I want to discuss with you the matter of life, of action in life. In general, most of us consider life as something to be conquered, we need to conquer life. For us, living means fighting, so life is achieved, life is conquered. We carry these ideas, for example, of carrying out projects, making dreams come true, achieving goals. For us, this is a very, very reasonable thing. And we believe that it is through struggle, through effort that we can achieve these purposes. I, here, want to invite you to a moment of challenge, because we need, at this moment, to put aside our ideas, beliefs, and investigate further this issue here.
The question is: “Why do we make an effort? Why do we need to fight?” I would like to draw your attention to one point here: have you ever observed that, in your life, the moments of greatest inspiration, of greatest lightness, of greatest stillness, of greatest tranquility, in them something happened, but without any effort? And, looking carefully, you must have perceived that your participation as someone present was very small for that to happen. And why does this happen? And why does this happen? Because moments like writing a song, a poem, painting a painting or simply being in front of a sunset or at night looking at the stars or the moon, at that moment you are in a moment of lightness, stillness, creativity and there is something happening there… and your participation is minimal or none. And yet, Something is present, something is happening, and there is no struggle, no effort.
The question for you here is: is it possible for us to discover life without effort, without struggle? Here, I am not talking about conquering life. This idea of achieving, of accomplishing projects, dreams and goals, the purpose of these achievements is exactly that Something. All the purposes we have in these accomplishments, in these dreams or achievements are, basically, to be happy, to be exactly in this moment of Stillness, Peace, Silence, Joy, and Love. Notice that, through effort and struggle, through a project, through a dream, through a plan, you cannot achieve this Joy, this Happiness, this absence of restlessness. It is precisely when there is no struggle, no effort – when life is happening and your participation does not enter – that it occurs, that it happens.
Notice how interesting what we are putting here for you is. We have been educated, conditioned within our culture, within this so-called “humanity”, as human beings, to look at life and face life as something that needs to be conquered, accomplished, achieved. This is what our desires, dreams, and projects are. All of this is personal, all of this is within, in fact, a model of an egocentric identity that, actually, as an egoic entity, sees itself as separate from life, having life as something separate from itself. That's how we feel.
So, we were educated, trained, and taught from childhood to grow. We were told, as children, the following: “You will grow up and you already have to have a goal.” That’s why we were asked: “What do you want to become when you grow up?” Notice how interesting our relationship with children is, the relationship that, as children, we had with our parents... children are not interested in being, they have no idea of the need to grow – in what to be after growing up. They have no idea about being, they are what they are, and they are not dissatisfied or unhappy with what they are. This is being, they don't need to become – to grow and become. They are already being, without any idea of growing, without any idea of becoming.
Our life, at this moment, consists of this movement. We have the world in its psychological disorder, in its internal unhappiness, in its desires, and fears. The condition of human beings in the world, in life, is one of suffering. Suffering is present because we are overwhelmed with fear, in this psychological condition of unhappiness, living in this time that thought has created within us: the idea of past, present, and future. “I am not, but I will be. I haven’t, but I will.” This has put us in this condition, in a condition of looking at life and seeing life as something separate from who we are, and we need to achieve something in life to find life.
So, this sense of an identity is always present which is the “I,” the ego, separating itself from life and having this belief, which is the belief common to all of us, the result of conditioning that has been given to us since childhood, that we need to become, since we are not; we need to have it, since we don't have it. Thus, there is all this burden, the weight of this present identity, which is the “I.” Notice how fascinating it is to look at ourselves and discover what it means to be with what is presented here, without any idea of coming to be, but to look at what is presented here, without any idea of effort and struggle to alter it, to change it. Then, this opens a door. At that moment a door opens when we are before what is, without any idea about what it should be.
Notice how important it is for us to investigate our current condition, our true psychological condition of being, by becoming aware of this internal dissatisfaction, if what we have present is anxiety, anguish, fear, some form of psychological suffering. Learning to deal with it, looking at it as it is, without any idea of coming to be. Thus, we come across this moment. Note that, in general, in this dissatisfaction, in this unhappiness, which has this form of representation – it can be anxiety, anguish, fear – this dissatisfaction, this restlessness, we want to get rid of it based on this idea of coming to be. So, we put ourselves in the fight, we make an effort, we throw ourselves into this illusion of psychological time to reach the end for this condition. Thus, we project Happiness tomorrow, Love tomorrow, Peace tomorrow, Freedom tomorrow, achieving this by effort and struggle.
The question is: Is this possible? Through effort, through struggle, can we find Happiness? Is it true that Joy is the result of effort? Have you ever observed that the moments, exactly, of Joy – as we have just put here a short while ago, of Stillness and Silence – in those moments there was no effort, there was Something happening without you in that desire, in that doing, in that effort, in that intention. You may ask, “What are you talking about?” I'm talking about the Truth of simply noticing what is here without resisting, without fighting, without making an effort, becoming aware of that state, when you don't separate yourself from the state. And we separate ourselves from that state when we move psychologically into this illusion of getting rid of, doing something, achieving something, eliminating it.
When we learn the science of looking at this internal movement, which is the movement of the “I,” of the ego in its dissatisfaction with what is present here – I will repeat: it can be sadness, it can be anguish, it can be the emptiness of loneliness – when we do not strive to become, but we are that, without any ideal, without any belief, without any thought about it... what happens when we are with what is, with what shows itself? The truth is that, psychologically, we are divided. We always have an ideal, a thought about how life should be, about how everything could happen. Then, this puts us psychologically in the illusion of time. We have this psychological time, we have this idea, this thought, this ideal of coming to be, while we are not paying attention to what is, here. So, we are not in contact with Being. Psychologically, we are divided in this ideal of becoming. This effort and this struggle to achieve, to accomplish, is always accompanied by conflicts and all forms of suffering.
Notice that human beings never stop seeking Happiness. The truth about this is that there is a type of happiness idealized by him or her. They don't stop looking for love. So, there is an idea, a type of love that they project. Then, we spend a lifetime on this idea of achieving, accomplishing, becoming, without ever being aware of what is happening here and now, within each one of us. This is all part of a movement of escape. We have different escape mechanisms from what is, from what is here, from what is shown, from what is presented.
Here, we want to tell you that it is possible, indeed, to become aware of the Truth of this Being that we are now, at this instant. When we stay with what is, we perceive the end to it. We can go beyond what it is, because this is what shows itself to be, what it seems to be. Something beyond what is, what it demonstrates to be, what it seems to be. When we are with the reality of this existential void, this pain of loneliness, this anguish, fear or anxiety, it becomes possible to discover something beyond the “I,” beyond the ego, therefore, beyond this psychological condition. Because that is the psychological condition of being, it is not Reality, it is not Truth, it is not this indescribable thing beyond that conditioning.
This condition of psychophysical being, this condition of this psychological being, the egoic mind, this sense of the “I” present, is not the Reality of What we are. It is what we demonstrate to be, what we seem to be, what we manifest ourselves to be at this moment. But, if we abandon the fight, if we abandon effort, if we abandon this idea of becoming, of achieving, of altering, of changing this by using this model, which is the model of the “I”… If we learn to look at what is here – when we pay attention to this movement that is the movement of thought, feeling, emotion, the way of feeling, the way of perceiving –, if we pay attention to this movement that is the movement of the “I” – which lives in this idea “I was, I am, and I will be” –, when we pay attention to this movement, this model of psychological time, of ego-identity, of identity of the “I,” in this illusion of “I was, I am, and I will be,” the awareness of this is Self-Knowledge.
This attention on this movement is the end of this condition. Then, Something new is present. It is the end of this psychological time, it is the end of this coming to be, it is the end of this being that we believe to be, it is Reality showing itself. Then, we have the creator moment. Then, Lightness, Stillness, Love, Happiness, Peace, the Truth that is the Reality of the Unknown, which is the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God, reveal themselves at this instant. It's not about becoming. It's about the end of this idea of this “I” that is always moving in this illusion, in the illusion of time, in this struggle, in this effort, in this achieving, in this accomplishing, in this model of obtaining later, tomorrow, in the future, at some point, something. We are before the Reality of Life, the Reality of God, the Reality of What is nameless, indescribable.
So, this approach to the Truth of Self-Knowledge is the Liberation of psychological time, the Liberation of this sense of “I,” of this ego-identity in effort and struggle. This is our purpose here, within this channel: to discover the Truth of What we are beyond this sense of the “I,” of the ego in its struggle, in its effort. For this purpose, we have online meetings here, on weekends, to go deeper into this. 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. If this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead and leave your “like” here and subscribe to the channel, Ok? And see you. Thanks for the meeting and until next time.
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