Our biggest problem in life is our lack of comprehension of how we function psychologically, internally. We don't know how thought happens, how it processes within us. We don't have a clear answer; you see, not an intellectual, verbal, theoretical one; we can acquire that by listening to a lecture, reading a book, or a few books. I'm referring to the real answer to the question: "What is thought?" and "What is the truth about thinking?" What is thinking? We don't have an answer to that.
The way we face the present moment, with life as it is emerging before each of us, dealing with this requires the presence of a vision of Intelligence, of Freedom, of Wisdom. We lack the presence of Wisdom and Silence to deal with the present moment in a real way and, naturally, free from this model, which is the model of thought, this format of thought that we know.
Life in this moment does not require the presence of thought; it requires the presence of Intelligence. A life free of problems, suffering, and confusion is impossible when this old model is present-the model of thought we have for dealing with life, for dealing with others, for dealing with ourselves.
We may not like to hear this, but the truth is that throughout our lives, due to a lack of comprehension about ourselves, we are, throughout our lives, dealing with the present moment, in our relation with him or her, with ourselves and with everything that happens, we are within a relation, within this model of thought, creating confusion, creating disorder, and unnecessarily experiencing problems due to ignorance. We are living in an ignorant way regarding ourselves and, naturally, regarding others, regarding life.
Our contact with the present moment is inadequate, our response is inadequate, and this is easily explained. When you look at something, in that instant of looking, that moment is unique; it has never happened before, it will never happen again: that's how life happens. Comprehending the Truth about Life is the vision that, with clarity, Life occurs in this Freedom, in the Freedom from thought. It is not trapped, not bound by the model of thought.
Thus, the Truth of Life as it happens, the clarity, the lucidity of this moment, can only be seen from a brain, from a mind free of thought, because the presence of Life is now, and the presence of thought is memory, which comes from the past. Thus, life happens free of thought, but we are attending to life from memory, from thought, and, therefore, from the past.
This is where the problem lies for human beings: they do not deal with life as it happens, because they are not in tune with life when they are living in thought, as we are living. From childhood, we have been educated to have answers based on memories, on remembrances.
Our responses, spoken responses, action responses, our behaviors, our internal attitudes are guided by the presence of thought, and thought within us is memory, remembrance, and recollection. Thought cannot deal with the present moment; there is no way for it to deal with the present moment in a complete, free, lucid, real way; it is the inadequate element, and we are living in thought.
Note the complexity of this. If I ask your name, you answer me with your name; this verbal response is a response born out of thought. At this level, thought is reasonable, despite dealing with imagination, because you are not your name. Your name is the reference to the image I have here, before me, of your face, of your body. You are not your name, you are not your body, you are not your face, but in this sense, thought is functional, it is practical.
The answer I get when you ask me your name, the memory response here, is the actual name you gave me about yourself, about who you are. So, at this level, thought is functional; it's necessary. But besides your name and the memory of your face, I also have an idea of who you are. And here we're already faced with something false, because this idea I have of who you are is an idea that thought has been constructed here. It's not the truth about you, it's the image, the image that thought has been constructed here about you.
Our contact with life as it happens is constantly sustained, maintaining its continuity at every moment, based on this abstraction, this imagination, this construct of thought. Therefore, we are not dealing with the Truth of Life. We are simply, through thought, responding to life in an inadequate way. This response I'm giving to life is based on the image I've also constructed of who I am. This is the self-image.
Therefore, you, for you, are someone; this you and self-image are one thing. This self-image, which is you, is not the reality about you, but what thought says about who you are, just as thought says about who the other is, about who she is. This is how our relations are, our relations with people, relations with situations that arise, with events that appear, with life here, in this moment. Life is emerging in this moment, but the movement within us, which comes from the past, is trying to adjust itself to it, balance itself in the face of it, correspond to it, which is impossible.
We need, in life, to comprehend it as it happens, and this requires the presence of Wisdom and Silence. Because through thought, this brain is producing images, producing ideas, opinions, evaluations, it is making choices, it is making decisions, and all of this is within this mental, cerebral, internal restlessness within us.
Here, together, we are discovering what it means to approach life with Wisdom and Silence. This Silence is the basis for this intelligent, lucid, real, clear response to life. A life free from thought is a life in Love, Freedom, and Happiness. This quality of Life is not the quality of life for "someone," for this "me," for this "person." It is the very presence of Life as the only Reality present. It is when we can respond to Life, not through thought, but through thinking.
Thinking dispenses with the presence of conclusions, evaluations, choices, and the presence of likes and dislikes. The presence of thinking is the vision of Life in Intelligence, in Wisdom, in this Silence. That is why we have emphasized here the importance of Self-awareness and the Truth of this art, which is the art of Life, which is the art that reveals God, that reveals this Silence, which is Meditation.
A quiet brain, a silent brain, a quiet mind, a response to this moment in line with life itself is present when this self-image no longer exists. When there is the presence of Self-awareness, the Revelation of this illusory identity and this awareness of the Truth of this Divine Reality present, in this instant, this self-image no longer exists. This represents the end of self-image, the end of the "I," the end of the ego.
Your contact with the present moment, without the past, is without thought. This contact with the present moment is the presence of a communion between the Reality of this Being and Life. There is no separation between what is You in your True Nature, in your Divine Nature, and Life as it happens, and the Reality of God as it is. This Divine Reality is the Truth of Life. There is no separation between the Reality of God and the Truth of Life, and the Truth of your Being in your True Nature.
So, we need to assume Life as it happens. Since the Reality of Life is present in this moment and has no connection with the past, Life is here and now. This is Divine Reality, this is the Reality of God. Here we are delving deeper into this with you. You, in your Divine Nature, are the very presence of this Reality of God. Silence and Wisdom is the presence of Life when the psychological condition of the egoic mind, of the conditioned mind, of disorder, which thought has established, is no longer present.
Thought establishes disorder from a conditioned brain, from a conditioned mind, where this restlessness exists, this absence of silence. A vision of the truth about oneself is the end of this inner condition. When we learn to look at thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, perceptions, experiences, free from the experiencer, free from the thinker, free from this background, which is this identity that, upon emerging, is sustained by this separation between thought and thinker, experience and experiencer, when there is the end to this continuity, this persistence of this sense of "I," when we have the end to this condition, this continuity, in that instant the Presence of Life as it happens is revealed, without the illusion of this "me," this "person," this ego-identity.
You were born for this Freedom, for this Wisdom, Silence, Truth, Love, the awareness of God. This is what we are here for, together, in these weekend meetings, two days together. We are working on this with you in these online meetings we have here on Saturday and Sunday. You can find our WhatsApp link here, in the video description, to participate in these online meetings. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!
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