The subject: Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening. Here, our focus with you is to show you that Spiritual Awakening is possible, and it has, as the basis for that Awakening, Self-awareness. So, we are going to work with you on the important issue of Self-awareness.
Self-awareness is the Recognition of the Truth about Yourself. It is not as some understand it, as some explain it, try to explain it. Self-awareness is not knowledge about that “you” that you have an idea of being, that you believe you are.
Self-awareness is the realization of the Truth of your Being, of your Real Nature, of your True Nature.
The point here is that we find ourselves in a paradox when we use the expression Self-awareness. So, we have the question: what is Self-awareness? That’s when we are faced with a paradox. The paradox is this: this self-knowledge is the realization that this “self,” this “I,” this “me,” is not real. So, Self-awareness is not the knowledge of the “I,” but the realization of the “not me,” the realization of the non-existence of an individuality.
Individuality in us is a concept, an idea. So, we have this belief: the belief in individuality. And Self-awareness is the realization that the Truth of your Being is the Truth of Life, it is the Truth of Consciousness.
This Consciousness, this Life, is impersonal, It does not carry an identity. There is no such individual identity, so there is no such “person” – this concept, this belief, disappears.
The clear vision of this is recognized with Spiritual Awakening. So, Spiritual Awakening is the Recognition of the Truth of your Being, which is Life, which is that Consciousness, which is impersonal – it’s about contacting the Unknown. In this contact with the Unknown, something is present. Something is always present, it never ceases to be present, but now it can be recognized. And here, the language always has this limitation… It cannot be recognized by this “I.”
There is a Realization – it’s a better word than recognition, so it’s not about recognition.
Your job in this life, in this existence, is to go beyond recognition. This recognition is present when there is an experience kept as a memory, as a remembrance.
It is this memory, it is this remembrance, it is this experience that dissolves when there is this Realization. So, you're going beyond the recognition of being “somebody.”
So, here is the Realization of the Truth about Yourself. We are faced with something beyond speech, beyond language, with something beyond verbal expressions; we come across the Reality of Being – this is Self-awareness.
Thus, Self-awareness is the Truth of Happiness, of Peace, of Love, of Freedom, of your Being. These expressions are real expressions, but they are realized, they are verified, they need to be verified by you, so they are real.
Otherwise, these expressions are ideas, another belief.
The fact is that we are connected to this sense of “I,” to this sense of an experiencer, of an identity present here in life, in this existence. This is something that is based on thought, that is based on memory, that is based on experience.
We are identifying ourselves, confusing ourselves with the body and the mind, and thus we are upholding the illusion of this present identity, this illusory identity.
Self-awareness is to become aware of That which is You here and now, as Pure Being, as Pure Consciousness, as this Realization of That which is nameless, of That which is indescribable.
So, the present Truth is the absence of duality, the absence of separateness. Therefore, Self-awareness is present when there is Non-Duality, when there is Non-Separateness. When the sense of an egoic identity is no longer present, then we are faced with the Reality of Being, the Reality of Life, the Reality of what is here and now, this nameless Thing, this Reality that some call God.
This is the Happiness of your Being, it is the Happiness of your Natural State of Pure Consciousness. Some have called This “the True I,” but we have to be careful to understand this expression, because that “I” is the Being, it is Consciousness, it is the “I” of God. This is the Impersonal Nature of each of us.
The contact with This is present when this time that thought has created, which is this time of the mind, which is this psychological time, where we have the past, the present and the future…. That psychological time is not present when the Reality of your Being, which is Consciousness, which is that Truth outside of time, is here and now.
The Revelation of This occurs when there is True Meditation. And I have used the expression “True Meditation” to differentiate it from the practice of meditation. True Meditation is when the sense of a meditator is not, the “I” sense is not. When there is Meditation, there is no meditator – that is True Meditation.
There is no one in the experience of practice, there is no one in the experience of meditation. The presence of Meditation is the absence of the experience of meditation. Maybe you find these expressions a little strange, you find this a little complicated, but understand: we all have moments like that, moments where the sense of an experiencer is not, the sense of “someone,” as being the thinker, is not.
There is a moment when you get in touch with your own Being on the edge of a beach, on the edge of a river, watching a beautiful sunset. In that instant, the sense of the “I” dissolves, disappears, it is somehow diluted within that vision, that direct experience, which now I want to call “experience,” because the experiencer no longer exists.
And if there is no experiencer, there is no more experience, there is pure experiencing.
In that contact, in that moment, in that moment there is no psychological time, there is no past, there is no present, there is no future, there is no “someone” to remember, to recollect situations that happened to him yesterday, or to project himself into the future in an imaginary way, because that instant, that moment, has such an extraordinary impact on the brain, on the mind, that there is a complete emptying of all psychological content, when that sense of “I” disappears – that is Meditation.
There is no “someone” in practice, there is no “someone” in practice, there is no practice of meditation, what is present is True Meditation. This True Meditation I have called the True Practical Meditation. It does not require an exercise, it does not require a volition, a desire, it does not require a concentration, it does not require a mantra, it does not require a breathing technique, it is something that happens here and now when the sense of “I” is not, when the sense of an egoic identity is not present. This is True Meditation in practice.
You do absolutely nothing, you just watch the sunset. There is only observation. There, the observer himself is not present saying, “Oh! How pretty, how beautiful, how wonderful!” There is something nameless present. This instant of Beauty, of Stillness, of Silence, is completely natural – this is True Meditation; it is a Silence, a Stillness, which was not imposed, which was not planned, which was not sought, which was not looked for, which was not induced… it just happens!
So, we all have a moment like this of Pure Consciousness, of Pure Presence, of Pure Being, and that is possible when there is this contact with Self-awareness.
In everyday life, it is possible for us to investigate the nature of the mind by looking at what we are here and now. And discarding what we are here and now – which is this illusion, the illusion of an identity –, discarding that puts you in touch with this Reality of your Being.
So, Self-awareness does not require effort, does not require practice, does not require exercise. The only thing present in Self-awareness that is necessary is this full attention.
This full attention is present when there is this contact with Self-awareness and this reveals the Natural State of Meditation.
There, you are on the bank of a river or watching a sunset, but this needs to be present moment by moment in your life, not just in moments like these, in instants like these.
You are driving your car, you are going to work, you are talking to someone, dealing with something in life… In that moment, this attention, this observation of the movement of the mind…
When you observe thought and don't get confused with it, when you observe a feeling and don't get confused with that feeling, an emotion, and don't get confused, when you visually perceive a scene and don't place an observer, at that moment you have full attention.
This is contact with Self-awareness, because in that instant there is no separation between you and what is observed. That observation is there, not an observer to compare it to something else, to judge that, to express an idea, a concept, a belief about it.
Observe it, observe it in yourself, how we work. When one thought arises, soon a second thought arises to fit with that first one and to create a story for that identity which is the “I,” the “me.” If you observe thought when it arises, and just observe and don't give identity to that thought, it dissolves, so the second thought and the third don't arise to create a narrative for this “me,” for this “I.”
That goes for a thought, but it also goes for a scene. When you see something, immediately the thought arises to create an idea about it, to superimpose on that vision a thought, an image, a formula, a picture, a judgment, to accept or reject it. When that happens, the sense of “I” happens, that sense of ego identity arises – that’s the sense of separateness.
The contact with your Being is contact with Life here and now, without an identity. If a thought arises and you put that full attention, that full attention – some have called it mindfulness – that full attention sets you in direct contact with this instant, with this present moment, which is that Pure Consciousness.
So, Self-awareness is the contact with Meditation. So, what some call self-awareness, within psychology or philosophy, is not what we are talking about here. We are inviting you to an inner work of Self-Realization, a work for Spiritual Awakening, for Spiritual Enlightenment. In Self-awareness, This becomes possible – in this Self-awareness that we are putting here for you.
To know yourself is to disidentify yourself from the past and memory, it is to disidentify yourself from this self-consciousness. This sense of “I” appears and it is discarded. This sense of a conscious “I” arises and it is discarded, so what remains is this Presence, it is this Consciousness that does not separate from what is present there, from what is emerging here and now, so there is no experiencer, there is no thinker.
This is a subject that we explore here within the channel. We have a playlist here about True Meditation and we have a playlist here showing you the power it makes within you.
This brings up the Kundalini Awakening – this is another playlist that we have here on our channel.
So, Self-awareness is this contact of the Recognition that this sense of “I” has no reality. Once again, we use the word “Recognition,” and now it has become clear to you: Recognizing Yourself is discovering that there is no “someone” to know, it is the Realization that this duality is an illusion. Duality is “the one who thinks and the thought,” “the one who feels and the feeling itself.” This puts an end to this psychological disorder, this internal confusion, all this psychological complexity; This puts an end to the sense of “I,” of the ego; This is the end of suffering; This is the Realization of your Being, as a result of this Self-awareness and the Awakening of this Presence, this Consciousness. Delve into This here.
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