Our subject is the evidence or proof of the Truth about who we are. This is our subject on the channel. And I want to invite you to see the beauty of the Truth expressed by Joel Goldsmith in “The Infinite Way.”
Now, understand, as I have said countless times… understand how important it is for us to repeat, understand what we have said in different ways, with different expressions. We are pointing out the practical Truth of it all, not theoretical, verbal or intellectual.
We have to have an approach to this proposed work. Not in the sense of studying, but in the sense of demonstrating in practice. Here, it is about practice, not study.
This is how we have to approach what Joel left in his writings. We have, in those who have realized the Truth, in those who have approached the Truth… There are those who have realized the Truth in a complete, integral, total way, where the end of the definitive separateness has occurred – some call it Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment – , and there are those who approached and experienced This in a beautiful way, in a mystical way, in an esoteric way, and left us expressions, left us words, teachings.
Here, we have to get closer to Joel having this freedom to look at what he left and not get attached to expressions and words, but to evidence, for ourselves, his writings and his speeches. This is the purpose of this work. We want you to discover how to live the Truth of your Being, how to verify This, until that Realization is complete.
At first, our approach is mystical. The moment comes when it ceases to be mystical to be Natural, to be Real, moment by moment, in our living.
So, I want to invite you, on this channel, not to study Joel Goldsmith’s words, but to verify the Truth of what he is pointing out in his words.
See this. We have this very strong tendency to intellectualize what we hear, to keep those words, to memorize those words, to even get emotional with those words. This is at the level of feeling, of emotion. In fact, it’s just on a romantic level. Or we intellectualize these words, because we feel the depth of what they are saying and memorize, keep, and repeat, as if that were a real experience of ours. And we have to get rid of it.
I want to invite you not to learn words, but to learn from experience. Experiencing is the real learning. So, there is a way of learning where you unlearn everything you theoretically know, intellectually know, conceptually know, for a direct experience.
This is like the difference between the menu and the plate: either you approach the menu with words, photos and images, or the plate, with the food, having smell and flavor. Either you know or you understand it. Eating is knowing; reading and photos means understanding.
So, the real way to learn is by eating; it is the experiential approach to the dish, and not imagination, theory, concept or idea, as with the menu of the dish.
So, I want to invite you to live the Truth of your Being, to express in your life that Reality, which is not only the Reality of Joel Goldsmith, it is the Reality of all those who have realized the Divine Truth. And it all starts from some experiential experience. I would say that this is the first contact we have with the approach of the Truth. You approach and discover, in practice, what Meditation is.
Here, on the channel, we have a playlist about the Real Meditation in practice, what I have been calling the True Meditation. So, you get closer; then, you know what Meditation is.
And Meditation here has a completely different meaning from the meaning of a meditation practice. Here, I call it Practical Meditation, not meditation practice. It is a new way of approaching, experientially, the Truth that we are, the Truth that we bring.
So, here we are investigating with you, in practice, how to verify the Truth described by Joel Goldsmith in “The Infinite Way.” So, this is a work where together we deepen this. It’s not intellectually seeing the depth of it, we're diving into it. Here, it is a dive into this experience of the Truth prescribed by Joel Goldsmith, which is the same Truth formerly propagated by Christ, Buddha, Lao-Tsé and Ramana Maharshi, which is the Real Meditation in practice.
We have hundreds of videos on this channel. And here I am, the whole time, showing you how to work on it. Much, much, much more important… much more important than expressions; than words, whether from the Gospel, Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads or the Vedas… far more important than words is the living, the Truth about who You are, the Comprehension of the Reality of Your Being, the Comprehension of the Reality of God, the Comprehension of the Reality of the Kingdom of Heaven, the Comprehension of the Reality of Happiness, Love, Peace, Abundance, Abundant Life as uttered by Christ. This is present when there is an end to that sense of a present “I,” of an ego, of a present illusory identity.
So, let’s find out how to realize This! Let’s find out how to attain That! So, we are going beyond words and thoughts. As Joel Goldsmith says, we need to go beyond words and thoughts. We can only go beyond that by experiencing, by living.
And why do we have to go beyond words and thoughts? Because words and thoughts are not the Truth; the word is not the Truth, it is a symbol, it is an image. The word “fire” does not burn; the word “fire” is not hot, it does not burn. The word “fire” does not ignite anything! Fire burns because it’s hot, it’s real. Fire is real and ignites; the word “fire” is a symbol, an image, an idea, it is a concept. You cannot set fire… you cannot cook food without fire, just with the word. You have to have fire to cook food.
Truth is fire, not the word. When Truth arrives in your life, that “your life” disappears and the Reality of Consciousness, which is the Reality of Being, which is the Reality of Bliss… Being, Consciousness and Bliss… We can make use of expressions like these. This is straight from the Vedas: your Self is Being-Consciousness-Bliss. But you can repeat “I am Being-Consciousness-Bliss and at the same time be identified with the illusion of an “I,” of a separate identity, of an egoic identity, without actually knowing what Being-Consciousness-Bliss is. So, there is the word “fire,” but you don't have fire; there is the word “God,” but you don't have the Truth of God; there is the expression “the Kingdom of Heaven,” but you don't have the Truth of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Do you understand that?
I want to invite you to live this approach of self-investigation, self-observation and the Real Meditation in practice, then Spiritual Enlightenment is possible, the Awakening of Consciousness is possible, the Realization of “The Infinite Way” is possible. So, you no longer have the menu, you have the dish; you are no longer with the symbol, you are with the symbolized; you are no longer with the image, you are with the thing itself; you no longer have the idea about God.
For many, God is an idea, a belief, a concept, and they are looking for that concept, that belief and that idea – that cannot be God. A belief you have is yours, the image you make is your image. Reality is not the image; the word is not the thing itself. So, the word “God” is not God; the word “Christ” is an image. You get emotional, you shed tears, you feel touched, but that’s on an emotional level.
The Reality of Christ is the Reality of fire. When that Reality is present, everything changes…fire happens, the Divine fire, the fire of Grace, the fire of Love, the fire of Happiness, the fire of God´s Realization. That is pointed out in Joel Goldsmith’s “The Infinite Way,” and also pointed out by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in the Direct Path; this is the message of Christ: “I am the Way, the Truth and Life, no one comes to the Father except through me.”
Here, at this moment, in this speech, I am using these expressions… In general, if you watch our videos, you understand… Why so many words if we can realize This: the end of that egoic sense, of that sense of “I,” naturally from that sense of separateness, duality, to that Union, to that Oneness, to the end of the sense of “I,” of the ego, to that experiential Realization of the practical Truth of it all?
So, this is the subject that we deal with on the channel. We are showing you the possibility of going beyond the illusion of the “I,” of the “me,” of the ego, towards the Realization of the Truth of your Being, of your Divine Nature.
So, we approach it in practice. We don't have a formula, we didn't get this from a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, a philosophy professor. Here, I refer to Self-awareness. We look at what we are here and now: envy, fear, ambition, desires, conflicts... how thought moves within each one of us, creating pictures, images of desires and fears. We approach ourselves through Self-awareness. There is no formula for this. You experience this by self-observation. You observe the sense of a present “me” separating and wanting to fight whatever is arising or showing up.
You start to work on this approach of Self-awareness, you realize what the true key to Awakening, to Enlightenment, is. The real key to This is Meditation, the Real Meditation in practice. So, you are working on it here and now, directly, letting go of words, theories, beliefs and concepts.
So, it’s not in the concepts, the words… the words of Ramana, the words of Joel Goldsmith, the words of Jesus, but the evidence of your own living the Truth of who You are. “Who am I?” – That self-inquiry, that self-investigation, Ramana called Atma Vichara.
Here, we are sharing something that is Real. All my life, I have been in this search, in this seeking, and here I am sharing from experience, not from a theory, not from a belief, not from a concept, not from a repetition of words. The evidence of That which You are gives you your own expression of This, the experiential expression in your living, and also the verbal expression. And that’s what we are communicating here on the channel with you.
The Truth of Happiness, Love, Freedom, Realization of Consciousness, Realization of your Being, Realization of this Truth that you carry within Yourself… This is something that is realized here and now.
This is our subject here on the channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel... I want to remind you: we have online meetings and also retreats, where we work on this together, with those interested, OK?
Thanks for the meeting and see you soon.
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