Hi folks! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel. The question is, "how to attain Spiritual Enlightenment? What are the steps to be taken? They are short steps. They are not long steps; they are short steps… I'd say that step number one is to abandon exteriority. It's through self-inquiry, self-observation, abandoning the trust, the belief in thoughts.
This self-observation, this self-inquiry will put you in direct contact with this pattern of psychological conditioning. You have trusted and lived with it for all these years. You must necessarily go beyond the egoic mind, beyond that pattern of psychological conditioning, beyond that false center.
So, the work here starts already with this basis. You need to go beyond trusting thoughts, beyond this trust in this false center, in this false "me." Putting it directly: to go beyond the trust in the "person" you believe to be.
See, you as a person are a set of beliefs. All the programming, all the conditioning that you have received over all these years, made this "person" appear internally, who you believe to be, who has a name, who has a body, shape and image to take care, to protect, with a story – the story of this identity. This identity is not real, it is not true.
Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment is the awareness that there isn't "someone" in this experience called life, "someone" inside the body seeing the world outside where there are people, plants, animals, sky, sun, moon…
This sense of separation between you, who believes to be inside the body, and the body – this body that believes to be inside this planet, this so-called "world" – this belief is a psychological conditioning. This is present because of this confidence you give to all this movement of thought taking place within you.
So, here the basis, the first step, is the awareness of the Truth about who You are, beyond mind. However, to go beyond mind you need to comprehend this whole process. I use the word "comprehend" in the sense of acknowledging, of becoming aware of this whole process of psychological conditioning, of unconscious movement of thought running inside you, creating this division, creating this separation.
This represents leaving this psychological external world, this psychological external world which is what mind does. Mind externalizes the world… the egoic mind separates and externalizes the world to outside of itself, to live a pseudo-truth. This truth is the pseudo-truth of "me," of "I," of ego.
This self-observation will bring the mind back inside. All this energy that was previously lost within this conditioning is now turned to the Source, to be at the service of this attention on yourself, on this awareness of yourself. Then, you can get in touch with the Silence You are here and now internally, outside of this whole psychological conditioning movement.
So, the work of Awakening begins with self-observation, begins with this self-acknowledgement. Through this self-observation, by this self-observation you can come into direct contact with the Truth of your own Being, with your Divine Reality.
So, Enlightenment is this appearance, this emergence, this acknowledgement of What You are, when this sense of "me" is not present. This is the direct realization of the Divine Reality; this is the direct realization of the Reality of God.
So, how to attain Enlightenment? What is step number one? The step number one is this self-observation, which gives you the basis for Self-knowledge, for the end of this illusion of this false center, of this false "me."
With that – in this self-investigation – Stillness, Silence is born. Actually, Silence blooms as something that is already present, appearing as something that is being born, but actually, it is already present. You become aware of the Silence that is You, which is the Silence of Your Being, of your Real Nature, because it happens immediately in this self-observation, the immediate breaking of this pattern; this pattern is broken, there is a breaking of this egoic pattern, an immediate breaking of this psychological pattern of conditioning. When this break happens, the appearance of What You are happens, which is basically Silence. This is what I have called Real Meditation: the complete disidentification with this whole movement of psychological conditioning that makes you trust the story, the image, the memory, the illusion produced by thought.
So, with this breaking, there comes the detachment, the abandonment of this false identity, and the emergence of something entirely new and unknown, which is You in your Being, which is You in your Real Nature.
Thus, I've been saying that step number two is the breaking of this condition, the renunciation of this ignorance; it's the abandonment of this illusion, this sense of separateness, this sense of duality. Here's step number two: the abandonment of the illusion of the sense of separation, of the sense of duality. So, you're abandoning this condition of desire and fear, of conflict and contradiction; thought, image, imagination, story… a renunciation of this false center living in an illusory way, in an imaginary way. The renunciation of this is the appearance of this new condition.
Then, Meditation, which is the blossoming of the Truth about who You are, is something that takes place very naturally. It is not quite a third step, as I have said on my talks, within this process of Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment. Actually, it is the acknowledgement that there is no process; it's just an apparent process for this apparent ego-mind condition. What we have in Meditation is the blossoming of what You already are here and now; it's the end of this illusion of psychological time, of this whole thing engendered by thought, creating this notion of an identity living in time.
There is no time! All we have is What is present here, in this instant, in this moment, as Pure Consciousness, which is You in your Being. To assume This is to be beyond this condition of desire and fear, beyond this condition of ego identity, with all the conflicts that it represents.
This is Enlightenment. This is Self-realization or Spiritual Awakening... Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening or whatever name you want to give This. It's actually You in your Being, You in your State of Pure Consciousness, in your Divine State. That's what we're dealing with you and we can patiently work this out.
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