Here, the issue is to learn to live. How to learn to live? And why learning to live? Note, living is an art. Without this art of life, living as we know is conflicting, disorderly, full of sorrow, complications, and suffering. Here, on this channel, we are working with you on the Truth of how to flourish in life. A flower is not a flower until it truly blooms. When you look at it, you don't say: "Here's a flower!" You say: "Here's a rosebud," "Here's a rose blossoming, a jasmine blossoming, an orchid blooming." You only call it an "orchid" when it's an orchid that has bloomed, a jasmine that has bloomed, a rose that has bloomed. So, a rose in all its grace, beauty, opulence, is present when it blooms. Before this blooming, there isn't a flower yet.
Life is full of beauty. There is an extraordinary perfume in it, an indescribable grace when it blooms. The Awakening of Spiritual Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, is the flowering of life. So, we have to find out how to learn to live. You drive a car today, but you have learned to drive; you brush your teeth and you have learned it. Look at a simple task, but you had to learn it first. Now it is simple for you, but in the beginning, it was not simple. Look, brushing your teeth is something very simple, but many people do not know how to do it. In fact, most of us do not know how to do it. (laughter) Driving a car is something simple, once you've learned it, but most of us do not know how to drive a car, although we are driving our cars - at least the way we know how to drive. We are brushing our teeth the way we know how to brush them.
But note, we are dealing here, giving here, now, two examples of purely technical subjects, which require knowledge, experience... And this is the way of learning that is needed for this technical matter, as functional as driving a car or brushing your teeth. But then we have thousands of things we do in life - of course, we do them our way - but we still don't know how to do them properly. And what about this issue of life? Look, this is no longer a technical subject, but a subject of great importance and of a completely different order from a technical subject that we need to learn and that we are doing, in life, because we have learned it. Taking a shower, combing your hair, making your bed when you get out of it in the morning... Note, you have learned everything in life, or you believe you have learned. (laughs) And what about this issue of life? What is life? Do we know what life is, have we learned how to live?
The one who learns to live - it is challenging what you are going to hear, but what we are going to say here is real for you: the one who learns to live is one with life; and when you are one with life, because there is no separation between you and it, there is something present that is the perfume, the beauty, the Grace of something completely new, of something that is not part of everything we know. Here we are talking about the Divine Presence, the Presence of this Being. The Truth about you is revealed when you learn the Truth about yourself. We don't have this Truth because we haven't learned anything about it. If there is something of great value and importance in life for us to learn, it is the art of living. This represents a new way of living, a new way of feeling, acting, thinking, of relating to the present moment. So, there is the Divine Truth, the Truth of God present in this art of living.
The thing is that we are not dealing with something technical to be learned. We are dealing with something that this learning here actually requires unlearning. Yes, that's right, an unlearning of this psychological condition in which we find ourselves. This psychological and internal condition in which we live is trapped within a model of culture, society, and the world, where we are moving through life, in this living, within ignorance. Notice how delicate this is. Every form of disorder, confusion and suffering is present in life, in our lives, due to this particular vision of life that we have, that we bring, present, in fact, due to ignorance, in reality, due to ignorance. When there is this ignorance about the Truth of ourselves, in this lack of awareness, we are living within a psychological, illusory condition, where all types of disorder, confusion and suffering are established.
We have a pattern of feeling, thinking, and acting that is confused, disorderly, problematic, and restless. So, this sustains this condition, this psychological condition of being someone as we feel we are, as we show ourselves to be, as we seem to be. Let us calmly look at this. We have to unlearn this. In this psychological condition of being someone, we are possessive, envious, greedy, jealous, ambitious, full-of-fear creatures. We have a pattern of thought that functions within each one of us, which is the restless, agitated, disorderly thought pattern. Thought within us is always taking us to a model of existence of separation, where we see ourselves as being someone - a someone who is, in fact, the center of our relationships, of our experiences.
Thus, we have an egocentric model of existence, we are unaware of the beauty of existence, of the totality of life, because we are egocentric, centered on ourselves. This is the psychological condition of this "me," of this sense of person we have. This is sustaining, in us, all kinds of egocentric behavior, generating problems around us and, internally, we are always internalizing conflicts and also situations of unhappiness. We need to unlearn all of this. This is present because we do not know the Truth about God. We have beliefs about God, theories about God, we have read books about God, we have heard various sermons, preachings and lectures about God. So, we have the belief, an image of what He represents, but all of this is still within this model of conditioning program of culture, society, and the world; there is no direct experience of this Divine Reality, they are just beliefs!
Our organized religions are all organized around words, concepts, theories, images, mental formulations, and beliefs. We use expressions like "love of God," "love the neighbor," "love of life" . These are words that we use in a very sentimental, romantic, poetic, mystical way, but in practice they have no real meaning in life. So, this is not part of this "knowing how to live," because we have not learned how to live. In practice, despite all kinds of beliefs, ideas, concepts about Love, Truth, and God, we continue as people; and as people, we are full of jealousy, envy, control, attachment, fear - fear in its various forms. All of this because we do not have a vision of Reality about who we are; we are stuck in the intellectual conditioning model of our view of the world and our view of life.
So, learning about life requires unlearning this model of merely existing as a person, so that the real existence of the totality of life is revealed - which is possible when the sense of ego is undone, when it vanishes. The Truth of this learning to live requires Self-Awareness, the importance of Self-Awareness. Being in touch with the comprehension of what is happening within each of us at this moment, reveals to us this model of duality, of separation between "me and life," "me and the other," "me and God." It reveals to us this egocentric sense of being someone, it reveals to us the end of this condition of possession, control, ambition, attachment, desires, fears, jealousy, envy. All of this needs to be undone, we have to unlearn all of this. Therefore, we need to discover the beauty of living, but the beauty of living, this learning to live, requires unlearning this old condition of merely existing as a person, of existing as someone.
Therefore, we have to get closer to the beauty of Death, this psychological Death for this "me," for this "I." The encounter with Real Life requires the end of this old egoic life; this is the death of the past, it is the death of this continuity for this ego-identity. This is what we are working on here, with you, on this channel and also in these online meetings we have on weekends, in retreats, in face-to-face meetings. Having a direct look at all this movement of the ego, of the "I," is to unlearn all of this, this requires the Truth of Self-Awareness. This is why we have emphasized to you, here, the importance of Self-Awareness. Note, in general, we are always complaining about intrusive thoughts, or compulsive, obsessive thoughts, or stress, depression, anxiety, the pain that jealousy causes. We are always complaining about these states of psychological suffering present in each one of us. But notice, this will always continue to be present as long as the sense of "I" is present, of this person, of this ego-identity, of this person in this mere sense of existing as someone separate from God, separate from the other, separate from life.
When you come and say: "Look, how can I get rid of this recurring depression? This pain of recurring jealousy? This pain of recurring loneliness? How can I get rid of all these suffering, disorders, and problems that I have?" By getting rid of the sense of "I," of the ego! This requires this art of living. So, the art of living is to be one with life; this is non-duality. This is a subject here, within the channel. An approach to this work requires a careful look at all of this, at this entire psychological movement that is the movement of the "I." I have recommended to people to come closer and investigate our playlists here, within the channel. We have several playlists here, one of them is this approach to the Truth about Self-Awareness, the importance of Self-Awareness, the Truth of Self-Awareness. Becoming aware of What you are and getting closer to Reality through Meditation, through Real Meditation - and I use the expression Real Meditation, not what people out there understand as "meditation" - it is the Truth of Self-Awareness, it is the approach to Real Meditation, which brings you closer to the true revelation of your Being, of what it is, in fact, to learn to live.
So, that's our topic with you here, on this channel, and also on our other channel called "Marcos Gualberto." Later, you can take a look here, in the video description you will find our link to get to know the other channel. In addition, we have online meetings on the weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, we are together, through questions and answers, having contact with this approach, including with the awareness of Meditation, of Real Meditation in an experiential, practical way. You can find our WhatsApp link here, in the video description, to participate in these meetings. In addition, we have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard makes sense to you, go ahead, leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel and write here in the comment: "Yes, it makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.
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