What is thought? And what is thinking? These are two very important questions for us here, within this work, because the lack of direct understanding of how we work lies in exactly this. Human beings just work, but they don't know how they work. It's like when you get on a plane, the plane takes off and then lands, but you don't know how a plane works, you're just transported by it from one place to another.
In life, here in existence, the human being is born and spends his entire life without an understanding of the Truth of what life means, the meaning of it, so he spends an entire life without an understanding of the Wholeness of life, the Completeness of life, the Truth of life. All this happens because we don't understand the Truth of who we are, we don't understand ourselves, we don't know the Reality of our own Being, the Reality of our own Real Nature, we don't recognize the Truth of the Beauty of life. So, we are alive without life, because there is no understanding of the Singularity, Beauty, Truth of life.
Understanding who we are requires a view of how we function, so we have an understanding of ourselves. This is the understanding of the Beauty of life, of this being alive, of this Being Life that we are. This approach requires Self-Awareness, the Truth of your Being being revealed. A comprehension of how we function requires an understanding of how the mind works. So here we have another question: what is the mind? How does the mind work? In addition to “what is thinking?” and “what is thought?”
Observing the internal movement of remembrance, recollections and memories gives you a clear view of how thought works. The point is that we are, in general, always reacting to the present moment without the slightest awareness of this element that reacts to that instant, which is the thought element. It is thought that is reacting to the stimuli of the senses, to visual perception, to auditory perception, to each and every form of sensory perception. Thought, as a response of memory, of recollection, is reacting, and in reacting to this moment, in reacting to this stimulus, thought acquires even more information about the experience and stores this information within its own collection of memories and recollections.
So, in this present moment, we are always reacting and acquiring new experiences. These experiences become memories, recollections, which take this form, which is the form of thought. Then, faced with new challenges, we react again with these thoughts, which are already stored, which are recollections, memories, and so we are continually reacting and acquiring more recollection, more memory, more thought, more knowledge of these experiences. The responses to this moment are responses that are born of memory, that are born of remembrance, that are born of thought, and form new memories, new thoughts, which are stored again, and so we are always in this cycle. We have the experience, we keep that experience, it becomes a memory, which is thought, which responds to new reactions within new moments that arise, which become new remembrances, new thoughts, which are kept, and the cycle continues.
We're always responding to the present moment on the basis of the past, that's the movement of thought. So, what is thought? Thought is memory that reacts to this present moment, so this memory that reacts to this present moment is thought. What is thinking? We don't know what thinking is, because we're always inclined to this movement of thought reaction, we're always responding to this instant with the past. There is no such thing as “thinking.” There is only the movement of thought. This is the movement of thought, this repetition. I'm always reacting to everything that arises based on the knowledge that I already have, that I already have inside me. What is the truth about thinking? Thinking is present when there is no reaction. When there is this awareness of observing the movement of thought without reaction, we have the presence of thinking.
Let's explore this with you now. When you, for example, ask me my name and I answer you my name, that answer is a reaction from the memory I have inside me, from a remembrance I have inside me; to that question you ask me, I have an answer and that answer is a reaction. I don't make use of thinking, it's something automatic, it's something quick, it's something very fast; this answer is already born in a very automatic way from this memory background, so there is this element, which is the element of thought expressing itself. We believe that there is an element present, which is the thinker, that is producing this thought, and this is not true; this thought is only appearing as a reaction of memory, and this reaction of memory is thought itself.
This is how we move in life, this is the movement of thought, this is thought, so there is always this element of thought present in our life. When we don't understand that this is just a reaction of memory and we place an element to judge this thought experience, to compare this thought experience, to reject it, to fight against it, to say “I like this thought,” “I don't like this thought,” we are already placing a foreign element here, within the experience, which is the “I” element, the ego, the sense of “someone” present. This is the absence of this thinking.
In general, when we say “I'm thinking about this,” we're already placing this illusory element that is the “I” within this movement, which is the movement of thought. That's not thinking, that's reacting to that moment. The Truth about thinking is to be aware of the movement of thought itself, without reacting to it, without placing the thinker within it. So, in general, human beings don't know what thinking is, they don't know how it works because they are always captured by the reactive movement of memory, of the past, of remembrance, of this “I.” This explains why there is no silence in us, no stillness. The brain is busy all the time with memories, with recollections, with reactions that come from the past, so there's an internal chatter, there's a restlessness in the mind.
What we call the mind is this chattering movement of thought within us. So, what is the mind? It's this movement of perception, sensation, feeling, and thought which, in general, works in a very restless way in human beings. So, there is this restlessness of the mind because there is no understanding of this movement, which is the movement of thought. “How to get rid of this chattering?” How do I get rid of the negative thoughts? How do I get rid of obsessive thoughts?” These are questions that people ask because they don't understand how they really work. So, psychologically, the human being is stuck in a pattern of programming, of mental conditioning, of psychological conditioning, because we are always reacting.
We want to invite you to approach the observation of the movement of the mind, then there will be this awareness of how the mind works, there will be an understanding of what thinking is. When there is this stillness of the mind, which arises from this observation of the movement of thought, we are faced with thinking. Thinking is free from the thinker, just as feeling is free from the “I” that feels, just as observing is free from the observer. In this sense of ego-identity, in this psychological condition of always reacting to the present moment with this background of memory, of remembrances, of reactions from the past, always placing this element, which is the “I” element, to judge, to compare, to reject, to fight against this experience… In this way, we are always trapped in this model of the thinker with its thinking, the observer with its observation, the one who feels with his feeling, so there is no approach to the Beauty of the Truth of Being, this thinking free of the thinker, this observation free of the observer, this feeling free of the one who feels.
So, there is no Truth of understanding who we are because there is no Self-awareness. To see this, to become aware of this, of this inner movement, which is the movement of the “I,” of the ego, of this experiencer, of this observer, of this thinker, to become aware of this is to go beyond this, beyond this sense of the “I,” of the ego. Self-awareness gives you this approach. Here I refer to the Truth of Self-Awareness. It's not something you'll learn from someone, that you'll learn in a book, that you'll take a course on. Here I'm referring to the art of learning to look at the movement of the mind itself, which is the movement of this thought, this thinking, and feeling. To become aware of this model of thinking and feeling in the “I,” of this “I,” is to go beyond this thinker, it is to understand the Real Thinking, the Real Feeling, the Real Seeing.
So, the work consists of this awareness of oneself. Thus, the Truth of Revelation consists of understanding this movement about who we are, about what we show ourselves to be in that instant, so that this movement of duality, which is the thinker and thought, disappears, the one who observes and the what is observed disappear. The presence of That which is outside the “I,” outside the ego, of that Unnamable, Indescribable Reality, which is the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God, which is the Reality of your Being, shows itself in that instant.
So, this work here consists of learning the art of self-observation, which brings you closer to Real Self-awareness, to True Meditation in a practical way. We have two playlists here on the channel showing you the beauty of the Truth of Real Self-awareness and True Meditation in a practical way. So that's our work here on the channel. We have meetings on weekends, online – you can enter our WhatsApp link here for more information and you can get closer to these meetings – we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, please give your “like,” subscribe to the channel, and let's work on it, OK? Here's the invitation and we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!
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