Here, we have two questions. Let's investigate this with you, let's get closer and look at this together. The first question is: “How to get rid of possessive jealousy?” See that question. Another question is, “How to get rid of thoughts of the past?”
I would like to ask you this: Is there any form of jealousy without possession, without attachment? Notice that jealousy is always present in the presence of attachment and possession. You come and ask, “How can I get rid of possessive jealousy?” Is there any other kind of jealousy? Thought says yes, because for us jealousy is important, because it represents that the other is important to us or that we are important to the other. So, for the ego, for that “me,” the presence of jealousy is very important, because for the ego, that is the presence of love – at least it is the love that we know. So, is there truth in this? Love is possession, love is lack. It means depending on the other to feel important. Does this really indicate the presence of love? But that's what we know for love.
We are going to work here together in the next few minutes on this issue of attachment, dependence, this emotional form of dependence, this dependence on the other. This is actually the presence not of love but the presence of suffering; and suffering expresses itself as jealousy, as emotional dependence. So, we have to investigate that. Our relationship with the other is a relationship of attachment and, therefore, a relationship of jealousy. And the presence of jealousy is suffering, violence, and pain. This violence has its expression in jealousy, this suffering has its expression in jealousy, and that is not the presence of love. It is the presence of the “I,” of the ego. So, we live in this attempt to control, to manipulate, to use others for our satisfaction, for our fulfillment, for our fulfillment, and this we call love.
So, let's, in the next few minutes here, look at this, really look at this. The other question is “How to get rid of thoughts of the past?” The question is: what is thought? Have you noticed that there is no thought here and now, but the thought that is coming from the past? Every thought you have is an acknowledgment of the presence of memory. It is memory, which is the past, showing itself here and now, in that format that is thought, which manifests what is known, which reveals what is known. Memory, which is thought, is the known being recognized here and now, so all thought is of the past. So, what is thought? Thought is memory, and every thought is from the past, so why the question “How to get rid of past thoughts?” The problem is not in the presence of thought here and now. Let's understand this well.
Every thought here and now – let's go over it – is just a memory of the past. The problem is in the illusion of an identity in this thought here and now. Let's explore this here with you, let's investigate this with you. In these speeches we are always careful to approach all of this not in a peripheral, superficial way. When you go to a beach, you're not just on the sand, you're in the water. Here I want to invite you to enter the water, but not only to leave the sand, but, under the water, to enter a little more, to go a little deeper into this. Here we are deepening this view, the view of Reality about who we are and what this so-called “my life” represents in this context of living.
The purpose of this channel is to show you that there is indeed a possibility in this life to Realize the Truth of your Being, the Divine Truth, the Truth of God, and this Realization is the end of this confusion; this confusion of personal and particular life that the ego has, that the ego knows, that the person lives, having the thought as a problem, having the relationships as a problem and, in that ego, in that “I,” we want to solve problems. So, for us thought is producing trouble and indeed thought is producing many problems for all of us.
Our relationships are full of problems, so there's not only jealousy, there's envy, there's spite, there's irritability, there's the confusion of clashing ideas and opinions, there's the issue of violence with its various expressions, verbal violence, the violence of imposing opinions and, also, there is physical aggression in our relationships. So, our relationships are full of problems, it's not just jealousy. Just like this model of thinking, we have a lot of problems, so we need to discover the Truth about who we are and discover the beauty of Freedom, the end to that quality of thinking that produces conflict, because that's what this question wants to know.
We don't know how to formulate the question because we don't understand what thought really is. Thought is not the problem, the problem is when thought is loaded with an identity that is the “I,” which separates itself by making choices regarding that specific model of thought, which is, yes, a memory, and the memory is the remembrance that produces conflict. For example, in this contact I have with someone, if I carry an image of him and in this contact, this image does not fit what I expect from him – what this thinker here expects from him, from the other –, then in this type of thought, in this quality of thought, which is an image, we are faced with a conflict. This conflict is suffering. So, this is a typical thought that produces confusion in our lives. Having images of the other, expectations about the other, expecting, anticipating and, suddenly, feeling frustrated, deceived, deluded because these expectations that I have of him or her, which are just an image, which are remembrances, memories, a thought that I cultivate within myself regarding him or her, when this is not fulfilled, when this doesn’t happen as I expect, suffering is there. So that's the quality of thinking I need to get rid of. It is not of thought, but of that quality of thought which implies the presence of an “I,” of an ego investing in an image. Do you see it?
Our contact with the other cannot be based on an image, because this way we are based on an imagination, on an expectation, on a hope, on a demand, on what we want the other to be for “me,” for this “I,” and that is conflict, that is suffering. So, notice that our relationships – all of them – are based on this condition, on the condition of thought, and it is in this condition of thought itself that jealousy is also present, because jealousy is this possession, this control, this desire that I have about the other, this expectation that I carry about him or her. Realize that what we have present in the ego, in this posture of being “someone” within this experience of life, of living, is not the presence of love, it is the presence of ignorance, of the illusion about who we are and how we work. So, we don't know the Truth about who we are, we don't recognize that we are producing these images, we don't see that we are always translating the whole experience based on this egoic background. There is no recognition of it here because there is no Self-Awareness. So, I'm moving through life in an unconscious, mechanical way, with a quality of mind, which is this human mind. Some people ask, “What is the human mind?” As a human mind, are we acting in a programmed and pre-calculated way in our relationships?” Then, there is attachment, control, there is desire. This sustains many forms of fear, frustration, suffering for the “I,” for the ego, then there is no Freedom, we do not have a free mind, we do not carry the Silence of a meditative mind, a mind free of the “I,” the ego.
Here on the channel, we are showing you that it is possible to Realize God in this life, to Realize your Being in this existence. Therefore, assuming the Truth about who you are is the end of the illusion of the “I,” of the ego. So, every form of emotional dependence on the husband, every form of emotional dependence on the wife, on the children, on the result of activities and actions, within that purpose of being happy in this or that achievement, all of this disappears when the “I” is not there, when the sense of ego is gone, when that person that we show ourselves to be, that we seem to be, that we hold to be, that we cultivate to be and that we want to be, is no longer present. Now, working towards That requires coming closer to yourself, looking at all this inner movement, within yourself, all this movement of the “I,” all this movement of the ego. We are creating these images, these pictures, these memories, we are cultivating this within ourselves, we are cultivating these memories of who the other is, of who he or she is and what we expect from him or her. This, naturally, in the short term, in the medium term, I don't even say in the long term, in the very short term it already shows itself as a disappointment, as frustration, as one or another form of suffering, where your ego is hurt, injured and it becomes violent and aggressive because it cannot control the other, it cannot possess the other. So, that jealousy is not the presence of love. It is the presence of suffering, it is the appreciation of suffering, in that attachment to that image that is being cultivated within you. Looking at it is the end of it all.
So, to come closer to yourself in this Truth of Self-Awareness is to discover the Truth about Meditation, about correct Meditation. And what is this Meditation? It is an emptying of this egoic content, of this human mind, of this consciousness of the “I,” it is the Awakening of Consciousness. What we call “the consciousness of the I” is asleep, that is the condition of human beings; it is in that dream, within that sleep, that they fall in love, get married, have children, then the children grow up and the grandchildren appear, and now they have grandchildren, they even know their great-grandchildren and die, or before that they die, and they go through life without understanding the Truth about their own Being. They are just repeating what their parents were, what their grandparents were, what their great-grandparents were. I mean, repeating psychologically speaking, they are in another profession, in another activity, they have a different quality of life, maybe a little more comfort, a certain so-called financial “stability,” because they had some conditions that their parents, their grandparents didn't have, but psychologically, jealousy is present, envy is present, so is stress, anger, fear, selfishness, ignorance, the absence of Truth, of Real Bliss, which is life in God. In the ego, we can know that if we are just a continuity, if we are just representing this human culture, this human mind.
Notice where we're standing here and now. We can stay outside the beach or we can approach this beach and enter the water. That's the subject here. Working the Truth of Awakening is going beyond jealousy, envy, fear, possession, and every form of dependence – physical dependence, emotional dependence, dependence on ideas. Just notice how dependent we are on ideas. Notice how ideologically we are also dependent. We have all kinds of beliefs, philosophical beliefs, religious beliefs, spiritual beliefs, political beliefs, so we have different forms of attachments, and all of this is building, constructing more and more, strengthening more and more, the illusion of this ego, of this “I,” of this self-image. We own all of this, we own objects, we own people and ideas or we are possessed by all of them, we are “possessed” by all of this, enslaved to this condition. So, it is essential to investigate the Truth about who we are and to free ourselves from all this, from every form of psychological suffering for this Realization of your own Being, for the Realization of Divine Truth.
Here on the channel, we are talking about this – we also have online weekend meetings and we are working on this with you. We are investigating this in depth, it is an invitation to approach this beach, to enter the sea, to leave the sand and go deeper into these waters, these waters of clarity, of discovery, of the flourishing of the Truth, of Spiritual Awakening, of this vision of God. So, a life free of suffering is a life where That which is present is the presence of Truth. None of what we know in our relationships is the truth of Love. When there is Real Love, there is no possession, there is no control, there is no manipulation, there is no jealousy, there is no fear – the fear of losing, the fear of being betrayed, the fear of being deceived – none of this is the presence of Love, none of that is the presence of Truth, none of that is the presence of God.
In your Natural State of Being Pure Consciousness, which is the Truth of your Being here and now, there is no sense of separation, there is no suffering, there is no egocentrism, there is no selfishness. So, all that we know in the person that we show ourselves to be at that moment, that our parents show themselves to be or showed to be, our grandparents, great-grandparents and all human history show to be, don’t exist. In your Natural State of Being, all that disappears, then there is Intelligence, there is Truth, there is God, there is that Freedom in that ego-free mind, then there is that Silence. There is no longer this model of thought that sustains the ego in its suffering and that the ego later plans to get rid of.
So, there is no point in asking questions like “How to get rid of the thoughts of the past?”, implying that these conflicting thoughts are the ones you want to get rid of, these are the thoughts you want to get rid of. Here it is about the end of the condition of thought for the illusion of an “I” that thinks. So that's the end of thought, that quality of thought that you called “thoughts of the past.” Thought has a perfect functionality when the ego is not there, but while the ego is present, while it prevails, while it sustains itself in its continuity, the thought it knows, which is from that “I” that is the thinker, is the thought that produces conflict, that produces suffering. So, there isn't a quiet brain, in silence, in that Natural State that is True Meditation, which is when your Being Reveals itself.
This is our work here within these meetings and also in these online meetings. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. The link to these online meetings and all the information you can find in the video description. OK? If this is something that makes sense to you, then leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. If you haven't subscribed yet and are watching the videos, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. OK? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!
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