It seems to me that one of the most important things when we sit together in these meetings is to learn to have an approach of what is presented here, paying full attention to it, putting our hearts really involved in it, in what we present here for you.
Today, for example, I want to discuss with you this approach to the Truth in this relationship with others. What is the truth about this? How do we approach our wife, husband, son, daughter, boss or any other person? How do we get closer? How has our approach to each other been? Actually, who is the other one?
In these meetings, you stop, stop at this moment to listen to this and it is important that you approach this with a new way of looking. Note that we have a way of looking at the world, at what happens in the world, at what happens to others and to ourselves, always based on already formed concepts, formulas, ideas, and conclusions.
Notice how important this subject here is. The opportunity for you to have an answer to the end of stress, anxiety, depression, the end of anguish. These different psychological conditions of unhappiness that we know are always present because we do not understand how we work.
People have questions like: “How do I get rid of anxiety?” or “How to overcome anxiety? How to overcome depression? How to overcome fear?”, but they are not studying themselves, investigating what is happening inside themselves, especially in this contact with the other. Understanding oneself requires a vision about what is going on inside you. In this sense, the other is a wonderful mirror.
When we look at the world, when we look at others, when we look at ourselves based on conclusions, beliefs, and ideas, we are reinforcing and feeding back psychological conditions of stress, anxiety, fear, depression, and anguish. And why? Because our action, our behavior is self-centered when it is not investigated.
Here on this channel, we are talking to you about the Awakening of Consciousness – this is a language that people use, others call it Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment. Here I also use these expressions, but perhaps in a different sense than people use out there, as something mystical being achieved.
In fact, the Awakening of Consciousness, the Real Spiritual Awakening is the end of the illusion of that personal, particular center that is the “I,” the ego within living and, therefore, in this experience, in this contact with the other. This, of course, is the end of unhappiness, this psychological unhappiness caused by anxiety, depression, anguish, and fear.
So, here on the channel, we are working with you on a free life, a life fulfilled in God, and, here, God is the Reality of your Being. An approach to the Truth of God is totally different from what people out there call “religious life.” Here, Real Religious Life is a life free from this sense of “I,” of the ego, which represents contact with others without conflict, without problems; a relationship with the other where there is no longer this separation – this separation between “He or she and I.”
Then, there is no fear, then there is no stress, there is no anguish, there is no form of anxiety. Then, there is no reason for depression because there is inner Freedom. This inner Freedom is Intelligence in this relationship with others, with life, with the world, with yourself. We have to investigate this and that is the purpose of these meetings here.
We here are sharing with you Something that is Real, that is experiential. I am not putting to you here a theory, a concept, a belief, but a viable Reality for you, Something that becomes evident when you become aware of this movement, which is the movement of the “I” within you, in this relationship with the other.
The question here is: how do we approach this? Through self-observation, the understanding of this principle that differentiates you from others, differentiates you from life, differentiates you from the world, this self-suggestion in this illusion of this principle of consciousness of the “I.” This consciousness of the “I” places me in an illusory condition of separation, where there is this “the other and I,” this “life and I,” this “world and I,” this “God and I.”
Here we have a principle that sustains these conditions of psychological unhappiness in us: it is the principle of duality. It is on this principle that egocentrism is based. The basic idea is “me and the other,” “my” interests, “my” reasons, “my” motives, “my” intentions, “my” beliefs, all of this comes first than anything else – “I” first.
The idea is always centered on egocentrism, on this “I” as the center of experiences – and, here, the experience is contact with the other. But all of this begins, first of all, within each one of us, in this self-centeredness, in this idea of “someone” thinking, of “someone” feeling, of “someone” getting emotional, of “someone” dreaming, of “someone” imagining.
The idea is the presence of this “I” with its own reasons, intentions, and motivations. So, there is “he and I,” “the world and I,” “life and I,” “God and I.” In this duality, in this separation lies the conflict. The basis of all this, notice, the basis of all this unhappiness that we as human beings experience, the basis of all these situations of unhappiness is present due to fear. As long as there is this sense of separation, there will be fear.
So, notice that fear is something present. In all these situations of psychological unhappiness that we human beings know, the element of fear is always present, because the main column of this house, of this so-called “human existence,” the main column of this so-called “human self” ” – this ego-identity –, the main pillar that supports this condition of egoic identity, of a human person, the ego has fear as its main pillar. From fear, from the search for this egoic self-survival, which is fear, arise our actions, our motivations, our relationships.
Human beings carry fear. Notice that it's always like this, people want to find out how to overcome, and here it's about investigating and understanding the basis that sustains fear. It is fear that sustains this psychological condition of being “someone” in living, in experience and, therefore, in this relationship with others, in conflict, in suffering, in this egocentrism, in this sense of separation.
Notice the presence of fear. Fear is a shadow that accompanies us from our first days until our last breath. Fear is always present, it's the fear of the past, it's the fear of the future, it's the fear of getting sick, of getting old, it's the fear of poverty, it's the fear of hunger, it's the fear of illness, it's the fear of one's wife, it’s the fear of the child. Fear has different forms of expression in our lives. Fear is a constant presence.
So, there is no understanding of the Truth about who we are because we do not understand this internal movement, which is the movement of the “I” within each one of us. It separates itself into this “I feel,” “I think”, “I want,” “I don't want,” “I like,” “I don't like,” “I, he”, “I and the world,” “I and life,” “I think.” Where is this issue of fear based? Since in fear all this is present, in fact, what is fear? Since fear sustains all this confusion, all this suffering, all this unhappiness in this life, which is the life of the “I,” what is fear?
Notice that fear is present because thought is present. At this moment, there is no fear, you do not have a single fear present at this moment without the presence of thought. Look what an interesting thing: fear is something present in everything, there is always fear, just look closely and we will notice the presence of fear, it is there, involved in our feelings, in our thinking, in our actions and, however, here I am saying that fear is never present here and now, without thought.
It is the presence of thought, thought is the one that brings the presence of fear, the memory of what did not happen and what could happen, the memory of what happened and what may not happen again. So, notice, the memory of what happened and what might happen again is fear, the memory of what didn't happen and what might not happen is also fear. It is with thought that fear is present. When the thought arrives, the idea of suffering linked to this or that experience of memory, of remembrance, shows itself, and that is fear.
So, fear is of the past or fear is of the future, there is no fear here and now; and past and future is the presence of thought. The pleasure I enjoyed from him yesterday, I may no longer get from him tomorrow: that is fear. It's always thought bringing fear. The pain I experienced yesterday may be repeated again: that is fear. Note: thought is always the basis of fear. So, thought is the psychological basis of being “someone.”
The psychological basis of being “someone” here and now, in experiencing, is only established because thought is present. See, the idea of being “someone” here and now, in the experience, in living only becomes present when thought arrives. So, what is fear? Fear is thought. There is no fear without thought.
There is physical fear. A car comes towards you and you move away, is this fear or is it intelligence? There are aspects of physical fear in the face of imminent danger here and now, so fear appears. But this fear is an intelligence movement of the organism itself to protect itself, to defend itself from suffering. So, this is a movement of fear, but, in reality, of the intelligence of the machine, of the organism, of the biological mechanism, of protecting itself from pain.
Here I am referring to this psychological fear, this fear in this sense of the “I,” of the ego. Fear is thought. How to deal with thinking? Observing this movement of thought. If you get rid of the movement of thought, you get rid of fear – if there is not this psychological movement past, present, here and now.
I will repeat: if there is no movement of the psychological past in this present moment, here and now, there is no fear. If there is not this psychological movement of the past projecting itself into the future, in this instant, here and now, there is no fear. It's always thought.
So, getting closer to yourself and looking at the movement of the “I,” the movement of the ego is possible when there is an approach to the Truth of the understanding of Self-awareness. To see this movement of the “I” present here and now, is to dismantle this model of egoic identity. So, this is the end of conflict in this relationship with others, with life, with the world. That’s when your contact with those that are close to you, without this movement of thought, is something completely different from what we know.
So, a life in Love, a life in Peace, a life in Freedom, a life in this Complicity, in this relationship with the husband, with the wife, with the children, with the family, with business, with the boss, with the employees, a Real life, deeply Religious, a Divine life is a life free from the ego and, therefore, free from this movement of thought, which represents the end of fear; a life in relationship with the world without this background of psychological conditioning, beliefs, concepts, ideas, images that sustain this “I,” this ego in fear; a life free from this model of thinking, this model of egoic thinking.
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