The point is this: caught inside this routine - I mean this routine of the continuity of that pattern of thinking we have, that we know - in that continuity, it's almost impossible to live the truth of a healing for these internal patterns of psychic suffering that we have. We need to discover what it means to have a new contact with life that, at this instant, is present, appearing at this moment. Here with you, we have been discussing these issues.
There is a Truth present, and this Truth is Real Consciousness, the Reality of What You Are in your Divine Nature, in your True Nature. It remains unknown, and it's interesting for us to say this here to you: this Divine Reality Reveals Itself, but it doesn't Reveal Itself to be known by someone, which is this "I;" it Reveals Itself as Life itself in expression, in Revelation. In that self-revelation, we have the end of the egoic mind, the end of that self-image, as I have called it, which is the person.
You and the self-image: that's our topic here - among other topics. In a talk like this, we develop, with you, many themes. For example, here in this talk, we are working with you on the end of self-image, that self-image, which is the person, which is you. This is the presence of the mind, the known mind, the mind present in us. The presence of the mind is the presence of the past. We are living in the past, remaining in the past.
The persistence of the past is interesting. The persistence of the past is continuity; a continuity in a very particular, very special time, which is psychological time. As we grow older. The base structure of this consciousness, which is the consciousness of the person, of this "me," is that egoic mind; it lives inside a model of psychological time, so in parallel, we have time for the body. We age with the passing of years. So, we have this phenomenon, which is chronological time.
Parallel to that time, we have this time of the continuity of the psychological "I," of that ego-identity. Thus, there will never be a healing for that "I." What we need to investigate here is the truth about this. The fact is that, psychologically, internally, this egoic mind has no cure. We can become aware of the truth about this, and this awareness of Truth sets us free.
Liberation is not the cure. When you have patients, they can be treated and discharged. Then, they go home after the doctor discharges them. The ego is not a hospitalized patient being treated and waiting for discharge later. We are dealing with an element present that sustains itself in the imaginary world of thought, of creating ideas, opinions, beliefs, conditioning, response patterns, memory, recollection: this is the "I," this is the "ego." There is no cure for this condition.
Yes, Liberation from this state, this condition, this way of being is possible; it is when we have the end of the self-image, the end of this ego-identity. It's a supposed identity present and yet paradoxically, despite that, having a very particular and real life. Real, in reality, within its own terms, within its own stances.
We are living our days, aging in years, and at the same time, psychologically sustaining this repetition, this continuity, this routine of an internal psychological condition of suffering, contradiction, conflict, and disorder. The countless desires - many of them contradictory and conflicting - the countless forms of fears, something present in a relation with life, with events, with people, with the very thoughts that arise inside each one of us, here we have the presence of these diverse fears: that is the situation of the "I," the "ego," of the "self-image."
Thus, over the years, we grow older and the mind becomes less and less capable, smaller is the ability to look at the present moment without the past. So, we have a prisoner mind, centered on the past, without freedom. We are not dealing here with you with the issue of healing this "I," but rather the end of this ego-identity. Investigating that requires the presence of a new kind of perceiving.
What is thought? To perceive what thought is, is the foundation. Thought in us is the element present that is present because of the presence of the past; this past is the memory inside you, the psychological memory that hasn't been concluded. We can give you an example here of what thought is, because that's the question: "What is thought?"
When you treat me badly, you hurt my "I," my "ego," you hurt me. There's no separation between me and my ego, between that wound and what I am here, in this self-image. Therefore, you treated me badly, and that's this memory, this recollection that comes up as an image, a thought, and also a feeling and emotion of frustration, pain, revolt, anger I have toward you - that is the presence of thought.
We live inside thought, having this quality of unpleasant memory - we can extend this to many other forms of representations of emotional, psychological pain. But we also have pleasant, agreeable, delightful, happy memories, that this self-image also cultivates and sustains in us. That's how we live our days, maintaining this routine of the person's continuity.
This brain is addicted to living like this, cultivating this story, which is just memory, just recollection. We don't know how to die to this, allow it to dissolve, for a new brain, one that has freshness, this Freedom, this absence of psychological story, of psychological memory. Contact with thought at this moment, with the experience of this instant, when there's no record left, we have contact with the presence of thinking.
When you offend me, and at that moment there is full Attention on these reactions here, inside this body, this brain, when the offensive word arrives, the presence of this Attention on that reaction is the presence of a contact with the Awareness of Meditation, with the Truth of the Revelation of that reaction, and so I'm getting to know myself. It's not the knowledge of someone being aware of themselves to change like a person changes, it's not that.
Here it's about the Awareness of the Revelation of the "I" itself, and this requires the presence of an Intelligence, which here I have called "the truth of thinking." When we have Truth, Intelligence, we have the presence of thinking. It's not someone thinking, it's the presence of the Awareness of what thinking is.
So, what is thinking? Thinking is the awareness of looking with Intelligence at thought, without putting in thought the presence of the thinker. When we have the truth about how we function, we are free from thought, from feeling, from emotion, from sensation, from perception, because we are in direct contact with the Totality of Life, and not with the imagination of a particular identity, which is that self-image, which is that "I" consciousness.
Therefore, that's the contact with Real Awareness; it's not personal, it's not inside this time, which is the past, established in us by thought to draw conclusions, evaluations, to be hurt, offended, wounded, to have that self-image scratched. Are you with me? So, this requires a look at this moment, which is this look of perceiving.
We don't know how to perceive. There is no perception. The way we approach things inside is from someone perceiving. We are always putting a personal, particular, individualistic proposal inside life as it happens. So, we don't know how to perceive. To perceive what's happening doesn't require someone to make conclusions about it, to make choices, to compare, to judge.
When someone offends you, they only find you to offend you because there is no perception. If at this moment perceiving is present, that perceiving is Attention; Attention on that thought that arises inside, the feeling that appears. The image itself is part of that particular world view that resists, that fights, and so it gets offended, it gets hurt. The presence of that perceiving is the presence of that Attention, free from the past.
When we touch here, with you, on the Beauty of this encounter with Meditation, we are not presenting Meditation as a therapeutic technique, as something to heal you from the ego. Meditation is the vision of the Reality of Life as it happens, it is the Truth that Liberates. I repeat: it is not the healing of that psychological disorder that is the presence of the ego mind. It is Liberation, it is Freedom from the illusion of that self-image, that ego-identity - the presence of Meditation.
When the mind is purged, emptied, freed from that psychological content of conditioning, history, memory, psychological thought, particular world view, of the other, and of itself, we have the presence of that space. In that space Reveals That which is beyond the "I," which is not inside that known context: it is You free from that "me," that "I," that self-image, that you as thought says you are.
So, that's our purpose in these meetings here: full Awareness of this, the real vision of this Truth, the Truth that Liberates, that brings this Awareness of God, which is Love, Happiness, Comprehension, and Wisdom. That's the purpose of these online meetings we have here on weekends - Saturdays and Sundays. You have, in the video description, our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends.
Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. So, if this is something that makes any sense to you, consider this an invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and write here in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!