We are present at one more meeting... This expression “we are present” is quite interesting because, in fact, Presence is the only Truth. Without the reference of thought, of memory, which is knowledge, there is no vision of limit, outline, shape, dimension, color, history, past, future, present, destiny, nationality, no notion of being present or absent. All of this requires thought.
On the other hand, the Truth of this Presence, your True Nature is something that is independent of thought. You are Consciousness, which is this Presence and is even aware of thinking and of all these apparitions that it brings, like your history, color, age, past, future, destiny, nationality, However, you are beyond these perceptions, beyond the known, knowledge. You, in your Self, do not own this knowledge and neither are you possessed by it. In fact, all this knowledge is just a form of limitation that thought creates in an imaginary way about whom or what you are for real.
In our culture, we are entirely lost in this dependence on thought, prisoners of age, of history, color, future, past, nationality, of all kind of things. Actually, these are qualities or attributes working to confirm the illusion of an “entity” present in an illusory time thought creates in need of past and future. This is the illusion of a separate identity imprisoned within time and space.
If you pay a little attention to this movement of the mind, to this movement of the thought, you will perceive that You, in your Being, are always present. It is not to be present within time, but in this ever Now, in this Reality of Now. Without the reference of thought, there is no past, future, culture, history, color, destiny; there is not body, mind, world, time. The Reality of Consciousness is this Truth, now! Not in this present, but in this Now!
Present presupposes a truth within time. There is no Truth within time, for it is only the imagination of a break between two events (what happened in the morning and what happened in the afternoon). Between these two events, time is present as a form of thought, because it is required to have the sense of morning and afternoon, of events happening in the morning and events happening in the afternoon. However, notice that this time is just imagination. There is not morning and afternoon simultaneously! What you call “morning” or “afternoon” is only a memory, which is present now. Thus, “morning” and “afternoon” are imagination, which is thought.
So, you remain at this point, inside this culture, this cultivation of thought. You are trapped in this web, which is the illusion of time, like a fly that was captured by the spider of imagination. The belief of self-identity is this fly caught in the web of time.
So, you can only imagine two events, but you cannot simultaneously experience the truth of them. Was it clear? Two events cannot be happening now. They can only be imagined. In fact, what is happening cannot be imagined, because it is happening in this Now, out of time, and here is Life, the beauty of Life, the Reality. Then, there is no present, past, and future! This Reality of Life is Consciousness, which is your True Nature.
Therefore, you are not born, nor will you die. Since time is not Reality, the apparition of the body has not happened either. It presupposes past. Body, just like any other event, is something present here and now. Any manifestation is present now as Consciousness. So, everything thought imagines, it does within this illusion of time. It sounds very strange to thought itself.
Notice how interesting this is: thought is just an idea, a concept, a belief, an imagination. It talks about events that happened in the past, but past and future are now, as well as the present. Thus, this Now is the only Reality of this Consciousness, and This is outside the illusion of time. This way, the body cannot be an event of the past. Nothing can have happened in the past because, in fact, nothing is happening, except this Consciousness expressing itself and manifesting itself now as the unique Reality.
Observe that it is just a matter of culture, of illusion sustained by thought. The Real Unknown is pure Consciousness, and This is beyond the known and the so-called “unknown.” This Consciousness is beyond this known, “beyond” and also below. In the Now, there is only Consciousness, which is the Presence, which is Action. In Action, there is only Consciousness! There is only this Presence making everything, so everything that happens is in its proper place.
On the other hand, the Truth of this Presence, your True Nature is something that is independent of thought. You are Consciousness, which is this Presence and is even aware of thinking and of all these apparitions that it brings, like your history, color, age, past, future, destiny, nationality, However, you are beyond these perceptions, beyond the known, knowledge. You, in your Self, do not own this knowledge and neither are you possessed by it. In fact, all this knowledge is just a form of limitation that thought creates in an imaginary way about whom or what you are for real.
In our culture, we are entirely lost in this dependence on thought, prisoners of age, of history, color, future, past, nationality, of all kind of things. Actually, these are qualities or attributes working to confirm the illusion of an “entity” present in an illusory time thought creates in need of past and future. This is the illusion of a separate identity imprisoned within time and space.
If you pay a little attention to this movement of the mind, to this movement of the thought, you will perceive that You, in your Being, are always present. It is not to be present within time, but in this ever Now, in this Reality of Now. Without the reference of thought, there is no past, future, culture, history, color, destiny; there is not body, mind, world, time. The Reality of Consciousness is this Truth, now! Not in this present, but in this Now!
Present presupposes a truth within time. There is no Truth within time, for it is only the imagination of a break between two events (what happened in the morning and what happened in the afternoon). Between these two events, time is present as a form of thought, because it is required to have the sense of morning and afternoon, of events happening in the morning and events happening in the afternoon. However, notice that this time is just imagination. There is not morning and afternoon simultaneously! What you call “morning” or “afternoon” is only a memory, which is present now. Thus, “morning” and “afternoon” are imagination, which is thought.
So, you remain at this point, inside this culture, this cultivation of thought. You are trapped in this web, which is the illusion of time, like a fly that was captured by the spider of imagination. The belief of self-identity is this fly caught in the web of time.
So, you can only imagine two events, but you cannot simultaneously experience the truth of them. Was it clear? Two events cannot be happening now. They can only be imagined. In fact, what is happening cannot be imagined, because it is happening in this Now, out of time, and here is Life, the beauty of Life, the Reality. Then, there is no present, past, and future! This Reality of Life is Consciousness, which is your True Nature.
Therefore, you are not born, nor will you die. Since time is not Reality, the apparition of the body has not happened either. It presupposes past. Body, just like any other event, is something present here and now. Any manifestation is present now as Consciousness. So, everything thought imagines, it does within this illusion of time. It sounds very strange to thought itself.
Notice how interesting this is: thought is just an idea, a concept, a belief, an imagination. It talks about events that happened in the past, but past and future are now, as well as the present. Thus, this Now is the only Reality of this Consciousness, and This is outside the illusion of time. This way, the body cannot be an event of the past. Nothing can have happened in the past because, in fact, nothing is happening, except this Consciousness expressing itself and manifesting itself now as the unique Reality.
Observe that it is just a matter of culture, of illusion sustained by thought. The Real Unknown is pure Consciousness, and This is beyond the known and the so-called “unknown.” This Consciousness is beyond this known, “beyond” and also below. In the Now, there is only Consciousness, which is the Presence, which is Action. In Action, there is only Consciousness! There is only this Presence making everything, so everything that happens is in its proper place.
*Online meeting transcription, originally held on March 6th, 2020 - First published in Portuguese on May 16th, 2020 – For further information, click here.
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