The Reality of God is the Consciousness of the Truth about who You are – This is Love.
The Reality of the other is the Reality of your Being, which is the Consciousness of God – that is Love. All these theoretical, verbal descriptions, all of which that have been written or spoken, do not describe this Reality, which is this Reality of your Being, of Love, which is God.
A direct experience of this is necessary. We are very attached to words and explanations. So, people ask a lot of questions, and what they want is an answer… a theoretical, verbal answer.
We are very naive, because we are easily satisfied with theories, with intellectual beliefs. The illusion present in the ego, in this sense of the “I” that we carry, that the human being carries... there is a present vanity. As long as that sense of “I” is there, that vanity is there.
The illusion of knowing creates a feeling of power, of thinking you understand, of thinking you comprehend, and even worse: believing, within this ideal, this belief, this knowledge, you will be able to Realize This one day.
We have to see the difference between ideas and true facts, real facts.
We are very theoretical, very verbal, very intellectual, we are not practical.
We don't experience it, we repeat it, as if, in fact, we knew.
Look, for example, what we do with the expression “God;” it’s the same as we do with the expression “love:” we write poetry, we write songs, we give lectures, speeches, we write books about God, about love, but we don't know what That really is.
Unless there is a process of transformation, of real change, we are left in the realm of ideas, not in the new space of facts.
We cannot feed ourselves from the menu, but from the plate. I have said that the simplest dish is fully satisfying, while a menu full of wonderful dishes cannot do that.
And we're living from menus, not plates. We feed ourselves from ideas, from beliefs.
There is no experience!
We are not experiencing Love, that’s why we talk a lot about love; we are not experiencing God, that’s why we talk a lot about God.
It’s something like a nostalgic fantasy, the illusion that an idea will one day become a fact. No, an idea will always be an idea and a fact will always be a fact; what is real will always be real and what is not will never be.
We have to have an approach of the Truth about who we are, and this is only possible when we look inside ourselves.
The Sage of Arunachala, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, left us a direct path to the Realization of the Truth of our Being, which is God, which is Love: Atma Vichara, the direct path of Ramana Maharshi. This is the way to approach True Meditation.
True Meditation is the verification of what is happening with you here and now, moment by moment – observing each thought, each feeling, each emotion, each sensation, without separating yourself as a separate experiencer of that experience; that’s what we've pointed out.
When a thought arises, the illusion is that I am thinking about it, I am doing it, I am feeling it – this is the sense of duality present within each of us, this is the sense of separateness.
The Vision of Reality is the Vision of your Being, it is the Vision of your Divine Nature, of your State of Non-Separation, of Non-Duality.
So, self-observation is the realization of that. This self-observation is the approach to the Real Meditation, to True Meditation – looking at That which You are.
Sitting cross-legged, breathing in a certain way, chanting a mantra or listening to soft music can relax you.
You can even go into a trance and stay there for a while. This is well known in yoga as a laya state; it is a trance state where temporarily the mind is not, then there is a relaxation, there is a rest. But this is a form of self-hypnosis, this is not Meditation.
People engage in meditation practices for the purpose of de-stressing, relaxing, getting better sleep, dealing better with stress, with anxiety, with depression, and all of that, yes, is a wonderful help, but at the same time, it’s a great escape, and it’s missing the opportunity to look at what arises, at these reactions, this discomfort, this psychological discomfort of the ego... and we keep naming them: anxiety, depression, phobia, anguish… naming them.
These are opportunities that we have to look at these states and see where they are sustained. And I can assure you: they hold on to duality, in the sense of “someone” resisting that experience. This is something that is bringing a message. The message itself doesn't matter, what matters is the illusion of an identity resisting that message.
This message is just the repertoire of the past, of psychological conditioning, of an egoic pattern, of something that repeats itself.
It is appearing for you here and now, but it has already appeared for your ancestors, for your mother, for your father, for your grandmother, for your great-grandparents, for those who came before them... They all lived states of unhappiness, anxiety, fear, anguish, depression, boredom, loneliness, and now is your time. And you, like them, are also missing this opportunity to look and realize that there is no identity present in this memory, in this conditioning, which is an egoic conditioning.
This is part of the structure of the egoic mind, this has been present in the human being for millennia.
Today, we have different names for states that have always been known to mankind.
Analyzing this, studying this, understanding this, explaining this does not matter. What matters is perceiving the present duality, which is the emergence of an identity to resist, to fight against and even to explain it.
Notice what we're saying. This thing that can be analyzed is not different from the one who analyzes; it is not different; it is not different from the one who analyses. The thing analyzed is the own analyst and the analyst is the thing analyzed. It is one movement that separates into duality, and when it separates, it sustains the state, it sustains the experience.
Notice what we are saying. The sense of fear is fear. Fear needs someone to feel it, and that “someone” needs fear to exist as a “someone.” But if there is this attention, this full observation about this movement of duality… and it is done here and now. This full attention is part of Meditation. So, full attention, mindfulness, is part of True Meditation.
And here I use the expression mindfulness, full attention, perhaps in a sense that is also a little different from what is being used out there.
Don't take that expression and try to adjust it to what you've heard of mindfulness, or what you've studied about it. Don't put theory, look at it in yourself, immediately notice this attention on this movement of the egoic mind appearing, creating this separation, creating this “I” and the state.
It is not important what the name of the state is – that’s another illusory way of dealing with experience, that’s another way of classifying the experience, of recognizing the experience, and that’s only possible when there’s the “I” to do it, and it does it to understand, to explain, to justify, to want to do something, even to want to get rid of it. See the trick?
Here, we're just saying: become aware of what arises, don't give names to it, don't name it, and don't put on an identity to want to get rid of, to adjust to, to analyze, to reject.
When you approach the experience like that and you are left with the state without an identity present… Try it and tell me what will happen.
If the state is present and an identity does not come in to reject, to fight, to analyze, to fight with that or to identify with that, what happens to that experience?
Then, that problem, that experience dissolves, because it has no reality in your Being, which is Pure Non-Dual Consciousness.
Your Being does not carry the ego, this sense, this sensor, this “I,” the one who measures, this judge, the one who compares, the one who judges, the one who criticizes, the one who condemns. Your Being is free, as Pure Non-Dual Consciousness, so whatever is appearing is not supported by That which is You in your Being. See what we are putting for you right here and now.
So, your work is to Realize what Love is, not theorize about It; To Realize what Being is, not to theorize about It; To Realize what God is, not theorizing about It.
The vision of this is the vision of many other things, it is the answer to many other questions: what is loneliness? How to overcome fear? Now you know that there is no “someone” to overcome fear. This is the end of the “I,” the “me,” the ego, and therefore it is the end of fear.
So, let’s investigate This, Realize This in this life! The Truth of your Being is Realizing God, Love. This is Realizing Happiness, This is Realizing your Being, assuming the Truth that You are here and now.
This is the subject we deal with here on the channel, on this channel, and also in online meetings and face-to-face meetings, we even do it in retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” on the video, subscribe to the channel and let’s work on it together. OK?
Thanks for the meeting and until next time.
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