What is wisdom? What is the truth about it? How can we approach a wise, enlightened, lucid, and real vision in life? There is no way to approach this without eliminating the psychological condition in which we find ourselves. Our internal condition, and this is the case from the cradle to the grave, is the condition of a conditioned mind.
Human beings are born sleeping, they grow up sleeping, they get married, have children, have grandchildren, and they are still sleeping; they get sick, grow old, or in an accident, they die, and they also die sleeping. This is the psychological condition in which we find ourselves. This is how life actually occurs, this is how life happens. Unless there is Awakening, the exit from this psychological condition, which requires a new mind, a new brain, a new heart, a new life, we will remain in this condition of life. And in this condition, there will be no Intelligence, there will be no Wisdom.
We have expressions, in this dreamlike state in which we find ourselves, that the mind has constructed, that thought has elaborated, and we are giving meaning to these expressions within a life where our relations are of those who are asleep, of those who are within a dream. That is why our emphasis here is on the Awakening of Consciousness, on the Flourishing of Truth about ourselves, on this Divine Awareness.
There is a Reality present, and it is unknown..It will remain unknown until this dream ends. When it ends, that reveals itself; and that remains beyond the egoic mind, beyond the model known to all of us, which is the model of thought. It is through thought that we are identifying experiences, classifying, naming, perceiving, and comprehending what is happening. It is a comprehension of thought, with thought, for thought.
We are seeking answers to the problems we have. When you are given an issue to solve, this issue is the core of that issue. Here we have countless unresolved questions, which are problems we face in life, and there are no answers to these questions in the realm of ideas, in the realm of thoughts. This is how this structure, the social psychological structure of the world, is constructed here. It is the structure of a conditioned mind, finding solutions to problems that thought itself is producing in this principle of sleep, of unconsciousness, of egocentric life, of attitudes, actions, ideas, thoughts, and ideologies.
Therefore, approaching life is approaching Truth, of Waking up, of this Awakening. The position of the one who sleeps, in this context of life as we know it, is the position of someone who lives from an image they have constructed of themselves. You, as a person, are an image constructed by thought. You are the self-image. There is no separation between you, as this consciousness of "I," and this mental structure, which is the image that thought has constructed of you. Therefore, you and self-image are not separate.
Our work here, together, consists of the end of this self-image; with the aim of going beyond this psychological condition of "person," of "I" identity, of egoic identity. Only then will it be possible to see Life as it truly is. It is in this vision that Real Intelligence, Divine Wisdom, the Truth of God is present.
What we have called intelligence is ordinary intelligence, the intelligence that deals reasonably with technological, scientific, and professional matters, with matters within this dream, which is the life of the "I," which is the life of the ego, which is this life of the sleeper. We have addressed this issue a lot here, this dream, using this expression.
Sometimes we don't use the term "dream," but when we touch here on this conditioned mind, this model of activities based on the idea of a thinker, an experiencer, an observer, an element that sees itself apart and separate from life, which is the "I," which is the ego, we are talking about this dream life, this life of the "person."
We need to comprehend the truth of how our mind works, the truth about present thought. Thought within us is the presence of the past, the presence of memory, of recollection, of experiences we've had. You wouldn't have any thought without memory, without remembrance, without the past.
So, what is thought? It's the presence of thought, the existence of thought, the presence of vision, of the worldview, of the vision of action and reaction, of objects, things, places with their names. It's the vision of someone as the "I" in this context of separation from these things. Thought is the basic element, the principal element, that makes life possible within the context of what is known, what we know, from this mind, as it works.
When you have a dream at night, and during the day you are in a waking state, looking closely you will realize: your waking state is perhaps a little more ordered or comprehensible intellectually than the experience you have in a dream. But we have in a dream at night, while we sleep, experiences similar to those we have during the waking state: our contact with objects, places, people, the presence of someone, who is this "me," in this context of the relation with all of this. When you wake up in the morning, you are aware that you were dreaming.
Here, we are unaware that this waking state also occurs within a process of thought shaping and, therefore, also within a dream. Our purpose here is the end of self-image, the end of this "I," the end of this ego-identity, the end of this sleep, this dream, for the true comprehension of Life as it truly is, beyond the "I," beyond the ego. Something naturally indescribable, unnameable; because it is beyond thought, it is unthinkable; since it is beyond dream, thought will never be able to touch it.
We need to free ourselves from this condition. Here, in this context of life, in this context of existence, the comprehension that life is this existence and not this existence of someone, this existing as someone. So, what is the truth about thought? When you see an object, you have the name of that object, you have the image of that object. When you close your eyes, that object now becomes part of this mental consciousness.
When you have experiences, as you go through them, they are stored within you, they begin to become part of this mental structure. They are stored within you as memories, as experiences you have gone through, your brain, your mind has lived, just like that object you saw. All of this is now part of this memory, remembrance. This is consciousness as we know it, made up of more recent memories, which we call the conscious mind, and more hidden, more forgotten memories, which we call the unconscious mind.
The encounter with Reality is the encounter with the end of this quality of experience, which is the experience of memory, which is the experience that gave rise to this self-image. This self-image is the idea of someone present, the present person, the experiencer who lives these experiences, who has these experiences as the basis of their life, that is present. So, this is the presence of thought within you: the remembrance, the memory, the recollection, the recorded experiences.
Based on these recorded experiences, which are these remembrances and memories, all the actions of this self-image, this person, this "I," occur. These are actions that, because they arise from a center of memories, remembrances, and experiences, are self-centered, egocentric actions. This is the action of the "I."
Our life in the ego is a life of egocentric activities. This is what we understand by actions in the world, actions in life. The thoughts we have, because they arise from this memory and have created this identity, which is the self-image, this self-image lives on the illusion of being someone who thinks. This is why we have the illusion of being the thinker of these thoughts. When you have thoughts, the belief is that you are producing these thoughts, being the thinker of these thoughts.
What is the truth about thinking? What is thinking? We are unaware of thinking. Thinking is what is present because of the presence of Intelligence. We are unaware of Intelligence. Here, I am not referring to this intelligence for matters in the world, for matters in this dream of existence, of world experience, that this conditioned mind knows. We are talking about Real Intelligence. When we have this Real Intelligence, there comes Wisdom.
So, what is Wisdom? It is the presence of the vision of life free from the "I," the ego, this self-image, this structure, which is the structure of the thinker, the experiencer. Therefore, we are unaware of what thinking is. When you have thoughts, the brain is simply responding to a memory, to a remembrance it brings. Note, there is no thinker, only thought exists when thoughts are present within you, and yet a belief arises from this self-image, from this thinker having thoughts.
Note that you don't control thoughts. Thoughts happen as they happen. And they happen due to a response to a stimulus, to a challenge that arises, and then a thought arises. When you see a scene, the brain reacts; this reaction is part of thinking.
See, thinking is this process of thought arising due to a stimulus the brain has received; when you hear something, when you see something, the brain reacts. This reaction of the brain, based on symbols, images, mental representations, this is the presence of thought. It's not you thinking, it's the brain responding, the brain reacting. This is part of thinking.
So, thinking is not someone's thinking, it's just thinking. Thinking happens, and when it happens, there is the presence of thought. Thought separates itself, creating the illusion of this thinker, this experiencer, this "I," this "me," for this illusion of control. This is how this self-image, this is how this sense of ego works. This is the life of the "person," it's the life of the illusion of someone present.
We are here together to discover the Truth about the Freedom of thinking. When there is the presence of Intelligence, of dealing with life as it happens, without the illusion of self-image, there comes the truth of feeling, the truth of action; not of the reaction that comes from the past, not of the egocentric activity we know, but of true action, and we have the presence of thinking.
It's very strange to hear this, but the reality of the presence of thinking only occurs when there is this Freedom, which is the Freedom of not being trapped by the ego's model. It is precisely when there is no thought, this pattern of egoic thought, conditioned thought, psychological thought, that there is the presence of thinking.
Here, in life, we need to discover the beauty of a life free of ego, where we are able to respond to this present moment without the past, which is only possible when there is this Truth of Intelligence, when there is the Freedom to think, feel, and act, without the "I." This is the new condition, a mysterious and unknown condition, free of ego, free of the "I," where the awareness of Love, the awareness of Real Life, the awareness of God is present.
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