Alright! Here you know that we deal with subjects involved with this issue of the “I,” the ego. Our purpose is to work with you on the end of this psychological condition, which is the condition of identity that, because seeing itself separate from the experience, is naturally in conflict with that given experience. Our purpose here is to eliminate this sense of separation, this duality; discovering a Natural State, free from the sense of egoic identity, of identity present, this identity being the “I,” the ego, the experiencer that always separates itself from the experience and, naturally, creates problems.
So, I want to investigate with you here, today, this issue of racing thoughts. How to deal with racing thoughts? Or how to deal with anxious thoughts? Note, we are dealing with exactly the same thing. We don't know how to deal with thought because we don't know how thought works. We live within this thought process, being someone within life, living, within experience, separating oneself, naturally, from experience. Being an entity that sees itself far away, separate from this experience, whatever it may be. But we don't know how thought works, what it is like to deal with thought. This requires understanding the movement that is the movement of the “I,” the movement of the ego. The movement of the ego, the movement of the “I” is, of course, the movement of thought.
It's not just accelerated. So, we have chatty thoughts, obsessive thoughts, anxious thoughts, and racing thoughts. This is the experience for the one that separates itself from experience, which is the “I,” the thinker. So, I want to investigate with you, here, the structure of this thinker. What is the truth of this thinker? What is the nature of this thinker? What is this thinker made of? It's very simple: from past experiences. If I show you an object you have never seen, you don't have a name for it. If I tell you the name of that object, you will already identify it by the name. This will be knowledge now in your brain, an experience stored in your brain, recorded. When I ask you the name of that object, you will tell me the name, a thought will be expressed.
So, what is thought? A memory! A memory reaction, a memory response. Thus, our thoughts are functioning within each of us as memory responses. The brain is functioning this way, having these responses, these reactions. This occurs automatically, mechanically, unconsciously. How to deal with the brain? It is like dealing with the mind: becoming Aware of the movement of thought, because as long as unconsciousness is present, mechanicalness is in operation. So, it is crucial to understand the art of disidentification with the movement of thought. This becomes possible when thought is observed and we do not place an element within thought to guide thought, lead thought, reject thought, mistake ourselves for thought, identify with thought.
So, there is a break in identity in this model, which is the model of thought. This is when thought, being the experience, loses its value, loses its importance, because there is no experiencer behind it. See how simple this is. You want to slow down thoughts, you want to get rid of obsessive thoughts, repetitive thoughts, anxious thoughts. This wanting, this will, makes the experiencer, the thinker, present within the experience. What does it do? It strengthens the sense of the experiencer in the experience. When you want to get rid of a thought, you are strengthening the thought. If here I say to you: “Don’t think about death. Don’t think about death scenes.” When I say this to you, the first thing that comes up is a coffin or a burial or a burial, or candles. The brain naturally goes in search of what it wants to reject. So, the movement of rejection is of the brain and the movement of finding memory, the production of memory, all of this is part of the movement of the brain to confirm its experience that it wants to reject.
In fact, all thought can do in this model of brain conditioning is maintain its continuity, with that thought being just a reaction of the brain's mechanism emerging. So, all this will, this desire, this volition, is still part of the brain's own movement. This is how the conditioned brain works. We don't get rid of thought by wanting to get rid of it. Liberation from thoughts implies the Awareness of the movement of thought. Being aware of the movement of thought without reacting to it, is something that the brain has no inclination to do. The entire disposition of the brain is to react, this is part of conditioning, part of unconsciousness, part of the mechanism of how the brain works, of how thoughts work.
Notice that if we are willing to get rid of the model of thought – which is the model of the “I,” the ego –, the only thing that matters here, at this moment, is the presence of Consciousness. This Consciousness is present when there is Attention, Attention on this movement. However, this Attention on this movement is only possible when there is an approach to the movement itself, and not a movement of distancing. If you reject the experience – which, in this case, is an accelerated thought – you are strengthening the movement of thought itself. If you mistake yourself for the model of racing thought, you are strengthening it. But if there is an approach to just look, to verify in this proximity, in this direct communion, without identification and without rejection, there is full Attention on the movement. This Mindfulness is the presence of Consciousness.
So, we have Real Consciousness when there is this Attention. This immediately determines the end for the experience, for this movement of racing, obsessive, and chatty thought. Because there is no thinking element, there is no experiencer, we do not have the strengthening of unconsciousness. This is a break to the habit, the addiction, the model, the pattern of brain restlessness. Then, the brain quiets down, a space opens up, a space of Silence. At that moment, an emptiness appears within this Stillness. So, there is a break in this continuity, in this old and unconscious model of thought, obsessive, chatty, accelerated… of all types! Because there is this Attention. Attention is the nature of Consciousness. All that is needed is this inner Stillness, which occurs naturally when we have an approach to the movement of thought. We have an approach to experience without placing the thinker, without placing the experiencer. This way of getting closer is, in itself, the vision of how we function, of how the mind works. Are you with me?
We need to learn how the brain works, how the mind works, how this “I” works. Having this approach, we immediately have a disconnection from this model of psychological restlessness, cerebral restlessness, mental restlessness. Thus, we come closer to the art of Self-Awareness, of learning about ourselves, of learning how we function. This is Meditation. Here and now, at this instant, moment by moment, to become aware of each thought, emotion, feeling, perception... perception without the perceiver, thought without the thinker, sensation without the one involved in the sensation. Becoming aware of this, having an approach to the truth of this “me,” this “I,” requires a brain that has quieted down, a mind that has silenced.
Note, it was not silenced, the brain was not quieted because of a discipline, a technique, a meditative practice. That's something else! People look for practices, meditation techniques and, in a certain way, they achieve a certain silence, a certain cerebral stillness during the practice. But they cannot live in practice, they need to go out, go to work, drive the car, take the child to school, take care of routine events, take care of business, work. And it is at this moment that we need the Awareness of the art of Being, which is Meditation. So, Real Meditation occurs at this moment: you are driving your car, you are working, talking to people, dealing with situations, and at that moment this state of Awareness, of Presence, of Consciousness is present. Then, this is the Truth of this Mindfulness, at this moment, on all this movement of restlessness, all this internal movement of the “I.” The Awareness, the Consciousness, the Vision of the Truth about this, is What is present when we give Attention to this instant, to this moment. Thus, this Attention on this moment is the end to this illusion, to this movement of psychological restlessness, when the sense of the “I,” of the ego, of this “me,” is seen, is verified.
This “me,” the “I,” the ego, is nothing else than this restlessness, this internal movement. So, what works for the movement of thought, works for the movement of feeling, of emotion, of the way of perceiving life. Thus, in this way, we break the continuity of this movement, which is the egoic movement, because we bring to this moment the Awareness of Being, which is Meditation. See the importance of this. In life, at this moment, the present Reality is this Truth of Being, Consciousness, Happiness, Peace, and Love. However, this is not present when the sense of the ego, of the “I,” in this restless, chattering, accelerated movement of thought is present. That explains why our internal psychological states are anxiety, anguish, depression, fear, jealousy, envy, ambition, and conflict of desires. So, our psychological condition of being someone in life, in living, in experience, without this Realization of Truth, this Silence, this Stillness, this absence of the “I,” is the one of suffering.
So, we are working with you here on the vision of the Truth of Self-awareness. This is not a technique to soften, to ease, to calm this sense of the “I,” of the ego. Here, we are talking about the end of this condition, which is the condition of the “I,” this “me,” this ego. Here, it is about this Realization of the Nature of your Being, this Truth that is present when everything that is within the known, this egoic movement, is no longer present. Thus, this encounter with the realization of What we are requires an approach to what is here. We have to eliminate all forms of escape, distraction, and distancing. We have to learn the art of getting closer to ourselves, of studying ourselves, of understanding ourselves within this instant, this present moment. Whatever is going on within us, having a close contact, a direct contact without running away from it, without identifying with it – becoming aware of it, bringing Awareness to this moment, bringing this Mindfulness to this moment – is the Real way of approaching the end of the “I,” the end of the ego, and, therefore, the end of this psychological and complicated condition of being someone in this weight, in this anxiety, in this depression, in this anguish, in this fear, and suffering.
So, that's our topic here with you, within this channel. We have meetings here on weekends, online meetings where we are working on this with you. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these meetings. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. OK? So, here's the invitation, go ahead and leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel, and see you. OK? Thanks for the meeting and see you!
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