We are working with you on this question of change: as long as there is no understanding of what is going on inside of us, we are stuck in this ancient and old pattern. So, this meeting of ours here is to investigate what we are, the inner and outer condition of our life, of our existence. Here we are investigating the nature of the “I,” deepening this question and moving towards this radical and profound change that is necessary in our lives.
Now, the behavior of human beings is very curious. Some come here to the channel and watch the videos, find them interesting, and, when they listen to these talks, they listen with the intention of adding more knowledge to all the knowledge they already have; so, in fact, it is just the intention of collecting more, of acquiring more, of learning more. We don't know what learning really is. For us, learning is to accumulate more knowledge, more information, and more experiences. So, when we come into contact with a subject like this, we believe that we need to keep this same format of learning, because we have a belief that the more we add to ourselves knowledge, information, and experience, the closer we get to our goals. This is so in many areas of our lives, in this ordinary human life, in this secular human life, and this same idea we transfer to a work like this.
We do not understand that the invitation in these meetings is to stop searching. When you realize what you hear here, when you experience what you hear here – and this is something that is possible now – there is no intention to accumulate ideas, information, knowledge, and experiences. Life is something that is present now, here, and the contact with this deep, radical, psychological, internal change that is needed, is something that we realize here and now. This is what I have called real learning. The real learning is learning about ourselves.
So, it’s not about accumulating more knowledge, more information, and more experiences. Knowledge, information, and experiences are dropped, and why? Knowledge is memory, it is something that stays with you only on an intellectual level. All the knowledge we have is only verbal, theoretical, conceptual. Unless this is actualized, realized in a practical, experiential way, it is not real learning, but rather accumulation of information, accumulation of knowledge. So, knowledge is dispensable and so is experience, as that which you practice and becomes a habit in your living, as in general happens with the various kinds of knowledge that when applied in a practical way is something we now have only as an experience coming from the past, repeating itself now as a practice of habit. That is not what we are here interested in realizing. Here we are interested in discovering the Reality of this Truth of What we are here and now. In this real learning we are not accumulating, we are not acquiring information, knowledge, and experience, we are living here and now this Reality, so this inner change, this psychological change occurs, it happens.
Here we are dealing with you on the end of the “I,” the ego, the end of the illusion of the sense of “someone” present within this experience. That “someone” present within this experience is actually the knowledge and experience happening here and now. Everything that we learn and practice, we are now, here, repeating, and we repeat because we are within this model of an identity here and now doing things. This is the illusion of an “I” present in this doing. The feeling we have is the feeling that we are now, here, being “somebody,” doing something, and what we do, we are doing based on experience, based on knowledge, and it shows as part of the habits of our lives. So that’s the presence of the “I,” that’s what we've been learning all this lifetime.
Everything that we have learned, that has become information, knowledge and action of practical experience, gives us this feeling today because of this habit of repetition and this illusion of this identity in this action. It gives us the illusory sensation that we exist in this present moment being “somebody.” So, all we have done in life is to acquire information, knowledge, and experience, and so to act from this sense of a present “me,” in this instant, in this moment. This is the sense of egocentrism, this is the sense of “me,” this is the sense of ego-identity, this is the sense of egocentrism in us. So, we feel like “somebody” present; that “somebody” is an image that we carry about who we are. This is not the Truth about who you are. This is something that the brain has acquired because of information, knowledge, and experience. It has acquired this ability, created and formed this image about who we are. So, this performance of this body-mind at that moment carries an image, which is the image we have about who we are, and the illusion is that there is “someone” present within this experience, this habit, this knowledge.
Here we are investigating the illusory nature of the ego, the illusory nature of the “I.” We are identified with this “I,” trapped in this process of thinking, feeling, experiencing, and acting based on the principle that we exist as an entity separate from the other, from life, from the world, and from God. This is the condition of egocentrism, of this “I” around which life seems to be happening. So, this image that we have of ourselves needs to disappear. When we are talking here about this deep change, about this real need for psychological change, we are talking to you about this psychological freedom and the ending of the identity of this “I,” in this instant, in this present moment. When we are talking about it here, we are talking to you about the importance of approaching a subject like this in a completely different way. The search needs to end.
Some of you found this channel because of this search, this quest for this thing called the Consciousness Awakening, which some of you also call Spiritual Enlightenment, others call God Realization. Now, it is important that we understand this. Up to this instant you are reading books, listening to lectures, studying, however, this is at the intellectual level, at the verbal level, at the level of more information and that becomes to you second-hand knowledge. That second-hand knowledge is just a belief. So, some of you have come into this channel in this search for Reality, this search for the Divine Reality, however, through books, lectures, videos, various forms of study, you have gone through various teachers, and the result of that is a huge amount of knowledge accumulated in your brain and almost no direct experience of all that you have heard and believe you have learned. We really learn something when the reality of it is present in our living, so what we have as theory, as belief, as idea, as knowledge is just something borrowed.
That which is really experiential is within this structure of your own body and mind, so it is something you are experiencing, it is not a theory, a belief, borrowed knowledge. Until this moment, all this movement in us is in this “search,” and when we approach a meeting like this, we want to turn all that we are hearing here into one more piece of knowledge, one more idea, one more belief, and it will not work in your life. The God Realization, the Consciousness Awakening , the Truth of Enlightenment occurs when the search is over. In this way the search will not end. As long as we are just passing from one experience to another, from one piece of knowledge to another, accumulating more and more, intellectually, information without a direct experience of it, there is no possibility of this Realization.
So, we are here working with you on the end of the search, this direct contact with this possible radical, psychological change within each of us. The Reality of God is What is already present. It is not more knowledge, it is not more experience that we need. All experience, as I put it just now, becomes just memory information. The very word “experience” means “to go through a state.” Every experience you can only report to me through a memory. The Divine Truth, the Truth of your Being, the Truth of God is no longer an experience. An experience is what you go through and then can intellectually, mentally, through thought, which is memory, remember. That is not the Divine Reality, that is not the Reality of your Being. This is Something that is here and now, and cannot be remembered, recalled, cannot be described as acquired knowledge or as a lived experience. So, the importance of this real learning, this new approach, of approaching the end of knowledge, the end of experience, the end of the search for this Realization. And we approach this learning, learning about ourselves here and now; and this learning is not knowledge being accumulated, it is not an experience being lived, it is the verification of what is happening here and now, in our mind, inside each of us. This mind needs silence, stillness; it is when the mind is silent, it is when this stillness is present. This silence, this stillness is something that happens naturally, simply, without any effort when you discover the art of learning about yourself, the art of studying yourself.
When we talk to you about the end of the search, we are clearly talking about the importance of the end of both knowledge and experience. So, it’s not about seeking more information, more knowledge, and having this intention to live experiences. The one who acquires information, the one who acquires knowledge, the one who lives experiences is still this “I,” this ego, whereas, the reality of approaching True Self-Awareness – what I've been calling here approaching Self-Awareness, I'm referring to True Self-Awareness – has the purpose of making you realize the Reality of this illusion, of the illusion of this image that thought has built about who you are, acting, moving in an action of habit, within this sense of an identity present in this doing, in this thinking, and in this feeling. So, this approach to Self-Awareness is what we need to have here and now, this is the real way of learning about ourselves. It’s not about accumulating more knowledge, information, and experiences, because, with that, we stay only in the field of intellect or even in the field of emotions, sensations, and all that is still part of this structure of the known, of what I have called psychological time.
What is this psychological time? It is the time constructed by the “I.” The “I” is this identity present in us that sees itself as being the observer, the thinker, the one who feels, the one who does, the doer of things, the one who chooses, the one who learns, the one who keeps, the one who experiences and then says what he knows, what he saw, what he felt, and what he did. That is the sense of a present “I.” The approach of Self-Awareness will show you that this “I” is an illusion, and this is only possible, listen to this, in an experiential way here and now, this is only possible when there is no longer the preoccupation with the search. The search is the idea that tomorrow I will realize This. Tomorrow, through all the knowledge, all the information, all the experience, I'll be ready, in the future, afterwards, after a while, to realize God, to have this Consciousness Awakening, to have this Spiritual Enlightenment. This approach of Self-Awareness reveals to you the illusion of this “I” within this movement of psychological time, of this structure that is the ego structure. All the action of this “I,” of this ego is an action that is based on the psychological time, which is this time built by thought, this time built by this “I,” an “I” that believes to have come from the past, believes to be present here and now, and walking towards the future.
What I want to tell you is that God Realization, the Consciousness Awakening , Spiritual Enlightenment is Something that is present now as the Truth of your own Being when the illusion of this “I,” when the illusion of this image – I mean, again, this self-image that you have about yourself, that you have about who is this person that you believe you are – when that ends, then this deep and radical psychological transformation, this psychological freedom, the end of the illusion of the “I,” of the ego is something that is present now, when there is no longer this matter of the search, when there is no longer this preoccupation with time to realize That.
So, in this channel, I am inviting you to stop the search, to put yourself in a condition where it becomes possible to start a real work on yourself. This real work on yourself starts from the investigation of this “I,” from the study of this thinking and feeling, the observation of this image inside yourself, each and every psychological movement of thought, feeling, sensation, emotion, and perception; this study of yourself in this approach of Self-Awareness, leaving aside all this old model of continuing to read dozens of books a year, taking several courses, studying intellectually, listening to words, doing practices, turning to systems of spiritual, religious, philosophical practices, exercising the mind and brain in this or that direction. I am inviting you to look at what is going on here and now in this learning about yourself. This is not a technique, this is not a practice, this is not following a system, this is not following a psychological, religious, philosophical model. This is a direct observation of this movement of the “I” in this approach to the Truth of what True Meditation is in living. Here and now, moment by moment.
So, when we look at ourselves, investigate ourselves, become aware of all this “I” movement, we approach the Reality of God. Actually, this Reality of God shows itself. So, this Reality of God shows itself here and now. It is not Something in time, it is not Something that comes from a learning through information, knowledge and experience, but, yes, from this real learning about ourselves, in this approach of Self-Awareness and the True Meditation in practice, in living.
Here on our channel, we have several playlists dealing with how basic and simple this is, and showing you – here on the channel and also in online meetings, face-to-face meetings, and retreats where we are working on this with those who approach us – the opportunity for a direct experience of this Truth. So, I invite you to come closer and understand better by looking at what is going on inside yourself. As you come closer and understand this better, you begin to realize the illusion of this false identity, and as this comes closer now, here, in this direct learning, there is the opportunity, yes, for this God Realization, this Consciousness Awakening, and what some call Spiritual Enlightenment.
If this is something that makes sense to you, take a look at the playlists here on our channel, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. I want to remind you once again: we have these meetings that are online, we have face-to-face meetings, and we also have retreats. In the description of the video, you have our WhatsApp group, okay?
If this is something that makes sense to you, we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!
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