"The idea of this division between conscious and unconscious mind is very common. Yes, what we have on the surface, this superficial movement of thoughts that we have, the way we are dealing with life as it happens, in general, this is being attended to by this surface, and we also have this depth. Thus, we have a deeper layer and a superficial layer.
That is why we divide-this division is very common-between conscious and unconscious, the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. The unconscious is this deeper, hidden part, where the memories, the recollections, all this story of the person are. Here, with you, we are investigating the truth about the person, once it is comprehended that we do not have a person present; what we have is the presence of sensations for this body, for this mind- sensations, perceptions, the sensation of cold, heat, pleasure, and pain.
We place the idea of someone in feeling, in feeling pain, in feeling heat or cold, someone in the presence of thoughts. We have thoughts and someone before thoughts, being responsible for this operation of thoughts. Observe that thoughts process in us, in this brain, in an automatic way; it is the reaction of memory, it is simply that. When the brain receives a stimulus, it responds from the past.
Your stimulus is, for example, a question. If I ask you a question, your brain receives a stimulus, then the recollection arises; this recollection, memory, is the presence of thought. We are facing a physical, neurological phenomenon. Therefore, what we call psychological is the neurological response of thought, or of a sensation, or of an emotion, but we do not have the presence of the person. And if we do not have the presence of the person, what we call mind processing in us is something chemical, neurological.
Will the discovery of the awareness of Life as it happens be possible, and not as thought, psychologically, is sustaining, establishing? Because this psychological model is a construction of thought itself, because what we have is a neurological form of happening in this body. The presence of mind is part of this. This psychophysical being functions like this. However, we are sustaining the idea of someone present; this someone is the 'I,' the person, and I repeat: there is no person here, there is no one.
When you say something, I listen. When something is presented to me, I see. This "I see," "I listen" is the mechanics of the body, it is the presence of sensation, it is life in expression. There is no entity here, a psychic being, separating itself from life, unless thought establishes this psychic being as part of an ideological, mental, psychological construction, as we wish to call that.
The fact is that Life is here and now happening, and we need to comprehend ourselves to go beyond this illusion, the illusion of the person that thought says we are, that thought believes, that assumes in the format of a thinker, to be someone. There is no someone, there is no "me," there is no person. We have Life arising, happening here, moment by moment, and we can only become aware of this through Self-awareness.
In this learning about Self-awareness we come across the Truth about the Reality of Life, the true encounter with the Divine, in the question "how to find God?" Here we have the answer. The Awareness of the Reality of this Being, which is present here, is the Divine Reality. This Being Reveals itself when we have the presence of Meditation.
Therefore, what is Meditation? Meditation, what is it? It is the awareness that Reveals this Being when we have the presence of this attention on all the internal movement that happens here and now, within each of us. Then, we mischaracterize, we free ourselves, we abandon the illusion of the personal identity for the Truth of the awareness of this Being. There is no separation between that which is You in your Essential Nature and the Divine Reality, and the Presence of Life.
Therefore, the Reality of Being is Life. There is nothing else. It is the thought in you that creates the idea of separation, where we are living in a world as an entity separate from the world, separate from what happens, separate from the other, separate from situations. To assume the Truth is to look at that which is revealing itself here without placing an idea upon it.
Note that ideas in us are expressions of thoughts. Thoughts in us are the result of something you learned. Note how fundamental it is for us to have this comprehension here. Something you kept within you from past experiences is now the presence of thought. This set of thoughts forms ideas, and we are looking at life from ideas, from thoughts, from acquired knowledge.
Here we have been telling you that you were born for the awareness of this Being, for the Revelation that there is no life as an idea present inside your head. That is, the life that thought idealizes is not real. Real Life is that which is present here, and it is revealing itself when thought does not enter.
What we are saying here, in these encounters, is that all the problems you have are problems that thought has established, in this pattern of behavior of reaction to life as it happens. The way we are living, from thought, from ideas, which are this knowledge we have, is a mistaken way of living, where we see ourselves here as someone present, always establishing the idea of separation between that which you are and Life as it happens.
We have Life as it happens and we have thought about what it should be, thus we are establishing, in division, in separation, the illusion of someone present having choices, looking to see if they like or dislike, if they accept or reject. This is a conditioned, standardized, mechanical, unconscious way of moving in life. It is the way thought processes within each of us that gives us this specific way of feeling about life, of thinking about life.
So, we are sustaining this illusion, the illusion of duality, the illusion of separation and, internally, the main element that sustains all this misunderstanding is the thought "I," it is the person that the image, that thought built, established in each of us, in this brain. Thus, we speak of mind, which, in reality, is all this internal movement of thought, we speak of this mind, in this vision also of conscious and unconscious division.
Can we go beyond this so-called conscious and unconscious mind? Can we abandon this base which is the self-image, where the person that thought established here about you is present? Can we abandon that? That is what Reveals the Truth in this encounter. In the question "how to find God," here we have, if we comprehend the question well, the key to Liberation in this life, from all this suffering, confusion, and problems we have.
The Reality of God is the Truth of Life revealing itself here and now. It is not something to be found in the future, realized tomorrow, but rather to be verified here and now, when we no longer have the illusion of this mind, which is the model of total unawareness of this internal movement. This unawareness is the internal movement of the mind, which we divide into conscious and unconscious.
To assume the Reality of this Being, the Divine Truth is to be before this space where the absence of mind, the absence of the "I," the absence of the ego is present. This is the Real Revelation of the Truth about God, of this encounter with God. It is not someone having an encounter with God, it is the Reality of God revealing itself here and now, when the illusion ends. Then we have the end to suffering, the end to confusion, the end to this psychological disorder in which we find ourselves.
Your Real encounter with Love, with Happiness, with Peace, with Freedom lies in the Revelation of the Truth about God, which is the Reality of this Being, which is Life here and now, Something revealing itself here and now when there are no more illusions. To assume the Reality of That Which You Are is to assume the Truth of Life as it is, without the imagination of what Life should be, of what I need to be, of what I am and need to get rid of.
That which I am, that I have to get rid of: that is the idea, or that which I am is not enough and I need to be better, greater, broader, I need to be different; the idea of being or ceasing to be, the idea of being or becoming, or the idea of what I lack to have and need to have, or the idea of that which I have that is not cool, that is not good, that is bad, of which I have to get rid. Thus, we are living in the field of ideas, in the terrain of thoughts.
To break with this is to become aware of the Reality of Life as it happens, when the illusion of "I am" or "I am not," or "I have to cease to be" is no longer present. "I need to stop being, of being someone unhappy, problematic; I need to become someone loving, happy, successful, intelligent": all this ends when we have the awareness of the Reality of the moment, the awareness of the Reality of Life. Then Life is present, there is no longer the illusion of the "I."
That is what we are working on here with you in online meetings on weekends. It's two days together: Saturday and Sunday. I want to leave an invitation here for you. Besides these online meetings that we have here on weekends, we have in-person meetings and, also, retreats. If what you've just heard is something that makes some sense to you, then an invitation is already here. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and write a comment here: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!"