We are before this great wonder: life! In the nature, only the so-called “human being” is in the pursuit of an answer to life. The beauty of this meeting is the possibility of assessing the present Truth, this Mystery. Life is something that just happens, but the human beings have a huge problem, since life does not provide answers to their questions: “Why am I living?”, “Why am I breathing?”, “Why is the heart beating?”, “Why are things happening this way?” Some things may seem to be fair or unfair; others may seem good or bad; right or wrong. Why are some people good while others are bad? Why are some children healthy born while others are sick born?
This happens to human beings and to animals, but human beings are the only one who asks questions and searches for answers. As they don't find the answer, they end up creating a very logical one, such as: “It is the cause and effect law, action and reaction”. This is very logical and therefore explains and balances everything, but the only true answer to all this is the presence of duality.
There is no good without evil; no health without sickness; no pleasure without pain. So we realize this applies to everything. There is no life, no existence without duality: right and wrong, positive and negative, male and female, good and bad, pleasure and pain, to be born and to die... This is easy notice! Without the pain experience, you would never know what pleasure really is. As you experience health, you know what sickness is. As you experience life, you know what a corpse is, what a “cold body” is, breathless, dead. This is quite simple and does not require any sort of philosophy, as the mind tries to create. The mind creates “cause and effect”, “action and reaction”, God doing good and Devil doing evil.
Not to accept the duality of life is to be in conflict and this is something created by the mind. The egoic mind creates the sense of separation between good and evil, between positive and negative, between pleasure and pain. So, it lives in a battle in the pursuit of one thing while trying to get rid of another one. The sense of separation is basically to not welcome life as it happens, acknowledging that everything happens in accordance with the Divine Will.
There is only God doing everything! There is only God happening! There is only God present! To wish one thing and not another one is to be in conflict; it is to believe in the sense of a “me” making choices. All the human suffering lies in this idea of being a person, a separate entity, with the power to make choices. The person “decides”, “solves” and “does” things, which indeed is an illusion. There is not anybody doing absolutely anything! There is not anybody deciding absolutely anything! This is just a thought and you have believed in it for a long time. Life is just what happens.Then, for the question “Why?”, there is no answer. “From where did I come?”, “What am I doing here?”, “To where do I go?” - There are no answers to none of this.
"There is only God doing everything! There is only God happening! There is only God present!"
You did not come, you are not here and you are not going anywhere because you do not exist! I know this destroys philosophy, religion and psychology too. I am sorry, but this is pure fantasy. A fantasy created by the thought that created a thinker to think such things. What I am saying is that the thought itself has created the illusion of a thinker, trying to unveil the mystery of life. It is pure training, proclivity, the bias you all have since your childhood, since you were raised within a culture that has bolstered this.
So, the whole matter is the illusion of a useless “me”, since life is already happening without it! Imagination is unnecessary! Life is happening through this mechanism, through this living organism; this Presence is breathing there, making the heart beat, shaping the body, the world and all appearances. The fact is that Life expresses itself in this duality and nothing is logical, sensible or can be answered. There is no answer!
You must act as if you had fully choice, freedom and responsibility, but you must give up the illusion of believing the results come from your choice, your freedom, your will and determination. Results will always come from the Consciousness in accordance with God's will. God is the result of everything happening! The consequences of your choice, of your will, of your determination are not under your control. Only the illusion of your determination, of your will is, as a belief, under your control.
The time will come when it will be clear to you that there is no “you”, neither in the results of decisions, nor when you come up with them. The fact is that internal bias will define these choices. You can make the clear decision that you need to go on a strict diet because you have morbid obesity and, even though, not be able to go on a diet. This intellectual decision will not determine absolutely anything, and even if you can go on the diet, the outcome will be in accordance with the Divine Will.
The point is that all actions take place in God. Things can happen in three ways: you may get what you want, you may not get what you want and things can happen in an unexpected way, for better or worse. All this is always determined by God, by this Consciousness, by this Divine Will. There is only this Will and there is not any “me” deciding, choosing, solving and making things happen.
The thought passes, the desire arises, but this does not determine absolutely anything! Everything happens according to this Divine Will, and your freedom is to not identify with the results, to not pursue pleasure, to not escape from pain, to not choose one thing over another; it is to abandon the illusion of a “me” in the control, doing something.
Online meeting transcription, originally held on May 23rd, 2018 - First published in Portuguese on August 24th, 2018. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm (Local Time: Brazil BRT), except during Retreat periods.
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Amém. Amazing Grace ! Infinite gratitude 🙏
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