Here our commitment together consists of this discovery of the Truth about who we are. Notice that when people have a concern, and it is the concern of how to learn to deal with their relations, they do not comprehend that the basis for these relations is themselves.
In general, we believe that relations are located outside, as if life were happening externally. The great truth is that there is no life out there; you are the contextual element of life, you contextualize life. There is no separation between you and life.
People want to study Stoicism to find out how to deal with the world, to deal with others, to deal with relations. So people talk about Stoicism and human relations, but people don't comprehend that the basis of relations, the basis for relations, is the presence of this sense of someone in the relation. So, let's look at some things together.
The first one is that there is no such thing as a separation between you and life and, naturally, between you and the other. So, this idea of adjustment. Let's look at a few things here right away. This idea that the world has to change, the other has to change or something has to happen out there for there to be freedom, peace, intelligence and comprehension in relations, that is completely false. The basis for all of this is you.
That is why here, with you, we are studying not the other, but ourselves, not the world, but you. Scientists study the external world, while you, in this work towards Divine Truth, study yourself. Here it is a matter of investigating the Truth about yourself. In a natural, real way, there is a vision into life and, really, into the other because there is no you, life and the other. In this sense, the greatest scientist is not the one who explores the external world, but the one who investigates the Nature of Truth present here and now, within itself.
Here we are together discovering how to learn about all this, and learning about it requires a new mind, a new brain, a way of looking at the present moment without the intervention of thought. And why is thought dispensed? Because thought is not the element that makes this vision of Reality possible, since thought is exactly the element that stands like a curtain between the Reality of the moment and you.
There is no such thing as separation between You in Your True Nature and life arising at this moment, moment by moment, within these relations; that's because life consists of relations. The relation with the other, the relation with situations, the relation with events, the relation with yourself is life, and this relation is the relation where the Truth of communion is present. There is no separation, except this separation, which is the separation that thought has established.
That's why we are here with you, investigating how to completely eliminate this psychological condition, which is the condition of this psychological complexity present in each one of us, the complexity of thought. What is the presence of thought in you? When you look at someone and you recognize that person, this recognition is memory; this is the presence of thought. Now notice what we are going to say: this recognition, which is the presence of thought, is the curtain between you and him or her, since this recognition is the past.
Thus, when you look at someone, you are not looking at the person, you are looking at the image, the recognition, the memory: that's the past. This is where the presence of thought in life is present. For some practical purposes, thought will always be present to give us a basis for relationships, at the level of contact, of experiences. Note, that's reasonable.
You recognize your car, this is very important because you will not try to get into someone else's car, you will get into your car because you recognize your car; this recognition is memory. If you leave the supermarket and enter the parking lot, you will not get into someone else's car, you will get into your car. At this level, thought becomes necessary. So, notice, we are using thought all the time for recognition. Thus, thought fulfills a functional memory function in life.
The problem is when thought is psychologically occupying the condition of an identity present in the experience of this Totality of Life. Notice the difference. I need the experience to recognize my car; this experience is knowledge, it is memory, it is remembrance, it is the image that the brain here has of the car. But do I need this quality of thoughts in our human relations?
Look at the question. Do I really need to remember all the bad, unpleasant, complicated, confusing, frustrating, disorderly, and suffering moments that I have experienced in the past in this contact with him or her? Notice that all these memories create a separation, a division between me and her. This quality of memory has formed, here, an image. So, there is an image that has been formed in this quality of memory; this is the image that I have of him, that I have of her. This image is formed in this self-image that I also have of myself.
These various internal states that put me in an internal position of feeling, emotion, sensation and perception of life, as it happens internally and externally, based on this quality of image, this quality of memory, this is establishing life for a particular life; this particular life is the particular life of the "I," of this "me," of this "person."
So, at one level, thought is needed, at another level, it is not only unnecessary, but it creates disorder, it creates confusion, it creates suffering in relations. Then, sometimes I like myself and sometimes I don't like myself. The element that is present creating this liking and disliking is thought. I like some people and I don't like others: it is the presence of thought.
The thought within us distorts reality, it gives us a vision based on this past. Thus, I do not meet the person, I meet the image I have of them. This "I" is also just an image that "I" have of myself. What is the truth of this "I?"
Thus, studying who we are, learning about Self-Awareness is our subject. Learning about ourselves, learning how we function psychologically, having a clear vision of what thought is. It has just become clear to you what thought is. Thought is this image, thought is this recollection, it is this memory, it is this past. Based on this memory, recollection and past you recognize your car in the parking lot, but on this same basis you do not recognize the person you are dealing with because you see them based on the past.
So, the husband does not know the wife, the wife does not know the husband. You do not know yourself because what you have of yourself are thoughts; these are producing internal states of conflict in you, of contradiction and suffering. You want to be happy, but internally the thought produces a desire for suffering. So there is a desire to be happy, but internally the thought is producing a quality of desire of negative self-appreciation, of negative self-image, of guilt, of someone frustrated, bored with itself, disappointed with itself, within a low self-esteem.
Thus, we are living in states of psychological contradiction due to the presence of this psychological model, which is the model of the "I." So, this subject of self-discovery is not a subject for stoicism, it is not a subject for psychology, for this model of organized religion, where there are beliefs, dogmas, mystical practices, and rituals. This subject is not a subject for philosophy. This subject is a subject for this self-discovery. We need to learn to look at what is happening to us, at what happens inside each one of us, to discard thought, to discard this memory, to get in touch with life at this moment, without the "I," without this "me," without this self-image.
Self-image: psychology touches on this issue of self-image, but notice the confusion we have created with the expression "self-image." We have discovered the existence of this self-image, and we know, within psychology, that this self-image is the image of the self, it is the image of the person, but we still do not comprehend that this self-image carries this duality, this weight of separation, of contradiction, of conflict.
Thus, for many people the idea is to improve this self-image, to perfect this self-image, to put it in a condition where it feels good about itself. We never ask ourselves if we can get rid of this model, which is the model of self-image, for a life free of this sense of contradiction, of conflict, and therefore free of this self-esteem and this low self-esteem.
Here with you we are investigating the end of the "I," the end of the "ego" and, therefore, the end of this self-image; it is when we can have contact with the other, with life, with the present moment without the past. Obviously, you have to remember your name, this is knowledge, this is the experience of the brain, with regard to this name that was given to you. Obviously, recognizing your car in the parking lot, this is part of a functional memory of experience, of brain memory, practical and objective.
But here, from a psychological viewpoint, can we live free from the ego and therefore free from this self-image, for a relation with this present moment, without this sense of separation, where there is this illusion between "me" and him, "me" and her, "me" and life, "me" and God? That is our proposal here for you: a life where we have the presence of Love, the presence of Freedom, the presence of Truth.
We need a new brain, a new mind, this quality of Being, free from this egocentric, separatist pattern, of existing as someone within this context of relations; that is when we have the Truth of relation. This Truth of relation is the presence of Freedom, of Communion. As long as there is this illusion of separation, this sense of someone present as the center of experiences, where there is this life centered on this self-image, in this condition there will be conflict, suffering, disorder, and confusion.
Here, with you, we are seeing together the possibility of a life free from the sense of "I," free from the sense of ego and, therefore, free from this pattern of thought. A response to this moment is a perfectly complete, singular, unique, perfectly adequate response when we have the presence of Intelligence and not the presence of thought. A response from this moment, within a real vision, does not create problems. But a mistaken vision of this moment, based on thought, will always be giving an inadequate response to this moment, within this context of relations.
Thus, the various confusions that we have in our relations, in our relationships, all these confusions are established in this pattern of inadequate response, within a mistaken vision, which is the vision that comes from the past based on memories, on recollections, in these relationships. Can we meet this moment without the past and, therefore, without this self-image, without this image of him or her? That's what we are here, with you, investigating.
We have these meetings here on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, to explore this with you, to discover how, in this life, to become aware of this: this life free from thought, this format of thinking. Here in the video description you have our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends. In addition, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here is an invitation. Go ahead, give us your "like," subscribe to the channel and please, write here in the comments: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!
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