Hi folks! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel. The question is: "How to reach Spiritual Enlightenment?" I understand your question. Your question is: "What can be done?" That might be your question: "What can be done to reach Spiritual Enlightenment?" I can tell you what you need to stop doing, and not what you need to.
So, I'll give you the first step to this. The first step isn't one of positive action, but rather in a negative way. That is, you need to stop doing it.
So, what do you need? Step number one is to stop identifying with the egoic mind; this is step number one. However, this first step carries, in itself, two or three more steps forward.
To stop identifying with the egoic mind is something that can be done. But see, this "doing" is "to abandon" this "me," this ego, this "I." That's why I said it's a negative doing, not a positive doing.
In general, the thought you have is always the thought of construction. Human's accomplishments are in terms of constructing. Then, an ideal arises, and that is now a goal, and you pursue this goal and accomplish that. Enlightenment is not something like that. It's not something like an ideal to be pursued and achieved, or conquered. Enlightenment is the Realization of What You are. This is only possible here and now.
Therefore, your doing is not, now, a positive doing; it's an "abandonment." You will abandon the pattern of this ego identity, this pseudo-identity, this false "me," this "person" you believe to be.
This pretends to be you, but it's not You.
The egoic mind is producing within you an idea, an image. It settled itself on this image. It passes as you as this image. So, you believe to be what You are not, since What You are, is impossible for the mind to formulate any idea, any belief, concept, or image about.
So, if your question is "how to reach Enlightenment?" My answer is: abandon the illusion of this false "me" that moves, exactly to accomplish things. It's something inside pretending to be you, moving in this psychological time, which is time constructed by thought.
It is thought that creates the idea of tomorrow, of the objective, of a target to be attained, to be reached. Your Self-Realization work is the work of discarding the ego identity, by the simple and direct self-observation of the egoic mind, with all its movement.
Our work together is in this discarding of the ego identity through this attention, through this self-observation. This discarding is not a positive doing, it is an "abandonment" of this illusion of being someone moving, seeking, trying to reach, trying to attain.
So, what is step number one to Awakening or Enlightenment? What is step number one to reach Enlightenment? Step number one is to abandon the idea or belief of "someone" to achieve, "someone" to conquer, "someone" to reach.
You just stop, here and now, and observe your reactions, your thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, perceptions, and disidentify from them. That is, you disidentify from the mind and disidentify from the body, in a simple and direct way, through self-observation of this movement of psychological conditioning, this movement that is the movement of this false center, this false "me."
Our work together here, on this channel, is exactly that. We are with you, telling you the importance to abandon this illusion, the illusion of this false identity, this false center, this false "me," and we abandon it just through this attention, through this observation.
As it is not a positive action, we are left with the realization, nothing is built anew; we are simply left with what is, here and now. So, it's not an objective, it's not a goal, it's not a target, it's not something to be found, accomplished, or reached in the future. Do you see this?
The beauty of this meeting, the beauty of this work, is that I invite you to simply be, to be What You are, to be What you were born to be, which represents abandoning everything you've been told about who you are, everything that culture, society, the world around you made you believe; and based on this thought you live today and have been living for all these years.
Self-inquiry, self-observation, the disidentification from all this movement of conditioned thought, of a pattern of beliefs, including all idealisms, all fears linked to desires, all this expectation regarding the future for a supposed entity – this " me," this "I."
All of that is examined, all of that is observed, all of that is discarded, then there is a surrender of this false identity, there is an abandonment of this false identity, and it is dissolved because, in reality, it was never there at all. You never existed as a separate entity. You are, always were, and always will be Pure Consciousness, living this Reality of oneness or non-duality, where there is no separation between you and life, between you and God, between you and this supposed world, and all the phenomena of Existence. You are this Consciousness, and It does not change.
So, This is not reached, This is realized, This is enjoyed, This is savored; it is your own Being as Love, Happiness, and Peace. This is what some people call Enlightenment, Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, or God's Realization. That's it.
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