The problems, the adversities, the difficulties, what we feel in the face of these perplexities, these adverse, contradictory, unexpected, accidental situations that appear in our lives... How to deal with it? How to deal with what appears and takes us by surprise and causes us suffering?
When things present themselves and don't cause us pain, we don't care.
We want to get rid of what troubles us; we want to get rid of what causes us complications, problems; we want to get rid of what causes us suffering.
The fact is that we don't have a real internal readiness to deal with the unexpected. We are going to work with you here today, a little bit, on this issue.
Life has this form, this way of showing itself. It is always surprising! It is not bringing problems; Life is bringing challenges.
All the time, Life is presenting us with challenges. Life is extraordinary in presenting us with challenges.
These challenges, when they find us – because they find a present identity, this “me,” this “I,” this ego, this “person” –, when these challenges arise, these unexpected moments arise, they represent, for this “me,” a challenge, and we haven’t been able to give due attention to this challenge. So, at this point, we have a problem.
In fact, most don't even consider the possibility of a trouble-free life. Well, here, I want to tell you something about that, I want to give you one more challenge, and the challenge is: accept the challenges that Life presents and stay there, free of problems. Is this possible? Is it possible for us to live life without problems? To live without conflict and suffering, attending to every instant, every moment, whatever life shows us, brings us, presents us with? Is it possible for us to have a profoundly silent brain, in great internal stillness, and a mind capable of responding to this moment from that Silence of pure Presence, of pure Consciousness, of pure Intelligence?
If I tell you that this is possible, maybe you'll believe it or not. And it doesn't matter at all, because believing it or not believing it doesn't change anything for you. Now to check this out for yourself, yes it does make a big difference!
So, it’s important that you approach these talks, the talks that we bring here on this channel, without this reactive posture, which already immediately rejects something that is put here because you don't have that understanding or because you don't have that experience; or simply accept and believe because it is something hopeful, or that, in a romantic way, you like to hear, or you find the proposal intellectually interesting, and that, for you, now, is just an ideal, one more belief, and it does not work either.
Here, I think it’s important for you to examine this, get closer to it, find out if it’s possible to live free of suffering, because every problem becomes suffering for you. Is it possible to have a mind free of suffering, free of contradictions, free of conflicts, in order to be able to face this challenge that is Life as It shows itself, moment by moment, for all of us?
The challenges are diverse: it’s a friend’s accident, it’s a relative’s accident – a car accident, a plane accident, an accident at work; it’s the natural unpredictability of losing a loved one to an accident or a situation of illness that presents itself, a heart attack or something like that.
People die, even the people we love, and there is no way we can attend to this challenge without an inner condition already free of conflict, suffering and fear; without despair.
So, we need to be free internally, psychologically free; we need that highly capable, serene, quiet brain; that mind in that high degree of intelligence, acuity, perception and embracement of Reality, to attend to the unpredictability of Life, to that mysterious movement, which is Life.
The beauty of Spiritual Enlightenment is this contact with the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of your Being, which is the Reality of God. This does a job in this body, in this mind, putting you in a condition of psychophysical structure... in a high readiness, with a sensitivity and ability to deal with Life as It happens here and now; as now here, in this moment, It appears, without suffering, without conflict, without contradiction, without fear.
Some call It Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening – a life free of the ego, the “I,” this “me.” At that moment, there is no sense of separateness. You have surprises, you have surprising moments, arising every moment, but internally, psychologically, the sense of ego, of “I,” loaded with fear, desires, loaded... within this dissatisfaction, this search for psychological security, loaded with this anxiety, these internal states of unhappiness, suffering… that is not present!
These are states... It’s exactly this psychological condition of a present identity. Notice what we are putting here for you in this meeting. A free mind, a free heart, a life free of suffering is possible, attending to each moment without that inner contradiction, attending to each moment in this Freedom, in this Peace, in this Serenity, in this Joy, in this Understanding, in this acceptance of Life as It is, as It shows itself.
So, at that moment, you do not transform any experience – however adverse, however strange or unexpected – arising into an element of problem and therefore of suffering. This is possible when you are already psychologically free from problems.
Listen to what I am going to tell you: the internal adversities, the unexpected, apparently negative, external surprises that happen to you, are not the cause of a real problem for you, of real suffering for you, but the fact that you, internally, are already in conflict, already in pain, already carry this contradiction.
When something externally surprises you and suffering appears, it is not because that externally is now the cause.
It may even appear to be so. In fact, the cause is internal. Suffering is already present in this sense of an “I,” which is always separating from Life as It is and is always in this illusion that things need to be under your control, safe.
This search for psychological security, these beliefs, these inner beliefs of how each thing needs to be, each person needs to be, each event needs to happen, each situation in your life needs to happen... that weight, that inner anxiety, that inner fear, this is the real cause; it is not what now, externally, has arisen.
Before appearing externally, apparently there was no problem, apparently there was no suffering, but the truth is that the non-appearance of that externally was a covering, which covered up this pain that was already inside.
When you lose a loved one in death or when you are abandoned, you are not grieving now because you lost them or because you were abandoned. His or her presence was a satisfaction that psychologically fulfilled you and didn't allow you to see the pain of attachment, which was already present; of desire, of inner psychological dependence, which was already present. As it is now gone, as it is now disappeared, that which was already there has shown itself.
A very interesting thing is being able to look at yourself and start to realize, in yourself, and already eliminate, through that self-observation, through that self-enquiry… And that is the proposal in this channel: to show you what Self-awareness is; that, through Self-awareness, it is possible to approach the True Meditation. The True Meditation – I also call it the Real Meditation here on the channel... The True Meditation, that contact with the reality that is you, that pain of being “someone,” that weight of that center, that “I,” that nucleus of memories, remembrances, experiences, all this accumulation that has given us an illusory identity, with which we have identified ourselves…
The human being has been identifying himself with this center, with this “I.” Is it possible to get rid of this identification so that Life is seen as a Whole, without any separateness, without this illusion of this “I” and the challenging, complicated, difficult life, causing problems for “me,” for this “I"?
What I am telling you is that psychologically, internally, the suffering is already there. To become aware of this is to go beyond it. So, there is an emptying of this psychological content, this mental consciousness. It is that which is on the surface, which we call the “conscious,” and it, at the same time, is that which is in the depth, most intimate and hidden in ourselves, which we call the “unconscious mind.” That mind, which separates into conscious and unconscious, is that egoic consciousness. It is a single one mind, an illusory mind, the egoic mind, that egoic consciousness, that mental consciousness.
A direct work on oneself represents an emptying of this content and therefore the end of the illusion of this ego-identity, the Recognition of your Essential Nature, which is Being-Consciousness-Bliss. The Vedas declare this, the Scriptures declare this, the Sages, the Realized Beings declare this about You. You are, according to the Vedas, Being-Consciousness-Bliss. And That is the Truth of Existence, of all Manifestation! This cannot surprise you, because This is You.
So, being surprised by external situations does not steal What You are, because these external situations are apparent situations separate from You, since You are One with Life, One with all Existence; then, there is no more suffering. Now, it is necessary an emptying of this illusion, this sense of ego-identity, this sense of separateness.
This is the work we are proposing here for you, within this channel. The Awakening of your Divine Nature is Advaita, Non-Duality. This is straight from Advaita Vedanta, the last part of the Vedas. That sense of Being-Consciousness-Bliss is Advaita. Some call it the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment.
This is the subject we are bringing you here, within this channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” there, subscribe to the channel... Reminding you: we have online meetings, face-to-face meetings and, also, retreats, to work on this together.
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Here’s the message, and see you.
Until soon.
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