Alright! People ask: “How to overcome fear?” I would like to investigate this with you here over the next few minutes. Notice that, in general, our path is the positive path to accomplish something. It's always that way, the positive way to accomplish something. Let's clarify that for you here.
People want to overcome fear, so they ask: “How to overcome fear?” Another frequent question is: “How to overcome anxiety?” or: “How to get rid of anxiety?” And for this we are always looking for another positive way. What do I call a positive way? It's the attempt, based on an action, to achieve something, obtain something, accomplish something. This is the positive movement to achieve something that we generally have, because we believe that it is by doing something that we conquer, that we achieve and that we can win. So, if fear is present, the best thing is to move towards something, towards some goal, towards a certain purpose in order to get rid of this fear that is here, right now – this approach is the most common one.
We want to get rid of fear, so we ask: “How to overcome it?” We want a positive action to take towards that goal, which in this case is to get rid of fear. We want to overcome anxiety, get rid of anxiety, so we're also looking for a positive action to overcome the anxiety that is in this moment, here and now, present.
Another question people ask is about procrastination: “How to overcome procrastination?” So, it's always like this, the questions come in, they start in this format – “How?” – because they want to do something. Here I want to take a slightly different approach with you. Our approach is different from that. I want to invite you to investigate the nature of fear, the nature of anxiety, the nature of procrastination, and you can't do that if you leave this moment where this experience is being lived, experienced, and put yourself in the movement precisely to get rid of it. Look at what we're putting here for you: if fear is present, you have an open laboratory, you're the scientist, you have an open laboratory and, in this laboratory, you have everything you need for your research.
So, what does this work here consist of? We are working with you on Self-realization, the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Awakening. We're not working on a proposal for you to overcome something, nor to get rid of something, achieve victory over something. Getting rid of something, overcoming something, obtaining a victory, this requires new victories. You overcome, you'll have to overcome again; you get rid of it, you'll have to get rid of it again. Here we're talking about something else, we're showing you that it's possible to put an end to fear, an end to anxiety, an end to procrastination. It's not about overcoming fear, overcoming anxiety, overcoming procrastination, it's not about overcoming, it's about understanding what that means.
The question here is: what is the element present in the experience of fear? What is fear basically? Fear is something present. There are different forms of fear, there are different fears. We all know what fear is, at least we experience it, these states of fear: fear of the boss, fear of the wife, fear of the children, fear of unemployment, fear of getting sick, fear of aging, fear of death, fear of losing a loved one who is in the hospital. We know what fear is – the fear of being abandoned – we all know what fear is. It's very paradoxical because it's not true. We only experience fear, we live fear, but in such an incomplete way that it's not real.
What I'm saying is that we don't really know what fear is. We have the experience of fear, but we never investigate the nature of fear, the truth about fear, the structure of fear, we never enter this laboratory, we always close the laboratory and run out. The laboratory is open, we forget that we are scientists and that we have everything here available for investigating the structure and nature of fear, anxiety, procrastination, anguish, this pain that is the pain of loneliness. The work consists of becoming aware of ourselves, learning from ourselves. Looking, investigating, observing, becoming aware of this structure and this nature of experience, and we find here the main element of it all. What is the main element of all this?
In the laboratory, by investigating and looking at ourselves, we will become aware of this. The main element is the “I,” the ego. It's very curious that people give you options for overcoming fear, but nobody is really pointing out the main element of this condition of fear or anxiety or depression or procrastination. The main element here is the “I,” the ego. Without the “I,” without the ego, there is no fear, no anxiety, no procrastination, no depression, no suffering. So, the study of ourselves, the studying of oneself, investigating the nature and structure of fear is to understand the truth about this “me,” this “I.”
What is the nature and structure of the ego? So, we have the structure and nature of fear, anxiety and all forms of suffering, this represents the end of the ego, this is the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment. That's what we're working on here with you in the channel, showing you that you can have a life free from fear. Exactly what you heard: free from fear. Realize what this means, because we don't even know how many forms of fear we have, how many fears we have in this “I,” in this ego; one is fear itself, one lives in fear, the human being, from the cradle to the grave, carries fear.
So, you can overcome fear and you'll have to overcome fear many times over. You can overcome anxiety and you will have to overcome anxiety many times. You can overcome depression and you will have to overcome depression many times. Perhaps you don't have the most acute cases of fear, anxiety or depression, but in the “I,” in the ego, we carry one or another form of fear, carry one or another form of anxiety or procrastination. This generates various situations in our lives. Procrastination, for example, has caused various damages in our lives, in our relationships with people, in our financial condition, in our social lives, in our professional lives.
Look at the problems of procrastination, the various problems it can bring to your life. We're always postponing, procrastinating, we don't realize that behind it is fear, it's another form of fear. Anxiety is present because of fear. Notice that the various inner states of unhappiness present in us are all due to fear, but the problem here is that we look at fear as something external, from the outside. We don't realize that fear arises from separation, from duality. There is no fear without duality, if there is fear it is always fear of something. But we believe that fear is that other thing, we don't realize the main element that sustains this separation, this division and, therefore, the fear that is present, which is the “I,” the ego.
Here on the channel, we are investigating this, going deeper with you, seeing the truth about this “I,” the nature of this “I,” showing you the possibility of breaking this continuity of this “I” in life. It's when this sense of separate existence, living in this duality of “me and fear,” “me and anxiety,” “me and procrastination,” “me and the world,” “me and the other…” The “I” consists of a set of images, memories, recollections, and stories created by thought; and this sustains the inner movement of psychological time, mental time, thought time – this is psychological time. In this illusion of psychological time, the “I” wants to overcome, wants to get rid of, wants to achieve results from itself.
So, the illusion consists of this duality, this separation. The illusion of this condition of the “I,” this ego-identity, this “person” that is upheld by beliefs, concepts, and images; this identity is an illusory identity. It becomes very real precisely in this relationship with images, with recollections, with memories. So, the sense of ego-identity is present in the experience of fear, but fear is that identity, that identity is fear, and they are never separate. If there is the presence of the “I,” there is also fear. If we have the presence of fear, it's because the sense of an “I” has already separated itself. So, let's look at this with you, shall we?
When a thought arises, the sense of an “I” is there to reject, to fight, to combat that thought by saying: “I don't want this, I don't like this, I need to get rid of this,” so there is a movement to escape the experience of the present thought. In this struggle with thought, this sustains the identity of an “I” thinking, precisely by sustaining this thought because it wants to get rid of it, and this strengthens the sense of fear for this “I” that is the agent in this condition. This “I” is fear itself; this fear is the “I” itself. This “I” is the fearful one and fear is the experience of this “I.” So, in this duality there is the continuity of fear. We carry the illusion of overcoming fear, because it has apparently disappeared, but another form of fear arises and then a third form of fear, and so we spend our whole lives fighting inner states created by our own thinking, sustained by this identity, which is the “I,” the ego.
Here the work consists of freeing ourselves from the illusion of this “I,” this ego-identity, this “person” as we see ourselves, as we feel ourselves to be within experiences. This is the definitive end of fear. It's not the escape from fear, it's not getting rid of fear, it's not overcoming fear, it's the end of fear. Fear ends when the sense of ego disappears. And this is possible when there is an approach to the Truth of oneself. To study oneself is to become aware of knowing oneself, so Self-Awareness, the Truth of Self-Awareness, reveals to you the art of Being Pure Consciousness.
Here on the channel, we've been talking about the art of True Meditation in a practical way. Only True Meditation, which has as its basis – the correct basis for Real Meditation – Self-Awareness, and when there is this approach, we have a door that opens to the end of the “I,” of the ego. That is the end of this sense of separation.
So, our work here consists of the Realization of God, the Awakening of Consciousness, the end of suffering, the end to suffering in all its formats, in all its forms. Fear is just one form, an important form of suffering that is very common in the ego. The work consists of the Truth of recognizing your own Being, the clarity of your Real Nature, of your True Nature. Clarity about your Real Nature, about your True Nature, which is the Nature of God, which is the Nature of your Being, that’s the end of human suffering, that’s the end of fear, that’s the end of anxiety, that’s the end of all despair, that’s the end of depression, that’s the end of procrastination.
Our work here consists of the Realization of your Being. I repeat once again: the Awakening of your Divine Nature, which is the Truth of God. We have online meetings where we are working on this, as well as these videos here on the channel. I want to invite you to participate in these meetings – here in the description of the video is our WhatsApp link for information about these meetings that take place on weekends. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats, where we are working on this with you. I'd like to invite you here and remind you: This is the presence of Love, This is the presence of Truth, This is the presence of Real Happiness.
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