Notice that here, with you, we are investigating a few things. In fact, we are discovering together what a free, loving life, a life in Happiness, Peace, and Completeness, represents, and this, of course, requires a new mind.
Will it be possible for us to realize This, to become aware of a new mind? Would it be here the word acquire? Maybe not, and instead, becoming aware of a new mind – because that new mind is where This, which we have just put here for you, becomes possible.
Lovingkindness, Peace, Freedom, Happiness, or Intelligence become present when there is this new mind. How do you acquire This? Through a method, a form of practice, a system, a philosophical, a psychological, or spiritual method? A spiritual, philosophical, or religious practice? Could it be through this that we can acquire a new quality of mind capable of understanding the Truth, which is life in its Totality? Because without this understanding, it naturally becomes impossible. This new mind is the one present in the comprehension of this Totality of life.
We have lived our lives within a mind that is already standardized, trapped, imprisoned, within systems and patterns of repetition and continuity, within a culture where we do not know what Love is. How can we live this lovingness? We do not know what Peace is because we are always in conflict with each other. How can we live a life in Peace? We do not know what Freedom is. How can we live a life in Freedom? Our proposal here to you is a new life with a new mind. Not the same old and ancient mind we know.
After all, what is the human mind? The human mind is conflict, contradiction, and restlessness. Every representation of insanity is present in this so-called “human mind” condition – envy, jealousy, fear, desire, every form of affliction, and restlessness. Notice the internal chattering, this model of fast thinking that runs rampant, out of control within each of us. Is it possible to have a new mind, free from all this? So, it seems to me that this is the real challenge.
The real problem we have is not external; it is internal, and this problem consists of this “old mind,” this human mind, the psychological condition of being “someone.” So, how does This become possible? A life where there is an awareness of the Reality of God here and now. Not the belief in God, the knowledge of the Holy Books, the ability to recite the verses of the Bible, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, or any Holy Scripture. This ability is intellectual.
In this conditioned intellect, still stuck, of course, in this whole pattern of envy, disorder, and confusion, as long as the brain cells are functioning well, we keep all this, these verses, these sacred expressions, but it is a mere verbal, oral recitation, something intellectual; we are only at the intellectual level in this thing of our encounter with life, so-called, “religious.”
This so-called “religious” life is a life of practices of an organized religion, where we have these moments when we learn all this, keep these words, and then repeat them; that does not make any sense because it is something verbal, intellectual, and theoretical. We are here signaling the importance of the Awakening of the Truth of your Being.
As a matter of tradition and culture, we have many people teaching the Scriptures. In every country in the world, we have our so-called “spiritual” mentors, priests, and teachers who give us these doctrinal teachings and repeat to us what they have read. There is a distance that is, in fact, a true abyss between the Truth of Being and the theory about Truth.
Truth is the Reality of Being. The theory about Truth is words, concepts and we love it, adore it; we are sentimentally and emotionally very touched by the recitation of the Scriptures, but that does not give us a true Religious Life, which is a really loving, peaceful, free life, aware of the Reality that the only Truth present is the Reality of God.
The word God is not the Truth; the word God is just a word. The word “God” is not the Reality of God. The Reality of God is present when the “I,” the ego, fear, desire, contradiction, suffering, and selfishness are not present. That is what we call a new mind. That is what we call Real Religious Life here on this channel.
That really means discovering what living is – living life. It is not the “I” in life; it is life in living, in the absence of the “I,” and for that, undoubtedly, a new mind is essential for all of us. This new mind is a new heart, a new Being, a new Presence, a new Reality; it is the Totality of life in its Understanding. But it is not the understanding of “someone” or for “someone;” it is the Understanding in that Natural State of Being where this “I” is not present.
We are signaling Something here that is unknown, inaccessible to this human mind, this ordinary mind, this mind of the “I.” That reveals itself when there is a vision of what Real Meditation represents. That becomes possible when there is the vision of the Truth about this illusion of the “I,” which is Self-Awareness. Then, the awareness of the Truth of your Being, which is Real Meditation, reveals itself.
Here on the channel, we have been talking a lot about the importance and what True Self-Awareness represents, the value and beauty of Real Meditation. We have two playlists here on the channel. That is a very fascinating subject.
We live in a constant search for security. Why do we constantly search for security? Because we live internally in fear. As there is no Peace, no Love, no Happiness, no Freedom in this sense of the “I,” the ego, fear prevails, and in it there is this insecurity. No matter how much we seek security, psychologically and physically, we continue to feel afraid, frightened, and unhappy. That is the condition of the ego identity, this so-called “human mind.”
So, what is this “human mind”? What is the human mind? It is the condition of the illusion of identity present in this instant, this moment, in this living, living its own life, living in this sense of separateness, which is totally false. This duality is not real. Non-duality is the Truth. Non-duality – what in India is known as Advaita, Non-duality – is the Truth of your Being, God, your Essential Nature.
So, this work here consists of that discovery. We work together towards the end of fear, the illusion of this sense of ego-identity, of separateness. We are working together on the Awakening of Consciousness, the Blossoming of your Natural State – some people call it Spiritual Enlightenment. Thus, what becomes valuable here is to realize this Truth, the Truth of our own Being. The awareness of This gives you this Vision from this new mind, new heart.
We have to examine what this human mind is, how it works, and what it represents. We can discover this when we look at ourselves, observing this movement. Then, we can become aware of how the mind works. In general, we are just functioning in an automatic, unconscious way, without a direct insight into how we perform – to look at this inner movement of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. When we become aware of ourselves, we can see all this movement of the mind, this restless, chattering, dull, worried, and prejudiced mind.
Observing the movement of the mind, becoming aware of yourself, and just looking at it. It is not doing something with it. Anything you do from that restless mind will be born from that restlessness. Anything you do from this chattering mind will be born from this chattering of the mind. Anything you do from this bored mind will be born from this boredom of the mind. From a stressed mind, only stress will be born. From a worried mind, only worry will be born. So, it is not a matter of something to do, but of having an approach to look at, to observe.
Perceive the beauty of this way of approaching this study of ourselves. It is not to do something with what we are seeing or what is showing itself, but to become aware. That brings Presence and Consciousness where there was no Consciousness but only automatism. That is how the human mind works.
So, what is this human mind? It is this automatism, this pattern of continuity of automatism. These are repetitions of past experiences, memories, and remembrances, now repeating themselves in a conditioned brain, in a conditioned intellect, expressing themselves as anxiety, chattering, restlessness, and worry. Looking at it, just looking at it, becoming aware of it represents bringing Attention to this moment.
I have been talking here on the channel about the importance of bringing Attention to this unconsciousness. Here we talk about Full Attention placed here, right now, on this pattern of unconsciousness. This pattern of unconsciousness is the human mind. Once there is Full Attention on this movement, which is the movement of the unconscious mind, this unconsciousness vanishes, and, when this happens, this pattern of repetition has a break in continuity, it has a continuity solution, and there is an end to this continuity because at that instant Something new has come into the spotlight.
This Something new is the presence of this Real Consciousness. When there is not this illusion of an experiencer, a thinker, an observer, of this element that is the “I” identifying itself with this condition of unconsciousness, when a thought arises, there is no thinker behind it; when a feeling arises, there is no one who feels behind that feeling; when worry arises, and there is not the “worried;” when a state of boredom arises but there is not the “bored;” when there is no sense of a present “I” separating itself to be the experiencer of this experience.
Notice, this experience is coming from the past, is just a memory, a recollection, a movement of continuity constantly placing an experiencer in it, an observer in it, a thinker in it, “someone” who feels this and, of course, who wants to do something about this pattern of the human mind, this pattern of the mind in the “I,” of egoic mind. When we do not put this element that separates itself from what arises here and now, when there is just an observation of the movement of this human mind, which is the mind of the “I” – just observing without intervening, interfering, getting involved – we now have this Real Attention, this True Attention, this Full Attention, this Mindfulness. So, there is no longer this continuity; there is a rupture.
I want to repeat this: there is that end to this psychological condition of the human mind because now we have this Attention. There is an understanding of this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” the movement of the egoic mind, and this movement of egoic identity. That is Self-Awareness, an approach to Real Meditation.
Here on the channel, we have two playlists focused on this, presenting it to you very clearly. We also have meetings. I want to invite you to see this up close. We have online meetings where people come in to ask questions, and we work with them on those questions. These are weekend online meetings. The WhatsApp link is in the description of the video, so you can join in and get closer to these meetings to work on this, the end of this sense of an “I,” of an ego for a life realized in God, where there is the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, the Vision of your Being. We were born to realize this in this life. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. Here is my invitation for you.
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