Here, what is known as division, separation or duality, and which we discuss here with you, showing you the beauty, the importance of the end of this condition, the end of this condition is what is known as Advaita.
Here we work with you on how to have a direct approach to this, not from a philosophical or theoretical, conceptual point of view. Therefore, this is not about Advaita philosophy. Here it is about a direct look at this moment, free from this element that sustains this duality, that sustains this separation and, therefore, sustains every form of conflict, contradiction, disorder and suffering in life.
Here, the expression "life" is also to be comprehended. There is Life as it actually happens, but we place on Life as it happens an idea, an overlay on this Life, on this Reality, which is Life, on this Truth, which is Life: it is the particular life of self-image. You have built this image on yourself; therefore, you are the self-image.
What is this self-image? It is the thought that you have about who you are. Any description that you have about yourself, that you can tell me, that you can give me about yourself, that description will be a description based on thoughts.
At school, the teacher asks the student: "Describe your family; write something about yourself in that description." Whatever we are putting into a description about ourselves, as well as about our family, will be a description of ideas.
Our descriptions occur based on thoughts, images, symbols, mental representations, in this format of words. You have a mental representation of yourself, a set of symbols, images, words about who you are and about the world around you, about those who are around you, those closest to you and those farthest away.
Everything we do from the mind is to look at the world through the lens that thought gives us, through the vision that thought evaluates, translates, represents and interprets. This is the vision of the world that we have, this is the vision about ourselves.
As people, our relations with each other are relations in this format. You have not the truth about yourself; the truth about you, that you have, is the truth that you are, that thought says you are - this is the truth about you. The construct that thought structured there, supported there, established there, is the vision about oneself, this is the vision about the other, this is the vision about the world.
What is the Reality about you? Since you know the truth about yourself, is there a Reality about you, something beyond this truth? Approaching this moment requires an examination, an inquiry, an investigation of what this moment here represents, and we are incapable of this, we are incapable of doing this; we are incapable of having real awareness of this from the vision that we have, because it is the vision that thought has about life.
Therefore, we have to examine here the matter of thought, since thought, notice, is the main element in our psychic life, and the basis of life as we know it in relations - because life consists of relations happening -, the basis of our life in these relations is psychic. Our relations are relations in thought, from thought.
The words you know, the names you have stored inside you about people, about objects, all the experience with these objects, also with these people, with the events you have been through since childhood, all of this is inside you, in this psychological base, in this personal mind model. This is our relation with the present moment, but this relation is mistaken, because it is a relation that is based on memories, on remembrances, on recollections; it is a relation that is based on thoughts.
Life is something that is happening here and now, in this instant. For practical purposes, in this dream, which we call life, thought is necessary. My contact with you is based on the remembrance I have of who you are. So, I "have" your name, I "have" your face and I also "have" ideas about you.
But here the Truth has been falsified, there is the presence of the truth of thought within this relation, but there is no Reality of life, because the idea I have about you is something that comes from the past, the one you have about me is something that comes from the past, while life is something that is happening here and now, in this moment, as it has never happened before.
We think we are meeting the same people we recognize. In fact, we are always coming into contact with them based on remembrances of him or her and, in this contact, in this relation, we are falsifying the truth of the relation, because our encounter is with the past. The person you meet is no longer the same; you have their name, their face, psychologically they are another person, and you are another person too.
We are constantly changing internal states due to responses and reactions given to the present moment, but these reactions come from the past, they are always inadequate, they never correspond to the Reality of Life as it happens.
Therefore, our relations are conflicting, problematic, disorderly, confusing and full of problems, because our contact with the present moment is mistaken, because, as people, in this psychological complexity that is this self-image, we are incapable of dealing with the present moment, we are incapable of dealing with life, we are incapable of having a relation with this instant.
What we are doing, what we have been doing are adjustments; but adjustments within this confusion, within this disorder, within this mistake. You do not know your husband, you do not know your wife; she does not know you either, he does not know you either. We believe that we know people. We do not know who we are, how can we know people?
Here, our work consists of going beyond this person, therefore, going beyond this self-image, which means going beyond thought. Unless there is an end to this psychological condition, we will never have contact with Real Life, with him or her, with situations, with events or with ourselves.
We do not know the truth about who we are, about who the other is, about situations as they happen and about life as it emerges, here and now, moment by moment. This is because we are always bringing these memories, these remembrances, these recollections, these thoughts from the past.
Speaking a language requires learned knowledge, so it is natural that this information is present in you, is coming from the past, is emerging from the past. It is based on memory, on remembrance, on acquired knowledge that the efficiency of speaking a language occurs. Working in a profession requires learned knowledge; new knowledge is acquired and also accumulated.
So, at a certain level, thought, which is past, which is memory, which is knowledge, something that is learned, is functional, is necessary, is practical, we need thought. But from the point of view of the vision of Life, of the totality of Life, we do not need thought.
Only technically, scientifically, mechanically, technologically do we need thought, for professional knowledge and experience, for example. But to deal with people, deal with myself, deal with situations that arise, with life as it happens, we do not need thought. And it is precisely because thought is present in this context that problems are present in our lives.
This particular life of the person, of this "me," of this "I," of this ego, is anxious, depressed, full of anguish, pain of loneliness, insecurity, attachments, fears, jealousy. There are innumerable forms of conflict, disorder, suffering, and all of this is present because we do not know what thought is.
Thought is taking over this space, which is not its real space. Thought is this present element that comes from the past, that is constantly occupying our brains, our minds. There is no space, there is no silence, there is no inner stillness to deal with the present moment, because our gaze is the gaze that comes from the past. We have a restless mind, a chattering brain, an internal movement of uncontrolled thoughts.
We know nothing about thought. So, what is thought? This is the condition of disorder that we need to free ourselves from. We also do not know what thinking is. We believe that we are thinking; in reality, thoughts are controlling, in this disorderly, confusing, chaotic control of our relations.
So, we need to investigate this issue, here, of thought. We have playlists here on the channel about this subject: "What is thought?" "What is the truth of thinking?" The beauty of this encounter with life in this moment, free from thought, is the presence of thinking.
We are unaware of the beauty of thinking, of what thinking is, because the illusion present in us is the presence of a thinker behind the thoughts, of someone feeling behind the feelings, of someone in emotion behind emotions, someone being an experiencer behind the experiences. This is something completely illusory.
Life as it happens is just what happens. There is no such thing as this thinker, this experiencer or this one who feels. This is where we find the crux of the matter, a matter that has not been resolved, which is the question of this "me," this "I," this ego. That is why we need to discover the end of self-image, the end of this image, this self-image, this element that thought has constructed, this identity that thought has constructed, this illusory person that we believe ourselves to be.
Therefore, a real approach to life is the end of this duality. Duality consists of this illusory separation between this thinker and his thoughts, between this, who is the experiencer, and his experiences, between this "I" and the "not I." When there is the end of duality, there is a clear vision of Advaita, of non-separation. Then, Divine Reality, the Reality of God, is revealed.
The word "Advaita" means "the One without the second." This is the Reality of this Being, this is the Truth about You when the "I" is not there, when this you, which is the self-image, is not there, when this illusion of this person is not there; this is the encounter with Divine Reality. This encounter is not someone having an encounter, it is the Truth revealing itself, it is the Divine Truth showing itself. This is the end of duality.
When This is present, there is a way to approach life in this instant, in direct contact with the present moment, where there is this feeling, this truth of thinking and acting; this action free from the "I," this thinking free from thought, this feeling free from this "I" in feeling, from this "me" in feeling.
Here, together, we are with you deepening this, becoming aware of this Reality, which is the Reality of Life, free from the "I," free from the ego. Then, Love, Happiness, Freedom, the Awareness of God, the Awareness of Life is present.
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