Hello, guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel.
Let me talk to you a little bit more about Meditation. Perhaps you’d like to investigate this further and other matters also connected, linked to this thing called Meditation.
Meditation is a wonderful thing, there is nothing like this in life. The most important thing in existence is for you to learn the art of being Pure Consciousness. What is the difference? The difference is that in this common state of Consciousness, which is the mental state of consciousness, carrying this sense of "person," your life, this so-called "my life” … this so-called "my life" is always situated in time, in a time created by thought.
This time created by thought is an illusion. Thus, this so-called “my life” is an illusion. This sense of separateness present in this idea of “me” – “I… I do,” “I think,” “I solve,” “I love,” “I hate,” “I like,” “I don't like.” All this feeling and thinking is absolutely false, and that’s the condition of life in the egoic mind – I’ve called it mental consciousness.
There is something for you outside this ego-mind condition: it is your Natural State of Being; not of mental consciousness, but of being Consciousness; it is Pure Consciousness, You in your State of Pure Consciousness. In India this is called samadhi; in Yoga, this is recognized as the State of Turiya, the fourth possible state. What the human being knows is the vigil state, dreaming state, and sleeping state – this is the common condition for the vast majority of people on the planet.
When there is Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment, the State of Turiya flourishes.
It’s important to say in passing here that Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment, is not what people say out there. When I use this expression “Awakening” or “Enlightenment,” I mean the State Free of the sense of separateness between you and Reality, you and God, you and Life; I mean the absence of the egoic sense, of the egoic mind; the absence of psychological time; I mean the complete and absolute absence of every form of illusion, of every form of psychological suffering.
It's not the contact with extraterrestrials; it's not the contact with the so-called spiritual world, with beings from other dimensions, the contact with entities from other worlds, from parallel worlds, absolutely not! That's not this! At least here, in these meetings – they are online meetings, they are meetings here on our channel, and in-person meetings – we don’t use this expression in this sense, but rather in the sense of the same Realization of Ramana Maharshi, Eckhart Tolle, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Osho, of those who have Realized the Truth of their own Being, of those who have Realized the Truth about Themselves, and that’s our job here – to present you this opportunity, which is the greatest thing in your life, exactly because it constitutes the end of this “my life,” this “me,” this “I” that has speech, has action, has control, has thought, has the world, has people, has one’s own experiences; this sense of “me” that has the notion of “mine.”
This illusion of separation upholds every form of confusion, disorder, and psychological suffering present for this “me,” for this “I,” for this condition of mental consciousness. That dissolves in this Realization of Truth.
Therefore, that’s our purpose here with you: to explore, investigate, and approach this, through the beauty of the art of being Consciousness, which is Meditation. Meditation is the approach to your Natural State of Spiritual Enlightenment. In Zen this is called sitting without the mind, looking without the mind, walking without the mind, living here and now without the mind. The expression in Zen is called zazen, which means to sit without the mind, that dualistic, separatist, egoic mind.
This art of approaching yourself, which is the Meditation Art, begins for you the moment you accept the fact that Life is a mystery, that the only way to approach this mystery - it must be seen by you as a fact – is to stop looking outside and start looking inside, asking yourself the question “who am I?” Then, it’s possible to approach this fact, which is this mystery called Life.
Without this Self-knowledge, there’s no basis for Wisdom, for the Awakening of Intelligence, the Awakening of the end of duality, the end of illusion, and the end of psychological suffering. You may ask “what suffering is this?” Fear is this suffering, fear with all its representations. Insomnia, for example, you lie down to sleep and you can't sleep. I really like this example since it represents what happens as a reflection of a day without Presence, without Consciousness, a day lived, a whole day lived, lost in this condition of the egoic mind, of duality.
You spend the day not noticing this whole process of thought within you; hundreds, thousands of thoughts. They process within you and you… you have no perception of reality, of their presence. They are relentlessly present inside you. There is a constant chattering inside you, one thought after another without any control. You don't know that you are in this chaotic movement; you spend the whole day unaware of this great volume of thoughts, these thousands of thoughts circulating inside your head. This is a huge waste of Presence, Consciousness, Energy, a factor of stress, nervousness, worry, anxiety, anguish, longing, guilt…
All this is the movement of thought during your day. Imaginations… the notion of being in the future, because thought says you are there or being in the past because thought says you are there, all because of memories, and recollections.
Your day is like this, then at night you go to bed and that same volume of thoughts won’t quiet down – it decreases a little, but not enough – and you can't fall asleep. Worry, anticipation, fear, and anxiety still accompany you; the guilt, the longing still accompany you there, lying down to sleep. This is the state of psychological disorder the human being lives in, something common to all; that’s how this vigil state of the human being elapses.
Then, they sleep - when they can; when that happens, then the dream takes place. Then, everything that happens during the day, in a vigil state, takes on another form of happening, and the brain doesn’t rest since the dream then appears, and all these day-to-day reflexes appear during the night.
Thus, what is present during the day presents itself during the night in the form of a dream. In these dreams, the sense of “I” is still present separating from oneiric life, from dream life, running, fighting, loving, hating, worrying... The vigil state, dream state, and there is rest in the deep sleep state – these are the three states the human being knows.
The proposal of Awakening, of the Recognition of your Being, of this new condition of life free from the sense of the ego, the sense of the “I,” of that “me,” is the State of Turiya, the fourth possible state to you, the free state from this egoic sense. The brain is functioning in a new way, and the body is functioning in a new way, and this happened because of the Awakening of an entirely new Energy that was dormant in the body, which in Yoga is recognized as Kundalini, the Power of Kundalini.
This makes a change in that structure, in that body-mind, then, that State of Pure Consciousness gets established; then, you are a Realized Being, you Realized your Being. There is no longer that condition, that ancient and old condition of people who are unaware of the Truth about who they are. This is recognized as “the Awakened State.”
The word “Buddha,” addressed to that Asian man 2500 years ago called Shakyamuni… they called him Buddha, “the Awakened One.” He had Realized that Natural State of Pure Consciousness or of being Consciousness. It is in this sense that we use the expression “Spiritual Enlightenment” or “Spiritual Awakening” here; only and exclusively in that sense, in the sense of the absence of a sense of separateness, of duality. The expression ‘duality’ needs to be understood by you, here. Duality is this sense of an “I” in the world. This is something that is internalized in the mind. It is thought that creates the thinker's idea, then thought separates itself and says that there’s you thinking, and that is not real, it’s just thought arising. There is the feeling… This feeling takes over the body and this psychophysical structure. The feeling... Then, there is the thought and it says "you are feeling." This is not real – there is the feeling, but there is no “you.”
Here, now, at this instant, there is the speech happening. The idea of “someone” present – that's just a belief. In this illusion, duality and therefore this suffering are established, because in that separateness there is conflict and therefore this suffering that life is happening for you or against you. But it's not real, this is not real, there's no “you,” there's only Life.
The beauty of the Awakening of the Enlightenment is the end of this illusion “the experience and I,” “the talking and I,” “the hearing and I,” “the feeling and I,” “the thinking and I,” “the Being and I,” “God and I,” “the other and I;” it vanishes. When this vanishes, the illusion of duality is gone. In the Vedas, this is called Advaita. The last part of the Vedas deals with Advaita Vedanta. This is a very, very important matter.
To approach yourself, through the Self-knowledge, makes you realize that this belief can be broken, it needs to be disrupted. If it is disrupted, it is broken and you transcend vigil, dream, and deep sleep. And now, what is established is your Natural State of Pure Consciousness, Pure Non-Dual Being, where what is present is Life, it is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God; then, there is this Intelligence, there is this Silence, there is this Perception of Reality, where psychological suffering is no longer occurring since psychological suffering was established in this duality, and it is gone.
Notice the beauty of it, what it represents! There are hundreds… no, there are thousands of names of illnesses or pathologies of psychological disorders, there are thousands that the human being lives, and every day a new name appears on this list, and all that disappears when you Realize the Truth about who You are.
Therefore, our subject here with you is the Awakening of your Real Identity, of your Divine Nature, the Acknowledgment of the Truth of that no-mind, what I’ve called here a new mind, the new mind… the new mind, the new mind. Some people call it “the mind of the Buddha” or “the mind of Christ.” This is straight from the Christian scriptures - the mind of Christ; and, in the Buddhist scriptures – the mind of Buddha. It's not what you mean by mind, it's something entirely new. Looking within yourself, perceiving this duality, and putting an end to it is the goal of Self-realization, of Spiritual Enlightenment.
The approach through Meditation realizes This and manifests This. And what is Meditation? What is the True Meditation? The True Meditation is in observing the movement of the mind here and now. You just observe the thought, you don't put on an identity; you just observe the feeling, you don't put an identity. The sensation, you observe and you don't put an identity. It requires extraordinary energy, and extraordinary attention, because the mania, the addiction, the habit, is always separating yourself to monitor, to control, to accept what comes or rejects it. When you do that, you are again and again being captured, always, by this sense of duality. That's why no matter how hard you fight it, all forms of fears remain, the psychological fears remain. There is no final victory, there is no complete victory over fear, no matter how hard you fight, because it is exactly this fight of yours that is favoring the continuity of this movement called fear, which is nothing other than this movement of thought separating itself from the experience and strengthening the idea of “someone” in it. So, the fear perpetuates itself, it goes on. And that's how you improve on these frames of pathologies, of psychological problems. You get better, but there is no end to it as long as that sense of “I” is present, so there is no end to fear in its various expressions such as anxiety, anguish, worry, insomnia… Ok?
Meditation is an approach to an entirely new order – to look and stay with the experience, and not put yourself in control. You don't judge, you don't compare, you don't reject, you don't victimize yourself, you don't put an identity on it, you just see a sensation in the body; you don't name it… it's very important not to name it. When you name it, you separate yourself as if you were aware, knowing... and who is this one that knows? Who is this one that is aware? This illusion of being able to analyze is the illusion of an analyst capable of analyzing the experience – this is duality, and this perpetuates it because, actually, this “analyst” is just a fragment, just a part of this thing that he is analyzing.
The experience itself, the thing itself, is divided into itself, as the thing, and an analyst, who is only a fragment, an illusion; and that fragment wants to control the experience. This only strengthens it.
The same energy present to deal with it, without a separate identity, without that center that observes, without that observer, without that analyst, without that thinker, that same energy is the Pure Energy of Consciousness. If it stops dispersing in that division, the conflict ends, fear ends, anxiety ends, the sense of "me" ends, and with it, all that disappears - that is Meditation.
The Art of Meditation is the Art of Being, here and now, without psychological time, without what thought has to say about this experience present here and now. There is only this instant, there is only this moment, there is only this Life. This Life, in its Totality… there is no sense of “me” within It – This is Spiritual Enlightenment.
So, Meditation is not separate from Enlightenment. The contact with the True Meditation… I speak of the True Meditation. Here, on our channel, I’ve talked about the True Meditation. You can look into it here and see the difference between the True Meditation and these so-called meditation practices. The True Meditation is Spiritual Enlightenment, it is Spiritual Awakening, it is the end of that “me,” that “I,” and therefore it is the end of illusion. Ok?
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