For most of us, life consists of effort. The idea of a life free of effort is inconceivable to us. We already have this notion within each of us that we can't live without striving, without effort, so in this social life, in this economic life, in this so-called “spiritual life” we always carry this idea, the idea of the need to strive, to struggle.
The question is: why do we make an effort? Why do we believe so strongly in the importance, the value of effort? Isn't it because we want to achieve something? Isn't it because we aim to do something? And why do we want to achieve it? Note that we have an idea of what we need to achieve in order to feel complete, happy, and fulfilled. Isn't this idea, this concept, this plan something that is already born out of dissatisfaction, out of the very pain of lack? How can we trust that this project, this plan, is in fact real? Do you understand what we're saying? Isn't this effort part of this activity, which is still the activity of dissatisfaction and therefore of the ego itself?
Note the invalidity of this search, this seeking through struggle, through effort. That's what we're investigating here with you in this channel. It seems that very few can see this. Very few can clearly understand this, that it is not through struggle, that it is not through effort, mainly from an ideal that we already have, that we will get rid of our problems. We need to discover something different from that, something entirely different from everything else in life.
Here we are proposing to you a life free of struggle, free of effort and, therefore, free of these projects, these ideals, these purposes designated by thought, since these thoughts are still part of this psychological condition which is the condition of the “I,” of the ego. Do you follow that? That's what we're working on here with you.
Unfortunately, most of us continue to nurture and feed this hope, the hope of achieving love, peace, freedom, and happiness through effort, struggle, and this ideal. And that's what we're telling you here: this is impossible, because we're dealing with the very movement of the ego, the movement that continues to sustain the sense of separation. Where there is this separation, which is you and Life, you and Truth, you and God, there will be conflict, there will be problems. So, problems can't be solved that way.
People ask: “How to get rid of problems? How can I see myself free of problems?” The point is that the “I” will never get rid of problems, will never be free of problems, because the “I” is the problem. In reality, there is only one problem in life, and it's not Life. There is only one problem in the “I,” it is the problem of the “I” itself. The “I” is the problem. So, Life is not a problem, it has no problems. The “I” is the problem. All this needs to be seen, understood.
So, it's not through effort, it's not through struggle that Happiness comes, that Truth comes, that God's Reality comes. It's not something that will come, it's not something that comes from somewhere. The awareness of Happiness is the understanding of That which is present when the “I” is not. This is the same for Reality, Truth and God. As long as there is this sense of an “I” present in its egocentric movement, there will be suffering, problems will be present. Are you with me?
So, this struggle to be happy, this effort to be happy results in nothing. It does result in more conflict, more problems, more difficulties. All the steps that are taken as a result of this effort and struggle – look at your life – are generating more problems. We get what we want, we achieve what we're looking for, and yet we're still unhappy, full of problems. It's possible that these achievements add even more problems. Not only are they not the solution, but also represent more problems being produced. Follow this carefully, observe this, see the Truth within what we are putting here for you.
So, this agitation, this struggle, this whole effort to find is a waste of energy. Another thing implicit in this movement is the movement of thought. Note that thought is time. Every thought present in you is the presence of time, every thought is a memory, a recollection. A memory is something that is part of time, it is something present in the past, it is the past present. That's what we call thought.
When the past is present now, its representation is thought. So, this movement of thought, which is the past, projects itself into a time that it idealizes called the future in order to accomplish something. So, what we call achievement in the future is just the materialization of the past, it's just the presentation of the ideal of the past, which is thought. See how interesting that is. When a dream is achieved, we actually have the achievement of the past, and if this is the achievement of the past, it has no reality within the moment in which it occurs, because the moment in which it occurs is something that is outside of time. See the implication of this.
That's why no achievement brings Completeness, brings Happiness, brings Real Love, Real Truth to your life, because “your life” is an illusion. The Real Life of your Being is not in time, and this Being, which is your Real Life, is already Love now, already Peace now, already Happiness now, it doesn't need an achievement, it doesn't need the model of thought, it doesn't need the concretization of that past, which is thought. Are we together?
So, Happiness is now, Love is now, God is now, Reality is now. That's what we're working on here with you. We have online meetings where we are going deeper into all these issues that we deal with here on the channel. What is this subject? This is the subject of the Awakening of a new Consciousness, the Awakening of this Being that we are, this is Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment. Let's also look carefully at these expressions here, because perhaps the meaning placed here within the channel is different from what you know, what you've heard, or what you've seen out there.
We're talking about the end of psychological time, the end of the “I,” the end of the ego, a Life now, here, free from the illusion of this becoming, this reaching, this coming to be which, as we've just said, is only the past, only the past showing itself. This idea of present, past and future is part of thought, it's a product of thought. In fact, thought is time, time is thought.
It is on the basis of this thought, which is time, that there is this effort, this struggle. And why do we do all this? And why are we involved in this thought model? Why are we sustaining this psychological condition, the continuity of the ego, the continuity of the “I?” Simply because we don't pay attention to what is, to what is here. What is your real psychological condition at this moment? Is it stress? Is it anxiety? Is it fear? Is it suffering?
Note that your intention is to get rid of it. Getting rid of it implies the presence of time, it requires the future. So, we're always chasing the future and never paying attention to what is in this instant. What is in this instant needs to be seen, understood. When that is seen and when that is understood, it dissolves. We don't need time, but most of us live in this movement of time. We use techniques, practices, various resources to get rid of what's here, and it doesn't seem to solve it, it hasn't been solved so far. That's because we can't get rid of something created by thinking within time by making use of time.
We need to become aware of what is here, in this instant. We haven't learned to look at this pain, we haven't learned to observe this movement of the “I” in this moment, which is the movement of thought, which is the movement of the past, which is the movement of this character, a character that sustains itself in this time that it creates, which is the movement of thought itself.
So, we don't stay with what is shown here, we don't look at it. Thought is projected onto an ideal of achieving, of getting rid of, of becoming something other than what it is. So, what is doesn't interest us, what should be is what interests us. But what should be is a projection of this thought, so this is still part of an imagination, an illusion of the “I” itself, of the ego itself. Do you understand what we're saying?
We can't get rid of what is by having an ideal of how it should be. We can become aware of what is, and if we do this in the right way, there will be an end to this condition, then what will be present is not what should be, but a Reality outside the known. So, that's what we're working on here with you, at the end of this condition of what is, something becomes possible when there is an Understanding. This Understanding is the Revelation of Self-Awareness and the Truth of Real Meditation, so we have the end of this condition. Are we together?
This doesn't have to do with a practice, a method, a formula; it doesn't have to do with introspection, with the well-known practice of therapeutic meditation that people know out there. It has nothing to do with self-analysis. We are not proposing psychotherapy here, but the awareness of the Revelation of Self-Awareness. When there is Self-Awareness, we have the basis for Real Meditation, the basis for True Meditation, for the awareness of this Real Being. This Real Consciousness is not this egoic consciousness, it is not this movement of “I” in this idea of “I was, I am, and I will be.” That's the end of it.
So, to have an approximation to the Truth of what is happening here, in this instant, to discover how to bring attention to this moment, without resisting, without any effort, without any struggle, without disapproving, without running away, but to be with it, to have such a significant approximation of direct communion with this state that is showing itself here, without separating.
When we don't separate ourselves from fear, from anguish, from anxiety, from this or that form of suffering – the name doesn't matter now – when we don't separate ourselves, when there isn't this sense of an “I” to reject, to fight, to do anything with what arises, this division ends, this separation ends. Then, the experience has no name, there is no experiencer for this experience, we are in front of this state. When we know how to approach it without separating ourselves, what happens? What happens to the experience when it loses its name and that “I” that identifies the experience and wants to do something about it? What happens to that experience?
Here we are telling you: this is the end of the experience, it's the end of what is shown, it's the end of this internal condition. Notice that this internal condition is given a name and an experiencer, it's the experience, which is the condition, and the experiencer, who is the one who names the experience and wants to get rid of it. This disappears because there is no longer this division, there is no longer this separation. And when there is no longer this separation, this psychological condition, this condition of this psychological being falls apart. Then, we have something new that arises, something that is beyond the “I,” beyond the ego, beyond the experience and the experiencer, beyond this thought and this thinker, beyond this internal condition of separation between this “Life and me.”
So, that's what we're dealing with here in this channel, showing you the possibility of a life free of the “I,” of the ego, and therefore a life where Love, Truth, Happiness, the Reality of this Being Consciousness, which is Happiness, is present. For this purpose, we have meetings here on weekends. You can find our WhatsApp link to take part in these meetings here in the video description. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. So, if this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead and give your “like” here, subscribe to the channel and put “Yes, it makes sense” in the comment, OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!
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