Here on this channel, you have already noticed that we are dealing with subjects that people seek to know about. All of them are tied to this question of human life. They are, in fact, fundamental questions, as some call them, because they involve a profound internal change that is possible for each one of us. And so, we are faced with a possibility of going beyond the condition in which we find ourselves. And that is what we are investigating here with you, verifying, deepening, clarifying.
We have various topics being addressed here on the channel. You can find all these topics in playlists.
There are dozens of playlists. And every day, we are adding new videos, deepening each of these subjects. We need to have a direct understanding of life.
But it is also important to say here that this understanding does not arise from a mere intellectual, theoretical, or verbal approach. Something much greater than that is necessary for each one of us. And that something is having an approach to these subjects by learning to listen, learning to look, learning to perceive, to become aware of them.
In theory, in concept, in idea, we remain only in the intellectual, verbal realm. Notice that our way of approaching life is very theoretical.
We do not have a true approach. And without this true approach-what do I call a true approach here? It is the approach where you move from theory to direct experience, to direct experimentation. Unless this happens, we will always remain in ideas, in the realm of ideas, in the terrain of abstraction, in this mere intention or vision motivated by desire, by the search for something for this self-improvement or self-betterment, which, in fact, is a mistake.
These subjects here do not have this purpose. This is not about the idea of improving the person. Here, we are investigating the nature of the person, the structure and nature of the "I," of this ego, of this "me," of this person.
Unless this is understood, we will always continue living without a real vision of life. Notice that when people have questions or would like certain subjects to be addressed, in general, the way we approach all this is by seeking to confirm our beliefs, our theories, and concepts.
So, we do not truly have a real approach. We do this because we are thinking about improving as people. Here, I have something to say to you.
The purpose of this channel is to bring you a vision of yourself, the truth about yourself. And this truth will reveal to you something beyond the person, beyond the "I," beyond the "me," beyond the ego. Therefore, this is not about this person improving.
It is about a clear vision that this person is an illusion. Here, we are working with you on the Awakening of Consciousness, on Spiritual Awakening. Some call it Spiritual Enlightenment.
It is an approach to life, to the real life possible for each one of us. So, when people ask: what is spiritual life? It is divine life, it is the life of your Being, it is the life of God. This is the real life. Questions like "what is life?" are frequent. People want a meaning for life, but they do not understand that there is no other meaning for life except life itself.
Unless we understand what life is, we will continue within these values, these motives, intentions, and appreciations of behavioral patterns that are totally alienated from the beauty of life. There is no separation between what life is and spiritual life.
The life we know is the life of the "I," the life of the ego. And in this life, we are living in conflicts of all kinds. Conflicts exist because of the lack of understanding of the relational life we have with ourselves, with others, with situations, events, and the world itself.
So, a lack of vision of life places us in a relationship with others, with the world, with what arises, with what happens, in a completely mistaken way. And because of this, suffering is present. The human being lives in conflict, lives in contradiction.
He lives expecting something from life, but at the same time, he is seeking something else. This contradictory behavior, in relation to people, situations, events, plans, and projects, places us in a state of suffering because of the conflict that arises between the ideal of doing something and the execution of something different from that.
So, there is a contradiction, and in this contradiction, suffering is present. There is something very common, something that has already been noticed by those who observe the movement of the mind, even if only superficially. We have already approached this, and this is the view that many have from a psychological perspective-that we are indeed within a movement, because of all this suffering, of escape, of psychological escape.
We are facing this escape from reality, which is known in psychology. This reality is the reality we have built. When I say "we," I mean the reasons of thought present in us, the motives, the values of thought.
We are establishing in our lives a psychological condition of existence where we are constantly trying to escape all this pain, all this suffering, all the results of this contradiction within which we behave. So, this produces suffering, and then we seek relief, a distancing.
We never approach life to understand it. We are living precisely as everyone else has lived before us, as all these other people have lived for millennia.
This has been our fate. Our way of behaving is a way of behaving where our patterns are repeating. We are repeating the patterns of our parents, our grandparents, of those who arrived here before us.
And we are living exactly as they did. Unless this is interrupted, unless we have a clear vision of life, free from the condition in which we find ourselves-which is the condition of this egoic mind, this mind of the person, this mind of the "I"-we will always continue living a life of suffering and will always be in this search or this escape from reality, from this pain, from this complication.
Here with you, we are working on the end of this psychological condition of life, the end of this psychological condition of existence, for a truly free life, a life where love is present, where freedom is present, where happiness is here, in this instant. This is something possible when we discover something beyond this person, this "me," beyond this "I."
That is why we need a real approach to life here. So, to the question: what is life? The answer to this question lies in understanding how the mind functions within us. Because when we ask what life is, the idea is to look outside.
But notice, there is no life out there without the idea of someone being present in here. When we look outside, it is because we believe we are inside, being someone. It is when this illusion ends-this idea of being someone, of being this "I," of being this person-that this illusion of life out there disappears, because we have the end of this separation between you and life. There is no you and life. There is only one presence, and that presence is the presence of life.
This idea we have, this thought we carry, this image we hold within us, in this model of the mind and how it has functioned, is a mistake. There is no such "I," this "me," this ego, this person. This is the truth about life. So, the answer to the question "what is life?" is the same answer to "what is spiritual life?" There is only one reality present, and that reality is the divine, it is God, it is the truth.
It is only in this sense that we use the term "spiritual" here. Generally, this term is used by linking it to rituals, ceremonies, mystical practices, or esoteric things. This so-called spirituality is something that thought has produced, something that thought has created.
And we are trapped in these ideas. So, when people use the expression "spiritual life," they connect it to these practices. The truth about life, about what life is, is that life is divine. It is in this sense that life is spiritual.
However, this has nothing to do with all this apparatus, all this paraphernalia that thought has built around this expression. And this is what we are examining with you here when we address the question of the Awakening of Consciousness, which, in fact, represents the end of the "I," the end of the ego, the end of this person.
Naturally, it is the end of everything that the mind has produced. Therefore, this is something that requires the presence of a clear, lucid, real vision of life. And here, as it has been stated, there is no you and life.
An approach to life is an approach to oneself. A self-understanding is the real vision of the understanding of life. You are life.
Life, you, and this divine reality are what is present and have never ceased to be present. We are not aware of this because we live within this framework of ignorance, illusion, and lack of vision regarding the reality of who we are. Therefore, what have we emphasized here? We have emphasized here what it means to have an approach to the truth about yourself.
It is this approach that allows you to have a direct look at life as it is. Notice, life as it is, not as the thought within us constantly tries to interpret it, to create ideas about it. And it is precisely because of this creation of ideas about life that this sense of the "I," the ego, the person, as we recognize ourselves to be, is in conflict with life because it sees itself as separate from life.
And because of this, I repeat, all kinds of confusion, all kinds of disorder, all kinds of suffering are present. This makes human beings constantly seek to escape from this pain. This is psychological escape, it is an escape from reality.
Because as human beings, we suffer, and we do not know how to deal with suffering, we do not know how to become aware of it. We do not move intelligently through the challenges of life. Because it is natural that this sense of ego is unaware of what life is since it sees itself as separate from it. And due to suffering, we try to ease this pain. And we do this by getting involved in addictions, by seeking fulfillment and pleasure in material achievements, in physical sensations, in forms of emotional satisfaction.
So, the human being seeks to escape from pain through the pleasure of food, sex, alcohol, and all kinds of behaviors that can temporarily distance them from this existential pain. Since we do not have the real presence of life, which is the presence of the divine, which is the presence of God, we are not aware of the beauty of our own Being.
And therefore, by confusing ourselves with the egoic mind and identifying with the body, there is this constant search for sensory satisfaction, which throws us into an egocentric model of life. In this self-interest, everything the human being has done is to seek for themselves, for their own "I," something that fills them, that brings them satisfaction, something that can remove them from this pain, from this misery of the egoic mind.
This condition of the egoic mind's misery has trapped us as human beings in ambition, in the pursuit of material, emotional, and physical acquisitions. This generates attachment, this produces fear. So, this is the psychological condition of neurosis. Anxiety, depression, various forms of worries, different fears-all of which we experience in this egoic mind-are part of this condition of the misery of the "I," of the misery of the mind. The good news is that there is a present reality. And this reality is not the mind, it is not the ego.
This reality is bliss. It is not misery. It is happiness. It is not pain, suffering, as we know it in this sense of the ego, in this sense of the "I." Here with you, we are working on how to break free from this, how to go beyond this condition of unhappiness. This requires the presence of this attention to our reactions. We do not know how to deal with ourselves.
Naturally, we do not know how to deal with others within our relationships because this is the condition in which the mind finds itself in this self-centeredness. Everything we do is to obtain something for this "me." And this entire egocentric movement involves behavioral patterns of envy, ambition, control.
So, this causes us suffering. And we do not know how to deal with it. We do not know how to deal with ourselves.
And in these relationships with those closest to us. Notice how important this is to say to you. We do not live isolated. We are all part of a family.
Our relationship with others in the family-with children, with the husband, with the wife, our relationship with closer and even more distant relatives-are relationships where we are constantly reflecting this internal condition of emotional, psychological disorder and confusion due to this self-centeredness. And we are communicating this within relationships, causing suffering, creating more confusion. There is no intelligence, no wisdom, no real vision of ourselves, no real vision of the other.
Thus, our behavior is isolationist, fostering confusion because we are living in the "I," living in the ego, living this psychological unhappiness. There is no love in our lives. There is no peace in our lives. There is no freedom in our minds, in our hearts.
Thus, bringing attention to our reactions, learning to look-just to look-is not about trying to change what you see but about looking.
Looking at what is happening within you. If there is a thought, you become aware of the thought. You become conscious of the thought. If there is an emotion, a feeling...
When we learn to look at our reactions, we begin to have the truth of approach within our relationships with those closest to us, the truth of this "I" that I am. As I approach to look, I perceive the confusion, I perceive the suffering, I perceive the disorder present in this "me." By perceiving this, we do indeed have the possibility of breaking free from this internal condition within ourselves, for a relationship with them without these patterns.
So, here we have already touched on this issue of Self-Awareness and this real attention with you.
When there is Self-Awareness and this complete attention, when there is Self-Awareness and this full attention, when we become aware of how we function, this very awareness breaks this model, breaks this pattern, which is the pattern of the "I." So, we have a closeness to the awareness of Self-Awareness. It is only in this sense that we use the expression "Self-Awareness" here.
It is not a tool for improving as a person; it is the vision of the very "I." And this vision of the very "I," when it is real, does not involve an element to alter it, to change it.
This element would still be part of the "I" itself. That is why what people call "Self-Awareness" out there is just an adjustment of the "I" within the "I" itself. It is a change of the "I" within the "I" itself.
This is not the vision of the truth of the end of the "I." It is the continuity of the "I," improved, expanded, perfected. This is not the sense in which we use this expression here.
Here, Self-Awareness is the awareness of the movement of the "I." Just the awareness, without that element that separates itself to observe.
So, only the looking remains, the observing, the perceiving. This awareness is the awareness of non-separation because there is no longer an observer seeing who they are, because the observer who sees who they are is still part of them, trying to adjust, correct-it is not that. Here with you, we are showing you what it is to have an approach to meditation. And approaching meditation requires an approach without the "I," without the meditator, without the observer.
It is looking at our reactions-just looking. When there is true looking, we have a new quality of energy present that breaks the pattern of the "I," that dissolves this pattern of the ego. Then, something new arises, which is no longer the person, the "me," the "I," the ego. We have the presence of reality.
Therefore, life in love, in freedom, in happiness, is spiritual life. But it is not the life of someone-it is the life of this Being, in the absence of the "I," in the absence of the ego.
So, this is our purpose here with you. On weekends, we have online meetings.
They are two days together, Saturday and Sunday, where we are deepening this with you. You have the link to our WhatsApp group in the video description to participate in these online meetings, where we are deepening and exploring this.
Besides these online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats.
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