Here we are investigating some things with you. The first subject we will address in this talk is the issue of self-investigation. What is self-investigation? Putting it very directly, self-investigation is the awareness of self-observation. And why is this fundamental? And why is this essential in this work of Awakening or God-Realization? Because without it, you don't have a true basis for the comprehension of the Reality about yourself.
So, what is self-investigation? It's the approach to the vision of Self-awareness. So, there is a close relationship between self-investigation and Self-awareness. So, I want to touch on this issue of self-investigation with you. An approach to the truth about the "I," about this "person," about this "me," requires a direct look at these reactions that happen to us, at every moment.
We have a purpose here together, which is to become aware of Reality, of That which is present in this moment, here and now, beyond the "I," beyond the ego, beyond this "person." This sense of person, which is the "I," the ego, is what thought has established in each of us for some reasons, and in this talk we will not explore this much.
I want to talk about Self-awareness, basically, about the importance of simply becoming aware of these reactions. Becoming aware of these reactions is self-observation; To observe oneself is to approach this investigation about oneself, about who we are. And there is something involved in this process, something very direct, and which is directly linked to this issue of studying oneself, this self-investigation, which is the presence of relations in our lives.
Life consists of relations happening, and I want to touch on this issue of human relations. Our life consists of relations; they are relations with things that happen, with events arising, happenings appearing, and relations also with ourselves, with what goes on inside each one of us, which are these reactions that arise, such as thoughts, feelings, emotions, and in addition, we have contact with these relations with people.
So, what are these human relations? What place does this have within this context of self-investigation? Another word for self-investigation is self-inquiry or self-observation, and I prefer the last one. Self-observation is looking at what is happening to you at this moment, especially in this contact with people, that is, in human relations. So, we have to explore this subject, because a large part of our lives consists of relationships with people.
We are always in contact with people, and this relation contact, in general, with the people closest to us, due to the internal confusion in which we find ourselves, due to the psychological confusion that the mind is producing within each of us, these relationships, especially the closest ones, are burdensome due to the presence of attachment, and this attachment is producing conflict, problems, some form of disorder and suffering for each of us and also for the other person with whom we are in this relationship.
We have called the relation between people as a relationship. When this psychological condition of attachment within the relation, producing confusion and suffering, becomes unbearable, we move on to another relation, that means, to another relationship, and so we continue with our life, a confused, disturbed, complicated life, in fact, deeply unhappy; this is because we lack a vision of understanding relations.
There is not only the issue of attachment; it is present in attachment, within these relationships, all types of suffering due to dependence, because attachment generates dependence. This dependence generates, for example, fear: the fear of losing, or the fear of not controlling, or the fear of not dominating the other, or of not dominating oneself in this surrender to the other due to this subjection of attachment, this emotional dependence that has been established within this relation, this relationship.
So, since our purpose here together is to discover life free from the "I," life free from suffering, the Real Divine Life, we need to investigate all of this, we need to know what truth is within these relationships, these so-called human relations. And the truth about this is that we are establishing contact with him or her, contact with the other, having as a principle an idea, a thought about or about who we are.
Not understanding the truth about yourself and placing yourself within a context of relation is establishing conflict, suffering and problems within this relation; this is because we lack a vision of the truth about who we are. Therefore, there is no way to live life without relations, without relationships, because life consists of relations. We are not an isolated island, we always live in relations with people, which are these relationships, in relation with events, with situations, in relation with ourselves.
So, the first point is this: there is no way to escape this, this is part of life and, however, we cannot maintain this old condition of continuity of this suffering, due to ignorance about how it happens. I am referring to this mechanism, this
mechanics of relation. So, all that is left for us to do here is to get closer to the truth about who we are. That is why we have a playlist on the channel about Self-awareness, what it means to learn about Self-awareness. Because the basis for a happy, free, harmonious, peaceful life, and, therefore, with the presence of Love in relations, in relationships, requires the presence of Self-awareness.
If you do not know how to deal with yourself, if you do not understand yourself, there is no way to understand others. So, the basis for Life, the real basis for Life - not life as we know it, but for Real Life, for Life where there is the presence of Love - is to understand the truth about who we are. Only when we have this understanding about how we function, how this mechanics of the "I" happens, do we have the awareness of this mechanism of relationships.
Once you understand that this present element, this sense of "I," is established in you from mental pictures and representations that thought has established, once you understand this, we have the possibility of discarding this illusion; once you understand this, it becomes clear that what we have about people are thoughts. You have a thought about your wife, about your husband, about your boss. You have a thought about people around you, who are dealing with you on a daily basis.
All of our relationships are established in us from thought, from the thought we have about him or her, and this happens because we have not learned to live life free from thought; this happens because we have, before any thought about the other, a thought about ourselves. This thought is the presence of an idea, of a mental picture, of a representation of abstraction in idea, in memory, in thought, about who we are.
Here we are referring to this image that thought has established within each one of us; thought sustains it, it establishes it. I said a little while ago that I wasn't going to explain this in more detail, but I'm actually going to go into a little more detail. We have other videos here on the channel explaining how this image we have of ourselves is formed. It's this image, this self-image that you have about yourself that is creating images of others. It's this thought that you have established within yourself, as being you, that is creating thoughts about others.
So, our connections, our contacts - note: contacts, connections, are relationships - are established in our lives in thought; and thought is something that is creating a separation. The thought that I have about who I am is creating a thought about who you are. The point here is that thought does not deal with Reality. Notice the complexity of this and, at the same time and paradoxically, the simplicity of what we are saying.
When you meet someone, you do not know who this person is, or this person is just "your person," that is, what thought has established in you about who they are, but, in fact, you do not know them. You do not know them because, basically, you do not know yourself either. Look at yourself, everything you have about yourself consists of representations that thought has established; this self-image is an abstraction, it is not Reality, it is imagination about you. This imagination about you is sustaining imagination about the other.
Thus, our contacts, our relations or relationships in life, without the awareness of the truth about it, continue to be established within what thought is establishing, and so we are faced with an illusion. Thus, our life is the life of the "I," the life of the image, the life of this self-image. All your contact with life in this present moment, in the relation with things, events, happenings and in the relationships with people is something completely mistaken. And because there is this mistake, established in this illusion, which is the model of thought, we are not dealing with Real Life, but with the life that thought is establishing as being true for each one of us.
The point is that thought in you is something that comes from the past. Every thought does not deal with Reality, it deals with an idea, a concept, an image. Thus, we are not dealing with Real Life, but with the life of the "I," with the life of the ego, with the life of this self-image. So, when we approach this learning about Self-awareness, we discover how to discard the model of thought, in which the life of the "I" is being established; that is when we can free ourselves from this self-image. This self-image, in psychology, has already been identified, however, it remains within theoretical concepts of abstraction.
We need to have direct contact with the truth about this in ourselves, with this issue of self-image. So, self-image is not an issue for psychology, it is an issue for the vision of the truth about who we are, which is Self-awareness. So, this self-investigation is to look at these reactions and perceive what thought is establishing within this context, to free ourselves from it, to go beyond thought, to Real Life, where Something new is present; this new Something is the presence of Intelligence.
There is no Intelligence in thought. Life in thought is a life established in this past, centered on this past, on this continuation of remembrances, of memories. The memory that I have about who he is, about who she is, about who I am: notice, this is thought. There is no reality in memory, only an imagination, a concept, an image.
So, what is the presence of this Intelligence? What is the presence of this Divine Reality, this Truth of your Being free from the "I," from the "ego," from this self-image? You see, this is something that is revealed with the Awakening of this Intelligence, this vision of life free from the "I." It is when we may have, in fact, in relations, in relationships, the presence of communion. So, the real connection or contact is the truth of communion in relations, when the "I" is not there, when self-image is not there, when we are free from thought.
Here we are inviting you to a life free from thought, to a life free from the "I" and, therefore, of Love, of Truth, of awareness of God. This requires the presence of this Awakening. For this purpose, we have meetings here on the weekends, where Saturday and Sunday we are together. Here in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends. In addition, we have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you just heard makes sense to you, here's an invitation: leave a "like," subscribe to the channel and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you soon. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!
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