The question is, “How to practice Mindfulness?” Here is a subject many people are interested in finding out the meaning and importance. Let’s understand a few things about this. What is the difference between the practice of Mindfulness and Mindfulness in practice?
In general, we have by principle, by idea, that we will get results when we have a technical, practical dedication, when we make that technique or that practice a kind of habit. This is what we, in general, think and believe. Yes, in some aspects of your life you need technique, practice, and habit to get a certain result. But here, when we refer to this change, this inner transformation, I mean a deep change in our psyche, a deep inner change in each of us. If our purpose here is to realize the Truth of Being, which is the Truth about who we are, this approach needs to be new. Psychologically, a technique, a practice, a habit, is just another new program, it’s just another new conditioning. Habit is conditioning. Technique is conditioning. The mechanics of something is conditioning. However, psychologically, we don't need a new conditioning. What I am saying is that we cannot transform this simple ability to look, to observe without the sense of an “I” present within that gaze, that experience, into a technique, a practice, a habit. We are not here dealing with something mechanical; we are talking about internal aspects within each of us. This psychological aspect in us is something entirely different from a mechanical, motor functionality such as, for example, playing the piano or learning an instrument – we need technique, practice, and habit, until that is incorporated into this motor memory we need to practice.
When we refer here to this Mindfulness, we are talking about something completely different from a technique. So, it’s very strange when people offer courses on “Mindfulness.” Mindfulness is something you discover within yourself. No teacher, no technique, no teaching will give you this, because this is already present within you. All that is needed is for it to be evoked from within, for it to appear, for it to arise. So, I want to work with you here, in these few minutes, showing you how simple it is to verify in yourself, already, this innate ability to look, to listen, to perceive without the intervention of a present identity, which is this sense of “I.” Here I put the expression Mindfulness perhaps a little different from what has been taught out there as a technique, a practice, something you study and learn in a course. I want to tell you that the importance of Mindfulness is shown by giving you this realization that the Truth of Consciousness is the Truth of this Presence when the sense of this mental consciousness, this egoic mind, is not present. This is Mindfulness.
When you look at a bird – unless you are a biologist or someone who knows the names of birds and has studied birds – you just look at the bird and you see its feathers, its beauty, its beak, you look at the bird. There’s just this watching the bird, you don't name it, you don't classify it, you don't categorize it, you don't have that internal information to do that. So, you just watch, you just look.
That gaze is not yet that Mindfulness, but when you place this gaze in your heart, your whole Being into that gaze, without thinking about it, without naming it, without classifying it, but stick to that gaze, without separating yourself to evaluate it, but remaining only in this contemplation of the beauty of that bird. In that instant, a separation between you and the bird dissolves, so this is the moment of absence of “someone” present in this contemplation. This contemplation is Full, because there is no “someone” saying internally: “How beautiful it is,” “But how beautiful it is,” because when that arises, already inside you, there is no longer that Attention, because you have already separated yourself from experience, there is already a separation between you and the bird. But when this look is a look in which the observer, who is the one who looks, and what is seen, which is the bird, disappear, the notion of observer and thing observed are no longer present, the look remains.
It’s not “looking at something,” it’s just looking. All that separation between the observer and the observed disappears, that is Mindfulness. We need this Attention, because without this Attention, our relationships with each other – all of them – will always be based on past images, on previous knowledge, on remembrances, on memories and, therefore, receiving naming, classification, comparison, evaluation. And when that is there, there is no observation, there is no such Mindfulness.
In general, we as human beings are not in contact with Life; our contact with life is our particular contact with what we project onto life. We don't have contact with each other, because we look at others based on that background, on that program running inside each of us, which is past knowledge, which are remembrances, memories, and recollections. So, in the absence of this Mindfulness – which is this look without this background, without this story – what we have present is the sense of separation.
So, see how we can approach this issue of Real Mindfulness – that’s what I've been calling it within the channel. What you can learn from somebody, what you can study is not Mindfulness; what can be part of a piece of knowledge, of a technique, of an intellectual apprenticeship, cannot be Real Attention. Attention is something natural, spontaneous, it is here, now. A child looking at something or an adult looking at something, without the sense of an “I” present within that gaze, the gaze is present and the observer, who is the “I,” is not there. The observed thing is also irrelevant, the gaze is relevant. It is when in that gaze, what is seen is the one who sees.
So, when in front of a bird – or a cloud or a sunset – there is that gaze and Real Mindfulness is there, that brings you closer to True Meditation, because what is Meditation? Meditation is the presence of your Essential Nature, which is that Real Consciousness, not that mental consciousness, but that Real Consciousness, where there is no separation between the one who observes and what is observed. So, the presence of what IS, is revealed without the sense of “someone” present.
So, when we approach these meetings, we are working with you on the Awakening of this Real Consciousness, this allows you to flourish in Mindfulness in a natural way, this is something innate in you. Thus, the Awakening of Meditation is something very close to this issue of Mindfulness, since Meditation is the emptying of all this psychological content, this identity, this “I,” this observer who is constantly separating himself from what he observes to judge, evaluate, name, classify, and reject. Notice what we're saying to you: we've been doing this all along in our relationships. When you look at a person, when you already know him or her, what you have of him or her are remembrances, memories, recollections, and images. So, your contact with people you know is always a contact in separation, because in this contact, this relationship is based on beliefs, opinions, and ideas that you have about the other and that he has about you. Thus, our relationships are always tending to be a basis for love and hate, pleasure and pain, harmony and disharmony, for conflicts, for dilemmas and different sufferings. In addition to this apparently loving, affective approach, what is prevailing at this level of relationship is a separation based on thought, based on beliefs, based on images that each one has of the other.
So, notice what we are putting here for you: the importance of this approach to Mindfulness. And here I am referring to this Mindfulness in practice, it is not the practice of Mindfulness, it is not the technique of Mindfulness, it is not a mechanical model of practicing Mindfulness, but this approach of Pure Consciousness, observing in yourself this element that separates, that divides, that creates this duality, which are the thoughts, images, remembrances, and memories. Let go of it and be free of it in this relationship with the other. It is when the idea of the “other” disappears, then there is a natural, real relationship. So, the sense of a present identity, that “I,” is not there.
So, it is possible in that Mindfulness – in that look without that background of evaluation, comparison, judgment, and images – the emergence of Love, because the sense of “I” is not there, a new energy appears. When we approach life that way, not only when we look at that bird, not only when we look at that person and here, in that sense, it doesn't matter, just like you don't recognize the name of the bird or what botanical classification it is in, because this does not have the slightest relevance, now in that Attention, in that simple and direct gaze, without the observer. It is the same way in contact with a person, whether known or unknown, it does not make the slightest difference, because at that moment a new energy is present. When the sense of a “I” is not there, when the sense of separateness is not there, there is no longer that basis for conflict, because there is no more sense of separateness. Then, an energy appears at that moment, your look is the look of this Intelligence, of this Real Consciousness, which is your Being.
This Being of yours is the only Being, it is the Being in the “other,” in this “other” thing. This notion of “the other and I” disappears when there is the Being in this communing, in that communion, in that absence of the ego, Love is present. That Love is the presence of True Meditation. This True Meditation is now the living expression of all this emptying of all the psychological content of this “me,” this “I,” this false center. This is natural, I would call it Mindfulness in practice, not Mindfulness practice, Mindfulness in practice. This reveals the presence of God, which is the presence of Love, which is the presence of Truth, not the idea of God, not the idea of "love,” not the idea of Truth, but Reality, That which I have called Unknown, because thought doesn't reach That, and there’s no image you can make of what we're talking about here, right now. Any image you have about this is completely false. You can live It, but you cannot think about It. This thinking about It is a product of thought itself imagining things, and that’s all thought can do, imagine things.
Man is trapped in ideas, trapped in beliefs, trapped in thought patterns, so he has a thought about “love,” a thought about God, a thought about Truth, also a thought about “Mindfulness,” however, Mindfulness is the absence of thought. God is the absence of any image, belief, and concept. God is a Reality that is present when the sense of “I,” of ego, of that “me,” is not.
So, how can we find out what Mindfulness is? Looking at ourselves, here and now, in that look at what is presented at that moment, externally and internally. Without putting a separation from a present observer, you approach that Mindfulness, it arises from within. So, this Attention arises from within, it is looking without the observer, it is perceiving without the perceiver, it is Presence without “someone” present. This is something innate, it’s within you.
Through Self-awareness, which is an approach of oneself in this self-observation, working together on this emptying of this content, which is this look without “someone” present, without placing identity in what arises, be it a thought, a feeling, an emotion, or a sensation. Here on our channel, we have several playlists working on this with you, in particular I have always indicated the playlist about the True Meditation. It is necessary to discover what this True Meditation is in practice and the truth about Self-awareness, the truth of this approach of what Self-awareness is, because without Self-awareness there is no True Meditation. What people call “meditation” is not Meditation, just as what people classify as “Mindfulness” is far from what we are explaining as Mindfulness. Just as people put the expression “self-awareness,” this is put in philosophy, in psychology, in a different way than what we put here in the channel for you.
I want to invite you to an approach of the Truth about who you are, looking at all this psychological content, which is this background of internal conditioning, learning to look at it without asking “someone” to look. It is when it appears, or from within it appears, in a natural way, which is “being Attentive.” And here “being Attentive” is not “someone” attentive, it is the attentive, paradoxically, without “someone” in it. That’s why the best expression here is always Mindfulness, not “someone” in it. Then, being Aware of yourself is something that shows you what Mindfulness is without that “me,” that “I.” I have been inviting you to look at yourself and the moment will come when there will be the look, but there won't be that “yourself,” that is Attention. Any movement of thought, feeling, emotion, any contact with the external world, with the wife, with the husband, with the boss, with objects, all of this is possible without the sense of a present “I.” So, this is the presence of this Consciousness free from the sense of an “I,” from an egoic identification, and the truth of Meditation is part of that, the truth of Self-awareness is part of that and that Mindfulness.
So, if this is something that makes sense to you, this is the subject we have been dealing with here within the channel, showing you the possibility of the Realization of your Being in this life, What some call Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening. This is the subject we are dealing with here on the channel. Some also call it Kundalini Awakening or Awakening of Consciousness. They are different names for the same Reality of Truth of your Being in Love, Peace, Freedom, and in this Real Consciousness of God.
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