What I have observed is that we have great difficulty in approaching these issues that are being discussed here. Not because the issues are complex, but because each of us has a very complex psychological model. We rarely approach something to, with the simplicity of a direct look, become aware of it. In general, our approach is this traditional way of approaching problems already wanting to solve it, already wanting to find a solution to it, based on the concepts we have; on these concepts we carry within us, having ideas about what to do, what to achieve or how to deal with it. So, it complicates everything.
Here, we invite you to look more carefully at all of this. These subjects we are discussing here with you require careful, cautious examination. They require that you, by looking closely, discover what this look is for a comprehension. I have emphasized the difference – and this has to be clear to all of us, and this is where we come across the difficulty – there is a difference between understanding a certain subject or having a comprehension of it. Either there is a comprehension, and this is the experience of it, this is a comprehension, or there is a mere understanding. I may know how to make a cake because I have a recipe in my hands, but this knowledge of the recipe is a theory, it is a formula. The one who makes the cake is the cake maker. I only have the formula, the recipe, so can I say that I know what a ready-made cake is? No, I know what the recipe is, what the cake is made of, but I do not have the ready-made cake, thus I only have the formula.
This is the difference between understanding and comprehending. Comprehension puts you in direct contact with the reality of what is, while understanding puts you in theory, in the concept of it. I want to address a subject with you here that someone might say: “Oh, this is a serious problem,” someone might say to us: “Oh, I have a serious problem.” Notice, every problem, for the one who has the problem, is a problem, and every problem requires a very real approach to it because every problem, as a problem, is serious. So, someone says: “I have obsessive thoughts about someone.” Notice, this is serious. Yes, for the one who is experiencing this, it is serious! Every problem is serious for the one who has the problem. “I have obsessive thoughts about someone, how to deal with this?”
Note, here, we are before a subject that I want to address with you, which in my opinion is fundamental: it is the comprehension of our actions. Notice that our actions are determining life. I have emphasized, here, that we have a particular vision of life. In this particular vision, where this so-called “my life” is situated, which is the life of this person, of this “me,” of this “I,” actions are happening. Life is action happening all the time, but this particular life of this “I,” of this “me,” is very delicate. The sense of “I,” the sense of ego, the sense of someone present in life, in the experience of living, is this particular life, where actions are happening. And as long as we do not have a comprehension of where these actions come from, what is the basis that sustains these actions, these actions will create problems.
“I have obsessive thoughts about someone.” Note that it is the thoughts within us that determine our behaviors, because thoughts generate feelings that generate actions. So, these thoughts that generate feelings produce behaviors. Look at yourself and you will see this clearly: your life, until this day, until this given moment, everything you have done or not done has been based on thought. It is thought that determines, but thought is always accompanied by feelings, sensations, emotions. Look closely at this: every thought carries a level of sensation. When you have a memory, it is loaded with a sense of feeling, emotion, pleasure, pain, fear, desire…
A thought always carries sensations, always of some kind. Even the simplest thought, this feeling, sensation, emotion, comes along with the memory, with the figure, with the image. Every thought in us, we do not understand the internal movement of consciousness within each one of us. I refer to this consciousness that is the consciousness that moves, it is the consciousness that is recognized by this movement, which is the movement of thought. This is the consciousness of the “I,” of this sense of being, where there is this impulse for action based on emotion as well as sensation and thought. This entire movement of the consciousness of the “I” is a movement within us, present because of thought. We do not know how thought is processed, we do not understand the truth about thought, but it is thought that is determining our actions.
I have been emphasizing this a lot here with you: the value of Self-Awareness, the importance of Self-Awareness, because it is about having an approach to this model of consciousness present. This idea of consciousness, this thought of consciousness, this concept of consciousness we have – as long as we do not comprehend what this consciousness is and how it works, as long as we are unable to perceive the presence of this thought, feeling, sensation and perception in this consciousness… as long as we do not discover what it means to go beyond this consciousness, we will always be victims of internal, psychological states of disorder. These psychic disorders, these psychological pathologies, these confused states of mind, these internal states of contradiction, conflict and suffering… something present because you think one thing but feel something else and do a third thing and do not perceive that, in fact, you are basically being guided by thought.
It is thought guiding your actions, guiding these behaviors and naturally producing problems and conflicts. There is no happiness – note this – there is no happiness in our lives because, we are living this life in this particular model of consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I,” where these internal states of disorder of thought, feeling and emotion are present. So, human beings live with problems and we do not have an approach to investigate this, because we do not know how to look at it. These states of stress, anxiety, depression, anguish, fear, conflicting, contradictory desires… When you come to ask for help, you have already lived in this condition for a long time. Only in more acute cases does someone approach and seek help, but human beings have lived like this for millennia.
The truth is that we spend our entire lives in this condition of envy, jealousy, ambition, fear, and various fears – we have been discussing the issue of fear with you on the channel – can we get to the root of all this? Can we finally free ourselves from suffering and psychological suffering from all these problems and conflicts? What is it that we are really missing? The comprehension of who we are, of how we are functioning! We can discover the Truth about ourselves, but discovering the Truth about yourself means first, before anything else, becoming aware of who you are here, at this moment. This is the truth about you. What are you at this moment? This is your truth! This is the truth about you. You are anger, you are fear, you are envy, you are jealousy, you are possession, you are control, you are emotional dependence. You are this internal movement of contradiction and conflict, present in this model of thought.
Becoming aware of this truth that is you means going beyond this “you,” because this “you” is within this context of the consciousness of the “I,” of egoic consciousness. There is, indeed, a Reality beyond this “you,” but this Reality is the unknown. It is not part of this model that thought reaches and that, therefore, this consciousness of the “I” can identify, can recognize. Our proposal here, with you, is to show you life without this “my life,” without this particular life where the “I” is present, carrying this model of thought. So, how to deal with obsessive, compulsive thoughts? How to deal with thoughts of this quality, which are present within this consciousness of the “I”? We have to discover what the approach to Self-Awareness is.
When people have questions like, “How to deal with these thoughts?”, obsessive thoughts, or negative thoughts, or chattering thoughts, or thoughts… Notice, all of this is part of this model of psychological restlessness, of psychological disorder. We need to discover that the thinker is nothing other than the thought. This element in you, worried about getting rid of this or that thought – follow this calmly – is the thinker itself. The worry about getting rid of a thought is created by the thinker itself, but this thinker bothered by the thought is thought itself in the discomfort.
So, here we are already approaching this. We have countless videos here, on the channel, showing you the Truth that the one who thinks is not separate from the thought that produces it, and this thought that is produced by the one who thinks, in reality, is one single phenomenon happening. The idea that we have, the concept that we have, is someone who produces thoughts. This someone we call the “thinker.” The great truth about this is that thought is present together with the feeling, a sensation, an emotion and a way of perceiving, but it is this thought that is creating this sensation of someone present being the thinker. Then, when you want to get rid of something, this something that you want to get rid of, is still this “you.”
See how basic this is for a direct comprehension of how to realize, in this life, the end of this particular life of the “I,” of how to comprehend this movement which is the movement of the egoic consciousness. See how basic the comprehension is that there is no thought without the thinker. Thought is present, the presence of a thinker is implied; when there is no thought, there is no thinker. Note, you cannot be afflicted by something that is not present. That which afflicts you is present afflicting you, but the one who is afflicted by this something is not separate from this thing. So, what we have in an affliction is only affliction. This separation between this afflicted one and what afflicts one, is an idea.
So, follow the simplicity of this: if thought is present, there can be a sensation of someone thinking; if a feeling is present, there can be a sensation of someone feeling. When there is sadness, there is the possibility of an element here, feeling sad. Thus, there is no sadness, there is no thought, there is no emotion. If there is no emotion, there is no emotional person; if there is no sadness, there is no sad person; if there is no thought, there is no thinker. This separation between thought and thinker, between the one who feels and the feeling, between the emotion and the one who is emotional – follow along with me here –, this is a belief. In fact, it is a conditioning model we have received from our culture.
Here, I am showing you that the contact you need to have with thought is contact without the thinker. Contact with feeling is without this element in feeling; with emotion, it is without this element in emotion. We have an approach to experience without the experiencer, without the “I,” without the ego, without this feeling of this “you” there. So, here, it is about looking at experience without the observer, observing thought without the observer. This “observing without the observer” is just observation. Note, here we have already touched on the approach to Self-Awareness. We need to know this movement of consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I” present in each one of us.
And how do you become aware of this? How do you comprehend this? How is it possible to have a direct comprehension of this? By looking. Just by looking, observing, perceiving. Perceiving without the perceiver, looking without the observer, being aware without this element of the “I” being aware. When experience is there and the experiencer is not present there, that experience vanishes. So, how do you get rid of this quality of thought that generates feeling and generates action? By becoming aware of thought. Once you become aware of thought, you simultaneously get rid of the thinker, you get rid of this pattern of behavior and action. Because this pattern of behavior and action stimulated by feeling and emotion, it vanishes when there is just “looking.” This is something that requires the presence of attention on this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” which is the movement of the ego.
So, here on this channel, we are working with you precisely on the end of this “I,” this ego, this movement that is the egocentric movement of being someone, because that is what carries all this suffering, all this confusion. This is our subject here, on the channel, and also on our other channel called “Marcos Gualberto.” We have several videos delving into these subjects here, with you. If this is something that makes sense to you, we have online meetings that take place on the weekends. On Saturday and Sunday, we are together, delving into this subject here, with you. Then, we have an opportunity to work on this together. Here, in the video description, you have our WhatsApp link to get closer to these online meetings, on the weekends. In addition, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead, leave your “like” here, subscribe to the channel and leave here in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense”. Ok? And we will see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.
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