We will present to you here, in more detail, this question of what thought is and what thinking is. See, one thing is directly tied to the other, but we are unaware of the truth about this and underestimate the importance of understanding this. So, notice here, we have the question of the intellectual approach, and we have the truth of the approach to understanding these two subjects, which, in reality, are directly connected, but we understand nothing about them and underestimate the importance, I repeat, of this understanding.
So, let's go. First of all, why is it important for us to have an understanding of the truth about thought and thinking? Because this gives you a foundation to have an approach to Self-Awareness.
And with the presence of Self-Awareness, we have an opportunity for a great portal open to the truth of wisdom. Here on the channel, we have a playlist on wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. I recommend you take a look at this playlist later.
Life requires the presence of wisdom. Without wisdom, life is the life we know. And the life we know is not the life of intelligence; it is the life of problems.
The beauty of an encounter with intelligence, and here I refer to spiritual intelligence-this is another playlist on the channel-all these subjects that we address here, you can find here on the channel in the format of playlists. We have several videos dealing with each of these topics here, so you can find them in the playlists. The presence of this spiritual intelligence is the presence of the truth of wisdom.
Because it is divine awareness, it is the awareness of God. This is based on Self-Awareness. And the presence of Self-Awareness requires that you understand how you function.
So, we cannot eliminate any of these elements. One important thing is to understand that everything in life is interconnected. We cannot have the solution to a problem, for example, without understanding its totality.
And we cannot have this vision of totality if we do not approach it. For example, in general, people try to solve problems the way they imagine they can solve them, the way they think they will be able to solve them.
And, in fact, that is not how it works. Solving a problem requires a direct approach to the problem and not distancing oneself from it, as people generally do. So, notice, going back to the question, everything is interconnected.
Everything is interconnected. So, what is thought? Let's start here. What is thought? See, speaking of problems, this is a problem.
We have not solved this problem. This is one of the human problems we have. We have various problems as human beings in this psychological structure of human existence; we are creatures loaded with problems.
And one of the problems is this: what is thought? We do not know what it is. But look at yourself, and you will realize that we are facing something that has a very simple foundation but, in reality, is something very, very complex due to the psychological complexity we carry.
This is a subject, among others, that has become very complex for each of us. So, this subject-what thought is-has become complex because we live within a very great psychological complexity, but thought itself has a very simple foundation. You have your name, you have your address, you know the name of your spouse, your children. This knowing is knowledge. This knowledge is memory. This memory is thought. So, what is thought? Memory, recollection, knowledge, remembrance. Every present thought is just recollection, knowledge, memory, remembrance. So, basically, that is it.
This is thought. So, we already have the answer to what thought is. From a theoretical, intellectual point of view, the foundation is this.
And what is thinking? Thinking is what makes the presence of thought possible. In what way? I ask for your name, and you tell me your name. But you can only tell me your name because there is a thinking process.
This thinking process is what brings the presence of thought. When the brain reacts, it responds with a memory. The reaction of the brain is thinking, and the memory is thought.
So, what is thinking? It is the response that the brain gives based on the past, which is memory, which is thought. This response arises. This response is thinking.
Now, notice how important it is to have a direct understanding of this, but an experiential one, truly comprehending the subject and not just intellectually. The difference between intellectually understanding something and truly understanding something is totally different. One understanding is a real vision of what is there, of the fact, of what presents itself.
Whereas intellectual comprehension is just an intellectual, theoretical understanding. It is an idea. Here, we are inviting you to understand what thinking is and what thought is.
And in this understanding, it becomes clear that all the problems you have in relation to people, life, and the world around you-all these problems, all kinds of confusion and suffering-are present because of thought. Let's see how simple this is. You have people you like and people you do not like.
Where is this liking and disliking based? Look at yourself, and you will notice. This disliking is based on memories of bad, unpleasant things you experienced with him or her. So, you do not like him or her. But what you have of him or her are memories of someone.
Someone bad, someone ungrateful, someone who wronged you. This memory is thought. So, when someone mentions this person's name near you, it stirs within you-it provokes within you-a state of unpleasant emotion or feeling. So, notice the importance of thought. Thought is sustaining in you people you do not like. Thought is also sustaining in you people you do like. But what are these people? They are just thoughts. And what is the truth of thought? Absolutely none. The only truth about thought is that you are imagining things because that is all thought knows how to do.
It is to imagine things, imagine people, imagine unpleasant or pleasant states in yourself. As long as your life-this person's life-remains sustained by thought, by images, then all our problems are sustained by thoughts, images, and imaginations we maintain. This is thought.
This is the way of thinking that we know. Perceive this-the importance of freeing ourselves from thought, from this thinking, and therefore from this feeling, emotion, sensation, and thus from this imagination, this problem, this suffering.
All our psychic life, all our psychological life, all this consciousness as we know it in us, is nothing but thought-this form of thinking, this feeling, emotion, sensation, and imagination. So, this is what is sustaining this person.
Therefore, the person that you are is a set of thoughts, images, and imaginations about the world, about others, about situations, about appearances, and about yourself. Life in this condition is a life where the illusion of an identity is present. This identity, being illusory, as your life is sustained by this pattern of thought, sees itself as a separate entity from life itself, separate from others, in conflict with itself.
Here, this condition of existence is the condition of the sense of a separate identity. Life, in this context, is life in suffering. In the absence of this awareness of divine reality, there is a reality present, but we live alienated from this reality because we are living in the reality of the "I," the truth of the person, the truth of thought, the truth of imagination.
That is why we have emphasized here with you the truth that we have real life as it is, and we have the particular life of this sense of the "I" as it is. Life as it is, in this sense of the "I," is a life of confusion, separation, duality. Envy, jealousy, possession, various forms of fear, and the contradiction present in these conflicts and desires of the human being are all present. All of this is present because of thought and thinking.
That is why we mentioned earlier that we cannot underestimate this mistaken, illusory way of thinking that we have, which is the way that sustains this thought pattern as we know it, where the illusion of a thinker behind all of this is present. Can we discover life without this thinker? Can we truly discover life without caring anymore about this psychological condition of thought, in such a way that thinking in us undergoes a radical change? Can we break away from this pattern of thinking, where the continuity of this thinking is the continuity of imagination, where the illusion of this thinker-the "I," the person-behind all of this is present?
This discovery, this realization, is possible when we become aware of this entire movement without confusing ourselves with it-when we discover what it is to look at thought. Just look at thought, without placing an element within thought as the thinker when thinking happens.
So, let's see how this becomes possible. Someone appears before you, and you recognize them. At that moment, an image you have of them arises within you.
This image is thought, in this thinking, and naturally, imagination: I like them, or I don't like them. Is it possible for you to simply become aware of this movement when it arises and just look at it without maintaining the continuity of this image you have of them, without maintaining the continuity of thought from this imagination, but just looking? If you discover what it is to look without interfering, without getting involved, without giving credibility to it, without giving it imagination-if there is only looking-try it and see what happens.
Next time you meet someone you know, observe what happens in that moment-how quickly the brain processes this image, which is thinking, and brings up thought about them, and how quickly imagination arises: I don't like them, or I like them.
Observe this. So, next time you meet someone, I invite you to simply become aware of this mechanism. Just become aware, just look, but do not interfere, do not get involved with it.
This is the real way of looking without the observer, of looking without the thinker, of looking without this experiencer, who is the element that has already experienced other contacts with them. At that moment, you eliminate the experiencer, you eliminate the thinker, you eliminate the observer. By doing this, you are, for the first time, entering into direct contact with the moment, without someone present in this contact-this "me," this "I," this ego. This requires the presence of looking, of perceiving, of becoming aware without the "I," without this element in you that always comes from the past to get involved with the present moment.
This is the real way of understanding the fact of thought, the awareness of thought. See, it is no longer a theory, an idea, or something you heard being presented here. You are, at this moment, becoming aware of your reactions, of the fact of your reactions before him or her. If, when meeting someone, they praise you, do the same-just become aware of what the other person says, but do not get involved.
Notice, we are not dealing with something so simple. Not getting involved with a compliment, not allowing yourself to be taken over by a feeling of euphoria, pleasure, or egoic fulfillment-this requires the presence of this attention, of just listening to what the other person says. This applies to a compliment, but it also applies to criticism.
Just listen, noticing that element that comes from the past to receive the criticism with anger or to receive the flattery with pleasure and gratification, and do not confuse yourself with this.
Just become aware of it. At that moment, you are in the presence of this attention, this way of looking at your relationships. This is the foundation for Self-Awareness.
This is what gives you the foundation for the awakening of this spiritual intelligence, for the blossoming of this divine wisdom. So, on a certain level, knowledge, thought, and experience are necessary-professionally, technically, in recognizing your name, or in simply recalling an event, an occurrence, or to speak a language, thought, knowledge, and memory are necessary. But notice, here we are addressing a separate identity-the "I," the ego-being involved in this.
Here we are telling you that at the level of this real consciousness, this divine consciousness, the sense of the "I," of the ego, has no place. We have spent an entire lifetime confusing ourselves with the sense of someone always present in our relationships-with the world around us, with others, with ourselves. So, we are always continuing this thought, this imagination of someone present. Can we eliminate this imagination, this sense of the "I"? Can we place only attention on this moment, on these reactions that arise when something happens internally or when an external challenge arises?
So, notice, here with you, we are working with you, for example, on the end of fear. Observe that fear is nothing other than the presence of thought creating situations of an unpleasant future to come. Can we eliminate thought? If you eliminate thought of this future, you eliminate imagination, and this is the end of fear. We are dealing with life as it happens, but when we sustain our psychological life, based on thought and thus on imagination, the sense of ego is present, confusion is present, suffering is present.
There is no life in thought. In thought, there is only imagination. So, when people ask how to deal with fear, the question for you is this: what is fear? Without the presence of thought, where is fear? If I ask you what you are afraid of, you need thought to tell me what you fear.
If you feel fear, you need imagination-which is the presence of thought-to feel fear. Becoming aware of the reality of your Self is becoming aware of the movement of thought, of the movement of this thinker.
It is this thinker, this thought, that sustains internal states of conflict, disorder, and suffering, such as the issue of fear. How to deal with fear? Here, the question is: how to deal with thought? Because thought is the foundation of fear. Your fear is always of something, but it is always of something that thought communicates to you.
Without the presence of thought, there is no fear. An interesting thing about fear is that fear is always related to the future-to what might happen or what happened and might happen again. Thought is always present in this matter of fear.
So, we need to deeply investigate this truth about thought. Here, with you, we are working on this in these meetings. We have a playlist here on wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge.
The awareness of the truth of your Self is the blossoming of your real nature, your divine nature-a life free from thought, a life free from this element that is the thinker. It is the freedom of your Self; it is the freedom of God.
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