If the subject here is Wisdom, the true Wisdom, it requires the presence of Intelligence. In general, we do not know what Real Intelligence means. For us, intelligence is ability, it is technique, it is capacity. In general, we attribute to this expression the presence of knowledge and experience, but the expression "Intelligence," it seems to me that, is the vision of Life, it is the awareness of Life. This is not something intellectual; it is not something that one understands based on logic, on deductions, or conclusions.
The presence of comprehension is the vision of Life in Intelligence. When we have true Intelligence, we have Real Wisdom. Thus, true Wisdom is Real Intelligence, and when it is present, there is no more illusion. It is not a matter of technical knowledge, of specialization-this we acquire through experiences. The presence of knowledge and experience gives you specialization, but this does not give you Intelligence.
Real Intelligence in dealing with yourself, in dealing with the other, in dealing with life-this is the presence of Real Intelligence, it is the presence of Wisdom, this is true Intelligence. Here, together, we are approaching this encounter with the Truth of this Revelation of Divine Awareness, which is the Awareness of Life and, therefore, of true Wisdom. We cannot have an encounter with Truth in the intellect, through the intellect.
This intellect in us is something that has a formation of knowledge and experience and, therefore, of conditioning. We are living within a conditioned intellect. We have ready-made answers to questions; the presence of these answers that are already ready for the questions that are asked-these answers are born from this foundation of knowledge and experience; this is conditioning. We cannot attend to life from ready-made answers. Perceive the difference.
You can be someone very skilled, capable of giving answers, because you have learned, you have the knowledge and experience. However, when we are dealing with life, there are no ready-made answers-for the simple fact that life is something here and now, at this moment, happening. Life carries this dynamism-always something new appearing at each instant. There is no way to respond to the new from the past, which are the ready-made answers.
Observe the importance of that. We're going to study this here, and this is what we have done at each meeting that we have here on the channel, in these videos, in the online meetings, in the in-person meetings. There is no way for you to attend to him or her, to the world around you; there is no way for you to attend to yourself from the past, from knowledge and experience, from thought.
Thought is this symbol, it is this representation of memory, of knowledge and experience, of all these records that we have. That's how our ready-made answers are like, to questions that we know. Therefore, your ability to deal with the other does not exist in the intellect, in knowledge and experience; your ability to deal with the other requires the presence of Wisdom, and we do not have that. Our relationships, our human relationships-all of them are founded on ready-made answers.
Your name and all the remembrance I have about you is the past in me; it is the recollection in me. This "me" and this recollection, this "I" that I am and this remembrance about you-it is something within a conditioning. This is part of the structure of the "I." All of this is present here by reason of the presence of memory, which is thought; and thought is incapable of dealing with the other with Intelligence, with Real Intelligence, with true Wisdom. It explains all the confusion present in our lives, within human relationships, the relationship with ourselves and the relationship with events. We lack the awareness of Life, the presence of Meditation.
Therefore, what is Meditation? Meditation-what is it? It is the awareness of the moment revealing itself and being seen without the past, without the "I," without this person. This is the presence of Intelligence, this is the presence of Truth. Therefore, what do we need to have this awareness of Life? What do we need for the Truth of Wisdom, for true Wisdom? That which we actually need is the presence of Self-awareness.
Learning about Self-awareness is to discover what it is to learn about ourselves. Notice-it is not to have self-knowledge. Self-awareness is not something that you obtain, that you conquer, possess-it is important to say this here. If someone tells you about a course on self-knowledge, look at this closely. The other cannot teach you about yourself; it is you who have to become aware of the Truth about yourself. No one can teach you Self-awareness. Therefore, question all of this; question yourself; question your conclusions, your beliefs; question everything that they are teaching you.
The great Revelation of Life consists in self-discovery, in a self-revelation. No one can give you something like this. This is not learned as we learn languages or engineering, or mechanics, or physics, or chemistry. All of this we learn through knowledge and experience, but the truth of the approach to Wisdom requires this learning about Self-awareness-learning what it is to learn about yourself, and this learning is born from this look, from this observing, from this perceiving. No one can give you this look, this perceiving, this studying of yourself. This is what we are working on here with you.
Therefore, how do we learn about Self-awareness? By becoming aware of your reactions, studying yourself at each instant, at each moment, discovering envy, jealousy, fear, anger, worries-discovering about your motives, reasons, discovering how thought happens, the sensation or the feeling there, the awareness of your own mind and your heart, of how the brain processes all of that.
Therefore, you do not go to books; you do not go to a verbal approach, of words, studying concepts. It is not a subject for psychology in its theory, for philosophy with its words, for theology with its beliefs; it is something that requires that you look, observe, listen to yourself. Discover that there is no one there to do this. It is the presence of observing, of listening, of perceiving-without someone there-that gives you the awareness of Life without the illusion of an entity that separates itself, that separates itself from thoughts, that separates itself from emotions or sensations, or that separates itself from experiences.
The real approach to Meditation... What is Meditation? It is this approach to the moment-without the "I." Therefore, it opens up the comprehension of Life for you; this comprehension is this encounter with God. How to find God? Life as it happens here and now-if there is no longer the illusion of thought from the idea of someone being the thinker; if there is no longer the illusion of someone being the observer-the element that separates itself and looks at life from its conclusions, beliefs, choices-if we no longer have the presence of the thinker, the presence of the observer, the presence of someone who, upon encountering the present moment, sees themselves as the experiencer of that moment-when this is not present, the verification of Life as it happens is the awareness of the Reality of this encounter with God.
Therefore, how to find God? By becoming aware that Life at this instant-in it there is no one to separate itself from it. You do not go to this encounter; this encounter reveals itself to you-eliminating the illusion of this "I." This encounter reveals itself to you, showing you that you are this Reality present when the "ego" is not. If the "I" is not present, there is no longer the illusion of separation.
Therefore, the presence of true Wisdom consists in the vision of this moment as it is. However, this is something impossible as long as the movement of an element that makes itself present from the past-which is the observer-shows itself present. If it shows itself present-arriving from the past with its beliefs, choices, ideas, opinions, acceptances and rejections-what we have present is the continuity of this old mental conditioning, of this old egoic consciousness. This is how we are living our days.
This is why we need to learn about ourselves, and this learning is this look that no longer reinforces this observer. Therefore, to approach life is to have a clear vision-without the disfigurement of thought-of what is here and now happening. It is that all our inclination is-by pattern of behavior, by conditioning of this mind-something that we have been repeating for a long time-to resist life as it happens, is to look at life from an idea, which is this observer. Then, we do not stay with Life as it is; we have conclusions about it, beliefs about it, opinions about it. This is the absence of Intelligence.
So, although you are a scientist, a chemist, an engineer-although you are a philosopher or a theologian-but every intellectual form of approach to life will always be limited by this pattern, which is the pattern of conditioned thought, of the conditioned mind, which is the presence of this "I," of this "ego," of this observer. The Real Revelation of Life is in this contact with life without the "I," without the "ego," without the past. This is the Divine Truth, true Wisdom. It is not someone being wise; it is Wisdom present-when the "I" is no longer present. This is the Nature of your Being; this is the Truth about Life; this is the Reality of God.
You were born for the awareness that the "I" does not exist, that this sense of separation between life as it happens and you-is not real. So, this appearance, which we call birth, in this body and mind-it is life; it is the very presence of Life in its expression-without any separation between this Reality present and Life as it happens. This is Wisdom; this is Being. Being is Wisdom; Being is Love; Being is Happiness. Therefore, this encounter with God, the presence of Meditation, this learning about ourselves-reveals That which is present here, beyond the known, beyond the "I."
This is what we are here, with you, investigating at each meeting. We have online meetings on weekends, where we are together on Saturdays and Sundays. It is two days in an online format deepening this here with you. You have here, in the video description, our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends. Besides, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you have just heard is something that makes any sense to you, then here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and put 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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