The accelerated mind, what to do? That's the question. Why do we have this question? This is just one of the countless questions the mind presents. Every question is, actually, a problem. When you receive a question, you have a problem. When you take an exam or a test, what you're given are problems, which are the questions.
The accelerated mind is one of the mind's questions. But what is the mind? The mind is all this internal movement present in each of us. What we have called consciousness is the very movement in the mind. It's this movement in the mind, the movement of thoughts. Therefore, when thoughts move, always carrying some level of sensation, feeling, or emotion, we have the movement of thought, we have the movement in consciousness, we have the movement of the "I."
The mind is nothing other than the movement of memory that thought has, that remembrance contains. This entire movement is an internal movement of consciousness present in each of us. We have two levels here. The first is the superficial one we know, easy to access, with which we constantly relate; the way you feel about life, about others, about yourself, in a superficial way. Thus, on the surface, we have this first aspect of mind, of consciousness, this movement of thought.
And we also have the second aspect, what we have deep down, what is hidden. We have this first layer, and then we have the second layer. In this second layer, we find our memories, our recollections, all impulses that occur not in a clear or visible way to each of us, and yet they're happening in every moment. That's why some divide the mind into conscious and unconscious: the surface awareness and this model of unawareness, in this deeper, hidden layer.
This entire internal movement is the movement of the "I," of consciousness. But here's something we need to tell you: when you talk to us about a restless, chatty mind, that's constantly moving uncontrollably, when you talk about this accelerated mind and ask what to do, your idea is of someone present in that mind; this someone is the presence of the "I." That's how we feel we are, how we believe we are, how we perceive we are. However, the news is: what is present in this context is the idea, the imagination, it's the very construction of thought about who we are.
What we have present is the reality of what is happening here, the truth of what is being shown here, and yet we bring with us the thought about it, the idea about it, the belief, the suggestion about it, which also involves thought's explanation of this feeling we're experiencing. In other words: there is no such thing as "this I," no such thing as this mind. The idea of consciousness, which we divide into two layers or many others, is the presence of thought-the element that builds this thing.
Reality is life as it happens, and the sensations present, that's all! At every moment, your contact is with a sensation. There is no one present in the sensation; it is the presence of thought inserting someone there. We have the movement of thought, but it is typical of memory, in the brain, to move. The presence of the brain in us, in this restlessness, this accelerated movement of thoughts, is something that occurs because of the absence of a Real Awareness about this process.
What we take as awareness is, in fact, unawareness. The presence of this movement of thoughts and the way the brain functions in each of us is happening due to the absence of Attention, of Presence, of a Real Awareness of this process. That's how we have the "self" with its problems, the mind with its many questions.
Anxiety, depression, anguish, nervousness, stress, fear-the various problems present in each of us-are problems that arise due to the movement of thought within this consciousness that we have, that we know; which is, in reality, the way thought functions within the pattern of brain that exists in us, in most of humanity. This whole thing happens this way because we are not aware of what is going on within us.
The presence of the person we believe we are, within the context of humanity, is the presence of this lack of awareness. You are a person and you see yourself as something separate from life, because of the unawareness of the truth about yourself. There is a Reality present here. It is not the person present - not this "I," this ego. The ego, the "I," the person, is the movement of psychological disorder, of mental confusion, within a brain programmed to function this way. That has been happening for millennia.
You are eighty years old; for eighty years you've lived as a person in the sense of an "I" who sees itself as separate from life, separate from others, having this inner restlessness of accelerated, repetitive thoughts, negative thoughts, sensations and feelings that follow those thoughts. So, as human beings, in the "person," we suffer; in the ego, we suffer. The element present in suffering, the own sufferer, is not separate from the suffering it experiences. It is the ego's life, the existence of someone, which is an illusion.
I say it again: there is a Reality present, this Reality is comprehended when there is the recognition of the truth about who we are. We have this first aspect, which is the aspect of what we present ourselves to be, which is within the context of human culture, of humanity, which is the presence of the person. Therefore, each one of us is living as a person and encountering other people. However, the person, people are an image that thought has constructed about who we are, and this is where all kinds of problems lie, within this condition of mind we know.
Here, we approach this work for the comprehension of the truth about who we are, which requires the presence of this learning about Self-awareness, which is what we're doing here together. In this learning about Self-awareness, we encounter the Reality of the presence of the Awareness of Being. The Reality of this Being, of this Truth that is present here, beyond this person, is the Divine Reality. Thus, we find ourselves with the possibility of comprehending the Truth about Meditation.
What is Meditation? Meditation, what is the reality, what is the truth about Meditation? The presence of Meditation is the Revelation of the Truth about God. The only Reality present is Life; Life is the Divine Reality. In the question "how to find God," here is the answer. In the Revelation, in the Awareness of the Truth about yourself, here lies the answer to that question.
God is not a reality to be found in the future, it is That which is already present, being the only Reality, the Reality of Life itself revealing itself moment by moment. And we can only have direct contact with this Reality when we are beyond the mind, beyond this pattern of behavior of this consciousness, which is the ego consciousness, the consciousness of the "I."
So, based on Self-awareness, we have the presence of a direct gaze into how the mind works, how the brain functions. Then a shift happens, a transformation occurs, and we come to the end of this programmed, conditioned model of the egoic mind, because now there is Attention to these reactions, and so an internal shift occurs. That's when we come to the end of this known consciousness, and a new, real, profound vision of ourselves arises and, therefore, of the Reality of this Being.
Life reveals itself when there is the presence of Meditation. Here, I refer to the truth about Meditation, not to a technique or a practice for someone, for a person. This is not about a person meditating, it's about a space that emerges when the brain becomes quiet, when the mind falls silent. In this space, there is the presence of Meditation, and it arises because of this Attention to our reactions, which is Self-awareness.
Thus, to learn about Self-awareness is to come across the Awareness that reveals this real encounter with the Divine, the real encounter with God. Here, the Reality of God is not something in the future, it is not somewhere to be found or verified, but it is the Divine Reality revealing itself here and now as the Truth of this Being. So, the idea of finding God is just an idea. The real answer to the great question-"how to find God"-lies in the awareness of what is being revealed here as the Truth of your Being.
We need a free mind, a silent brain; then, here and now, we have the Revelation of Life. The presence of this Revelation is the presence of Love, the presence of Freedom, the presence of Happiness. A silent brain, a quiet mind. Not a mind that was quieted through a technique or practice of Meditation, but the mind that is quiet, the brain that has become silent due to an Attention to our reactions. The presence of the true awareness of Meditation requires this verification of how the mind is happening. So, when the mind becomes silent due to this Attention, the truth of the moment reveals itself as Meditation.
This is our proposal to you here, a work in this direction. Then, the mind is no longer what we've known. Therefore, the countless problems of the mind disappear when the illusion of the mind is no longer present, when what we've understood or known as the mind is no longer present. The Reality of the moment is Life. There is no person in Life, no "I," no movement pattern, which is the movement of thought as we know, in this new State of Being.
The point is: yes, this is possible in this life. This requires the presence of Divine Realization, the Realization of God. It's not someone having this Realization, it is this Realization revealing itself here, when the illusion of the "I" ends, when this programmed mind, this restless pattern, is no longer present. Thus, we want to invite you to these meetings. We have online meetings on weekends to go deeper into this with you. Two days together: Saturday and Sunday.
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