I want to tell you a little secret

This is a great moment! It is a great opportunity to be here, in Satsang. We are working the end of imagination. At first, it is very difficult to accept that this wrong and false identification, which has been producing this illusory identity, is an imagination. You carry this fantasy, this belief, and that is why it becomes essential to investigate it.

The way you see yourself is a huge misconception. You have no idea about how false this sense of a separate identity you carry is. You see yourself with a mind and living in a body – within a religious culture, Christian-Jewish, you believe you are a spirit living in a body. When you look at your life, you see it full of problems. The “person” is the illusion of being somebody, which, basically, means carrying problems. This is the belief: a person, a separate entity, living in the world and expecting to be saved from problems, or,, under a religious aspect, a spirit, living a human experience and working to  spiritual salvation.

I want to tell you a little secret: there are no problems and there is no “person” to experience them. There are no problems now and there will never be! There is not any “person” to have problems solved, neither is there a soul to be saved from this material world.

Each thing is happening the way it has to happen. You have only forgotten the Truth about yourself, and so the illusion you have about yourself is the same you have about the world. You cannot accept it as it is, because you do not understand yourself; if you do not understand yourself, you cannot understand the world around you.

If you are identified with the body, then there is a problem; But, if you forget all you have learned about who you believe to be, there is a rupture of this model, of this conditioning, of this belief pattern  (this is the step to be taken in this meeting: to completely forget all you have learned about yourself, about the world, about life, about God, about this so-called “spirituality”). Then, the problems also disappear together with all  this.

You are too attached to several forms of beliefs, and that is why you live in a world full of problems, which are created by the thought itself. The world seems to have many problems; others seem to be very troublesome... You will always see things from a different way than they in fact are.  I call this way of seeing the world, the life, yourself and others as “dream”. This internal state of confusion is expressed externally as “the others in confusion,” “the world in confusion,” and “life in confusion.”

Actually, what is happening is the illusion of living with problems. TThese problems basically are only the rejection to the way everything is presented to “you" (body, mind and thought experiences). The Sages call “dreaming” this state of confusion. You are dreaming, and in this dream, you are someone – someone who was born in this world and has to fight to solve problems. Then, being a “person” means dreaming.

There is no difference between the dream you have now, in the waking state, from all sort of dreams you have at night while the body is sleeping. From the point of view of Life’s experience, all of this is just a dream.

The Sage knows  this is a dream; but those who are not  Sages take this dream as reality. Everything is just an appearance, just like it happens while the body sleeps. Nevertheless, while the Self-Realized man faces the existence of the body, of the mind and of the world as a dream, those unaware of the Truth about themselves take the experience of the body, of the mind and of the world as their own reality. Therefore, what is just a dream ends up being too real, a complicated life full of problems (to those who had not realized the Self). This way, there is no Grace, there is no Beauty, there is no Freedom, there is no Happiness.

It seems that everything is just a matter of point of view, a matter of the way you see it. To the Sage, life is what it is, and this is just a dream, in which there are pleasure and pain, health and disease, good and bad, winning and losing. To the Sage, this movement of duality, of opposites, is only present as a dream, and since there is no more identification with the body, with the mind’s experience, there is no more the sense of separation; The Sage is free from the sense of duality, of conflict... A Sage has no suffering, since there is no  rejection to life as it is, as it presents itself.

Nevertheless, the another one is suffering, is seeking salvation, the one who is still attached to or identified with the belief "I am the body, I am living in the world, and I must be saved by God from this terrible suffering, from these innumerable problems." Because this is part of his dream, of his illusion - he is suffering because of this belief in the sense of separation, because he is attached to this sense of duality.  

From birth to death, life without this Clarity or Clarification (which some call Enlightenment) is confusion, is suffering. This "sense of person" will always be in pain, because it is sleeping, is dreaming. When you come to these meetings, you see the possibility of Awakening, of going beyond the illusion of the “sense of person” within the body experience, with a mind and living in the world as a separate entity. But, as long as the trust in the sense of separation prevails, in this illusion of duality, in this belief, in this contrast, in this division, the problem will prevail. It is never external. It is never outside!  

The conflict is always in this internal view, in this way of facing all this. Everything is a matter of perspective, of point of view, of way of seeing. It does not matter if, in your dream, you are a wise man or a fool one, whether you are a king or a beggar, whether you are a rich person or a poor person, because as long as your perspective comes from the vision of a separate entity, living a human experience, within the sense of duality, the illusion of the problem will persist, because there will be the dream.

The question is: who dreams? The One who has realized the Truth about himself has taken this question very seriously. Some of you are just approaching this fundamental question right now. Who is in this dream? Will this be a dream for someone? If it is a dream, whom is this dream for?

* Originally published in Portuguese on July 30, 2018 ** Transcribed from a talk on an online meeting at the night of June 6th, 2018 - Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10pm (except during retreat periods) - To participate download Paltalk App. Local time: Brazil BRT.