What we call the understanding of thought is the understanding of things. So, we have some level of understanding about things. However, this level of understanding about things, what we call comprehension, is something merely linked to thoughts; this is not the Revelation of Truth.
Humans have a strong inclination to cling to experiences, and thought is part of this. This has taken on a very, very important role in our lives - the matter of “thought.” Notice how complicated this is to each one of us.
Thought has told you things about who you are, about what is happening in the world, about who is the other, about what is life. This understanding is the comprehension which is based on thought; this is not the Truth.
Here we want to propose the investigation of the illusion of thought. Yes, of the illusion of thought. What thought is saying about the other, about you, about life, about God, about love, is something completely false. I can give you an example which… I find it interesting to delve that, here, with you. For example, this relation between love and thought. For example, you remember someone, you have a remembrance of someone you love, but what does this remembrance actually consist of?
The pleasant moments you lived, that you remember now, are a game of images, of remembrances, of memories within you. Notice this; that moment is gone, that instant with the other is gone, the one you say you love is not here, now. What you have here and now are remembrances, memories and images. There is a feeling related to this image, linked to this memory, which is thought – we call it love.
So, for us love is thought and feeling. And feeling and thinking are based on memory. Here, I want to tell you: Love is not memory, Love is not thought, Love is not sensation or a meeting of images in imaginary thought, in imagination. Therefore, Love is not a feeling. Note that feeling here is tied to thought; that is a sensation, but it is not Love.
So, we have, for example, in the matter of thought, an interpretation of what Love is. So, for us, Love is thought. Why is this not Love? Because when that is denied, in place of that sensation-feeling, another sensation-feeling arises, and another set of images arises. So, what you have from the other is a sensation. Let’s call it affection, fondness, appreciation, pleasure, fulfillment, but when this is denied, when the other no longer gives you this, another feeling, thought and image arises: rejection, betrayal, anger, disappointment, the frustration, the pain… and that is suffering, not Love.
So, what we call “love” is soon replaced by suffering, in the form of anger, frustration, betrayal. So, in our relationships – relationships that are based on thought – we don't have the presence of Love. We have the presence of images, sensations, exchanges, not Love!
We don't know what Love is! We use expressions like “love,” and thought gives these expressions the meaning it can do. We have expressions like “God,” “Truth,” and all that thought is doing is giving these expressions a completely illusory meaning, completely based on memory, because thought is memory. There is no thought in you that does not come from the past. Therefore, every thought is memory.
Another interesting aspect in the matter of thought: thought always deals with what it knows, with what is part of what it knows. And we just put it and see it here with you: Love is not part of what thought knows. Thought knows appreciation, affection, fondness, tenderness, sensation, pleasure, but it does not know Love. Thought does not know God, but creates an image, idealizes and explains things about Him. This is what happens in these so-called practices of ours, our religious practices: thought tells us that we are in touch with God, but it is a projection of thought, it is an idea, a belief, an interpretation. Do you understand that?
Words like “Love,” “God,” “Truth” ... Thought forges the words and puts an emotional, sentimental content inside these words and we end up trusting that, and we are dealing only with an imagination, with a concept, with an idea, with a belief. Indeed, what is Love? What is God? What is Truth?
So, the understanding that thought gives us, all this understanding based on its own content, which is memory, which is the past, can only deal with these superficialities; that cannot deal with the True Understanding of God, the True Understanding of Love, the True Understanding of Truth.
Our work together here is to explore with you this matter of the Revelation of your Being. The Revelation of your Being is the Revelation of Wisdom. Wisdom is not part of knowing; part of knowledge is the understanding of thought, which is something linked to that memory, to that past, to that time, to everything that is known – that concerns knowledge. Whereas Wisdom is the Understanding of the Truth, it is the Understanding of God, the Understanding of Love, the Understanding of Happiness. And now, of course, here we are using these expressions with a meaning entirely unknown to the mind.
So, we are not talking about the happiness that the mind knows, the love that the mind knows, we are not talking about the “God” that the mind knows. We are talking about a Revelation that is born from your Being, from the Realization of the Truth, from your Essential Nature. And this Revelation becomes possible when thought, with all its content, with all its understanding linked to the past, to memory, to time… when all that ceases, when all that disappears; then, knowledge disappears.
It is when the emergence of Wisdom, of the Revelation of the Truth of Love is possible; no longer what we used to call love, which, when frustrated, when denied, when betrayed, becomes possessed by anger, jealousy, hatred and suffering. This is what, in general, people call love: something that thought produces, sustains, and when that is denied, that thought and feeling are replaced by their opposites: instead of love, we now have jealousy, possession, hatred, indifference, anger. In reality, we don't have it, that was already implied there. All this was already there, it was the other side of the same coin.
In this sense of duality, which is the sense of the “I,” of the ego, of the “me,” in the relationship with the world – a relationship based entirely on thought – we are always within this duality: love-hate, love-envy, love-possession, love-control, love-fear, love-desire. There are many variations to this sense of duality present in this sense of the “I,” of the ego, which are based on thought and sustain its relationships, all of them are based on thought.
The Truth of the Revelation of your Being – and this is the subject here on our channel – which is the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, which is the Revelation of God, is the end for that sense of “I” within that sense of separation and duality. Then, thought ceases and what is known as “love” ceases, to Something entirely new, unknown, nameless... to that Reality of True Love, of True Happiness, of the Truth about Truth, of the Truth about God.
So, our work together is to investigate the illusion, to see the illusion, to perceive the illusion. When we become aware, conscious of the illusion, the sense of the “I,” of the “ego,” of the “me” dissolves, because, at that moment, the Flourishing of Consciousness occurs. Some call it Kundalini, the Awakening of your Being, which is the Awakening of God.
Kundalini Awakening is the Awakening of that Divine Energy, which flourishes in that body-mind operating, carrying out, effecting a change, a profound transformation. Only then is the Presence of Love, the Presence of Truth, the Presence of God possible. Then, there is no more suffering, no more contradiction, no more conflict. It is a new way of living, of moving in the world, where there is this Presence, this Reality. This is possible for you now.
You are in this dream of the world, of life, to realize the end of this dream of the world and of life. So, Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of your Divine Nature, is the Awakening of Wisdom, of God’s Truth and Love.
Here on our channel, we have several playlists working on these issues with you. Therefore, if this is something that makes sense to you, if you feel that there is something beyond this condition of egoic identity and life limited to this condition of thoughts that are so distressing, so complicated, so disoriented, so perplexed, so disturbed, as the life of the vast majority of people has been; if you feel that there is something beyond this condition, here is an invitation to work on it.
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Here’s the invitation and we'll see you in the next one.
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