For this Awakening, you have to investigate some issues, and it is fundamental that each one of you take this very seriously.
There are questions you will have to get the answers, and a theoretical answer is not enough. If you take a book of psychology and search for the answer to the question, "What is the ego?", you will find it there. If you go to a philosopher or a psychologist and ask, "What is life?," or "What is the role of the ego in your life?", certainly they will have an answer to give you. They are educated, schooled people who have studied hard.
You all know a lot, but you do not know how to get rid of this "thing" that makes you resist Life as It presents itself. That makes you resist being Conscious, Present. This is exactly what the ego does: it creates a resistance to this moment, to the mysterious movement of Life. So, it makes you as an entity separated from the present moment. A psychologist, a philosopher, or a therapist, they cannot help you on this matter.
Knowledge will “adjust” you, but it will not give you Freedom. All that the ego seeks is to adjust itself, so its movement is of adjustment in resistance. In this way, there are not enough answers or the final solution to these questions, "What is ego and what is its role in your life?", "How does it work?", "How does it produce this resistance?". This is where Satsang comes forth. This deep investigation of the Reality, of the Truth, of the Nature, of Being.
For this Real Awakening, you have to figure it all out in yourself. You live stuck in a movement of imagination, thoughts, which is the world of the mind. There is no problem with the world of the mind, as long as you know it is an illusory world. When you mistake this world for Reality, you are in a sleep state, which is confusion, suffering, which is the stupid life of the experiencer, this false “me.” I will repeat that to you: there is nothing wrong in the world of the mind, the problem arises when you believe in this world as being real.
Filmmakers make great use of the world of the mind. When you watch a movie, you are watching the production of imagination. The movie creator knows it is all imaginary. The movie creator is in the world of the mind creating entertainment. For that, you need imagination, and there is no problem with it.
However, if the actors of the movie, after leave the studio, forget that their role was supposed to exist only in the film, something that had to appear very real, and so they take home the characters they played, they will have problems. If the director, producer, and all of the staff forget who they really are, that all is just a fantasy, a “fairytale,” they will have serious problems. That is exactly what happens to you, when you mistake the world of the mind, the imaginary world of thought, for your Truth, the Truth about you. This is happening every day to everyone.
When someone is born, everybody gets happy. When someone dies, everybody cries. When your soccer team scores, you get very happy. When it conceded a goal, you stay on the verge of suicide due to so much sadness and pain. So, notice this: basically, there is nothing wrong with what is going on in your life, but that is something of the world of the mind, the imaginary world. It is like a movie that God is producing, where He is the author, the director, the producer, the actor, the supporting actor, the villain, the good guy ... This all is the so-called "your life," but it is not "your life." It is the production of God, the Divine cinema.
You are taking this very seriously. You are mistaking yourself for the character that the Existence, Life, in its mysterious way, is making it happen. You forgot who you are. I have just said what basically “to be Awaken” means. In this Divine movie, one is the villain and the other is the good guy, one is the saint and the other the sinner, one is the rich and the other is the poor. It is not interesting? There is nothing wrong with the world of the mind, because the world of the mind is the world of God - God has decided to play movies. I do not know what you guys have against the movies.
Whenever you be angry, you got to realize that there is no problem in that. Anger is only possible because God needs an angry actor in his movie, at that moment, otherwise it would not be possible. Look what I am saying: you want all the positive things and no negative ones, but this is something stupid because it is not possible. There is no possibility of choosing anything! Anger is also part of the movie, so the next time you feel it, stay present, do not take it personally, let the story fall and watch what happens with the anger.
You are not a good actor, because you are getting entangled with the experience. The experience of anger is very beautiful, the illusion of "someone" in it is the problem. So, you assume characteristics of a separate identity that is not seeing the game. Do not try to get rid of anger, do not try to get rid of envy, jealousy, fear, desire, because when you do it, you are like an actor who is not doing the right thing. When you do that, you are in resistance. You want to change what It is, and that is basically the false "I," the ego, that "me."
You do not accept Life as It is. You do not embrace Life as It presents, and when you resist, you are not Present, you are not Conscious. When you resist, you are identified with the experience, and here it is the personal sense. When feeling joy, do not create story, and then there will be no resistance. Do you know what happens when there is no story in joy? It does not turn into euphory. When there is no story in losses, it does not turn into fear. When there is no story in anger, this same Presence expresses itself with an energy of great Intelligence, without violence, without conflict.
Some saw Ramana in anger. There is in the gospel, Jesus expressing what we would call "anger." You become, first, aware of what is presenting now, here, at this moment, and simultaneously pay attention to what emerges as story, inside your head, about what is happening. This present moment reveals the totality of Consciousness. When you do this, you are working out the end of self-identity.
When You are Present, you are Conscious, but when you are lost in the world of the mind, you are asleep. Each moment is very rich of opportunities for you to Awake, because it always challenges you to be alert, aware, disidentified.
There are questions you will have to get the answers, and a theoretical answer is not enough. If you take a book of psychology and search for the answer to the question, "What is the ego?", you will find it there. If you go to a philosopher or a psychologist and ask, "What is life?," or "What is the role of the ego in your life?", certainly they will have an answer to give you. They are educated, schooled people who have studied hard.
You all know a lot, but you do not know how to get rid of this "thing" that makes you resist Life as It presents itself. That makes you resist being Conscious, Present. This is exactly what the ego does: it creates a resistance to this moment, to the mysterious movement of Life. So, it makes you as an entity separated from the present moment. A psychologist, a philosopher, or a therapist, they cannot help you on this matter.
Knowledge will “adjust” you, but it will not give you Freedom. All that the ego seeks is to adjust itself, so its movement is of adjustment in resistance. In this way, there are not enough answers or the final solution to these questions, "What is ego and what is its role in your life?", "How does it work?", "How does it produce this resistance?". This is where Satsang comes forth. This deep investigation of the Reality, of the Truth, of the Nature, of Being.
For this Real Awakening, you have to figure it all out in yourself. You live stuck in a movement of imagination, thoughts, which is the world of the mind. There is no problem with the world of the mind, as long as you know it is an illusory world. When you mistake this world for Reality, you are in a sleep state, which is confusion, suffering, which is the stupid life of the experiencer, this false “me.” I will repeat that to you: there is nothing wrong in the world of the mind, the problem arises when you believe in this world as being real.
Filmmakers make great use of the world of the mind. When you watch a movie, you are watching the production of imagination. The movie creator knows it is all imaginary. The movie creator is in the world of the mind creating entertainment. For that, you need imagination, and there is no problem with it.
However, if the actors of the movie, after leave the studio, forget that their role was supposed to exist only in the film, something that had to appear very real, and so they take home the characters they played, they will have problems. If the director, producer, and all of the staff forget who they really are, that all is just a fantasy, a “fairytale,” they will have serious problems. That is exactly what happens to you, when you mistake the world of the mind, the imaginary world of thought, for your Truth, the Truth about you. This is happening every day to everyone.
When someone is born, everybody gets happy. When someone dies, everybody cries. When your soccer team scores, you get very happy. When it conceded a goal, you stay on the verge of suicide due to so much sadness and pain. So, notice this: basically, there is nothing wrong with what is going on in your life, but that is something of the world of the mind, the imaginary world. It is like a movie that God is producing, where He is the author, the director, the producer, the actor, the supporting actor, the villain, the good guy ... This all is the so-called "your life," but it is not "your life." It is the production of God, the Divine cinema.
You are taking this very seriously. You are mistaking yourself for the character that the Existence, Life, in its mysterious way, is making it happen. You forgot who you are. I have just said what basically “to be Awaken” means. In this Divine movie, one is the villain and the other is the good guy, one is the saint and the other the sinner, one is the rich and the other is the poor. It is not interesting? There is nothing wrong with the world of the mind, because the world of the mind is the world of God - God has decided to play movies. I do not know what you guys have against the movies.
Whenever you be angry, you got to realize that there is no problem in that. Anger is only possible because God needs an angry actor in his movie, at that moment, otherwise it would not be possible. Look what I am saying: you want all the positive things and no negative ones, but this is something stupid because it is not possible. There is no possibility of choosing anything! Anger is also part of the movie, so the next time you feel it, stay present, do not take it personally, let the story fall and watch what happens with the anger.
You are not a good actor, because you are getting entangled with the experience. The experience of anger is very beautiful, the illusion of "someone" in it is the problem. So, you assume characteristics of a separate identity that is not seeing the game. Do not try to get rid of anger, do not try to get rid of envy, jealousy, fear, desire, because when you do it, you are like an actor who is not doing the right thing. When you do that, you are in resistance. You want to change what It is, and that is basically the false "I," the ego, that "me."
You do not accept Life as It is. You do not embrace Life as It presents, and when you resist, you are not Present, you are not Conscious. When you resist, you are identified with the experience, and here it is the personal sense. When feeling joy, do not create story, and then there will be no resistance. Do you know what happens when there is no story in joy? It does not turn into euphory. When there is no story in losses, it does not turn into fear. When there is no story in anger, this same Presence expresses itself with an energy of great Intelligence, without violence, without conflict.
Some saw Ramana in anger. There is in the gospel, Jesus expressing what we would call "anger." You become, first, aware of what is presenting now, here, at this moment, and simultaneously pay attention to what emerges as story, inside your head, about what is happening. This present moment reveals the totality of Consciousness. When you do this, you are working out the end of self-identity.
When You are Present, you are Conscious, but when you are lost in the world of the mind, you are asleep. Each moment is very rich of opportunities for you to Awake, because it always challenges you to be alert, aware, disidentified.
* Transcribed from a talk at an online meeting in the evening of July 13, 2018 - Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10PM (except in retreat periods) - For information on the Paltalk app and instructions on how to participate access the link: http://mestregualberto.com/agenda/encontros-online
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