We have different ways of behaving in life, and all of these ways have as their principle, as their model, as the basis, thought itself. Thus, when you are seeking to understand how to achieve purposes, goals and objectives, the basic idea is the idea is rooted in the model of present thought. When, for example, you touch on this issue of achieving what you want, and you ask "How to achieve the desired reality," notice that there is already within you an idea of what this reality means and how significant and important it is to you. You already have an idea, a thought, a belief that by achieving this, you will be happy.
All our behavior in this model, which is the model of thought, is always in search of pleasure and escape from fear. So, we need to investigate here this issue of pleasure and fear, and see the direct relation of this with this program that is running within us, which is the model of this mind that is already programmed, conditioned to believe in happiness as a target to be achieved, as an objective to be accomplished, that revolves around this idea of desire.
We are not dealing with life as it happens and attending to life from this Intelligence. We are attending to life from this thought program, from a conditioned mind, living in this ideal: the ideal of love, the ideal of peace, the ideal of prosperity, the ideal of happiness, the ideal of the reality of desires, and for us this ideal is in this desired reality.
A contact with life in this moment, free from thought, and it will become clear that this ideal, this movement, which is the movement of thought, is exactly a projection of imagination of an accomplishment in the future, while, in truth, everything that we seek as the ideal in this so-called desired reality is already present in this instant as being the nature of the Truth about You. Nothing in this world, nothing in this accomplished, desired experience sought, searched by thought will make you happy.
All this movement in us is a movement that thought is producing. We need to know, in life, what is the real place of thought, what real place thought should have; otherwise, we will always be victims, victims of this psychological condition, which is the condition of this movement of thought processing itself in an unconscious, mechanical, automatic way, in each one of us.
All the values you have, this whole way of dealing with life as it happens is something that thought present in you has an interpretation of. This interpretation of how life happens, of how everything is processed, is the interpretation of a model common to everyone - this is the way everyone thinks. So, we have a belief - and it is based on thought - that the achievement of something that you miss. See, this thing that you miss, this you, is thought itself.
This is important here: when you use the pronoun "I," you are simply affirming again and again the presence of thought. It is the presence of thought that causes you the sensation, the feeling and the emotion of existing as someone, this is you. So, there is the idea of achieving something in the future that can fulfill you as someone. However, this someone, this you, is thought itself, projecting itself.
Here I have something to tell you: the Reality of That which is You, exactly when this thought is not there, is Completeness, it is Love, it is Bliss, it is Freedom, it is the awareness of God. When you come to this work and ask, "What is fear?" Fear is the presence of thought. There is no separation between fear and thought. When do you feel fear? Is it not when thought is there creating the image of something bad that might happen to you?
There is no such thing as fear and the absence of thought. You cannot detect the presence of fear without thought. You cannot detect the presence of you without thought. There is no such thing as a separation between thought, you and fear, it is one presence. So, when you ask, "What is fear?" It is the presence of thought.
Living a life free from thought is the awareness that there is no such thing as fear. Something bad happened to you in the past. Who lived this experience in the past? You! Where is this memory possible? In you! What is this memory? It is thought! So, what is fear? It is thought! [What is] the fear of what happened in the past and that it might happen again? It is thought! You only have the notion of something that might happen to you, you only have the notion of the future also through thought. See how we need to investigate this issue of the presence of thought in us.
So, what is thought? It is this movement, it is the movement of memory, of remembrance, talking about the past, and talking about the future, and talking about this "I," this "me." At every moment, life is happening, at every instant, it is only the present life. The idea of being someone arises when some bad, unfavorable, unpleasant situation is happening to this "me," to this "I." But detecting this is only possible due to the presence of thought, because it is thought that says: "I don't like this," it is thought that says: "this is wrong," or it says: "this shouldn't be like this."
So, notice how essential it is for us to discover within ourselves how thought is processed and all this game established by thought will be undone. Here we are inviting you to a life free of thought. We need thought in an objective and practical way. For professional affairs, you need knowledge and experience, which is thought. The information that you have is stored in you in this memory, in this remembrance, this recollection is thought.
So, technically, you need knowledge, experience and thought. But in this contact with life at this moment, thought is something completely dispensable. It is when it appears that you have problems; problems like: "I like someone." Notice, this is a problem, because this liking creates an image that, psychologically, is fixed in you as part of this "you," this "I," and you cling to this image. If this person ignores you or leaves your experience, this "you," this "me," this "I" suffers.
See how important this is. It seems very simple to like people, but this idea of people for this "me," for this "I," for this ego is very complicated. Can we live in a relationship with people in a new quality of feeling about them, which is not this liking? This liking can become disliking. It is friends that we stop being friends with; sometimes, friends become enemies, and all of this is within this very movement of thought, of this liking and disliking.
"I like you when you please me and I am very displeased with you when you displease me." Who is this "I" that feels pleased, happy, fulfilled with the other, and feels unhappy, miserable, annoyed, angry at the other? Isn't it thought? Isn't it the presence of this "you," this "me," this ego? Can we have contact with him or her with a new quality of feeling about him or her, something beyond this condition, which is the condition of thought?
You see, we do not know what love is, what love is in relations, because we are living in thought, we are living with this problem, which is the problem of the "I." Thought is just a picture that I have of you from the past, because you pleased me. Thought is just a thought that I have of you from the past, that you provoked anger in me and became my enemy: this is how we are living our lives, with friends, enemies and indifferent people.
And here the challenge, in life, is to attend to life as it happens, free from the past and, therefore, free from thought, because these thoughts that this "I" has, that this ego has, that make in this moment, in this encounter here, everything be seen from this mistaken perspective. Meeting him or her, without the presence of thought, is meeting him or her without the presence of the "I." Try looking at someone without their past. Notice, you will not be faced with something so simple, because the model of thought in us is sustaining the idea of someone, of this "me," of this "I," of this present you, having an encounter with him or her.
Life as it happens, in it, when thought comes in - I refer to this quality of thought -, there is the presence of suffering. This is what sustains internal states such as attachment in us. People talk about "anxious attachment." The quality of the sense of "I," of the ego, is to produce attachments, and where there is attachment, there will be suffering. So, you don't need to do what thought projects to be happy, you just need to assume the Truth of What You Are in your Real Nature when thought is not there.
As long as we are sustaining this quality of being someone, based on thoughts, on all this movement that comes from the past, which are the images I have of him or her, that I make of myself, I will always be in this illusion of one day achieving fulfillment, satisfaction, accomplishment, achieving desires, this so-called desired reality. Can we, in this life, assume Truth free from these attachments? This "anxious attachment" is naturally the presence of dependence. This is fear, this is suffering. This is something present in this sense of the "I," of the ego, something present in this self-image, something present in this model of thought.
Looking at life in this moment, attending to life in this moment as it happens, in this relationship with people, those closest to you, such as relatives, husband, wife, children, and those farthest away, but without the "I," without the ego; so, we are faced with a new feeling about him or her, a new way of thinking in this moment, free from the past. So, there is the Presence of Love, there is the Presence of Truth, there is the Presence of God. If This is present, there is no longer a future, there is no longer this projection of thought to achieve something or get rid of something. Here is the Presence of Truth, here is the Presence of God.
It is not about you with God, it is about the Reality of God when the thought "I," this "me," this "you," is no longer present. Some call this Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment, which is what we are working on here with you. So, on Saturday and Sunday we are together delving deeper into this subject here. There are two days, online, where we have the opportunity to sit down and investigate this, also having this encounter with Silence, with the awareness of Self-Knowledge. You can find our WhatsApp link in the video description to participate in these online meetings on the weekends.
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