I know it is very challenging hearing about the possibility of going beyond suffering, all mess that the human life is, with its several problems, dilemmas and conflicts. For the vast majority, the model is fear and desire, this chaotic mental state of deep disorder. Thus, the expression "I" is always linked to a confusing state of being, of facing life.
All your perception of life is based on the notion of time and space, such a thing completely produced by the mind. Your life unfolds within this programming. This individual, this "I" always arises in a specific situation as a supposed reality within this context of time and space. In other words, when you say "I," you are within imagination, "I think," "I walk," "I do," "I feel," "I cannot," "I can…" But the truth is that you never know what this affirmation is about when you use this pronoun within any of these contexts.
This "I" is an imaginary object created by thought. It is exteriorized within this time and space, as if it were a real being. So, when you use the expression "I am thinking about this" or "I will do this tomorrow", you cannot clearly perceive that it is just imagination, that there is not any "me." There is nobody to think, nobody to feel, nobody to do, because there is nobody present in this. This "I" is just the idea of someone present. This "person," this "me," this "ego" is continually projecting situations. This is an imaginary movement, a constant search for safety.
Thus, each one of these phrases, which seems to reflect some kind of action, is always linked to the senses of the body and to these thoughts, within this so called "mind." Each thought is linked to the five senses: touch, sight, smell, taste and hearing. Each thought is linked to a specific image, which is what you call "I." However, there is a Reality beyond all this, a present Reality and much far beyond the thought linked to the mind, far beyond the senses linked to the experience of the body.
You are here, in this encounter, to find out the Essential Nature of yourself, That what represents your True Being, your True Divine Nature. This is something possible to be discovered, to be verified, but you need to become receptive to everything that goes on inside you, in this mechanism, in this human organism.
You consider this apparatus body-mind to be your Being, your True Nature, but actually, this is just part of this dream, of what you take for life in this world. When you become receptive to all this body-mind perception, senses, thoughts, sensations, you have the opportunity to see the Truth being unfolded, being completely revealed before yourself.
Only then, you are open to everything around you, to this world around you. This openness is the acceptance of a Reality that surpasses every time and space experience, where the body, the mind and the world unfold and appear. So, you can "find" yourself, without being trapped and dependent on the perception of a separate identity, of a person, of being the agent. This is a process that happens through Meditation, when you become closer and closer to your Self, to your own Being, going beyond all these conflicts and confusion, all this disorder, all this completely mistaken notion about who you are.
What could reveal all this, if not the receptivity, this openness, this great sensitivity to the Truth, to the Truth of Silence, to the Truth of the absence of fear and desire? As you become intimate with yourself, you begin to perceive everything in a completely new way. It is curious to say this because, generally, you believe that you are hearing, seeing, feeling life, but this is completely false. It is something distorted, because everything you are hearing, seeing and feeling is within your own prejudices, your own formulations, of your own conditioning. There is no direct contact with Reality, with Life as it is, because you do not know yourself. So you live as a slave of your self-suggestions, in an imaginary relation with everything around you, in the illusion of being someone within time and space.
It is necessary to Awaken, to be Free, to know the Joy. The purpose of these meetings is to recognize the True Happiness, That which resides in what I might call "True Self-Knowledge," which is the True Knowledge of the world, of Life. The real sense of Being, of your Existence. The Realization of God.
What you have known so far is within the movement of the mind. It is necessary to find out the Truth of your Being; then, this new approach of hearing, seeing and feeling become something multidimensional. Something totally open, free from every attribute, from every relationship of images, of every form of prison. Your Being, your Real Nature, this "State" reveals the Silence. Then the states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep (common to the body) work in a very natural way. I call "natural" this State free from the illusion of desire and fear, free from a false present identity in these states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, because you, in your Being, are beyond them.
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