You
have been living under restraint, for this is the burden of
personality. You look at everything around you through that
personality, which is the sense of identity created by yourself due
to your imagination. You have been identifying with your daily
experience, creating an identity with your professional experience,
family, friends, objects (such as houses and cars), activities ...
So, the sense of personality is attached to a so-called "life"
based on externalities, and it is from that you have assigned this
sense of identity you call "me." You consider yourself a
person, so you are a personality.
The
word "person" means "mask," an individual
feature, and that is the restriction. You are restricted to a
personal experience, so the Mystery, the Beauty and the Grace of Life
are lost, because your way of seeing everything around you is always
limited by personal decisions, choices and concerns. There
is no Intelligence!
When
you really understand the need to investigate this, you open up
yourself to the opportunity of going beyond this situation of
mediocrity, which is the situation that everyone is undergoing.
Everybody lives that way, because they are mistaken him/herself for
an image he/she does of him/herself, a belief about who he/she is.
So, when you live identified with that personality, with that person,
there is a huge limitation What are you doing to yourself? What are
you doing when you are living within that sense of person? In
Satsang, we say that you are living in the ego, living in a false
identity, establishing your daily life within this condition of
"personal life," in this limitation, subjection,
restriction.
From
the person standpoint of view, which means living within one's own
concepts and beliefs, within common ideas, that is a very heavy
burden, a huge burden. This is the human unhappiness, unhappiness of
the ego, unhappiness of the “I,” personal unhappiness. This
burden is the search for safety, the search for recognition, comfort
and fulfillment, somehow. One thing that never happens, because
personality never gets filled, never finds comfort or safety. The
ego, however it seeks, does not know Happiness. In fact, its search
is precisely by reason of this situation. The nature of the ego is
non-safety, is fear, is desire.
Your
work here is to investigate the Nature of the Truth about yourself,
and then the fight ends. When you are free from the "person,"
there is no more struggle. This personality is only a mask, a false
identity and, therefore, a hallucination. Notice that all that is
required is a new view about yourself. This new view gives you a
correct perspective about the external world, your world of
relationships with people, with objects, with professional
activities, or any other activity.
"Your work here is to investigate the Nature of the Truth about yourself, and then the fight ends."
It
is possible to attain Liberation from this hallucination, this
experiencer, this observer, this thinker, this "I," this
"me" ... It is when this limitation, this restriction is
totally swept away, totally destroyed, broken. When this new and real
perspective, which is the right perspective, is present, there is no
one else! Some call This "Awakening," or "Enlightenment"
- the end of confusion, of disorder, of war, of fear.
You
were born to be absolutely and unconditionally free! Something
possible in this Intelligence, but impossible in this limitation, in
that mistaken relationship with Life, with Yourself. The love to the
Truth, to the Life is the surrender to the Real. This courage to
surrender to the Real is possible when you are really "burning"
for This! Truth must be the first thing in life, because That is
Life! Without it, it is only illusion in this hallucination of being
someone; the illusion of personality in this hallucination of the
false “me.”
This
implies a true recognition of the Truth about yourself, the
realization that there is no one present here and now in this
day-to-day experience, in this so-called "daily life." This
is what we call Consciousness, Presence, Being, Life as It Is, the
State of pure Wisdom. You are a Sage - this is your Real identity -
but a Sage does not live in suffering, because He is not in
hallucination, not in a hypnotic effect, in a suggested effect,
attached to a belief model. This is how human beings have been
living; but not the Sage!
|*Online
meeting transcription, originally held on August 3, 2018. First
published in Portuguese on September 2, 2018. Online meetings every
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