What we are seeing here with you is the Truth of life without contradiction, without conflict, without the suffering present we know. I said exactly that: the Truth of life, when the “I,” the ego, this sense of being someone, is no longer present within living, in events, in situations. We have emphasized here the importance of the non-“I,” the absence of this psychological condition in which we find ourselves, due to a psychological conditioning we bring. This is what some call “Spiritual Awakening.” This is something that is the result of the Vision of Reality.
Becoming aware of this in a direct way – that's how we are working here with you – it's what Ramana Maharshi called Atma Vichara. The sage of the mountain of Arunachala, from southern India. “Atma Vichara,” some translate this as “self-investigation,” I prefer it as “self-observation.” Learning the art of observing yourself, becoming aware of the movement of the “I” … This is the practical, the most direct form of contact with the Truth of That which is you in your Being.
So, here we are always working with you on the truth of the practice of Self-Awareness. You can theorize about it, read books about it, listen to lectures about it, without directly experiencing what it means, what the meaning of that is. But here we are showing you what it is to practice Self-Awareness, what it is to live practicing Self-Awareness. Once you come closer to self-observation, to Atma Vichara, to this looking at the movement of thought, you come into direct contact with the illusion of a center within living, within life, within experience. Notice that your contact with him or her is based on an image you create, of an experiencer you feel you are, in this contact with him or her.
Then, you have a revelation of the truth about yourself, and you perceive that this “you” is nothing more than a set of images, memories, and remembrances – notice – of something that comes from the past, seeking to have, in contact with this moment, with life as it happens, a relationship, and that is what is establishing conflict, problem, and suffering. You cannot become aware of the Revelation of God through this “I.” Every contact you can have with life from this “I” is the contact of the experiencer with a given experience, seeing itself separate from that experience.
Note the implication of this: people want to have so-called “spiritual” experiences. They seek mystical experiences, extraphysical experiences; they want to have contact with something mysterious, with something outside of what their lives have consisted of, of routine, continuity, boredom, repetition, of monotony... so they go in search of an experience, and the most desired one of all is the experience with God.
The idea behind this is that you are present to contact God, to meet God, even to become enlightened or receive Enlightenment. Note, it is the pattern of a viewpoint in duality: there is you and God, you and that given mystical or spiritual, or esoteric, or extraphysical experience... This pattern of separation is the pattern created by thought. Notice, it is thought that supports the idea of someone present: someone with will, with choice, someone with desires, with fears, someone who lived the past, is living the present and will live the future. Notice, all of this is part of a structure constructed by thought.
The Truth of the Revelation of your Being lies in the end of the “I,” of the ego and, therefore, in the end of this illusory separation between That which is you in your Being and life, That which is you in your Being and what is happening, and experiences, and events… and a thought, and an emotion, and a sensation… All of this is part of life, of this vivacity of it, of what it represents, but there is no “I,” there is no such person separating itself from that. This is what is discarded when it occurs – and it only occurs at this moment – within a vision of Reality, when the end of the “I,” of the ego occurs.
Our emphasis here is to work with you on exactly that: the perception of Reality, which is why we are emphasizing Meditation with you. This meditation is Advaita, is the vision of Reality, of non-separation, of non-duality. When there is no separation, when there is no duality, we have the presence of Meditation. The Truth that there is only one Reality present, without anything else. This Reality is the Divine Reality, the Reality of this Being – Consciousness – Bliss.
Here our work consists of approaching the Truth, the practice of Meditation, Real Meditation, I have called it Real Meditation in practice. This is Advaita Meditation. This way of approaching Meditation is mindfulness. The awareness of this instant without the element of the thinker, the observer, the experiencer, is the awareness of life without this center that separates itself. All we need to become aware of Self-Awareness is the annulment of duality, of separation that thought has produced when it tells us about a thinker, when thought tells us about an experiencer, when thought tells us about someone feeling that feeling, that emotion.
When thought tells us about someone seeing, there is what is being seen and there is someone seeing it. Note, this is a prank of thought, it is a playful model of thought. I refer to this thought that I have called “psychological thought,” which is what sustains duality, it sustains separation … When there is, at this moment, attention to that movement, which is the movement of that pattern of thought, psychological thought, that creates separation and that also creates time.
We have already talked to you here – in several videos, you can delve deeper into these subjects here, which we are dealing with you – this psychological thought creates time too. In fact, this notion of past, present, and future, this is just a reality of thought, it has no reality outside of thought, there is no such thing as psychological future, nor psychological past. We only have the future of the calendar, the future of the clock, the future tomorrow for a new sunrise, for a new sunset… the future of the calendar. But there is no such thing as the psychological tomorrow, as the psychological future, this is something that thought produces.
So, “I was someone in the past, I am someone today and tomorrow I will be someone different.” This idea of someone is an illusion, which moves only in that time imagined by thought. Notice how interesting it is to have this approach, because it gives you the feeling that you were someone, that you are being someone and that you will be someone. There is always this “come to be,” this “ceased to be,” this “I will be,” or this “I was.” Something totally false, because there is no such person, there is no time, there is no model of psychological thought that supports this condition of “someone.”
This model of psychological thought can only sustain this condition of “someone” when there is absence of attention. Our life, notice, is being sustained by this psychological condition, by this model of psychological thought. So, there is this feeling of being someone indeed, but only in the absence of this attention. We need to become aware of what is here, at this moment, supporting this condition of psychological thought and, therefore, this idea of someone present in life, in living, in experience.
So, the presence of Meditation is mindfulness. Note, here the word “Meditation” is not linked to any technique, any practice, any specific moment of 15 minutes or 30 or 45 minutes of crossed legs, breathing in a certain way. We are talking about this awareness, this attention here and now, then we have the presence of Meditation. Therefore, this Meditation is Self-Awareness, this Meditation is Advaita, the Meditation of non-duality. It is the Truth revealing itself at this moment as your Being, as your True Nature, as that which is present being the Reality of life, without any illusion.
This is what we are working on here with you: presenting to you the Truth of What we are when there is no more illusion. This illusion has been sustained in us due to ignorance. There is a good word in India for this ignorance, which sustains this whole condition of the model of egoic mind, of egoic consciousness, of psychological time. The word is “avidya.” “Avidya” means “ignorance.” It is this ignorance that sustains suffering; therefore, it is the ignorance regarding the truth about ourselves, about what we are, what we demonstrate to be. Not investigating it, not understanding it, is avidya, it is ignorance. When there is an end to this ignorance, we have the Truth of Revelation of That which is beyond what we demonstrate to be, what we appear to be.
This is our work here with you, both on this channel and on our other channel called “Marcos Gualberto.” Here, in the video description, you can find the link to check out the other channel. In addition to these videos, here on this channel and also on the other, we have something even more relevant, which are our online meetings that take place on weekends. Saturday and Sunday we are together, through questions and answers, immersed in this Silence that is Meditation, becoming aware of That which is beyond the “I,” beyond the ego.
Here in the video description, you have the WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings. In addition to these meetings, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this made sense to you, if it touches you in some way, please write it here in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense.” Go ahead, leave your “like,” and subscribe to the channel, Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you.
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