Hello everyone! Welcome to Paltalk! It is great to be together with you to investigate the Nature of the Self. What is your reality? The thought, likewise the feeling, has created a reality: the experience of this moment through thought and feeling ... The mind manages to provide a reality to this – the reality created and imagined by the mind.
The question to you is: What is Reality? There is the Reality and the "reality" created by the mind. The essence here is to realize this inquiry opportunity and to assume it as something real to your life ... It is to put all your heart into it, to avail all your energy to this great discovery of the Truth about yourself, of the Reality.
Today, I live days of Reality. I notice how distressed people are in the mind, trying to make up ways of fulfillment and of "peace and freedom", "love and happiness" provision. However, they are falling into this trap over and over, posed by the "reality" created by the mind, thereby "drying up ice" ... You can try this as far as you want, as long as you want, but the ice will never dry out. Nobody, until present time, had never been able neither to dry up ice, nor to be happy being "someone" making choices, decisions, working in their projects.
You have already attended college, gotten a fiancée or a fiancé, married, rented or bought a house, had two children or half a dozen. You have already become a businessman, you have already had a Rock band (or discovered that you have a good voice to sing and then you became the lead singer of a band), you have already become popular and now you have many fans, you travel around the world, but you are still trying to stifle this unhappiness availing yourself of drugs and other stuff.
It is not possible to dry up ice. It is not possible to be happy. Happiness is not something you achieve, you work for, work for and accomplish it. The more you look for it, the further you get away from it indeed. The "ice" is always in the outside and there is no way you can realize the Truth outside – what I meant as mind "reality". You got to go beyond the mind, beyond your personal experience.
The sense of person poses a great boundary. It is the only self-limitation. Your dreams are based on this, they are part of the mind, of this illusion of being "someone". When you move yourself, you move away from yourself, because every movement goes outwardly, to the outside. There is no movement at this moment. Therefore this is not something you achieve or attain, but that you witness at this moment as the only Reality here and now.
This is not the mind reality, because its reality lies in the space and time concept. The things created and searched by the mind lie within space. The feeling of having attained as well as the process to get there lies within time. This is the mind reality, the reality of the "me" , of this person you believe you are.
So you need time and space. That is why the mind is very ambitious – it loves having things, trying to fullfill itself with objects, friendships, relationships ... living surrounded by a large crowd. The mind behavior always turns toward this direction: huge amounts of things, people and information. It is always escaping in its limitation, always seeking to fullfill this limitation with infinite things. This movement only creates confusion, because the more things it has, the more afflicted and limited it feels.
One curious thing about the mind is that everything it touches, it gets old, thereby providing no more fullfillment and entailing the mind to replace it. Any new thing you find, like a car, a house, a boyfriend or a husband gets old a few weeks, days, hours or even minutes later. Everything the mind touches gets old outright implying on the replacement desire. At first, the mind feels excited and fulfilled, valued and complete, attempting to "dry up ice", that is, to find happiness in its things.
Whithout the mind, nothing is old nor new. Listen to this: whithout the mind, there is no place for things, no time for projects, desires or dreams. Whithout the mind, there is only the Unique, True Reality and not the mind reality (time, space, objects, accomplishments, dreams, desires). When the mind reality is not present, the Reality of this moment is this Consciousness, this Presence, this Love, this Peace, this Happiness, the Reality of Being, the Reality of God.
Is this simple or complex? You are here to find out you are Here. What I mean is the following: being here is the only Reality. Being Here Is To Be! Now is Here, beyond time and space. Beyond the mind is Here, and there is nothing beyond That. So, this is God's Realization, the Realization of Happiness.
When you are in Satsang, something happens causing the perception of time and space to vanish. It happens because you are Here. It can last maybe three clock seconds, but you do not need three seconds to realize the unique place is Here and the only Real thing is Here, where there is no sense of a "me" making choices, having desires, full of small or big stuff, and so on.
This message has this purpose: to make you realize the only Reality is here. "Here" is the place where your Being loses track of time and space... Here! We can apply any word to replace that expression, yet we are pointing out to What is spaceless and timeless... Here!
OK! See you next meeting! Namaste!
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