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I don't know what you prefer calling This. Some people call it Spiritual Enlightenment; others, the Awakening of Consciousness or Self-Realization, God Realization.
So, we are working together on the Understanding of this Truth, the Truth about us. Studying What we are, studying ourselves. So, all the talks are in that direction.
And today I want to touch upon the subject of this Consciousness. After all, what is Consciousness?
I've been using it in these talks – we have a few hundred videos on the channel here... I've been talking about it in online meetings too – we have online meetings available for you as well as face-to-face meetings, where we even have retreats to be together and explore this subject of the Awakening of Consciousness. As I’ve just said, whatever name you want to give to this Natural State of Happiness, which is your Revealed Being, this Revealed Consciousness.
Today, we are going to delve a little deeper into this subject of Consciousness. After all, what is this Consciousness?
So, in these talks, I’ve used this expression in two ways. I call it egoic consciousness or mental consciousness. It’s this consciousness of the perception of the world we all have; every human being has it. Since childhood, we have had this way of behaving in the world. It’s a way of approaching within that consciousness, that perception of mental consciousness or egoic consciousness. Because, since childhood, we perceive ourselves, we already see ourselves as a separate entity, with that sense of an “I” present in the experience called life.
So, this is a way of approaching the expression “consciousness.” This is where we are right now, in a state of consciousness. This mode of consciousness is the same one we have while we’re dreaming. This is a consciousness common to all. The mode of perception through the senses with the presence of the mind.
What is this mind? Feelings, thoughts, and perceptions, in short, the mind includes several aspects of our consciousness. This consciousness is the consciousness of the “I,” “me,” and the ego. This consciousness is basically thought – thought-feeling – sensation, perception, and experiences.
So, this is a way of approaching the expression “consciousness” and soon I'm going to explain to you why it’s important to have a very clear approach to this.
Here, we’re studying, investigating this with you, because we need to find out if a life free from this condition is possible, which is the condition of mental consciousness, the condition of personal consciousness – that particular consciousness, the idea of “someone” who has a name, a body and a story living in time, in this so-called world.
What is the Truth about who we are?
Now I enter with another expression or meaning for this expression. I call it True Consciousness, the Truth about your Being, the Truth of your Divine Nature. That Truth is the Nameless, Indescribable Truth. It’s the Reality outside of time, therefore, it’s timeless, beyond this body, mind, and world, and yet this is your Real Nature, this is your True Nature.
The fact is that we are asleep, we are sleeping. We are lulled into a sleep in which there is a dream and this is the dream of that initial consciousness I’ve just spoken of – that first consciousness I’ve just spoken of. We are inside that dream, that egoic, mental consciousness.
Identified with the sense of an “I” present in life, in the world, and our relationships, we are unaware of the Truth about who we are, and I want to invite you to investigate this, to approach this, this Real Consciousness. However, here I refer to that True Consciousness, to the True Consciousness of Being, which is timeless, outside that limit of the egoic identity and therefore of separateness. What do I mean by separateness? It’s this sense of being “someone” separate from God, separate from the other, from Life, from the world.
This is how we have led our lives and life within this consciousness common to all – which is the egoic consciousness, as I’ve been calling it, which is this mental consciousness. It’s a life in suffering, in complication because we are, in this way, alienated from the Truth of our own Being, we are trapped in this movement of thought. Notice, this movement of thought in you is a movement of that mental consciousness.
We’re here looking with you at the possibility of breaking with this model for a life in full Real Consciousness, in the Nature of the Truth about who we are. That’s what we're looking at here with you. Because as long as this model of egoic identity, egoic mind, egoic consciousness, as long as this remains, as long as there is this separateness, this illusion, there will be suffering.
Then, we need to go beyond that. This consists of the Realization of Divine Truth, the Truth of your Being that is the Reality of God.
See that. Our work here, our commitment, is to investigate the nature of the egoic mind, the nature of the mental consciousness and thus to break free from that condition into something entirely new, unknown, nameless, which is Love, Happiness, and Peace.
Here, I refer to the Nature of God in each one of us. This Consciousness of Reality. This Consciousness is Happiness. This Consciousness is Wisdom. This Consciousness is Freedom.
Our commitment together, here, is for Self-awareness. What is Self-awareness? It’s the approaching, the investigation of what you are.
There are two aspects here. The first is the investigation of what you are, because you mistake yourself for that. This is one aspect. That’s you because you mistake yourself for that. When you investigate what you are, just because you mistake yourself for it, you can break this illusion, go beyond this “me,” this “I,” this ego, this “person” you believe you are. So, this is an aspect linked to this expression here, then, this is an aspect linked to this expression “Self-awareness.” Another aspect within this expression of Self-awareness is the Acknowledgement of the Truth of What transcends this “I,” this ego. Then, the True Self-awareness is born, the True Revelation of your Real Nature, of your Real Identity. Thus, we approach, through Self-awareness, what I have called True Meditation.
Approaching the Truth about who You Are, discarding all illusion about everything you believe to be you. Then, this mental consciousness is the consciousness of the “I,” “me,” the ego, a set of thoughts.
Let me talk a little bit about thoughts here. Thoughts create a lot of disorder, confusion, and disturbance for all of us because we trust the model of thought. And what is this model of thought? It’s the model that tells us we are the ones thinking this.
So, when a thought arises there’s a central idea in each one of us. This idea arises because of the psychological conditioning that we have had since childhood. In fact, we have this as a millennial heritage of humanity. What’s this idea? It’s the idea that we are the ones who are thinking. Then, whatever goes through your head, you already assume in a conditioned, programmed way that you are the one who is thinking. When this occurs, you identify with that thought. There’s identification with thought. If you identify with thought, you mistake yourself for someone doing what thought says to be done or feeling what thought brings with it as a feeling.
So, there’s this model of a present identity as this thinker, as “the one” who feels, “the one” who does. It creates disorder and confusion in our lives in addition to suffering for all of us. This is the condition of the egoic identity, of a model of behavior centered on this false “me,” on this “I,” which is this thinker, which is the one thinking. Thus, this thinker is nothing more than a model of thought. It’s one more conditioning.
A thought arises and creates the idea of “someone” thinking that thought. Actually, what we have is the presence of thought. By the way, an uncontrolled, restless, repetitive, chatty, completely out of control presence within each one of us. We don't know how to deal with it and we believe we are “someone” present who has to know how to deal with it and bring order to this mess. And when we set out to do that, once again, we’re identifying with it, mistaking ourselves for it, and suffering.
I want to invite you to discover the Nature of the Truth of your Being, which is this Real, True, Timeless Consciousness free from this model, which is a model of thought.
An interesting aspect of thinking is that all that thinking is a program running inside you. Turned on. There’s no way of turning this program off. What you can and need to do is to become aware of this program.
People want to learn how to deal with their thoughts by exerting control over them. I’ve just said: when you try to exert control over thought, you, once again, restate the illusion of “someone” being present to do so. That “someone” is thought itself.
Then, thought masquerades itself as a policeman. It’s the thief disguising himself as a policeman to arrest the thief. This is how thought happens within each one of us.
If you try to avoid thinking about a certain thing, try it... If, for example, I’ll give you an idea, it will immediately appear, because all thought does is look for something to sustain its continuity. If, for example, I say to you now: green car with blue roof, a green car with a blue roof. Right away, the brain will create this, because it has this model of image formation by thought. Notice inside you now. You'll already be seeing this blue car with a green roof. Or is it the green roof and the blue car? Or is it the blue car with the green roof? Notice, it was just one car, now you have two.
Notice how interesting is this model of image formation created by this movement of that mental consciousness. If, for example, I say to you: red car with a yellow roof. The brain has already formed a red car with a yellow roof.
If you try to get rid of that red car with the yellow roof, try it now, throw away this red car with the yellow roof now. You can’t. You try to get rid of it. Get rid of the car now, throw the car away. It’s red with a yellow roof. This is how our brain, our mental consciousness works.
We live in a state of sleep, unconsciousness, and hypnosis. We believe in things, all the time, and the greatest of all these things is thought. It’s what thought forms and idealizes. So, thought creates a thinker to think its thought.
There’s no such thinker present in your Essential Nature, which is this Real Consciousness, but there’s this illusion of the thinker in that egoic, mental consciousness.
Our work here is to get rid of this illusion, the psychological conditioning, this state of sleep, of a dream, of hypnosis, for a life free from this process, which is the process of thought creating all kinds of confusion and suffering in our lives.
So, our work here together is for the Awakening of the Reality of our own Being. In our Being, there is Love, Truth, and Wisdom – “there is” from the verb there to be.
God is this Reality of your Being and if This is present, all the confusion created by thought, sustaining the illusion of a present “I” – which is this thinker – all of this vanishes. This is what some people call the Awakening of Consciousness. This is exactly what some people call Spiritual Enlightenment. The Freedom of remaining free from the ego, this “me,” this “I.” A life in Bliss, in Happiness, where there’s this sense of Being, of Wholeness. This is the Presence of Love, of the Divine Reality. We can have several names for This. We can give various names to this Reality of our own Being.
So, Enlightenment, the Truth of this Divine Realization, is the Freedom of remaining free from the sense of “I,” the ego. Free from all this movement of thought, since thought, as you’ve just seen with me, is what it idealizes and makes us trust, believe and sustain as being real. All this is just part of its imagination. It’s just part of its own movement, which is always based on memory.
Thought is always anchored in memory, sustaining itself in memory. All the psychological suffering in us, all the difficulties in dealing with the movement of thought is because there’s this idea of the very thought of “someone” who has to deal with it, who has to get rid of it.
Here, I want to invite you to just observe and become aware of this movement, and that’s enough. When you look at this movement without judging, comparing, or mistaking yourself for it – which is identifying with it – without rejecting it. When you learn to just look at the thought, feeling, sensation, perception, without giving an identity to it – looking means not rejecting that, looking without censoring, without wanting to get away from it, it is exactly that – then, you’re not giving an identity, it’s just an observation. This seeing is seeing without “the one” who sees, a look without “the one” who looks, a perceiving without “the one” who perceives. Then, there’s a change in the brain, in the body, in this mechanism itself. So, there’s a break for this condition of psychological conditioning. There’s a break, an annulment of this egoic, mental consciousness. It’s when this Natural and Real Consciousness, which is your Being, your Divine Nature, your Real Identity, it’s when this can come into focus at this moment.
So, this is the contact with Self-awareness. This is the contact with True Meditation. So, this is the door that opens to God Realization, to the Realization of your Being. This is the direct work possible for each one of us.
So, yes, it’s possible to be out of that psychological time and therefore out of that condition of mental or egoic consciousness, toward something entirely new, unusual and unknown, which is the Truth of God, Love, Peace, and Freedom.
This is the subject we work on with you. Also in online, face-to-face meetings and retreats, where we are together working on this with those who approach us.
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