Each
moment is great because it reveals itself as an opportunity for you
to recognize yourself, to discover the Truth about yourself. However,
this is not something that happens automatically, but rather in a
work, although it happens naturally (what is very different from
“automatically”). Therefore, a work with this objective is
required to make this possible.
The
way you see yourself is totally mistaken. You see yourself as a
person, as a separate entity, someone who was born and who will die.
This is already an automatic vision and it is all based on a bias, on
a background of beliefs. To go beyond
this in a natural way is possible through a work.
So,
this bias happens and lasts in an automatic way, but not the
Realization. This automatism is present as a consequence of
unconsciousness, which is the old and antique model of the ego. There
is no person “happening” in the experience of this present
moment; therefore, the personal problems you seem to undergo do not
exist. I know it is very weird to listen to this... Everybody has
problems because everybody believes to be a person.
Life
is a movement without someone within It and does not carry any
problem. There are no problems, because there are no “people”. If
there are no people to resist to the mysterious movement of Life,
there are no problems. However, as long as you remain feeling
yourself as a person, problems will be unavoidable. There is not a
“person” to see his/her problems solved. I know this is a
complicated affirmation for the egoic mind.
What
I am saying is that each thing happens the way it has to. This is the
only Truth, the only possible thing. We are talking from the point of
view of the supreme Reality, of the supreme revelation of God’s
Truth, of the Being, of Consciousness. That is why when we point out
to Enlightenment, to Awakening, we are pointing out to the end of
unconsciousness, to the end of every automatism, of any bias, because
as a separate, illusory entity, you are living within the time
produced and recognized by the mind.
What
you call “past” is “time” recognized only by this
unconsciousness, through this automatism of egoic bias. All that you
call “past” is just story, memory, and remembrance, kind of
imagination the thought produces and recognizes. What I have just
called “automatism”, “unconsciousness”, “conditioning” is
to be attached to this. This has been the “person’s” life with
his/her imaginary problems.
And
so is for the future. The
future is nothing but imagination the thought produces, creating a
supposed “reality” that will happen. Nevertheless, nobody knows
anything, there is no certainty, you are not sure about the future.
You are part of this imagination, you are “someone” who
supposedly came from the past, is crossing the present and walking to
the future. All
this movement is imaginary!
Your
questions are based on beliefs, which are based on remembrances, on
memory, and all of this is under the realm of the egoic mind. There
lies all your problematic life, a personal life that only exists in
imagination, because your True Being is not part of it, it does not
commune or partake in none of this. You do not recognize yourself in
your Real Identity, then you substitute this knowledge of the Truth
about yourself for an imagination about who you are.
I
invite you to go beyond the mind, to disidentify from the body. You
are attached to several forms of beliefs, being the foremost “I am
someone within the body! This body is me! What happens to this body
happens to me, and everything that involves the history of this body,
from birth to death, is my history.” Then you say, “I am a
father”, “I am a mother”, “I am a daughter”, “I am
married”, “I am single”, “I am a widower”, “All the
history attached to this body is my life”. This
is sheer confusion, sheer disorder.
You
are dreaming and taking the dream too seriously. The Sages say this is
only a dream and that you should not take it for reality. The One who
has already attained Self-realization, who is not attached to the
illusion “I am the body, I am someone, I have history” anymore,
sees all of this as just an appearance.
When
watching movies, everything seems so real , but everybody knows it is
just a movie; so the blood spilling is not real blood, the fire is
not truly burning the house, the house is not real, neither is the
fire. Everything is done to look like very real, but it is just an
apparition.
Therefore,
do not mistake yourself for the body, for the mind, and then you
remain beyond the history. But, inside your head, there are lots of
stories, beliefs, illusion, imagination.
All we are saying to you is: Awake! Watch the movie, but recognize yourself in your True Nature and everything will be finished. Then, you will be able to see everything from a new point of view, the point of view of Reality. Life is what It Is to the Sage, and everything else is just a dream encompassing pleasure and pain, joy and sadness, bad and good stuff. But all this dual movement is just life as it is, because you, as a Sage, remain in your Being, in your Real Nature.
*Online
meeting transcription, originally held on September 26th,
2018 - First published in Portuguese on October 14th,
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