We are going to address with you here a rather delicate subject. I am referring to this condition we have, in which we find ourselves and do not know how to deal with it. I am referring to the condition of suffering. For us, this entire movement of trying to escape or flee is quite natural. This is what we generally call achieving liberation from suffering.
We confuse this matter of escaping and fleeing with the truth of the vision of what suffering represents. That is why we call this being free, finding freedom. When you ask how to get rid of suffering, in general, your intention is not really to become aware of what suffering represents, but rather, simply, to get rid of suffering. But for most of us, getting rid of suffering means escaping from what makes us suffer, fleeing from what causes us this conflict, this disorder, this confusion, this problem. So, this is indeed a delicate subject, the subject of escaping reality.
Psychology touches on this. When you look at yourself, within yourself, it becomes very clear-once you manage to look-that this is already quite rare, because we do not pay attention to what is happening with us. We are always looking outward. We are always attributing something out there as the cause of the suffering within each of us. So, this is very typical of this very movement of fleeing or escaping pain.
But when we learn to look and we look at what is happening here, within us, it becomes clear that this present psychological condition is what guides every form of contradiction, disorder, confusion, conflict, and suffering. So, here we must approach this very calmly. The suffering present in us is something inherent to this psychological internal condition in which we find ourselves. And yet, we are attributing this suffering here inside to something out there. And we believe that by getting rid of what is out there, we will be free from this suffering that is inside.
It is very common for you to think that someone makes you suffer. So, let's examine this, let's investigate this, let's approach this in a real way, or we will constantly be trying to get rid of the situation out there-and this situation is the other person, he or she-especially within these relationships, which are our human relationships. This is how we live, making substitutions within this game. Believing that by getting rid of this or that person, believing that if we get rid of this external element, the issue will be resolved inside. What is the truth about suffering?
So here, the first thing is understanding what suffering is. As for trying to flee, trying to escape, for millennia, the human being, within this model of mind that we know-the programmed mind, the conditioned mind-to flee, to escape, has been doing exactly that. For millennia, we have developed various skills to flee, to escape suffering. But up to this moment, we still do not truly know how to deal with this psychological condition. All we know how to do is rid ourselves of what makes us suffer.
By doing this, without awareness of what suffering is, without realizing that, in fact, it is not out there but here, within our psychological condition-which is the condition of the "I"-we will always be replacing this old condition with a new one, believing that we will no longer have the problem. However, the problem does not consist of something out there. It actually consists of something within each of us. It is the very psychological condition in which we find ourselves that sustains any form of external expression of a situation that arises, that appears. Thus, this external movement will always be an external movement of substitution within this game.
Here with you, we are investigating this. The real cause, the reason for the entire problem, is not out there-it is in here. It is in this psychological condition, in this confused, chaotic, disordered, restless state-it is this state of ignorance, illusion, self-projection, fantasy, ideation. Thought is the main element in all of this, producing all these things in us, in this "me," in this "I," in this mind-the real cause of the problem, the real cause of suffering. As long as there is no clarity, lucidity, comprehension, real vision, intelligence in each of us, in our mind and in our heart, this so-called life will be a life entangled in various conditions of dissatisfaction, disorder, confusion, problems, and suffering.
Thus, this entire movement in us of escaping reality. What is this reality? It is the reality of life as it presents itself. But this reality of life as it presents itself, for the one who observes, for this observer, is conflict, is confusion. Notice that we are presenting here to you, within this discourse: your way of looking at the moment, your way of looking at the experience, based on this "I," which is this element that observes from the past, from memory, from recollection, from this movement of the experiencer-it always looks from the perspective of separation, of division, of liking and disliking.
So, this way of looking gives you a mistaken sampling of life. As long as this psychological condition of the "I" exists-which is this observer, who lives in wanting, not wanting, liking, disliking, in evaluating, comparing, judging-this encounter with life is the encounter with a supposed reality, which is the reality of this "me," this ego. Here, in a clear way, we are presenting to you, within this channel, in these various videos we have, that the whole problem, all suffering, all disorder, is not in the reality of life, but in this supposed reality of life that the "I" is constructing, that the ego is constructing. And because it suffers, due to this conflict, this separation, it tries to escape, it tries to flee from pain-but it cannot escape itself. So, we remain within this illusion of one day achieving freedom, one day achieving peace, happiness, love within relationships, peace within ourselves.
We remain within this illusion, doing nothing other than fleeing toward these so-called new situations, new choices, new relationships, while the old condition of the "I," of the ego, remains. And if this remains, this issue of suffering, this issue of confusion, this issue of conflict is never resolved. There is no problem in life. The entire problem lies in the way the sense of "I" approaches this issue of life, in the way it relates to this issue of life. It is strange to hear this, because for a long time, within a pattern of conditioning, we have always wanted to fix the world, fix the other, fix the situations out there.
We do not realize that there is nothing out there-everything is within this perspective of the "I," of the ego, of this center, of this conditioned mind. However, this conditioned mind is the conditioned mind in everyone. We are faced with the same conditioned mind. Thus, my relationship with him or her is a conflicting relationship because not only am I in conflict-he is in conflict. This encounter is an encounter of disorder, of confusion.
So, we are fleeing from ourselves, from this pain present in what this "I" represents. And in this escape, we come across the world out there, with the other out there, but the other is also doing the same. How can we break with this psychological condition of ego identity, of illusory identity, of escape behavior, and thus the sustenance of this confusion, this problem that has become our life? The answer to this is: by breaking with the "I," with this "me," with this person, with this feeling, this thought of being someone in life, in this contact with what happens, including with him or her, with the world around me. Thus, we come across a fundamental question here.
For this direct approach, the question is: how to look, how to perceive, how to have clarity within this context of relationship with the other, with ourselves, with life? Putting it differently: what is thinking? The truth about thinking-how to have clarity in thinking? So, what is thinking? We do not know what thinking is because we are within a movement that is the movement of thought.
It is this movement of thought that is guiding this center, which is the "I," the "me," the ego. We are constantly responding to life through thought. But the truth is that we do not know how to deal with thought. So, we have this question: how to deal with thought? What is the truth about dealing with thought?
We need to understand that it is thought within each of us that gives us a vision of who the other is, of who we are, of what life is. Thus, as long as we do not understand what thought is and how to deal with thought, we will always be lost in this old condition of this ancient model of feeling life, of thinking about life, from this "I," from this ego. It is precisely this "I" and this ego that form the foundation that sustains problems, the foundation that sustains suffering. It is precisely this "I" and this ego that are within this movement of escaping from something that, in fact, they cannot escape. They are trying to flee from themselves.
This is the very movement of thought, which, in most of us, operates in a confused, disoriented way, filled with concepts, prejudices, fantasies, dreams, desires, fears. All of this is part of this confused and chaotic state within us, due to the presence of thought-unobserved, misunderstood. So, what is the truth about thinking? How can we have clarity, lucidity, comprehension, intelligence in the midst of all this, in the midst of life as it unfolds? This requires an approach to ourselves for the awareness of a new space, which is the space of silence, of stillness, of the absence of this old model of thought.
Since this old model of thought that we know is thought that is programmed, conditioned for the repetition of this old model of culture, of worldview that we have received within this conditioning from all the generations that came here before us. Notice that we are merely maintaining the continuity of all this chaos, of all this confusion. We are so envious, possessive, jealous, ambitious, attached, filled with fears. As human beings, we are so emotionally and psychologically dependent on situations, events, people. Notice that all of this exists within a model, within a program of human cultural conditioning.
This is the condition of thought-this form of conditioned thought, programmed to function within each of us. We need to discover what a brain free from thought is. What is a mind free from thought? What is this space of stillness that arises when this psychological condition-which is all we know, which is all we have ever known-is no longer present? That is why our emphasis here is on an approach to meditation, the truth about meditation.
I am referring to the awareness of practical meditation. Not the practice of meditation, but practical meditation. Practical meditation is the awareness of life in this instant, without this element that comes from the past, which is the model of this conditioned mind, which, as mentioned earlier, is always responding in a way that follows a cultural program-that is, precisely, the model of past generations that arrived here before us. And we know what that model is. Touching on this again briefly, this model is the model of anger, fear, envy, attachments-of all kinds of confusion, present precisely within relationships, where the perspective is always the mistaken perspective that something is wrong out there, when, in truth, that "out there" is merely a reflection of what is in here.
Within this movement, which is the movement of the conditioned mind, the programmed mind, the mind where this entire movement of thought is neither seen nor understood. Thus, this approach to practical meditation requires the presence of Self-awareness. Understanding how you function, since there is no separation between you, how you function, and the other. How you function and the world as it happens, as it expresses itself. Once there is clarity, lucidity, truth about yourself, it will become clear that this "you" consists of a model of human cultural conditioning, where all this confusion, all this suffering, is precisely present.
And the understanding of this "you"-notice what we are going to present to you here-this understanding of this "you" is the end of this "you" as you see yourself, as you feel yourself to be. This is the end of the world as you perceive it. So, the end of this illusion of this "me," this "I," this "you," is the end of the illusion of this world, of this other, as thought designs it, as thought shapes it. Thus, we come across the truth about the awareness of this new thinking. So, what is thinking? It is this new thinking. It is this new feeling about life.
Something possible when there is this release from this "me," this "I," this sense of "you" as thought has designed, idealized, and projected it. The approach to life in this instant is the approach to love in this moment. If love is present, there are no more problems. That is when we reach the end of the need for this "I" to escape, to flee, to try to get rid of something out there. I say it again-there is nothing out there if this illusion of this "I," this "me," does not exist, which is this model of thought operating in this conditioned brain, in this conditioned mind.
Here, the encounter with truth, the realization of reality, is the presence of this awareness of life as it happens. Happiness consists in this. Love consists in this. Freedom consists in the awareness that there is no separation between the reality of your Being. This is you in your real nature, which is real and divine consciousness and life itself. There is no separation between life, this real consciousness, and this divine truth. The beauty of this work lies in pointing out to you that, in this life, the only thing that matters is embracing this reality.
Living love is living the freedom of your own Being. This is the awareness of God. It is in this sense that we use here the expression Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, the Truth of God. So, we can break free from this psychological condition, from which, for millennia, human beings have been trying to escape and flee. And exactly what are they trying to flee from?
To flee from this pain, from this illusory sense of being someone, producing confusion-being itself the confusion and the suffering. Can we break free from all of this into this vision of God, into this vision of reality? Here, we have online meetings on weekends, where we spend Saturday and Sunday deepening this with you. I would like to extend an invitation to you. You will find our WhatsApp link in the video description to participate in these online weekend meetings.
Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard makes sense to you, here is an invitation-go ahead and leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and write in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other soon. Thanks for the meeting, and until next time.
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