Here in our meetings, we share with you elements or confirmations so that you can investigate this situation, this basic matter, which I’ve called “the Revelation of Self-awareness.”
The Realization of your Being, of your Essential Nature, which is essentially Divine, is What represents the end of all complication, illusion, and suffering!
One of the most important factors, among others we’ve been dealing with here, is this factor called thought. Notice the excessive value thought has assumed in our lives. This great immeasurable value that thought has assumed has occupied a good part of our lives. A life settled on this basis, that of thought, is a naturally conflicted, problematic life.
We don't know the Truth about who we are because we believe in what thought says about ourselves and others and what life is. Then, thought assumed that value. So, our life based on thought carries this illusory confidence: the confidence of illusion, of knowing. We don't know what thought is. Thought has shown us things, told us about things, talked about things. We mistake ourselves for these thoughts, so we carry this illusion of knowing because thought says so.
Thus, what thought says… we trust. However, we haven’t verified, investigated what is the nature of thought. How can we understand the Truth of who we are if we don't understand the truth of what thought is? If we don't realize what thought has done to each one of us? What has it done in our lives? What has it assumed?
Our life based on thought is fear, conflict, suffering, in addition to all those elements of internal contradictions, of innumerable complications we all have.
I'm going to give you an example of how much thought has deceived us, an example we all fall into. For example: the matter of what we call love. For us, love is something strictly connected to thought. When we remember someone, the lived moments of pleasure, accomplishment, satisfaction, fulfillment, when we remember that person, we have a feeling connected to that thought, to that feeling, which, in fact, is of satisfaction, pleasure, and fulfillment; we call this love!
We never ask ourselves: will thought be Love? When we remember someone with whom we enjoy a relationship and there’s a feeling attached to that image, that remembrance, that memory, will it be Love?
And here we have to investigate these matters, all our questions regarding the Truth about who we are, everything that may be an impediment to this Self-discovery, to the discovery of this Truth, and thought is such an element.
If we don't understand what thought is, we will attribute love to that remembrance or memory. But Love is not a memory, a remembrance, Love is not pleasure, satisfaction, nor fulfillment at the sentimental and emotional level.
What we here, for example, call love is memory, remembrance, recollection, or a set of images within a relationship. So, the other is an image, in the other I find pleasure, satisfaction and fulfillment. If this is denied, in place of that thought and feeling, which I call love, there’ll be another thought and feeling. That feeling will be a feeling of rejection, betrayal, anger… If this so-called love is denied, what I soon realize is that this thought and feeling is replaced by jealousy, spite, and envy. And the presence of these feelings, openly, shows us that there’s no Love! All I have is a thought-feeling of someone that the thought and the feeling say they love.
What is love? Is Love part of thought? Is Love part of memory? Is Love part of this separateness? Because that’s what thought does. Thought is that element in us that separates, distances, imagines, remembers, and produces images. So, what is Love?
See, Love is the Truth Nature of your Being. Therefore, it’s the Divine Nature in You. That Divine Nature in You, which is Love, doesn’t depend on thought, since thought is memory, remembrance, recollection, and images. These images, thoughts, and feelings change, while What is the Truth of your Being is immutable.
So, when we talk about Love, we are not talking about “love” in the sense that thought knows. We don't really know what Love is. Love is the Nature of Being, the Presence of that Consciousness when the sense of an “I,” that “me,” that element of thought, feeling, emotion, image, memory… when that isn’t present, then we have the presence of our Being, which is Love!
We don’t conceive Love without remembrance, recollection, or image. So, you would feel really bad if you couldn't remember someone you say you love. Then, Love wouldn’t be present, because remembrance is not present. Is that true? When remembrance, memory, imagination, these frames of pleasure and satisfaction in the relationship with the other, when this is not present, isn’t Love present? Does Love depend on the other, on an image, a memory, a remembrance, a recollection?
The beauty of this work together, in this Revelation of the Truth of your Being, which is the Revelation of God, of your Essential Nature, is that here the Discovery of Love is revealed; but Love isn’t personal. It doesn’t carry an image, remembrance or recollection. Love is the Presence of the Truth of your Being, here and now; and in This everything is included. It doesn't depend on thought, on memory, on an image, or on a remembrance.
Thus, the basis for Love is the end of that condition, which is the condition of thought. When there is thought, what we have present are remembrances, memories, recollections, images, imaginations, these images in action. When we have the Presence of Love, we have the Presence of Divine Reality, the Reality of your Being
When thought ceases and True Meditation flourishes – and Meditation is the end of that sense of an “I,” an ego, an individuality, an experiencer, a thinker, of someone imagining or idealizing – when that ends because Meditation blossoms, we have the Presence of Love. So, the Realization of the Truth of your Being is Love in relationships with the other, whether he is present or absent.
The “I,” the ego, the “me” element is not present when Meditation, your Being flourishes, and your Being is the Divine Truth, which is the Truth of Love. So, Love is not a thing of the mind, it’s a thing that is present as part of What is The Unknown, The Indescribable, as part of What is Nameless, being the Reality of your Being.
So, the Realization of Truth, of God, is the Perception of Life in that Totality, where there is no memory, past, recollection, fulfillment in sensations and images.
The absence of the present sense of “I,” this “me,” this present “I,” is the Presence of the Reality of Love, which is the Reality of your Being, the Reality of God. The expression Being, here, means the expression Consciousness; not this ego-consciousness, this “I” conscious of itself. This self-consciousness “I” I’ve called mental consciousness. This self-consciousness is the consciousness of “I.”
Here, I refer to the Real Nature of your Being, which is Pure Consciousness, a Consciousness that transcends this idea of being conscious, including being conscious in that memory, that remembrance. This is separatist, exclusivist, and dualistic, because there is this “I” that loves and the other to be loved; this is something very exclusive, separatist, based on memory, on image, on the idea of an “I” that has the other.
See what we put here for you. Is love possible without the other? Love without the other is Love without this “I.” This is Real Love since What is present transcends this limitation, this separateness, this duality, this “me and other.” Then, here we refer to the Unknown, Nameless; to this all-inclusive Divine Presence that includes everything! I mean your Being, which is the Nature of God, when the ego, the “me,” the “I” is not present.
Then, thought-feeling ceases, the past which is thought, memory, recollection, this game of images, all this ceases when the Truth of your Being, which is Love, Real Consciousness, Consciousness of God, is present.
That’s what we deal with in these meetings. The different playlists we have here on the channel are about investigating the nature of illusion with you. Yes, the nature of the illusion. The understanding of the truth about the illusion is the Revelation of the Truth about your Being, being able to see what it is not, passing as the Being, being able to see what it seems to be, but which, in fact, is not; but which lives passing as your Being. Here, I refer to this sense of “I,” of ego. Stop mistaking yourself for that illusion, see what is false, just see, perceive, have that clearly… When you perceive that, in this perception is the Truth. Then, perceiving what is false is possible when there is this Presence of Truth.
So, self-investigation is essential for this Self-awareness, and it’s when this Self-awareness is present that the True Meditation shows itself. Then, one perceives the illusion that thought and feeling is not Love, the sensation of pleasure in relationships, fulfillment… All of these may have a certain place in our lives, but it doesn’t represent Real Love. The Truth of your Being is Love! Then, when This is present, because of this Self-awareness, the flourishing of this Meditation – and here, I mean True Meditation…
Here on our channel, we have an extensive playlist about the True Meditation in practice and about Real Self-awareness, as we’ve put it.
The direct understanding, experience of This, is the Truth of your Being revealing itself here and now, as Love, the Presence of Being, as the Presence of God. This is the Truth about who You are. Ok?
This is the subject here on our channel. If this is something that really makes sense to you, if you feel like investigating this and realizing This in this life, so leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel… I also want to remind you: we have online and face-to-face meetings and also retreats to work on this together.
If that makes sense, we can work it out, ok?
Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.
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