This is a common way of dealing with life, as it happens. We don't have the readiness to respond perfectly to life's events. Life consists of situations arising, situations happening. Our psychological condition of existence in this sense of person, in this idea of being someone in the context of life, in this context of living, places us in a position where we do not truly respond, in an appropriate way, to these demands of life, to these challenges of life, to what life represents. And why are we unable to do this? Because our responses are ready-made, they are based on past experience that we have already had.
So, let's calmly look at this. We are here with you studying these fundamental questions of life, and one of these is our inability to deal with the present moment. This ends up representing for each of us various forms of complications, problems, and suffering. And, since we don't know how to deal with these complications, these problems, and these sufferings, we enable ourselves to escape - what is known as "the escape from reality" in psychology.
Our approach to life, our approach to the present moment is inadequate. Since we don't know how to respond to it, suffering is present, and we don't know how to look at it, we don't know how to deal with it, we don't know how to deal with the present moment. So, notice: there is the present moment, it is challenging; our inadequate response to this moment produces suffering; we don't know how to deal with suffering, so we run away! It's the escape from reality. We're going to work on this a little bit with you here.
For example, we have the issue of fear. We do not know the beauty, we do not have an idea of the importance, the value, the comprehension of what fear is. There is great Beauty, there is great Truth, there is an indescribable Freedom in life, when there is no fear. And we do not know how to deal with the experience of the moment; because of this, fear settles down. Since we do not know how to deal with this pain that fear causes, that it provokes, we run away. Then, the question arises: "What to do with fear?" "How to deal with fear?" "Fear, what to do?" We do not know how to deal with the present moment, because we do not know how to deal with what we are.
The present moment requires new action, because we are always facing a new challenge. Life happens like this: it is happening for the first time at this moment. Everything present at this moment is unique. That has never happened before and will never happen again. We do not know how to respond to this moment because we have the idea that we are someone present and that we need to respond to this moment. So, the first point here is the idea of being someone; it misleads us. There is life happening, but there isn't someone present in life as we believe to be someone and situated in life, separate from it. This is the first point: you believe that there is someone present, and then you believe that you have to respond to life as it happens.
Here, with you, we are working on the Awakening of Spiritual Intelligence, of the Vision of Wisdom, of the Freedom of living free from the past. And, free from the past, we have a comprehension of this moment based on this Intelligence. And, when there is this Intelligence, the answer to this moment is not of someone. There is no past, there is no someone, and we do not have an inadequate answer to this moment. So, life happens, but you in your Essential Nature, in your Divine Nature, are one with life. There is in you, in your True Nature, this Divine Intelligence to deal with the present moment with wisdom. Then, no form of contradiction, disorder, separation and conflict is established.
Naturally, there is no room for fear when Intelligence is present, and Intelligence is Divine Truth. Then, how can we deal with what we are feeling, living, going through, within this context of life as we know, for example, fear? It may be that when you hear all this that we have just explained to you, it may seem like a utopia, like something so good to be true. But here I have to tell you: what we are saying, yes, is real. What is real is Bliss, Happiness, Love, Peace. Therefore, why do we have these meetings here? We have these meetings with one sole purpose: to become aware of the Reality of God. And this Reality, when it is present, there is no longer that someone, no longer that past, and no longer that inadequate response to life as it happens. All of this is arising due to a psychological condition of existence that thought has established within each one of us, as if it were really the truth about who we are.
Thus, there is a mistake: we are situating ourselves in life as someone, we are situating ourselves in life as a person. Your way of relating to the present moment is not a real way of attending to what is here, but it is a way in which we try to adjust the reality of the present moment to this thought within us that comes from the past. This is where the problem lies, this is where fear lies. So, you ask: "Fear, what to do?" If there is one of the subjects within these fundamental questions of life that we deal with here with you and we continually return to, it is this issue of fear.
We greatly underestimate the truth of the presence of fear in our lives, but the human being, psychologically, is fear. Look at yourself and you will, if you are honest, recognize that your life is based on actions that are based on desire and fear. In general, we separate desire from fear, but we do not realize that the presence of fear is what drives us to desire. When you want to obtain something, you want to obtain it because you are dissatisfied at that moment. What you want to obtain, this desire, is the projection of an ideal of fulfillment and satisfaction in that achievement. And you only have this because, at that moment, you are feeling emptiness, insufficiency, lack, some level of discomfort, of pain.
So, this impulse of pain, discomfort and lack, which is suffering, drives us to seek something to free ourselves from this condition of suffering. Behind this desire, there is the worry that this will not be achieved, that this will not be accomplished, that this thing will not be obtained. This is fear! If there is something that we are not aware of, it is the truth that life, in this sense of the "I," of the ego, in this psychological condition in which we find ourselves, is a life full of fear, dissatisfaction, suffering, conflicts and contradictions. Thus, we are unable to give an answer to life at this moment, an adequate answer to life, because the foundation seeking to provide this answer is the basis of the illusion of a present identity, which sees itself separate from life, trying to attend to this moment based on the past.
So, we need to discover, in life, what life is free from the past, what life is free from the "I," what life is free from this psychological movement of the existence of an identity, which is this someone. Notice, this someone is situated in this dissatisfaction, in this fear, desire, and suffering. Thus, any response that one can give to this moment will be inadequate. This is the sense of the "I," this is the sense of the ego. We are here, with you, investigating how to assume, in this life, the Reality of That is. Now, it is important that we understand this together, too: that there is no one who can do this.
So, what happens to us, dealing with life as it happens because of this individualistic personal position, this "me," this "I," this ego, this someone, is dealing with life in this discomfort, this pain, this suffering, this fear. And as long as we are running away from this reality - because this is the reality of "me," this is the reality of each one of us - as long as this sense of egoic identity remains, the reality that we know, the known reality is the reality of fear, it is the reality of suffering, it is the reality of pain. Can we discover in life, at this moment, what it is to look at this without running away, without running away from this reality?
See, we are before something very basic, very simple, easy to observe. The truth for the end of this escape from reality is to become aware of our reactions at this moment, when you become aware that this element, which is this "I," is looking for something to escape, to run away from. It is separating itself, and in this separation, it is maintaining the continuity of this pain, this suffering, this fear, this conflict. All this alternative of achieving something out there through desire is just a way of escaping from oneself, of running away from this pain. So, approaching the truth of this moment reveals this sense of someone present, and when you learn to look, just to look, to observe, to become aware of this pain, this conflict, this contradiction, this dissatisfaction, when you learn to just look, without running away, without escaping, it ends.
So, the beauty of this encounter with Self-Awareness reveals to you this psychological condition of dissatisfaction, fear, conflict, pain and suffering, and it ends. But we spend an entire life feeding the continuity of this someone and, therefore, of this past. And therefore, of this idea of facing this present moment from this background. The encounter with life at this moment requires the presence of this awareness of this separation, of this idea of this "I" and the non-"I," of this observer observing things; of this person who, when faced with situations, is always looking at these situations from a particular and personal perspective, which is the perspective of this person who lives in this acceptance or rejection, in this liking or disliking.
So, how can we get closer to ourselves to go beyond this "me," this "I," this someone? By looking, discovering what it means to listen to life as it happens, to look at life as it happens. to look at all the movement that arises in you and perceive that this movement is something that comes from the past, creating the illusion of this someone. Discovering what it means to look at this is to put an end to this condition, in contact with life at this moment without the past, without the observer, without this experiencer, without this "me," without this someone. And this approach is what occurs when we have the answer to the question: "What is Meditation?"
The presence of Meditation is the awareness of this moment without someone present within it. So, the way life shows itself, the way life reveals itself - without someone who is the past, at this instant, at this present moment - reveals That which is beyond the mind, which is beyond all that is known, which is the presence of the Divine Reality. Then, this is the contact with the Truth of Meditation. There is no someone in Meditation. There is no past in Meditation. We have life, at this instant, revealing itself without this "me."
Here we are, together, looking at this, delving into it with you and saying that yes, this is possible in this life: the awareness of the Reality of God, the awareness of the Reality of life without the "I." So, this is our topic here, with you. We have online meetings on weekends, where we are, on Saturday and Sunday, delving into this with you. These are our online meetings. Here, in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. In addition to these meetings, we have our in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you've just heard makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Please, leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel and write here in the comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.
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