to her again: 'I see you.' And she raised her eyes from her brassiere again. 'That's impossible,' she said. I asked her why. And she, with her eyes quiet and on her brassiere again: 'Because your face is turned toward the wall.' Then I spun the chair around. I had the cigarette clenched in my mouth. When I stayed facing the mirror she was back by the lamp. Now she had her hands open over the flame, like the two wings of a hen, toasting herself, and with her face shaded by her own fingers. 'I think I'm going to catch cold,' she said. 'This must be a city of ice.' She turned her face to profile and her skin, from copper to red, suddenly became sad. 'Do something about it,' she said. And she began to get undressed, item by item, starting at the top with the brassiere. I told her: 'I'm going to turn back to the wall.' She said: 'No. In any case, you'll see me the way you did when your back was turned.' And no sooner had she said it than she was almost completely undressed, with the flame licking her long copper skin. 'I've always wanted to see you like that, with the skin of your belly full of deep pits, as if you'd been beaten.' And before I realized that my words had become clumsy at the sight of her nakedness she became motionless, warming herself on the globe of the lamp, and she said: 'Sometimes I think I'm made of metal.' She was silent for an instant. The position of her hands over the flame varied slightly. I said: 'Sometimes in other dreams, I've thought you were only a little bronze statue in the corner of some museum. Maybe that's why you're cold.' And she said: 'Sometimes, when I sleep on my heart, I can feel my body growing hollow and my skin is like plate. Then, when the blood beats inside me, it's as if someone were calling by knocking on my stomach and I can feel my own copper sound in the bed. It's like- -what do you call it--laminated metal.' She drew closer to the lamp. 'I would have liked to hear you,' I said. And she said: 'If we find each other sometime, put your ear to my ribs when I sleep on the left side and you'll hear me echoing. I've always wanted you to do it sometime.' I heard her breathe heavily as she talked. And she said that for years she'd done nothing different. Her life had been dedicated to finding me in reality, through that identifying phrase: 'Eyes of a blue dog.' And she went along the street saying it aloud, as a way of telling the only person who could have understood her:
'I'm the one who comes into your dreams every night and tells you: 'Eyes of a blue dog.'' And she said that she went into restaurants and before ordering said to the waiters: 'Eyes of a blue dog.' But the waiters bowed reverently, without remembering ever having said that in their dreams. Then she would write on the napkins and scratch on the varnish of the tables with a knife: 'Eyes of a blue dog.' And on the steamed-up windows of hotels, stations, all public buildings, she would write with her forefinger: 'Eyes of a blue dog.' She said that once she went into a drugstore and noticed the same smell that she had smelled in her room one night after having dreamed about me. 'He must be near,' she thought, seeing the clean, new tiles of the drugstore. Then she went over to the clerk and said to him: 'I always dream about a man who says to me: 'Eyes of a blue dog.'' And she said the clerk had looked at her eyes and told her: 'As a matter of fact, miss, you do have eyes like that.' And she said to him: 'I have to find the man who told me those very words in my dreams.' And the clerk started to laugh and moved to the other end of the counter. She kept on seeing the clean tile and smelling the odor. And she opened her purse and on the tiles with her crimson lipstick, she wrote in red letters: 'Eyes of a blue dog.' The clerk came back from where he had been. He told her: Madam, you have dirtied the tiles.' He gave her a damp cloth, saying: 'Clean it up.' And she said, still by the lamp, that she had spent the whole afternoon on all fours, washing the tiles and saying: 'Eyes of a blue dog,' until people gathered at the door and said she was crazy.
Now, when she finished speaking, I remained in the corner, sitting, rocking in the chair. 'Every day I try to remember the phrase with which I am to find you,' I said. 'Now I don't think I'll forget it tomorrow. Still, I've always said the same thing and when I wake up I've always forgotten what the words I can find you with are.' And she said: 'You invented them yourself on the first day.' And I said to her: 'I invented them because I saw your eyes of ash. But I never remember the next morning.' And she, with clenched fists, beside the lamp, breathed deeply: 'If you could at least remember now what city I've been writing it in.'
Her tightened teeth gleamed over the flame. 'I'd like to touch you now,' I said. She raised the face that had been looking at the light; she raised her look, burning, roasting, too, just like her, like her hands, and I felt that she saw me, in the corner where I was sitting, rocking in the chair. 'You'd never told me that,' she said. 'I tell you now and it's the truth,' I said. >From the other side of the lamp she asked for a cigarette. The butt had disappeared between my fingers. I'd forgotten I was smoking. She said: 'I don't know why I can't remember where I wrote it.' And I said to her: 'For the same reason that tomorrow I won't be able to remember the words.' And she said sadly: 'No. It's just that sometimes I think that I've dreamed that too.' I stood up and walked toward the lamp. She was a little beyond, and I kept on walking with the cigarettes and matches in my hand, which would not go beyond the lamp. I held the cigarette out to her. She squeezed it between her lips and leaned over to reach the flame before I had time to light the match. 'In some city in the world, on all the walls, those words have to appear in writing: 'Eyes of a blue dog,' I said. 'If I remembered them tomorrow I could find you.' She raised her head again and now the lighted coal was between her lips. 'Eyes of a blue dog,' she sighed, remembered, with the cigarette drooping over her chin and one eye half closed. The she sucked in the smoke with the cigarette between her fingers and exclaimed: 'This is something else now. I'm warming up.' And she said it with her voice a little lukewarm and fleeting, as if she hadn't really said it, but as if she had written it on a piece of paper and had brought the paper close to the flame while I read: 'I'm warming,' and she had continued with the paper between her thumb and forefinger, turning it around as it was being consumed and I had just read '. . . up,' before the paper was completely consumed and dropped all wrinkled to the floor, diminished, converted into light ash dust. 'That's better,' I said. 'Sometimes it frightens me to see you that way. Trembling beside a lamp.'
We had been seeing each other for several years. Sometimes, when we were already together, somebody would drop a spoon outside and we would wake up. Little by little we'd been coming to understand that our friendship was subordinated to things, to the simplest of happenings. Our meetings always ended that way, with the fall of a spoon early in the morning.
Now, next to the lamp, she was looking at me. I remembered that she had also looked at me in that way in the past, from that remote dream where I made the chair spin on its back legs and remained facing a strange woman with ashen eyes. It was in that dream that I asked her for the first time: 'Who are you?' And she said to me: 'I don't remember.' I said to her: 'But I think we've seen each other before.' And she said, indifferently: 'I think I dreamed about you once, about this same room.' And I told her: 'That's it. I'm beginning to remember now.' And she said: 'How strange. It's certain that we've met in other dreams.'
She took two drags on the cigarette. I was still standing, facing the lamp, when suddenly I kept looking at her. I looked her up and down and she was still copper; no longer hard and cold metal, but yellow, soft, malleable copper. 'I'd like to touch you,' I said again. And she said: 'You'll ruin everything.' I said: 'It doesn't matter now. All we have to do is turn the pillow in order to meet again.' And I held my hand out over the lamp. She didn't move. 'You'll ruin everything,' she said again before I could touch her. 'Maybe, if you come around behind the lamp, we'd wake up frightened in who knows what part of the world.' But I insisted: 'It doesn't matter.' And she said: 'If we turned over the pillow, we'd meet again. But when you wake up you'll have forgotten.' I began to move toward the corner. She stayed behind, warming her hands over the flame. And I still wasn't beside the chair when I heard her say behind me: 'When I wake up at midnight, I keep turning in bed, with the fringe of the pillow burning my knee, and repeating until dawn: 'Eyes of a blue dog.''
Then I remained with my face toward the wall. 'It's already dawning,' I said without looking at her. 'When it struck two I was awake and that was a long time back.' I went to the door. When I had the knob in my hand, I heard her voice again, the same, invariable. 'Don't open that door,' she said. 'The hallway is full of difficult dreams.' And I asked her: 'How do you know?' And she told me: 'Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.' I had the door half opened. I moved it a little and a cold, thin breeze brought me the fresh smell of vegetable earth, damp fields. She spoke again. I gave the turn, still moving the door, mounted on silent hinges, and I told her: 'I don't think there's any hallway outside here. I'm getting the smell of country.' And she, a little distant, told me: 'I know that better than you. What's happening is that there's a woman outside dreaming about the country.' She crossed her arms over the flame. She continued speaking: 'It's that woman who always wanted to have a house in the country and was never able to leave the city.' I remembered having seen the woman in some previous dream, but I knew, with the door ajar now, that within half an hour I would have to go down for breakfast. And I said: 'In any case, I have to leave here in order to wake up.'
Outside the wind fluttered for an instant, then remained quiet, and the breathing of someone sleeping who had just turned over in bed could be heard. The wind from the fields had ceased. There were no more smells. 'Tomorrow I'll recognize you from that,' I said. 'I'll recognize you when on the street I see a woman writing 'Eyes of a blue dog' on the walls.' And she, with a sad smile--which was already a smile of surrender to the impossible, the unreachable--said: 'Yet you won't remember anything during the day.' And she put her hands back over the lamp, her features darkened by a bitter cloud. 'You're the only man who doesn't remember anything of what he's dreamed after he wakes up.'
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Povestea spune ca un rege african avea un prieten foarte bun din copilarie. Acest prieten avea obiceiul ca indiferent de situatia in care se afla (pozitiva sau negativa) sa reactioneze la fel: "E foarte bine!"
Intr-o zi, regele si prietenul sau se aflau la vanatoare. Prietenul incarca si pregatea armele pentru rege. Dintr-o greseala, o arma s-a descarcat si i-a retezat regelui buricul degetului mare. Examinand situatia, prietenul a remarcat ca de obicei: "E foarte bine!" .
La asta regele a replicat: "Nu, nu e bine deloc!" si a ordonat ca prietenul lui sa fie aruncat in inchisoare.
Un an mai tarziu, regele vana intr-o zona periculoasa. A fost capturat de canibali, care l-au dus in satul lor. L-au legat de un protap si se pregateau sa-l "prepare".
Unul dintre canibali care vroia sa dea foc a observat ca regele nu avea buricul degetului mare. Fiind superstitiosi, aveau ca regula sa nu manance pe nimeni care nu era....intreg. In concluzie l-au eliberat pe rege. La intoarcerea acasa, regele si-a amintit de intamplarea de la vanatoare cand isi pierduse degetul si, cuprins de remuscari, a ordonat ca prietenul lui sa fie eliberat.
"Ai avut drepate", i-a spus prietenului proaspat eliberat. "A fost foarte bine ca mi-ai retezat buricul degetului." Si a inceput sa-i povesteasca patania cu canibalii..
"Imi pare foarte rau ca te-am trimis la inchisoare atata vreme. A fost urat din partea mea sa fac acest lucru."
"Nu ", a replicat prietenul , "Este foarte bine!".
"Ce vrei sa spui cu asta, "Este foarte bine?!?" Cum poate fi bine sa-ti trimiti prietenul la puscarie un an?".
"Daca n-as fi fost in puscarie, as fi fost cu tine."
Indiferent in ce situate te afli, depinde de tine si de atitudinea ta daca este o situatie buna sau una rea.
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Accesul la miracol si, implicit, la supraconstient nu este posibil decat atunci cand reincepem sa privim lumea prin ochii unui copil. E vorba despre redescoperirea inocentei, nu despre cultivarea infantilitatii. Problema adultilor este ca si-au pierdut inocenta, dar si-au accentuat infantilitatea, prin evitarea sistematica a asumarii responsabilitatii. Kahuna afirma ca, reinstaurand inocenta – starea in care nu judecam, nu punem etichete, nu suntem obsedati de castigul personal – viata noastra se poate schimba radical.
Nu va faceti probleme. Intreaga lume este creatia ta si acest lucru trebuie luat ad litteram, afirma dr. Len. Actele violente ale acelor criminali bolnavi psihic din Spitalul de Stat din Hawaii erau responsabilitatea lui, doar pentru faptul ca acestia aparusera in viata sa. Problemele lor erau creatia sa si, de aceea, tot ce a trebuit sa faca pentru a-i vindeca a fost sa lucreze asupra lui insusi, sa stearga el insusi gandurile care le-au generat. Exagerare dusa la extrem, am putea spune, chiar daca descoperirile recente din fizica cuantica par a conduce la aceleasi concluzii. Asta inseamna ca daca copiii nostri au o problema de sanatate, ceva din noi a produs acea problema; daca partenerul de afaceri ne trage pe sfoara, noi am facut ca acel lucru sa se petreaca; daca sotul ori sotia ne inseala, noi am atras asta.
Pare absurd. Totusi, evenimentele din viata noastra actualizeaza amintiri, tipare de actiune trecute si reactii ciudate. La urma urmei, toti am experimentat reactii care ne-au surprins si pe noi, si pe cei care ne cunosteau foarte bine – reactii in care parca nu eram noi insine, nu-i asa? Daca te confrunti cu o problema, o situatie limita, un necaz, o suferinta, intrebarea pe care trebuie sa ti-o pui automat este: ce anume din ceea ce se intampla in mine a generat sau a atras aceasta problema? Apoi trebuie sa stergi gandurile care au produs respectiva problema.
Dar cum putem sti care ganduri au creat-o? Nu va faceti probleme, spune dr. Len. O parte din voi stie. Trebuie doar sa-i dati permisiunea sa o faca."Cand judec o persoana, acea persoana devine un "prizonier al gandurilor mele".
Cream lumea prin gandurile noastre, iar pentru kahuna aceasta nu este o metafora. Este o realitate. In viziunea lor – care este comuna cu cea a tuturor religiilor – Dumnezeu a creat fiinte perfecte, dar noi nu mai putem sa vedem acest lucru, fiindca intre ceea ce exista in realitate si ceea ce vedem se interpune gandul.
Noi nu mai vedem ce exista in realitate, noi nu ne vedem decat propriile ganduri. Lumea este ceea ce credem ca este, afirma Serge Kahili King, doctor in psihologie si o autoritate internationala in materie de huna. Psihologia moderna tinde sa ajunga la aceleasi concluzii, de vreme ce afirma ca oamenii nu reactioneaza la evenimentele in sine, ci la propria lor perceptie asupra evenimentelor. Mai mult, studiile arata ca oamenii tind sa se conformeze perceptiilor altor oameni. Altfel spus, daca spunem in mod repetat unui copil ca este rau, el va ajunge sa se comporte ca atare. Daca unui angajat i se lauda in mod repetat performantele, chiar daca acestea nu sunt tocmai grozave, el va ajunge sa lucreze din ce in ce mai bine.
In limbajul unui kahuna, acest fenomen se exprima in felul urmator: daca eu gandesc intr-un anumit fel despre o persoana, acea persoana devine un prizonier al gandurilor mele. Asta inseamna ca el tinde sa se conformeze perceptiei mele si, mai devreme sau mai tarziu, se va comporta in asa fel incat sa-mi confirme perceptia despre el. Prin urmare, actele unei persoane sunt o consecinta a ceea ce gandesc despre ea si trebuie sa-mi asum responsabilitatea pentru acest lucru. De aceea, a nu judeca este singura atitudine corecta vizavi de o alta persoana.
Daca este ceva de corectat, spun kahuna, atunci acest ceva reprezinta erorile noastre de gandire. Asa stand lucrurile, atunci poate ca nu ar trebui sa ne mire foarte mult ca dr. Len si-a vindecat pacientii, lucrand doar asupra lui insusi.
Ce a facut exact doctorul Len pentru a-si vindeca pacientii? Am repetat incontinuu: Imi pare rau. Te rog, iarta-ma, a declarat senin dr. Len. Asta-i tot.
De-a dreptul socant! Banuiesc ca doctorului Len ii place sa socheze, sa surpinda printr-o lovitura puternica si neasteptata, rutina noastra mentala. El spune ca oamenii, in special vesticii, gandesc prea mult. Mai exact, sunt prinsi in rutina unor programe care ruleaza inconstient. Contrar a ceea ce gandim noi, el sustine cu tarie ca intelectul nu poate rezolva problemele. Cred ca Einstein ar fi fost de acord cu el, din moment ce a declarat ca "o problema nu poate fi rezolvata la nivelul de gandire care a generat-o".
CERE-TI IERTARE
De aceea, nu trebuie decat sa constientizezi problema pe care o resimti la nivel fizic, emotional, mental etc., apoi sa incepi sa iti purifici gandirea care a atras-o, printr-un proces de cainta si iertare.” Te rog, iarta-ma ca te-am facut prizonierul gandurilor mele si fiindca, prin negativismul gandurilor mele, ti-am influentat in mod distructiv comportamentul” . Asa este in crestinism: ruga trebuie precedata de cainta si de cererea iertarii. Asta este ceea ce poate face constientul: sa se caiasca si sa ceara iertare. Restul este treaba supraconstientului, el este armonizatorul, vindecatorul. Suntem prizonierii propriei minti si nu putem evada folosindu-ne tocmai de minte – temnicerul insusi.
Cum te poti ajuta in viata de zi cu zi?
Acest proces poate fi folosit in cele mai diverse situatii: cand suntem bolnavi, cand cineva apropiat este bolnav, cand ne confruntam cu probleme profesionale, financiare, sentimentale etc.
Daca problema tine de sanatate, atunci putem spune corpului: Imi pare rau ca ti-am facut rau prin gandurile mele negative. Te rog, iarta-ma. Si repetam acest lucru cu sinceritate, pana problema dispare.
Daca copilul are probleme la scoala, putem repeta mental: Imi pare rau ca ti-am creat aceste probleme prin gandurile mele. Te rog, iarta-ma. Este esential ca trairea sa fie autentica, iar cererea de iertare sa fie pe deplin sincera. Consecinta imediata este un sentiment de iubire, iar dr. Len si Morrnah Simeona declara ca acesta este un semnal ca vindecarea a inceput.
Probabil ca la o prima citire vei respinge aceste lucruri, pe motivul ca sunt prostii, povesti de adormit copiii. Dar kahuna afirma ca supraconstientul este receptiv tocmai la limbajul de copil, ignorand formularile savante. Interesant este ca psihanaliza a ajuns la o concluzie asemanatoare: interpretarile pretentioase, destepte, intelectualizate nu ajung la pacienti. Accesul la miracol, si implicit, la supraconstient nu este posibil, decat atunci cand reincepem sa privim lumea prin ochii unui copil. E vorba despre redescoperirea inocentei, nu despre cultivarea infantilitatii. Problema adultilor este ca si-au pierdut inocenta, dar si-au accentuat infantilitatea prin evitarea sistematica a asumarii responsabilitatii. Kahuna afirma ca, reinstaurand inocenta – starea in care nu judecam, nu punem etichete, nu suntem obsedati de castigul personal – viata noastra se poate schimba radical: renuntam la a ne complica viata inutil si ne redobandim bucuria de a trai, devenim mai creativi, ne adaptam mai suplu si mai eficient schimbarilor; iar calitatea relatiilor noastre se imbunatateste semnificativ.
IN LOC DE CONCLUZIE
Un medic din Statele Unite ale Americii, dr. Ira Byock, a lucrat foarte mult cu bolnavi in faza terminala si a descris experientele si concluziile sale in doua carti devenite best-seller- uri. Una dintre ele se numeste The Four Things that Matter Most (Cele ce patru lucruri, care conteaza cel mai mult) si se refera la cele mai frecvente declaratii pe care bolnavii le fac celor apropiati pe patul de moarte. Acestea sunt:
IARTA-MA
TE IERT
MULTUMESC
TE IUBESC
Dr. Ira Bylock considera ca nu trebuie sa ajungem pe patul de moarte, pentru a folosi aceste declaratii care, in opinia sa, au un potential imens in a ne vindeca relatiile si in a ne transforma profund viata.
"Ma vei gasi in campurile de Lumina
Unde Frumusetea,radiind,creeaza forte de viata;
Cauta-ma-n temeliile Lumilor,acolo unde
Sufletele vor sa-si cucereasca simtirea zeiasca
prin Iubirea care contempla Sinea in Tot."
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