Everything we have dealt with here with you has great relevance once you understand the importance of this. However, we have this difficulty here. It is the difficulty of not understanding the importance and value of these subjects that we address here.
In general, the human being has a rather superficial model of life. This is because we have been guided, since we were little, towards a search in life linked to external achievements. All our search or pursuit in life is to fulfill our yearnings, desires, dreams, and purposes.
And, in general, all of them are linked to a materialistic achievement, to an acquisition at the level of the world's standard of human values, of worldly values. Here we are faced exactly with this difficulty. Being able to assess the value of a speech like this requires that something in you is there inside, burning for something beyond all this.
Beyond all this that has been shown to us, shown by society, by the world, by this mental culture, by this psychological culture in which we were educated, trained to live. Here with you, we are investigating how to assume in this life the reality of what we truly are.
So we have a very visible, clear aspect, quite delineated within this cultural, human, social, political, religious, philosophical context, which is this way of behaving in life, being someone within it. So, there is in all of us an impulse, due to this background we received from human culture, to go towards, in search of external achievements. Thus, our behavior pattern is of mental conditioning, it is of psychological conditioning.
So, psychologically, we are conditioned. We are programmed for a way of acting, feeling, thinking, accomplishing things, always externally. Thus, we do not care about discovering the truth about who or what life really is. About who this "I" is, about who I am and what life is. Here our joint effort consists of this self-discovery. We are here proposing a real encounter with the truth about you.
So, the first aspect here, as I just mentioned, very clear, delineated, which appears similar to every human pattern, is the pattern of this "I" identity, this person, how we behave in life, how we position ourselves in life. And here we are with you exploring the awareness of the truth, of what is present but that we do not know, which is the divine truth, which is the truth of our Self. Therefore, our purpose together within these meetings is to discover something beyond all this.
We have a playlist here on the channel investigating with you how to have an approach to the truth of wisdom. The relationship between wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. The way we behave in the world, from thought, is from a pattern of psychological conditioning.
So, all our behavior, which is based on knowledge, naturally on experience, since this knowledge, experience was shaped by society, shaped by the world, all our behavior is not of real intelligence. Here I refer to this spiritual intelligence, to this divine intelligence.
We have the intelligence to deal with day-to-day matters, but we do not have the intelligence for wisdom. So, there is a relationship between true intelligence, divine intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and wisdom. The human being may have the ability, the capacity to deal with all the affairs of their daily life.
Regarding technical, functional, practical matters, but they do not know how to deal with their psyche, with their model of thought, feeling, emotion, sensation, and way of perception. So, the absence of this way of understanding how you function is the lack of vision of life as it happens. Thus, we have the absence of wisdom.
How to have an approach to the truth of this spiritual intelligence, this divine intelligence? What is its value and what is its importance? First, above all, the basis for this spiritual intelligence is the awareness of how you function. And this main element in you, in this way of being, something that, suddenly, you never paid attention to, clearly, truthfully, is the question of thought. You do not know what thinking is in you, nor what thought is.
So, above all: what is this thought? Observe thought in you. There is no thought in you without memory, without knowledge, without the memory of someone, of something, of a given situation, of a given event. The presence of thought in you is the presence of memory.
See, we are facing something very basic, easy to understand intellectually. But here we also encounter a great difficulty, of not underestimating this question of thought, nor how this process of thinking happens in us. For example, you are here at this moment, and a thought arises.
You do not know exactly what caused the appearance of that thought. Secondly, you do not perceive that when the thought arises, it carries with it a feeling, or an emotion, or a sensation.
And when that arrives, your emotional, sentimental state changes completely. And when it changes, you are driven to certain actions. Observe, all this happens in a completely unaware, unconscious way on your part.
The thought arises, you do not know why. It brings a feeling, you also do not know exactly why. That feeling assumes this psychophysical structure, which is you, this body and mind, and you take actions.
This is how we live our lives, lives moved by thought, without the perception of how thought works. Thus, we do not know what this process in us is, which is the process of thinking. We have just stated to you here what exactly this thinking is.
It is the arising of thought. A movement that occurs in an unconscious, mechanical, non-voluntary way. It is something that simply happens.
This is thinking. Once you receive a certain stimulus, external or internal, this process is triggered. This drives action.
So, it is a subject that we have to investigate here, deepen here, understand here, because our actions are being directed all the time by thought, by feeling, by sensation, by emotion, by this feeling. And all this is processed here and now in this movement for someone. What is the truth of that someone? Who is this "I" present here, within this process, which is the process of thinking? Thought in us works in an unconscious way, as I just mentioned, non-voluntary. We have a mistaken thought about thought and this process of thinking.
Because our belief, our idea about this is that you are the main element in this action when the action happens. However, the main element in this action, whatever the action you take in life, the main element will always be thought. It is the presence of thought, feeling, emotion, or sensation that will drive you to action.
The main element in action is thought. Therefore, the idea of having someone present in the action is mistaken. We are driven all the time to actions from these internal attitudes that occur within each one of us.
But none of these attitudes, and naturally these actions, have the truth of someone master of these actions, in control of these actions. What we have here, in fact, is an ego-centered impulse. Centered in this sense of the "I," in this sense of the ego.
But what is this ego? This ego or this "I" is nothing but conditioning, a way of behavior that we have. The point is that this format of action, of behavior, driven by thought, feeling, sensation, perception, where behind it is this sense of the "I," this sense of the ego, is something that is constantly, in our lives, producing confusion, disorder, suffering. So, this is the first aspect we have, something very delineated in this context of human existence that we have. So, there is no truth of wisdom because we do not have the presence of this divine intelligence behind this behavior. What we have behind this behavior, action, thought is a form of conditioning of acting in life.
We are constantly repeating our patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. Can we have in life a real approach to it without this pattern, which is the pattern of the "I," which is the pattern of the ego, of action, of behavior, and therefore, of psychological conditioning, of mental conditioning, of thought conditioning? This is what we are proposing here to you.
A life in wisdom, in real and divine intelligence, is a life free from the ego, free from the "I." It is in this sense that we use here the expression: free from the ego, free from the "I." At what level is thought necessary in our lives for a basis of action? And at what level is it unnecessary? For example, in our relationships with people, it is completely unnecessary.
See the implication of what we are stating here for you. Your contact with your husband, with your wife, your contact with your family, your contact with work friends, your contact with yourself. This dispenses with this pattern of psychological conditioning of behavior. All you need at this level is the presence of this divine intelligence, of this wisdom.
We lack this vision of life in relationships. The result of this is confusion, disorder, suffering, contradiction. The lack of understanding of feelings in you produces contradictions within actions.
You, for example, have a feeling of liking someone while they are pleasant to you, while they give you pleasure. Thus, your action will always be dictated by a quality of feeling present at that given moment. If that person stops giving you pleasure or some level of fulfillment or satisfaction, your internal state of feeling and emotion for them changes. And, naturally, your behavior changes.
This is the quality of action and behavior centered in this "I," in this ego, in this mental conditioning. At this level, there is no intelligence or wisdom in relationships. First, because the element in you that changes, that alters, this element lives self-centered.
It lives within an ignorance about its own movement. This is because, basically, we do not know ourselves. We do not know the person we are.
Without this basis, which is the understanding of the truth about who you are, all your acting in life will be this acting that will always be based on knowledge and experiences acquired within this context of egoic identity programming, which is how we behave in life. We need knowledge and experience. In this sense, thought has a certain place. We need technical knowledge to deal with professional matters, for example.
So, at this level, thought is necessary, knowledge is necessary, experience needs to be there. But in this contact of human relationships, or relationship with life, or with situations, or in this contact with objects, this perspective or this particular vision of this center that is the "I," this "me," at this level, our relationships are a disaster. Because in the ego you live in this illusory sense of identity, separate from the other, separate from life, separate from situations.
And in this ego-centered isolationism, all our behavior, which is the behavior we received from this conditioning of human culture, all this ego-centered behavior is of self-interest. So, the sense of the "I" present is separatist, isolationist. And the presence of this separation and this isolationism places us in relation to the other, in relation to life, in relation to ourselves, in a completely mistaken way, producing suffering, producing confusion, due to this egocentrism. So, at a certain level, action based on thought, knowledge, and experience is necessary. To work in a profession, to accomplish something externally, like a project, you need an idea, a plan, and execution. So, we have here something very basic, very simple. If I have a house to build, if I am an engineer and need a project, I draw up the project. And then we will execute the project.
But, at a psychological level, any idea I have about who the other is, about who I am, this is based on a mistake. It is something that is based on what thought says about who it is. About who I am. And observe thought in us, thought is not something that deals with the moment.
Thought is something that seeks to adjust the moment to a portrait it brings from the past. All thought is like this. You do not have any thought that can, with it, understand life as it happens at this moment.
Because thought is just a portrait of something that happened, it is a memory, it is a remembrance. When you meet someone, you have a memory of them, a photograph, a portrait. You are not with the person. You are with your person. Because what you have of them is your portrait, your image, your belief, your concept about who they are. Notice how important this is to be understood here. The image you have of yourself is as illusory as the image you have of who the other is.
You do not know yourself, you do not understand yourself, because you do not know yourself. And how can you understand the other? And how can you know the other? This is how our contact with life is. Life is what is happening here and now.
It is not something that happened and it is not something that will happen. It is something that is happening here and now.
And everything you have in your mind, in this conditioned mind, in this conditioned form of existence, centered in this model of thinking, of thought, is a photograph. This does not portray the reality of the moment, but this is how we are contacting life at this moment.
So, technically, knowledge, experience, memory, thought, this photograph is something functional. For example, to fix a breakdown of a car, of a plane, to deal with a professional matter, we need this knowledge, this experience, this previous skill. But in this contact with something alive, dynamic, which is always new, as is the other, life, or events, this personal, particular, ego-centered way of contacting this is confusion for sure, it is division and, therefore, suffering. We do not know the beauty of the importance of this spiritual intelligence. It is this divine intelligence, in this vision of wisdom, that can make you approach life now as it is. This requires the absence of this sense of the "I," of this sense of the ego, of this old model of thinking and thought, naturally of feeling, of emotion, of sensation.
This is what we are addressing here with you. Taking a close look at all this with you. The awareness of God requires the understanding of the truth about you.
So, understanding this aspect of this sense of the "I" present, of the ego, and discovering something beyond this ego, this "I," which is the truth of your essential nature, which essentially is divine intelligence and wisdom, this present, we have the truth of Spiritual Awakening, of Spiritual Enlightenment. It is only in this sense that we use here this expression: Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening. A vision of the totality of life, and an action free of someone present in this action. So, we have life in its own movement.
It is when your contact with the other, with him or her, as well as your contact with situations, circumstances, or events, is something that occurs in an entirely new way because we no longer have this element that separates itself and that looks from this sense of separation. A vision of life without the sense of someone in this vision is a view free of the "I," free of the ego. It is a perception free of the ego, free of the "I."
It is a feeling free of this element that sees itself as separate and that has this ego-centered behavior pattern. This is what we are deepening with you here, working with you.
We have these online meetings on weekends. Saturday and Sunday we are together, deepening this with you. You have here in the video description our WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings and work on this.
So, a weekend together. Here is an invitation. Besides that, we have in-person meetings and also retreats.
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