Freedom consists in a free vision. It is not a matter of achieving this Freedom, but of looking from it. Generally, we think of freedom as an objective to be achieved, something that is in the future. To become aware of our reactions here, at this moment; the very awareness of these reactions is the presence of Freedom.
A Life in Wisdom is the presence of the Revelation of that which is present here. So, let us touch on this subject with you, here and now. What is this Freedom? What, in fact, do we need for a happy life, in Love and Peace? It is the presence of Wisdom.
Wisdom is present when we have the Revelation of Life. How can we approach this Revelation? To look at this instant, at this moment, learning to look at that which is here. What we actually need in life when we touch on this issue of the need for Freedom is not something to be achieved; what we need is the approach, at this moment, to that which is going on with us here, at this instant, at this moment.
This is why we have emphasized with you the beauty of Self-awareness, the importance of that. Learning about Self-awareness is to discover the Truth about the one who is involved in thought, with thought, being the thinker, the presence of the "I." Learning about Self-awareness is to discover something beyond the "I," beyond the "person."
This is what we are, with you, here investigating. This is what frees us from the illusion of someone, of someone who has to find God, in the question "how to find God." The thought, the idea is of someone to have an encounter with God. We need to free ourselves from this illusion of someone for an encounter. Yes, the Reality of God shows itself present here and now, in a profound and real encounter, but it is not an encounter of someone having an encounter with God; it is an encounter with Life, of Life itself.
We need to investigate this issue of time, of the idea of a thinker, of this issue of thought, the image that thought has built about God, the idea, which is thought, that thought has also built about the "I." So, "I need to find God," but what is the truth of this "I"? This "I" is the presence of thought itself. Thought has created an image of itself. Thus, it created, established the idea of the "I" and created an image of God, and placed God far away, distant, to be found.
This is why we use the expression "encounter with God" as if, in fact, it were an encounter between two. While the Reality present, the Truth of God, is the only Reality of Life. There is no such element that separates itself; that's the illusion established by thought within each one of us, creating this idea, establishing this idea.
A life in this sense of separation from Life itself, from God itself, is an image that thought has established within you as being you. When we approach to look, to observe, without mistaking ourselves for it, what it means to look without the observer, what it means to look without someone to look-a thought arises, a feeling arises, an emotion arises-just to look, to become aware, is to be before the learning about ourselves.
Thus, Freedom is already here; it is the Freedom of not mistaking oneself for thought, placing the thinker in this thought, of not mistaking oneself for this "I" in this feeling or emotion. It is when, in this way, we approach Meditation. People have many doubts about Meditation because they place meditation as the technique to be executed, as the practice for someone to do. Thus, they look for a way. After all, what is the right technique? What is the practice that one should do? What should one practice? While the Truth about Meditation is the investigation of the nature of the "I," which is the meditator.
By observing our reactions, this thought that arises, this feeling that appears, we place ourselves in this learning about ourselves, in this learning about Self-awareness. In this learning the illusion of the "I," of this element that separates itself, that sees itself as someone when a feeling is there, when a thought arises, when an emotion happens, is revealed. Therefore, the presence of Meditation, what is Meditation? It is the awareness that there is no meditator, there is no "I."
Thus, we approach the present moment for a profound Revelation of Life, which is the Revelation of Wisdom, which is the Revelation of God. Therefore, Wisdom revealing itself is Truth showing itself, it is the Reality of God present when the "I" is not there, when the illusion of a person is no longer present. Therefore, this is the true encounter with God, this is the true Revelation of Truth, which is Wisdom.
Real Life is Life free from the "I." Real Life is Divine Life, You in your Being, free from all forms of complications, disorder, confusion and suffering. Your contact with the present moment without this background, without this internal condition of a model of thought, where we constantly bring to this moment the illusion of the thinker, of the one who thinks, of the one who feels and the one who does... Actions happen, but there is no one in this doing. Thought arises, but there is no one in this thinking. A feeling is present, but there is no one who sees itself in this feeling and mistakes itself for that. Thus, the illusion of duality is eliminated.
We were educated for the belief, for trust, for the common thought of duality: "me and the not-me," "me and the other," "me and God." If a thought is present, the illusion is someone thinking; if a feeling is here, it is someone feeling; if an emotion is present, it is someone being emotional: we find ourselves here with a frame of suggestion of thought, which is the frame of separation, of duality.
Life as it happens is the presence of Supreme Reality, of Divine Reality. This is the Wisdom of Revelation. For millennia the human being has been searching for something beyond the known, beyond the world, beyond what it knows as life. Because, yes, as human beings, we are living, in the ego, in a tedious, problematic life, full of problems, confused, disoriented, stressed, a life in depression, in anxiety, with the various forms of fears that all of us know.
Thus, man has been seeking or has been searching to have an encounter with God, in the idea, in the imagination that with this encounter, all of this will disappear. The point is that we do not comprehend that we are only projecting something into the future. When we speak of "someone," we believe in someone present to, in the future, have this encounter, and this future never arrives. Here, to investigate the truth about the "I" is to strip oneself of this illusion of separation. So, yes, at this moment is revealed Love, Freedom, Happiness; it is the Awareness of God, the Awareness of your Being, and this is Liberation in this life. It is the presence of Bliss; it is the presence of true Happiness.
Therefore, we have to discover here what it means to look, to observe, to become aware of how the mind happens, how this internal movement shows itself-I refer to this movement of consciousness, which is basically the presence of the past, because it is the presence of thought. This is the element that, like a veil, separates us from Reality, because it creates the illusion of an identity that sees itself as separated from Life. The presence of this identity, created by thought, separates us. This is the veil of illusion, it is the veil of ignorance.
It is this ignorance, it is the presence of this thinker, of this "I" that is projecting itself to, at some point in the future, be happy, find love, peace, happiness, while in reality what we have present here and now is That which is beyond thought, beyond this veil. If we do not have the presence of this veil, which is thought, we do not have the thinker, we do not have the "I," the "ego." So, the Mystery of Life is the Reality of Being. Wisdom and Silence is the Nature of God, it is the Truth about ourselves.
Therefore, we have this first aspect of the truth about the "I," which is the truth about who this "I" shows itself to be, appears to be. The investigation of the truth about the "I" is the comprehension of the illusion of the person, of the ego. Thus, the true approach to Meditation, the Reality of Meditation, what is Meditation? What is this awareness of Meditation? It is to look at this instant without the observer; it is to become aware, at this moment, of the Freedom that is here when the thinker does not interfere, when the observer does not get involved, when the experiencer does not arise.
Therefore, we are facing an experiencing without the experiencer, an observing without the observer, a perceiving without the perceiver. It is the presence of this very Divine Reality, because now there is no longer the illusion, there is no longer this veil of separation. Reality and God is the Truth of this Being, it is the presence of Life, Supreme Joy, Supreme Happiness-some call Spiritual Enlightenment this direct and simple Natural State of Being, free from conditioned thought.
And why conditioned thought? Because it is the way that thought, in a mechanical, automatic, unconscious way, has been functioning in this model of mind as we know it. When it ends, this quality of mind disappears; we have this new space, this space that reveals God. Thus, when we touch with you here on the Truth of Meditation, we are speaking of Real Meditation in an experiential way, something here and now, moment by moment.
Thus, Meditation reveals this Natural State outside the mind, outside the "I," outside this pattern of thought, this format of thought. This is what we are working on here, with you, in online meetings on weekends-it is two days in an online format. I want to leave an invitation here for you. You have here, in the video description, our link to participate in these meetings. Besides these, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you have just heard is something that makes some sense to you, then here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and write a comment here: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we will see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!
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