Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now | Krishnamurti | Ramana Maharshi | Nisargadatta | Advaita Vedanta

OK. Let's go then! Reality… what does it consist of? We are going to work with you on this today: after all, what is this Liberation? What is this State of Liberation? People ask, and this is a frequent question: “What is Spiritual Awakening anyway?” What is Spiritual Awakening? Spiritual Awakening is waking up to the Reality present here and now. That which is present now, here, is this eternal Now. There is nothing else but this instant here. This moment here is the moment of Consciousness. The only Reality in all this manifestation - I would say in all this apparent manifestation - it is That which does not present itself and yet is not absent. I mean this instant, this present moment. This present moment is the eternal Now.

Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment, is the Consciousness of this present moment, happening free from all intervention, from all interference of thought. When thought occurs, there comes the introduction or appearance of time. Time only appears when thought appears. The notion that the human being has of time is a notion based on thought. Observe this in yourself: the presence of thought determines the notion of time. The more agitated, agitated internally, psychologically you are, the greater the volume of present thoughts, the greater this notion of existing within time.

The softness of thought, or the non-presence of thought, gives you a very clear feeling that all notion of time is gone. You don't know if it was exactly ten minutes or half an hour or a minute.

When the mind is not, or this relative movement of the egoic mind is not there, the whole notion of time is something completely different or completely neutral; it does not appear, the notion of time does not appear.

In deep sleep, you don't have this sense of the presence of time, because the mind, in a way, is not there. If the egoic mind is not present with its movement, there is no such sense of time. Your sense of time during dreaming is completely different from your sense of time during the waking state. This shows us the unreality of time.

I have said that psychological time is an illusion. The whole notion of psychological time is in this very close connection with the movement of thought. When people use the expression “consciousness,” they are referring to this movement of thought.

When the movement of thought takes place and they are aware of this movement, they call it consciousness. But notice an interesting thing: when there is Real Consciousness, there is no notion of thought movement. Therefore, True Consciousness is not conscious, it transcends “being conscious.”

All the existential burden of the human being is due to this “being conscious.” He is conscious of his thoughts. In other words, he is identified and identifying himself with this movement of consciousness called thought.

Therefore, this movement of thought is the absence of the view of this eternal Now, this Reality present when thought is not, when mind is not. So, That which is present is this eternal Now – this is the Reality of Consciousness.

That's why it's important for you to understand the difference between being conscious and being Consciousness. And I've been discussing it, within these lines here on the channel. The human being lives consciously, but he does not assume the Truth about who he is, and if he does not assume the Truth about himself, he is not “being Consciousness,” he is just conscious. And what are the indications of being conscious? When you are conscious, what is “conscious of” is the sense of the experience present in that memory. The experiences that you go through, the experiences that you have, leave a scar, leave a mark, leave a memory, and when you are conscious, what you are conscious of is that very memory, is that very remembrance, is that movement of thought itself.

It is interesting to observe this. Thought is basically memory, and therefore thought is experience, and that experience ends up being recorded there. So, your whole experience of being conscious is basically being conscious of memory, it's memory in its own movement, and that's not True Consciousness.

True Consciousness transcends this movement of thought, this movement of experience, this movement of memory. You are here as Consciousness, but you are not that memory. That memory is just remembrance, recollection, experience stored in that body and that mind. So, when you use the expression, the pronoun “I,” you are always referring to that experience, the experience of a supposed identity that, in fact, does not exist.

That entity is made up of remembrances, it is made up of memories, it is made up of recollections. When you are confused by this, you are in pain, because you see yourself as an identity, as a person, as someone separate from Life, separate from Existence. You have situations in life to solve, these situations are problems that are present because of the illusion of an identity wanting to solve problems. And why can I say this? I can affirm this on the basis of the Vision of Truth of those who have Realized in Themselves the Truth of being Consciousness.

In being Consciousness, life has representations, it has challenges, it has situations, but it does not have problems, it does not have someone to solve problems, because problems are not real when this “sense of someone” is no longer present, since this “sense of someone” is based on memory, ideas, remembrances, thoughts, and beliefs.

If you realize the Truth about your own Self, you transcend all that thought has produced and therefore transcend this illusion.

You are beyond this illusion, the illusion of psychological time and therefore of this belief of someone who has problems. But if that is not solved, you lie down to sleep, spend the day trying to solve problems that are supposed to be yours, of a separate identity trying to win, trying to solve, trying to solve. The result of this is that you spend the day psychologically occupying yourself with that memory, with that remembrance, identifying with that, and when you lie down to sleep, the whole task is still there. It never resolves itself, because psychologically the sense of an “I” is present wanting to resolve situations.

Life consists in what it is, not in what thought wants it to be or tries to make it. As you get confused with thought, you are always feeling yourself in conflict, in struggle, in resistance to Life as it is, and what is actually happening is that this is just the movement of thought that you identify with, and thus establishes an inner identity. So that inner sense, that inner sense of identity, is based on thought.

So, the suffering of the human being is based on his memory, his remembrances, his desires and his fears. If you feel like a separate entity, if you carry this sense of inner identity, of internal identity, there is always this idea, for example, of development.

You believe in personal development, you believe in a person to develop, to develop in different areas, in different spheres of life, to develop sentimentally, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, professionally… So, there is always the idea of an identity to grow, to change. This is basically the illusion of an identity separate in time.

So, the whole problem is the illusion of that sense of inner identity, of internal identity – in that “I” lies the problem. So, Life is as it is, this eternal moment, this present moment, consists of a single Reality, which is Consciousness itself. Therefore, being Consciousness consists in being in that Oneness with Life. And here we touch on a subject dealt with in Vedanta.

Within Vedanta, which are the scriptures of the Indian sages… the last part of the Vedas is Vedanta, and in Vedanta there is a part that consists of investigating the illusory nature of this sense of separation between you and Reality, between you and Life, between you and Consciousness – it is called Advaita Vedanta. In the view of Advaita or non-duality… and here I am referring to non-duality, that is, there is no illusion of two realities present in this manifestation. The only Reality in this manifestation is this eternal Present, it is this Now here, which is Consciousness.

Within that Dimension of Existence, there is no longer the sense of an ego identity separating itself. This is the end of the illusion of duality. This is the end of the illusion of psychological time, so there is no longer this psychological prison to this supposed identity. When there is no longer this supposed identity, when there is no longer this supposed “I,” this supposed internal identity, there is no prison, there is no longer this psychological prison. This is the State of Liberation. In India, they call it Moksha – the State of Liberation, Liberation in life. Those who Realize this State assume their Natural State of being Consciousness.

So, being Consciousness, you see, is different from being conscious. When you are conscious, problems are there, suffering is there.

Anxiety is suffering, and that is unhappiness; anguish is suffering, and that is unhappiness; desire is suffering, and that is unhappiness; fear is suffering, and that is unhappiness.

All these psychological disorders, all these conditions of lack of mental health, they are unhappiness, they are internal states of unhappiness, of psychological unhappiness, and that is present when that ego identity is present, when this sense of separation is present, when everything you have about yourself is to be conscious.

Yes, you can be conscious. You are aware of the dream while the dream is present, and when you wake up you realize that the dream was an illusion. You are conscious of this waking state. This is something very real to you, but when you enter the dream state, that waking state world has disappeared – you are no longer conscious of the waking state. Your experience now, which is the experience of this inner "I," is the dream experience, and when there is no dreaming and no waking state, the mind disappears into deep sleep and the sense of this inner "I" disappears along with the mind.

So, there you are not conscious, and yet in the waking state, the dream state, and the deep sleep state… in none of these moments do you cease to be who you truly are, and who you are transcends all three of these states: waking, dream and deep sleep.

Your state of Awareness, which is to be Consciousness, is here and now, in this eternal moment. I would call this moment a timeless moment. Your State of Being is of this greatness, is of this Silence, is of this Truth, of this timeless Transcendence, and that State is the State that transcends waking, dreaming and deep sleep. I've been talking about this state here on the channel. In India, they call it “Turiya.”

Turiya is the fourth possible state for man, but you are not born with access to that state without a work. A work is necessary for you to really have access to this State, which is the State of full Consciousness, of total Consciousness, of being Consciousness.

The human being is born, grows up, becomes a teenager, young, dates, marries, has children, becomes a grandfather, grandmother, and lives his life for 50, 70, 80 years, and dies without the Truth of the Revelation of his own Being, because everything took place or happened while he was in these three states: waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. The Sages have called this the sleep state. The human being lives in this sleep. So, in this sleep, he is born, grows up, marries, has children, is a grandfather, gets sick, grows old, or even before that he dies, in his sleep state, because he didn't Awaken. Why did they call that man, named Shakyamuni, Buddha? Because he Awakened! The Truth about who You are, the Truth about your Being, is that Awakened State, is that Awakened State, and that is the State of Turiya.

So here, when we use the expression Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening or the Awakening of Consciousness… these expressions have been used in a very general way saying different things. Here, in this channel, I put it only in that sense, in the sense of this Awakening to this Consciousness, to your own Being. In fact, the word “awakening” has also been used in different ways, and here I use it only in that sense, in the sense of going beyond this sense of ego identity, of going beyond this sense of separation.

So, there is a work in that direction. A work is needed in this direction, because this state of Turiya – in India it is also called Samadhi, Natural Samadhi, Sahaja Samadhi – is the State of full Consciousness, it is being Consciousness, as I have been putting it here, and that is being here and now, to be in this present moment, to live in this present moment, to be established in your Being now. This is an expression often used by Eckhart Tolle: “to stay in the Now.” It's a beautiful expression. Deep into the Now… Because that's how I've been placing it here for you, in these lines. In fact, this movement of the mind is always of time, it is always of time, it is always of the past, present and future, and that is only movement of memory, imagination, remembrance.

The Reality that You are is Consciousness, and It is here and now. Eckhart Tolle uses a beautiful expression, the expression is: “The Power of Now.” There is the Power present in remaining free from psychological time. What we are sharing, you see, is possible for you, not just Ramana Maharshi, not just Eckhart Tolle… but it is possible for you. All the revelation given in different words for many years, for many years... Krishnamurti left a message, and all he wanted to say, and what people seem to have not understood, is that the only Reality is this Consciousness, is to be Consciousness. This is the message of Krishnamurti, this is the message of Eckhart Tolle, this is the message of Ramana Maharshi, of Nisargadatta Maharaj.

The Reality of your Being reveals itself in that eternal moment. The various complications… all are within the illusion of time. All human misery, all human suffering, all human existential conflict is within it. What makes this Awakening to Consciousness possible is the touch of Grace in that organism, in that mechanism. So, a work takes place in that body-mind.

You can get closer to it here on the channel, in our playlist called “Kundalini Awakening.” When work takes place in this body, a change takes place so that this State settles down.

We are working together on this with those who approach us here on the channel, in online meetings and also in face-to-face meetings and even in retreats.

If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your "like" on the video, subscribe to the channel and let's work on it together!

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Personal Development | Awakening to Meditation | Psychological time | Awakening of Consciousness

So, let's go!

People have this concern… The point is that there is no “person” for this development. Here, it would be much simpler for you to have an approach to yourself from this direct Understanding of the Truth about who You are than to start from this premise, this belief, this common idea: the idea that there is “someone” present that can or must pass through a process of improvement, growth, evolution. This is something that has no reality.

The Vision of the Truth about who You are, ends with that, and that Vision is possible when there is Self-knowledge. It’s in the Self-knowledge, in the Recognition of the Truth about who You are, that the understanding that there’s no “one,” no “one” walking in this direction, in the direction of this personal development. This is basically a belief, a belief common to all, a collective belief.

The Reality of What You are is not in thought, not in the idea, not within this set of concepts you have within yourself. For your information, these are concepts acquired by culture, society, and the world around you.

An Understanding of the Truth about Yourself is needed, a direct Understanding of who You are.

Then, the Truth of your Being is revealed when there is this Meditation for the Awakening. Here, Meditation to Awakening is not pondering who you are, not creating an idea about who you are, not trying imagine who you are. This Awakening to Meditation is the Understanding of what Meditation means – I refer to Meditation within the science of the Self-knowledge, of the True Self-knowledge, of the True Acknowledgement of the Truth about yourself.

Therefore, this Meditation for the Awakening is what I’ve called here true Meditation, the practice of True Meditation. Meditation reveals to you the Truth about who You are, it gives you access to your own Being, to your Essential Nature, your Divine Nature.

So, our meeting here is always showing you that this whole process of Consciousness known by you, by all of us, is a movement of the mind itself, of the egoic mind itself, a mind acquired within this context of society, world, and culture. There must be a break from this condition, from this old and ancient condition, which is the condition of the movement of the egoic mind, the condition of thought, the condition of this standardization of culture.

So, your vision is completely distorted, it's a completely unrealistic vision. Then, when someone is concerned with this issue of personal development, it's because they don't have the slightest vision of themselves, about who they are. Your Being is complete; It will not develop; It will not evolve; It doesn’t need to. And all you need to Realize the Truth of what we are putting here is this approach to Meditation. There must be an Awakening to Meditation, and then True Meditation will bring about the Awakening of that Consciousness.

The point is that, in general, humans are asleep, asleep with respect to the need for the True Understanding of themselves. Humans live unconscious of themselves, involved with these mental patterns, and therefore, they are asleep about the opportunity or the possibility they have to Awaken to their own Being, to their own Consciousness, to the Truth they bring internally.

The beauty of this encounter is that it’ll give you or show you what represents the end of all this. Thought is always involved in this process of memory, recollection, remembrance, and this movement of thought is also projected toward imagination, toward ideation, toward an idealistic project.

So, the movement of the mind is always that, it’s the movement of the past or the movement of the future, the movement of memory producing constant internal representations of feelings, emotions, and thoughts of guilt, remorse, hurt, resentment, things coming from the past, which is basically thought, or else the movement of thought is always dealing with the future: desires, dreams, projects, diverse imaginations. And this is the movement I’ve called the movement of time; this is the so-called time created by thought.

Then, it’s a purely psychological time as I’ve called it. It has no reality in your life. Life is something that happens now, here, and It is complete, there is no need for evolution in that sense, for development in that sense. Thus, this “person” who is concerned with this development or who seeks this evolution has no reality because Reality is Life, Life here and now as It is, as It appears.

This encounter with your Being, this encounter with the Truth You are, is the Acknowledgement of your Natural State of Pure Consciousness. This Pure Consciousness is essentially Completeness; it is this Vastness, this limitless Space, this limitless Consciousness, this limitless Presence.

Another common term that people use is the expression “expansion of Consciousness.” Understand that this Consciousness that is your Being doesn’t expand. There’s no movement in It towards improvement or growth since, here, we refer to that unique Consciousness, which is the Consciousness of God. The entire process of evolution, the entire process of change, of transformation, yes, it’s possible in the mind, but the mind is within time, still within this process of psychological time. Therefore, as much as the mind evolves, grows, and finds new spaces and new territories, the mind will always continue within its own specific limitation.

The truth that You are, which is Consciousness, which is your Being, some have called Spiritual Enlightenment or the Awakening of Consciousness. This is something full, something complete. Therefore, Meditation to Awakening is True Meditation - I mean the awareness of observing the movement of consciousness. If you observe the movement of consciousness, everything you find moving in that psychological time is basically thought… thought, feeling, emotion, interpretation, judgment, conclusions, and beliefs… Then, the observation of this movement of consciousness, actually, is the observation of the movement of the mind.

This attention you give to yourself in this observation, in this not letting yourself be distracted by what thought says, feeling says, emotion says, that’s True Meditation. This True Meditation gives you that contact with your Being, which is this Consciousness. The practical form of this, Ramana called the Jnana Marga or the direct path. Marga is the path, the direct path, the direct way to access the Truth of Knowledge - Jnana is Knowledge.

Here, it’s about this Knowledge of who You are. This knowledge of who You are, is naturally the Recognition of Life, of Life as It is. This need or this supposed need for evolution, for growth, for personal development, all this disappears when you see yourself within this context of Reality that is essentially Happiness, Love, Peace, and Completeness.

So, forget this thing about developing as a person. Investigate this thing of the “person.” Discover your Being beyond the body, beyond the mind, beyond this sense of “person,” of separate identity.

Thus, our meetings are intended to investigate this with you and show you that it’s possible to do this, here and now. And this is done not by you, but rather by this Presence, this Consciousness, by this Grace.

All you can and need to do in this direction is to discover what Stillness is, what it is to remain aware of yourself, aware of the movement of the mind… this attention on this movement of the mind, not letting yourself be distracted by stories, by beliefs, conclusions, imaginations, of not letting yourself be captured by psychological time.

You are always here and now. There is no past and no future, except within that movement of the mind, except within that movement of thought; and when that ceases, this Space that opens itself, this Space of no-mind, of non-separate identity, of “non-me,” is this Presence, is this Consciousness, this Reality, the Truth about who You are.

That’s when this mindfulness or this full attention has this space here within this work, this work in yourself. You need to discover the importance of being present, of not being captured by this movement, which is purely egoic, the movement of psychological time. In fact, all conflicts, dilemmas, problems, adversities, complications, all this is present because of this condition, which is the condition of the egoic mind, which is present when there is this movement of time, which is the psychological time - the notion of a present “me,” present in the past, here, managing life, monitoring, controlling, doing, solving, and this same “me” walking towards a future. Then, here it is, the weight of anxiety, of imagination, of ideological conclusions.

So, this Vision of the Truth about yourself in the absence of this psychological time brings the revelation that there is only Consciousness, that there is only You in your Being. Then, there is no need for the “person” present to develop or evolve. The change of that is possible when this Presence, this Power, this Grace, once you are open… It's not that you're going to do that, I repeat, you're going to find out what it's like to be open. Once this Presence, this Power arises, It will create an internal transformation, an internal change in this body, in this mind, in this structure, in this biological mechanism. This change in this biological mechanism, in this living organism… the one responsible for this change is a Power that is already present within the body, what some people call Kundalini. It is the Power that will bring about this change, will bring about this transformation.

You have access to it here on our channel. We have an extensive playlist on this, explaining the importance and how it works. Then, that's basically the work that needs to be done: this surrender, this abandonment, through this True Meditation, once you’ve awakened to Meditation, you realized the importance of turning within, of going beyond this illusion, which is the psychological illusion of time. Ok?

If this is interesting, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel… We have online and in-person meetings. Ok?

See you next meeting.

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Mindfulness: The Full Attention. Personal Development. Internal Duality. Kundalini. The Atma Vichara

Hello guys! Welcome.

We will discuss how this principle of internal duality came about.

Let me say something about that, tell you something about the emergence of this principle, of the “other” and “I,” the world and “I,” “me” and life, “me” and God. This “I” has as its basis of reality the movement of unconsciousness. In unconsciousness, we have the basis, the basis of this Reality of the “I.”

So, this “I” arises and sustains itself, throughout our lives, based on this unconsciousness; it's practically like that. The “I” is nothing but an image, the image you have of yourself. That image is the "I."

When you refer to yourself as “me,” “I myself,” you are referring to that image. This image arises within that unconsciousness. It has been this way since childhood. You have been holding this image based on this unconsciousness. When for example, you are insulted, that image gets offended, it gets hurt, it gets sad or angry. This happens because of this inattention.

Once there is that belief, once that illusion is there, that illusion of internal duality, of that sense of separation between you and the other, between you and life, when this “me,” which is an image, is offended or hurt, because of this unconsciousness, this represents a pain, represents something like anger, suffering... So, this “I” has several representations of this life in self-defense, in self-protection. This is basically a condition of unconsciousness. What sustains human suffering is unconsciousness, because that sustains the illusion of that image, the image you have of who you are. Based on this image, what you also have of the other is an idea, it's a concept, it's a belief, it's also an image.

So, if someone offends you, hurts you, saddens you, one becomes your enemy, your opponent, someone contrary to you, to this “me,” to this “I,” and if someone praises you, you become a friend, that gives a fulfillment to that image, an appreciation for that image. So, whether you are praised or insulted, there is always this maintenance, in this unconsciousness, of this false identity present. This establishes this condition of suffering.

People live in situations of anguish, suffering, in different forms of fear, such as anxiety or depression, due to the cultivation of this image, the self-image. So, there is a change within this physical, cerebral and psychological condition. This representation of this “I” is an “I” in pain, it is an “I” suffered, it is an image, a self-image, within this condition; this is suffering. All of this is based on unconsciousness. The measure to go beyond this is the Realization of Truth, the Reality of your Being, the Divine Reality, your Essential Nature.

As long as this sense of duality remains psychologically within, there will be an attempt to escape it, because this image, this “I,” will defend itself, will try to protect itself, protect itself. And there is an unconscious cultivation of thought revolving around this false identity, this ego, this “me,” this “I,” this self-image.

Only attention to yourself, attention to this movement of pure unconsciousness, of pure identification with thoughts, can break this condition.

This is where we come across the importance of Self-knowledge. And this contact with Meditation – I refer to True Meditation… True Meditation is this contact with the movement of thought here and now. It is not about the practice of meditation, but about the Practical Meditation, here and now. Here on our channel, I have been talking about the difference between the practice of meditation, well known, and the Practical Meditation. And here I refer to the Practical Meditation. This I call True Meditation – that contact with the Truth of your Being here and now. So, if a person says words that touch you, offend you, hurt you, upset you, bother you, the question is: to whom does it bother? To whom does that upset? To whom does it hurt? In this question… this is not a verbal question, this is an attention to this movement now, here.

When that arrives, when this speech from another arrives, when this happening coming from the outside arrives, I pay attention here and now to this movement of the mind. That’s why it is important that you understand that there is no identity present in this experience. As long as you go on believing that you exist as a separate identity, that there is this duality within, you and the other, psychologically speaking, as long as there is that belief, the ego will always try to protect itself, defend itself, and naturally it will be hit, it will be “touched” by that. It's that attention… it's with attention that this unconsciousness disappears.

So, the next time you meet that person, you find him without the image of someone who is an offender, an enemy. The ego appreciates pleasure and rejects pain, but one thing you don't realize is that when you are praised, pain is implicit in the pleasure of the praise. This is still the cultivation of suffering; this is still the cultivation of the self-image. So, you have to give up that pleasure, that desire to be loved, recognized, praised; you have to let go of the fear of being criticized, of not being accepted, of being rejected. This is something that becomes possible when there is this Attention. It is necessary to have this Full Attention. This is called Mindfulness – the Full Attention – in Zen. This Mindfulness is none other than this State of Consciousness about Yourself, here and now, in this self-inquiry.

People talk about the importance of personal development. It's not personal development you need, it's Awareness that the sense of "person" is an illusion, and when that is undone, something entirely new and unknown arises. It is not a person who has developed, who has grown, who has evolved, who has acquired new qualities, but rather it is the sense of this Consciousness, of this Divine Presence settled there.

This establishes this new condition, free from the ego, from this “me,” in that internal duality, free from this image, the self-image. So, once you are free, due to that State of Presence, no image is established within you anymore, no self-image is established, so your relationship with the world is something completely different. Once free of that self-image, in this Presence, in this Consciousness, because of the Awakening of that Divine Power, which some call Kundalini, which is the Power of this Presence that makes a change in that mechanism, in that organism, for the Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment - these are the terms people call. Once It is present, you no longer create an image of others or the world around you.

Relationships between people are always conflicting, because they are based on this image, on the image you have of her and that she has of you. At any level of relationship, be it a professional relationship, a marital relationship, a physical relationship, between friends or an intimate relationship, as in marriage, all these relationships are based on this self-image, and therefore, in eternal conflict, in a permanent conflict.

Our work here is to show you that the Truth about who You are goes beyond this condition of self-image, this condition of ego identity, therefore this condition of separate identity. So, people have different questions about this Natural State: “After all what is Enlightenment?”, “What is Spiritual Awakening?”, “What is Kundalini Awakening?”, “What is Self-knowledge?”, “What is the end of suffering?” To these questions, the answer is just an answer… the answer is, “Who am I?” The answer lies in one more question.

This question reveals that Full Attention. This Full Attention is your Natural State of Meditation, or the True Practical Meditation.

This is Self-knowledge showing itself; This is Spiritual Enlightenment showing itself, Spiritual Awakening showing itself; This is the end of suffering showing itself, all in this direct path taught by Ramana Maharshi, the Atma Vichara, “who am I?”

Those who have been following me here on the channel, it is very important to be open to this work. We have demystified different expressions, used within the modern spirituality… different expressions.

We've been working on it here on the channel showing you how simple all this is and how the egoic mind, in its unconsciousness, in its projects, has made it so complex. Expressions like the Natural State and all these expressions that we have just mentioned – Enlightenment, Awakening, Kundalini –, Flow State, which is the State of Flowing, of Flow with Life here and now, as It is, as It is shows itself, as It presents itself.

So, it's really good to have you here, working on this, looking inside yourself.

And it's nice to also leave an invitation here for you. We also have online meetings and face-to-face meetings. See the opportunity to one day be with us in person, some have done it.

We have retreats… Sometimes we do retreats, we have times of the year where we do retreats of seven days or even longer.

The Truth of What You are is the most important thing, the most valuable thing, because the Truth that You are is the Truth of God. You were born only to Realize This, Realize That which You are.

So, the end of this self-image, the end of this “me,” of this “I,” of this ego, is to look and see, without the egoic mind, Life unfolding as It is, here and now, in this State of Pure Consciousness, of Pure Presence.

Eckhart Tolle calls it Now. The only Reality is this one here. I have called it Being, Consciousness, he calls it Now, the Power of Now. OK? If this is something that makes sense to you, the opportunity is there, subscribe to the channel, leave your "like" and we can work on it together. OK? Thanks for the meeting, until next time.

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The True Practical Meditation. Illusion of psychological time. Advaita Vedanta. Kundalini Awakening

Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel.

I want to invite you in this speech, in this meeting, to go beyond this condition, which is the condition of thought. Here, I have called it True Meditation or the True Practical Meditation. It's something you can do in any place, anywhere. It doesn't require a special environment; it doesn't require a quiet place, a place without noise.

In fact, you need to find out what Meditation is, and True Meditation does not require a specific place to happen. You need to learn how to deal with your own thoughts, and here you need to discover the art of Meditation, of that contact with the Truth of your own Being.

So, I want to show you here today, in this meeting… We are going to talk about Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment, as we have been doing here on our channel. And I want to show you how you can make it effective, make it happen, in your daily life, in your life. This is done by self-observation; it is basically that.

In general, when a thought arises within you, or a feeling, or an emotion, you never put yourself in a position to observe them – neither thought, feeling nor emotion. What has happened to humans is that they mistake themselves for the mind and the body. So, whatever is arising here, at this moment, at this present moment, you mistake yourself for this. There is a Space in you, there is a Place in you, there is an Inner Condition in you that is completely outside the condition of thought, feeling and emotion.

In general, human beings are not aware of This, because we live in a state of consciousness I’ve called mental consciousness. You haven’t assumed your Natural State of Being, which is Pure Consciousness, so you mistake yourself for the experience of thought, feeling, of emotion. Our approach to a thought, in general, in this condition that I’ve called psychological time – because this is the condition of the egoic mind, of people’s minds – the way we approach it is always mistaking ourselves for it, it is always identifying with it, personalizing it, having this inclination to particularize that thought, that emotion, that feeling.

This creates the illusion of a center, of an identity present, of this “me,” this “I,” this ego. And this way of approaching what appears as a mere appearance, a mere phenomenon – a phenomenon that, by the way, appears and disappears – it is not something real, in the sense of being eternal; no, it's something that comes and goes. But you mistake yourself for it and experience it as yours, as you.

I want to tell you that there’s a way for us to go beyond this psychological condition of pain, fear, anxiety, depression, anguish, hurt, resentment. You need to begin to observe the movement of the mind, what the mind represents, what it represents when thoughts arise, when emotions arise, when feelings arise… this direct observation of mind, the simple and direct observation of the movement of mind, because this way you discard this notion of time. The only Reality in life is this present moment.

When thought appears, it’s reporting a story, telling you a story, giving you a suggestion, telling you something about what happened to you. As you always see yourself in the body, having experiences and going through experiences, and thought keeps that as a memory, as a remembrance, when it is told to you by thought itself, you simply believe it.

So, there’s always this inclination within you to live within this illusion. Mind carries this illusion, the illusion of time. Human beings live, psychologically, tied to this condition, to the condition of psychological time. In this psychological time, either they are in the past, or in the future. And it's always thought upholding that notion of time for that identity you believe to be. So, thought is always telling you things, creating anticipation that upholds various forms of fear within you. Thought does this by creating a future, based on ideas, on beliefs, on negative imaginations, or giving you hope, giving you proposals of imagination called “positive thoughts.”

You are always in the future or in the past. Your relationship with life, here and now, is not real. You are not in touch with the Reality of What You are here and now. Your relationship is always based on beliefs, thoughts, ideas, judgments, comparisons, imaginations, due to the presence of the illusion of psychological time, that time formed, structured, supported, created by thought.

In these meetings, here on our channel, I’ve given you tips on how to break this condition, and the secret to the deepest practice of Realizing the Truth about who You are consists of this simple thing called self-observation. It’s important that you discover that self-observation, this self-observation Ramana called self-enquiry or Atma Vichara, this is the beginning that sustains the basis for the Revelation of your Being through the Self-knowledge and Meditation.

Here on our channel, we've been covering this subject for you, we've been talking a lot, a lot about this subject here with you. So, we have several videos on this channel dealing with this important issue of True Meditation. True Meditation is that powerful instrument to end this illusion of time. And why does this happen inside you? Why is this programming undone? Why is this model of thinking broken? [Why] is this model of consciousness I’ve been calling mental consciousness undone? Because along with this work of Meditation, the Awakening of that Power happens simultaneously, which is the Truth of God in You.

Since you were a child, you have heard expressions like: “God is within us,” “God lives in our hearts,” but we never understand it. And here I'm telling you it's basically this: Consciousness is your Being – This is God! In fact, it’s not that God lives within you, the truth is that you have your Being in God. This is your True Nature, this is your Divine Nature, this is your Essential Nature.

The Truth of God is what You are here and now. So, this notion of psychological time of “someone,” this “me,” this “I,” which is coming from the past, living this present moment and moving towards the future, that’s just a belief, an imagination. Thought is saying this, it is saying that time is real. There’s no reality in any of this! Life happens here and now. All this apparent succession of time we witness between sunset and sunrise… events seem to take place in time. This is always within this perspective of the senses, and not from the perspective of Reality, of Consciousness, which is your Being.

The beauty of Spiritual Awakening, of Spiritual Enlightenment is that with the end of psychological time, which is that time constructed by the imagination of thought, creating, upholding all forms of conflict, contradiction, imagination and suffering, is that when there is an end for that psychological time, you assume the Reality of your Being as Consciousness here and now; and all that ends, the illusion of the sense of separateness ends. Then, you find in yourself What has been known for millennia in Hinduism, and also known in Zen, and also known in Christianity, under different names. I speak of Advaita, according to Advaita Vedanta, according to the principle of Vedanta, within Indian scriptures – non-duality, non-separation. There is only One, without the second; there is only One, One Reality present – it is the Reality of God.

What I’m saying is that the end of suffering is possible when you Realize your Self, when you Realize the Truth of who You are. What You are, is Sanity, is Beauty, is Grace, is Truth. The illusion of this apparent human insanity is based on the illusion of this sense of “person,” of a separate identity, living in time and space, which is not real.

Our job here together is to show you This, to tell you that it is possible to Realize This in this life – the Reality of your Being. And it's like I’ve put it just now at the beginning, the big tip for you is in this work of self-observation of the mind, observing the mind, seeing its reactions... just observing, becoming aware, being a witness that doesn't get involved with what arises. If a thought, a feeling, an emotion appears, if there is a perception in this observing, without mistaking yourself for it, without fighting with it, without rejecting it, just becoming aware of what appears... if it is something painful, this pain is at the level of emotion or sensation in the body. Thought arises and brings a story about it.

The point is that until now, until this moment, you were mistaken for this, you were entangled with this, but now I’m inviting you to just observe. If it shows up, ok. You become aware of this appearance, but you don't invest an identity in it, you don't invest in putting an identity present in this experience. You stay just with observing, you stay just with feeling, but you don't feed what thought says, and the way not to feed it is through becoming aware that it's a thought that can be observed. The problem is, for a long time, you've been identifying with it. So once again, one more apparition, one more moment, and you've lost yourself in it.

Here, our job is to become aware without mistaking ourselves for it, without identifying with it. Then, that Space opens, which is the Space of Consciousness. When there is that attention without any volition, without any will, any choice, any identification with it, an Energy appears. Actually, before that same Energy was lost in this condition of identification with feeling, emotion, perception, but now you are giving yourself the art of self-observation.

Ramana said that this is like asking yourself, “who am I?”, “to whom does this occur?”, “to whom does this feeling occur?” “[to whom] does this emotion occur?” “[to whom] does this sensation occur?” When you do that, this Energy, which was previously lost in that old and ancient condition – it's the very own Energy of Consciousness – It starts working in that mechanism, in that body-mind for a change, for a transformation. The mechanism of transformation, in India, by yogis, is called Kundalini. Then, you have here the Awakening of that Divine Power.

I’ve been talking a lot about Kundalini on this channel. In practically every speech, or almost every speech, I touch on what I consider essential to be understood by you. Reading books, listening to speeches, performing so-called spiritual or ceremonial activities, rituals, none of these can really confer this Liberation, this Spiritual Awakening, without Kundalini Awakening, without this Energy, without this Power, without the movement of this Presence, which is Consciousness, within you, changing that structure, which is the structure of the body and the mind.

We could be more technical about this, but that's not our interest. You don't need to understand this, how it's technically processed. There are books that explain it, but it’s not our concern here, it’s not our interest, because here what matters is what Master Ramana Maharshi himself shared during his days. He said that this process of Kundalini Awakening is something natural, something that happens naturally, you don't need to understand anything about It; it’s the simple Awakening of the Consciousness, and Consciousness finds in this body, in this mechanism, how to Realize This.

It's no use trying to understand It intellectually. People comment, they read a lot, they study a lot about this subject, but this has a merely verbal, theoretical aspect. What matters here is a direct view of this Truth about who You are – this brings about Kundalini Awakening. It’s no longer a theory, it’s no longer a belief, it’s no longer a concept. You experience in yourself a change, a transformation.

And there comes the moment when this body-mind no longer responds in a reactive way to those old patterns of thought, feeling and emotion, which previously upheld a self-image, a set of beliefs, and all this is undone by Kundalini Awakening, by the Awakening of the Consciousness.

This is also a subject here on our channel; we have a playlist on it, about Meditation, True Meditation, and about Kundalini Awakening, in addition to other playlists here on our channel. So, that's our invitation to you: to look at it, to work on it yourself.

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August, 2022
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The Flourishing of Kundalini. The Divine Presence. The Kundalini and Consciousness. True Meditation

Very good!

Here, the point is in this Spiritual Awakening. Spiritual Awakening is the Recognition of your True Nature, your Real Identity. Illusion is this ignorance, the ignorance of who You truly are. There are a few things here, we are going to talk to you.

I want to talk to you about this Potential for this Spiritual Awakening. The Potential is that which is like dormant within you. Illusion lies in this ignorance of who You are and in the fact that this Potential does not manifest, does not present itself. This Potential is what some call Kundalini. To let you know, the word Kundalini means "coiled like a serpent."

It is just that, something coiled like a serpent, the appearance of a coiled serpent – that is the meaning of the word Kundalini. That Divine Potential is something present there, but it is as if asleep, sleeping.

So, that Energy, that Divine Potential within you, is like a serpent, like a snake all coiled, asleep.

In that organism, in that body-mind, in that biological mechanism, there is this Power, this Energy, this Divine Potential. As long as ignorance remains, illusion remains, and this “serpent” remains coiled. It doesn't uncoil, it doesn't Awaken.

So, what is basically Kundalini? Kundalini is that Energy of the Divine Presence in a potential state, in a dormant state. It is important that you understand that when we refer to Kundalini, we are referring to Consciousness, to the Power of Consciousness itself, to the Divine Power itself that resides in You, which dwells in You, which, in fact, is You!

Human language has this capability or this ability to say the same thing using different words. Ramana says that the Kundalini is Consciousness, and Consciousness is that Power which, also, in India, is called Shakti. This Power is called Shakti. So, Kundalini, Consciousness and Shakti refer to the same thing: that Divine Potential in You. I have been talking to you about the importance of Meditation. Meditation is the key that opens this door, unlocks this padlock, reveals this secret for you. The basis of your Liberation in this life is in the Awakening of this Energy.

Some call this “activation of this Energy” the uncoiling of this “serpent,” this Potential there in the body. My talk about Meditation with you is because I want to show you that the only possibility for us to go beyond this condition of illusion, of ignorance, is when a change happens, a change in this organism, in this mechanism. So, a change in that body-mind is needed so that you, in your Divine State, in your Natural State, can live the Truth that you were born to live.

I am speaking of a Power, which some call Kundalini, Divine Shakti or Consciousness, which is present in everything, everywhere!

When we talk about the Universe, about the entire Manifestation, we are talking about this Presence, this Consciousness, this Shakti, we are talking about this same Power. This Presence, which is Consciousness, unfolds in this Manifestation and assumes what we can call names and having sensory perception as forms.

When you look at that object called a tree, you have given it a name and there you have a form, but the Truth of that tree is the Truth of that Consciousness.

It is in this sense that Ramana says that this Divine Presence, which is Consciousness, which is Kundalini, is inside the human body and also outside it. So, this Presence, which is Consciousness, is everywhere! In a tree you have this Divine Presence, in a bird you have this Divine presence.

Since we were little, we've heard expressions like “God is everywhere,” but no one has ever deepened this to us, and basically, the Sage's view, the Realized Being’s view, is that there is only God! It's not that God is everywhere; in the Sage's view, every part is in God, and so are the "non-parts." There is only God! And the Divine Presence is in that tree, in that bird perched on that tree, it's in that background of cloud, in that landscape, behind that tree... that cloud floating in the sky behind that mountain, which is also behind that tree.

So, before this whole scenery, all you have is this Presence of Consciousness, the Divine Presence, that Divine Potential, the Divine Shakti, the Divine Power. The human being, unlike a tree, carries the psycho-physical condition to become aware of this Power, this Presence, this Consciousness. This is what has been called Spiritual Enlightenment, the Spiritual Awakening, Awakening of the Consciousness.

The human being carries in his body, in this mechanism, unlike a tree, he carries within this organism, this mechanism, the Potential to Realize God in this life, to Realize the Truth in this life. Speaking it in a different way: to recognize this Divine Potential in an actualized way here and now. This is called Liberation, the Moksha, in India - Liberation in life, You in your Divine State, You in your Natural State.

So, what do we have here now? Here, we have the Flourishing of this Consciousness, we have the Flourishing of Kundalini, of this Divine Potential. What I am saying here within this speech to you is that when you see a mountain range, there it is that Consciousness. This Presence is everywhere, this Divine Potential is everywhere: it is in the seas, in the deserts, in the mountains, in the valleys, in the forests, in the woods… everything is this Presence, everything is this Consciousness, everything is this Manifestation, everything is this Divine Shakti.

So, Ramana says "Kundalini, which is Consciousness, is inside and outside," but you, as a human being, have the ability, unlike a mountain range, unlike deserts, seas, valleys, you have the possibility, in this life, to become aware of the Reality of your Being, aware of the Reality of your Essential Nature – This is Liberation!

It is evident that we are talking about a quality of Being that is completely different from the human being’s in his ordinary condition of life. The human being carries a very advanced intellect compared to the intellectual ability, logic and... in short, compared to animals, man differs a lot from all this capability of the animal to interact with the environment, in a rational, logical and intellectual way. But this Divine Potential present in man – I speak of this Shakti, this Power, this Consciousness – it's the same thing present in a bird… it's the same thing present in a bird. And when you look at a bird... in nature, in all of Existence, there is already the natural presence of that Silence, whereas when you look at the human being and sees that the condition of the human being, despite all his intellectuality or cognitive ability, logic and reason, etc., he is in conflict, he is suffering, he is living in a state of almost complete insanity.

In fact, the basis of the existence of this so-called “human consciousness,” in this illusion, in this ignorance, is insanity.

The Awakening of your Divine Nature, the Flourishing of Kundalini, is the Awakening of that Silence, that same Silence present in nature.

I've been talking about Meditation, and everything I've said so far was to show you the importance of Meditation. This same Presence of Silence in the whole nature is sometimes so stunning that you are sometimes in a certain place so impacted by mountains, impacted by the sea, or when your gaze is directed to the sky and you see a cloud floating, before a clear blue sky, in the background... the impact of this Silence, this Divine Power, the Divine Presence so natural in all Existence, in all nature, is sometimes so impactful that the sense of the ego, for a few seconds, disappears, and there's like a silent voice inside you and it says, “Wow!” The egoic sense is gone.

And I have said in these talks about Meditation, that the basis of a Real Meditation is the absence of the egoic sense, the real absence of the egoic sense, here and now. It's not a determined, specific, technical practice to get This.

And when you are facing this scenery, this landscape of this moment, you are naturally in a state of Meditation, without any effort, without any technique, without any practice. So, this is what I have called the True Meditation, True Guided Meditation, and here guided by the Power of that very Consciousness that is everywhere.

You look at a bird perched on a branch and suddenly your mind is gone, the person is gone. And that bird is not chanting a mantra for you, nor is it giving you an example of an asana position, it is not giving you a breathing technique, it is just perched there on that branch, and your gaze is directed and the egoic mind fades away. Why?

Because you are before Shakti itself, the Divine Power itself, you are before Consciousness itself, which is Kundalini. And at that moment, moves, it has a little movement, but it is enough for all the egoic sense to disappear.

Here, in this work, when I talk to you about the importance of Meditation, I am talking about the importance of Being, and notice: this is natural.

You don´t need a school to learn to meditate. Children know what I am talking about.

You were once a child and remember it was like that when you were a child. Now you are already an adult, already a grown man, a grown woman, and you have the same experience, in this sense, as anyone else, without any learning, because this is innate. Your contact with the Divine Reality, which is your Being, is something innate, already there.

So, Meditation is already you, here and now, in your Being, in your Natural State of Being.

One cannot teach Wisdom. You can Awaken to Wisdom. Meditation cannot be taught; it is possible to Awaken to Meditation. One cannot teach someone to reach God, because one cannot reach God.

God is This that is here and now as your Natural State of Being, and This cannot be learned!

So, Meditation is the art of Being, and the True Meditation is that expression of Consciousness of Being.

So, I have been talking to people who approach me about the importance of self-enquiry.

Self-enquiry is something that Ramana put as “who am I?” Notice that when you make a question... “who am I?”, there is no answer! Each and every answer grounded in a story is false, so you discard it; you stay with the question, and when there is only the question, there is no thought about this, and here is the answer – in the non-verbal-intellectual answer.

We are facing What is: Silence, Consciousness...

This question is similar to another one here, that I have been talking to you here: “What am I?” or “What is the thought that comes?”

When you ask “which is the thought that comes?”… If I ask you “what is the thought that comes?”, you have no answer to this. What will be your next thought?

You have no answer. So, you enter an entirely new and unknown state, outside the mind, outside all this programming of thinking, feeling, imagining, deducing, concluding, explaining. You are in a similar state to looking at that bird, looking at the mountain range.

The sense of “I” is not, when this Presence, which is Consciousness, which is this Powerful Divine Energy, is present there, in this organism, in this mechanism taking over the body and mind completely. So, when we are talking of Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, God Realization...Names are different for this Natural State of Being that You are here and now, free from this insanity, this “me,” this “I,” this ego.

It could take a few minutes to talk about this, but it goes without saying that the state of insanity, which is the state of ignorance, which is the state of illusion that the great mass, the vast majority of people live in, are living, this is unhappiness, this is suffering.

I could spend a few minutes just reminding you what a miserable state it is in the egoic life, in the insanity of the egoic mind, in this insanity of a life without this Divine Realization. I could, for example, remind you that the human being is envious, he is possessive, he is jealous, he is miser, he is anxious, he is biased, he is prone to depression, he lives in depression; he has a tendency to not stand himself and even to attacks of fears, of panic; he has a tendency to end his own life because of the deep anguish of existing as a separate entity, living in time and space, as a creature who believes himself to be someone in this experience of existing.

So, the state of the human being is – once seeing honestly – a state of insanity, of madness, of a collective condition of madness, of collective insanity. That's the condition!

The Awakening of the Truth that You are is the end of it, the end of it all. I'm talking about the end of fear, I'm talking about the end of suffering. Human unconsciousness is such that you are not even aware of the level of suffering you have present in your existence, in your life, because it is so muffled by so many and various distractions that you are not even aware of how much you suffer. There is no awareness of the illusion in which one lives. The Truth about your Being, the Flourishing of this Divine Reality, is the end of this illusion, it is the end of this ignorance, when there is this Divine Nature that is You in your Being...

In that sense, you, as a human being, different from that bird that has just been your Guided Meditation Master, your true Guru of the State of Being – its presence, its way of being, has pointed you to the Natural State of Being – , unlike that bird, you have this: this condition of realizing God in this life and of going beyond that condition, of going beyond this illusion, going beyond that condition; and this happens because of this Truth, the Flourishing of your Being, the Flourishing of Consciousness, the Flourishing of Kundalini, which is nothing but Awakening to your Self, Awakening to your own Self, Awakening to the Reality of this Being that You are. You awakened to You, awakened in You, you really reach your Self, and here is God! This is your encounter with Divine Reality!

OK? Let's stop here!

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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