Your work towards Awakening begins exactly here: stop imagining, stop projecting images inside there about how things are, how they were or how they will be. The second step is: welcome the external world in its apparitions as it is! If it is raining, this is a fact! Do not you want to get wet? Use an umbrella! The rain is out there, you need to go out... open an umbrella and go! Do not make this situation, this event, this mere incident, a personal calamity. Do not turn this in a personal drama. Do not build your story around the rain.
Ego does it all the time! If it does not do it with the rain, it does it with other things that are happening. Your husband did not take the plate from the table to the kitchen and you have already asked for him ten times… No, a hundred times! However, he never does! This is a fact! Either he has a hearing problem, or he is not willing to be in this game with you, fulfilling your desire. Do not make it a drama!
The work of Awakening needs to be perceived by you in the simplest things, where the sense of “me” is being built and sustained. Keeping yourself aware of yourself in a zealous, applied, dedicated way, without losing yourself on imaginations, on thoughts about facts, about events, you begin to perceive this intricate, malicious, captious and imaginary movement of an identity present there, making dramas, storms in a teacup!
Awakening is to remain here, now, in this “I Am,” knowing that what is happening externally or presenting internally do not have any reality outside this “I Am,” and therefore it cannot steal your attention, it cannot capture you.
What is the meaning of Awakening? It is to remain in your Being, in a complete, total and irreversible way; as a fact, not as a verbal theory, not as an Advaita philosophy, not as a belief. The only certainty is What is Real, which is beyond beliefs, opinions and conclusions.
There is only this instant! It has nothing to do with the external world. When I say “this instant,” I am not talking about what is happening, because what is happening has already happened. Do you see? Are you breathing? No! Either you breathed or you are going to breathe. Did you breathe? It is already gone! Are you going to breathe? It is not here! So, none of this is happening. Is anyone breathing? Breathing happens, but as everything else that happens, it is already gone! Is not it?
I am talking about That which is immutable. That does not happen. That did not happen… Look at your head, what a curious thing: thought happened or is going to happen; it is not immutable. Feeling happened or is going to happen; it is not immutable.
The future that mind loves to create in its imagination is not a fact, it is a belief, just a thought. It is not immutable! Reality is immutable! The only certainty is: “I am.” Remain on this! Work towards this! It does not matter if you fail many times. You have been millions of years without trying it even once and do you want to get it right already at the first time? You have a life ahead of you. This "I am" is timeless. It does not happen. It did not happen. It will not happen. Your life is a fraud! I talk about this “life” that thought projects, placing itself in time and space.
Now we have touched a fundamental aspect that is the key for this Liberation, for this Realization, for That which I have called Awakening. This key is Meditation!
Now you know what Meditation is. Was not the dish taken to the kitchen? Who cares? To whom does this injure, strike, hurt, offend, sadden, upset, depress, distress? Did not you get a Christmas present? To whom does it matter? Did they remember your birthday? Whose birthday? To whom does it matter? Who cares of feeling loved?
In your Being, You are God! What is missing for God? Does someone need to take the plate to the kitchen for God to feel good? This just happens in this illusion, in this fluctuation of the psychological time created by thought. There is not time. There is not past. There is not future. There is not present. There is not thought. There is not anybody! This is meditation!
You cannot get rid of the world outside nor can you give an order for everything to happen as you want. There is no use trying to order the rain to stop. Get the umbrella and go out with it! There is no use trying to change the other to feel fulfilled, happy, satisfied, realized… All of this is in the old foundation of the egoic mind.
Why are psychiatrist offices full of patients? Answer me. On a smaller or more expressive scale, where does your madness stand? This madness is only in the illusion there is someone there, apart from this "I am."
Awakening is to remain here and now! Discover in yourself what maintains that sense of an identity present at this moment. This is hiding Reality. It is not destroying Reality, because It is untouchable. However miserable you feel, however unhappy and troubled you feel, it does not change the fact that this "I Am" remains beyond the body and the mind.
You have all the energy needed for this Awakening. The key is available! However, you are wasting this energy all the time, daydreaming, thinking, imagining, identifying with the body and its satisfactions, with the external environment and its events, its episodes, as if this were more important than You! Then, this turns out to be, in fact, more important than You! When it happens, you are miserable. When others, the world, the shapes, the things, the thoughts, the feelings and the imaginations are more important than remaining in this looking, in this hearing, in this feeling, in this experiencing, in this living, without identifying with this, you are miserable.
Ego does it all the time! If it does not do it with the rain, it does it with other things that are happening. Your husband did not take the plate from the table to the kitchen and you have already asked for him ten times… No, a hundred times! However, he never does! This is a fact! Either he has a hearing problem, or he is not willing to be in this game with you, fulfilling your desire. Do not make it a drama!
The work of Awakening needs to be perceived by you in the simplest things, where the sense of “me” is being built and sustained. Keeping yourself aware of yourself in a zealous, applied, dedicated way, without losing yourself on imaginations, on thoughts about facts, about events, you begin to perceive this intricate, malicious, captious and imaginary movement of an identity present there, making dramas, storms in a teacup!
Awakening is to remain here, now, in this “I Am,” knowing that what is happening externally or presenting internally do not have any reality outside this “I Am,” and therefore it cannot steal your attention, it cannot capture you.
What is the meaning of Awakening? It is to remain in your Being, in a complete, total and irreversible way; as a fact, not as a verbal theory, not as an Advaita philosophy, not as a belief. The only certainty is What is Real, which is beyond beliefs, opinions and conclusions.
There is only this instant! It has nothing to do with the external world. When I say “this instant,” I am not talking about what is happening, because what is happening has already happened. Do you see? Are you breathing? No! Either you breathed or you are going to breathe. Did you breathe? It is already gone! Are you going to breathe? It is not here! So, none of this is happening. Is anyone breathing? Breathing happens, but as everything else that happens, it is already gone! Is not it?
I am talking about That which is immutable. That does not happen. That did not happen… Look at your head, what a curious thing: thought happened or is going to happen; it is not immutable. Feeling happened or is going to happen; it is not immutable.
The future that mind loves to create in its imagination is not a fact, it is a belief, just a thought. It is not immutable! Reality is immutable! The only certainty is: “I am.” Remain on this! Work towards this! It does not matter if you fail many times. You have been millions of years without trying it even once and do you want to get it right already at the first time? You have a life ahead of you. This "I am" is timeless. It does not happen. It did not happen. It will not happen. Your life is a fraud! I talk about this “life” that thought projects, placing itself in time and space.
Now we have touched a fundamental aspect that is the key for this Liberation, for this Realization, for That which I have called Awakening. This key is Meditation!
Now you know what Meditation is. Was not the dish taken to the kitchen? Who cares? To whom does this injure, strike, hurt, offend, sadden, upset, depress, distress? Did not you get a Christmas present? To whom does it matter? Did they remember your birthday? Whose birthday? To whom does it matter? Who cares of feeling loved?
In your Being, You are God! What is missing for God? Does someone need to take the plate to the kitchen for God to feel good? This just happens in this illusion, in this fluctuation of the psychological time created by thought. There is not time. There is not past. There is not future. There is not present. There is not thought. There is not anybody! This is meditation!
You cannot get rid of the world outside nor can you give an order for everything to happen as you want. There is no use trying to order the rain to stop. Get the umbrella and go out with it! There is no use trying to change the other to feel fulfilled, happy, satisfied, realized… All of this is in the old foundation of the egoic mind.
Why are psychiatrist offices full of patients? Answer me. On a smaller or more expressive scale, where does your madness stand? This madness is only in the illusion there is someone there, apart from this "I am."
Awakening is to remain here and now! Discover in yourself what maintains that sense of an identity present at this moment. This is hiding Reality. It is not destroying Reality, because It is untouchable. However miserable you feel, however unhappy and troubled you feel, it does not change the fact that this "I Am" remains beyond the body and the mind.
You have all the energy needed for this Awakening. The key is available! However, you are wasting this energy all the time, daydreaming, thinking, imagining, identifying with the body and its satisfactions, with the external environment and its events, its episodes, as if this were more important than You! Then, this turns out to be, in fact, more important than You! When it happens, you are miserable. When others, the world, the shapes, the things, the thoughts, the feelings and the imaginations are more important than remaining in this looking, in this hearing, in this feeling, in this experiencing, in this living, without identifying with this, you are miserable.
*Presential meeting transcription originally held in Campos de Jordão city -Brazil, in Ramanashram Gualbeto, on March, 2018. - First published in Portuguese on November 5th, 2019. For more information about how to participate, please access: http://mestregualberto.com
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