Expecting a positive experience is a completely false perspective, because there has never been a negative experience. You expect the world to change so as to find your happiness, your peace, but this is completely meaningless. For example, you act or try to act intelligently, as if you knew what to do to avoid suffering. You do not understand that the more you study or learn about what you should do, the more limited your life becomes.
All your interests are mind’s interests, and all your moments - happy and unhappy - are just like dream experiences. The more you move in that way, the closer you get to that human way of existing, and you know what "person" is like – person never stops "being a person." Therefore, I have emphasized the importance of disconnecting from your reactions, because they are always premeditated by belief. This has nothing to do with a Divine Life but rather with this suffering, conflicting model, which is “being a person.”
Jesus used to say, "Do not worry about what you are going to experience tomorrow, what you will eat, or what you will wear, or where you are going to." Why did He say that? You think that my insistence is very strong on the need to leave this story, this image, this character of husband, son, wife, mother, and you think that this is too difficult, that listening to this is too hard. However, as long as you are interested in these things, you will only remain stuck with them. This is like someone literally dreaming and too interested in what is going on in the dream. When you dream and it is not good, you are dying to get out of that situation. However, when the dream is good or pleasant, you want to continue with it.
The difficulty we face here is that for the ego what is pleasant is unpleasant, so you do not move to go beyond this "dream." Deep down, you love being a mother, father, husband, son, boyfriend. You love being “a person,” but you do not realize that to love this is always to carry fear. You think: "I can exist, live, be alive, go to work, feed my child, take my kid to school, make decisions, be loved, accepted ..." However, each of these positions has the other way round. You will do all these things, but once you cannot be able to do any of them, there will be a lot of pain, a lot of suffering. You have this strong feeling that life is about keeping fighting for. Once you cannot be able to fight anymore, you will feel depressed, alone, in loneliness, in suffering.
In fact, the problem is not about doing, but it is in the idea that "you" are present in it. You think: “I was born for a great purpose, I have a great mission, I will do great things. So, I have to struggle a lot until I achieve the complete victory.” This is the worldliness attitude, the model of being miserable.
This way, you cannot find beauty, you find struggle, only. What do people think? What do they talk about? What is life for them? Now, it is the case of the appointment of a new Minister of Health, the President's attitudes, the coronavirus, the lockdown ... For people, this is life, added to the particularity of half a dozen children, grandchildren and those who are around them. Everyone is dealing with these “stories” that are so important to them.
So, you are faced with Buddha, with Jesus Christ, and they say: "Do not occupy your mind with tomorrow, with what you will eat, what you will wear, whether you will be alive or not next weekend." Are they from another planet? Are they, in fact, from another world? Or do they just seem to be in this world, but they are not in the “dream” that you believe you are in? They do not think: "I exist! I am! I will do it! I will accomplish things tomorrow! I want to make history!" They understand that they are not here to be an accomplisher.
However, look at people around you. They are afraid, because they have decisions they have not made and desires they have not fulfilled yet. It is like this: first, the desire was about having two children and afterwards is about raising them, because they are not adults yet; then, the desire will be to see their children and, after that, to live long enough to be able to see their children's children. However, the coronavirus has come and they hear the sound of ambulances passing by... Every time they hear it, something inside is affected and they see their own death being sung by an ambulance siren. I do not know if you get what I am saying ... There are people around you getting depressed when they hear the sound of an ambulance passing by.
So, being a “person” is not gratifying. It seems to me that it is not a good thing going through these same old paths, treading the same steps, taking the same steps in the same direction. Do not hold on to these thoughts like "what should I eat?" or "what should I do?" Do not identify with them! Most people are having thoughts like this: "what will I do?" "What will I accomplish?" "where will I be?” "What will future look like for me and my loved ones?"
If Jesus were in front of you, He would say: “Leave the world alone and let things be where they are! Let each thing follow its own destiny! Let everything be as it is! Look at all as a game, of which the result is not in your hands. Give up attachment! Also, abandon the abandonment of attachment!” He would also say to you: "Go beyond this world, go beyond this idea of doing something, or of winning and losing something!"
So, leave this world alone, leave things where they are. Do not get involved! I am saying for you to not get involved internally, psychologically. This way, you are free and can know God, can live the Truth, be Happy. Do you know what happens then? Your “dream” model ends.
A person in a state of complete psychological distress throws himself/herself from the seventh floor of the building. His/her psychological disorder is so painfully acute that the person believes he/she can get rid of the world like that, thinking it will all end this way. Then, an Indian Sage comes and says: "the person is going to look for a new womb, because he/she owed a lot and still has many pending things, many wishes that he/she wanted to fulfill and was unable to."
The Sage says that this person needs to come back over and over again to resolve unfinished businesses. You found this story dramatic, didn't you? Do you think your own little story is not that dramatic? As long as you have debts, you will have to pay them; if you are in debt, you will have to pay it; if you are running away, you will be captured; if you don't want something, you will have it. So, your story is as dramatic as that.
If you have any form of fear, if you want to escape from something, then you will have it. That is, in some way, you are in debt. The Sages call this "reincarnating" or "being born again," and I call it the "continuation of the dream." The “dream” will go on! If nothing is resolved, everything will proceed as it is! So, get your mind off that! In other words, do not allow the present thoughts to be turned outwards, because when this is so, these conditions start to take place.
If your thoughts return to the Source and disappear into the Heart, you will find Absolute Peace, Happiness, and Freedom! So, get your thoughts out of the world! Bring all these thoughts back to its Source, which is Silence, and then there will be no more debt, “dream,” and stories. Then, the world ends.
All your interests are mind’s interests, and all your moments - happy and unhappy - are just like dream experiences. The more you move in that way, the closer you get to that human way of existing, and you know what "person" is like – person never stops "being a person." Therefore, I have emphasized the importance of disconnecting from your reactions, because they are always premeditated by belief. This has nothing to do with a Divine Life but rather with this suffering, conflicting model, which is “being a person.”
Jesus used to say, "Do not worry about what you are going to experience tomorrow, what you will eat, or what you will wear, or where you are going to." Why did He say that? You think that my insistence is very strong on the need to leave this story, this image, this character of husband, son, wife, mother, and you think that this is too difficult, that listening to this is too hard. However, as long as you are interested in these things, you will only remain stuck with them. This is like someone literally dreaming and too interested in what is going on in the dream. When you dream and it is not good, you are dying to get out of that situation. However, when the dream is good or pleasant, you want to continue with it.
The difficulty we face here is that for the ego what is pleasant is unpleasant, so you do not move to go beyond this "dream." Deep down, you love being a mother, father, husband, son, boyfriend. You love being “a person,” but you do not realize that to love this is always to carry fear. You think: "I can exist, live, be alive, go to work, feed my child, take my kid to school, make decisions, be loved, accepted ..." However, each of these positions has the other way round. You will do all these things, but once you cannot be able to do any of them, there will be a lot of pain, a lot of suffering. You have this strong feeling that life is about keeping fighting for. Once you cannot be able to fight anymore, you will feel depressed, alone, in loneliness, in suffering.
In fact, the problem is not about doing, but it is in the idea that "you" are present in it. You think: “I was born for a great purpose, I have a great mission, I will do great things. So, I have to struggle a lot until I achieve the complete victory.” This is the worldliness attitude, the model of being miserable.
This way, you cannot find beauty, you find struggle, only. What do people think? What do they talk about? What is life for them? Now, it is the case of the appointment of a new Minister of Health, the President's attitudes, the coronavirus, the lockdown ... For people, this is life, added to the particularity of half a dozen children, grandchildren and those who are around them. Everyone is dealing with these “stories” that are so important to them.
So, you are faced with Buddha, with Jesus Christ, and they say: "Do not occupy your mind with tomorrow, with what you will eat, what you will wear, whether you will be alive or not next weekend." Are they from another planet? Are they, in fact, from another world? Or do they just seem to be in this world, but they are not in the “dream” that you believe you are in? They do not think: "I exist! I am! I will do it! I will accomplish things tomorrow! I want to make history!" They understand that they are not here to be an accomplisher.
However, look at people around you. They are afraid, because they have decisions they have not made and desires they have not fulfilled yet. It is like this: first, the desire was about having two children and afterwards is about raising them, because they are not adults yet; then, the desire will be to see their children and, after that, to live long enough to be able to see their children's children. However, the coronavirus has come and they hear the sound of ambulances passing by... Every time they hear it, something inside is affected and they see their own death being sung by an ambulance siren. I do not know if you get what I am saying ... There are people around you getting depressed when they hear the sound of an ambulance passing by.
So, being a “person” is not gratifying. It seems to me that it is not a good thing going through these same old paths, treading the same steps, taking the same steps in the same direction. Do not hold on to these thoughts like "what should I eat?" or "what should I do?" Do not identify with them! Most people are having thoughts like this: "what will I do?" "What will I accomplish?" "where will I be?” "What will future look like for me and my loved ones?"
If Jesus were in front of you, He would say: “Leave the world alone and let things be where they are! Let each thing follow its own destiny! Let everything be as it is! Look at all as a game, of which the result is not in your hands. Give up attachment! Also, abandon the abandonment of attachment!” He would also say to you: "Go beyond this world, go beyond this idea of doing something, or of winning and losing something!"
So, leave this world alone, leave things where they are. Do not get involved! I am saying for you to not get involved internally, psychologically. This way, you are free and can know God, can live the Truth, be Happy. Do you know what happens then? Your “dream” model ends.
A person in a state of complete psychological distress throws himself/herself from the seventh floor of the building. His/her psychological disorder is so painfully acute that the person believes he/she can get rid of the world like that, thinking it will all end this way. Then, an Indian Sage comes and says: "the person is going to look for a new womb, because he/she owed a lot and still has many pending things, many wishes that he/she wanted to fulfill and was unable to."
The Sage says that this person needs to come back over and over again to resolve unfinished businesses. You found this story dramatic, didn't you? Do you think your own little story is not that dramatic? As long as you have debts, you will have to pay them; if you are in debt, you will have to pay it; if you are running away, you will be captured; if you don't want something, you will have it. So, your story is as dramatic as that.
If you have any form of fear, if you want to escape from something, then you will have it. That is, in some way, you are in debt. The Sages call this "reincarnating" or "being born again," and I call it the "continuation of the dream." The “dream” will go on! If nothing is resolved, everything will proceed as it is! So, get your mind off that! In other words, do not allow the present thoughts to be turned outwards, because when this is so, these conditions start to take place.
If your thoughts return to the Source and disappear into the Heart, you will find Absolute Peace, Happiness, and Freedom! So, get your thoughts out of the world! Bring all these thoughts back to its Source, which is Silence, and then there will be no more debt, “dream,” and stories. Then, the world ends.
*Excerpt from an intensive online Satsang that took place on May 16, 2020. First published in Portuguese on August 4th, 2020. For further information about our meetings, :click here.
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