Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel.
The question is: how to get rid of problems? This is something people ask. They want to find out how to realize a problem-free state. In other words, they are asking how to achieve peace, how to attain peace.
Our questions are interesting, because they are questions that seem to really express a need for each of us, but they are questions that do not have answers – at least not the answers that we hope for – because they are not based on a correct basis, on a legitimate basis; Here, the question would be: who are the problems for? That would be the right question!
You see, we have a conditioning, a model of cultural, social, collective, human life, where we believe to be individuals, to have an individual consciousness. And each of us carries our own problems, being individuals, as we believe ourselves to be. That is a false basis, because there are no individuals, there is no such thing as individual consciousness. This is a belief, it's a programming, it's a conditioning.
There are problems, yes. There are many problems, yes, in that consciousness, but that consciousness is no individual, it is human consciousness. We are explaining and showing you here, within this channel, the possibility of going beyond this illusion – the illusion of identifying with this so-called consciousness, which is nothing but human consciousness.
Your consciousness, our consciousness, is the human consciousness, it is the consciousness of all humanity. It is possible to go beyond the limit of that consciousness, that consciousness common to all; it is possible to realize That which you are. In your Being you are Pure Consciousness, but you are not the collective consciousness, you are not the common consciousness of all, you are not the human consciousness, you are not the conditioned consciousness.
That collective consciousness, that human consciousness, that conditioned consciousness is what we believe ourselves to be. With that we identify and believe that this consciousness is individual, as if the sufferings in you were different from the sufferings of another person.
I'll give you an example: fear is something common to all; this is a problem. Envy is something common to all; this is a problem. Jealousy, desires that are always in conflict, contradicting each other, are always opposing desires. simultaneously, there is a desire together with another desire and they contradict each other, and there is contradiction, and there is conflict; this is a problem.
Basically, the human being lives in problems, because he lives identifying himself with this consciousness, which is the consciousness common to all, which he believes to be his individual consciousness. This consciousness is the consciousness of humanity.
Realization of the Truth about who you are is the end of this collective consciousness, it is the end of this vision of consciousness common to all that you, in your belief, particularize, as if it were your own thing. The human being lives in problems, because he lives within that one consciousness, which is avidity, envy, jealousy, fear, desires, contradictions, worries, suffering. This, basically, is this psychological suffering that we carry within ourselves.
We have to investigate the nature of the mind, this conditioned mind, because this ordinary consciousness is nothing but this conditioned mind, this mind programmed millennia ago to live within this human, animal condition. Jealousy is something present in human beings, something present in animals. This is so with envy, the sense of possession, of territory, of domination, of power, of desires… This is common to human beings. This human consciousness is the consciousness of ego identity, of the illusion of an identity present in this moment, feeling separate from Life, from the Whole, from Existence.
You are not who you believe you are. We have been trusting in thought, we are living in thought, and thought is basically memory, remembrances, experiences, knowledge that is acquired, knowledge inherited by this mental consciousness. Your Real Nature is something that transcends that mental consciousness, that human consciousness, that consciousness common to all. Your Reality is the Reality of Divine Consciousness, of Supreme Consciousness; it is the Reality of God.
In this Reality, which is you in your Being, there is no problem. The problems are sustaining themselves based on this conditioning, this movement of separateness, of duality. As long as you keep seeing yourself as a person, carrying an individual consciousness, seeking psychological safety for yourself – and, basically, psychological safety is trusting in what thought says about how life is here and now…
Understand what we are saying. Thought is memory, it is just an experience of the past. Thought is not adapting at all to this moment, to this present moment. Thought does not know this moment, and we are trying to deal with life in this instant, at this moment, on the basis of that memory, that remembrance, that thought.
There is a sense of an identity present. The image you have about who you are and about what you need here and now, is based on thought, which is memory, which is past, trying to impose something on this instant, on this moment, demanding something, requesting something, asking for something; this is a problem.
Our human relationships, based on this consciousness common to all, which is this egoic consciousness, which is the egoic mind, is a relationship, all of it, upheld in conflict, because it is the clash between illusory identities: the person I believe to be and the person you believe yourself to be and the person he believes himself to be.
Each one of us carries within us, because of this psychological conditioning, the egoic mind, this consciousness, which is human consciousness, we carry all these aspects seen also in animals. We have envy, we have a desire to possess, to dominate each other, to take each other's territory. This is clearly present in envy. We want to be what the other is, we want to have what the other has, we want to be able to do what the other can do.
So, there is this conflict, there is this movement in human relationships, based on this image that each one has of oneself, demanding from the other, demanding from the world, demanding something from life; that's the problem!
We never ask what is the origin, the basis of this problem. We want to live without problems, but all that the mind can do here and now, that thought can do here and now, since thought is never, never an adequate, perfect, complete response to this present moment… Thought, no; it never succeeds, because it is a movement of the past, and it is a movement that is based on these aspects of this ego identity: jealousy, envy, fear, desires, all these other things present in the humans. Basically, that's your problem.
Based on thought, having thought as a base, we want to solve problems thought itself has created in our life, in our relationships, in our world. Here, the question is: where do the problems lie? How to get rid of problems? The end of problems is the end of this illusory identity that we believe ourselves to be. The end for problems is the end for this collective consciousness, which we believe to be our individual consciousness, which gives us this illusion of a sense of a separate identity, each one living a private life, in a constant and continuous search for psychological security, a security which is based on thought itself...
And we don't realize that thought itself is the basis of all this confusion, all this psychological disorder, all these psychological problems, all the psychological sufferings.
Here, the question we have to ask ourselves is: after all, what is thought? Notice that thought is just a memory, a remembrance, and we are giving an identity to this memory, this remembrance. When, for example, a thought arises, the illusion that arises is the illusion of "someone" behind that thought. So, we have an illusion – the illusion that there is a thinker for this thought that has arisen. The illusion is that you are that one who is thinking this.
We never really investigate what thinking is. What is thinking? What is thought? Who is the thinker? It is when thought arises that the illusion of a thinker arises. Yes, I said the illusion of a thinker, because thought is an event of memory, it is a reactive response of the brain itself to a representation of what now appears here before our senses.
You see something, and immediately a thought concerning it arises, and along with that thought, the illusion of "someone" present thinking. No! Absolutely, that's not how it happens! Thought is an answer, but you don't own that answer. Thought is a reaction, but you don't own that reaction; it is an existential happening. This is happening in the brain.
You don't control thoughts; you don't produce thoughts. It is not you who determines what to think, when to think and for how long to think. Observe this in yourself.
For example, if I ask you what is the next thought you are going to have in five minutes, you have no answer for that, simply because you are not the author of the thought for the next five minutes. You haven’t had, until today, a single thought manufactured by you. Thought happens within you. As rain happens, thought happens; it is an existential happening. Just as rain happens, stays for a while and then stops, thought arises, stays for a while and disappears, to make way for another thought. And there is no thinker, but there is this illusion of the thinker, this sense of “I.”
This idea of “I” is the problem, this idea of “someone” present to control, to mold, to change, to do something with what happens here, which is thought. So, we have the problem – the problem is always in the illusion of an identity present in this experience.
Fear is present, envy is present, jealousy is present, the problem is present. But the problem is only a problem when there is an illusory identity trying to do something with this sensation, with this experience that is arising. Thus, there is no end to problems as long as the sense of a present identity – because it is this present identity that sustains the problem – remains.
Ramana Maharshi left a question: “Who am I?” There is no such "I." The answer to that question is the end of this illusion of this “I.” The problems are created by thinking and feeling, but there is no identity present in this experience. And when there is no identity present in that experience, thinking and feeling are not a problem, they do not create a problem. It is always the sense of duality that sustains fear – fear as the experience and “the one” in fear, in that feeling, wanting to do something, change it, get rid of it, do something not to feel it, or reacting in favor of it, then fear expresses itself as anger, causing terrible harm.
So, there is this identification with the experience, an illusory identity is created in that experience, and so thinking is the problem, feeling is the problem, then jealousy arises, and it is sustained by the illusion of “someone” present in that experience, in this attempt to possess another, to control another, to manipulate another, to own another – related to people or objects.
The jealousy of people, of objects, the illusion of being “someone” in this experience, being the owner, being the holder.
So, the problems are diverse while maintaining an identity present in these problems. This identity is the sense of “I.” For the "I" are the problems; without the “I” there are no problems! It is this “I” that carries all this psychological conditioning of possession, control, domination, ambition, envy, desires.
If this “I” is observed, the movement that it brings, which is the movement of images, memory, remembrance and thought… if this “I” is observed, if this sense of “I” is seen at the moment that thought arises, the moment that image, that feeling, that sensation arises… In general, we call it fear, envy, jealousy, anger, etc.
But if that sensation arises and you don't name it, and you just become aware of the presence of that sensation, and you perceive this movement, which is an illusory movement of an identity arising along with it, separating itself and wanting to do something... If this is seen, in this attention, in this self-observation, we have what I have called Self-awareness, the perception of the truth about who you are, about this “I am” that you believe yourself to be.
You just observe, you become aware, aware of it. And, when you perceive it, and there is only the perceiving, the patience to watch that movement arise… and it is immediately eliminated by that pure observation when you don't want to do something with what arises.
In this contact with Self-awareness, there is an observation free from this separateness between the one who observes and what is observed; there is this perception of thought, but there is not this illusion of the thinker when thought arises; there is this perception of the sensation, but not of someone present in that sensation.
Note that we are telling you that this contact with That which is you now is Self-awareness. This opens a space for the breaking of this duality, this separateness, in this movement, and when that happens, the problem disappears, there is no more space in What you are for this reaction of envy, of jealousy, of desire, of fear, of anger, because you are aware that this is arising and being seen, seen without this separation. You realize that it's a reaction of the brain itself, it's the way it's been operating for millennia in this human consciousness, and now, in particular, in this body and this mind, it's happening to you, and you realize, you see this game, the game of the ego, of the “I,” of that “me,” of that human consciousness, of that egoic consciousness. You are aware of it, you are seeing it.
Realizing it as it arises, moment by moment, is Meditation – I have called it True Meditation. You do it here and now, walking, driving your car, talking to someone, when you go for a walk, when you are with your girlfriend, wife, children, when you see someone touching your car or some object and you realize, immediately, that ego consciousness, that conditioned consciousness, that human consciousness arising, wanting to react, trying to put on an identity, this “me,” this “I,” to feel something about that, to do something about that, and you become conscious and perceive inside yourself all the fantasy, all the illusion that thought creates within you, creating imaginations, creating the illusion of that sense of ownership, of ownership, giving you the illusion of power, of control.
So, the problems boil down to a problem: the problem is the problem of this duality, it is the problem of this sense of “I” present in this experience, this “me,” this ego. This all dissolves in this attention, in this awareness, in this direct work of this recognition.
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