Here, these meetings of ours can take on a very, very special meaning and value, very significant for each one of us, when we put our minds and hearts to follow a speech like this. Since we are here dealing with issues that put an end to these various problems we have, these countless problems that, as human beings, we have, if they are investigated, comprehended, they will end. Because, you know, the word "problem," the meaning of the word "problem," we all know. We know what a problem means: a problem is an unresolved situation. We have countless unresolved situations, from a psychological viewpoint. So, here we need to have an approach that really brings us closer to this or that problem in order to investigate that problem.
Once a problem is comprehended, it is no longer a problem. Note that when you have a math problem, it is only a math problem until you find a solution to it. So, we can say, "Look, there is a math problem," but once it is solved, that problem no longer exists, it is no longer a math problem. Thus, psychologically, we have many and varied problems, but they are problems because we do not confront them, we do not look closely, we do not get intimately involved in the situation in order to comprehend it. Then, there is no comprehension, when there is no comprehension, we have a problem.
Here, with you, we are investigating all of this, becoming aware of all of this. That is our interest here, together, in this awareness of the truth about who we are, because it is ignorance about who we are that is the basis that sustains the various problems we bring. The math teacher gives a test to the students; of course, he poses math problems. In life we have countless questions, questions are problems, unsolved problems. Life does not give us a test like teachers do with their students, life is as it is. Yes, it constitutes a great challenge for each one of us, because we see ourselves as creatures separate from life itself.
Do you know exactly what a problem is? A problem is this situation that has not been resolved, but this situation that has not been resolved is the way we are dealing with that situation. That is what makes that situation a problem. We have a particular way of dealing with life. That particular way does not fit, it is not the appropriate way of dealing with life, but we have been taught since childhood to deal with life in that way. When you do not respond appropriately to a situation, once it has not been attended to, it becomes a problem.
This is how our contact with life is: we are responding inadequately to what life represents, and so we have problems. And why are we responding inadequately? Because our way of responding to life as it happens at this moment is based, within us, on a movement that comes from the past. If I meet you and what I have of you is memory, remembrance, is recollection about you, I am not having real contact with you at this moment. What is happening at this moment, in this encounter, is the truth of the moment revealing itself, and this state within me, of inadequacy, clashing this instant, this moment.
Why do we have problems, for example, in our relationships, among ourselves as human beings? Because we do not comprehend each other. And why do we not comprehend each other? Because the element present in me, just as the element present in you, is an element that comes from the past. So, when we meet, there is no real encounter; separation is established, a division is established, and, naturally, a conflict is established. That is the problem. The problem in our relationships consists of the fact that "I do not know who you are," just as "you do not know who I am." We only "know" each other!
To what extent do we know ourselves? The question is: do you know who you are? Do you know who you are? Do you know yourself? Or is what you have of yourself knowledge of ideas, concepts, beliefs, judgments, and opinions? So, when people relate to each other, they relate to each other based on the person. What is the truth about the person? This feeling of a person you have, this idea of a person you express here and now, is a set of thoughts you have about yourself. Here, our work, together, consists of this discovery, this verification, this learning about ourselves, this learning about Self-Awareness. As long as there is no comprehension of the truth about the person, as long as you do not comprehend yourself, there will be no Intelligence.
Here, I refer to this Divine Intelligence, this Spiritual Intelligence. The presence of this Intelligence is the Freedom to deal with yourself, to deal with others, without the false, without illusion. It is when there is false, it is when there is illusion, that ignorance is present. The importance of Self-Awareness - here we are with you seeing the importance of this - the importance of Self-Awareness is the end of ignorance and, therefore, the end of the false, the end of illusion. This encounter with the truth of what you are, is the discarding of this present illusion, this present falsehood, this present ignorance in the context of relation, because we have the end of this movement of separation, where this ignorance is present. It is in this ignorance that you see yourself in this context of life, as an element separate from it. This is the context of existence in this dream of existing as someone, of thinking, acting, speaking, doing, feeling. All based on this idea, which is the idea of the person.
You use the pronoun "I." What is the truth about this "I"? Here, with you, we are discarding this movement that predominates, that prevails in this particular life of this "I." The movement that prevails, that predominates in the life of this "I," of this person, is the movement of thought. What is thought? Follow this question here and let us examine here, together, the answer to this question. What is thought? Thought present in you, where does it come from? At first, the illusion is that thought comes from someone who thinks. So, notice, we have the belief that someone thinks, this someone is the thinker and this thinker arrives first, arrives before any thought. Then, it is you thinking. No, that is not true! There is no such someone, this thinker, this "you" thinking. What is present is the presence of thought.
Unlike what we believe, the thinker does not arrive before thought; thought establishes itself as a presence of memory, at this moment, and it appears. Something happens internally, in you, due to something you see, or hear, or feel. So, due to this feeling, this hearing, or this seeing, a thought appears, and this thought appears because it is part of a present collection. You carry this memory within you, the brain has this memory, so it communicates this memory to this consciousness - which we call consciousness - which we divide into conscious and unconscious. Then, at that moment, this thought appears in this mind, in this conscience.
There is no one, there is no you, there is no thinker bringing this thought - it is something that is appearing. When you are worried, you are not producing worries; when you are sad, you are not producing sadness; when you are happy, you are not producing joy; when there is a memory, you are not producing that memory; when there is an imagination, you are not producing that imagination; it is something that is happening. It is happening because of a background of memory. There is no you as an element of wanting, of volition, of will, of desire, of identity producing this. It is just something that is happening.
So, what is thought? Thought is an appearance of this brain mechanism, of this movement of consciousness, but we have the illusion of someone present in it. This "someone" is this "me," this "I," this person. See how important this is. We have just given two answers here to a single question. The question was: "What is thought?", but we have just had here the answer, also, to the question: "What is thinking?" We have just seen, here, what thinking is. Thinking is this mechanics when thought occurs; when there is thought, there is thinking. We only have thinking, we do not have the thinker, but we create the illusion of the thinker who wants to get rid of thought when it is unpleasant, who wants to hold on to thought when it is pleasant. Then, problem is established, conflict is established.
Thus, our relations with people, as the person we believe ourselves to be, are based on a relation with the past, a relation that is based on memory. Notice how important this is: we are alienated from the instant, from the present moment, because we are living in this thought that is the past. This is where this illusory, this false, this ignorant life of the "I," of the ego, of this "me" resides. Once you learn to look at this, to be aware of it when it occurs, you can discard this movement, which is the movement of thinking. Then, we have the presence of Silence - the Silence that arises when this space arises, which until then had been occupied by this moment of psychological restlessness, which is the movement of thought.
So, notice what we are saying here: anxiety, anguish, depression, fear, anger, sadness, worry. These various psychological states that accompany thought - I refer to these emotional and feeling states - they are functioning, or happening, in a dysfunctional way in this model of identity of the "I," of egoic identity, due to ignorance. This false, this illusion, this ignorance is taking over the truth about our lives. This "my life" is life within this condition of ignorance.
Once you discover what it means looking at these reactions, what it means learning about Self-Awareness, what it means bringing this look, this observation, to this moment, abandoning this psychological condition of unconscious movement as occurs in this mechanics - there is no awareness of this, so all of this is processed in an unconscious way - once you learn to observe these reactions, thought, feeling, an emotion, a sensation. your contact with him or her, your contact with yourself, your contact with the moment, the awareness that the past is present - this movement of which the ego is constituted - at that moment this way of dealing with the present moment undergoes a profound change.
So, we have the presence of Silence, due to this new space that emerges, and at that moment that which is outside this duality is revealed, which is thinker and thought, which is this "person," which is this "person" with their beliefs having the vision of that other "person" - which is a mere projection of the thinker itself, which is a projection of the thought itself in this idea of being someone, which is this "I," this "me," this person. Then, here we have an approach to this awareness that reveals this space, that reveals this Silence, this absence of this psychological form of existing as someone - we have the presence of Meditation.
This is what we are working on here with you. The real form of this approach requires the presence of this mindfulness. So, what is mindfulness? It is the approach to life at this moment; without what we have just described here, which is the model of unconsciousness that, for millennia, we as human beings have been living. The discarding of the egoic sense, the discarding of the sense of "I," the discarding of this psychological disorder, of this division, of this separation. The discarding of this sense, feeling, thought of a person in life, at the moment, at this instant, lies the beginning of something new, of something beyond the ego, beyond the "I."
That's what we're working on here with you. We have several videos here on the channel; we have meetings on weekends, where we're together on Saturdays and Sundays, going deeper into this here with you, 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's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like" here, and please, subscribe to the channel, comment: "Yes, that makes sense," OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.
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