Hello guys. Welcome!
Let's start another meeting here. Today I want to talk a little about this approach to Reality from some words used by Krishnamurti.
It is interesting to say that each Realized Being walks through a specific form of language, he develops a specific language. And the language of Jiddu Krishnamurti is interesting. Krishnamurti talks about, for example, this view of non-duality in a very characteristic way. As an example of this, we have that famous position of his on the observer and the observed thing.
In reality, there is nothing new in what Krishnamurti says. Krishnamurti simply addresses what the Indian sages have been addressing for millennia, and this we find directly in the Vedas – this issue of non-separation, non-duality. In the Vedas… the last part of the Vedas is Advaita Vedanta. Specifically in this part called Vedanta there is the essential part, which I would say is the most important part of the Vedas, this approach to the Reality of non-duality, which is Advaita Vedanta.
So, Krishnamurti's language... Krishnamurti's teachings address this. And here on our channel, I have been putting it in a very broad way, quoting some Realized Beings and presenting something about their speeches, within this vision, which is not a theoretical one. So, a whole process of Realization took place here over twenty years, and today I share this vision, although here in our channel we are using all this broad language. Today, I want to talk a little about this approach, within the view of Krishnamurti on non-duality.
And here, touching this aspect of non-separation, which he calls “the non-existence of the observer.” Notice that there is this illusion, the illusion of “someone” present… always the illusion of someone present here in this experience. The point is that there is no “someone” present here in this experience. Life is a whole happening without any division, without any separation. The only Reality is this Reality that is here and now, present in this moment. I would have many ways to put this. And we are working on this within the channel – the form of the vision of Life, the format of Life, the apprehension of what Life is. We are investigating the Beauty of Self-realization or Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening. Now, I want to talk a little about this non-duality in a manner closer to that of Krishnamurti.
This observer's view… There is no such observer. The observer is present when there is a sense of separation. This observer presents itself when the observed thing is present. So, see, it's very simple! Life is happening here, so there is this perception of reality.
You have right now the observation, as I have called it; you have the perception; you have the hearing; you have the presence of touch, of smell; the senses are alert, they are alive, they are functioning, and there is this contact with this Manifestation, with Life as It is. And the presence of these senses is the presence of Life as it is. There is no one present in this.
So, there is this vision, but not the one who sees; there is the hearing, but not the one who hears; there is touch, but not the one who feels; there is flavor, but no one present in the experience of flavor. What we have in mind is just the experience without the experiencer. I mean pure, direct experience. This experience, in its Essence, in its Reality, is something that transcends the very limitation of being aware. When you are aware of the experience, the sense of separateness arises, the idea of an identity present arises in that experience, and this is not real.
It is important that you look at this experience and notice that it arises when there is this Consciousness, but not the thought translating, interpreting, evaluating, judging what is happening. When this happens, the experiencer emerges within that experience. In a simpler way, this means that when there is sadness, it does not need to be sustained, because there is no identity present in that experience; when there is worry, there isn’t someone who is worried.
Worry is simply the movement of worrying thoughts. This movement of thoughts is the thought anticipating a situation in the future, harmful to this “me,” to this “I,” however this “I” is not real.
So, the experience itself is the experience of thought, so there is no need to be confused with “someone” within that experience, and that represents the end of worry. So, the practical side is that there is no “me” present to be sad, to be worried, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be melancholy, to feel lonely. Psychological suffering is idealized by this structure of duality, of separation.
So, Life is what It is, happening here. And yet thought appears creating this sense of separation. So, how does the presence of this entity arise? How does it emerge in the midst of all this? By thought. Thought is what gives structure to this egoic identity, to this inner identity, to this particular center, to this observer. So, the sense of “someone” present to observe, to hear, to speak, to feel, is something produced by the illusion of the sense of separateness, it is sustained by this sense of separateness created by thought.
The non-observation of the movement of thought, the non-direct observation of this movement sustains this experiencer, this observer, this thinker. None of this is real! The presence of the observer is the illusion of “someone” in the observation. That observation is the Reality, there is no such observer. The thinker's presence is the illusion of "someone" present in the process of thinking.
The observation of the movement of the mind, the pure and direct observation… and that is possible when you are not confused with what appears, with what arises. So, we are facing what I have been calling Meditation.
True Meditation is to not be confused with experience. If a thought arises, it is just a present thought, there is no thinker.
But when that thought arises and there isn’t this disidentified observation of the thought, when there is this separation between the thought and the thinker, then the idea of doing something with it arises. It is when, for example, you lie down to sleep and a memory of a debt or bill to pay is present, and you are simply trying to sleep. You're not there, at the cashier's desk to pay the bill. That moment is to sleep. But this psychological condition, this psychological disorder, this configuration of the egoic mind presents this thought, and when that thought presents itself, at that moment, the illusion arises of the idea of someone responsible for that movement, someone inside that thought.
So, thought sustains the illusion of a thinker, and thought keeps coming on, keeps appearing, keeps popping up, asking for an answer, asking for a solution, asking for that to be resolved, asking a supposed “someone” to solve that – this supposed thinker.
And yet, all we have at that moment there, is the body lying on the bed to sleep and the movement appearing in a repetitive, continuous, compulsive way, and being fed back by the illusion of a thinker.
So, in this duality there is conflict, and at that moment what prevails is contradiction, fear, anxiety in that form of insomnia, suffering! The situation will resolve itself on Monday and on Saturday this situation begins – Saturday night at bedtime, Sunday night at bedtime, and the situation will resolve itself the moment the bill is paid. The idea of someone psychologically present in that experience, lying in bed, has no reality.
So, this has been our psychological condition of being, of living, of existing. Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Realization, happens because of an inner work of becoming aware of who You are, about the Truth, the Truth of your Being, which is non-dual. So, it is necessary that there be, that there be an end to this chaotic-psychological condition, to this condition of duality, of separation, of conflict produced by thought, creating the thinker, creating the observer, creating the experiencer, creating the one who feels .
So that sense of duality dissolves when there is a work of True Meditation, and the True Meditation is that Full Attention, that Mindfulness. Once you give Full Attention on this movement of thought, there is nothing to acquire there. Now you are seeing non-separateness, non-duality, you are simply seeing that thought is a disordered, uncontrolled, chaotic movement. You don't judge it, you don't compare it, you don't evaluate it, you don't analyze it, you just notice, observe, and when this is done, there is a break in identification with that thought, with that thought model, with that pattern of thought.
This Full Attention over the movement of thought, this Vision of thought, some call Mindfulness. Mindfulness is simply an English term for the attentive mind, for Full Attention, taken from Zen Buddhism, from Zen Buddhism. So, note: the language, either used by Krishnamurti or in Zen, or in any other school, for example in Yoga, or in any other school of Self-realization, of Realization of Spiritual Awakening; the language is different, but the one who Realized his Being, who is established in his Natural State of Consciousness, has this Freedom to make use of any of these descriptions.
But they all point in the same direction, to the same Reality.
So, every Realized Being has a way of expressing it. I want to invite you to understand this in an experiential way, to understand the practice of Mindfulness, here and now.
This attention to this movement of the mind is the Freedom to assume the Truth about who You are here and now.
This Vision of Reality is the Awakening of your Essential Nature, the Truth about your own Self, the Truth about your Divine Nature. That is to be beyond this false center, this false "I," this false identity, this "me,” this ego, the illusion of this experiencer, the illusion of this observer, the illusion of this thinker.
So, it is in inattention that the observer arises. Once you pay attention to yourself, there is a break to this illusion - the illusion of the observer separating himself from the thing observed. Once you pay attention to yourself, there is a break in identification within that ego identity, that false “I.” That's the end of conflict, that's the end of suffering, that's the end of illusion. OK?
This is our subject here within this channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and let's work on it together.
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