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People have this concern… The point is that there is no “person” for this development. Here, it would be much simpler for you to have an approach to yourself from this direct Understanding of the Truth about who You are than to start from this premise, this belief, this common idea: the idea that there is “someone” present that can or must pass through a process of improvement, growth, evolution. This is something that has no reality.
The Vision of the Truth about who You are, ends with that, and that Vision is possible when there is Self-knowledge. It’s in the Self-knowledge, in the Recognition of the Truth about who You are, that the understanding that there’s no “one,” no “one” walking in this direction, in the direction of this personal development. This is basically a belief, a belief common to all, a collective belief.
The Reality of What You are is not in thought, not in the idea, not within this set of concepts you have within yourself. For your information, these are concepts acquired by culture, society, and the world around you.
An Understanding of the Truth about Yourself is needed, a direct Understanding of who You are.
Then, the Truth of your Being is revealed when there is this Meditation for the Awakening. Here, Meditation to Awakening is not pondering who you are, not creating an idea about who you are, not trying imagine who you are. This Awakening to Meditation is the Understanding of what Meditation means – I refer to Meditation within the science of the Self-knowledge, of the True Self-knowledge, of the True Acknowledgement of the Truth about yourself.
Therefore, this Meditation for the Awakening is what I’ve called here true Meditation, the practice of True Meditation. Meditation reveals to you the Truth about who You are, it gives you access to your own Being, to your Essential Nature, your Divine Nature.
So, our meeting here is always showing you that this whole process of Consciousness known by you, by all of us, is a movement of the mind itself, of the egoic mind itself, a mind acquired within this context of society, world, and culture. There must be a break from this condition, from this old and ancient condition, which is the condition of the movement of the egoic mind, the condition of thought, the condition of this standardization of culture.
So, your vision is completely distorted, it's a completely unrealistic vision. Then, when someone is concerned with this issue of personal development, it's because they don't have the slightest vision of themselves, about who they are. Your Being is complete; It will not develop; It will not evolve; It doesn’t need to. And all you need to Realize the Truth of what we are putting here is this approach to Meditation. There must be an Awakening to Meditation, and then True Meditation will bring about the Awakening of that Consciousness.
The point is that, in general, humans are asleep, asleep with respect to the need for the True Understanding of themselves. Humans live unconscious of themselves, involved with these mental patterns, and therefore, they are asleep about the opportunity or the possibility they have to Awaken to their own Being, to their own Consciousness, to the Truth they bring internally.
The beauty of this encounter is that it’ll give you or show you what represents the end of all this. Thought is always involved in this process of memory, recollection, remembrance, and this movement of thought is also projected toward imagination, toward ideation, toward an idealistic project.
So, the movement of the mind is always that, it’s the movement of the past or the movement of the future, the movement of memory producing constant internal representations of feelings, emotions, and thoughts of guilt, remorse, hurt, resentment, things coming from the past, which is basically thought, or else the movement of thought is always dealing with the future: desires, dreams, projects, diverse imaginations. And this is the movement I’ve called the movement of time; this is the so-called time created by thought.
Then, it’s a purely psychological time as I’ve called it. It has no reality in your life. Life is something that happens now, here, and It is complete, there is no need for evolution in that sense, for development in that sense. Thus, this “person” who is concerned with this development or who seeks this evolution has no reality because Reality is Life, Life here and now as It is, as It appears.
This encounter with your Being, this encounter with the Truth You are, is the Acknowledgement of your Natural State of Pure Consciousness. This Pure Consciousness is essentially Completeness; it is this Vastness, this limitless Space, this limitless Consciousness, this limitless Presence.
Another common term that people use is the expression “expansion of Consciousness.” Understand that this Consciousness that is your Being doesn’t expand. There’s no movement in It towards improvement or growth since, here, we refer to that unique Consciousness, which is the Consciousness of God. The entire process of evolution, the entire process of change, of transformation, yes, it’s possible in the mind, but the mind is within time, still within this process of psychological time. Therefore, as much as the mind evolves, grows, and finds new spaces and new territories, the mind will always continue within its own specific limitation.
The truth that You are, which is Consciousness, which is your Being, some have called Spiritual Enlightenment or the Awakening of Consciousness. This is something full, something complete. Therefore, Meditation to Awakening is True Meditation - I mean the awareness of observing the movement of consciousness. If you observe the movement of consciousness, everything you find moving in that psychological time is basically thought… thought, feeling, emotion, interpretation, judgment, conclusions, and beliefs… Then, the observation of this movement of consciousness, actually, is the observation of the movement of the mind.
This attention you give to yourself in this observation, in this not letting yourself be distracted by what thought says, feeling says, emotion says, that’s True Meditation. This True Meditation gives you that contact with your Being, which is this Consciousness. The practical form of this, Ramana called the Jnana Marga or the direct path. Marga is the path, the direct path, the direct way to access the Truth of Knowledge - Jnana is Knowledge.
Here, it’s about this Knowledge of who You are. This knowledge of who You are, is naturally the Recognition of Life, of Life as It is. This need or this supposed need for evolution, for growth, for personal development, all this disappears when you see yourself within this context of Reality that is essentially Happiness, Love, Peace, and Completeness.
So, forget this thing about developing as a person. Investigate this thing of the “person.” Discover your Being beyond the body, beyond the mind, beyond this sense of “person,” of separate identity.
Thus, our meetings are intended to investigate this with you and show you that it’s possible to do this, here and now. And this is done not by you, but rather by this Presence, this Consciousness, by this Grace.
All you can and need to do in this direction is to discover what Stillness is, what it is to remain aware of yourself, aware of the movement of the mind… this attention on this movement of the mind, not letting yourself be distracted by stories, by beliefs, conclusions, imaginations, of not letting yourself be captured by psychological time.
You are always here and now. There is no past and no future, except within that movement of the mind, except within that movement of thought; and when that ceases, this Space that opens itself, this Space of no-mind, of non-separate identity, of “non-me,” is this Presence, is this Consciousness, this Reality, the Truth about who You are.
That’s when this mindfulness or this full attention has this space here within this work, this work in yourself. You need to discover the importance of being present, of not being captured by this movement, which is purely egoic, the movement of psychological time. In fact, all conflicts, dilemmas, problems, adversities, complications, all this is present because of this condition, which is the condition of the egoic mind, which is present when there is this movement of time, which is the psychological time - the notion of a present “me,” present in the past, here, managing life, monitoring, controlling, doing, solving, and this same “me” walking towards a future. Then, here it is, the weight of anxiety, of imagination, of ideological conclusions.
So, this Vision of the Truth about yourself in the absence of this psychological time brings the revelation that there is only Consciousness, that there is only You in your Being. Then, there is no need for the “person” present to develop or evolve. The change of that is possible when this Presence, this Power, this Grace, once you are open… It's not that you're going to do that, I repeat, you're going to find out what it's like to be open. Once this Presence, this Power arises, It will create an internal transformation, an internal change in this body, in this mind, in this structure, in this biological mechanism. This change in this biological mechanism, in this living organism… the one responsible for this change is a Power that is already present within the body, what some people call Kundalini. It is the Power that will bring about this change, will bring about this transformation.
You have access to it here on our channel. We have an extensive playlist on this, explaining the importance and how it works. Then, that's basically the work that needs to be done: this surrender, this abandonment, through this True Meditation, once you’ve awakened to Meditation, you realized the importance of turning within, of going beyond this illusion, which is the psychological illusion of time. Ok?
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