Another point I think is important to be consider is this very common idea: the idea of the "person," of the existence of the "person."
We have this belief, we believe we exist as a separate entity. So, we believe we are a person.
So, there's this idea, the central idea of a "person" present. This is completely false! This is just an idea that finds a supposed identity. It shapes and forges an identity.
This way, what we call as "person" is just an idea, a concept, a belief. Actually, an imagination. So, thought creates a fiction, the fiction of a present identity, of this "person" that "I" believe I am. There is no such "person." There is no such "I." This is just a fiction created by thought.
The mind is given a name. It is given a label, a tag. It is called John, Mary, Joseph, and mind believes in it. So, thought makes an image of itself, engendered by itself, a self-image. "Person" is just a creation, an imaginary creation of thought.
So, as this mechanism, this organism, starts talking, acting, making choices – I mean apparent choices, because there is no one in those choices. There is this choice, but not this "someone" in the choice. Everything that happens only confirms the presence of that "person." However, this "person" is an illusion. A "person" who thinks. A "person" who speaks. A "person" who makes choices. A "person" who resolves. A "person" who has the fruits of his actions, positive or negative. This just confirms this central idea, the idea of a "person" present.
The problem with this is that all the confusion, all the suffering, all forms of anxiety, fear, worry and difficulties that this "person" faces, is assumed to be real.
The work of observing yourself, the work of investigating the Truth about who you are, will undo that belief. So, this imaginary entity will disappear, because in fact this imaginary entity never actually existed. It's just a false center.
The beauty of approaching this work of self-inquiry, meditation and surrender, surrender to the Truth, is that it completely destroys, completely nullifies this false center, this false "me." It ends that illusory identity, finishes that.
So, you see, what we call "ego", "person", is an imagination. However, thought has engendered it in such a way, built it in such a way, that it seems to be very real. This is real only in the identification with this mechanism, this body-mind.
If you observe the movement of the mind, you can see the construction mechanism of this false identity, this false center. And once that's done in a true way, in a legitimate way, once you start working on that in yourself, that false identity, that false center disappears. And with its disappearance, all there is, is Freedom, the Freedom of Being, of Being That which You are, of Being That which you "were born" to Be.
This whole idea of birth – that's why I put the word "born" in quotation marks – applied to this identity, is completely false as well.
Your Real Nature is the Divine Nature, the Nature of God; and It has neither birth nor death, but this is something for you to see. That is your work, your work of discovering the Truth about Yourself, about Yourself. So, this approach is fundamental, this look at What we are is fundamental.
We have expressions in our culture, expressions like "soul," "spirit"... But they are expressions we use without any awareness of what they represent or what they mean.
Here, I am pointing out the importance of this Self-Discovery, of discovering your Real Nature, your Divine Nature. This Nature has no name. It also has no form. It wasn't born and It doesn't die.
All your debate, all your struggle, all your confusion, all the dramas of this so-called "my life," that you say "my life," all revolve around this false identity, this false center, this illusory identity, of this so-called "ego," which is, I repeat, an imagination, a fiction.
The work of discarding this illusion begins with this attention to yourself, with the observation of what is happening here and now in this mechanism, in this organism. Not in this "person"... There is no "person." What exists is this organism, this mechanism and this whole process called "mind."
So, there is mind and body, and this can be seen by observation. Once verified by observation, this false center is unveiled. Then, illusions disappear, such as the illusion of choices, the illusion of actions, the illusion of the presence of a thinker...
The beauty that lies in the end of confusion, the psychological confusion this false center has sustained for millennia. In India, they call this Liberation. Yes, Liberation. Liberation is the end of this illusion. It is the realization of the Truth. This way, there is the end of this imaginary center. Then, Truth reveals itself, Freedom reveals itself.
That's what Enlightenment is about! Realization of Truth is this! This is God's Realization! This is something possible here and now. This is possible in this realization of the Truth that You are, here.
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