Everybody
hopes to get a life free from trouble, suffering, and naturally from
all kind of conflict. That’s what everybody seeks. The search for
peace, freedom, happiness is the search for a life free from
conflicts, dilemma, and problems. Self-realization is this
possibility. The Realization of the Truth about Yourself is the
Awakening of the Real Intelligence. Intelligence is something that
has nothing to do with thoughts, and this is the first thing to be
seen. It is needed to comprehend this very clearly. Thought is an
element of limitation, of restriction, and, therefore, born of the
psychological point of view, an element of conflict.
I
am going to talk to you a little bit about this matter of
intelligence and the direct relation it has with the Real Happiness.
What I can tell you about this, is that Happiness is impossible
without the Real Intelligence. And it is impossible for the
Intelligence to exist while the egoic mind is present. Egoic mind is
the illusion of a personal, private mind, separate from
Consciousness. The present Truth is always Consciousness, while the
mind is this limitation formed by a huge set of thoughts that go on
within you. In the mind, you are always projecting something. So, you
are not a present reality in the experience of thoughts.
Thought
is a conditioning and automatic movement. It creates the illusion you
are present in this experience of the thought, projecting the future
or trying to get rid of some burden, some memory, and some
remembrance of the past. The problem is that you believe you are
dealing with the past or with a possible future. You believe that
memory is something of yours and that remembrances, coming from the
past, are a reality you control. The same way, you believe you are
managing the ideas about what might happen, which is the future. In
fact, you never move; neither with the past nor with the future.
Thought is not an element by which you move. That´s why you cannot
move to the past or to the future.
I
decided to talk to you, at this moment, about the beauty of
Intelligence. Notice the truth of this: Intelligence has no relation
to thought. Thus, there cannot be Intelligence in imagination.
Thought is not part of Intelligence, and there cannot be Intelligence
in memory. Therefore, you cannot know It if you believe you can move
based on thoughts. Thoughts are abstractions, concepts, beliefs. This
way, the past and the future are forms of a belief. You may imagine
the past and the future, but you cannot live them. This imagination
is a movement of the thought, and you are never present within it.
This is, basically, the movement of this illusion of the ego
identity. Follow it up with attention! When people say they are
worried, they are afraid of the past or are anxious about the future.
Here is an example of non-intelligence. This is not you in your Real
and Natural State. Therefore, here is the illusion of the sense of
separation.
I
am talking to you today about the importance of Happiness. The beauty
of Realization, which is Happiness, cannot be found in the thought.
When thought is not present, You are already That what you are
seeking. You cannot be anything else than this Reality, which is
Consciousness. And It does not move. It cannot be found in the
movement. It cannot be found in the mind. It is needed that the mind
disappear – this movement of memory and imagination of the future.
Here is the cause of all your problems: the movement of the mind, of
thought, and the absence of that Intelligence, which is You in your
Real and Natural State. Real Intelligence is the presence of this
Consciousness free from the mind.
Then,
what is the cause of your problems?
When
you take a look at your problems, what do you see? All of them begin
from beliefs, and this is something possible only in the sense of
separateness. When there is not Consciousness, problems are present.
That is, the presence of the egoic mind, of this movement, is the
absence of this Natural Consciousness. It is quite weird to say that
because, for me, it is very clear that Consciousness is never absent.
When the mind is occupying this space, which is when you are trapped,
identified with the illusion of this “someone” in the movement of
the thought, it is like this Consciousness, indeed, no longer
existed.
A
little one-year-old child in front of a mirror will be able to see
his/her image reflected on it and how much this image looks like
him/her. It is possible for the child to play and to have fun with
that image. But at this age, this self-consciousness, the
consciousness of the “I” is not clear yet for him/her, because
he/she was not told that “he/she is that body.” What is missing?
The belief, the idea, the thought.
So,
the idea “I” is just a thought, something you learn. If the child
at the age of only one year old plays and has fun with his/her image,
there is a perfect consciousness, a complete experience happening,
but he/she does not individualize it. He/she does not say: “I.”
Consciousness is present, but the illusion of separation is not
present. The one who lives in his/her Natural State, the Real State
of Being, like this child, also lives in pure Consciousness without
the sense of separation. Your Natural State is absolute Intelligence!
It is when the idea “I” arises that the sense of separation
appears. Without this illusion of “I,” there is not a sense of
separation.
Then,
what is the real cause of your problems? The thought, the idea about
how life should be, how things should and must be for “you.” So,
there is “you” and “life.” There is not Consciousness. Your
private worry, personal, egoic one, is always about this
self-consciousness. Consciousness is present, but it is like It were
not present. So your concern is not about your Consciousness but
about the self-consciousness, about being always present in the
experience, experiencing life as it expresses itself, as it manifests
itself. Here is the sense of duality, of separateness, the sense of
“me.”
What
I am saying is that there is no “I.” This is part of the
imagination of the thought. It is part of the conditioning. It is a
belief. All that is present is this Intelligence, which makes everything. Your hair and nails grow, the heart beats, the breath
happens... The cells of your body are alive, they make the digestion
and the body assimilates calories. Everything is happening in this
Intelligence! So what you call “my body” is a manifestation of
this Intelligence.
This
“I” is not necessary. All we have present here is a child in
front of the mirror. There are no problems, because there is not the
sense of “me.” Look at your thoughts... They are not “yours.”
They are part of the culture. There is no original thought.
Everything is just a copy of the copy of the copy... Life is
happening as pure Consciousness, which is your True Nature. You are
pure Intelligence! There is no reason for suffering or space for
misery in You. All this is created only by the illusion of
separateness, which is when the child assumes the illusion of
self-consciousness and thinks he/she is in control, seeing
himself/herself as a entity separated from the mirror itself.
*Online
meeting transcription, originally held on April 22nd,
2019 - First published in Portuguese on May 24th,
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