You need to go beyond the mind, and then you will be free from the illusion of duality, which maintains this conflicting separation inside yourself, this constant fight in the pursuit of something, to get rid of pain through pleasure, to get rid of evil through good, to get rid of error through non-error, to get rid of death through life.
This duality, this division, this separation is a fiction, produced by thought. The mind inside yourself is producing that. It is not the Truth about Yourself, it is the “truth” about the mind. While you mistake yourself for the mind, this will be your “truth,” although not being your Truth. You will see this as true as it is all you know.
My recommendation is the art of Meditation! Meditation begins through the disidentification from this model, breaking this bias, this psychological bias for continuity. Few people are willing This! This means absolute and unconditional Freedom, but the “person” is not interested in That. Your “sense of person” is interested in achievements, in acquiring, in achieving a new thing. So, this movement towards the upcoming moment is constantly happening – a false illusory movement, of pure psychological imagination. But if you are interested in Freedom, It needs to be real, and It is real only when unconditional. All of this needs to disappear! All this appreciation for the story of the character you believe you are needs to disappear!
An actor playing a role in a play will need to give up that character later. There, in that role, in that scenic representation, he or she is a very useful character. But the actor is not that character! After that scene, he or she needs to give up the character, otherwise it will be a serious trouble! If the actor keeps on mistaking him or herself for the character represented on stage, if he or she “takes it to home,” it will be a problem since he or she will not be able to adjust the character to the so-called “real life.” This is very simple to understand!
Actually, you still do not really understand this, although it seems to be understanding what I am pointing out here. The truth is you are also just a character and you take it with you everywhere. You mistake yourself for it when you say you are a teacher, a mother, a father, a lawyer, a businessman, a military man, a doctor. You are constantly mistaking yourself for this character and forgetting the Truth about who You are.
Then, what we call as “ego-identity” is the story of this character you believe you are. For example, these thoughts going on your head concern that character, they have nothing to do with what You are. You have no thoughts. You are pure Consciousness! You have no history to share, no memories to remember, no imaginations to create a psychological future for yourself, because you are Consciousness!
Consciousness is the “actor” and the character is this false identity with friends, enemies, happy, unhappy, with desires to fulfill and fear of losing things. So, the character’s life is a drama. Sometimes a thriller, at other times a comedy or a romance (this thing we name as “love” in relationships), and all of this is so unsatisfactory, so incomplete, so conflicting because the mind is behind this project, frequently idealizing something better than what is happening now, here, in this experience, in these relationships. Therefore, drama and conflict are always present.
So, no matter how hard you try, whatever you do will still be within this drama, it will be part of it, of this project engendered by this false identity you believe to be. In fact, you cannot say who you are because you are mistaking yourself for all this drama, for this whole project of the “person,” of the character.
You have a work ahead of you. Do not worry; you have a lifetime to do it! Some people here will have another five, fifty or seventy years ahead... This is the time you have, and your job is to realize That, to verify This, to become aware of That! You were born just for That! You were not born to play and get involved in this drama. This drama is part of the character’s story, and your real purpose is to find out the Truth beyond that.
Most people die as "people." They are born as "people" and die as "people." They are born within a drama because birth is a great drama indeed; it is the first drama of all - it is not easy to be born! Everyone is born in confusion, in some sort of situation, and then life goes on in that drama. You are here to discover something beyond that birth!
The point is that the character is born within this drama, within this confusion. Your Divine Nature, your Essential Nature does not know that birth. That is a story the mind is telling you about who you are, and you start to believe it as soon as this drama begins. In the first few months, you already start to believe in all that, and some spend their entire lives only identified with this story, with this character, living this drama. Therefore, the vast majority is born, grows up, becomes an adult and then dies... but the illusion goes further!
This duality, this division, this separation is a fiction, produced by thought. The mind inside yourself is producing that. It is not the Truth about Yourself, it is the “truth” about the mind. While you mistake yourself for the mind, this will be your “truth,” although not being your Truth. You will see this as true as it is all you know.
My recommendation is the art of Meditation! Meditation begins through the disidentification from this model, breaking this bias, this psychological bias for continuity. Few people are willing This! This means absolute and unconditional Freedom, but the “person” is not interested in That. Your “sense of person” is interested in achievements, in acquiring, in achieving a new thing. So, this movement towards the upcoming moment is constantly happening – a false illusory movement, of pure psychological imagination. But if you are interested in Freedom, It needs to be real, and It is real only when unconditional. All of this needs to disappear! All this appreciation for the story of the character you believe you are needs to disappear!
An actor playing a role in a play will need to give up that character later. There, in that role, in that scenic representation, he or she is a very useful character. But the actor is not that character! After that scene, he or she needs to give up the character, otherwise it will be a serious trouble! If the actor keeps on mistaking him or herself for the character represented on stage, if he or she “takes it to home,” it will be a problem since he or she will not be able to adjust the character to the so-called “real life.” This is very simple to understand!
Actually, you still do not really understand this, although it seems to be understanding what I am pointing out here. The truth is you are also just a character and you take it with you everywhere. You mistake yourself for it when you say you are a teacher, a mother, a father, a lawyer, a businessman, a military man, a doctor. You are constantly mistaking yourself for this character and forgetting the Truth about who You are.
Then, what we call as “ego-identity” is the story of this character you believe you are. For example, these thoughts going on your head concern that character, they have nothing to do with what You are. You have no thoughts. You are pure Consciousness! You have no history to share, no memories to remember, no imaginations to create a psychological future for yourself, because you are Consciousness!
Consciousness is the “actor” and the character is this false identity with friends, enemies, happy, unhappy, with desires to fulfill and fear of losing things. So, the character’s life is a drama. Sometimes a thriller, at other times a comedy or a romance (this thing we name as “love” in relationships), and all of this is so unsatisfactory, so incomplete, so conflicting because the mind is behind this project, frequently idealizing something better than what is happening now, here, in this experience, in these relationships. Therefore, drama and conflict are always present.
So, no matter how hard you try, whatever you do will still be within this drama, it will be part of it, of this project engendered by this false identity you believe to be. In fact, you cannot say who you are because you are mistaking yourself for all this drama, for this whole project of the “person,” of the character.
You have a work ahead of you. Do not worry; you have a lifetime to do it! Some people here will have another five, fifty or seventy years ahead... This is the time you have, and your job is to realize That, to verify This, to become aware of That! You were born just for That! You were not born to play and get involved in this drama. This drama is part of the character’s story, and your real purpose is to find out the Truth beyond that.
Most people die as "people." They are born as "people" and die as "people." They are born within a drama because birth is a great drama indeed; it is the first drama of all - it is not easy to be born! Everyone is born in confusion, in some sort of situation, and then life goes on in that drama. You are here to discover something beyond that birth!
The point is that the character is born within this drama, within this confusion. Your Divine Nature, your Essential Nature does not know that birth. That is a story the mind is telling you about who you are, and you start to believe it as soon as this drama begins. In the first few months, you already start to believe in all that, and some spend their entire lives only identified with this story, with this character, living this drama. Therefore, the vast majority is born, grows up, becomes an adult and then dies... but the illusion goes further!
*Online meeting transcription originally held on August 5th, 2020 - First published in Portuguese on September 26th, 2020. For further information about our meetings, click here.
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