Here we have a single purpose and that purpose is the awareness of the Divine Truth. However, we didn't start here talking about God, we started here talking about the meaning of the “I.” This is very interesting because, in general, people want to hear about God, especially when they want to overcome difficulties, obstacles and situations beyond their control. But, notice, the idea is to overcome difficulties, such as overcoming the fear of death.
The question is: “How do you overcome the fear of death?” For example, this is a question. Fear is present, it's something that arises, it's something that appears, just as death is also something that arises, it's something that appears. We have a way of approaching life as it happens, note, from ideas, from concepts, evaluations, opinions and also beliefs. So, we also believe that approaching God will help us overcome fear.
Here I have something to tell you: the revealed Divine Truth, the awareness of this Revelation, of what God's Truth is, is the end of fear. Because where does fear lie? Fear is an element in you that is basically based on the future. You're only afraid of the future. Look at that. All your fears are of what might happen, because, here and now, at this moment, there is no fear.
We have the fear of getting sick, the fear of getting old, we have the fear that something that happened in the past will happen again, we have the fear of death, we have the fear of being abandoned. Notice, all fears, all our fears are about the future. Now I ask you: where is the future?
Here in these meetings we sit down, we stop, we look, we watch, we listen to these speeches to investigate all this. So, here the question is: where is the future? Since all fear is of the future, look for a fear in yourself that isn't of the future. Tell me about a fear that isn't of the future. Fear is something linked to tomorrow, to the day after, to a little while from now, it's what might happen, could happen, or maybe happen. Note, it's basically what thought says about the future.
Thus, what do we have in the presence of fear? The future, what thought says about what will come, about what will happen, about what might come. That's what fear is, fear is the future, and the future is thought. What we have as the future is thought. So here we have three things which, in reality, are one: we have the future, we have thought and we have fear.
When people ask how to deal with fear, I usually ask them what fear they're talking about, and they can't show me any fear that's separate from the future. You can't tell me about a fear now; you can tell me about something about to happen in relation to a situation here and now. So there's a present situation, that situation is what it is, it's what happens, and there's nothing in that situation other than a present fact that arises, that is here, but the thought constructs an idea about that fact, about that which is here.
So, how do we come closer to the truth of fear? By becoming aware of the idea that is thought, because the fact of fear is the idea of thought. Therefore, fear has this characteristic present in each of us, it has the presence of the idea, the concept, the belief. Then, how can we deal with fear? By becoming aware of thought, because the only fact of fear is thought.
But thought, notice, is an abstraction. Thought is a symbol of image, of representation, something that comes from the past representing the future, appears here and now because of a present situation as an image, as a representation of the past for the future. How can we overcome the fear of death? By discovering the reality of the end here and now.
Once there is this resistance to what is here and now, and this resistance is the idea of what should be, contrary to the fact that is happening at this moment... See, the fact is here, but the idea is in the future. To perceive the idea, to become fully aware of the idea, is to end the idea. That's the end of this idea of death, because it's just an idea.
So, how do you overcome the fear of death? Become aware that you are dealing with a thought and not a fact. The fact is what is here. Notice how important that is. If death happens at this instant, in this instant, in this single second that is here, there is no fear. Someone with a terminal illness may fear death when the thought of what will happen at the final moment or when the afterlife appears. Only when a thought is present is fear present. If there is no thought, there is no fear. See how fascinating this comprehension is. You see, this is not something intellectual, it's not something theoretical, it's not something conceptual, this is a fact.
A fact is not an idea. A fact is what is here showing itself exactly as it is, and we are dealing with a fact. The fact is. The idea is not the thing, the idea is an abstraction, it's a concept, it's an image. Can we go beyond the idea, the concept and the image? The answer to this is very clear. The awareness that we are facing an idea is the end of the value of that idea. The continuity of that idea is the movement that thought sustains.
So, where is this suffering from the fear of death really established? In sustaining an idea about what might happen, or should happen, or will happen. The continuity of thought is the maintenance of the state. The awareness of thought is the end of thought and, naturally, the end of the state. Then, what do we have here and now? We have the presence of the state because of the presence of thought. Without thought, without the state.
Where is that element in fear, with fear? That element is thought. It is this thought that has created, in this image that it constructs, an entity present in this pain, in this conflict, in this suffering, in this problem. So, what can I recommend to you right now? Be aware of this element. Don't react, don't fight, don't do anything with this element when this pain is present, when this picture is present: become aware of it, approach it and look at it. Any resistance, any struggle, any attempt to resist this thought is to maintain its continuity and therefore the continuity of the state.
So, how can we deal with thought? Become aware of it, give it full awareness, give it full presence, give complete presence to it. Become aware of it, look at it, observe it, listen to it, perceive it. That's it. Any involvement you have with thought will sustain an element present in thought. That element is the thinker, the experiencer. That experiencer is the fearful one, that thinker is the continuity of that element in this pain. What we're discovering together here is how to approach this moment without someone in it, without this thinker, without this experiencer, without this sufferer, without this fearful person, without this person in pain.
Notice how basic this is, but we have an inclination, and I've already pointed this out to you a few times: either we oversimplify by putting an intellectual conclusion on the subject and defining it as a merely verbal, wordy, intellectual conclusion, and we say “yes, I understand, I've understood,” or we overcomplicate it and make it too complex, and we say “no, that's impossible to understand, it's too difficult, I can't, I can't understand that.”
You see, here we are inviting you just to listen. In this listening, it requires an internal moment of silence to just listen to this speech, to listen to what we're saying here. Then it's clear what we're saying, without this oversimplification or over-complication. We are dealing with something to be seen without the observer, perceived without the perceiver, understood without that element that intellectualizes the subject. So listen. When faced with an experience, approach it, whatever it is, just to look at it, perceive it, become aware of it, but don't get involved in it.
See, here we touch on the beauty of this encounter with learning about Self-Awareness – we have a playlist here on the channel. How can we learn about ourselves? By becoming aware of your reactions, by discovering how you function, since, psychologically, this whole structure of the “I” consists of thoughts, and thoughts are those representations that hold the past in us, the idea of someone who has lived and doesn't want to live it again, has been through something and doesn't want it to happen again, or this someone who has an idea about what will happen.
Note that this person is the “I,” it's the ego, and it lives within this psychological context of thought, of abstraction: the past, the present and the future. However, this past, present and future is only a construction of thought, so it constructs fear. Then, all these internal states, frames linked to thought, are present because of this model of being someone, something present when there is no such thing as studying the truth about who we are.
We spend a lifetime in this confusion of the illusion of someone present in life, and this someone present is this element that has come from the past, is in the present and is heading towards the future. So it's scary, but it also has desires. It's not the subject of this speech right now, but in reality, fear and desire are part of this movement of dissatisfaction towards this supposed present entity. This is also the issue of desire.
Human beings carry a dissatisfaction that sustains desire and fear in them, and we think they are different things. In reality, we are dealing with the same phenomenon. Your fear of death is your desire not to die. Your desire to win is, in reality, your fear of not succeeding. So, psychologically, we are living in fear and desire, and all of this is within this movement, which is the movement of thought, which is this quality of psychic life in this abstraction. Because life is what happens here and now, whereas thought is this idea of what should be, or what could be, or what has been or what hasn't been.
So, life consists of the Reality of what is present. A life free of the ego is a life that highlights facts, does not deal with ideas, is a life that is not bound by ideals, positive ideals or negative ideals, good proposals or bad proposals. Here we are with you, breaking this fictitious, illusory quality of life, centered on this movement of time, where all these internal states of disorder and psychic suffering are present.
That’s why human beings suffer from anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, regret, disappointment and insecurity. All this quality of life is the quality that is sustained by this psychic model of “I” identity, of egoic identity. Here, we invite you to the end of all that, to a Real Life, to a Divine Life. Here, we invite you to the end of fear, the end of the ego, the end of the “I.” Therefore, it's about this Freedom, the Freedom of how to deal, not just how to deal with fear, but how to deal with life as it happens. Okay?
That's our subject here. Saturday and Sunday we're here together working with you on these issues. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description, so you can join these online meetings on weekends. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your “like” here, subscribe to the channel and please, write in the comments: “Yes, this makes sense.” OK? And see you! Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!
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