There's a lot of confusion in people's minds about this study of ourselves, about what it means to study, to comprehend, to become aware of the Truth about who we are. Generally, the confusion revolves around the fact that we confuse an introspective look at ourselves with self-awareness. Self-awareness is not introspection; it's not also looking at oneself to analyze oneself.
When we talk about change, generally, in people's minds, the idea of change requires adjusting to a new pattern, a new way of life to deal with it. So, the idea of the need for self-awareness is the idea of a necessary change that we need to have, that we need to accomplish, and that we will achieve through introspection, learning to look at ourselves to remove the bad things and keep the good things. It's something that involves an analysis of oneself, self-analysis.
When the intention is to achieve a goal, a purpose that we already have clearly defined within ourselves that we want to achieve, this so-called change is, in fact, a modification. We are modifying what we have here and transforming it into something else that thought has constructed, that thought has established as a goal, as a purpose. And that's why we use introspection, and that's why we use this self-analysis.
The Truth about Self-awareness is none of that. The Truth of comprehension who we are is not about changing into what we idealize ourselves to be, what we want to be, what we imagine we need to become. Comprehending the Truth about yourself is the vision of how you position yourself in life. Yes, this brings a profound and radical change, but it's not a change toward an ideal, toward a purpose. It's the emergence of something beyond the mind, beyond any idea or imagination you might have.
The result of Self-knowledge is the awareness of the Truth about yourself. The awareness of who you are is the end of who you are, how you show yourself to be, express yourself and have been. There is a Reality in life revealing itself when there is the presence of this learning about Self-awareness. That's when there comes the Truth of Meditation. Because, look, what is Meditation? What is Meditation? It is the awareness of Self-knowledge.
Only in this sense do we use the expression "Self-awareness" here, as that which reveals Divine awareness, the awareness of God. Therefore, the vision of Truth about yourself is inseparable from the vision of Reality about God. So, here we find the answer to the question "How to find God?" You don't find God, you become aware of Reality present here, in this moment, when you, in this ancient and old structure of the "I," the ego, the person, are no longer present. Then, there is something new, completely different from this "you" that you recognize. This "you" that you recognize, recognize in thought.
The element of knowledge within us, of recognition within us, is thought. The realization of the Truth about yourself is the end of this "me," this person, for this present Reality, which is Life, which is God, which is You in your Essential Nature. This cannot be achieved, this cannot be realized in this old format of construction, assembling, edification, transformation, which implies the ideal.
You have something here and the ideal there, so, from here to there, a change, having the ideal as an image. So, all this improvement for the person is the improved, constructed, edified person. The Awakening of the Truth of your Being, the Reality of God present, is not a modified person, it is not a transformed person; it is the presence of Life, it is the presence of God. There is no one present.
It is very strange to hear this, the fact that Life is happening without people. The idea of people present is a mental construct, because thought has constructed the idea of people present-the movement of these people, who are merely ideals, purposes, desires, fears in motion-and there is the portrait of the confusion in the world, the photograph of the confusion present in our relationships, all the suffering present for this element that sees itself present in experience. An element, yes, illusory from the perspective of Reality, but within the context of this dream of separation, it is very real and it is present suffering.
Psychic suffering in human beings is the presence of suffering in the person. Free from the person, free from suffering. This psychic consciousness, this mental consciousness, is the psychological structure of society, of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, of all human culture. See, it is the truth of ignorance, of illusion, of the imagination of an entity that sees oneself separate from the own life, that sees oneself in a relationship with another. There is no such thing as "another" for this person. For this person, the vision of the other is the vision that the person has constructed in this imagination of separation, of duality.
Life consists of relations happening. They are relations that occur between people. No! They are relations that occur between human beings. As human beings, we are in relations with one another. The idea of a person is a construct of thought; a thought that seeks security in the ideal of relationship it imagines, idealizes, and seeks. This is the egocentric behavior of the ego, this is the egocentric behavior of the "I."
We are living in an isolated relationship. Each of us is living an isolated, separate life. We are separate from each other and seeking for ourselves the ideal of the best that the ego imagines for itself. Therefore, the behavior is isolationist and egocentric, creating conflict, problems, and suffering, because violence is present. Based on violence, every type of action, due to the presence of fear, creates confusion, creates problems.
Therefore, when we approach the Revelation of Truth about ourselves, we become aware of the presence of this observing, perceiving, becoming aware of how we are acting from the perspective of thought, from the perspective of the person. The clarity of this vision ends this fallacy, this lie. This is the end of the idea of someone present in contact with others.
A Real Life is a life free of the "person." This quality of life is present when Meditation is present. We need a new brain, a new mind, a new vision, a new way of perceiving, feeling, speaking, acting, moving through life, without the "I," without the past, without the "I." This is the presence of Meditation.
So, what is Meditation? What is the truth of the Revelation of this awareness that reveals God in this moment? The Truth in this moment, the Supreme Intelligence in this instant, is Attention, observation, listening, perceiving. When we introduce the element of thinker, experiencer, observer, we place thought as the one that recognizes, interprets the experience. Then, there is a separation between the experience and the experiencer, what is being seen and this observer.
When we approach this new quality of perceiving, of looking, of observing, we eliminate the pattern of this egoic mind, this mind that positions itself in this separation. We don't know how to deal with the present moment because we position ourselves to deal with it. A full comprehension of the present moment requires the absence of an element behind this interpretation, evaluation, choice, and judgement.
When you look at what is here, you look with the eyes of thought, and thought distorts it. It places us in a project of what should be; it doesn't align with what is here. Observe the mind working within you: it always speaks of what was or what will be, of what it intends to achieve or what it intends to free itself from. It intends to free itself from what it experienced in the past, which was bad for it; it intends to achieve what it imagines will be good for it. However, the mind is you, as a person, in this self-image.
When we learn to look at the mind, in this moment, the instrument of perception, of looking, of perceiving, is the mind itself, which has become silent, which has become still. When it becomes still, a new space opens up, and in this space we have the presence of a quality of Consciousness, of mind, of perception, of seeing, of listening, beyond thought.
When we use expressions like "this mind in Silence," "this new Consciousness," "this Real Consciousness," we are pointing out Something beyond the known, unattainable by thought. Therefore, Divine Revelation, the true encounter with God-in the question "How to find God?"-is something that is present here, revealing itself when the "I" is not present, when the ego is not present.
Life consists of a single present Reality: it is the presence of non-separation, of non-duality, it is the presence of Advaita. The Reality of this Being is the One without the second. And this Being is Life, it is Happiness, it is Divine Nature, which is You in your Natural State of Being. The Presence of the Unnamable, the Indescribable, of That which is unattainable by thought, is the Presence of God.
Therefore, Self-awareness and Meditation are the Truth revealing itself as Wisdom, as Freedom, and all of this is the result of this listening, this looking, this perceiving. Bringing this Attention to this moment. You don't bring it from the past; you reveal This here as something already innate, present within You.
It's not something you learn, like you learn something out there. This learning about Self-awareness is the moment-by-moment acknowledgment of life as it happens. So, it's the moment of Bliss, of Happiness. It's the moment of Supreme Intelligence, this moment of acknowledging Reality, Divine Reality.
This is what we're working on here, with you, in these meetings. On the weekends, Saturday and Sunday, we have the opportunity to be together investigating this, delving deeper into these questions. It's two days online. So, I want to leave you with the invitation: here, in the video description, is our link to participate in the online weekend meetings.
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