In life, we are faced with countless issues, and these issues cannot be answered without first knowing the basis on which these problems rest. So notice that: we have the issues, and the issues are actually problems, but there is something on which these problems are based. We can't have an answer to these issues without first examining where these problems are based, where they are established, and where these issues actually appear. And what is this element? It's what we're studying here with you.
This is not about studying science, mathematics, biology, botany, chemistry; this is about studying ourselves. Without a basis about who we are, we don't know where these issues, these problems lie. Thus, we have something to learn here, and that's what we're trying to show you, how it becomes possible in this life. It's about learning about ourselves, learning about Self-Awareness.
Notice that issues like "what is Enlightenment," "what is Meditation," "what is the truth about life," "who am I," "the Reality of God: what is that Reality," these are the problems we have, these are the questions we come across to have an answer. Thus, first of all, we have to learn what it is to learn about who we are, what it is to learn about ourselves.
This learning about ourselves requires contact with life at this moment without the movement of thought present, and we're going to clarify that for you here. Why do we need to have contact with life at this moment without the movement of thought present? Because every movement of thought in us is the picture that represents what was, what already happened, what already occurred.
Thought is basically remembrance, memory, and so are all the forms of knowledge that we acquire. Notice, knowledge is acquired; all knowledge comes from the past. If you know something, you know it because you've learned it, and learning is becoming aware of what has already been known. So, when you're going to learn something, that thing has already been known, and this learning as we understand it - and we put this expression "learn," this verb "to learn" - consists of acquiring that which has already been, which in this case is knowledge.
All the knowledge you have is something that has already been. So, there's no such thing as learning now for knowledge as we know it, because knowledge as we know it, is something you've learned. If you speak a language it's because you've learned it; if you know mathematics it's because you've learned it; if you know construction engineering or mechanical engineering it's because you've learned it. Thus, the knowledge you have is something that comes from the past.
Here, in these meetings, when it comes to this Divine Truth revealing itself, which is the Truth of God, we are not dealing with something that has to do with knowledge. Notice how interesting that is: you can't know God. You see, our intention is to know God, but here we have an enormous difficulty. The first is that we're not dealing with something we can situate in the past. We can't situate God as part of the knowledge we have, because that's something that comes from the past, and Divine Reality isn't in the past.
If you have some knowledge of God, that knowledge isn't exactly of God, it's of an experience of memory, of a remembrance you have, because of something you've already had. Divine Reality is not known, it cannot be known by memory. What is this memory? Thought, remembrance, recollection.
So what is the truth of this "knowing God"? You see, having knowledge of God is an illusion, but this "knowing God" is possible. But this "knowing God" is, at this moment, becoming aware of the Nature of your Being here and now. We are not treating, dealing with, contacting something that can be framed within time, something that we can acquire at this moment and take back to the past. We are dealing with Something that is outside of time and, of course, outside of the known, so it cannot be known.
This knowing is possible, but not the idea of time present in this knowing. You know that the idea of time is what we have when we talk about something that was, something that is and something that will be. So, here we have something that is and something that will be; something that is now and that has already been. We're not dealing with God as something that is, that was and that will be, we're dealing with that which is beyond the known. So, that's the first point. This contacting God, this knowing God means being aware of the Nature of your Being, of That which is You outside the known - it is in this sense that we use the expression "Being" here, in this context of speech.
Divine Reality is the Reality of this Divine Presence, of this Real Consciousness, of this Real Being. We have this "being" of ours as we know it, we have this consciousness as we know it, we have this presence as we know it, this presence of being someone, this human consciousness, this consciousness of the person, and we have this "being" personal, this psychophysical being, which we present ourselves to be within the context of human relations. The Divine Reality is the Reality of this Real Being, this Real Consciousness, this Real Presence, Something outside the known: this is the Reality of God.
It's important that I say this here for you too, because some people listen to these speeches and don't understand that here we use expressions very freely. So these words need to be seen in context. You listen to this speech here and we put it this way for you; you'll listen to another video of ours and you'll hear it in another way, with a new meaning or with another meaning, expressions that we use here, and then you'll draw the idea, the conclusion that we're contradicting each other. That's actually not true. It's just that we're using expressions, the same expressions, and giving them new meanings, according to the context of the speech.
So, this also requires you to follow the speech without getting hung up on the words, which requires listening without translating, without interpreting, without evaluating, and without drawing absolute conclusions. This is part of getting in touch with yourself, in this awareness of learning about how you work. One of the things we don't have in life, for example, is this 'listening'.
This listening is part of learning about ourselves; this learning about ourselves is learning about life, it's learning about God, it's learning about Divine Truth revealing itself. And look at what we've just said: it's not acquiring information, it's not having knowledge and experience now and based on the past. You become aware of this knowing yourself, this knowing God, right now. This is learning about Self-Awareness.
When you, for example, talk to someone, relate to him or her on the basis of memories you have of him or her, that quality of knowledge that is the knowledge based on memory. What does that tell us? You are in front of him or her, and he or she, here and now, is something new, is a new presence, is a Reality present at this instant. But by dealing with him or her on the basis of this knowledge, of the experience you have of him or her, you're not dealing with him or her, you're dealing with the known, which is this knowledge, which is this experience. This known knowledge, or experience, is thought, it's memory.
Thus, in your contact with him or her, there is no such thing as learning about yourself, learning about him or her, because you are dealing on the basis of the past, within that relationship context. Our life consists of this presence of the "I," the ego, this "me," this person that I am, that I feel I am, that I have learned to be. In other words, when ignorance is present, the Truth of the Divine Reality, the Reality of God, the Reality of this Real Being, this Real Consciousness, this Divine Nature... because of the absence of this Reality, our contact with the other, our contact with ourselves, in this ignorance, sustains the illusion, the illusion of this non-vision of the Truth about ourselves.
Thus, this contact with ourselves based on the past is ignorance; and our life has been exactly like that. We are living in ignorance because we are living in the past, living within the known, living within memory. Everything in us, in action, in speech and, therefore, in behavior and in saying, in communicating, represents this ignorance, represents this psychological condition of illusory identity present, which is this identity of the "I."
So, what is this learning about Self-Awareness? It's having contact with this instant without the past. As long as I maintain this condition of contacting him or her on the basis of the memories I have of him or her, there will be no real vision of Self-Awareness. Thus, I can't have a vision of the truth about what I am, I can't understand this past here, which is this "me," so that it ends. Then, I don't understand what real contact is with him or her outside the ego.
See how important this is to understand. As long as our relations are established in this ignorance, in this position of past-present - note, past-present at this moment - there will be suffering, there will be discord, conflict, disorder, and confusion. We are unaware of the presence of Love in our relations, for example, because the presence of Love is only possible when the past is no more present. And all we've done is sustain the past, we're only dealing with memories, with reactions to memories. Thus, the sense of individuality, of separation, prevails.
Our relations are centered on the "I," and this is the absence of Love. Love is the presence of Truth, it is the presence of God, it is the presence of Reality here and now, in knowing the Truth of God, which is knowing the Truth about who we are, when the ego is not present, which is when we comprehend who the other is, when the ego is not present.
Our work here in these meetings consists of this self-discovery; it's when we manage to perceive a Reality present outside the "I," outside the ego. At that moment, this look at that instant, in this relation with the other and with ourselves, breaks with this pattern of someone who is situated in thought, who is situated in history, who is situated in memory. So, at that moment, there is no separation in this gaze, since this observer disappears.
Notice how we have worked: we have the idea of something being seen by someone who sees it; that someone is the observer, and the thing being seen is the observed thing. Thus, we have the observer and the observed thing, and that observer and the observed thing disappear when there is only the gaze at that moment. The gaze at him or her is that gaze without the background, without that knowledge, without the one who separates and looks from ideas he or she has, memories he or she has of him or her. This is the end of the observer and the observed thing; we then have the end of separation, the end of this duality.
When we don't have that duality, we have that Presence of Love, that Presence of the Divine vision, of the vision free from the ego, of the vision free from the "I"; that's when we approach the Truth of Wisdom. Thus, the Truth of Wisdom - we have a playlist here on the channel: Wisdom, Intelligence and knowledge - comprehending the difference between Wisdom, Intelligence and knowledge is fundamental. We've just put it here for you: knowledge is that element in us that comes from the past, while Intelligence is the Reality of this Presence, this Being, this Divine Consciousness, here and now, revealing a Life in Wisdom.
Accessing Reality with a vision of the Truth about what is happening to us at this moment is becoming aware of this Intelligence, this Blossoming of Divine Intelligence, this Wisdom present in relations; this is when harmony, Beauty, Truth, the Revelation of this Divine Truth, which is the Truth of God, can be present in this context of our human relations. This is when we have the Presence of That which is outside everything that thought knows.
Therefore, that's our job here with you. We have Saturdays and Sundays together, in an online meeting, to go deeper into this. You can find our WhatsApp link for this online meeting on weekends here in the video description. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your 'like' here, subscribe to the channel, and please, write in the comments: "Yes, that makes sense." OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!
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