It seems to me that one of the most important things is for you to discover in an evident, evidential way everything that we deal with. In general, when we hear someone say something, if we go to a lecture, a conference, or a seminar, we are there, in a way, acquiring ideas. Few of us will really put into practice what we hear – that’s when we attend a lecture, a conference, or someone dealing with some subject.
I want to tell you that the most important thing here is to experience in practice what we listen to – this subject, even more than any other subject – since here we deal with pointing out something only true if it’s carried out in practice, in life, in living.
Thus, listening to lectures, to words – and we do a lot of that… Human beings love ideas; ideas always transform themselves into beliefs, then we repeat these words, which are mere beliefs or ideas, as if that, in fact, were real to ourselves, and yet this understanding is only at an intellectual level.
There is a difference between understanding the Truth and comprehending the Truth. People understand the Truth, but they don't comprehend the Truth. And what is the difference? To understand the Truth is to have very clear ideas about it; they can explain what the Truth is, tell others what the Truth is, give advice, teach, they can even give lectures after they learn and understand the Truth; whereas comprehending is something entirely different from an understanding.
Usually, we listen to a lecture like this one and we are merely following these ideas, making these ideas a new belief within ourselves, and then we even become able to talk about it to others, but that’s merely intellectual. Here, we work with you on the Awakening of the Truth of your Being, the Awakening of Wisdom, this is like driving a car, you can’t do it in theory, this is like flying a plane, in theory, you can’t. Riding a bicycle is something that in theory you can’t, fly a plane, ride a bicycle or drive a car: only in practice is this possible.
The Realization of the Truth of your Being, which is God Realization, that’s the Nature of your Being, the Truth of who You are. Many people have a theory about this, maybe you already have it very clear inside you, due to all the books you've read, all the lectures you've heard, and everything you've learned. What level did you learn? Where is this level of learning? At what level did this occur? Is this “learning” really real in you? So, it’s mere intellectual knowledge, mere intellectual understanding, it is the intellectual understanding of the Truth.
I’ve put this for you in general. We can read a lot, study, learn, listen a lot, and live nothing, or very little, of what we have already studied or learned – and here I refer to other areas of life since as far as the Reality of your Being is concerned, it’s about contact with the Unknown. So, it’s not a matter of knowledge that you learn and put into practice. Notice what we put to you: you need to experience these words as they become clear to you, and they will become clear to you as they are experienced experientially. Then, this is not knowledge, it’s direct knowing, direct experiencing.
Thus, when we deal here with the matter of Self-awareness, Self-realization, we are dealing with the Truth of your Being, the Reality of your Essential Nature. The comprehension of this is not a verbal understanding, not an intellectual understanding, it’s an experience. So, we are not saying something here for you to learn, to keep, to understand; something for you to talk about later or repeat as an idea, a concept, or a belief.
I realize that it’s fundamental here that we discover together what it means to directly experience everything that we listen to here. When we address Self-awareness here, we are dealing with the Revelation of your Being, which is Real when there’s comprehension. This comprehension is possible when you verify in yourself the limitations of this “I,” this sense of “someone” that you believe you are.
Then, the practical and experiential way to listen to these words is to experience what they mean. The comprehension of what they mean – these words – is only possible in practice, in living. The word “chair” is not that piece of furniture you sit on, around the dinner table; the word “chair” is not that object, not that piece of furniture, not that domestic utensil. The word is not the thing itself. In general, we live on ideas, concepts, and beliefs. So, we have an urgent psychological need to acquire more and more knowledge. This knowledge becomes ideas and beliefs within us, and this has been the basis of our life. We store this knowledge to act in the present moment based on this past experience. We go through some experiences, learn some things, store this knowledge, and act in this present moment, so our actions are always based on the past, on past experience, on past knowledge. Thus, our life is based on beliefs.
Self-awareness, the Revelation of your Being, is something that becomes evident when belief ends, when life is seen here and now, at this moment, without belief, ideas, knowledge, and without the past. The comprehension of What is, is realized when there is wisdom. So, this is the Truth of comprehending what life Is here and now. The grace of it, the uniqueness of it, is that life here and now, in wisdom, there’s no suffering, no fear, no contradiction, no illusion. Thus, Self-awareness is what gives you, experientially, here and now, the vision of life as it Is. We are no longer in theory, beliefs, concepts, no longer in intention or desire.
In general, we may say: “One day I’ll be realized,” “One day I’ll get there,” “I am learning, but there comes a day I’ll know this subject completely.” Here the experience is in the comprehension of What is here; it’s not in the idea, in the belief, in the concept. This has put us in this illusion of the future to attain: “Now, I’m not a person as I’d like to be, but one day I will,” “I don’t have the comprehension of the Reality of God, but one day I will,” “Let me now learn a lot about it, listen to many speeches, many lectures, read many books because there comes a day that I’ll comprehend the Truth of God.” So, we never work directly on this matter of experiencing what we are discovering here and now. We are always postponing it.
Notice the trick of the egoic mind, of that old “I” in us. It’s always accumulating information and knowledge; it’s always acting based on this past knowledge, and this past knowledge never shows us the Reality, the Truth as, in fact, It Is, as It shows itself. Then, we always live in the field of ideas, plans, and the effectiveness of past experiences that always represent repetition. This is the movement of the “I,” of the ego.
Self-realization or God Realization, the Truth of your Being, is revealed when this continuity ends, when there is an end to this continuity, to this movement of repetition, this movement of the “I” that is always based on experiences, remembrances, memories, knowledge, ideas, beliefs, acting, doing, and accomplishing things. That’s the continuity of the “I,” the continuity of the ego.
The investigation of the Truth about who you are puts an end to this continuity, to this repetition, to this movement of learning, intellectually storing, and, based on these theories, always repeating this old “I” present.
Here, it’s the art of direct experiencing and our emphasis is that you directly experience whatever you are listening to here in these talks. This direct experience is real learning. You don't keep, don't accumulate, and don’t acquire knowledge to act later. You apply, here and now, what is being said. You are experiencing it right now, and it’s when you experience it that there is the possibility of this direct comprehension of the thing. So, here we’re not talking about the theory of God, of Enlightenment, of the Awakening of Wisdom, or Kundalini Awakening, we’re not here dealing with the theory about that. The theory about that is like the word “chair,” it’s not the chair.
So, when you listen to these talks, we’re bringing you here – I’ve been emphasizing this a lot, especially in online and face-to-face meetings – you need to self-observe, comprehend, study yourself, here and now, moment by moment, because when it’s done, you have the meaning, the thing itself, you no longer have the word “chair,” you have the thing itself; you no longer have the word “God,” you have the Thing; it’s no longer the word “Truth.” The word “truth” is uttered by politicians, priests, philosophers, by eloquent preachers, they all use expressions like “truth,” but what is the real meaning of this? Just like the word “God,” just like the word “Enlightenment,” “Kundalini,” or “Kundalini Awakening,” what is the real meaning of that? All this is comprehended experientially. Then, when there’s comprehension – not intellectual, verbal understanding, and not when there’s knowledge – when there’s direct comprehension of this, you have the effectiveness of the thing. Thus, we must comprehend the Truth of What Is, not the theory, the concept, or the belief, because when that happens, the past ends.
Our “I,” our ego, this sense of the “I” present, this “me” in us, this “me,” this sense of “someone” lives, basically, from the past, which are remembrances, experiences, memories, knowledge, and ideas. So, the “I” lives in this format of always accumulating and moving in this psychological time, acting on that memory. Then, this is the continuity of the time of the “I.” This time of the “I” is this psychological time. In the ego, we move in the “present, past, and future.” This “present, past, and future” is the continuity, the continuation of the “I,” it’s always the sense of an “I” present moving. All contradictions, conflicts, dilemmas, traumas, pains, fears, guilt, all forms of psychological unhappiness, psychological suffering in us, all this suffering lies in this continuity of the “I.”
So, there’s no point in being in a meeting like this just acquiring words. We have to put this into effect, otherwise we're left with the idea and not the thing. It never hurts to emphasize this to you so that you look at it and approach it in a very real way. Wisdom is not the word; it is life in that direct comprehension. Love is not the word, this feeling, emotion, sensation, nor the pleasure in the mutual relationship that we call “love.” No, Love is something else. Love goes beyond the sense of “someone” present in this movement of a relationship where there is an exchange, a bargain, where there is psychological, emotional, physical, or sexual fulfillment within a relationship. Love is something far beyond that, just like the word “Truth,” just like the word “God” is something far beyond the idea you have, every kind of belief you've been given over all these years about God. Then, the Realization of this Thing is possible when you delve experientially into this experience of what we are saying here.
So, when there is this approach through Self-awareness – and here I refer to real Self-awareness – you have touched this evidential Self-awareness, this self-observation of yourself, moment by moment. Here on the channel, we have an extensive playlist explaining what Self-awareness is in practice, in living, moment by moment. When that happens, you have an approach to Meditation, and in Meditation the Thing is revealed, Wisdom, God, Love is revealed, the Awakening of Consciousness or Kundalini Awakening is revealed.
So, that’s the subject here on the channel for you. Realizing this in this life is the only thing that matters, that’s why we propose attending online meetings, in addition to these videos here on the channel, face-to-face meetings, and also retreats where we work on this together with you.
If this is something that makes sense to you, if Awakening is something relevant to you, if on some level it became clear to you that this is the only thing that matters in your life, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel, and here is an invitation to work on this together. Ok?
Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!
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