What we have been telling you here is that there is a difference between overcoming and being free. Note, you can overcome, but what you overcome will have to be overcome again and again and again, and what you are free from, you are free. So, when people want to find out how to go beyond fear, they don't ask the right question, because to go beyond fear, you need to be free from fear. But they want to be free from fear by asking, “How to overcome fear?” So, this is the question: “How to overcome fear?”
Here we are working with you on the end of fear and, therefore, on the Truth of being free from fear. It's not about overcoming fear. So, it's like when people want to win in a fight. When you win a fight, you, just at that moment, have defeated your opponent... But he may ask for revenge and it is possible that in the next fight you will try to beat him, and this attempt will be a vain attempt, because it is possible that he might win. Here, in this relationship with fear, not understanding what fear is – that's the point – it's like beating an opponent in a fight, and that opponent will always be asking for revenge.
Here we are working with you on the Realization of your Being, which is why true victory is not the victory of whoever wins, it is the Freedom of this Reality of Being, without fear. So, it's not about someone's victory, it's not about overcoming something, it's about the Freedom of Being. That's why our focus, here with you on the channel, is on the Realization of God, the Realization of your Being.
It is only in this sense that we use the expression “Spiritual Awakening” here, which is also another question people ask in a mistaken way, because they have an idea of what Awakening means, so they ask: “What is Spiritual Awakening?”, but they already ask with an idea. And many people acquire some so-called “spiritual” achievements or spiritual victories, or manage to achieve in this context, in the context of spirituality, and they say they achieved this Spiritual Awakening because they had a mystical experience they had been seeking for years or a so-called “spiritual” or extra physical experience.
The reality of Spiritual Awakening is not that, the truth of Spiritual Awakening is the end of an identity present having some level of experience, having some level of success, achievement. accomplishment, or victory. So, it is in this sense that we also use the expression Spiritual Awakening here: only when there is this Awareness of Being, free of this sense of “I,” of the ego, do we have the presence of Truth, Freedom, freedom from fear, as well as freedom from suffering.
So, what is Spiritual Awakening? It is this Divine Realization. What is Spiritual Enlightenment? It is this Awareness of the Truth of your Being. This is the end of fear, it is the Freedom from the one being the experiencer in the experience of fear. Notice that you are afraid because of the presence of an identity that separates itself from experience, which is the reason, the cause, or this “truth of fear.” What is it that we are afraid of? The past! But what is the past? A remembrance, a memory.
Yesterday you were sick, you went through an experience of pain, now you are afraid of that past, of what happened yesterday, which was painful for you. But what is this fear, what is this past? A memory, a remembrance, which is thought. Notice that thought is something present that makes the presence of fear possible. All forms of fear possible for the one who is in fear are linked, note, directly to thought, in one way or another.
You are afraid of someone, what do you have of someone? An image! You are afraid of your boss, what do you have about your boss? An image! You are afraid of your wife, an image. She is afraid of her husband, an image. You are afraid of a particular child; you have several children, but one in particular scares you. What are you afraid of? Of an image! The person is an image, the past is an image and this is thought. So, we are afraid of old age, it is an image, it is a thought. We are afraid of the past; it is a thought. We are afraid of the future, of something bad happening again; that is thought.
So, where is fear? We have to investigate this. Understanding where fear is sustained, where fear is grounded. Fear is grounded, sustained in thought, but thought requires the presence of someone in the remembrance. See how interesting it is to investigate this: who is this someone in the remembrance? Isn't it also a thought? Isn't the idea you have about who you are, while the memory is present, also a thought? Who are you without the memory of who you are? Without remembering who you are, there is no you. Then, what do we have here? That thought, which is memory, is this “I” that remembers.
Let's calmly approach this, let's become aware of this model of being someone, of being the person, of being this image. The image you have about yourself is the “I,” it is the thinker. It is in this image that thought is present and, therefore, it is in this image that fear is present. Without this self-image, notice, there is no fear, without the “I,” which is this self-image, there is no fear. When you use the pronoun “I,” you are referring to an image, you can tell a lot about that image, but it is just an image you create about who you believe you are. Do you get that?
The sense of an identity present is a self-image, which sustains fear and wants to deal with it. Note, from the viewpoint of this self-image, whatever you do against fear is the movement of the self-image itself, which is thought, which is fear. There is no separation between fear and self-image. You cannot separate fear from the fearful, the fearful is the self-image and the fear is memory, but memory is a thought, do you get that?
See how simple it is, but we never investigate it clearly: any thought you have in your head is something that comes from the past. When an identity arises to do something against thought or in favor of thought, that identity is also a thought, it is a self-image, which is the “I,” the ego. So, here's the secret to the end of fear, it's not about overcoming fear. I will repeat: what you overcome, you will have to overcome again and again and again. In general, when you want to know something about this and you consult someone, they give you tips on how to negotiate with thought. But who is this one who is negotiating with thought if not thought itself?
Thought is fear, thought takes the form of the past, the future, old age, the image of illness, but that thought is still the thinker, that thinker is fear itself, which is thought. So, how to deal with thought? How to deal with this image? By being aware that there is no separation between the image of fear of that given situation and the one who is having that image. Here we already have the answer to what is Meditation.
Notice, the truth of the end of fear lies in the awareness of the art of simply Being, without the self-image, which is possible when you put your attention on the image. This attention on the image, on the self-image, is attention on thought. Follow that. This attention on thought, without self-image, is the awareness of looking at thought without the thinker. Looking at this image without this self-image; to look at memory, without someone involved with memory, which is the self-image; looking at the future, which is just a thought, without getting involved in rejection, in an attempt to reject it, to get rid of it, to do something with it.
So, what is the real way of this approach? What is Meditation? It is becoming aware of this instant, without the observer, without the thinker, without self-image. Then, if a thought arises, it is observed. An interesting point here, regarding this movement of thought, is that it not only creates, sustains and continues fear, it also creates, sustains and continues pleasure. Notice that you are always captured by the thought of pleasure. We are always continuing the pleasure of thought, the pleasure of memory, the pleasure of remembrance, the pleasure of the past, because all of this was in the past.
When going through an experience of pleasure, this was kept in the remembrance, in memory – which is thought here at this moment, seeking continuity from this self-image – we are cultivating this. Realize that pleasure is the other side of the coin of fear. The coin is called fear, but it has two sides: one side is pleasure, the other side is pain, and the coin is fear. We cultivate pleasure and we don't realize that pleasure is the continuity of fear because it is the continuity of pain.
Here, the invitation to the Awakening of your Divine Nature, which is the Realization of God, which is something, note, that definitively puts an end to suffering, to fear, is the only real, true solution to the end of human suffering, to the end of fear. This is becoming aware of this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” the ego, this self-image, which is moving based on thought. In the ego, in this “I,” we want to continue pleasure, but we want to get rid of the pain, and we don't realize that pleasure and pain are part of the same coin of fear, which is basically suffering.
Will it be possible a life free from the experiencer? Can we learn to deal with the experience and let it go without bringing an experiencer into it? Yes, this is possible. So, you enjoy a moment of joy, satisfaction, contentment, but now you don't transform it into an imaginary movement of future pleasure – do you get that? – to be sought again, because this is pain, this is fear. Are you with me?
Pleasure sustains the continuity of pain. Life as it happens right now, brings pain and pleasure, but why sustain this psychologically to maintain the continuity of it in fear? If the experience was painful, it was painful for the body, why turning it into a psychological story that will sustain the fear that it might happen again? Can we live this moment free from psychological time, free from this pattern of thought where this self-image is sustained, this attempt to escape pain and seek pleasure?
This is what we are working on here with you when we point out to you the beauty of this Realization of God. It has nothing to do with what we are shown out there as ways to temporarily escape psychological situations of distress and suffering. We escape because we run away, these are the escape mechanisms we already know and others that we have learned. So, that doesn't solve it.
Here, the end of this sense of “I,” of the ego, is the end of illusion, of suffering, of fear. Since suffering and fear are sustained in thought, with the end of this model of thought, we have the end of this illusion, because we have the end of this condition of cultivating the past, of cultivating memory, of cultivating this psychological time.
That's our subject here with you and also on our other channel, you can take a look there. Here, you have in the video description our link; the channel is called Marcos Gualberto. We are working with you, within this work, pointing out to you the possibility of this Realization. In addition, we have online meetings that take place on weekends. Within a weekend, we work on this together through questions and answers, we delve into this with you. And in this contact with this Silence, with the understanding of this truth of what Meditation is, since this Awareness of Meditation, this Truth of Self-Awareness, is what gives you this Freedom from suffering and fear.
So, if this is something that makes sense to you, our WhatsApp link is here in the video description for you to participate in these online meetings. We have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead and leave it here in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense.” Please leave a “like,” subscribe to the channel and we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.
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