What are we actually looking for: happiness or satisfaction? It seems that most of us have no idea about what happiness actually represents. We have a projection, we have an idea, we have an imagination about this mysterious thing called happiness. I say “mysterious thing” because we are not dealing with something that thought can clarify, have an idea, a notion of the truth of what it represents. All we have done is idealize, think about it and imagine some satisfaction that will give us this thing called happiness. So, what is the truth of this encounter? What is the truth of this Realization?
First of all, let's see something here. Is it possible to find happiness? Is it possible to find this “mysterious thing” or what we can find is just satisfaction? Throughout our lives, we have faced many moments of satisfaction. At some level of fulfillment and accomplishment, we find ourselves temporarily satisfied; soon after this satisfaction disappears. But the human being is projecting, idealizing, and imagining a satisfaction that is permanent, and we are naming this level of satisfaction as “happiness.” And here we are telling you that this is not findable. You cannot find satisfaction that is permanent, much less can you come across this encounter with happiness, once it becomes clear what Happiness really means.
Happiness is what is present here and now. It is not something within time and, therefore, it is not something that you find in a search, in a quest. However, this Happiness is present when the sense of this “I” is no longer there. So, in this search or in this pursuit we are not investigating the nature of the seeker, the one who searches. So, in this thinking about happiness we are not investigating the nature of this thinker. The thought of happiness, is this something that separates itself from the person who thinks, who is the thinker? Is there a separation between the thinker and thought? Is there a separation between the seeker and what he idealizes as his purpose for being found?
So, notice, we do not have a view of the Truth about ourselves. We don't know who we are, we don't know the one who seeks, we don't know the one who thinks, we don't understand the nature of thought, the structure of that thinker. We do not know the nature of what is being sought or pursued, which we call happiness, and which, in fact, is the search for permanent satisfaction, which we are calling happiness, and we do not understand the structure of this seeker.
So, our moment here is a moment of investigation of the Truth, of what is happening here and now, inside each one of us. Becoming aware of this seeker, becoming aware of this thinker, understanding the structure of this thinker, this seeker, understanding the nature of this thought, the nature of this so-called “happiness” for this “I,” for this “me,” is what we are doing here and now.
Having an approach to yourself, realizing that this thought is present because of this thinker and that this search is present because of the one who seeks, realizing that there is no separation between the search and the seeker, between thought and the thinker, this puts us in a new position, here, at this moment. Now there is no longer this movement of searching, there is no longer this movement of thought. And when that ends, because when we look at what is present here we become aware of this division, this separation, the awareness of this is the end of this separation, it is the end of this division between thought and thinker, between this seeker and that which he is seeking out. When this happens here, at this moment, the vision of Self-Awareness is revealed.
So, Self-Awareness is the only thing that is necessary at this moment to understand the Truth of where Happiness is found, where the Truth is found, where God is found. The Truth of Happiness, the Truth of God, the Truth about this is in the realization that this sense of “I,” this “me,” this one who is the seeker, who is the thinker, the discarding of this sense of “I” – notice what an important thing we have here – is the discarding of this movement, which is the movement of time.
The thinker is something that comes from the past. Observe this in yourself: every thought in you is the thought that is present because of this thinker. So, the thinker is producing thoughts – at least that's the idea we have about who we are: we are the thinker producing thoughts. The reality about it, the truth of it is that this thought, which is the “I,” is the thinker itself. If there were no thought now, showing itself right now, there would be no thinker.
Notice this: when there is no thought, there is no thinker. So, thought arises because of the thinker present, and the thinker appears because of the thought present, and they appear at that moment because of the past. This is the truth about the “I,” about the “me,” about the thinker. It is the result of the past. So, it is the sense of “someone” present, which comes from the past; this past is the movement of time, of stored experience, of acquired experience. So, memory is thought. That thought is the thinker, and that is the past. When the sense of “I” is eliminated, the movement of the past, which is time, disappears.
So, life is something that reveals itself now, here, always in this moment, without any need for an experiencer who comes from the past, who is a thinker that comes from the past, who is this “I” that comes from the past to be present this instant. Can we live a life free from this “I” and, therefore, from this thinker, from the one who keeps these memories, from the one who is the movement of thought itself, that is thought itself in movement? Can we here, at this moment, have the Revelation of Life as it appears without this sense of a present “I”?
So, notice the beauty of this, there is the end for the thinker; and if there is no thinker, because time is not present, there is no longer this movement of the seeker, then this idea of happiness falls apart, because this seeker is also no longer present. So, what are we faced with now? We are faced with Life, Life as it, in that moment, reveals itself: without time, without this past, without this “me,” without this thinker, without this seeker. Then, at that moment, Reality, which is God, Reveals itself. See, it's not something findable. It is a verifiable Reality at this moment. This observation is in this perception; perceiving Life without the perceiver, feeling Life without that element that is the “I” in that feeling.
So, we don't need this thought, this movement of thought that comes from the past, that comes from memory, the result of experience, something that has shaped this “me,” something that sustains and establishes this thinker. Every movement of the ego is a movement of continuity. For the ego to maintain itself, it needs continuity, and the continuity of ego is in the presence of this thinker, and this continuity is established by thought itself. Therefore, it is thought, in its continuity of memory, that always establishes the presence of this “I” in this moment as being a real identity, as being a true identity, as having its own, personal, and private life.
So, in these meetings we are showing you how this “I,” how this ego, which is the thinker, sustains itself, maintains itself. It continues exactly in this search. In this dissatisfaction, it carries this search, the quest for permanent satisfaction in what it calls “happiness,” which it also calls “peace” and “love.” It also carries this movement of thought to produce these images, which are the symbols that this “I” has of what happiness, love, and peace represent. Are we together?
At this moment we are eliminating this element, which is the element of time. So, we have the end of time. If we have an end to the past, we have an end to the future. This is very clear, it is always the past that projects itself, so the future is still the past projecting itself. This is the movement of thought itself to support this “I” in its continuity. So, here we have the end of psychological thinking, which is this thinking of egocentric memory, of egocentric identity, of “I” identity. This is the time that we have called psychological time, the time supported by this identity, which is the thinker, that, in order to maintain itself, is always supporting the future based on the past.
So, what is this “I?” What is ego? What is this thinker? Who is this one present being the experiencer, the one who is transforming this present moment into something for him, folks? That is looking at this present moment and seeing in this present moment just an opportunity to again and again and again project oneself into the future, project oneself into the future?
So, the understanding of the sense of “I,” the understanding of the sense of the ego, of this illusory state of identity of “someone” present, the end of this is the beginning of something unknown, which is the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God. This Reality is Happiness. It is That which is present here and now when this psychological time is not there, when the sense of “I,” of the ego, is not there.
Here in this work, we are exploring this subject with you, becoming aware of this Truth, which is the Divine Truth, Something that is present now. It’s here and now. The Reality of God is the Truth of Love, it is the Revelation of Happiness. Then, Life Reveals itself with an experience free of the “I,” of the ego, free of this movement of psychological time that thought is sustaining, has sustained.
So, for this purpose we have online meetings here on weekends – you can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these meetings. In addition to these online meetings that we have here, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. So, if this is something that makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead and leave your “like” here and subscribe to the channel. See you soon!
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