Our purpose here, always, on this channel, within these meetings, is to investigate the nature of the “I,” the ego, because our goal is to discover the Truth about ourselves, about who we are. We cannot have a vision of the Truth about life, the other, the world, and God, without first understanding the Truth about who we are, and this is what we are doing here on the channel; we are studying ourselves, investigating ourselves. We need to become aware of what is happening internally, within each of us, concerning life, others, and the world. Without first understanding who we are, we cannot comprehend the Truth of God. It matters to say it because there is this search within us; yes, there is this quest in us.
For millennia, human beings have been looking for something outside this common pattern of life. And what pattern is this? The one we know, where what is continually present guiding our lives is the search for pleasure, satisfaction, achievement, and fulfillment, always on a personal level. Bored as we are with our life, full of sadness, bitterness, problems, difficulties, fears, and various conflicts regarding desires, we are looking for something. However, our search for these external things to bring us this fulfillment has already proved insufficient. This search for something outside to give us this internal completeness has proved unsatisfactory. Thus, human beings are looking for something outside that ordinary model or pattern, which has guided most people’s lives. That’s man’s search for Truth or God.
We call it God, Truth, That which is beyond this condition we know; however, we have projected what This represents, means, which is where we have failed. In this journey, we have become religious people, yet, what the official religion has given us – here, I mean this pattern of organized religion – is just more of what we still know because we are constantly dealing with beliefs, theories, and concepts about Truth, about God. So, our search, our quest is what thought in us has been projecting. All of this revolves now, in fact, around dogmas, precepts, doctrines, and religious thoughts based on the Holy Books – Bible, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, Tao Te Ching, and several other books that deal with or point to something outside this life condition. But what we have in these books are letters, written thoughts, ideas, concepts, pictures, images, and beliefs. If we are willing to discover something beyond this condition our lives have become, which is this pattern common to all, if there is something in us looking for something outside this, we have to find it outside the known, outside this model.
The point is that we cannot find This; we can acknowledge the Truth of This; that is the first aspect. You can't find what you do not know. You project, idealize, and imagine; you go in search of, and whatever you find, if you find it, it will be within the known; if you find it, you recognize it, and if you do it, you are still within what is known, projected, idealized, and imagined by yourself. So, that’s the first point, we cannot find This, and if we find something, it won't be that Reality, that is God, that is Truth, because that will still be within what is known, within what we know, and it is something that will fit our beliefs, our ideas – do you get that? –, our images, which we already carry within, something within the known.
So, this is the first point here. Consequently, if there is something to reveal, to show, it will not be to this “me,” to this “I.” It will be something completely new, outside the known and, therefore, outside our ideas, beliefs, and projections. Then, this is the first thing: you do not find This, that Reality finds you, but when It finds you, that encounter is something fatal for the “I,” that “me.” Thus, the first thing we have to understand here is that there is no way to seek This; however, there is a way to be found by This and, here, to be found by This since it has already become clear that our entire movement of search is still the starting from ideological, credulous principles, from beliefs, once this is understood when we leave this aside, we have the opportunity to start investigating how it becomes possible. It seems to me that this is one of our great difficulties.
When we put this here, the first reaction of this sense of person we have, amid all this psychological formation we bring from learned things – and here learned things are ones kept intellectually, and that the mind has assumed as being the truth, the reality and what we can really trust –, the great difficulty is to see that this is something completely absurd. All this cultural, educational heritage, all this learned stuff, and here I want to include not only all this religious learning but also all forms of philosophical, political, human culture, and tradition learnings; here, I refer to the type of information in us that gives psychological conditioning. Here, we do not deny the importance of science, of all the great human discoveries in terms of improvement for this human “well-being.” We do not deny this so-called “evolution” in this human, scientific, technological aspect; we are, indeed, speaking of this psychological culture of conditioning that makes us believe and trust what only reinforces this sense of egoic identity in us. We need to investigate all this. In general, people do not want to do this; they are too comfortable with it, and the process of this seek, this search for God, for the Truth, still has as its principle this background of psychological conditioning, this response pattern always from this background of experience, knowledge, memory, and everything that has been learned over all these years, which is just cultural, philosophical, spiritual, religious, and political conditioning. These have given us a quite heavy egoic structure, very well established. So, here we come to the second point, which I think is of fundamental importance for each of us.
If we are in this search for the Truth, which represents the end of psychological unhappiness, the end of psychological suffering, the end of this “I,” this ego-identity, we need to find the Truth of God or the Truth that Is God, but that is not something you reach, find in that sense. It is Something that finds you, reaches you. So, your finding is about Grace, the Unknown, finding you. Here, this second aspect, now, is fundamental; it is the most important. But we have already cleared that first aspect; we have already understood that as long as that sense of “I” is established within and the pattern of beliefs and psychological conditioning remain, there will be no possibility. We need a new mind, a new brain, an entirely new body-mind structure, a structure able to perceive this Reality, assume this Reality, the Truth of this Revelation. And what is the second aspect now?
The second aspect is the study of ourselves, the investigation of who we are. It becomes fundamental to discard this ego-identity, the sense of “I,” of the ego, as well as the illusion of this person we believe to be; the sense of “someone” present in this relationship with the world, the other, life, and ourselves. Notice how interesting it is when we use the expression “relationship with ourselves,” as if there were two; an “I” to have a relationship with ourselves,” there are two in you. What does a relationship with yourself mean? Relationship presupposes two, this “two” is exactly the sense of contradiction in which the ego lives because, in the ego, we are, in fact, not just two, we are an inner multitude since we have different conditionings, beliefs, opinions, certainties, and conclusions; and all this is internally under discussion.
We live with many thoughts and voices within; this is the pattern of thinking, the contradictory pattern of the “I.” That “I” feels one thing, thinks something else, and does another thing. This is contradiction. It is as if there were several “I’s” in us because there are several ideas, some that agree and others that disagree; there are several ideas, and they are divergent; sometimes, they fight with each other; you feel, think, and do in a contradictory way, that is the sense of “I.” Thus, the understanding of this “I,” this relationship with life, with the world, this idea of this “me,” this “I” in contradiction with itself, all of this needs to be investigated.
Thus, this contact with the Divine Reality, which is with the Reality of God, of Truth, is the end of the “I.” It is not “someone” having an encounter with God; it is the Reality of God taking over that space. The Reality of your Being is not that truth you are, in that “appearing to be,” “demonstrating to be,” and “feeling to be,” that you have about yourself. Here, I refer to the Reality of this Being-Consciousness-Bliss. The Truth, according to the Sages, those who had this Revelation or live It, who perceive this Reality or who in other times were, also, in a physical form, sharing this; the vision is always the same, the Nature of Reality, which is the Nature of God, is the Nature of your Being; and that Being is Happiness, Consciousness. It is not this happiness the ego knows, this sense of “I” of the person knows; it is the Reality of Happiness, What is beyond the known. It is not the consciousness we know. This “being conscious” is where we evaluate, judge, compare, where we name, accept, and reject what happens to us. This is the consciousness of the “I,” the ego. We are talking about Real Consciousness, What transcends the illusion of this consciousness of the “I,” this egoic consciousness. Thus, the Truth of the Revelation of God is at the end of the illusion of this “I.”
Our proposal here on the channel is to work to end this illusion, the deconstruction of this belief about this “me,” about this “I,” the realization that there is a present Reality and this Reality is outside the model of the known, that is, outside this pattern of envy, jealousy, violence, beliefs, hope, hopelessness, pleasure, and pain, this whole psychological model of existence where there is anxiety, depression, anguish, boredom, and the pain of loneliness. These few aspects I have just mentioned and the countless aspects of this ego-identity, of statements, representations, and samples of psychological unhappiness, we are always trying to get rid of all of this. We want to get rid of the suffering that all of this represents; we want to get rid of the fear that represents all of this, that sustains all of this, but that “want,” that will, this volition is still of the “I,” of the ego. Thus, we are in this approach to Self-Awareness to discover the art of unlearning this sense of the “I,” of the “me” and to find out what the art of learning is at this instant, at this moment, to see this active learning, bringing the awareness of life as it is and going beyond this condition of what life, today, appears to be in this sense of ego-identity, of illusory identity. Do you follow that?
Our work here consists of looking at ourselves, becoming aware that there is Something here and now outside the “I.” This is our work together here on the channel, in online, face-to-face meetings, and retreats where we work on that with you. The Truth of this Revelation is the end of the illusion of “I,” what some people call the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment.
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