Human beings have always been searching or looking for something beyond this “ordinary life” of routine, of repetition, of boredom, of annoyance, and also conflict, contradiction, confusion, and suffering. So, the history of humanity, the history of man has always been in this quest or this search for something beyond all this. Here I want to deal with this discovery, what the human being has discovered beyond all this in his search or quest.
Some have become aware of a Truth that we are going to work on in this meeting. I refer to the Truth of Meditation. Meditation is this contact with Mystery, with Something beyond the common model, the common pattern, what man knows. Meditation is that which reveals to you the Truth of your Being, because this has been man’s search over these thousands and thousands of years. Man’s search for Peace, Love, Freedom and Happiness is, in fact, man’s search for himself. As a matter of fact, it is the search or the impulse of the Divine Reality in him. It is only this Divine Reality in you that urges you to look for something outside this “I,” this condition of boredom, routine, annoyance, upsetment, suffering, and fear. Only This Real Presence, this Truth of Divine Consciousness is That which impels you in this search, this quest. Therefore, the human being discovered Something beyond the mind, Something beyond the known, Something beyond this old and ancient condition, which, by the way, it is important to say, is the condition of the great majority of humanity. This condition that we have just described is the condition of the egoic mind; I have called it the egoic mind, and I have also called it psychological conditioning, because it is a pattern, it is a pattern of behavior where there is the presence of the mind acquiring knowledge, experience, memory, and through this thought has sustained a present identity here, in living. That present identity is this “I,” which is an illusion. A set of memories and remembrances has placed us as human beings within this condition, but some have discovered Something beyond this “I.”
And here in this channel, we are working with you on the end of this thing called “I,” the end of this illusion of this model behavior pattern in which this feeling and thinking about ourselves is within separation. This sense of “I” moves within a personal, private, self-centered vicious circle. There is Something beyond this. This Something beyond is discovered when you realize What you were born to realize: the Realization of your Being, God Realization; and the direct path to this is in the art of Meditation. Meditation is this encounter with Divine Reality, this encounter with the Reality of your Being. And we are going to work on this with you, in the next few minutes
What is Meditation? What is True Meditation? Why do we call it the True Meditation? Because what is known as “meditation” is not what we will be dealing with here. People usually treat “meditation” as a therapeutic resource for psychological relaxation, controlling anxiety, stress, and nervousness. We use the word Meditation here in the sense of this encounter with the Reality of your Being, and modern “meditation” has not been that way. There are several techniques and practices that show you a path to relaxation, to de-stress, to mental tranquility, to a certain emotional rest. Here we are talking about the end of suffering, that is the end of egoic identity, in the realization that the only Reality present is the Reality of your Being, which is the Divine Reality, that is the Reality of God.
So, what is Meditation? How did it become possible? This search of the human being for something beyond caused some to begin to look not outside, but inside themselves, so they began to observe what was happening inside themselves. It is important to say here: this encounter with Divine Reality is not the result of an external search, it is not Something to be found within a projection that we idealize on the outside. So, the human being has found that by looking at what he is, by investigating the Truth about himself – this is a discovery of Wise Men, and has been so for millennia – this art of looking at oneself is what enables you to get closer to the Truth of your Being. This closeness comes about because of the dropping of the illusion about who you are. So here, when we refer to the art of Meditation, we are talking about this approach to a direct experience of the Reality of God. When we use the word “God,” in us is a predisposition of feeling, emotion, and some kind of sensation with that word, however, all this is at the level of the body, at the level of the mind itself. The word is not the Reality of God itself, the word “God” is not the Reality of God, just as the word “car” is not that four-wheeled vehicle that you drive on the road; that vehicle is the car, the word “car” is not the car. The word “table” is not the table, the word “God” is not that Divine Reality. So, man, in this search for a direct contact beyond the word, beyond his intellect and beyond emotion, sensation, and feeling, was able to see a Reality outside of time. The Grace, the wonder, the Beauty, the great Reality of Meditation for you is that it reveals to you the Truth of your Being, which is the Truth of God. This is the great revelation, the great wonder of the art of Meditation, and of course, this Meditation is not the result of a practice, of a technique, of a system.
Throughout the centuries, religions, in this search, have introduced techniques, systems, and practices for this Realization. Here we are offering you that which is simpler for this direct contact, dispensing with techniques, practices, and systems for a direct contact through the self-observation of this inner movement, of the mental consciousness. This is the Real way to approach ourselves, the Truth of this great revelation that is Meditation. By looking at the whole internal movement of this “I” consciousness, which is mental consciousness, which I also call ego-consciousness, by observing this, you can see this conditioning; and when you become aware of this conditioning, this program of feeling and thinking, something that is a continuity always of the past – thought is actually a continuity of the past, all memory, all remembrance, all thought in you, as well as sensations and feelings are something that is present reverberating now, here, but their real cause, real basis are grounded in the past – when you learn to look at this movement of the “I” consciousness, which is the consciousness of the ego, there is a breaking of this continuity of this past, which is when the past, which is the “I,” the ego, does not assert itself here present.
In these talks I have talked to you about the importance of looking at oneself, that self-observation, because self-observation is the beginning of that learning about ourselves, it is when we become aware of what we are, what we show ourselves to be or appear to be, now, here, in our relations with others, with life, and within ourselves, when we become aware of thoughts and feelings arising being the result of this past, this memory, this remembrance. The point here is that we, once living as we are living in this “I,” this life of “I” living as we are living right now, stuck in this idea of “being somebody” – and this “somebody” is just a collection of memories, remembrances, recollections, images, and thoughts coming from the past – when we are giving identity to this by not understanding the Truth of our own Being, we are in a state of sleep, of unconsciousness. The whole point is that this sleep and unconsciousness is an internal state of insanity. The confirmation of this is seen by all kinds of behavior and reactions that we have in front of life, in our relationship with others and our own body. We are living under a sleep situation, which is unconsciousness, and this puts us in an internal state of unhappiness, restlessness, in fact, insanity. This is what has produced in our lives all this confusion, all this suffering, all this disorder, all this boredom and weariness. We are not living the Happiness of Truth that we are because we are being what the social, cultural conditioning – what we have learned within this culture, within this world – has taught us. We fall short of the Reality of our own Being, which is God. The only Reality present in life, in all Existence, is the Divine Reality. The only Reality present in life, in all Existence, is the Divine Reality. The beauty of the revelation of this contact with Meditation is that when it settles down as being your Natural State, in that body-mind, That which is now present is that Oneness, that Non-Separation, that State which is no longer of unconsciousness but of Full Consciousness, no longer of sleep but Awakening State, which some call the “Awakened State” or the “Awakening.” Then the condition of life present when there is this Reality is life with all its Grace and Beauty.
We were born to realize the Truth that we are, to assume the Reality of our Being. We were born for this understanding, which is the understanding of God, which is the understanding of Truth. So, the approach to True Meditation puts us before this Revelation, which is the Revelation of What We Are. Here we have the most important thing in life, we need to learn the art of learning this Real Life. Taking on the Divine Reality is possible when we learn to learn. What is interesting here is that this “learning how to learn” requires unlearning this old, ancient psychological condition of being, this psychological being which is the “I,” the ego, which lives in a very specific time, which I have called “I” time or psychological time. So, this approach to learning about ourselves is to observe, here and now, a learning that is free from psychological time. By self-observation we are discovering, and in this discovery, we are discarding the illusion of envy, fear, these predispositions of conflicting desires, this very peculiar way of feeling and thinking of the ego. This learning is something here and now, you don't learn it and then put it into practice. You are becoming aware here and now. In this awareness, there is learning, and in that learning, of course, illusion is undone and Something new arises; and that Something new is this Intelligence, this Presence, this Awareness. This approach requires self-observation. Notice that this learning about ourselves, which is Self-Awareness, which is this approach to Self-Awareness, is simultaneously unlearning the illusion of “I,” the illusion of this ego-identity laden with its dilemmas, conflicts, problems, sufferings, fears, ambition, and everything else. And then, by self-observation, we approach ourselves by looking at this inner movement, this looking at what is happening here and now. We have to learn this art of learning to look.
To learn is simply to discover what it is to look without the “I.” When there is this look, this observing without the “I,” we have an observing without this element that separates itself as being the observer. This “I,” this observer is the one who judges, who compares, who evaluates, who accepts some things, who rejects other things, who chooses, who says “Yes,” who says “No,” who says “I like this” or “I don't like that.” So notice: we have a format of life, of egoic consciousness, which is this unconsciousness, which is this sleep, which is this dream, so that when thoughts arise we are captured by the states they bring, and so this body-mind feels sometimes euphoric. This euphoria that we call “joy” is something purely egoic. Or sometimes we feel depressed, anguished, and this “we” is this mechanism, this body-mind with which we identify, because we confuse ourselves, we identify ourselves with the presence of this element that is the “I.” When a thought arises, we either agree or disagree. If we agree with a thought, we have the belief that we are producing that thought, and so we give continuity to that thought as something that we are producing. We don't have that art of looking at a thought without being confused with it, just looking at it, observing it without that observer, without that “I” that accepts or rejects, that judges or compares.
So, what is Meditation? It is the art of remaining free from all movement of thought, feeling, from all the images that arise here and now, since those images, thoughts, and feelings are actually the result of the past – always the past. To look at this without getting confused is to remain free from this observer and thinker. Attention to what we are saying, experience this. Before a thought, a feeling, just observe its presence, just as you observe a bird, just as you observe a cloud when you look at the sky, and you want nothing, seek nothing, wish nothing, expect nothing; you are not against this cloud, you are not for it, you just look at the sky and see a cloud. You don't put it into a personal pattern, you don't make it personal to you, it’s just a cloud. Try to deal with thoughts, with feelings without that “I” element, without this observer, without this thinker, without this one who interferes with the experience of this looking, of this seeing. Try this. As you experience this, you will discover a non-identification, the complete breaking of a pattern that has been repeating itself for millennia in humanity, and in you for some decades. I refer to this illusion that you are the author of these thoughts, you are the author of these feelings. Absolutely, this is just a memory, a remembrance, a recollection. This is something recorded in brain cells, the brain is storing these memories. Over time, when this emerges, you always follow through by placing an identity in this experience. The result of that is this state of internal chatter, this state of a great volume of thoughts within you and, notice, there is no control over it. They come in with feelings, at that moment there is identification with the body, the mind identifies with that body, in that state emotionally and sentimentally, egoically, the illusion of an identity in time separating itself from life, separating itself from existence, is present. Notice that the sense of “I” in us is something that is always in the past or in the future. In this state, that present moment completely loses its space, because it has been taken by the illusion of a psychological identity, which is the “I,” the ego. So, you are either in the past or you are in the future, and that is the absence of your Natural State of Pure Being, of Pure Consciousness. Because of this state of egoic identification, you are in anguish, in depression, in guilt, in remorse, in some psychological quality of pain, in some psychological suffering, within the illusion of a present identity, which is the “I,” the ego, and so we have been conducting our lives.
We are not aware of the Truth of Being, we are not aware of the Truth of God, we are not aware of the Truth of this “who am I,” because this “I” that I assume to be is an illusion, it is an illusory identity occupied with its little world, where there is boredom, envy, loneliness, fear, desires, in short, various forms of psychological conflicts and, thus, you do not experience the Divine Reality, the Reality of Peace, Love, Happiness, Intelligence, Sanity, Real Intelligence and Consciousness. This Natural State of Being Consciousness, Love, and Happiness is what some have called the “Awakening of Consciousness,” the “Awakened State,” the “State Free of I.” In this way, Meditation is that approach.
Here on the channel, we have been talking about the importance of this approach to Self-Awareness, about true Self-Awareness – we have a playlist here on the channel about this and also another one about True Meditation in practice. So, the True Meditation in practice is not a technique, it’s not a system, it’s not a meditation practice. It is Meditation in living, it’s in this practical living, it’s in this day to day, moment to moment living that you are becoming aware of this movement of the “I,” learning the Truth about yourself and discarding the illusion of what you have been confusing yourself with, which is this cultural, social, millennial conditioning.
The Reality of your Being is the Reality of Love, Happiness, Real Consciousness, so Meditation reveals this now, here, in a very direct way. You don't have to sit for a few minutes, put on some music, cross your legs, breathe in a certain way, you relax in that moment, and when you come out of there, everything goes on in the same way, here it takes the art of learning to Being-Consciousness-Happiness, which is this Real Meditation in living, the True Meditation in the practice of living. While you are working, talking to someone, walking, doing some tasks, dedicated to some activity, you are becoming aware of yourself, aware of what is going on inside; just aware without getting confused, without identifying with it, so there is a breaking of this illusion, of this sense of “I,” of the ego. This is the contact with the Reality of your Being.
This is the subject here in our channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” on the video, subscribe to the channel, and here’s an invitation for you: we have online meetings, face-to-face meetings, and also retreats, where we are working on this with those who come to us.
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