You have to unlearn everything

When a fish appears in the scenery, can it say it cannot swim? The fish’s nature is to swim. The fish may believe it does not know how to swim; however, it is born already swimming in the water.

The nature of Consciousness in you is of non-resistance. So, when you say “I do not know how to act differently,” you have to change that. You have to say, “I learned to act this way.” At some point this blossomed internally, you learned to live in this sense of separation, in this illusion, in this resistance. Now, it is about unlearning!

You have to unlearn being the way you are, the way you act, the way you think, the way you feel… Do you know what I mean? For instance, when someone does something you do not like, what is the thought in your head? Revenge. Can’t you unlearn that and accept the harm without thinking about revenge? Can’t you unlearn that? Will every sufferer spend the day craving for revenge? Won't be someone on the planet able to disregard others’ offenses or mistreats?

So, notice it is possible to unlearn being evil, being reactive, since it is a learned thing; no way to disagree with that. It is not your Nature to react this way. You have learned all that! You have learned how to think, to feel, to react, to act, to do, to undo, to take revenge, to mistreat, to hurt, to protect yourself, to defend yourself, to choose… and look at the results!

So, when you say “I do not know how to act differently,” what you are saying to me is that is the way you have learned to act. It is all about unlearning, just unlearning… that is why as per a Realized Being’s viewpoint, this Self Realization is not learnable. You unlearn everything and assume the Truth you already are.

The nature of the fish is to swim; it does not need to learn that, let alone believe it does not know how to swim, as this is the only real thing in its nature. Now, if the fish sees itself swimming and believes to be not swimming when it compares itself to another better-swimming fish, this is an intimate matter, the fish has a problem. The fish would rather have the other fish’s life instead of its own, so it is in serious trouble.

Therefore, when you see someone doing well and you doing badly, and you have this distinction between good and bad, this is an intimate thing (an intimate thing means “psychologically”). You start living based on beliefs and not on facts, therefore you suffer.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on January 16th, 2021 – First published in Portuguese on March 19th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.