After all, what are we doing here? What is the purpose of these meetings?
In these meetings we have as a purpose the investigation of the Truth about who we are, and here we come across something that is not so simple. And why is that? Because we already have ideas, we have concepts, we have beliefs, we have a pattern, both of behavior and of trust, about what we believe we are.
So, we already have an idea about who we are and we are moving through life within that format. So, there is no room for investigation, for that approach. That is our challenge here.
We are proposing to you the Understanding of the Real Truth about who You are. The idea that you make of yourself gives you that confidence to move, to act, to move in the world within that model. In fact, you don't know who you are. What you have about yourself, what we have about ourselves are beliefs, ideas, concepts, and convictions, and that is what makes us, in this life, move within that ancient and old format.
Why is this essential? Because here, when we deal with Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of Consciousness, it requires that you learn to look at yourself. Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of this Consciousness represents the end of all this struggle, of all this disorder, of all this confusion that has become our lives over all these years.
We are not even clearly aware of what suffering is in our lives, because we have many ways of escaping from internal states of psychological complications. So, we have many ways of escaping or running away from these psychological pains, which are the problems, which are the confusions, which are the psychological disorders, that we have been living with for many years, all because of the lack of Self-awareness.
We do not have the Understanding of the Truth about ourselves. We need to approach ourselves, and this way of approaching ourselves is without a model, is without a formula, within true Self-awareness. To understand “who I am” is to understand how to live a life free from internal contradictions, internal conflicts, suffering and unhappiness.
The human being is looking for something and he believes that he will find this thing on the outside when he accomplishes a great project, a dream, a goal, when he has this or that achievement. The truth is: what we are looking for is already here now as the Truth of our own Being.
The basis for this suffering, for this search, for this quest for this something, the real basis for this is contradiction. If the human being were not really in conflict, in disorder, in this problem, in this inner confusion, in this psychological dissatisfaction, in this inner emptiness, which nothing fills; if he didn't have this, he would not be searching for something.
There is this dissatisfaction, there is this suffering… We are not aware of the suffering, but we feel the pain of dissatisfaction, the pain of existential void, we feel the confusion, we feel problems. Yes, we feel the suffering, although we are not aware that we are here, at this moment, in suffering, because we stifle it all. And when we realize that this attempt of ours to stifle all this, with a series of actions, which are these escapes, these various escapes – some eat, some drink, some are always changing relationships...
There is this dissatisfaction, there is this confusion, there is this problem. This is something that is present. And the human being has been trying to run away from it, and he has been able to run away from it up to a certain point, but there comes a moment when he realizes that there is something outside, beyond all this, beyond this model of running away from himself.
Man runs away through drugs, through alcohol, through sex, through food, through the various entertainments available... So, we always live in a model of – besides conflict, confusion and disorder – of running away from that disorder, amidst the various possible distractions. But there comes a moment when you realize that there must be something beyond all that, and that’s what we are addressing here with you within this channel. We are signaling to you the opportunity for the Recognition of the Reality of God, the Reality of your Being.
You are encountering slightly different language here at this time, but those who have passed through this world and Realized the Truth about themselves have shared this very thing that we are placing here.
We have, for example, in Joel Goldsmith, this sharing, in his own language, of this Reality, which is the Reality of Consciousness, which is, in his language, the Reality of the Christ, of this Kingdom of Heaven, using language from Christian Science.
The signs point to the same place. Here, we are pointing to the Truth of the Realization of the Being that You are, of this Kingdom of Heaven, of this Consciousness, in full Unity with Truth. The Life understood in that Conscious Union with God is a Life in Love, it is a Life in Freedom, it is a Life in Peace, it is a Life where that “thing” or that “something,” that people are seeking out there, is realized when you understand the Truth about yourself. Understanding yourself puts you into that Truth of God Consciousness, that Conscious Union with God, in Joel Goldsmith’s language.
We are here telling you that it’s possible to Realize this Life that Christ called Life with abundance, the abundant Life. “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” The Realization of the Christ, the Realization of the Truth of Being, the Realization of Divine Truth, is something available here and now. That is what we are presenting to you.
We are investigating how it becomes possible here and now. And I have emphasized that although we are making use of this language... We can make use of a Christian language, we can make use of a language with expressions from Advaita Vedanta, we can make use of any form of language, but it is important that you understand that what we really need is a direct Realization by Self-Awareness. It’s this Self-Awareness, it’s this looking at what’s going on here and now... It’s this breaking of this psychological conditioning of a separate identity that we're pointing to.
We need to look at what we are now; in fact, at what we present ourselves to be in our relationships with each other and with ourselves, with life, and with existence. To look at yourself is to find the Truth of the Kingdom of Heaven. In Jesus’ language, the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. To find that Kingdom within us is to understand the end to this illusion of that “me,” that “I,” the illusion of that identity with which we have confused ourselves.
So here we are faced with this difficulty. We have a belief, a conviction, as I said just now, and this moves us to act, to speak, to live our lives as if this sense of “someone,” this “I,” were really real. The only Reality present is the Reality of the Divine Consciousness within us. To realize this is to become aware of the Truth of the Kingdom of Heaven within us; to look at What we are here and now and to discard the illusion of this identity, to discard the illusion of this “I,” this “me,” through Self-Awareness.
Self-Awareness is not a formula that you receive from a specialist, from a psychologist, from an analyst, from a book. Self-Awareness is what you give yourself through this self-observation. This self-observation puts you in touch with the Truth of Self-Awareness, which opens the door to what I have called the True Meditation – True Meditation in the practice of living, moment by moment. Not a moment set aside for meditation, but the Meditation happening here and now, because of this approach by Self-Awareness.
This is what brings you closer to the Vision of the Truth of your Being, of the Divine Truth that you carry within yourself. That is the approach we take here, not by analyzing or studying words, not by dissecting the words of Joel Goldsmith, but by showing you the opportunity to Realize It in practice. To experience the Truth of your Being is to experience the Truth of Consciousness, the Truth of the Christ, the Truth of God. So, our work points in this direction.
Here, on our channel, we have a playlist about Self-Awareness, about the True Meditation... True Meditation, Real Meditation in practice! So, it is possible to get in touch with our own Being. Contact with our own Self is the discarding of the illusion of a present identity separating from experience.
We talk about all this here on our channel. You can go deeper into this. So, our subject revolves around this Awakening of Consciousness and the Realization of God’s Truth.
So, if this is something that makes sense to you, here is the invitation. Leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel... I want to remind you: we have online and face-to-face meetings, and also retreats to work on this together.
If this is something that makes sense to you, let’s see each other. OK?
See you next time.
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