The only thing that matters to you at this meeting is to be in this Attention, which is the basis of Consciousness. Follow not only the words, but also where they happen. Words are like inks on a canvas representing something. While the words are happening, there is something present prior to them: the Silence. So, when we are in Satsang, we are seeing words being put at the service of this investigation, but the present Reality is this background of Silence, which carries no history. You call as “mind” these images appearing, being registered in this present Reality, which is the basis of everything. This basis, this Silence, this Consciousness is the unique Reality.
The purpose here is for you to have this direct contact with Reality. You are discovering the importance of the end of the personal history, which is what causes the impression that there is someone doing things and making decisions, choosing; whereas, actually, this “someone” is an illusion. Since there is no reality in the “person,” your personal history is not true, but this is what causes all this impression.
What I am saying is that there is no “someone.” Life, the Existence, or whatever is presented, is a phenomenon of this Consciousness. Thought has personalized this, bringing the idea of a character present in this, but this is not real. You are Consciousness, not a character with a history. All agitation, problem, confusion, disorder and suffering arise because of this identification with the idea there is this “someone.”
So, while this remains, agitation remains, as well as frustration, suffering, fear, lack, this psychological pain… This is the inheritance of the character, of the illusion of “me.” Because of this belief, which has a very strong base of identification with the body, this psychological disposition, this contraction, this sense of “person” takes place. All ignorance is this history, and all history is this ignorance. It is just like this.
In Life, everything is happening as it needs to and must happen, within its own way. There is no one making this happen. This “I,” this “me,” this “sense of person” with all its history, is just part of what is happening. Does it make any sense to you? This is not how you see and perceive Life, because you are seeing everything from a point of view based on the belief there is an entity present in this illusory sense of a present “me.”
So, this “I” that has a name, a body and a history is pure identification with a belief, with this contraction in the body sustained by feelings, emotions and thoughts. Meditation is the art of remaining free from this contraction, from this identification with feelings, thoughts, emotions and sensations. The truth is that everything is happening but without any purpose. Everything is just a manifestation of this Consciousness, without any specific purpose.
For the egoic mind, for this “sense of person,” everything has to be happening within a purpose. This idea of a purpose is the sense of history, of the private and personal history, but this is not real.
While this individual sense of “person” is being felt as something real and present, the history is important and must carry some purpose. This because there is a sense of a “me” going somewhere, accomplishing something, conquering or getting rid of something; whereas, in reality, all of this is just a game, the game of life, and none of this is as it seems to be. Life is What is, and what happens is only what happens, without any purpose. There is no “someone” in this! It sounds very weird for the egoic mind. Therefore, this “reality” called “past, present and future” is, in fact, only made by ideas, concepts and beliefs.
Freedom lies in the Nature of Being, which is this Presence, this Consciousness without purpose. So, time, space, cause, effect, action, reaction, goals and purposes are mental concepts. Your Being is Free, remains Free and does not know this history of the mind, of imagination. Therefore, there is nothing to be obtained, learned or understood. Anything that is obtained, learned or understood is still part of the mind and its history, then it is still part of illusion.
I want to invite you to this Freedom of Being the pure and timeless Consciousness! This is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God! In India, they call This Moksha, which is Liberation. To be in your Being is Liberation! The nature of thought is imagination, whereas the Nature of Consciousness is Freedom! The mind lives within this model of thought, whereas your Being is out of it. Meditation, as your Natural State, reveals this.
I am not saying that the thought, the sensation, the perception and the emotion represent a problem. What I am saying is that this phenomenon is part of time, which is this notion of past, present and future, which is still in the mind. All this is not You, your Being, your Real Nature, but just a phenomenon that comes and goes. Therefore, it has no reality.
The problem lies in mistaking yourself for these phenomena, in not having a Real Realization about Yourself, a "remembrance" of your Real Nature, of your True Being. So, you end up in this confusion, in this mistake.
Some have been dedicating their lives in search of this Liberation, but they are doing this within a story. So, they dedicate their lives in a constant search for spiritual experiences, in several practices. However, this is another illusion, because it implicates the idea there is “someone” who can achieve this Liberation through some action or extraordinary spiritual experience. Actually, there is no “someone” to achieve This! The truth is there is no “someone” and there is not anything, anywhere!
You are this Consciousness! Our work together is for you to have this Direct Realization. Being is your Nature! This private history is full of conflicts, crises, dilemmas, problems and adversities. Disidentify from this, from this private history. There is only What Is, and this is not personal. It does not carry history. Abandon this thought about a future Realization, a spiritual evolution or an extraordinary experience. All this is part of this model of thinking, of this search for a purpose that the thought creates, that the egoic mind creates.
*Online meeting transcription, originally held on December 9th, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on February 20th, 2020. For more information about online meetings and how to participate, click here.
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