Here, there is a fact, we are inviting you to the Awakening of Wisdom. This Awakening requires the presence of a direct comprehension of how you function. That's why if there's a subject here that we keep coming back to, it's the subject of the beauty of this immersion in Self-Awareness.
Without a vision of the Truth about yourself, without the importance of Self-Awareness in your life, this particular life of yours will continue to be the life of someone present in life, in living, in experience. Note that everything happens in life with experiences. They are experiences happening.
The great truth about experiences we don't know, and we've never investigated. What is the truth of experiences? Since everything that happens in life is stored in this way, in the form of an experience. Follow along with me here, now, at this moment.
When you are faced with a given situation, that situation is an event. When you go through that situation, the representation of what you went through is now an experience for you. Thus, our lives are constantly happening and being transformed for each of us into a memory in this format.
So, our experiences are nothing other than what happens, what happens and we store it, memorize it, acquire it, and it becomes part of this knowledge of experience that we have. Then, that's what shapes all the knowledge we bring with us.
Therefore, events are events that represent our stored experiences and, therefore, acquired knowledge. Then, with this knowledge, we once again put ourselves in new situations, or go through new situations, and these situations are transformed into new experiences and new knowledge. This shapes the “I,” “me,” this person, this sense of being someone. This sense of being someone is what is known as the ego, the “person,” this “me.”
Here we are with you exploring the issue of the “I,” investigating the structure and nature of the “I.” Thus, we come across something fundamental, something essential, a discovery that may prove to be, notice, the revelation that this sense of “I” – which is the result of these events that are transformed into experiences stored in us and, therefore, into knowledge acquired by each of us – is just a way of continuing this psychological model in which we find ourselves today. This sense of “I” is this psychological model.
Here we are challenging you to have a direct comprehension of the Truth that this psychological model is memory conditioning. This is not the Reality about you; it is the truth that you express within relationships.
So, your contact with people, among people, in this “person” that you are, this truth is the truth of a set of memories, of recollections. It's these memories of past experiences and knowledge that are interfering all the time in this moment within relationships, providing the basis for these relationships, since this is something that comes from the past, it's the result of experiences and knowledge acquired, in contact with the present moment, within a relationship.
And here it's important to understand this. Life is not something that happens over time. Realize the importance of this comprehension. This instant is not an instant in time. This notion of time that we have, of past, present and future, is a notion created by thought. There is no such thing as time. The truth of this instant is that Something is present, but it's not within that time, as the thought in us formulates this belief.
The thought in us formulates the idea, the thought, the concept, a formulation of past, present and future. And how does thought create this formulation? Everything that can be remembered is the past, everything that can be imagined is the future, and this notion of the present, in this formulation of thought, is what stands between the past and the future. Your notion of time is a notion based on thought.
Life is not something that is happening in time, it is something that is at this moment revealing itself as something outside of this formulation of thought called time. This time is the time that thought idealizes, that is in the idea, in the model of thought. Life is something at this instant revealing itself, and we are attending to life at this moment in such a way that the past, which is these experiences, which is memory, which is knowledge, has given formation to someone present here. That someone is the “I.”
This element is just the result of the experience of past knowledge, and it is confronting the present moment, approaching to this instant, to that which is here. We call it present moment. It is the moment of this instant, which transcends or is beyond this so-called present and also past and future.
Our contact with this moment, since this contact represents this element that comes from the past, is a contact of separateness, of disorder, of conflict, because we establish an interpretation of this moment, an evaluation of this moment, a judgment of this moment based on the past. Whereas, in reality, this moment represents something new, and we are bringing in this element from the past.
Notice how important it is to study, to comprehend, to see, to be able to perceive in yourself this movement that comes from the past, which is giving rise to this identity, which is the “I.” Thus, the “I” is in contact with the moment, establishing a particular vision of the world, of experience, of knowledge, something that comes from the past. To put it very bluntly: why do we have problems in life? And where exactly is this problem we have in life?
Note that the only problem we have in life is the problem of relationships; it's our relationship, be it with ourselves, with others or with life, but this element is always present. Life is something that is happening right here, right now, but we bring to life this element, which is the “I,” which is the result of experience and knowledge. So, to quickly go over this for you: when an event occurs, it becomes an experience; this experience is knowledge, and this knowledge, experience, event is shaping this “I.”
Look, in a very quick and direct way, we've already perceived that the truth of what you represent yourself to be... Look, this is a verbal statement about it. You need to get closer to yourself and perceive the truth of that, no longer in a verbal, intellectual way. Look how simple it was to put it into words. Very quickly, it was put here in just a few minutes, but the comprehension of it consists – the real comprehension of it – of working on discarding this “I,” this ego, this element that comes from the past: it's the work of a lifetime.
The basis for this work is Self-Awareness. Studying your reactions, comprehending how you function within this contact with life. And we've just seen this: this contact with life is the contact of relationships. Either you are in a relationship with yourself, with the other, or with happenings, situations, events, occurrences, and this contact is a contact of relationship, and in this contact of relationship is present this “I” with this background of experience and knowledge.
Can we discover life in the Truth of what it is? In other words, life without this element that comes from the past and shows itself here. You see, this happens all the time. At all times, you as a person are reacting to this relationship. Life is something happening here and now. Is it possible to experience only this instant without the element that comes from the past with its experience and knowledge?
Then your contact with him or her, with this or that situation, with this or that event at this instant, will not be transformed into an experience and therefore into a new knowledge. This quality of action in life is the real action of the relationship, free of the “I,” free of the ego. If, in life, what we need is Love, Peace, Freedom, Happiness in our relationships, in our contact with what is presented here, which is life in its mysterious movement, we need to be free of the “I,” free of the ego, free of this “me.”
Here we are with you, showing you that we can discover life here and now, in this relationship, without the presence of this element that comes from the past. How have we given rise to this element? How has it been maintained? Within human history, the condition of being someone is exactly like that.
When we go through situations, we turn it into a memory, we keep it and it becomes an experience. Based on this experience, this memory, this knowledge, we are constantly relating to others, relating to situations, and having a relationship with ourselves. But what is this “me?” What is this “I?” It's the past.
There is a Beauty in life: it is Life itself when it reveals itself, without the sense of someone being present. Thus, the various problems we have in life are relationship problems, due to the presence of the past. This encounter with the Beauty of Life, of Real Life – which is not this life that consists of this movement, where there is this separation between this present moment and this element that comes from the past – consists of the awareness that Life is present and this element doesn't need to be here.
When people have problems of all kinds, all of them, it happens in an invariable way, all the human problems we have revolve around how the mind in us works, establishing itself in this model, and at every moment this shows itself again and again and again. This sustains the identity, which is the identity of the “I,” and sustains this notion of time. I refer to this psychological time, where the illusion of an identity present is established, which is the ego.
Note that at no point have I said that time is not real. For objective and practical purposes, we have this dream time of this so-called human life. We had yesterday on the calendar and we'll have tomorrow, that's on the calendar. That's chronological time, clock time. Here I refer to the time that sustains this identity, which is the illusory identity of the “I.”
When people have problems, and here I'm going to mention just one, such as dealing with insecurity in relationships, they don't know what to do with these problems, and they seek help in this or that other way, and they don't understand that the basis of the problem is the “I,” it's the ego. The Awakening of your Real Nature is the end of this condition, because it is the end of this model of being someone, of living in this psychological time, in this model of experience and knowledge.
“How do you deal with insecurity? How to deal with jealousy and insecurity?” This is just one of the problems that human beings have. Jealousy, insecurity, the problems that arise within relationships. All of this has its origin, its basis in that psychological condition of time where the sense of “I” is established.
Thus, the various human problems, such as anxiety, depression, fear, envy, attachment, we don't have the Truth of Love present, because we lack this awareness, which is the awareness of Being, the awareness of the Truth about ourselves, about this Reality that is beyond the “I.” When it reveals itself, there is this Truth of Life at that instant, at that moment. So, what we have at that moment is the Reality of your Being, it's the Reality of God, it's the Reality of Life. This is revealed when there is an end to this psychological condition of egoic identity.
Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment or the Awareness of God is the awareness of your Being when this illusion ends, when this model of the “I” falls apart, vanishes. Here, on this channel and also in online meetings on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, we are together investigating this with you, working with you to bring an end to this psychological time, to this illusion of an identity that is based on experience, on knowledge, on memory.
A life free of the sense of “I” is a life possible here and now, where thought has its place, where knowledge has its place and experience also has its place, but only in a practical and objective way for matters of natural order within this dream of existence. This no longer sustains this psychological sense of ego-identity.
Thus, Saturday and Sunday we're here together working on this with you. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description, so you can get closer to these online meetings on weekends. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, go ahead, leave your “like” here, subscribe to the channel and say in the comments: “Yes, it makes sense” OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!
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