I want to invite you, at this point, to have a different approach. In general, when we set ourselves to listen to someone, we often do it to determine whether the subject is of interest from the perspective of our intellectual agreement. If we agree with it, it's in our interest to keep listening, and if we disagree, we lose complete interest – that's when, in general, we stop listening.
I want to invite you to take a different approach to these meetings. Maybe you are on this channel for the first time or have already been following these videos. Either way, we need to learn something fundamental here in these meetings: to learn the art of listening.
When we put our heart and not our intellect into listening to everything we hear – because now we are not just hearing, but listening – it has an extraordinary meaning. And I want to invite you to go deeper into this issue with me, the importance of observing, looking, and hearing in this clear sense of listening. This listening is the Real look, the Real seeing, the Real listening to some subject, and when it happens, it is not – I repeat – the brain involved anymore; it is the heart.
Here we are dealing with you about the Reality of life, getting closer to the Truth about who we are. We are dealing with this issue of the Awakening of Consciousness and, therefore, the Blossoming of Intelligence and Wisdom. That requires a different mindset and a whole new approach; that is what we will be doing here for the next few minutes.
Here, the first thing I want to emphasize is this: put your heart into this listening. Do not engage your intellect in agreeing or disagreeing, all of a sudden, with something you may be hearing because sometimes we agree or disagree with the words we hear, but those words are the least important thing we have here. What matters is that we come to a comprehension. This comprehension is the emergence of something within each of us able to perceive not only what we articulate but something far beyond those very words we expose here.
There is something we need to approach from a different angle. In this meeting, we will talk to you about Self-Awareness. Here, we are dealing with the Awakening of your Being, which is the Awakening of Consciousness, the Awakening of God. That requires a new brain and mind, and then this listening here becomes fundamental.
First of all, here, we will perceive a few things now. The first of these things is that our mind is within a process of conditioning, programming, conclusions, and intellectual formulations. So, the mind becomes a new mind when we start to become aware of its own movement. Notice how important this is for each one of us; otherwise, we cannot have an approach to the Truth of our own Being, the Truth of What we are beyond this conditioned mind, this already programmed mind. Here, we are talking about the art of learning about oneself, of understanding the Truth we bring, but which is not in the field of this mind.
What is this mind? That's the question people often ask: “But what is the mind?” What is this mind that we have? After all, what is the human mind? This human mind is the result of conditioning from humanity, human history, human culture, human education, and teachings within our humanity – political, philosophical, and religious teachings; all of this has provided intellectual shaping for each of us. So, this brain is already predisposed within a conditioning it has received over millennia, to a very personal, particular perspective, the one tightly bound to a process of conditioning, a human history – the history of humanity. And when we look at the history of humanity, the history of the human being, we find conflict, suffering, jealousy, envy, violence, confusion, and disorder, so our brains are conditioned to operate in this world with this framework, this design.
Our psychological, brain, and mind condition is one of conditioning. That pushes us away from simplicity, from the naturalness of What we carry within us beyond the mind. So, what is this approach we have here today? We are approaching the observation of the movement of the mind, of this conditioned intellect, so it requires a new learning about ourselves by looking at all this movement. That is why listening to what is happening here and now is essential. It is not just listening to this talking that is going on, but also to any thoughts arising within you while listening to this talking. Then, listening is not agreeing, not disagreeing; it is not evaluating, not judging, and not comparing that talking or that thought with anything else. It is just listening.
Let us put it here in a simple way. We need to understand this because this is the Real way we have of approaching the Revelation of What is beyond the mind, the intellect, beyond this conditioning, this programming. Listening is hearing with all that attention; attention that neither agrees nor disagrees does not compare, judge, or evaluate but only accompanies.
It's like when you look at the sky and see a cloud, you have nothing to say about that and will not agree or disagree with it; you will solely look at it, and if there is an interest in following it, you will only do it. The wind will be blowing, and you will notice the cloud is moving and naturally follow it with your eyes. You do not agree, disagree, evaluate, condemn, or reject; you merely follow. When you look at the sea, at the waves approaching, you neither agree nor disagree, neither evaluate nor judge; you only observe the movement of the waves. This observing the movement of the waves, this looking and watching, is that listening – only following what is actually there.
So, here I want to talk to you about how to decondition the mind. What is this process of deconditioning the mind? How does it become possible? What is this deconditioned mind? What is the mind free from this conditioning? It is the one that has emptied all that psychological, humanistic, political, and religious content. We have a mind trapped in this conditioning, and when we learn to look, observe, and accompany this movement of the mind, we get closer to this deconditioning. Then, getting closer to that listening, looking, and seeing means putting your heart entirely into it because now there is no longer the element of the conditioned intellect to say anything about it.
Notice that we are here at this moment, in this talk, pointing and emphasizing the importance of observing the movement of the mind. That is to become aware of the understanding of this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” the ego, that is Self-Awareness. So, we have here a Real approach to Meditation. Meditation is this contact with this gaze, this observing, this listening without this element that judges, evaluates, rejects, and compares, which is the element of the “I,” the ego. Then, there is the complete emptying of all this content when the brain and the mind quiet down, and What is present beyond the mind begins to reveal itself, to show itself, there is a contact with Something outside this world of the “I,” the ego. That is the contact with Real Meditation. Thus, we come closer to ourselves, to this Being we are, when the illusion of this “I,” this ego, this “person” we believe to be is no longer present.
Our work consists of observing the movement of the mind. It is much more common for people to ask: “How do I observe the mind?” It is not possible to have an approach to observing the mind without this art of looking, seeing, and listening because observing the mind is becoming aware of the entire movement of this consciousness. What is this consciousness? It is all the movement of the mind which, when it looks, evaluates, accepts, rejects, compares, and judges.
Then, we have a moment of approaching the Truth about who we are when there is an emptying of all this content of the mind, which is the content of this consciousness, the consciousness of the “I,” the ego. Thus, there is a Revelation of Something outside this well-known movement of thought.
Notice that thought is the common element in all of us, so we function based on it. Thoughts bring ideas and beliefs, formulating concepts and opinions, evaluating, measuring, and comparing. It is always the thought that is involved in this process of the so-called “consciousness in us,” and when the mind starts to become aware of this very movement because it pays attention to observing it, in this attention lies this new learning about ourselves since now you are in this listening, watching, seeing, without trying to do something with what appears. If a thought arises, a feeling, an emotion, an idea, or an opinion, it is just observed.
Just as you observe that cloud or those waves, you are now becoming aware of all that movement, the movement of the mind, the movement of that personal entity, which is the “I.” That looking without doing anything with it, this direct looking without getting involved with it, is the approach to Self-Awareness, to Real Meditation, and this happens in a very natural way when you put your attention to following, observing, looking at this. Right now, at this moment, we are in a Meditation meeting; if it is possible to follow it without creating or holding any content about it, but simply being in this listening, then there is only the art of following, without the movement of the intellect to acquire, possess, or accumulate.
The difference is that this state of attention at this moment of real listening, seeing, and hearing without the sense of an “I” is that, at this moment, there is this approach to learning – not the old learning where you were constantly accumulating ideas, beliefs, and knowledge. In fact, there is an emptying of this content so that Something new outside the egoic mind can emerge and be present.
That is our subject here on the channel with you. Thus, approaching Self-Awareness requires approaching this Real Meditation as it happens here and now. Following without accumulating, acquiring, just this moment of stillness, of silence. So, the mind becomes still, and there is a Revelation beyond words.
This is our subject here on the channel, the Awakening of Something beyond the mind, outside the “I,” the ego. We have weekend meetings where we work on this with you. You'll find our WhatsApp link in the video description so you can join our group and get closer to these online meetings. We have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, take the opportunity and leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and write in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense,” OK?
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