In this work, we are investigating what has always prevailed: the notion of a person living his/her life. Few people in this world could perceive the “great show” and that the person’s life is illusion. The one who knows this, is free from illusion, from this slavery, because he/she is free from ignorance about the “show.” The ignorant person takes the “show” as something real and so remains slave of the body and the mind, always seeing a good or bad world.
Here, we are saying to you that this is completely false. Life is neither good nor bad. It is just a “show.” When you identify with the “show,” because you remain ignorant about it, this notion about good and evil, good and bad, is present. All these concepts are imaginary. Actually, in this purity of the Sacred, of Consciousness, there is no duality, there is not any illusion about the “show,” because there are not concepts. In the mind, you do not have the touch of Reality. Your experience is of good or evil, of duality, of the illusion of the “show”. That is what happens in the mind, in ignorance.
Ignorance is an illusion of the mind, which does not know another thing but this illusion. It is its nature! As long as illusion remains, duality and ignorance about the “show” remain, then the mind keeps on assuming the place of Reality. That is what happens to you on this private vision of the world. It is just like when you look at a serene lake and see some image reflected on it. Over serene water, without waves, you see an image: the sky, a tree… This reflection cannot be the reality.
The world you see is not real. It is just a reflection, just like the image you see on the lake. What is Real is beyond, out of this image. What is Real is not on that water! Therefore, what is Real is not in the mind; but this is the way you see the world, you see life.
Reality is pure Consciousness, outside duality, beyond the “show.” What I am saying is that the reflection does not have any existence separate from reality. It does not separate itself from reality to have real existence. So, the world you see, perceive, feel, reflect, think, analyze, is not Real. The world you know appears within duality, within good and evil, right and wrong. So, in this constant struggle, in this “to contrast”, the “show” takes place.
Your True Nature is beyond the world, then the person and his/her world are not real. The mind has been turning itself to the “reflection,” to the “show,” to the appearance, to duality, and this is its nature: sustaining the “reflection.” Thereby, you cannot remember what is Real, because everything that is known in the mind is still part of this “show,” this duality. That is the reason for the forgetfulness of your True Being. You remember yourself as the mind remembers itself, and it does it with images. You remember yourself as being the body, with a sense of an “I” present… You see yourself as a person. So, you are lost!
When you forget your Essential Nature, you are lost in the imagination, in the “reflection,” in the appearance, in illusion. You have forgotten yourself. You do not know who you are. You are lost. You do not understand that this “reflection” is not separate from the Being and it is just an apparition. While this remains, there is no possibility of Happiness. Illusion is the sustenance of lie, and in it, there is no God. Without God, there is no Truth, and then there is no Happiness.
When you use the expression “I am here,” this sustains duality, the sense of separation, for if “I am here,” the “world is on the other side.” If “I am here,”, then “it is there” – here lies the separation. You do this in a very mechanic, unconscious and automatic way. That is how duality happens.
When you think of yourself as a person, you are treating you as an object, as one more object appearing in the world. This way, you are one and the world is another. Everything that is outside of what you are cannot be what you are. Then you see yourself as one and the world as another, you are one and everything else is another thing – there it is duality! It is in this separation where all confusion and all unconsciousness about the “show” happen. In it, the wheel spins, the wheel of suffering, disappointment, frustration, fear, desire, all this confusion of “being born” and “dying”. There is no Truth. There is no Freedom. There is no Wisdom. There is no Happiness.
Therefore, this suffering of separation, of duality, is present because you accept this concept of “me.” The “I” sustains the illusion of the world as a separate object and you never relax in your Being. You are always in the movement of the mind, which is all this confusion: contradiction, conflict, dilemma, endless problems… This is your illusory life. The illusory life of the person in a world of duality. A life based on the notion “I am here and the world is out there.”
Now you know where the sense of separation comes from and that it is what sustains this “me,” what you believe to be. This is duality! While duality is present, fear will be present.
Self-investigation, Meditation and surrender: this is the direct and unique way to go beyond this illusion, beyond the sense of duality, of separation, beyond illusion “I am here and the world is out there.” That is why to appreciate Satsang is the only smart thing. To go beyond the story, the world, this forgetfulness, is the only thing that matters. There is only Satsang for you! Everything else is just one more thing, while you are another.
Here, we are saying to you that this is completely false. Life is neither good nor bad. It is just a “show.” When you identify with the “show,” because you remain ignorant about it, this notion about good and evil, good and bad, is present. All these concepts are imaginary. Actually, in this purity of the Sacred, of Consciousness, there is no duality, there is not any illusion about the “show,” because there are not concepts. In the mind, you do not have the touch of Reality. Your experience is of good or evil, of duality, of the illusion of the “show”. That is what happens in the mind, in ignorance.
Ignorance is an illusion of the mind, which does not know another thing but this illusion. It is its nature! As long as illusion remains, duality and ignorance about the “show” remain, then the mind keeps on assuming the place of Reality. That is what happens to you on this private vision of the world. It is just like when you look at a serene lake and see some image reflected on it. Over serene water, without waves, you see an image: the sky, a tree… This reflection cannot be the reality.
The world you see is not real. It is just a reflection, just like the image you see on the lake. What is Real is beyond, out of this image. What is Real is not on that water! Therefore, what is Real is not in the mind; but this is the way you see the world, you see life.
Reality is pure Consciousness, outside duality, beyond the “show.” What I am saying is that the reflection does not have any existence separate from reality. It does not separate itself from reality to have real existence. So, the world you see, perceive, feel, reflect, think, analyze, is not Real. The world you know appears within duality, within good and evil, right and wrong. So, in this constant struggle, in this “to contrast”, the “show” takes place.
Your True Nature is beyond the world, then the person and his/her world are not real. The mind has been turning itself to the “reflection,” to the “show,” to the appearance, to duality, and this is its nature: sustaining the “reflection.” Thereby, you cannot remember what is Real, because everything that is known in the mind is still part of this “show,” this duality. That is the reason for the forgetfulness of your True Being. You remember yourself as the mind remembers itself, and it does it with images. You remember yourself as being the body, with a sense of an “I” present… You see yourself as a person. So, you are lost!
When you forget your Essential Nature, you are lost in the imagination, in the “reflection,” in the appearance, in illusion. You have forgotten yourself. You do not know who you are. You are lost. You do not understand that this “reflection” is not separate from the Being and it is just an apparition. While this remains, there is no possibility of Happiness. Illusion is the sustenance of lie, and in it, there is no God. Without God, there is no Truth, and then there is no Happiness.
When you use the expression “I am here,” this sustains duality, the sense of separation, for if “I am here,” the “world is on the other side.” If “I am here,”, then “it is there” – here lies the separation. You do this in a very mechanic, unconscious and automatic way. That is how duality happens.
When you think of yourself as a person, you are treating you as an object, as one more object appearing in the world. This way, you are one and the world is another. Everything that is outside of what you are cannot be what you are. Then you see yourself as one and the world as another, you are one and everything else is another thing – there it is duality! It is in this separation where all confusion and all unconsciousness about the “show” happen. In it, the wheel spins, the wheel of suffering, disappointment, frustration, fear, desire, all this confusion of “being born” and “dying”. There is no Truth. There is no Freedom. There is no Wisdom. There is no Happiness.
Therefore, this suffering of separation, of duality, is present because you accept this concept of “me.” The “I” sustains the illusion of the world as a separate object and you never relax in your Being. You are always in the movement of the mind, which is all this confusion: contradiction, conflict, dilemma, endless problems… This is your illusory life. The illusory life of the person in a world of duality. A life based on the notion “I am here and the world is out there.”
Now you know where the sense of separation comes from and that it is what sustains this “me,” what you believe to be. This is duality! While duality is present, fear will be present.
Self-investigation, Meditation and surrender: this is the direct and unique way to go beyond this illusion, beyond the sense of duality, of separation, beyond illusion “I am here and the world is out there.” That is why to appreciate Satsang is the only smart thing. To go beyond the story, the world, this forgetfulness, is the only thing that matters. There is only Satsang for you! Everything else is just one more thing, while you are another.
*Online meeting transcription, originally held on August 26th, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on October 23rd, 20198. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm (Local Time: Brazil BRT), except during Retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, please access: http://mestregualberto.com/agenda/encontros-online.
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