What underpins our meetings here is this Self-discovery. When you ask me: “What exactly is it that you are discussing in these meetings? I have already read something about this issue of ‘who am I?’ I have already studied a little about Advaita, about non-duality. I have already read books about the Awakening of Consciousness, about Spiritual Enlightenment, it seems to me that you are discussing these subjects here. What exactly do you mean? How can we free ourselves from all this confusion of tangled words?” In general, people have felt exactly like this, as if they were inside a forest of information, of knowledge. So, I have been telling you here that we do not need more information, more knowledge.
The first thing that became clear in this meeting with my teacher, with my Master, was that I no longer needed knowledge, information, or learning from books. Follow that with me, here, in this statement. The first thing that became clear to me is that the time had come for a direct experience, for a direct experiencing, of something outside the intellect. Note that most of us, most people who come here on the channel, arrive very well informed. They have already read a lot, studied a lot, and have also been involved in various forms of practices, have been within various systems and have been involved in various so-called “spiritual” practices. In general, we spend a good deal of time in this so-called “search” or “quest,” in this search for spirituality, involved in that, involved in this model of behavior. We study and practice what that group teaches us, what that system teaches us.
Here we are with you investigating something else, we are investigating how to have a direct look, completely dispensing with practices, rules, systems and techniques, dispensing with theoretical and conceptual studies, regarding the Truth of the Divine Revelation. Note, it is not the words that get in our way, but the whole idea about what these words mean. We do not get a direct look at what the word represents, in general we are left with the ideas of these representations. Let us clarify this here for you: we do not need more information, what we need is to become aware of what we are here and now, of what is happening to us at this moment – this will reveal to us something that the word and the idea about the word cannot reveal to us.
We have emphasized here how to have a direct approach to this, and the precise, direct, clear, objective way to do this approach is through Self-Awareness. So, we have to answer here first, the first of all questions is: what is Self-Awareness? Now, we cannot approach this expression “Self-Awareness” by giving it meanings or having ideas about this expression. We can only know the truth of the answer to what Self-Awareness is, through experience, through direct experiencing. Then, I have emphasized here the beauty of learning, and here “learning” is exactly unlearning everything that we have received and discovering what it is to look. This is real learning, the real looking at what is here, present in this moment, makes us understand the Truth about what we are at this instant. And when this happens, we truly begin to unlearn everything that we believe we are, everything that we idealize ourselves to be, seek to be, think we are, we mistake ourselves for being ourselves. All of this begins to be unlearned in this approach to this learning about ourselves, and this is the Truth of Self-Awareness revealing itself.
Here we are dealing with an emptying of all the content of this “I,” this “me,” this sense of person with which we mistake ourselves for, with which we identify; this model of person that we believe we are, that we sustain we are here, at this moment, in this experience, in life. So, here the question is: what is Self-Awareness? Notice, there is a great deal of confusion here, once again, in the use of this expression. The idea that one has, based on the expression itself, is that it is knowledge of oneself. But this is very delicate, this issue of approaching this knowledge of oneself. Because, in general, thought says something about who you are, and it draws a conclusion; and based on this conclusion, it sustains itself in supposed knowledge. What, in fact, we have at this moment is a construct of thought itself about who we are.
We are before an illusion: the idea of self-awareness, the ideal of self-awareness. This is within a model of illusion because it is based on a mistaken principle. And the principle is the model of thought recognizing itself, having a look. Everything that thought can see from it is part of itself and, as part of itself, is not reality. So, any self-awareness you have is just thought drawing conclusions, forming an image, a frame about who you are. That is not what we are dealing with here, on this channel. When we use the expression “Self-Awareness” – which is the expression that is used – here on the channel we use it in a specific way; we are signaling, pointing out the Truth that every vision that the “I” has of itself, that thought makes of itself, is illusory.
The Truth of Self-Awareness is the end of the illusion of someone knowing oneself, of a thinker recognizing oneself, of an experiencer talking about oneself. When there is the Truth of Self-Awareness, there is no one left, because this Self-Awareness is exactly the discarding of this center, of this thinker, of this experiencer, of this “I,” of this thought about who he is, about who she is, about who I am. The idea “I am” is part of thought. When people use expressions like “I am” and make statements about this “I am,” what are we doing? We are just putting a thought format, a concept, a belief, an intellectual conclusion. Can we become aware of the Truth about ourselves? Yes, when there is an end to this illusion of this “I,” this “me,” this ego.
This is the Truth of Self-Awareness: when there is, I repeat, when there is a revelation of the Truth of That which is you in your Being, there is no one left. Therefore, all this knowledge that is acquired, all these experiences in the so-called “spiritual” or “mystical” practices, all of this is something that is still only at the service of a model of psychological conditioning. That gives formation and support to this pattern of psychological time, in which the “I” is present and living from it, from this psychological time. Therefore, everything that you can acquire and accumulate, experience, save, is within this context of psychological time at the service of this “I,” this “me,” this ego. The Truth of Self-Awareness – that is why we have been talking here with you about the importance of Self-Awareness – the importance of Self-Awareness is that, in it, there is the discarding of the illusion of a present identity in order to know oneself.
This is the importance of Self-Awareness, because we have the end of this psychological time, where the sense of the “I,” of the ego, extracts its existence, its model of being someone, of being a person, living a life separate from the one Life, from the Reality of life. So, this particular life of this “I,” of this ego, is established in this psychological time. The central idea is: “I was, I am and I will be.” That ends when there is this Revelation of the Divine Nature. That's not something personal, there is no person in this. There is no center, there is no “me,” there is no “I.” Then, we have the answer to the question “who am I?” A direct answer is the clear perception of Reality outside of the known. That which is outside of the known that reveals itself is the answer to this question. No one is left with an answer, there is no verbal answer, there is no answer in language, in words, in expression. We are before something that is the Unknown. This is the Divine Truth, the Truth of this Essential Nature of yours, where you as a person do not exist, you as someone are not present. This is something that requires a deep comprehension of the Truth about ourselves, of our reactions. The main element within these reactions is the element of thought.
This is a subject we have been addressing here to you. We are investigating what thought is. Note, it is not about acquiring information about any of this; it is about observing in oneself these reactions, this entire process of psychological movement of this “I,” in this psychological time that thought constructs. So, what is thought? Becoming aware of how this is processed, how it is present in this model of being someone. Looking at this directly is being able to discard this psychological condition, discovering something outside of this “I.” Then, our subject here is a direct approach to what is happening, what is processed, what occurs with each one of us at this instant, at this moment. I have said that this is like riding a bike: you do not theorize about it, you do not read books about it, you do not learn it from someone. You learn to ride a bike and you ride a bike alone. Riding a bike is not being on the back of a bike, it is not being carried by someone on a bike, it is pedaling a bike, it is balancing on a bike. It is in this sense that I use the expression “riding a bike” here.
The Realization of the Truth is an acknowledgement, becoming aware of oneself, and this is something that is experiential, not theoretical, not conceptual. You can’t do this by studying books; it requires a work on yourself. That’s why we’re inviting you to participate in the online meetings we have here on the weekends. On Saturday and Sunday we’ll be together, investigating these issues, studying ourselves, discovering what this unlearning is, in this learning of the Truth of That which is present here and now. It’s learning without accumulating information, without the need for theoretical knowledge, because it’s like riding a bike. On Saturday and Sunday, we’ll be together online; you can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these online meetings on the weekends.
We also have face-to-face meetings, retreats, all of these are opportunities given to you for direct work to realize the Truth about yourself in this life. So, I want to leave you with this invitation: if what you have just heard is something that makes sense to you, if you feel that this is your moment to Awaken, to go beyond this dream, this sleep, which is the common condition of human beings in this context of life, where within this illusion, this sense of being someone, of living as someone, suffering is present, problems are present, the lack of knowledge of God is present. Therefore, if this makes sense to you, here is an invitation: go ahead, leave your “like” here and subscribe to the channel, OK? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.
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