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Today the subject is: how to deal with death?
We are here, on this channel, working with you on the end of suffering, which is possible when there is God Realization, which some call the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, Kundalini Awakening, the Awakening of your Divine Nature, of your Essential Nature. So, the subject today, here with you, is the matter of how to deal with death.
We are facing something very delicate. We always want to move away from any idea of the possibility of our own death. And why does this happen? Because we don't know how to deal with death. Because we don't even know how to deal with the idea of death – neither ours nor that of others we love.
What’s the problem with death? Is it natural to be born, but not natural to die? See, it’s not the unnaturalness of death. We don't really know how to deal with the naturalness of Life. If we don't know how to live, we don't even have the possibility of looking closely at this issue of the possibility of death.
We have a problem – it is not the problem of death. We have a problem. The problem is: to live a life in peace, a free life, a life in love, in happiness, in complicity, with a deep sense of vitality, of reality, of beauty.
What is such a life? Is such a life afraid of the end? Will there be an end to this quality of life?
When you are happy, not when you want to be happy, not when you imagine you are happy. Note the difference. When you want to be happy, it is an idea, a concept, it is a belief, an imagination within you. The movement of an identity is present in this experience, in that idea, in that belief. There is the imagination of the desire to be happy.
So, we have the desire to be happy or we have the imagination to be happy. So, I am not referring to a present identity — which is this thinker — imagining being happy or imagining being already happy. Here I refer to Being Happy. When you are happy, there is no “someone” present saying: “I feel happy.” In that moment of Happiness, there is no “someone” present, there is no idea of the possibility of death.
So, when you are Happy, you are Happiness itself and in that Happiness, there is no idea of It ending. It is always when the sense of a present “I” arises with thought that alters the present Natural State of Being Happy. It is when the thought arises that the idea arises.
Notice what we are saying: the moment You Are happy, you don't say “I am happy” or “I am happy.” The moment You Are Happy only Happiness is. There is no “someone” saying: “I am happy” or “I need to remain happy, this happiness cannot end.” That does not exist. This occurs a few minutes later, when Happiness is no longer there. That’s when thought has arrived, the thinker has arrived.
So, the idea of death is only possible when you are not happy. It is always the idea of "someone” present that shows you the imagination of the end of something.
So, this issue of death is very interesting. Even someone dying, close to that moment that we call death, if you tell her a joke and she laughs, in that laugh, in that exact instant, in that exact moment, the sense of “someone” present disappears, and when there is no “someone” “ present, there is no death. Then, this dying “someone” disappears in laughter, in Joy, in Love, in Peace, in Happiness, in Freedom.
These inner states in you are the absence of the sense of a present “me,” and when that “me” is not present, there is no death, [there is] no possibility of something ending, [there is no] possibility of that Joy to disappear, that Peace to disappear, that Freedom to disappear, because when the State is present, the sense of an “I” is not present.
Note that this is something always connected to this notion of time. It is this psychological time, and this psychological time requires the presence of thought, memory, belief, and imagination. It requires the presence of concern over losses and “disappearing” into the zero, into nothingness. Then, fear arises.
So, fear is the presence of psychological time and this psychological time is the presence of thoughts about what could happen badly to this “I,” to this “me.” Then, there comes the presence of the fear of death.
So, how to deal with death? Living in your Being, abiding in your Essential Nature. That Essential Nature, that Being of yours, knows no birth, knows no death.
You see, what we are putting here for you is something that requires non-verbal, non-written, non-theoretical investigation. It requires direct investigation, looking at yourself and realizing, through Self-awareness, this whole movement of thoughts placing you as a separate entity in time, having things.
This “me” has things it can lose, this “I” has a life it might lose. It’s always that “I.” When that sense of a present “I” is seen, it dissolves and you are in your Essential Nature that does not think of death, that does not imagine death, that does not imagine the end. It is You in your Being, in your Natural State of Being.
We have This intuitively within each of us. There within each one of us, there in the hidden, there in the depths, there is a sense of Being that remains immortal. I wouldn't quite use the word “immortal,” I would use the word here: Timeless.
There is something in you that knows that it is beyond the mind, this “me,” this “I,” this ego, this set of memories, stories, an identity present there, called Paulo, João, Marcos. There’s Something in you that’s out of time.
So, how to deal with death? Realizing That, Realizing your Being, Realizing that Essential, Divine Nature that you carry within yourself, which is the Nature of God. This is Timeless. The Realization of This is Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of Consciousness. When That is present, the sense of an “I” disappears. And if it [sense of self] disappears, problems disappear, suffering disappears, fear disappears, this notion of being alive and being able to die disappears.
Notice what we are telling you: the body is hungry, the body is thirsty, the body can go through moments of physical, neurophysiological pain; these pains are possible and susceptible to the body, not to That which Is You – You in your Being. Your Being is the Nature of the Reality of Manifestation of all Existence. This is not born. This doesn't die. This doesn't make you sick, [it doesn't] age. This has no name, has no body and no world.
That is the Nature of Reality about you. We can access It through Self-awareness, when we get rid of the illusion about who we are confused with. We confuse ourselves with this “me,” with this “I.” It is about this “someone” that we get confused, with this “me,” with this “I.” When that disappears, That which is your True Identity shows itself as the Reality of Consciousness, which is Bliss, which is Being. This is beyond time and space; beyond past, present and future, beyond waking, dreaming and deep sleep.
All this is part of this movement of the known within this mental consciousness, this egoic consciousness. This is the one asking questions like “How to do this?”, “How to do that? “, “How to deal with the pain of loneliness?”, “How to deal with depression?”, “How to deal with anxiety?”, “How to deal with death?”
This ego consciousness has many problems and wants to find out how to get rid of those problems, but the truth is that it is the problem. This egoic consciousness is the only problem present in human beings, in each one of us. If this dissolves, if this disappears, we resolve that question, be it the question of life or the question of death; be it the issue of psychological problems, psychological suffering, the pain of this sense of being “someone” in life. All this vanishes when the Realization of the Divine Truth is present, which is the Reality of your Being, which is the Reality of God.
We want to invite you to understand this and here when I use the word “understand,” I mean learning what it represents. It is not understanding intellectually to have a verbal definition clarified within the intellect. No, absolutely. Here I refer to the word “understand” in the sense of experiencing that Reality – the Reality of That Which Is You. This Divine State, this State of Being, this Natural State, free from the sense of an “I” present, asking questions, starting these questions with expressions of this type: “How to do it?”, “How to solve it?”, “How to get rid of?”, “How to win?” and “How to achieve?”
The Realization of That which Is You is Love, Truth, Wisdom, Presence, Intelligence. It doesn't carry that “how.” The ego carries it, the separatist mind carries it, this illusory identity carries it. That Natural State is the State of Non-Separation. This is called Advaita in India. Advaita is Non-Separation. Non-Separation is dealt with in the Vedas, in Advaita Vedanta. This Natural State of Non-Separation is this Natural State of Non-Duality. It is the Realization of this “Conscious Union with God” in the language of Joel Goldsmith.
Goldsmith deals with this, with this possibility of a life free from the sense of an “I” present to this state of Pure Consciousness. Of course, he [Joel Goldsmith] uses very esoteric, mystical language. We use language here, perhaps, a little more direct, without many expressions from the Bible. However, these expressions do not exactly deal with Reality. We need to live This and experience This so as to have a direct, non-intellectual, non-verbal understanding of this matter.
So, this “Conscious Union with God” is actually this Present Consciousness when the sense of “I” is not. That’s when everything takes the place it should take. This represents the end of this limitation, this “me,” this “I.” A Life of Abundance, of Fullness, of Completeness, of Happiness, a life of Realization. Not of personal fulfilment but of God Realization himself, which is your Divine Nature, which is this Christ Consciousness, in the language of Joel Goldsmith.
So here we have that answer to how to deal with death. Abundant life is the end of that death. “I give you Life,” said the Christ, “And Life more abundantly.”
This is how you deal with this issue – “How do you deal with death?” This is a way of presenting a direct answer to this question. We have in the Gospel, Jesus pointing out: “I am the resurrection and Life,” that is the abundant Life. When the sense of “I” is not present, That which is present is this Life, it is Life with abundance.
So that’s the Gospel approach and here we put for you something in the language of the mystic named Joel Goldsmith. OK?
I want to remind you: we have online, face-to-face meetings, and also retreats where we can work on this together. OK?
Thanks for the meeting and we'll see you at the next one.
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