Here, we invite you to work on this: the Acknowledgment of the Reality of our Being. What’s the Reality of our Being? What’s the Reality of your Being? Your Being has the Reality of God – that is the Reality of all of us, the Truth of who we are.
Now, I’d like to put a word in here, but see, no word in itself defines Reality. A word is never what it describes; it’s an image, a symbol. The word “God” is not God, the word “life” is not life, and the word “love” is not love. The Reality of your Being is Love, but not the word “love”; it’s God, but not the word “God,” not the word “Reality.”
Let’s get closer to this matter of the Truth about who we are. A good word for This is the word “Love.” Now, don't mistake This for what we take to be love. For us, love is thought and feeling. When we use the expression “love,” we remember someone we say we love. But what do we get when we have a memory of someone? What we have is an image, a memory, a recollection. This remembrance, image, recollection, memory, this thought-feeling is not Love, it’s a form of sensation linked to thought, which is basically the past.
When we speak or use the expression “Love,” here we mean something outside that sense of “someone” in this experience of feeling and thinking. This is the Reality of God as Love that’s present. The Reality of your Being is Love, but your Being is not “someone,” your Being is the Consciousness of Truth, which is the Consciousness of God.
What we want to say to you here, in this speech is that it’s possible to Realize This, Realize Love; not the memory, the recollection, the thought-feeling of love. This thought-feeling changes. That person we love, we can stop loving because that person is nothing more than a psychological image of importance and value for this “me,” this “I.” And if that image – that is, that person – loses his or her importance, love disappears.
People want to get rid of jealousy, for example. They don't want to get rid of love! But what is jealousy? Is love part of jealousy? When there is Love, is there this pain, aggression, violence, this sense of frustration, and anger that jealousy provokes? But notice: we call this feeling love.
Jealousy is not Love. Real Love doesn't carry jealousy and is not what we feel for people. For people, we have possession, desire, pleasure, satisfaction, and fulfillment in that relationship, and we call it love, which soon turns into jealousy. And then, we want to get rid of jealousy and keep love. How is this possible?
If this link of ours, our connection, is a link of images, possession, control, domination, and mutual dependence, this is not Love. Here, when we refer to Love as Being, Consciousness, which is your True Nature, we are talking about Something that transcends this sense of an “I” present who has the other giving you something or being able to deny you something.
When others give us something, we love them. When they give us something, we love them. When the other denies us something, we become resentful, jealous, self-absorbed, aggressive, and violent. When we are receiving, we love; and when we are denied or rejected, we are jealous, because that object of love... see, there’s no object in Love! In an object, we have possession, control, and fulfillment, but not Love. Do you get that?
Our proposal here for you is a life in Love, a life in God, and a life in Truth. In this life, the other is included, but the other is no longer the other since that “me,” that “I” no longer exists. When that “I” is not present, the other is no longer present: That is Love!
Our human relationships are all based on thought, memory, and remembrance, on thought-feeling. Those who give us sentimental fulfillment, in this model of memory, we appreciate and want close to us, and those who don't, we want far away from us.
So, the sense of a present “I,” which is the sense of the ego, that “me,” is the absence of Love. It’s self-centered and interested in itself. It’s the one who possesses, dominates, controls, and fulfills itself psychologically. And as long as this fulfillment is being given, it maintains and sustains this relationship with the other, but when this is no longer given, then there is a divorce, separation, and distancing, and then we seek another relationship again.
So, there’s always that seeking, that search for something that can fulfill us, complete us. Then, there’s this search for what thought-feeling calls love in our relationships, which is something completely illusory. Love is the Presence of Being, the Presence of Consciousness, here and now; and It is not separate from What You are, because You are This when the sense of “I” isn’t present.
Now, here we come across something also very delicate. We can’t simply believe this because then we fall into another illusion: the illusion of ideation. I have an idea about who I am and I want to adjust my behavior to that idea, but this behavior of mine is still the behavior of an illusory identity that is just projecting itself onto an idea. Do you see?
We have to learn how to deal with what we are here and now, and discover the Truth of what we are at this moment, or what we present ourselves to be. If there is jealousy, I can see it; I perceive that jealousy is present; I recognize that what’s present is this sense of separation, duality, dependence, or lack; I perceive that this is suffering, violence, not Love; I become aware of it, but I don't create an ideal – the ideal here is to get rid of it: “I have to get rid of jealousy.” But who is this who wants to get rid of jealousy? There’s no separateness in this “me and jealousy,” that’s what we don't realize yet.
When there’s envy in me, that “me” is envy; when there’s jealousy in me, that “me” is jealousy; when there’s fear in me, that “me” is fear, it doesn’t separate itself. We have the idea of this “me” being able to separate from fear, envy, from jealousy, from this “me,” this “I,” to find... from this “me,” which is envy, jealousy, fear… to find love.
We have to look at this sense of “I” present without separating from it, without creating this ideation, this idealistic, illusory separateness. When we approach that way, there’s a break of that sense of separation, of duality; there’s an end to this sense of “I” present. And when there’s an end to that sense of “I” present… when there is an end to the jealous one, jealousy disappears; for the envious, envy disappears; for the fearful, fear disappears; when there’s an end to that thinker, thought disappears. And when that disappears, we are now in touch with the Nature of Being, the Nature of Truth about who we really are, when the ego, the “me,” the “I” is not present.
This is real contact with God, Love, or the Truth of your Being. To explore and investigate this, we have online, face-to-face meetings and also retreats where we work on this. Here on the channel, we have an extensive playlist about True Meditation in practice.
Contact with Meditation is contact with the Truth of your Being, it’s the discarding, the “disposing” of that sense of “I,” the undoing of this illusion of this identity present, which is this ego-identity. We must say this here to you, it is important that we deal with this since people want to get rid of envy, they don't perceive that envy is what they are when envy is present. They want to get rid of jealousy, but jealousy is what they are when jealousy is present. They want to get rid of fear when fear is present – fear is what they are.
We can’t ideologically separate ourselves. That separateness, that sense of separation is what is called duality, Dvaita, in Vedanta, that duality. When that ends, we have Advaita, Non-Separation, or Non-Duality. The Reality of your Being is Non-Dual. The Truth of What You are doesn't know the opposite. Thus, when we refer here to Love as your Being, this has no opposite. The opposite of love is hate; this opposite of love is love in duality, the illusion of love, what we call love, what thought calls love, the label thought gives to that feeling which carries with it the opposite. Love has no opposite, Real Love doesn’t carry that opposite, your Being doesn’t carry the opposite.
Love is the Nature of your Being, It is Non-Dual. The Realization of the Freedom of your Being, of your Divine Nature is the Freedom of Love. And when Love is present, it’s not “someone” present in Love; it’s Love present without the illusion of that “I,” it’s the Truth of Consciousness, of Real Consciousness.
I’ve been talking a lot here about this egoic consciousness, this mental consciousness, this consciousness in duality, which is human consciousness, but there’s this Reality of the Consciousness of your Being, which is the Divine Consciousness of your Essential Nature. That Consciousness is Being-Love-Bliss. It’s Non-Dual.
Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of your Divine Nature, is the Consciousness of that Non-Dual Reality, the Nature of Being, the Nature of God. That’s what we're working on together here on the channel.
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