Advaita Vedanta | Full Attention Mindfulness | What is thought | Unhappiness

We are going to investigate this question. The question is: what is thought? The question is: how to get rid of suffering? The other question is: how to go beyond unhappiness?

The investigation of who we are, the observation of the Truth about ourselves, is something that can reveal to us everything we need for a Life in Love, for a Life in Peace, for a Life in Real Happiness.

Yes, we need to go beyond suffering, beyond unhappiness, we need to Realize the Truth that we are, the Truth of our Being. We have to find out how thought in us gives continuity to the pain – I mean psychological pain.

For example, when someone criticizes you, at that moment, you don't receive it in a total, complete way. Already within you is a reactive, self-protecting image response. Internally, a thought arises and says, “Who are you to criticize me?” This reaction, this reactive response, is a response to the self-image, to the image you have of who you are.

Maybe you don't verbalize it in that moment, but, in that moment, you register it inside, you take that photograph, you keep it.

And from that moment on, when you look at that person, when you meet him or her at other times, that image is there, and it is an image of pain. Deep down, you don't like that person anymore.

Our liking depends on praise; our disliking depends on indifference or criticism. This is how we function; that’s how this “I,” this “me,” works.

We are working with you on the importance of Self-awareness, the Understanding of the Truth about Yourself. This is discarding the illusion of this “me,” this “I,” this ego.

So, this is the game. This is how this movement of suffering takes place and continues in each of us; that’s how this egoic movement continues in each of us. It is based on memory, on the image we keep within ourselves about the world, about the other. The different people you know…

You have, of each one of them, a huge number of images, because this happens now, the next day something else happens and a new photograph is taken…

Our relations with others are based on these images. This is the cultivation of psychological pain. This is the cultivation of the ego. So, our relationships are all based on this “me,” this “I.”

We are proposing the end of the “I,” the end of the ego and, of course, the end of this condition of ego identity, which represents suffering. All psychological misery, all psychological suffering, in us, is present because of this unconsciousness.

We don't know the Truth about who we are, but we identify with these images that thought builds within us about who we are and who the other is. We live in this like and dislike.

Some we like, while they treat us… they treat our “I,” our ego, this “me,” this “person” that you believe you are, in a way. Praise creates an impact, criticism creates an impact, censure creates a psychological impact, within each of us, and we are automatically reacting when we come across that person again.

So, if there is an insult, you become my enemy; if there is praise, you become my friend. As long as you hold the praise, you are my friend; if you insult me, you become my enemy.

Our friends, our enemies, the people we love… What is it that we call friendship in our relationships?

Notice how much this is mixed with images. Those we hate, those we love, those who are friends, those who are enemies… Whose friends are they? Who is this “I,” here, who has this friendship, who has this love, who has this hate?

From birth to death, our life has been this way. We are sustaining this psychological condition of a present ego identity, and we carry that to the end of our days.

So, there is no the Awakening of God, Awakening of Truth, Awakening of our own Being, because we live within this principle of duality.

Advaita Vedanta addresses this issue of Happiness, this Happiness possible for each of us. This possible Happiness is the end of this duality, of this principle of “I and the other,” “I and the world,” “I and God,” “I and my thoughts,” “I and my feelings,” “I and my imaginations” ... It is in these imaginations that the images are moving.

What you have of yourself is an image. That “I” is that image. That “I” is that center, that reference. We can go beyond the ego, beyond the “I,” beyond this “me,” and therefore beyond these images.

Therefore, this is how thought sustains the continuity of the egoic illusion, the illusion of pain and the illusion of pleasure. Love is not pleasure. In relationships, those who give us pleasure… The illusion within each of us says that they are giving us love. The ego asks for pleasure, satisfaction, appreciation and recognition, and that is not Love.

And we are continuing this pleasure and this pain, sustaining this self-image, when we don't observe this movement of psychological duality within each of us – this sense of “I” that in that instant, in that moment, doesn't realize that, in that experience, there is no identity.

When we place an identity present in this experience of thought, feeling, emotion, the relationship with the other, with life... when we place this element of the “I,” we place – in an unconscious, mechanical, habitual, addictive way – this condition of duality and therefore of separateness. And so we live our lives for thirty, forty, fifty years.

The point is that thought, in our relationships, is always demanding, asking, demanding. There is always this need for self-fulfillment. That is what the ego, the “me,” the “I,” this sense of “I” is demanding and, therefore, it is always separating itself – that is the sense of duality.

Non-Duality, your Being, your Natural State, is the end of it all. Thought is always warping, altering, changing, shaping things as it wishes. With thought, we get confused and lost, and because of that, we suffer.

The work of Self-awareness, in this approach to the Truth about who you are, puts you in direct contact with the True Meditation, the True Practical Meditation, here and now, in living.

This contact with That which You are is the contact with the Reality of God, of your Being, of your Divine Nature.

Notice what we're saying. We are saying that thought is the creator of this duality, but there is also in us the intention to find Love, Peace, Freedom and Happiness.

You are here on this channel because you are actually looking for this contact with the Truth that you carry within yourself. This is possible when there is this approach. As long as you are moving in this world in this unconscious way, turned to externalities, towards the search for satisfaction, fulfillment and accomplishment in external things, you will remain lost.

It is necessary to turn to yourself here and now and look at this. It is very important to observe your reactions… to observe and ask yourself “who am I?”, “what is the Truth about who I am, right now, here?” Ramana called it Atma Vichara, self-inquiry – looking at yourself, self-investigating, verifying that sense of separateness, of duality. This is the end of this duality, then the Recognition of the Truth of your Being takes place.

Our emphasis here is on the True Practical Meditation, the only Meditation that shows you the illusory sense of duality between the thinker and thought, between the observer and the observed thing, between this experience and the one who is here claiming to be the experiencer. This True Meditation is unique – only in the sense that it is no longer a means for you to escape, for you to escape this opportunity to recognize yourself as Pure Consciousness.

This is present in this full attention, which is also called Mindfulness. The moment of being here and now, with what is, not running away, not rejecting it, not fighting it – that is Meditation. To observe every reaction, every thought, every feeling, every emotion, every sensation, each and every image that arises when there is criticism, when there is flattery, when there is offense…

You are aware of yourself, without giving yourself identity, at that moment.

When there is no identity given to this “me,” to this “yourself,” this experience leaves no record, leaves no mark, leaves no image. This is dying to this image, to this “me,” to this ego. That’s the end of the past. That which is not registered, that which is not part of that psychological memory, cannot come back. This is a relationship with what is, without the illusion of “someone” present in it. OK?

That’s what we've been talking about on this channel. We're delving into that here with those who approach.

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October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Vedanta | Advaita Vedanta | Mindfulness | What is fear? | The end of the ego | Non-Duality

The subject is Advaita Vedanta, Non-Duality. That’s what we're going to talk about to you here in the next few minutes. What is Non-Duality? Our psychological and mental condition is the condition of separateness, the condition of duality.

There is the thinker and there are thoughts; there are feelings and the one who feels; there are actions and the one who acts: the author of those actions. That feeling of “me and you,” “others and him;” the feeling of “I in the world,” “I on one side and the world on the other side” – this duality is not real. It’s weird to hear that!

The idea of someone present experiencing life as if life were the object and this “someone” the subject, that’s duality, the sense of “someone” present. In this duality, what we have is separateness, and in that separateness, what predominates in that division is conflict, some form of contradiction, and some form of suffering.

This illusion of duality is sustaining this condition of psychological suffering in your life. It’s only in this psychological condition that there is this duality, only in this psychological condition there’s this separateness, this belief, this idea.

The experience of the senses tells us about this multiplicity. Yes, when we look at the world, what we see are objects, all separate – each one has its color, shape, name, and story... But, actually, what the eyes are seeing is within only one Reality, which is this Consciousness.

This Consciousness is the basis of the whole manifestation, and this Consciousness is not separate as the experiencer and the thing experienced, as the thinker and thoughts, the one who feels and the feelings.

The possibility of Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness is the possibility of You in your Being, in your Natural State of non-separateness, non-duality. There are no you and others! If there are no you and others, there’s no conflict; if there are no you and others, there’s no suffering.

There is no truth to this psychological suffering we are experiencing. This is something that is being produced and sustained by the illusion of separateness, by the illusion of duality.

We never approach to look closely at what, for example, fear is. What is fear? You are afraid of the dark, afraid of the wife, the husband, the children, the boss… You are afraid that something you have done in the past might be discovered and you may suffer the consequences. You are afraid of things that happened in the past could happen again now, at the moment, or you are afraid that something will not happen, and you are hoping that will happen in the future. You are afraid of the present, of the past, of the future. You're afraid of the dark room, of the wife, the children, you're afraid... there’s a lot of fear!

This fear has different forms of presentation, there are different fears. All these fears (are) psychological. The fear you have of someone, your husband, wife, or children, is an image you have of someone who can hurt you, injure you, or harm you in some way. Who is this one that can be hurt, injured, or harmed? Who is this one that can be mistreated and detracted? Who is this “I” that you believe to be? An image, a belief, an idea, an idealization that you make about yourself. This carries fear because it sees itself separate from the other.

Relationships, our relationships, are based, settled on fear because they are based and settled on these images – the image you have of yourself and the image you have of her; the image she has of you, and the image she has of herself.

Our relationships with people, our relationships with objects, even with darkness, are the idea of someone who can be visited by a ghost – as if a ghost only likes the dark to appear.

Thus, there is the fear of the dark, of sleeping alone… These different fears are psychological. They are based on this principle of separateness, of duality – “me and non-me,” “others and me.” This “I” is the image, and this “other” is the image. This “I” is afraid of the dark since there is an image that something scary might appear or any danger could happen.

Then, we are afraid of the future and we are afraid of the past and we are afraid of people. So, the fears are many, they are innumerable! You can help me there on your list. What are you afraid of? You're afraid of a confined space, you're afraid of the dark, of the elevator, of using a ladder, of diving into the pool, of height... Fear!

The presence of fear… We never approach the issue of fear; we never look closely at fear since when fear arises, it is fear always in a relationship with something – with others, with the dark, the ghost, the confined space… It’s always “me and the other.” There’s a relationship, and we don't get closer to it.

So, this sense of duality is sustained by this direct non-observation. Then, as long as there is not this observation of fear, fear will not be understood. And here “understood” doesn’t mean “analyzed,” or “intellectualized.” You can understand this principle and still be afraid. Here, understanding fear is to look at this pain of separateness, to what arises when the “I” appears in this relationship.

Approaching this is Self-Awareness. Seeing that this “I” and the other thing don't exist, realizing this duality is to understand the end of it, to perceive, to realize, to verify the end of this duality. Another example… And all this is psychological! Fear is psychological! It is not in Life, it’s in the mind.

Thoughts arise and there is the idea of “someone” thinking – that’s duality. Since a young age, you believe you are the thinker of your thoughts; this is not true. We all know that we don't control our thoughts. If you could control your thoughts, you would think only what you wanted to think about and you would stop thinking or would never think about anything you don't like, what you don't appreciate, what makes you suffer, and that’s not really the case.

Thoughts occur, they happen, and they are invaders. They are not invited; they just show up. It’s not you who produce the thoughts! You don't produce them, they arise. Thoughts arise and there’s this illusion of “I’m thinking,” “I’m producing” these thoughts.

Then, the thought comes and it’s something you don't want – and this “you” is the “I.” This “I” rejects thought, it fights with thought, it wants to repel thought, and it wants to fight against thought. What you don't realize is that this “I” is thought itself – it separates itself.

There is no “I,” there is no duality between you and fear, there is no you and fear. Fear is sustained because there is this identity rejecting that experience. So, there is the illusion of this “I” and the fear. In that division, conflict is established, fear is established, and suffering is established. In this illusion of the thinker rejecting thought, the thinker and the thought are established.

I want to invite you to approach Non-Duality. Non-Duality is staying with what arises and not separating yourself from it, not putting this “I,” this experiencer, this thinker, this observer within that experience. You don't put that image in this relationship with the wife, with the husband, with the children... you don't put that image. You observe when that image appears, and you become aware that it wants to separate itself and that when it separates, fear arises. You don't put this image, this “I,” when the light turns off. You perceive the emergence of this “I” and, with the emergence of this “I” in the dark, the imagination of the ghost.

You perceive the game, you perceive duality… you perceive, you become aware. Then, this duality is eliminated, and when it is eliminated, conflict is eliminated, fear is eliminated, and suffering is eliminated. This model of restlessness, of thought being sustained, all the time inside you, by this duality, by this resistance, by this struggle, because you reject, you try to get rid of, or you identify with and welcome it...

If it is something that gives you pleasure – this “me,” this “I” – you welcome it and mistake yourself for it. It’s just a memory, but you identify with it, you give an identity, so the sense of duality is there. But, if it’s something you don't want, you reject and fight it, and so you still uphold the sense of duality, the sense of separateness. Do you see what we're saying?

There is no “me” and fear. Fear is the only “reality.” If there is fear, there is only fear! You are the fear! There’s no you and fear. And you don't feed it, you bring awareness to that moment, you stay with this experience without separating yourself, and then you find out that it vanishes because that which is what is, is what is – fear is what is, the feeling is what is, the sensation is what is, perception is what is, thought is what is. There’s no thinker!

And when you don't fight, when you don't resist, when you just observe, you bring attention to that moment, mindfulness, then a new Energy emerges at that moment. This Energy is the very Energy of Consciousness, of Non-Duality, so the separateness vanishes. It doesn’t sustain itself, the experience doesn’t sustain itself, because the experience is psychological, it has no existential truth. Do you see?

The truth of this experience of fear... and fear is what it is. However, this experience of fear only exists in this relationship between the observer and the observed thing, between the one who fears and the object of fear. As this has no reality, it’s just a psychological configuration, ideation, a concept of the “me” itself, the “I” itself, the ego itself, it vanishes. Because it vanishes, the illusion vanishes – this is the True Meditation.

Contact with your Being, with your Divine Nature, is the end of ego, the end of fear. Not only the end of fear but also of everything the egoic sense represents. Ambition is based on that, envy is based on that, the pain of loneliness is based on that, anxiety is also on that, and depression is on that.

The sense of ego sustains human unhappiness. The misery of the “I” is the misery of the egoic mind. This is the unhappiness of the person.

Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, the Realization of your Being, is the Realization of the Truth of Non-Duality. So, Advaita Vedanta points to Non-Duality. When your Natural State Flourishes, when your Divine State Awakens, your State of Being, What is present is Happiness, Love, Peace, Freedom, Intelligence, and the Truth of God.

Advaita means “the first without the second.” The only Reality present in all this manifestation is Consciousness itself, where all this manifestation shows itself, presents itself, as the one Reality, just one Thing. This is the Truth of your Being, the Truth of your Divine Nature.

We have online meetings, and face-to-face meetings, including retreats, to investigate this with you, this important issue of the Awakening of Happiness, which is your Divine Nature, the Truth of your Being.

Therefore, if this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel – if you haven't already subscribed to the channel – and we can work this out together. There’s a link in the video description. Join the group and let’s work it out. Ok?

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October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Advaita Self-awareness | Psychological suffering | Intrusive, obsessive and repetitive thoughts

Let’s investigate this question of thinking. What is thought?

There are two types of thought in each of us. There is a thought that must work in a natural, logical, practical, objective, sensible, intelligent way, and there is another type of thought that does not or should not have space in our lives.

And we need to understand these two types of thoughts, how they happen, how they are processed in each of us. Otherwise, we won’t have the slightest possibility of entering that new Space which is the Space of Awakening, which is the Space of Enlightenment, which is the Space of God Realization.

Thought is memory. The reactions of memory show themselves as thought. We go through experiences, and those experiences turn into memory.

These memories are recorded, they are stored, they are archived in the brain cells themselves. Some of these memories are useful – it’s the first quality of thought, the thought that becomes useful, functional, important, within this dream world we live in.

And there is another type of thought, which are also reactions of the brain itself, also stored in memory. So, the brain reacts within that memory format, and that memory is useless. This quality of memory sustains this “I.” The “I” that we believe to be is sustained by this quality of memory, and we have to investigate this quality of memory.

This first type of memory, I have called technical memory – this functional memory. We can also call it memory of facts. You have had some experiences, and you remember them. OK. You have a dream at night and you have a memory of that dream. When the brain works well, it records experiences that turn into memory.

Your name, for example, is a memory, an objective memory, a practical memory, an important memory. You need to know your name, you need to know your address, you need to know your history – and here I am referring to the history of this body-mind, this psychophysical structure. This is knowledge, which takes the shape of memory.

If you know how to drive, you have that memory. That memory is in the brain; it is, in fact, at the central motor. The body retains this memory. Anything you learned, technically, is part of that memory: the memory of facts.

But we have a completely useless, unnecessary quality of memory. It is the kind of memory that sustains suffering, psychological misery, psychological pain, psychological distress. This is the psychological memory, the memory of the “I,” of this “me,” of this sense of identity that you have, which is a belief. There is no such “I,” there is no such “me.”

This useless memory is based on imagination, ideations, beliefs, carries a background of programming, of conditioning, sustains the illusion of separateness between you and the other, between you and life, sustains the illusion of separateness between you and yourself.

It’s like there were many people inside you. One is the one who agrees, the other is the one who disagrees; one is the one who accepts, the other is the one who rejects. There is that doubtful one... That entity within you is in conflict. This internal dialogue that you have within yourself, the intrusive thoughts, the unexpected thoughts, this intrusion of present thoughts is because of this psychological memory, this second quality of memory.

This quality of thinking sustains the psychological suffering of this “I,” the psychological misery of this “I.” All the confusion, all the disorder, all the turmoil, all the restlessness is within this psychological condition of suffering, of disorder, created by this memory.

The question is: can we get rid of that memory? Can we discover That which is the Truth about who we are? If we get rid of this memory, then we have the key that opens the door to the Divine Reality.

This background of psychological conditioning, this whole story sustained by this ego-identity, this is the reality that has become our life, the illusory reality that has become our life.

We are living by thought, in thought, in this structure. Functional, practical, objective thinking has a very small place in our lives, very unimportant, compared to that quality of thinking that has taken on extraordinary importance in our lives and assumed extraordinary importance in our behavior, in our actions, in our relations.

Thus, the door remains closed, this portal to the Reality of our Being, of the Divine Reality that we bring within ourselves, remains closed, because our actions, based on this quality of thought that has taken on such enormous importance in our lives, constitute these egoic actions, these egocentric actions.

This whole structure of egocentrism present in our lives is something that is being supported by psychological thinking. And here I am referring to the thought of psychological conditioning, to this psychological memory; not to the memory of facts, but to the psychological memory.

If you are offended, if you are hurt, if you are sad with someone, the brain registers that. When you meet that person again, there is resentment, there is this hurt. Your relationship with that person is a relationship, now, based on remembrance, a belief, a memory. It is this psychological memory that causes conflict and suffering in relationships.

The ideas you have about who you are, all of them, are based on that kind of thinking.

The idea that you have of the other, the idea that you have of the world, the idea that you have of God... Because you have learned, within your religion, who God is, an image has been kept, a belief remains cultivated within you about the Truth of God. And what you have is not the Reality of God, the Truth of God, it is a belief, it is an image.

So, there is this concept of God. So, you say “my God is greater than your God.” It is the idea of ​​God, of a God who is different. “The God I found is the real one, the God you found is the false one.” This is conflict, this is contradiction, this is disorder, this produces prejudice, differences, estrangement, isolationism.

Our actions are egocentric when they are based on psychological thinking, that psychological memory, that psychological conditioning.

This is how the “I” is sustained in us, the “I” that is just an image, that cultivates several other images, and, every day, adds new images to this old image that it makes of itself, that it has of itself.

Our work here is to Recognize the Truth about who we are. Our work is to understand how thought, throughout all this time, has been creating and sustaining this psychological conditioning within each one of us; to perceive the basis of that conditioning, the structure of that conditioning, that center where that conditioning is settled.That center is the “I,” the ego, the “me” – a strong image that separates itself from life, that separates itself from existence.

This is where we run into the problem of duality, the sense of separateness. If there is “I,” the world is outside. If there is “I,” I have my motives, my reasons, my fears, my desires, I have my private thoughts, my beliefs. This separates me from the whole Life, it separates me from all the Existence.

So, there is this egocentric model, there is this structure of egocentrism. Over the years, psychological problems will arise because of this psychological memory.

Anxiety is something like that, the pain of loneliness is something like that, existential void is present because of that, depression is present because of that.

The sense of “I” is a deformity, it is a pathology. We take it very passively. We get used to this condition of psychological disorder, of psychological suffering, of ignorance about ourselves.

Here, we are inviting you to look at the Truth about who You are, to realize the Reality of your Being and therefore to see the importance of going beyond this condition of the egoic mind, egoic consciousness, psychological memory, illusory identity, which is the “me,” the “I,” the ego.

Another important point is this issue of feeling, always linked to this psychological memory, to this psychological condition of being “somebody.” Notice how much the feeling receives continuity because of this psychological conditioning. What you feel is cultivated by thought. If you are irritated, choleric, with some level of stress or anger, realize how much thought, this psychological memory, supports that.

Thought needs to be understood, because it gives continuity to these feelings. If you don´t observe the movement of thought, you end up cultivating, unconsciously, internal states which you don´t want for yourself. Intrusive, obsessive and repetitive thoughts give continuity to internal states in you, negative states, states of unhappiness.

These inner states of feeling and emotion, in turn, reinforce these thoughts as well.

So, we live in a vicious circle. The thought appears and it sustains the feeling, emotion, state or sensation.

This state, this sensation, this feeling or emotion seeks confirmation in thought. So, one thing feeds the other. This is the egoic structure, the “I” structure. This is the structure of this false identity, of this “me.”

The point is that, over time, actions stop being important and thoughts take on extraordinary importance!

Life occurs in action. If, in meeting you, I carry an image of frustration, of disappointment, of sadness, of rejection, there will be no real action here with you in this relationship, because thought will be there, that image will be there. So, thought ends up taking on an extraordinary importance in our relationships with one another, and this favors conflict, suffering.

Couples, for example, live in a relationship of a lot of conflict, confusion and misunderstanding, because of these images. There is no action. Action is not important in the relationship. Thought has become important, feeling has become important. So, these considerations given to thought and feeling became very important.

So, our relationships… A relationship based on the “I,” on the ego, is a relationship based on conflict. So, I can say “I love you,” but that’s a lot of importance given to a feeling of pleasure, satisfaction, some form of fulfillment, and since that’s just an emotion, a feeling attached to an image, when something else happens, that image changes, because that feeling has changed, that emotion has changed. So, this “I love you” is no longer “I love you,” it is “I don't like you,” “I don't want to see you anymore,” “I don't want to hear from you anymore.”

So, what we call “love” is not love. Love is in the action, it is not in the idea, in the image, in the feeling, in the emotion – that is not Love.

Love is Consciousness, Love is Presence.

Love does not take into account resentment, hurt, desire for self-appreciation.

When there is Love, what is present is intelligence, understanding, compassion, tolerance, patience, care… All of these may appear as part of Love, but that is not yet Love either. Love makes this possible, but that is not yet Love. When there is Consciousness, when there is Presence, when the relationship is not based on thought, feeling and emotion, but in an approach of that Consciousness, where there is no separateness between this “me” and the other “I,” when there is no “I” and the other, when there is no “me” and “not me,” when there is no “I” and “not I,” when there is no duality in the relationship, what is present is this communion, and, in that communion, Love reveals itself.

Our work together is to discover the Truth about who we are and go beyond the illusion of that egoic sense, that sense of separateness, and therefore, go beyond thought.

When you are beyond thought, a door opens, and when that door opens, for the first time you are in touch with Love. Love is no longer based on images, thoughts, ideas, beliefs.

Love does not expect something, nor is it frustrated or disappointed with something. In Love, there is no other, there is no world. Love is the Reality of this Consciousness, which is God, the Truth of your Being, of your Divine Nature. When there is the end of thought, this new door opens: the door of Intelligence, of Truth; the door of Consciousness.

This is the subject that we deal with here on our channel. We are addressing Self-Realization, which represents the end of this ego-identity. That’s our work together. That’s the end of intrusive thoughts, that’s the end of obsessive thoughts, that’s the end of repetitive thoughts; This is the end of thought; This is the end of the “I,” of the “me,” of the ego.

If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel… I want to remind you: we have online meetings and, also, face-to-face meetings, where we work on this together. OK?

Thank you for the meeting. See you soon.

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is Self-Realization? Self-awareness. The Power of Kundalini. Non-Duality. Jnana Yoga Practice

Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel. Self-realization… what is Self-realization? That's the question.

Self-realization is the Realization of the Truth about who you are. Once freed from the illusion of who you are, what is present is what we might call Self-realization. The sense of "someone" present in Life, in Existence, in this experience here and now, in the present moment, in this present moment, the illusion of "someone" present... Once this is seen, once this is perceived, we are facing Self-realization, because the realization of that is the acknowledgment that there is no "I" present, there is no "someone" present now, in this experience. This we could call Self-realization: Realization of the Truth about Yourself. You are Consciousness. It is not about idealizing this, having a goal to achieve this, to objectify this, to accomplish this. It is paradoxical because the expression is “Self-realization,” but there is no “someone” to be realized. So, it's not a project, it's not a goal, it's a Realization, the direct Realization of the Truth about your Being now – That which is already present, That which is here and now… You!

The direct way is self-enquiry. There is nothing more direct to this realization than the Self-knowledge.

Self-knowledge is the possibility of this approach to this self-observation. This self-observation is this attention given to yourself, this attention to yourself. The attention to yourself is the real approach to Self-knowledge. This is done by self-enquiry. The question is “who am I?” It's not that you're going to formulate it, as I've said here countless times. Ramana left a question. He called it Atma Vichara, self-enquiry. Self-enquiry or Atma Vichara means self-observation, the self-observation of this “who am I?” It is not a verbally formulated intellectual question.

This self-awareness lays the foundation for the Self-knowledge. In that Self-Knowledge, you have this contact with the True Meditation. Meditation is an approach to yourself, to yourself, it is a contact with the Reality of your Being. This occurs when, in this attention to yourself, in this self-awareness, the illusion of duality is perceived.

Duality is that inner duality within the mind, this conditioned mind, this mind programmed to think in terms of "me and the world," "me and the other," "me and God," "me and this feeling," " me and this thought,” “me and fear,” “me and desire,” “what I want,” “what I don't want,” “what I like,” “what I don't like.” This “like” is the object, this “I” is the subject. This “I” is the subject, fear is this object, it is this experience.

So, on the one hand, you have the experience; on the other side, you have the experiencer – it is that “I.” This is the psychological conditioning we receive from childhood. This is noticed when you give this attention to yourself.

In this self-observation, in this self-enquiry you perceive the game, you get closer to yourself, but, at that moment, you no longer judge the experience, you do not compare, you do not reject, you do not accept, you are neither against nor in favor of what appears here now.

If fear is present, it is just fear, there is no “someone” who is afraid; if thought is present, it is only thought, there is no “thinker” thinking; if a certain feeling is present, you approach it, but you don't put “someone” to reject that feeling, to fight against that feeling, to try to control, to mold, to do something against that experience.

There is only the experience, there is no “I.”

So, it breaks this model of psychological conditioning, it breaks the sense of separateness, this sense of duality, and when that is broken, That which remains is this Pure Consciousness, it is That which I have called Being-Consciousness. This is Self-Realization: the Realization the Truth about Yourself here and now. This illusion of this false center, this “me,” this “I,” is no longer present. The beauty of Self-realization is that Self-realization implies Happiness, Love, Peace. Then, this nameless Reality, this extraordinary Thing, the Presence of that most intimate Unknown, closest to your Self, which is God, reveals itself.

There is only God, there is only Consciousness, and that is Being, that is Self-realization, that is Spiritual Enlightenment, that is Spiritual Awakening, that is Transformation given by the Power of Consciousness, which is the Power of Kundalini. Self-realization means a change in that structure, in that body and in that mind, to something entirely new, new and unknown, nameless, which is the Truth of God revealing itself. Therefore, the Truth about who You are is revealed in this Realization. All this internal struggle, all this internal confusion, all this psychological complexity, loaded with fear, envy, jealousy, anxiety, loneliness, depression, anguish... all this weight, all this pain, this is something that is based on ignorance, on the illusion about who you are. Here, the expression is Jnana. Jnana means the Knowledge of Truth. So, the direct path to Self-realization is in Jnana Yoga, in the Recognition of Truth, through that Union, that access to your Self. So, the real Jnana Yoga practice is in the Self-knowledge, in this clear discernment of what is illusory. This is possible when this illusion of separation is broken and disappears.

Then, that which is illusory is gone, and here the illusion is this sense of duality, this sense of separateness, because the only Reality is Advaita. This is said in the Vedas. In the last part of the Vedas, you find Advaita Vedanta, the Vision of the Sages concerning the Reality of Life, of all Manifestation. There is only One, without the second – that is Advaita.

So, Truth is Non-Duality. Truth is that Real State of Pure Consciousness, of Pure Being, Non-Dual. So, that's our purpose, that's our job here; so that's what we're working on together with you. This is True Wholeness, the beauty of this Sense of Wholeness, of Oneness.

In a practical way, Non-Duality is present here. Yes, Non-Duality, Non-separateness, the Non-Dual State. This is Self-realization. If this is something that makes sense to you, I want to leave this message here for you: we have face-to-face meetings, online meetings, and retreats. If it makes sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel, and we can work on this together. OK? Until the next meeting.

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Self-Awareness and Spiritual Awakening | Advaita Vedanta | the question of Ramana Maharshi

Self-Awareness: how to know yourself? If you intend to get to know yourself because someone told you it’s important, I'm afraid to say it won't work for you.

You need to have an internal intention motivating you towards this approach. It can’t come from anyone.

It’s essential to feel within yourself this need to understand yourself, to see the Truth about who You are.

Some people want to have Self-Awareness, but actually, they don't want Self-Awareness, they want what Self-Awareness has to offer.

We carry within us a psychological, internal condition of deep ambition, and even in a matter like this, the intention is to know yourself to obtain benefits, to gain something, to achieve something.

Here, the expression Self-Awareness, as I put it within this channel, is something a little different from that; it’s not Self-Awareness for you to improve.

You get better through some behavioral changes, some discipline, applying to yourself some human relationship techniques, and changing your way of thinking from negative to positive… However, here on this channel, we are working with you on another thing when we talk about Self-Awareness. We are telling you that the Truth about who You are must be that impulse that moves you to discover yourself.

Here on this channel, we are working with you on the beauty of Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment, and therefore, the end to this psychological suffering of this illusory identity, this “me,” this “I,” the “person” you believe to be.

Thus, our meeting here, investigating the importance of Self-Awareness, is for those of you who are looking at this, who feel, at this moment, that you must turn to the Truth, discovering the Divine Reality you carry within yourselves, because that’s what Real Self-Awareness, True Self-Awareness has.

True Self-Awareness is not the knowledge of the “I,” it is the recognition or the realization that the “I” is an illusion, a fraud.

This “I” that sees the world, that sees this world, positions itself in this world, feels itself in this world, that carries the ambition to accomplish things in this world, this is not real.

Here, we are looking inside ourselves, learning from ourselves, and this learning is extraordinary since it’s not something that isolates you from life, from existence. It’s something that brings you closer to life, brings you closer to others, and closer to the world. But not from that old place that is the “me,” the “I,” always centered on itself, interested in itself, to gain something or to get rid of something.

The Truth of the Revelation of your Being, the Truth of the Realization of your Real Nature, which is not the “I,” which is not the ego, not this “me” – that’s our aim here in these meetings, and Self-Awareness is this approach; it is in this sense we use this expression here.

Therefore, how to learn from yourself? How to learn? Observing, becoming aware, and looking at what this “I” represents. This “I” represents the past, a set of remembrances, memories, and recollections; it represents the sense of “someone” present filled with fear, desires, apprehensions, envy, ambition … To look at this, approaching this, without self-condemnation, rejection, without fighting it, but rather just approaching to look at it, in that look without judging, comparing, without self-criticism, without self-condemnation…

This is something you apply to the relationships with the world around you. So, the other constitutes a mirror in these relationships, the world is a mirror in this relationship with it, whatever is emerging, appearing, is a mirror, where it is possible to see the illusion of identity within this experience.

The experience is the contact with others, it is the contact with life; the mirror is what makes you realize that this “me” and the other are not real, this “me” and life are not real, this “me” and the world are not real. This can be seen when you have that look, abandoning that psychological duality.

Notice what we're going to say now. Within you is a concept that there is a you and the world, you and others, and you and life in a relationship. Absolutely not! There’s only Life, only others, only the world! This “others,” “life” and “world” are a single Reality, this Consciousness. There’s no sense of “I” in that experience, there is only that experience, and this experience is one – one single experience. It’s not “the world, life, and others, and I,” it’s one thing, a single one Reality present when this “I,” this ego, this “me,” is not present.

Realizing this here and now is Self-Awareness, because, here, the expression Self-Awareness is the realization that there is no “I.”

The question of Ramana Maharshi is “who am I?” And here’s the answer! It’s not intellectual, not verbal, it’s experiential! That’s why you need to turn to that, not because others have said it’s important, not because you've read it in some book about how important it is to know yourself, whatever the book wants to say about Self-Awareness.

Here, I put the word Self-Awareness not within the language of psychology, sociology, or philosophy, but here Self-Awareness is something very simple: it is realizing that when one thought is present, this is the other; one feeling is present, this is the other; a present sensation is the other, this is an experience.

If there is this “me,” then we have the other, but if there is no “me,” this “I,” the present thought is just a thought without the thinker, the present feeling is just the feeling without someone in it.

That goes for perception, sensation… To look without the observer, to be in direct contact with the thought without rejecting the thought, without fighting the thought, without wanting to do something against the thought. When you approach any thought in this way, you have a real, legitimate approach to Self-Awareness.

People say “my thoughts disturb me.” They disturb you because you give them identity. Thoughts have no identity unless you give identity to them, and you give identity to them when you mistake yourself for the experience of thought, when you put an identity, which is the thinker, separating and trying to fight this thought; then there’s you and others; then, this duality occurs, presents itself, shows itself at that instant; and in this duality, we have conflict; in this duality, contradiction is present.

Then, there is always this struggle of the thinker trying to master thoughts, control thoughts, hold on to thoughts or get rid of them. In this illusory duality, the sense of the ego remains alive and present. If this is upheld, there is no Self-Awareness.

This is the condition of humans. They have no real approach to themselves, to investigate the egoic movement, to investigate the movement of the “I.” So, there’s no such clarity that this “I” is an illusion.

As for a feeling, it’s the very same thing! When there is a feeling, there is always the idea of ​​an “I” in the experience of feeling. So, the feeling finds an identity because there is this belief, this idea, this illusion. Approach it carefully.

We have been conditioned and programmed to live in this model of ignorance, of illusion, without a vision of the Truth of what is here and now.

Reality is this Truth that transcends the “I,” it is this Truth that transcends this “me,” transcends the thinker, the experiencer, the observer. And when there is an end to that thinker, that experiencer, that observer, there is an end to the ego, to that “me;” and when it ends, the thought ends, the feeling ends, that psychological pain disappears along with that thinker, that observer, that experiencer – this is the True Meditation.

People go to different practices, they apply themselves to different meditation practices, intending to have momentary relief from the weight of this “thinker” that is chattering all the time inside their head. Then, they’ll meditate so that they can get relief from this psychological pressure, this inner chatter. They’ll meditate to relieve themselves of this emotional tension, this emotional stress. So, the intention is relief. Then, they go to a particular meditation practice.

This meditation practice is therapeutic; it is the meditation practice that has a self-hypnosis function. Then, momentarily, they feel relief from that pressure, from all that volume of thoughts with which they mistake themselves for all the time; that emotion with which they mistake themselves for; that story… all this is coming from the past, it’s something linked to memories, to recollections, to this psychological weight, and there is a temporary relief.

Here, we are talking about Meditation in a new sense for you. Here and now, at this instant, with Self-Awareness, you have this contact with this disidentified observation of whatever is arising. This observation, this vision of Reality ends this sense of duality, this sense of separateness, so there are no others since there is no “me.”

This is straight from Vedas, from Advaita Vedanta. In Vedanta, we have the expression Advaita, non-duality, non-separateness between you and God, you and life, you and others, whether the other is a person, an experience, a sensation, an emotion, a thought… Yes, I mean sensory perception, whatever is arising – there’s only this Consciousness!

This Consciousness is Oneness, Love, Peace, and Freedom. When that State is settled, some people call It Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening – it’s the end of that ego identity, the end of the illusion of “I.” Other people call it the God Realization, the Realization of your Being.

So, this impulse has to come from within you, you need to be burning for It, feeling this impulse, this real interest in discovering the end of psychological suffering, of the illusion of this “me,” this “I,” this ego.

This is the subject we deal with here on our channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” and subscribe to the channel… I want to remind you: we have online meetings too, and face-to-face meetings, including retreats.

If that touches you, we can work this out together, Ok?

See you next meeting!

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The psychological conditioning. Spiritual Awakening. Advaita Vedanta. Non-Duality and Self-awareness

What is Self-awareness? As for Self-awareness, how to start? Because Self-awareness is an important element within my talks; because Self-awareness constitutes the basis of the Recognition of the Truth about who we are.

We cannot confuse the image that we can investigate, the image that we have about ourselves, the image that we have about who we are… The investigation of that image…

The purpose of Self-Awareness is not to give you knowledge about who you believe you are, but to discover the illusion of who you believe yourself to be. Notice the difference. The idea you have, the image you have, the concept you have of yourself, this concept, this image, this idea, this is not real.

This set of beliefs, this block of beliefs, that you have about who you are, is what sustains you within a psychological, internal condition of ignorance. This ignorance is the lack of the Truth about You.

So, here we put the word “Self-awareness” in a new sense – in fact, quite different from the one that psychology uses. Self-awareness is the observation of yourself. How do you approach something you don't know about? You can't approach it with an idea, with a set of beliefs, with a huge block of images.

You approach what you don't know as an investigator, as someone willing to look closely at what it is. This is how we have to approach ourselves.

The lack of this approach keeps you identifying yourself or giving identity to all these images, beliefs, concepts, to everything you believe to be. This continues because of the lack of true Self-awareness.

So, what is Self-awareness? And what is the importance of Self-awareness?

Self-awareness brings you closer to the Vision of the Truth about Yourself, the end of the illusion about who You are. Therefore, Self-awareness is something that can only be truly understood within a vision of non-duality. Only non-duality must be the basis for this investigation, not the image you already have, the belief you already have, the concept you already have about yourself.

Thus, approaching oneself must be based on the Truth of Advaita Vedanta. So, Advaita Vedanta has a true approach to this issue of Self-awareness.

The result of Self-awareness is the Truth of your Essential Nature, your Real Nature, which is non-dual… the non-dual nature of your Being. Your Being is one Reality with everything; therefore, it is this non-dual Nature – there is no you in your Being and the world outside; there is no you in your Being and the other outside.

The movement of history, the movement of memory, the movement of recollections, of situations, events, incidents, accidents… whatever happened to you happened to this body-mind, did not happen to the Truth of your Real Identity, of your Real Nature.

Thus, all this cultivation of memory – which concerns a memory linked to this body and mind – all this memory is not something relative to what You are in your Being, but to this mechanism, this living organism.

Self-awareness will make you realize the Truth that You are not the body, You are not the mind and You are not this story, You are not this memory. Because you are getting confused with this story, because you are getting confused with this memory, you are seeing yourself as someone placed in time – this is the time of memory, it is the time of images, the time of remembrances.

This past, present and future are something that exists only within this psychology of yours. So, we are referring here to a time that is not real, to this psychological time, which is basically memory; and memory is basically thought.

So, we have to investigate this, investigate ourselves, learn from ourselves, discover the Truth about ourselves – this is Self-awareness.

Here, as we deal with Truth, Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, the Revelation of your Being, we cannot neglect this – the importance of True Self-awareness – because the Truth of your Being is the Divine Truth, it is the Truth of God. So, you are not the “person” you believe you are.

All the knowledge you have is always the knowledge of thought, memory, remembrance, a set of images, recollections, which is basically this time that is not real; it is the time of thought – it is the past, which is thought; it is the present, also imagined by thought; and the future, also imagined by thought.

The Reality of Life happens in your Being, as your Being here and now, and here there is no “I”... this “I” to be known.

Therefore, the expression Self-awareness here does not refer, in these meetings… We have meetings here online and also in person, in addition to retreats, in addition to these videos that you have access to here on YouTube. We have several videos on this subject, on the all-important subject of the True Meditation and Beauty of Self-awareness, of the Truth of Self-awareness. There are two issues linked here, showing you that Self-awareness is not the knowledge of this “I,” but the Realization of the Truth of the “not I.” The absence of this “me” is the Truth of your Being.

An approach to Meditation, this approach to Meditation, is an approach to your own Being through Self-awareness. So, the path to Meditation passes through Self-awareness. Without Self-awareness, there is no True Meditation; Whatever you mean by that word, whatever you imagine about that word, doesn't reflect what we're talking about here.

Note that Meditation goes through this investigation of the false. That which you can perceive in yourself and discard, in this self-investigation, is the false.

This set of beliefs, this set of ideas, this set of images that you've formed, over all these years, about who you are, is not real, it’s something illusory. This contact with Self-awareness, which is the observation of this movement of the mind bringing these memories, these remembrances, this being seen here and now… Looking at this requires you to get closer so you can see it up close.

So, Self-awareness is this approach where you can look at what is happening here and now, at these more superficial memories and at these more hidden memories.

What is at the conscious level is what is closer to be perceived, and what is at the deepest level, at the unconscious level, is what seems to be a little further away. And yet everything is here, as part of this mind consciousness, this egoic mind.

This mind consciousness, this egoic mind, is composed of this memory, this psychological memory, this psychological memory that constitutes the “I,” the ego, the “me.”

Thus, Self-awareness is looking at this “me,” this “I,” observing each thought, each feeling, each emotion, every sensation, whatever is appearing right here and now.

Then, it is possible for you to free yourself from the psychological conditioning by discovering your True Self, your True Nature, the Nature of God present here and now.

The importance of this is that when there is this Self-awareness, this contact with Meditation happens simultaneously, so you have this Revelation of this innate Happiness, this innate Love, this innate Peace of your Being.

So, all these models we know of psychological unhappiness are nothing more than frames constructed by thinking and feeling about who we are. With these frames, we identify and confuse ourselves because of the lack of this Freedom from illusion, this misunderstanding, this deception; because of the lack of this Freedom from this programming, the psychological conditioning, which makes us egocentric, unhappy creatures.

These frames are frames that are well recognized by all of us – the sadness, the anguish, the pain of loneliness, the different fears, the psychological restlessness, this internal chatter within each one of us, the different models of conflicts, contradictions, dilemmas, of psychological pain present in this “I”… For example, we have envy, we have jealousy, we have ambition… and where there is ambition, envy, jealousy, there is no Love.

Our relationships… We desire, in our relationships, Love. But there is no Love! We can have affection, tenderness, we can have complicity, we can have companionship, but along with that, we have aggression, competition, envy… All this because of ambition, the desire to dominate. It is always the sense of the “I,” of the ego, in its model, in its pattern of egocentrism.

So, this structure of egocentrism is present because of the absence of Truth, which is the Revelation of your Being. So, our work here is to discover the beauty of our Divine Nature, the Nature of our Being. Realization of That, some call Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening.

This Divine Grace, this Divine Energy, this Divine Presence in us, when Awakening, when Awakened, we are beyond this illusion, the illusion of a mistaken identity, of a false identity, of an illusory identity, trapped in the model of psychological conditioning, trapped in this egocentric structure, trapped in this illusion.

The work of True Meditation, here and now, becomes fundamental, the Recognition of who we are, the study of ourselves – not the study of books, not what the books say about who we are, not what the books of sociology, psychology, theology talk about God or about us. Knowing what the books say will not work.

Here, it’s about looking at yourself, seeing your reactions, seeing your motivations, your intentions – the intentions so declared and the hidden ones – being aware of yourself here and now, moment by moment.

This constitutes the beginning, the start of Self-awareness; this reveals the True Meditation and so you can release that illusion, the illusion of being “somebody” here and now, within this model, by realizing that this model is something that can be observed without an observer – thought can be observed without a thinker, feeling can be verified without that identity wanting to react to it, fight it, do something about it.

Here, the observer perceives the illusion of himself through Self-awareness. This is quite paradoxical! Self-awareness is the direct realization that there is no “I,” there is no observer. That falls away, that illusion disappears, because when there is no longer this separateness between that which is observed and the observer, the observer realizes that it is nothing but a thought, and as a thought it disappears, and That which is present is that Reality, is this Divine Truth, is this Real Consciousness.

In general, we use the expression “consciousness” and, here, consciousness is just that mind consciousness. All consciousness that you have about who you are is mental. That which is Real Consciousness transcends this “me,” this “I.” This Consciousness is the Real Consciousness, it is Life, it is the Whole, it is Existence, it is your Being, which is non-dual.

So, there is no you and the world, you and life, you and God, you and the other; there is only Consciousness! This is Spiritual Enlightenment, This is Spiritual Awakening, This is True Self-awareness or this True Self-awareness shows you the Truth of That which transcends this “I” and this specific knowledge.

So, we are before That which is nameless, unspeakable; we are facing Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening.

That is our subject here. Therefore, this is the subject that we deal with here in our channel.

If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel... Reminder: we have online meetings and also face-to-face meetings, and we can work on this together. OK?

Thanks for the meeting. See you soon.

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Illusion of individuality. Vedanta. Non-Duality. Pathological psychological and emotional disorders

The Truth about You is beyond the mind, beyond this sense of a present identity. You feel you exist as “someone,” you feel yourself to be “someone,” to exist as “someone.”

This is how you feel in life, in existence – a “person” present. You have a father, you have a mother, and you have a family... The condition of the “person” you believe for yourself, you believe you are – to feel yourself like “someone,” to believe you are “someone” – this belief puts you in this life, in this existence, in a psychological condition of duality, of separateness.

When looking at the world, you see the world outside and you inside the body – there is nothing more illusory than that! This sense of seeing and what is seen is only one phenomenon happening in this Consciousness. This Consciousness is the Reality of the “you present and the world” phenomenon. There is no world and you, there is only this Consciousness. This Consciousness makes the “me and world” phenomenon.

Notice that “I” is an idea and the world is an appearance for this idea. So, this appearance, which is the world, and this “I,” which is an idea, is something present in this Consciousness. The only Reality present is this Consciousness. This Consciousness is your Being. There is no separation, there is no duality.

So, the subject here, so important, is this; it is the matter of non-duality.

The Truth about Yourself is the Truth about the world; the Truth about the other is the Truth about this “I.” This Truth is the Truth of Non-Duality. Non-Duality is the Truth of the whole Manifestation.

The Understanding of this experientially... This may seem philosophical, it may seem theoretical, intellectual, verbal and yet this is something that can be experienced – the Realization of this Truth that there is no separateness, any separateness, between you and the world. If there is no separateness between you and the world, there is no separateness between you and life, you and others, and you and God.

This is straight from Advaita Vedanta. That’s the subject we're dealing with. We are pointing out the Truth of Non-Duality, the Truth of your Divine Nature. The Truth about You, about who You are, is the Truth of God.

This feeling of being a person is within this set of diverse beliefs that, psychologically, you have, which include others, the world, God, and everything around you.

Notice, we have a memory, which I've called a memory of facts. Your name is a memory of facts; it is a memory of facts. One of the facts present in your life is in this memory: your name. Your story is another fact, another memory. Here, I refer to the story of this body-mind, to the biological, physiological ancestry – this is a fact, and there is a memory present there.

Your body is the result of this memory, and all the thoughts inside you are the result of this memory: the memory of facts. All knowledge – the language you speak, the country where you were born, all the technical knowledge you acquire throughout your life, your age, your birthplace, your name, the name of your parents, of your grandparents – all this is part of this memory of facts present in this body-mind.

You mistake this body-mind for a present identity. This body-mind is part of this Existence, part of this unique Life. You see yourself as an identity separate from Existence – this is an illusion; this is part of a belief; this belief is no longer part of this memory of facts.

So, we have the memory of facts… Your name is a memory – I mean this body-mind that has a name. The story of birth, the language, the culture where you were raised, where you live, all of this embeds in your brain as a memory of facts.

Although there is also a psychological memory. The belief of being an entity separate from Life, from the Whole, from Existence, is within this psychological memory.

That psychological conditioning is part of this psychological memory. This illusory sense of separateness brings with it this psychological memory. This sense of separateness, within this psychological memory, upholds every form of conflict, contradiction, and suffering, in relationship with others, the world, and with life.

The present fears, the various psychological fears are part of this psychological memory. Human beings carry many fears, many forms of fear. They are afraid of the dark, afraid of old age, getting sick, and death, they are afraid of being abandoned and rejected. There are countless psychological fears, within this psychological memory, for this imaginary “I,” for this entity that sees itself separate from life.

All conflicts, all the dilemmas, all that psychological complexity, which is this mental consciousness, this egoic consciousness… This egoic consciousness is psychological memory. Envy, jealousy, greed, avidity, inner disorder, anxiety, every form of psychological disorder, pathological, psychological, and emotional disorders, are upheld by this illusion, by the illusion of this separate identity.

This is all part of that conditioning. In that psychological conditioning, there is this belief, the belief in this illusion: the illusion of individuality. There is no individuality! We have the individual, particular aspect of this body-mind, with its story of memory of facts. In this sense, there is a difference between that human being and another. Each one has, in this body-mind, a story, a memory – the memory of facts.

So, we are different in that sense. Then, in this biological aspect, there is this difference; in this aspect of the memory of facts, there is a difference. However, psychologically, inwardly, as far as this psychological memory is concerned, there is no such individuality. There is only one Consciousness in the world!

The present fear is the present fear in the human being. These fears, which we just put here for you, are something present in every human being since they are basically the same fear. Fear is something common to everyone, envy is something common to everyone, jealousy is something common to everyone, greed... These fears, like fear of death, anxiety, sadness, anguish, and emptiness of loneliness, this is something common to all, present within this psychological conditioning, this false individuality we believe we are, we believe we have.

Our meeting here is for a change in the structure of this psychological memory because it is a psychophysical memory. All this condition of memory, of conditioning – and this is where cultural, social, spiritual, philosophical, hereditary conditioning comes in – all this psychological conditioning present in this egoic consciousness, in this mental consciousness, needs a change, a transformation.

Here, I want to tell you that it’s possible to go beyond that, beyond this illusion – the illusion of this individuality – to the Realization of your True Individuality.

The word “individuality” is interesting. The word comes from “individual.” The word “individual” means “without division,” and it means “a single being.” The human being, psychologically speaking, is not a single one being. Violence, pain, and psychological suffering, this is something present in all of us – this is the psychological condition of the human being.

Only in the sense of this Consciousness of Being that is What we can attribute to God, to the only Reality... God is the only Reality, which carries the True Individuality. The best news here is that this Reality is the Reality of your Being. Therefore, the True Individuality, which is the Individuality of Being, of Divine Consciousness, is your Real Nature.

Thus, Spiritual Enlightenment – here I refer to the Real Spiritual Enlightenment, the True Realization of your Divine Truth – is the end for that illusion, which is the illusion of the ego, of the “I,” of this false individuality, this background of psychological conditioning, that which puts us in an artificial, unnatural condition of egocentrism, of separateness. Then, we act like egocentric beings.

Your Being is Consciousness, it does not carry egocentrism. It is the illusion of this individuality, it is this sense of “I” that behaves in this egocentrism, in this format of egocentrism. The Truth of your Being is Love, Happiness, and Peace. The Truth of your True Divine Identity… some call It Spiritual Enlightenment or God Realization – assuming That in this life, assuming That as this Truth that is You.

The Sage of Arunachala, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, shared this message and left this legacy here: Atma Vichara. So, Ramana pointed out that Reality. His question to anyone who approached was “who am I?” From Ramana, this opportunity has arisen for you, in his Grace: the opportunity of self-investigation, of self-inquiry. The question is “who am I?”

The observation of the movement of thought, the movement of this egoic consciousness, the movement of this psychological memory… I am not referring to this memory of facts; I think that was clear. You need memory at a certain level: to speak a language, to remember your address, and to perform professional work... This knowledge, this memory... this memory is functional, important, and necessary. Here, I refer to this psychological memory – the end of this illusion is the end of it… it seems to me that this has become clear to you.

And how is it done? By self-observation. You need to break this program, this conditioning, this way of functioning, of thinking, feeling, and acting in the world. Self-observation through Atma Vichara… The question is “who am I?”

You are not going to ask yourself that question – not intellectually, not verbally – you are going to approach yourself by Self-Awareness, through Self-Awareness… the observation of every thought here and now, every feeling, every emotion, every sensation, every reaction...

The reactions, in us, are coming from memory, from that psychological memory, and if they are seen when they arise, and you don't put that identity of the “I” back into that memory again, the memory is undone, it is broken, it vanishes, because there is no sense of “someone” to feed it.

The problem is that when a thought arises, the idea, the belief, of “someone” thinking arises soon, then this duality arises, this sense of duality, this sense of separateness between the thought and the thinker.

When a feeling arises, that’s a reaction coming from that psychological memory – that’s in the body, that’s in the mind. When this arises, you don’t acknowledge in this Self-Awareness, in this look, in this “who am I?” You put identity into it when you separate yourself to reject that feeling, thought, or emotion.

So, there is the illusion of this present identity, the illusion of this individuality fighting against this appearance. It is an appearance here and now, something from the past seeking to project itself, at this present moment, into the future.

This has been going on throughout your life. Every time a thought arises, there is this belief that you are thinking; an emotion, the belief that you are the one feeling it. You mistake yourself for the body and the mind when you give an identity to that sensation, that feeling, that thought.

So, this work is Self-Awareness. Simultaneously, this is contact with the True Meditation. The True Meditation is being aware of yourself here and now, moment by moment, without mistaking yourself for thought, sensation, perception, emotion, feeling, or a thought. You just observe; you don’t mistake yourself for it and don't give identity to it.

This is part of what I have been calling the True Meditation here. We have on the channel a playlist about this True Meditation. How to realize That? How to break this identification with the ego, with this “me,” with this “I”? How to break this identification with this model of thought, feeling, and emotion?

Notice how important this is! Some people say: “I've been trying to get rid of thoughts for a long time because I've already realized that thoughts create conflict...” “To get rid of feelings,” “ to get rid of sensations, perceptions, of emotions.” And that’s not it! It’s not about getting rid of it! This attempt to free oneself confirms the illusion of an identity reacting; it confirms this sense of duality present. However, if you observe, just observe, without separating, there is the end of that identity since there is the end of this separateness, there is the end of this duality.

Then, what is present vanishes, because it has no reality in your Being, it has no reality in your Essential Nature, and that’s not part of your memory of the facts; it’s just psychological conditioning, something present in humanity for millennia, something present in your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, in all your ancestry, in all those who came before you. But you can break away from that, and that is the work of the Awakening of your Divine Nature, which is the Awakening of Consciousness – some people also call it Kundalini Awakening.

We have a playlist here talking broadly about this subject: the importance of this Awakening, this Energy, this Consciousness, this Divine Power you bring, which is Kundalini.

Thus, our subject is the end of illusion for this psychological “I,” for this psychophysical memory. When Kundalini Awakens, it is this Energy that changes the body, transforms this structure, this body and mind; that’s when that psychological memory is undone, it’s nullified, destroyed… it doesn't last, it doesn't continue – some people call it Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening.

Here, on our channel, we are investigating this with you. Ok?

If this is something that makes sense to you, I want to invite you to “like,” and subscribe to the channel… and reminding you: we have online meetings and face-to-face meetings, and we can work on this together.

See you next meeting.

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Ramana Maharshi: the Sage of Arunachala. Atma Vichara. Existential void. The search for spirituality

Our subject here, within this space, is about Self-Realization.

The human being is, throughout the history of humanity, looking for something outside this simple material well-being – although this is still very important for some –, beyond this mere physical well-being, beyond this mere comfort, this stability.

This search for something beyond that and the possibility of coming across it, of meeting it, is the subject that we deal with here within this channel. We are sharing with you the Truth of Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Realization. There are several names for this encounter, for this realization, for the new perception of life.

This has been man’s search for spirituality, throughout all time, throughout this entire history of humanity.

Here, it is a question of this Realization of the Truth of God.

The human being is not happy having only external achievements. As great as these accomplishments are, as fulfilling as they are, as great as they are, within each of us is a level of inner dissatisfaction that nothing can fill. Some have given the name of existential void to this internal condition of restlessness, of dissatisfaction.

So, there is this constant search for experiences – this is a way of searching for something beyond mere material satisfaction, mere material achievement. So, there is a constant search for psychological, spiritual experiences, travel, affective, emotional achievements… In fact, all of this still entails a certain level of material fulfillment, and none of this really satisfies. So, there is this restlessness, there is this internal dissatisfaction, there is this existential void.

So, despite all the comfort, all the well-being, from the material point of view, internally we continue as confused creatures, in internal, psychological disorder, in conflicts, within each one of us, which are not resolved.

So, our job here is to find an answer to all this. Here, I want to challenge you to find your Natural State of Being, a Life in a quality completely different from this confusion, this psychological disorientation, these fears, scare, fright, of this existential void, realizing in yourself, verifying in yourself the Truth of your Being, the Truth of your Divine Nature.

The work towards This is in figuring out how to go beyond the mind – I mean that mind that we all know. Thought in us is the basis of this disorder, of the way it works.

We have a memory of facts. These memories of facts… in our existence, we need them. Within a certain level, this memory is something very useful. We need the memory of facts.

This is the memory of the knowledge we have acquired throughout this lifetime. We need technical knowledge, objective knowledge, we need practical knowledge. So, this is the memory of the facts.

Our address you have to remember. If you don't remember your address, there’s something wrong with your brain. If you don't remember your name, there’s something wrong with your brain. This memory function is very natural. Unless there is something, some problem in the brain itself, memory will not work well. This memory is memory of facts.

But with that, too, along with that memory, we carry another level of memory, which is psychological memory. It is this psychological memory that I have called psychological conditioning; it is the memory that represents in us, in life, in living, in everyday life, worries, anxiety, fear... various forms of fears that we carry within ourselves.

We have the idea, the belief, the image about who we are, about who the other is, about what life is and even who God is. And all of that is within that psychological memory. It affects us in a psychic and physical way, because we identify with this level of memory and we put it in evidence in our life, in our existence, and that is the reason for all the confusion, all this internal, psychological suffering, all this confusion, all this disorder, all this existential void.

So, this search for something beyond this mere material comfort, this mere material fulfillment, and beyond this psychological condition of internal disorder, of internal chaos, in the search for spirituality... this only has a definitive answer, for ourselves, when we Realize the Truth about who we are.

The Realization of your Being, the Spiritual Awakening, the Spiritual Enlightenment is the Revelation of the Happiness of your True Nature. So, our business with you is to show you that This is possible in this life. And all that we are sharing here on our channel with you is from an experience, in this contact with Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, the Sage of Arunachala mountain, pointing in that direction… and today we are sharing the Truth of this unique message for this Awakening. Ramana Maharshi called this “the direct path,” “Atma Vichara.”

The question is “who am I?”, “what is the truth about me?” What is the truth about who you are, about who we are? What is the reality of this nameless, indescribable “thing” called God?

We call it God, but we stand before That which is nameless, that which is indescribable. What is the truth about the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God?

The Truth about who You are is the encounter with your Being, which is a direct realization that what is present is nothing but God. God is the only Truth present in this Life, in this Existence.

Thus, Spirituality is the realization of your Essential Nature. A change in this psychological structure is necessary, a change in the body and in the mind, so that it settles down there, in this living organism, in this mechanism, the Power of this Divine Presence, which is the Power of this Grace, which is the Reality of God.

So, this dissatisfaction that leads us to live in a constant search for experiences, sensations, external accomplishments and also some searches and achievements of beliefs, ideas and concepts, which are also still an external accomplishment... This search for fulfillment in various forms of pleasure – emotional pleasure, intellectual pleasure, pleasure linked to aspects of intellectuality or affective aspects, pleasure in relationships… This existential void…. the end to this emptiness, the end to this suffering, the end to this dissatisfaction...

The Realization of the Truth of your Being is the Realization of your Natural State of Love, of Peace, of Happiness; the end of this existential void, this feeling of emptiness. This emptiness is present because of this psychological condition, and it is so with all fears. A change in this psychological structure is necessary. So, there needs to be a change in the mind itself, a transformation, a radical transformation in this way of thinking, feeling and acting.

So, the contact with the Divine Truth, the contact with the Truth of your Being, brings about a change, a transformation in the body and in the mind, so a new… there is something new now. There is something entirely new – it is the presence of Truth, the presence of Happiness, the presence of Love.

This change in body and mind is due to this transformation in this model of thinking, feeling and acting. This new model demonstrates the real presence of this change, of this Divine Power that has emerged in each of us. When this Power flourishes, awakens, emerges, some call it “the Kundalini Awakening” – it is this Energy of this Consciousness, it is this Energy of this Presence, showing itself, bringing about, effecting this change in this structure, in this body-mind and therefore, in that thinking, feeling and acting.

It is not the effort based on a belief, on an idea, on a concept, based on studying books or hearing from someone how to do it, how to accomplish it. All this is born of Self-awareness. You need to find out how to study yourself, how to look at yourself, because this Truth, this Wisdom, comes from that Self-awareness.

No external agent can give you That, no external agent will give you this change, which represents this Happiness, the presence of Peace, Joy and Love. This is born out of this Self-awareness. All we are doing here, in these meetings, within this channel, is to show you how to do This from Self-awareness.

So, the question is: how to realize Self-awareness? How to attain This? Becoming aware of yourself, here and now. It is necessary to study yourself, oneself, observe your reactions, your feelings, your sensations, your emotions.

You observe and verify this in relationships, in the relationship with the other, in the relationship with the world. Looking at your own thoughts and not getting confused with them... the feelings, emotions, sensations, and not putting an identity present in this experience. This is only possible when there is this attention to yourself.

So, Self-awareness is the basis for this transformation, for this change, and therefore for the end of this dissatisfaction, for the end of this disorder and confusion, for the end of suffering.

Therefore, this is the subject that we are dealing with, showing you, through the unique, unparalleled vision of Atma Vichara, within this teaching of Ramana Maharshi... The direct path to the Awakening of your Divine Nature is within this View of the Sage of Arunachala. To look inside yourself, look at what you are, and ask “who am I? What is the truth about this ‘me’, about this ‘I'?”

Therefore, this is the subject we discuss within this channel, in addition to face-to-face and online meetings. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel and let’s work on it together.

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Egoic mind | Psychological suffering | The clarity of Self-awareness | Psychological time

Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel. Understanding the Truth about who we are, that’s all… that’s the only thing needed in our life. Some people call This Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, or the Awareness of the truth about yourself.

Will a life free from this psychological complexity be possible? You have already noticed that our mind lives within a great complexity. This complexity represents all this mess that we, as human beings, get into, and get involved in.

There are, for example, actions in us that are completely discordant. We behave one way and then realize it wasn't exactly the best for ourselves.

This shows us, for example, that we would never do that if we didn't have a certain level of psychological disturbance and disorder since no one is willing to produce suffering for oneself in a conscious way.

Thus, these discordant actions, for example, conflicting actions and problematic actions we have, occur because of this internal disorder, this psychological complexity. I’ve called it unconsciousness, what we could also call insanity.

So, our egoic mind – and here I refer to this mind that lives within this model of separateness, of duality, in this proposal of you being present acting, present in the action.

We are going to investigate this a little today in this meeting. This action proves to be problematic because it is conflicting and discordant, it produces results we don't really want for ourselves, and yet, we move to act that way, and then, we realize the consequences of that. They are conflicting, discordant, and problematic actions. This occurs because of this internal psychological state in which we live, of duality, of contradiction.

We, as human beings, feel and think, however this feeling and this thinking have no basis in Truth. The basis of this feeling, of this thinking is disorder, the disorder of thought and the disorder of feeling and emotion. And actions are born from that. Let’s see it now, here, with you.

Where do our actions come from? Our actions are born from thought and feeling. It is thinking and feeling that drive us to act. Now, is it possible to have an action free from this thinking and feeling and, therefore, free from this background of conflict, contradiction, of duality? This background we call ego, “I,” or “me.”

So, our actions are always being… happening based on that, on the sense of “someone,” on “someone” in this doing, in this accomplishing, in this executing this. Is an action possible free from this “someone,” this “me,” this “I,” from this ego?

When we talk to you about Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening, we are putting to you that there is an action, yes, free from the ego, free from this sense of “I,” and therefore, free from this internal state of duality, contradiction, of conflict.

What is this internal state in this format? The idea is that it is “you” in action. So, there is “you,” the “I,” with its ideas and feelings, proposing to accomplish something. After that is done, that same sense of “I” realizes that this action is conflicting and problematic, this is not what you wanted, and this is not what you wished for yourself.

Notice that our life takes place in actions. Everything in your life took place and is taking place because of actions, actions taken, accomplished, and done. Who is it happening in? To whom is it happening? For whom are the actions? For “me,” for the “I,” for the ego.

So, there is an intention, a motive, a desire, and then the sense of an “I” present goes in search for this accomplishment, and then it realizes this action was conflicting, this action wasn’t what it really expected. This is within that sense of “I.” It is within this “I” that this action takes place, it is for this “I” that this action occurs. As this “I” is a set of images, memories, and remembrances that never understands Life as a whole, never understands Life as It is, and never align itself with the purpose of Life, with the purpose of Existence, what happens here is the conflict, the problem.

Therefore, the ego is the problem, the “I” is the problem, and its actions are all based on this sense of a wish to be fulfilled*, for “me,” for the ego, for the “I.”

There is a way of behaving in this life, of moving in this world, free from the sense of “I” and, therefore, free from this contradiction, this problematic action, this contradictory action. This action is free from memory, from this whole set of opinions, judgments, beliefs, motivations, intentions, and desires... An action free from the ego is the action of Consciousness, it is the action of your Being.

Your Natural State is the State free from this egoic sense, this sense of an author in actions, an author present here, acting, moving, doing things. Then, Life happens.

This quality of action is the action of Love, of Intelligence. Then, there is this Freedom to flow with Life; there is no sense of “I.” It is not an action for that “I,” on that “I,” on the ego, on that “me,” in that sense of a separate identity.

Our meetings have this purpose: to show you that a life free from psychological suffering is possible. And a life free from psychological suffering is a life free from contradictory actions, actions in fear, desire, and problematic actions.

Thus, our job here is to show you that a life free from these discordant, conflicting, and problematic actions is possible. An action in Love is an action in this Presence, in this Consciousness, in this sense of Reality. There is no “someone” … it is the movement of Joy, the movement of Presence, it is Consciousness itself moving in Love.

In general, our actions are driven by the motives of this ego, this “me,” this “I,” result of desires or to escape pain or suffering. So, they are actions born out of desire, born out of fear, they are actions that are born… from a reaction from the past.

Life is present here and now, with all that it represents, and your action born of this feeling-thought is an action that comes from this memory, from this past. So, it upholds conflict and suffering.

Here, we are working with you on the possibility of that Liberation, the Liberation of this psychological model of living, of existing, of being “someone” – that model is the model of psychological time. It is the end of psychological time, for the end of this illusion. The illusion of this individuality is within this movement, in this idea of being the author of actions.

The Recognition of the Truth of your Being is the Awareness of this Presence here and now, in this new action, an action born from Intelligence, not an action born from the reaction, memory, remembrance, from those secret motives based on fear, on all the contradictions of this ego, this “me.”

So, here it is a free action, an action in Freedom, an action in Love. This is possible when there is the clarity of Self-awareness. There needs to be an Acknowledgment of the Truth about who You are; you need to abandon this mistaken identification with this false center, this false ‘I,’ this place from which thoughts, feelings, and actions emanate. This is the false center; this is the false identity.

Self-awareness puts you in touch with this observation of this movement. To look directly at this movement and perceive the presence of contradiction, of conflict, of this illusion of this “I,” which sees itself as the agent, as the author, as the one who is responsible, making its choices within the actions, within its beliefs, believing in what can be good for it, or harm – this discrimination based, basically, on thought...

But there is this illusion of a present identity making these choices. These choices are born, naturally, from this confusion, this duality, this illusion of the thinker with its thought. Perceiving this is Self-awareness. Perceiving… and just perceiving, without imposing anything on it, without judging, comparing, rejecting, but just perceiving that there is this duality between this “I” and this intention, between this “thinker” and this thought. To perceive this duality is to perceive this contradiction, this conflict, the fraud that there is an author of the actions.

When this is seen, it’s possible the end for this model of action, which is the action of the ego, of this “me,” of this “I.”

The work of the Recognition of the Truth about who You are, which implies this Self-awareness, puts you in direct contact with the possibility of the True Meditation. To look at this movement without mistaking yourself for it, just becoming clearly conscious, aware of it... This requires work, a discipline that is not born from external teaching, an external ordinance, or external motivation. A discipline that is born from this joy of being able to verify and discard from oneself the illusion of this egoic sense, this sense of separateness.

So, Meditation happens, the True Meditation happens, and when it happens, the sense of “someone” present in this doing, in this action, with his intentions, his motivations, his machinations, his strategies of accomplishments, all this ends, for this presence of an entirely new action, new and unknown – new because it is not part of the past, and unknown because it is not part of memory or remembrance, of everything that represents knowledge coming from the past.

So, we are facing something new and unknown. This action that is born from Consciousness is Love. Only that can put an end to this mess in our relationships.

Notice that our relationships occur in conflict. We are in conflict: the husband is in conflict with the wife, the wife with the children, the children with the parents... There is this disagreement, this disorder, and this confusion in relationships because our actions are based on the past and the known.

There is no Love in our actions because the sense of “I” is present. When Love is present, there is no sense of “I,” then there is no author of actions, no “me,” the “I,” the ego. And when that is not present, there is no longer the presence of confusion, contradiction, disorder, and suffering.

To live in this new and unknown condition is to live here and now, in this contact with the New, the Unknown, the Reality of Being.

So, Happiness is present when the sense of “I” is not present, when this duality is not present, when there is no longer a relationship based on opinions, judgments, on the belief she makes about him and he makes about her, on the belief that you, as a husband makes about your wife and your wife makes about you as a husband.

When there are no longer these beliefs, these opinions, these internal, psychological judgments, which I have called images, they are no longer present, when these images are no longer there, the relationship is a relationship based on Intelligence, Freedom, and Love. This quality of action that takes place carries this fragrance, this perfume, of What has no name – and we give many names to This, to That. I refer to the Divine Reality, which is God!

This perfume of the Divine Reality, which is Love, the Reality of God, reigns when the egoic sense is not present. This is Love. This is the end of this confusion of an egoic life, of an egocentric life. Then, that model of egocentrism disappears, that model of egoic behavior, of egocentric behavior, the egocentric model is gone, the illusion of the sense of separateness is annulled, it is destroyed, it ends.

Then, we are before this Reality: The Reality of your Being – This is Love, Freedom, and Spiritual Enlightenment. Ok?

If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like,” and subscribe to the channel... Reminder: we have online meetings and also face-to-face meetings, including retreats.

Thanks for the meeting. See you next one.

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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