The subject is thought. People sometimes ask: “How do I get rid of thoughts? How do I get rid of bad thoughts? How can I get rid of bad thoughts, negative thoughts?” People want to get rid of thoughts.
We have already realized how distressing thoughts, intrusive thoughts are. For us, there is this idea of good and bad thoughts. What we don't realize is that thought is thought, and every thought is psychological conditioning.
Thought has a place in our lives, a normal place, a place I’d call “the natural place.” Here, for example, we are making use of speech – this is knowledge, memory, remembrance, this is thought.
This thought is functional. That’s the thought we need. But we also have unsolicited, dysfunctional thoughts. This is how we live, this is how we have lived: in a psychological disorder due to thoughts.
Thought is restless, chatty, repetitive, continuous, uncontrolled… There is an insane psychological movement in each one of us. This psychological conditioning is what, within us, is sustaining all forms of unhappiness.
This psychological unhappiness a human being experiences, all of it, is due to the presence of thought – and here I refer to this psychological memory thinking condition.
I have said that we have two types of thought: functional thought, a simple objective and functional memory, and we need it for matters of our daily living. Knowing your home address – it requires memory; knowing your name – it requires memory; knowing how to work in a certain profession – it requires memory, and this is thought; knowledge that is thought. But the memory of sorrow, resentment, sadness, bitterness, guilt, nostalgia, jealousy, envy, ambition, desire, and the contradiction created by desires, all these are thoughts.
Thought sustains all of this, and this is something dysfunctional, linked to this sense of “I,” to this sense of a present ego identity.
It’s very important to find out how thought works; it’s something very, very interesting… to look at ourselves and see how, internally, each of us works.
We haven't done that. We simply follow life in an unconscious, mechanical, habitual way. There’s no Consciousness, we have no Consciousness about ourselves, we have no Self-Awareness, we don’t observe ourselves, and we don’t investigate ourselves. That’s why we don't know how to deal with these kinds of thoughts, which are the thoughts that cause problems.
Actually, thought is the problem. It doesn't cause the problem; it is the problem! The non-existence of memory, the non-existence of thought, is the non-existence of the problem.
When there is anxiety, if we take the element of “thought” out of this movement of unhappiness called anxiety… when that element called thought is taken away, there is no more anxiety.
Thought is past, present, and future. Thought is the “time” element, the psychological time in each one of us… guilt, desire, and fear. Basically, fear sustains many frames of unhappiness, and we give these frames various names. Doctors call these conditions pathologies – they are all based on fear.
Looking at how we function, looking at how we react, how thought is processed in us, how thought happens in us, how it occurs... So, this becomes something very interesting: realizing that thought sustains the past, and the past is memory. The mistreatment I received from someone, the neglect, partiality, indifference, offense or praise, flattery, applause, recognition... all this leaves memory marks on us. This memory, which is this memory kept in us, shows itself at this instant, at this moment, as a thought, as an image.
When I meet again someone who criticized or praised me, my reaction will be a reaction based on this psychological background, this backdrop of remembrance, of memory.
So, thought became very, very important. Action is unimportant; thought matters. Our thought-based relationships are relationships where the action is unimportant; the reaction is important.
Life is showing itself here and now, asking for a certain action, and this “me,” this “I,” this ego, already brings this answer ready for that action, which is a mere reaction of memory background, of psychological background.
This action is an action based on the “I,” therefore it is an egocentric action, an egoic action. This sustains conflict in relationships, sustains suffering in relationships because it is an action based on beliefs, on the images I have of you and you have of me, which we have of each other.
So, thought became much more important than action, real action, an action born without this reactive movement. Then, there’s no space between reaction and action. Immediate action is action free from psychological time and therefore from memory, free from “I,” from ego, and egocentrism.
We don't know what an action free from the egoic mind is; then, our life has become this confusion, this mess, this disorder. So, unhappiness reigns in our life, in our existence.
An action free from this psychological background, from this background of beliefs, free from this image, from this “I,” is an action in Love.
We live by recording, moment by moment, these experiences in this psychological background of egoic self-defense; it is the self-protection of the “I.” We record to act in the future. So, our action is something that always comes from the past, trying, at this moment, to adjust to this present moment, to this new challenge. Thus, there is always this sense of “I” present in this movement of life, and that’s suffering. There’s no Love. I can say “I love you,” but those are words without relevant content since it’s just an expression based on thought and therefore based on sensation.
If you give me pleasure, satisfaction, appreciation, recognition, I love you; when you deny me that, I don't love you anymore, I don't care about you anymore; and if instead of you giving me appreciation, you depreciate me, instead of you praising me, you criticize me, I no longer like you and I hate you.
So, our relationships are based on this “love,” indifference, and hate. Then, we use expressions like “I love you,” but that doesn't matter in our relationships, because our relationships are based on the ego; a relationship that is based on desire and therefore on fear – the desire to be loved and the fear of not being loved.
This response background is the psychological backdrop of memory, of this egoic mind. This is a completely useless, unnecessary quality of thinking in our relationships, but we are upholding it.
So, there is no Self-Awareness since there’s no approach to ourselves to look at what we are here and now. We need to have that approach. It’s really, really interesting to observe our reactions when they come up in our relationships. So, you can, at that instant, see within yourself that what is showing up is a reaction from that background.
In this full attention on yourself, this Self-Awareness occurs, the recognition of this “me,” this “I,” the presence of this ego, reacting in this relationship. And when you realize that right away, without condemning yourself, without judging yourself, without comparing yourself to anyone else, without rejecting that… but realizing that, noticing your reaction… That reaction, when seen and not fed by a present identity, it vanishes, so you give up, you let go, you disconnect from that reaction, and therefore you disconnect from the “I.”
There’s no ‘I,’ there’s no ego, here in this experience, because that was immediately seen, there was this perception without the ‘perceiver.’ The “perceiver” is the “I” that identifies with this reaction and responds in an automatic, unconscious way. Follow this… But when there is this full attention, you see this “I” coming up, wanting to do something, and at that instant, it’s seen and there is only observation, and the “I” doesn’t come in. That reaction is broken, it is undone, immediately, because there is Presence, Consciousness, and Attention – this is Self-Awareness; this is part of what I’ve called the True Meditation.
Here on our channel, we are working with you on this, showing you how it becomes possible to bring Meditation into your life.
Meditation is possible when the brain is silent and quiet. And when there isn’t this reaction repeating itself again, this sense of the “I” reacting, moving in this identity format, this “thinker,” when that happens, at that moment, there’s a new space emerging in the brain itself – it quiets down and this sense of “I” doesn’t receive the reactive impulse; this is Meditation. The “I” is not present, the reaction doesn’t arise, the movement is seen, it’s undone in this Presence, in this Consciousness.
It’s very important to observe this movement here and now, within yourself; simply observing the movement of the mind; simply observing the movement of the “I,” from where the “I” arises, from where thought arises, from where this reaction arises – in the relationship with others.
But when you are alone and a thought arises, you call that uninvited thought as intrusive thoughts. In fact, no thought can be invited or uninvited. Every thought is an apparition from this background, this memory. Dealing with it here and now – this is Meditation.
So, when thought comes and brings with it a feeling, an emotion, it separates itself. This is the sense of duality of the “I” – it is the “I” and thought, so it is the thinker and the thought; it’s the “I” and the feeling, so it’s the “I” to feel and the feeling for the “I” to feel. This duality is present and unconsciously presenting itself, moment by moment, creating states of anxiety, anguish, loneliness, psychological suffering, and internal unhappiness because you don’t attend to this moment, there’s no attention to this moment, this instant.
Thus, when a thought arises, the feeling arises, you put, out of a force of habit, out of a vicious pattern of unconsciousness, you right away put the present identity to reject the feeling, the thought. And when you do that, you strengthen duality. So, there is this “I” and the thought you want to reject; this “I” and the feeling you don't want to feel, the feeling you despise, that you want to get rid of. So, there’s you and it – that duality sustains this ego-identity condition.
How to deal with thoughts you call intrusive? In the same way you deal with any psychological condition: pay attention! Pay full attention – this is called Mindfulness. Bring full awareness to this instant, this moment, and this experience. If you do this, the experiencer doesn’t appear; if you do this for that feeling, the one who feels doesn’t appear. You are the feeling, the thought, this emotion, this sensation… this is what you are here and now! Don't separate yourself, don't put duality, and don’t add the “I” to reject it.
When you approach in this way to whatever is arising here and now, you put Consciousness, pure Consciousness, into that experience.
The absence of the observer ends the observed thing; the absence of the experiencer ends that experience; the absence of the thinker ends the thought. This requires Energy, this requires Presence, this requires Consciousness.
For many years, you were not even aware of this possibility. We are here, on this channel, working with you, giving you this, showing you that this is possible – going beyond thought, beyond the “me,” the “I,” the ego. To go beyond the “me,” the ego, the “I,” requires Presence, Attention, and Consciousness.
It is very, very interesting to observe the operations of the egoic mind, this background of psychological conditioning, this programming we carry within ourselves; seeing it without the observer, perceiving it without the perceiver, feeling it without the one who feels. This is the end of this conditioning, this programming, the end of this psychological memory, this background of reactions. Contacting it this way is the True Meditation.
People want to reduce stress, anxiety, and fear, and here I say that this is the end of stress, anxiety, and fear. This experience needs the experiencer to continue. If you want to continue with improvement, there are several practices, including meditation, which I’ve called therapeutic meditation, for you to relax, de-stress, and reduce this tension, this anguish, this suffering. And indeed, that’s wonderful since there’s an improvement, but that’s to apply some self-hypnosis technique to yourself.
Learning to deal with thought is not going beyond the illusion of the thinker. Here, our proposal is the end to the illusion of the “thinker.” Thought is only the “thinker,” a fragment that we call the “thinker.” All this is produced by thought. The end of the “thinker” is the end of thought; the end of thought is the end of the “thinker,” and that’s the ultimate end, and not the improvement for frames of unhappiness.
So, Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, is the Awakening of this Presence, of this Consciousness. When that Power of Consciousness, which is Kundalini, Awakens within you, that Power destroys the illusion, undoes, and nullifies the illusion – the illusion of the sense of “I.”
This is a subject within Advaita Vedanta – the sense of “I,” the illusion of separateness, and non-duality. Here, we are working with you on the end of duality, the end of the ego, of this “me,” as a result of Self-Awareness, which Awakens the True Meditation.
Here on the channel, we have a playlist about the True Meditation… about the True Meditation, about Self-Awareness, about the way of getting closer to the Truth about who we are. The proposal of this channel is to show you the possibility of Spiritual Enlightenment, which is the end of that “me,” that “I,” which represents the Realization of God, the Truth of your Being – that’s the end of thought.
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If that makes sense, let’s work it out together! Ok?
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