After all, what are we doing together here at these meetings? We are inviting you to approach yourself, in an entirely new way. In general, we are always responding to the challenges of the moment in our relationships with the world, with objects, in places, with people. It is always a response that we are making, in this present moment, to some form of external stimulus. We don't have an approximation of ourselves. And this work is an invitation to undergo a transformation, a radical and profound internal, real, psychological change, so that our relationship with the world, with the other, with life, will be a totally different relationship from the relationship we have had until this given moment. There is no freedom in our relationships, there is no affection, there is no compassion, there is no truth in our relationships, because internally we are in contradiction, in conflict, in some form of internal suffering – stress, tension, anxiety, fear, and desire. This all represents unhappiness. So, the unhappiness present in us, be it sharp, profound or something milder and apparently superficial, remains present.
So, the response we are giving to the world around us, I am referring to our relationship with, for example, family, work friends, neighbors, or anyone who comes into contact with us… they always find us tense, with some level of internal, psychological discomfort. So, our relationships are not loving, peaceful, compassionate relationships. And how could it be different if we are suffering? If we are possessive, aggressive, violent? If we are trying to impose our ideas, opinions, in this context of relationship with the world, with the other? And we do this because, basically, we are in pain.
So, our work here is an invitation to get closer to ourselves, real. We are together today, once again, talking about the beauty of the radical psychological transformation within each of us, this is what we need. The vision of the Truth about who we are in this contact with the world around us brings something entirely new to these relationships. Here we are sharing with you the Truth about Happiness, about Love, about Freedom, a life lived with Intelligence, that is a life being lived in Compassion, with a deep understanding. This understanding of ourselves gives us an understanding of who the other is, what life is, what these relationships are. But without first understanding the Truth about who we are, this is impossible – and here to understand is not to have an idea, it is not to have a concept, it is not to have a mere belief.
We've been told since we were little children that God dwells in us, but what’s the truth about that? Nobody knows, so we have an idea, a belief, a concept about it. We don't have the truth, the veracity of it. And the greatest proof of this is our relationships, they are stormy, conflicted, distressing, boring, and sad. These are relationships that have envy and fear present. So, there is a lot of suffering and that suffering is always expressing itself in this or that format. Violence, for example, is something very common in the way we treat people. Not only with words, in the way we address them, but we also internalize thoughts and feelings of hate, rancor, anger, resentment, and that’s all violence. A violence present due to the simple fact that we are suffering, that there is suffering in us.
So, although we believe that God is in us, dwells in us, this is just a belief. We follow a certain religion, we profess the name of God, Christ, Buddha, or Krishna. There are several religions and each one carries a model of belief, and all pointing, basically, to this basic belief: the belief that God is in us. But the truth is: who am I? We don't know ourselves. If we don't know ourselves, the idea that God is in us doesn't change anything at all, we continue to maintain this model of conflict, of problems in our relationships.
Thus, our invitation – within these meetings – is for the recognition of the Truth about who we are. It is necessary that you recognize what is present, here and now. The Reality that is in this instant. If there is violence, that’s what you are in that instant. So, the idea of “God within” is just a belief. If there’s fear, it’s just what we have here, right now, being what you are: fear. If anxiety is present, that’s a very classic form of fear. suffering, unhappiness, something very common in our time, within our world, and if this is present, no matter how much we pray, no matter how much we make our long prayers and our religious, spiritualist practices, no matter how much we attend temples, churches, and spiritual encounters, if this is our feeling, if this is our behavior in relation to the world around us, this is what we are.
So, this thing of proclaiming yourself as “someone religious” because you belong to religion A, B or C is something completely meaningless, very childish. The true communion with God is the end of the sense of “I,” the end of the illusion, the belief, the concept, the idea of God. So, this communion with God is something unthinkable, indescribable, unspeakable, and this is not limited to an external, exterior formulation of religious, spiritualist or mystical practice. Because if you practice all this in a ritualistic ceremonial way, following a mere prescription of tradition, of culture, this is nothing more than psychological conditioning, one more prison in which your ego is still inside, trapped inside.
You don't know the Truth about yourself, you don't realize the reality of this “me,” this “I.” That “I,” that “me,” the ego, that’s what you represent in that instant, in that moment. Any religious concept is something that works only as a form of psychological, imaginary self-protection. So, to protect yourself from pain, from this pain that implies in this sense of a present “I” without a religion, without hope, without consolation, without comfort, you turn to a religious practice. Added to this is this model of contradiction between what you learn, or believe you have learned, what religion prescribes, which is “loving others,” “loving God,” “being happy,” “living in peace.” None of that is present. Then, religion is just a comfort, a consolation, a hope. People have hope of an afterlife, so they attend their religion to have a better new birth or go to Heaven. But, at this moment, understand what we are saying: at this moment the Real Truth of a profound religious life – and here religious is not in the external sense, but in the internal sense – is present. When you have a mind and heart that are profoundly free from egocentrism, violence, suffering, and fear, then truly there is this communion with the Reality of God. It is there because the sense of “I,” the ego, is not there.
So, it is not about a religious practice but a deeply religious heart and mind. A religious heart, a religious mind, your Being permeated with this Divine Presence, is something possible when the sense of ego, of “I,” is not present. We need to approach what we are, as we are, without this masking, without these beliefs. So, it is possible to work on ourselves here and now. It is possible. It is possible to look at what we are in this relationship with the world, in this relationship with ourselves, and truly find this Reality, the Reality of our Being which, in fact, is Love, Peace, Happiness, Truth, Beauty, absence of suffering, absence of fear. Self-realization is that Realization of your Being, which is God Realization. To look at this whole process of the “I,” this entire model of this egoic identity in this relationship with the world is, in fact, approaching a profoundly religious life, without rituals, without ceremonies, without the need to frequent environments where you hear a lot of , a lot, a lot, a lot about what a life with God is, which is just a concept.
Here we are working with you to end beliefs, ideologies, and concepts. It is not about continuing to learn by accumulating knowledge, an accumulation of knowledge that always gives you an ideal to become “someone better.” This ideal to become “someone better” is still just an ideal of the ego, of the “I,” of thought itself, due to all this accumulated knowledge. So, in the ego, in this sense of “I,” we always live within idealisms: “I am this, but I want to be that, and to get there I need to keep listening to lectures, studying, learning, practicing rituals, ceremonies, involved in religious practices.” And time goes by, years go by, and that sense of “I” is always in the future – in a future that never happens. Some superficial changes take place in this “me,” in this “I,” in this ego, but it always remains what it is: envious, greedy, violent, aggressive, without peace, only consoled, momentarily comforted by religious hopes, by beliefs, endlessly studying all this.
This meeting here is to show how to look at ourselves and at what we are here and now, without the ideal, the objectification of the future, of belief, but just to verify this, to become aware of this sense of an “I” present in this experience with what is shown at that moment. Looking at ourselves, at every movement of thought, feeling, actions, the way we talk to someone, the thought that arises in this relationship with the husband, the wife, with the children, with the boss, with the employees, with the world around us. Our contact with that instant is revealing, then we come across the Real religious practice. If being in communion with the Truth means being in communion with God, this communion necessarily passes through this moment, because if you look at what is shown here and now, you are in front of what IS. What Is, is what I see, what I feel, what I want, what I don't want, my indifference, my anger, my fear, this sense of “me” with what it has.
The contact with what IS in that very instant is the contact with the Truth that God reveals, what Existence shows, what this Divine Presence is presenting, that is what It Is. If I am attentive to observe this movement, in this approach lies true Self-Awareness. In this Self-Awareness there is the possibility of this radical psychological transformation. The radical psychological transformation is not the changing of this “me” into something else, but it is the end of this “me.” Because if this “me” leaves this idea of “becoming,” of “changing,” of “becoming something else,” this “me” is seen only as an idea, as a feeling, an emotion, a sensation, a prejudice, or a judgment. So, this experience is just an experience. It is this “me” wanting to do something to change it, trying to separate itself from it that is sustaining the continuity of this behavior. So, there is a break, there is a “letting go” of this “me,” this “I,” the one who is present, this ego that is judging, that is comparing, that is treating the other that way, that is expressing its pain, its suffering in this relationship.
Only when you look at yourself, that look is a look that, when the “I” is not present, the sense of “somebody” is not present in this observation; in this observation where the “I,” the sense of “someone,” is not present. This way of approaching without the idea of wanting to alter it, change it or identify with what happens here and now, with shows itself, this is what It is, here and now. Looking without the observer, looking without the “I” who looks, feeling without the “I” who feels. This approach is the approach of True Meditation in practice. When there is a feeling, it is just the feeling, there is no “I.” When there is a thought, it is the thought, there is no “I.” When there is a sensation, it is a sensation, there is no “I.” To get closer to yourself and look at your reactions, here and now, that is to verify what IS without the “I” present. And when that happens, that psychological transformation is immediate, it happens right away. It’s not about the future, it’s not about tomorrow. “Tomorrow I will be more loving towards people,” “Tomorrow I will treat people with more care, with greater appreciation,” “Tomorrow I will love my neighbor as myself”: these are all beliefs.
There’s no love now, that’s what it IS. There’s no peace now, that’s what it IS. Right now, I'm verbally aggressive, that’s what it IS. “I'm diminishing, internally detracting the other, although I don't express it in words, because I'm repressing it, because that can cause me harm, after all, he’s my boss (my boss),” “After all, he’s my husband (or my wife), so I need to maintain myself in this egoic self-control, but I always internalize internal states of depreciation, pejorative, negative evaluation.” All this can be seen now, here, as what I am, this is what it IS. And when “this” is seen, and we are not separate from it, we are in this Attention to ourselves – this Mindfulness, this Mindfulness of the movement of this “I” that I am now, here – that is enough, because at that moment I perceive this “me” to judge, to criticize, to evaluate, to resent, to imagine certain things. Just look at it, that look without “someone” looking, that feeling without “someone” feeling.
Maybe what you're hearing here sounds very strange and very complicated at first. I want to invite you to join the channel and take a look at a playlist we have here about the True Meditation in practice and the Truth about true Self-awareness. This is the way we need to get closer to ourselves and look at our reactions in this contact with the other, with life, with the world, so that a psychological transformation becomes possible.
Spiritual Enlightenment is what is present when this profound transformation takes place, this radical psychological transformation that represents the end of the “me.” This is the Awakening of Consciousness, it is Spiritual Enlightenment, something possible when this psychological transformation occurs. This is the true communion with God. It is not “someone” in communion with God. It is the Reality of God in communion, only God present in this Reality. There is only Him, there is no longer the “me,” the “me and the world, the “me and the other,” “ God and I.”
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