All right! Our subject here is the investigation of the nature of the mind. What is the human mind? How does it work? To put it another way: how do you work? What is the truth about you? Another question, which is the same, is: who am I? It's the same as asking: how do I work? What is this mind, the mind of the “I,” the mind of this “me,” this “person”?
In our meeting here, we are working through this with you. It is important to say here: we cannot approach a subject like this in a vague, disinterested way, without an honest, deep application. This is because we are dealing with our own lives. This is like you coming down a road in your car and suddenly it has a problem. If you're a mechanic, you have a problem, yes, but it's a problem you can just call a challenge, which is getting the car running again. If you are a mechanic, this is actually not a problem for you, it is a challenge, because you have the necessary knowledge. But if you're not a mechanic and you're on a road and especially if it's dark and you're alone and it's a deserted road, you're in trouble.
In life we have a road, and in this way we function, we are the car and the driver. However, we do not have the mechanical knowledge, spare parts or tools. So, notice the delicate situation in which we find ourselves when we do not understand the Truth about who we are, which is the Truth of this human mind, which is the mind of the “I.” Maybe you say: “But your illustration is a bit exaggerated.” Is it exaggerated?
How do you deal with your feelings, your emotions, your thoughts? How do you deal with the images that arise within you? When they are pleasant, when the thoughts, feelings, emotions and images are pleasant, the illusion is that your car is going well, going somewhere and working well, but take a close look at that. When these images arise and these images are not the images that you expect, that you want to have, that you seek to have, that you need to have – the images that arise within you, the feelings, the emotions, the thoughts –, what happens to this vehicle?
Note that our life – the story of our life on this road of existence – is something very complex. We are always, at all times, faced with problems. Even what does not seem to be a problem, due to our unconsciousness, appears to be a problem in the short, medium and long term. So, our actions that are born from thoughts, that are born from emotions, that are born from feelings, that apparently seem to be harmless, actions that will produce wonderful fruits for us, in the short, medium and long term clearly show us that they are actions that are now revealing themselves to be conflicting, problematic and difficult.
So, this “vehicle” of ours is in trouble. We don't know how we work and we are constantly faced with situations on this road of existence, of life, with problems. We have countless problems, of all kinds, emotional, sentimental problems, of images, memories, remembrances, thoughts.
Our life consists of problems. Yes, we have some moments where we look out the car window and see beautiful and wonderful landscapes passing by, these are the pleasant moments where everything seems fine, where everything seems to be going well, where everything seems to be going wonderfully well. In those moments, we have a feeling, when we look out the window, at the landscapes and the car seems to work perfectly well. In these moments, we are experiencing joy, pleasure, satisfaction, public recognition, and success. A wonderful family moment, a dinner, the wedding day, the birth of the first child, all that kind of thing and everything seems to be going wonderfully well. But in the midst of all these, there is tension, fear, also worry, anxiety, the search for security, the attempt and the search for all of this to continue in this beautiful and wonderful format. But that's not how it happens.
Our life consists, from cradle to grave, of problems. Of some, yes, wonderful and beautiful moments that we want them to continue, that they never end, but they end and, when they end, we are back to this continuity of this “I” with its problems, to this continuity of this existence in life, where we have a vehicle that appears to be taking us somewhere, but we know nothing about how it works.
We don't know what the mind is, what this human mind is and how we work. So, in this meeting here with you, I want to work on this a little. We are studying ourselves; we are becoming aware of the Truth about who we are, we are discovering what it is to have this ability to deal with what shows up here and now. Attending to this moment without the illusion of “someone” present – which is the “I,” the ego, this “me,” which is this ignorance of how we work – means attending to the present moment without conflict, without suffering, without confusion, then everything happens in a completely new, unknown way.
What I'm telling you here is that life consists of Love, Beauty, Truth, a beautiful journey, a journey towards the Nameless, the Unknown, towards the Truth of your own Being, which is Beauty, which is Happiness, which is Peace, which is Freedom. You were born to assume This, to become aware of It, to Realize It in this life. Some call this new condition the Awakening of Consciousness.
Thus, the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening, the Truth of your Being reveals itself here and now without this element, which is the “I” element. This “I” element is this condition of the egoic mind, of the human mind, when we don't know how we work, what the truth is about who we are. We are this human mind, we are this egoic mind without knowledge of the Truth, of our own Being, of our Divine Nature, of our True Identity.
Our True Identity, our Divine Nature, the Nature of our Being is not something personal. It is the One Truth, it is the Truth of God. There is only this Reality of God, when this sense of “I” is not there, when this human mind is not there. When the ignorance about how we work is not there, we are in front of Happiness, of Being, of this Real Consciousness.
What is the condition of this human mind? An acquired mind condition, an inheritance. Every pattern, every repetition, every continuity of human history… this is how we in this so-called “human mind” work. We carry this entire context of conditioning, of culture, of humanity, this movement of internal conditioning of pattern, of repetition, where what we see within humanity is what we are seeing within ourselves.
We are what humanity is: we are envy, jealousy, fear. This constant battle to achieve, to obtain, to accomplish, all of this is part of these internal states of contradiction and conflict present, of confusion present within this so-called “human mind.” A heritage of culture, a heritage of humanity.
In this dream condition of human existence, we are on this journey. We have brief moments of joy, of satisfaction, of fulfillment, and pleasure, but most of this journey takes place in this confusion, in this suffering, in this weight, in this anxiety, in this despair.
So, a journey that begins in the cradle and goes to the grave within this condition, in this ignorance, without the Truth of understanding who we are, without the Truth of understanding about ourselves, without the Truth of Self-awareness, without the Truth of understanding our Divine Nature, which is the Nature of God. In this particular life which is the life of the “I,” in this particular mind which is the egoic mind, in this life and in this mind we do not know Freedom, we do not know Truth, we do not become aware of who we truly are.
So, what is the human mind? The human mind is confusion, it is disorder, the human mind is the illusion of ignorance. So, we carry an ignorance about who we are based on an illusion: the illusion of ignorance. To be identified with the movement of thought, with this movement of egoic story, the story of memory, of cultural, religious, philosophical, spiritual, psychological, humanistic conditioning, to be identified with this pattern is to live in the illusion of ignorance.
And why the illusion of ignorance? We ignore this illusion. We are not aware that this pattern of existence is present precisely because of this ignorance. Ignorance is present because we are identifying with this illusion. That is the illusion of ignorance.
Here we are inviting you to a vision of the Truth about your Being, this represents the end to illusion. This is, naturally, the end of this ignorance, it is the Revelation of the Truth that is already present here and now, which is the Truth of your Being. The approach to this is through Self-awareness, the approach to this is through the direct experience of True Meditation.
The understanding of Self-Awareness is what shows you the mastery of living, the understanding of how this sense of a “I,” of an ego, of an illusory identity works. The understanding of this is the awareness of the truth of how this mind works, how this egoic mind, how this “I” mind works. And when that happens, there are no more problems, that's the end of the problems.
So, the ability to deal with the vehicle, the skill, the Freedom, the Peace and the Happiness of this journey is present when there is no longer the illusion about this “I,” when there is this awareness about how this sense of “I,” of an egoic mind, this so-called “human mind” works. This is the discarding of this old mind, which is the “I” mind, which is the human mind. Then, the emergence of a new mind in this appearance of this Real Consciousness. It is the Truth about your Being, about your Divine Nature revealing itself here and now.
The work on yourself gives you this Awakening. It gives you, therefore, the end to problems, the end to this “I,” to this ego, the knowledge of your True Nature, That which you were born to Be. Then, the vision in this existence is the vision of the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God, which is the Reality of your Being, without any separation between you and life, between you and the other, between you and God. This is the Freedom of Being. This is Consciousness. This is Love. This is Peace. This is Bliss.
This is the topic here on the channel. The realization of your Real Nature is the arising of a new mind, of that Real sense of Being, which is Pure Consciousness. This is Liberation, this is Spiritual Enlightenment, this is the Awakening of Consciousness. This is the subject here on the channel.
We have online meetings, we are investigating this on the weekends. Here on the channel we have our WhatsApp group. In fact, in the video description you can find our WhatsApp group. So, we invite you to get closer to this work. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats, where we are working on this with those who approach us. If this is something that makes sense to you, then go ahead and leave it in the comment: “It makes sense.” Leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. See you, ok? Thanks for the meeting and until next time.
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