We can start by asking you: where to go? From this Place, this Space where You are, where to go? This action, this activity of doing, of going, will continually happen as long as you imagine yourself as a separate “me,” as an entity within time and space, able to move. This is, in fact, an ordinary movement common to everyone. It is a movement that keeps you away of What is present, of What is never absent, of this Consciousness present now, therefore it is always imaginary.
All that has been done is this separation, this imaginary "me" in this movement of becoming, of accomplishing, of reaching a goal. Do you know what are the results? It wards you off from the present Happiness. Happiness is not found in conquests, in achievements, in goals or achieved objectives within the movement of time, that this "me" imagines to exist to itself. So, the results are the separation from the simple Beauty, that is Peace, the Happiness that is here and now.
So, how could we define verbally what I consider the foremost thing: Meditation? We could define This as the beauty of not warding yourself off, imaginarily, from what is already here, that is Happiness. This imaginary separate "me" is nothing more than this simple imaginary movement covering up Peace, Happiness, the Natural State of Meditation, your Divine State, your Natural State.
Why do you want to go somewhere? Because you imagine! It's pretty simple! You imagine another place outside that Place, that Space where You, as Consciousness, Truth, Peace, Happiness, reside. You imagine you have not found yet What is already here. This is the movement of the thought, the imaginary movement, the movement of this false “me.” Just because you imagine, you believe you can move, but what moves is just the mind, looking for peace or for an object floating somewhere far away – the search for a future situation in an imaginary time. You cannot get any closer to Peace by moving yourself! All you can achieve by doing this is to keep yourself away from Peace.
My emphasis on Meditation is because Its essence lies in understanding there is nothing like the so-called "future." Who would be able to move away from or approach this Consciousness, this Happiness, this Beauty, this Grace, this Divine Presence? Only an imaginary person could move, a false "me," a non-existent thing. There is nothing in your experience that keeps you away from what You are in Essence. Nothing in your experience is happening apart from the Truth of your Being; but only the imagination.
You imagine a world where there are people who need to be loved or forgotten, who you need to be away from or close to, people you worry about, you busy yourself with, you want to solve their problems... All imagination! There is a main person in all that: "you", with problems to solve as well. All of this is imagination!
If your body is sick, this is a body’s problem, it is not your problem. It is yours when you believe you are the body. It is not yours when you abandon the beliefs. The body is a problem for medicine, for medical science. Medical science has been studying how to take care of the body for over thousand years! So is with psychological problems – they are problems to psychological science and not to you.
Maybe one day, psychological science will find out that what belongs to science does not belong to Consciousness. Putting it differently: what belongs to the mind does not concern Consciousness. Consciousness remains free when the mind or the body is sick. Just as the body cannot reach Consciousness, so the mind cannot. So, there may come the time when science acknowledges it is limited and it will always be. In the same way, a time may come for you – and I hope it is now – when you understand that when you are physically ill, it is a matter of the body and therefore of medical science – that deals with the body’s physiology. Just as when you feel sad, it will be a problem to the mind and to psychological science, not to you.
Identified with the mind, sadness is a problem to you. Likewise, identified with the body, illness becomes a problem to you. Our purpose, in this Art of the Real, of the Real Knowledge of Yourself, is the end of the identification with the body and the mind and, therefore, the acknowledgment that your Essential Nature is beyond science. This is Freedom!
The whole point is that this relationship among body, mind and Consciousness is very intimate, and you need the Ability, the Real Knowledge of Yourself, to break this identification. Attention to the movement of the mind can break this identification with the experience of sensations or with any natural reaction of the body, as well as with this identification with the psychological experience of sadness, as I said before, or with any other psychological reaction. This attention is all you need to not mix up this intimate relationship among body, mind and Consciousness anymore. Here, to identify with that is to be entangled with that. You are not the body, you are not the mind... You are Consciousness! The body and the mind appear in this Consciousness, and so do these present reactions.
So, Meditation is the art of warding yourself off, in full Consciousness, from that ordinary and habitual identification with the body and the mind. Thus, this “journey” to the future proves to be useless. Happiness, Freedom and Peace are present now, when you are not the body and the mind. This means that the person sitting there listening is not real. Only the Presence is here in this room, in this meeting. Presence is the only Reality present! This “person” there, with a story, is a fantasy, just an imaginary “me.”
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