Hey, guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel, still discussing the Practical Meditation, beyond all the practices of meditation. The Practical Meditation is the True Meditation. It is not that meditation where you reserve a specific moment to meditate. Maybe you say, "No, I work the whole day, so I have no time to meditate. So, I reserve a moment in the morning and a moment in the night to dedicate myself to this moment of meditation."
First, I want you to understand the purpose of meditation. First, I want to ask you why you meditate. What is meditation for you? What is the purpose of meditation? Why do you meditate? Maybe your answer is, "well, I meditate to calm down, I meditate to sleep better, I meditate to be able to be more self-centered. I meditate because I feel more unstressed the following day, I meditate because, when I finish meditation, I can fall easily asleep... So, the meditation is a wonderful thing for me." Maybe that is your answer.
OK. If this is your answer, perfect. But I want to show you something different. I want to introduce you to an entirely new approach. Meditation is not this. Meditation has no basis like this.
So, what you practice by the name of "meditation," yes, it is a form of meditation, which you have been taught, which you have learned, and if it is good to you, and if you feel well, super, wonderful, but I want to question what you call "meditation." I want to talk to you about Meditation within a different context than this, I want to propose Meditation for Spiritual Enlightenment, for the Flourishing of your Being, for the Realization of your Divine Identity, of your God Nature.
This is something more than living without stress. It is something more than de-stressing. It is something more than living relaxed or finding tranquility. This is more than living in peace or finding peace. This is more than sometimes sleeping easily, sometimes finding it easy to fall asleep because of a certain practice, a certain exercise, a specific moment to meditate.
When we speak of contact with your Divine Nature, we are talking about contacting the Supreme Reality, with the end of this duality between love and hate, peace and war, stress and non-stress, joy and sadness, to easily sleep and the difficulty to sleep, a mechanism to help you sleep, as it happens in this particular practice...
When we talk about this contact with your Divine Reality, we are talking about the contact with your Essential Nature, with That what You are. What would it be like for you to live completely free from all suffering? What would it be for you to be able to live completely free from all forms of fear, anxiety, worries and conflicts created and caused by desires? Have you ever noticed that desires are conflicting?
The egoic mind, the mind in you, creates desires that you know you will have problems if you get involved with that, if you search for that. In this very movement of search, there is already the conflict, there is already the contradiction, the suffering is already installed. So, what would it be like to live free from the conflicts of desire, for example?
So, the proposal of the truth about Meditation is that Meditation puts you in contact with your Being, which represents the end for this ego, for this "me," for this "person" that you believe to be, for all this identity structure within that story that you believe you have, in which you are "someone," "someone" who lived yesterday, is living today and will live tomorrow, and who may die at some point; "someone" who was born and who may die; "someone" who lived in the past, is living in the present and may or may not live in the future.
This sense of this "me", this "I," this ego, this false identity, with all the fears, contradictory desires, with all the contradictions connected with satisfaction, fulfillment, pleasure and, at the same time, fear, various forms of feelings like sorrow, resentment, guilt… All of these are part of this structure of the "person," the ego, this "I," and Meditation has as its principle to show you the Beauty of the Divine Reality that You are, beyond this condition.
I speak of a Life in which Life and you are no longer separate, in which (in this Life) there is no you and It, a Life in Completeness, a Life in Peace... I don´t speak of the peace that flees because the traffic is heavy. I don´t speak of the peace that disappears when you are stressed. I talk about the Peace that does not have the other side, does not have an opposite, called conflict, a Peace that surpasses everything that thought can imagine about peace, or can desire as peace. I refer here to the Peace of God, the Peace of Consciousness, the non-dual Peace of your Being, of your Divine Nature.
So Meditation is this, it is this encounter with this Truth, with the Truth that You are. So here we have a clear, a very clear difference between the practices of meditation, the different practices, and the Natural Meditation, Natural Meditation. This is the True Meditation, this is the Practical Meditation, in your life, in your day-by-day – this contact with yourself.
See, I want to challenge you to work through this here and now, to realize the Truth that You are, that You carry in Your Being, to Realize This through this self-observation of the movement of the mind, in this direct contact with something there beyond this "me" that you believe to be. That "something" is that Consciousness, it's that Presence, it's that Intelligence. It is the Truth of your Being, in full Oneness with Life as It is. There is no conflict in What You are. All of your conflict is all based on this ego identity, this "person" that you believe yourself to be.
You can even temporarily distance yourself from this "person," which is what happens in various practices of meditation. So, you sit in a certain place, you breathe in a certain way, there is a certain internal struggle to get away from thoughts, and, within a certain amount of time, you get a certain result. I say "a certain result," because after you get out of that moment of practice that took thirty, forty minutes – and all of a sudden, you've been in a practice like this for fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty years – every time when you leave it, you see the mind coming back, and all this egoic movement arises again, it is there again. So, the contradiction is there, the conflict is there, the separation between you and Life, between you and God, between you and the world, between you and the other, this is still present, the images you have of yourself are still present. Of course, you are already a less stressed person, but the stress is still there. Of course, you are already a more peaceful person, but the conflict of violence is still present. There are still moments when you see yourself violent, and worse: there are moments when you don't even see yourself violent, only the people around you realize how much aggressiveness, violence, is still present in this "person" who you believe to be. However, at that very moment, at that particular moment, you are not even able to perceive it. And why? Because you don't know the Truth about Meditation.
The Practical Meditation, the True Meditation – and this is what we are proposing to you, a work in that direction – it shows you That which, in fact, You are here and now. So, in a way, this silent, loving, transcendent, timeless, unknown Truth that You bring, This is presented to you by Meditation, but it is also presented to you everything that the mind, inside you, does not want to see in itself, doesn't want to perceive in itself, and it hides from itself.
So you become able to see all this movement of the mind, and it is only when you become able to see the movement of the mind that you can truly disidentify yourself from that movement, discard that movement, leave that movement, detach from that movement. We can use many terms for this. You can give up this movement, the movement of this "I," this ego, and that is only possible because there is Attention, Consciousness, Presence, now, here!
So, you are faced with the Practical Meditation, the True Meditation, the Realization of your True Identity, beyond this conditioning, all of it, by the way, social, cultural, educational, mundane, personal, egoic.
Look at the world around you, people are unaware of all this. If you just look at the world, you will see how much people are unaware of the Truth they bring in themselves and how much they are confusing themselves with the ego, creating disorder for themselves and for others around them; for themselves and for the world around them.
So, the human being is aggressive, he is violent, he is full of desires, whims, worries, fears. He lives, despite some moments of peace, joy and satisfaction, especially when he achieves personal fulfillment or when he feels temporarily filled in the ego by something... apart from these moments, the human being lives in suffering, because he is basically violent, he is basically envious, jealous, miser, worried about the continuity of this ego, he carries within himself the fear of death. So, the condition of the human being needs to change. So, you are here to see yourself as You are, to realize What you were born to Be.
So, let me tell you just one more thing: if this is something important to you, if this made sense to you, subscribe to the channel, leave your "like," join our WhatsApp group and we can work on that in online and face-to-face meetings, as well as retreats. OK? Thanks for the meeting and I see you next time.
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