There is something that I find interesting, very important to all of us here. If you pay a little more attention to yourself, you will notice this: the mind is always occupied. In fact, mind lives totally occupied, full of expectations.
Expectations regarding future events. In fact, events that may or may not happen. And it is always occupied with the old movement of memory. This is very, very common.
The point is we don't realize that. We don't get in direct contact with ourselves because we are not aware. There is no such self-observation, of this movement. So, we are always prisoners of these projections: the projections regarding this imaginary future and past, which is also imaginary. So, the movement of the mind is always this, busy, busy.
In this work of Self-realization, it is essential to recognize the Truth that You are. This is something that is outside of that old movement of the mind, projecting the future and imagining the past. So, it's important that you become aware of yourself, aware of yourself, about yourself. That is the goal!
The mind is always creating situations. It is and will always be creating its projections. This is something very, very common. Every movement of the mind is the movement between this unknown, imaginary future and this apparently known past, which is just a weight of memory, remembrance and something imaginary.
The only Truth, the only Reality, is your own Being, your own Being here and now. But you are not aware of It, because you are completely absorbed by these images, which are images that thought is producing, all the time, inside you.
This is the condition of identification, of this ego-identification. What we're trying to show you in these meetings is actually something beyond all descriptions, beyond all words. So, it's something beyond all this movement of the mind.
We are pointing to you the Truth of your Being, the Truth of your Divine Nature. As long as this identification with this movement of thought remains, you cannot be aware of It, you cannot be aware of the Truth of your Being.
So, this image you make of yourself, in this relationship with the world around you, with others… as this is all based on this movement, which is the movement of thought, which is the egoic movement, you cannot discover the Truth of your Being, the Happiness of your Being. This is because you are identified, or identifying yourself, constantly with a false identity, with a false character that thought is producing, that thought is saying is you.
Therefore, the question is "Who are you?" It's actually the same question: "Who am I?"
We are not talking about a character. We are talking about our Essential Nature. We are talking about the Truth that we are.
Each person has his or her characteristics, each person carries a personality, but this personality is part of that memory, part of these images, part of these imaginations, part of these projections. So, past and future are projections of that character. This is not your Divine and Real Nature, nor your Real Identity.
That's what we're always dealing with in Satsang. We are pointing out the importance of discovering the Truth that You are. This is beyond a thinker, an experiencer, beyond the very idea of an observer or a doer.
Perhaps your question is, "How is this possible? How is it possible for us to become aware of This, aware of this Truth that we are, this Truth that we bring?"
The element you have here is this attention. You cannot control what comes up, but you can become aware of this movement. This attention dismantles all this movement. This attention to yourself shows you your True Nature, disidentified with that movement. And when that happens, you are free. Free from the idea you have of yourself. Free of those images you have about yourself. Once you are free of that, you are free of this whole conflicting relationship with this world that thought has produced.
See, the problem is not in the world. It is not in the relationships you have with life. The problem is in the illusion of someone present in this, in the idea of this "me," this "I," since the relationship with life is about life with itself. There is no "me,", this "I." So, this movement, all based on thoughts, is completely illusory. It's something that always puts you under a condition of illusion of time. Past or future.
So, there are always these ideas, there are always these beliefs. There is always this prevailing fear, this anxiety, this desire, this affliction of becoming someone, of becoming something different, of doing something, of building something, of getting rid of something. These are all ideas, beliefs, projections of thought. It is thought projecting itself. It is ideas within this movement, creating this whole artificial condition.
This is the cause of misery. This is the cause of all internal conflict, of all suffering.
You are here to discover the Truth of who You are, the Truth of your own Being, the Divine Reality that You bring. And that is something possible when that movement is completely deconstructed, when that psychological dependence is undone. When this is undone, Truth manifests. So, your Freedom is the Freedom of the realization of that movement. The realization of this movement is the end of it.
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