There's a big confusion in this idea of spirituality. What would be the truth about this contact with this Reality? Because, observe something here: what we're calling spirituality, usually, we're mistaking all kinds of non-physical, unusual, mysterious, or strange experiences - like, for example, esoteric or mystical experiences - for the Truth of Spirituality - for us, that represents spirituality.
Here, we've been using this expression, investigating with you, and putting it in a different way. For us, this issue of this contact with Reality is the contact with Spirituality. Reality is the Truth; this unique Truth, which is this Reality, it is Spirituality. This is not something that you, through an experience, achieve, become aware of, apprehend, or comprehend.
It is the Truth, it is the Reality, it is the awareness of your Being. Your Essential Nature is the Truth of this Reality. That's Spirituality. Once the illusion is no longer present, once the awareness of Life as it is, as it happens, is there, then we have the presence of Spirituality. It's not someone being spiritual, it's not someone becoming spiritual, it's not someone having esoteric, mystical, strange, non-physical experiences. All of that is still part of what can still be, as strange as it sounds, identified and recognized by thought.
So, we first need to comprehend here this issue of thought, to really approach the Truth of Spirituality, because what is Real is beyond thought. Reality, which is this Spiritual Truth, is not something thought accesses, reaches, or recognizes. And why is that impossible for it? Because thought deals with remembrances, with memories, with images, with symbols, with representations that come from the past.
There's no thought that's free from the past. All thought is directly tied to a picture, a representation, an image, a sensation, an experience of memory, of remembrance, of recollection, and therefore, of the past. Reality, Truth, Spirituality can't be attained by a description. All this description is the description made by thought, through symbols, images, remembrances, recollections, and experiences, memories of the past.
Therefore, contact with Spirituality is the contact with the Beauty of timeless Life, of indescribable Life, unnameable. It's not possible for someone to assume Spirituality, exactly because the Truth of Spirituality, the Truth of this awareness of timeless Life is present when there's no "I," when there's no past, when there's no "someone."
When thought is not present, we have the presence of Divine Truth. Only the Reality of God is Spiritual. Everything else that we can describe, remember, recall, hold on to as an experience that someone lived, someone who is present, living it, all of that is still within limitation, still within the circle of the known, which is the circle of thought.
The Truth, which is this Reality of what is Spiritual Reality, of the Truth of Spirituality, is the Presence of this Being. Here, it's about the Nature of God; this Divine Nature is the Nature of this Being. You, in your Reality, You in this Divine Truth, are the Truth of God. Not the "person," not this "me," not this "someone," but the Reality that is present here and now, when the "I" is not there, when the "person" is not there, when the "ego" is not present.
That's why we need to comprehend what it is to live life without the model of thought. Without the model of thought... Dealing with thoughts in a practical, simple, direct, and objective way in life, for very practical matters. You need thought to have the knowledge of a certain technical skill.
To speak a language, to write, to know the technique of driving a car, to work with computers, or any other technical, scientific activity. In a simple and direct way, thought is necessary, but when thought enters the psychological field, it reinforces the illusion of an identity present that sees itself separate from life itself: this entity is the "I," it's this "me," it's the "ego," it's this "person."
We need to discover life happening at this instant, without thought, without this pattern, without this format, without this model of psychological thought. Therefore, your contact with life will not be contact from this "you" and this image that thought built about who you are.
Thought built an image about who you are. Since it is an image built by thought, this self-image and you, you and this self-image are part of an idea, a concept, they are part of an imagination, something that has been established in us as being the truth about who we are. However, we are facing something illusory, which is not real. This is taking over our lives. This illusion has particularized the life of this "me" and taken over this life.
Therefore, this life, this "our life," is the illusory life of an identity that sees itself as separate from the Reality of Life, from the Truth of Life, where the awareness of God, the Real Spirituality, is present. Our focus here consists of working the end of self-image, the end of this illusory identity that thought has established in us as being ourselves.
Therefore, the real encounter with God is the awareness of the discovery of God. You're not going to meet God, you're going to become aware of this discovery, the discovery of your Real Nature, the Truth that You are, the Truth that You bring. This moment is the moment of this encounter with the Divine Reality. This moment is the moment of the encounter with this discovery, which is the discovery of the Truth of God.
Life is Love, Beauty, Freedom, Happiness when illusion is no longer present, when this organized, structured, assembled, established structure affirmed by thought is no longer present; this ego-identity, this illusory identity, this sense of someone present dealing with other people, dealing with life, dealing with situations, dealing with experiences. Notice that this whole movement is the very movement of thought that comes from the past.
Everything you recognize, you recognize from thought. And every idea you have about yourself is within thought, every idea you form about others, about life, and about this Divine Reality, about this Spiritual Truth. Therefore, it is part of thought to build ideas about everything. These ideas are just suggestions of images that thought has constructed.
We are not dealing with Reality when we are dealing with thought; we are dealing with the truth of ideas, of images, something that comes from the past, something that comes from and is born of experiences that reinforce and sustain the continuity of the person, of this "me."
The real form of approaching Spirituality, of the awareness of real Spirituality, of true Spirituality, of this awareness of God, consists of the art, of the discovery of Meditation. So, we need to comprehend this matter of thought, to perceive the limitation of the presence of thought, to go beyond it.
The comprehension of Meditation is Life revealing itself, free from this pattern, which is the pattern of thought. It is when, in this encounter with the present moment, we can deal with the presence of thought in a free way. This is what we have called here "thinking." We do not know what thinking is. We have an already programmed form of thought happening in us.
Society, culture, the worldview we received, including the presence of advertising, of the way everyone positions themselves with experiences, we are just duplicating it, repeating it. This is a programmed form of thinking, something that was given to us. We do not know what thinking is.
The Beauty of this encounter with Life at this instant requires the presence of thinking, and thinking is present when we are free from thought, free from this guidance of an identity present, which is the thinker, having thoughts, or believing to be in control, in this "having thoughts," in this "doing things" from thought.
Thus, the present feelings from this thinker, from this element that sees itself as the one who feels, the presence of thoughts from this element that sees itself as the thinker who has thoughts - see, we are faced with something completely mistaken, illusory - this is present because we do not have the awareness of thinking.
What is thinking? Thinking is dealing with this instant without the past, it is dealing with this moment without the model of the thinker, without the model of thought, it is attending to life at this instant with Intelligence, with Clarity, Lucidity, and Freedom. Life happens in a real way, free, in Grace, Beauty, Love, and Intelligence, when we have the presence of Meditation.
With the presence of Meditation, we have the truth of thinking, we have the truth of feeling, the truth of acting in life from this Reality, from this Real Spiritual vision. There is no longer the sense of the "I," of the "ego," there is no longer this model of self-image; we have the presence of the Divine Reality, the presence of this Being, That which is You in your Essential Nature.
This is what we are deepening here, with you, working with you, in these meetings. Some call it the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment. It is the awareness of Life, it is the awareness of true Spirituality, it is the awareness of this contact or of this real communion with God. It is not you and God, it is this Reality of God fully taking over Life. There is no longer this particular life, this life of the "I," this life of the "ego," this life of the "person."
Therefore, in these meetings we have here on weekends - Saturdays and Sundays: two days together online - we are working this with you. I want to leave the invitation with you. You have here, in the description of the video, our link to participate in these online meetings.
Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and put in the comments: "Yes, it makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!
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