Spiritual Awakening. Psychological Suffering. Illusion of psychological Duality. The Self-knowledge

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

Let me talk to you about ending psychological duality. Of course, this is a very important subject, because we are talking to you about the end of suffering. This is due to Spiritual Awakening.

So, there are three subjects, well… very basic here within our meetings: the Spiritual Awakening, the end of all psychological suffering and this issue of the illusion of psychological duality.

We need to approach this by learning. It is necessary to discover what it is to learn, and here I am referring to learning about ourselves. There is something people want to discover for themselves; it is a matter of developing the person, the person they believe they are.

So, they want to work on the issue of personal development for themselves, and here I want to emphasize the importance of learning about yourself not in this sense, in the sense of personal development, but in the sense of Self-knowledge.

It is necessary to learn about yourself. This learning about yourself will give you the Self-knowledge. This Self-knowledge is the Vision of Truth about who You are. Because, notice something here with me, there is Truth about who You are and there is belief about who you are. Therefore, there is a Truth about yourself and there is an idea about yourself. Based on this idea, life is happening, in the midst of all this internal confusion, in the midst of all this psychological confusion that the human being lives.

This psychological confusion, this inner disorder, is present because of this psychological duality, which is basically an illusion.

What is this psychological duality? It is the belief, the idea of existing as an entity separate from experience. We have never investigated this issue, for example, of fear. Fear is a state of unhappiness; fear is part of this presence of psychological unhappiness in the human being, and we never investigate this question, we never ask ourselves if it is possible to live without fear.

Here I refer to this fear created by thought; the fear, basically, of a human being. Human beings are afraid of life. Life has its presentation, it has its way, and the human being is in fear, he is in fear, he lives in fear.

Psychologically, you are afraid. These are all psychological fears. The fear you have of your wife, children, boss, employee.... The fear you have of people talking bad about you, the concern you have with what they think about you, what they say about you, it is always fear. Fear is something common to all and is a psychological condition that we never investigate. We never ask ourselves if it is possible to live without this fear.

As I said just now, that fear is within this context of unhappiness, which is basically suffering, and that fear is grounded in this psychological duality: me and the other. And, here, the other is “someone’s talk about me,” it is “the memory that something that happened to me in the past can happen again.” This “other” is “the image I make of myself, and I don't want someone else to touch this image, talking, talking about myself.” That “me” is the image. They are present forms of fear.

There are different forms of fear present in each of us. Anxiety, with all its expressions, is the presence of fear; the sense of loneliness is the presence of fear; guilt is the presence of fear. Note that fear is a very important factor within this context of human unhappiness. The question is: is it possible to go beyond this condition of suffering called fear? In these meetings, we are investigating this, telling you that this Spiritual Awakening, this Spiritual Enlightenment, is the end of fear, and it all starts when you start to learn, to learn about yourself.

It is not learning to develop as a person, because the structure of this “person” – what we call a “person” is this set of images, remembrances, memories, recollections, that you have about yourself...

This “person”, no matter how much something is added to him, no matter how much he expands, no matter how much he evolves, he will remain psychologically trapped in this issue of suffering, because this psychological duality is inherent in this non-Consciousness, this non-Presence of Truth about who You truly are.

Therefore, learning about yourself means becoming aware of this psychological condition of suffering, the psychological condition of the duality. This is Self-knowledge. The Self-knowledge puts you in a proximity to the Truth of your Being, through Meditation. And what is Meditation? It is the contact with the Truth about who You are, something that happens in this instant, in this present moment, once you are paying attention to yourself, once you become aware of yourself here and now, of this whole process that sustains this psychological duality. Therefore, learning about yourself means becoming aware of the Truth about who You are. This clears the ground for the Flourishing of your Natural State of Pure Consciousness, of Pure Consciousness, which is Meditation. Why so? Because there will be a change, a transformation in the mind.

The condition of the mind of the human being, in that psychological duality, in that psychological suffering, is the condition of the egoic mind – I have called it the dualistic mind or the separatist mind. A change is needed in this whole structure in the body and mind. So, a new mind is needed, a mind that knows Silence, knows the absence of psychological disorder, a peaceful mind, a serene mind, a mind that is the perfect space for the Flourishing of that Intelligence, which is Consciousness.

So, a change in mind is needed, a new mind is needed. And here, when I say a change in mind, I am referring only to that Space, which was previously occupied by this psychological condition of conflict, and now it is completely empty, a completely empty Space for this Perception, for this Sensitivity of Intelligence.

So, when we refer here to the end of suffering, we are referring to the end of ego identity, of this sense of separation created by the psychological duality, sustained by this mistaken, unconscious principle of the mind in its movement. Therefore, learning about yourself, understanding the Truth about who You are, is the arising of a new Space, free from dualistic mind.

A little more about this dualistic mind: what is this dualistic mind, basically? It is this unconsciousness; it is this separation idealized by a construction of thought. When fear, for example, is present, there is the idea of “someone” in that fear. When anxiety is present, there is “someone” within that anxiety. So, there is this “someone” and the fear; there is this “someone” and anxiety. No matter what form the fear has taken or is taking at that moment, it is always the illusion of “someone” within that experience, and that is duality. This is the psychological duality, this is the duality of psychological suffering, this is the condition of the egoic mind - the illusion of "I" in this experience, an "I" in this relationship.

Fear is always related to something. It is “someone” within a relationship with that given thing. So, there is this split, there is this separation, there is this duality, and that is being supported by a belief, by a psychological conditioning, something that you carry from childhood. You have been holding this image of being a “somebody” when you are offended, when you are hurt, when you are depreciated, when people speak bad of this “you,” this “me.”

You never come into direct contact with the experience of this pain, this suffering called “fear;” there is always the idea of “someone” to get rid of that, to get away from that experience, to get rid of that condition, because it is painful.

All this movement is already a movement of psychological conditioning. Since childhood, we are always trying not to be hurt, not to be offended, not to be mistreated, not to be rejected. There is always this search to be accepted, to be loved, to be praised. It is always the idea of “someone” to gain something or to get rid of something, and there is this effort.

In that effort, that sense of duality predominates, it prevails. We don't get in touch with the experience here and now, with what happens. There is always this sense of “I” to defend oneself, to protect oneself, or to win, or to acquire something.

So, it sustains that psychological sense of duality and therefore it sustains suffering.

Self-realization, Enlightenment, Awakening is the end of the ego, it is the end of this sense of ego identity, of identity in the experience, of ego identity present here. There is no identity, there is no “I.”

Life is happening as It is. The thought arises, that thought brings an image, an image of something unpleasant that happened to you yesterday. Happened to whom? To that "me." That's the belief. The fact is that something happened yesterday, it left a remembrance, a memory, a recording in this mechanism, in this organism, and when that thought arises, it is always being strengthened by this illusion – the illusion that I am present, always present. “I could have done something about that” or “I can do something about this, so that something like that doesn't happen to me again in the future.”

So, there is always the fear, the sense of a present “I” always trying to adjust, to protect itself, to sustain itself. When we talk about Spiritual Awakening here, we are talking about the end of the illusion of this “me,” this “I,” this ego. Therefore, this attention to this movement of thought, when it arises and it is seen simply for what it is, that is, a remembrance, a memory, it becomes very clear that there is no “someone” here and now to still feed it, sustain it.

But the psychological conditioning in you doesn't work like that; it needs to sustain this, because this sense of ego needs to exist, it needs to be “somebody,” it needs to carry this pleasure of hurt, this pleasure of building a defense,

this pleasure of building a form of attack, revenge, retaliation. So, the ego lives within this self-protection, and the ego is basically this duality created by memory, created by stories, created by these remembrances.

This always projects this “me,” this ego, this “I” in time. Here I have called it psychological time; it is this condition: “I am here, but I lived something in the past and I can live something in the future. I am somebody.” There is no such “someone”!

So that's the illusion about who you are. The discarding of this illusion is Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening, and it is the end of suffering, which represents the end of fear in all its many and diverse forms.

There are several names for the same thing. Basically, everything is fear, and that fear is based on this psychological sense of separateness between you and Life, between you and Reality.

Our meetings aim to show you that the Reality of your Being is Pure Consciousness, but what you believe to be, with which you identify yourself all the time, has no reality.

This identification, all the time, with this condition, is the egoic state of insanity, of psychological confusion, of psychological suffering, it is not the Truth of your Being.

Your Being is Love, Peace and Happiness. This is the Divine Truth Nature of your Being, of your Being as this Divine Reality. OK?

This is the subject of our channel. If this touches your interest to deepen this, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and let's work on it together. Remembering that we have online meetings and also face-to-face meetings. OK?

Until the next meeting.

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The Psychology and Spirituality | Spiritual Awakening | The Meditation Art | The sense of duality

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

I want to talk to you about the psychology and spirituality. In fact, I want to tell you that it is neither psychology nor spirituality that is the subject of spiritual awakening, although the psychology and spirituality try to approach this. In an indirect way, this happens.

When we talk to you about the Self-Knowledge, and here Self-Knowledge, as it reveals itself within this channel, as it is shown within this channel, is the Flourishing of your Being, not dealing with knowing the “person” or personality, the sense of “person.”

And since the Self-knowledge is not about what is called spiritual by spirituality, in the sense of ceremonies, rituals, esoteric practices, I would say that Self-knowledge, here, is not a matter for the spirituality or psychology.

Self-knowledge is your business, it's our business, it's the business of each of us. This change is necessary in us.

It is necessary for you to recognize yourself as Consciousness, as Presence, as Being, as this Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God.

So, it is not a matter for spirituality or for psychology, the issue of Awakening of your Being, of the Flourishing of Consciousness, and here I am referring to a direct work, in practice and learning. It is necessary to Learn about it. We need this fundamental shift, this profound psychological shift, yes. We need a change even on a physical level for that foundation to be laid, for that foundation to be laid, the foundation for the Realization of God, of the Truth of your Being.

This requires Learning, this requires discipline, and here I refer to Learning and discipline not in the sense of learning from someone or having the discipline received by someone. I mean Learning with yourself, Learning from yourself. This Learning from yourself is to unlearn this whole process of knowledge acquired over all these years based on what thinking says about who you are.

Note that thought is the one, in you, that sustains knowledge, and all this knowledge that you have about yourself, all of it based on thought, has its structure only in images, in memories, in pictures, linked to the story of this character.

With this character, you identify; what you believe to be you. And that's what thought does: it gives you a confirmation of that kind of knowledge.

And here, when I refer to Learning about yourself, I am talking about something completely different from acquiring knowledge about yourself on the basis of an experience of remembrance, of memory. This Learning about yourself is the discarding of the illusion of belief about who you believe you are. So, it is a new Learning, it is a Learning that is completely different from this process of accumulating knowledge, of acquiring information.

Therefore, Self-knowledge, here, is the Recognition of your Being by this new Learning. That's why it's not a psychology issue and it's not a spirituality issue; it's your business.

Through self-observation you perceive the movement of the thought; by self-observation you can discard this illusory sense of duality that you are the one who is thinking.

There's you and the thought, then there's the thinker and the thought. You are the one who is feeling, so there is the feeling and there is you; you are the one who is sad, so there is the experience of sadness and you; you are the one who is offended, the offense as the object and this "me," this "I," as the subject.

This experience of this "me," this separate "I," this movement of psychological duality, this is discarded by Learning the Truth about yourself... this attention to yourself, this attention to this movement of the mind, this attention to this movement of thought, this attention on this movement of experience, which is always creating this illusion of placing an experiencer in the experience; in thought, putting a thinker; in the feeling, putting someone to feel.

When there's this attention to yourself… that's what I've been calling Real Learning.

We need this Learning about ourselves. This sets the perfect condition for the Self-discovery, for the Self-knowledge.

So, we start here in this Learning, and I want to repeat this: in this Learning through discipline. And here it is this discipline that you give yourself, to have this attention. So, it is necessary, through this discipline of self-observation, of attention to oneself, this discipline of Learning about oneself, here and now, moment by moment... With this, we have Self-knowledge and, in the Self-knowledge, the Meditation Art reveals itself. Without that, there is no True Meditation; without it, there is no real condition for the State of Consciousness, of Presence, of Being, to find, in this body and in that mind, a condition to Settle, to Flourish, to Awaken. But, when there is this Learning about yourself, when there is this discipline of looking at what is happening here and now, in that moment, it is possible to perceive that this duality has no Truth, when this observation is made without choice. A thought arises, you watch; a feeling arises, you watch; an emotion, a sensation… you just observe.

You don't get confused by giving identity to this appearance, you don't put, within this experience, "someone" separating himself to criticize, condemn, reject, do something with what appears. Just watch this, just notice this. This is Learning about yourself, this is the discipline required.

What I have to say to you now is important. Hearing this is theoretical, applying it in practice is only possible when there is Love… when there is Love for Freedom. You may find this interesting or even difficult at first to understand without some practice. Or, if you've experienced it at some point, you find it interesting, but you don't have the discipline necessary for this Learning. And why? Because it is important that there be Freedom, Love for that Freedom.

In general, human beings do not Love Freedom. They talk about political freedom, about economic freedom, about social freedom, but never psychological freedom. They don’t feel the importance, the value of this psychological freedom, of no longer being hurt, sorrowed, offended, of no longer living in sadness, in guilt, in fear, in suffering. They don’t realize the importance, the beauty of it, and when that's not there, there's no discipline to Learn from yourself.

Here, our meeting is for that purpose. This Self-discovery is the Realization of the Truth about who You are, through this self-observation.

This is Learning about yourself, within this discipline, when there is this Love for Freedom. If it's not burning inside of you, just stay here, looking at it, listening to it. The moment will come when it will burn within you, then this Love of Freedom will arise, and then this discipline, without any effort, is born naturally, and with it, this Learning about yourself arises. This gives also rise to the True Meditation – I mean Meditation for this Spiritual Awakening.

Here on the channel, we have a playlist about it. We're always talking about it, new videos are always being added on this topic, it's so important.

Another playlist related to this subject is “Kundalini Awakening,” because it is the mechanism that makes the change in this body and mind so that this State that I have been calling the Natural State, which some call Spiritual Enlightenment, settles down.

So, this is our subject here on the channel, also in online, face-to-face meetings, including retreats.

If this is interesting to you, if this makes any sense to you, leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel and let's work on it together. OK?

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to attain Spiritual Awakening | Practice of Zazen | The Power of Kundalini. Non-Duality. Ramana.

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

The question is: how to attain Spiritual Awakening? People sometimes comment, they ask why it is so difficult, so complicated, or why they’ve been practicing for a long time and this still hasn't happened.

There’s a very interesting story within Zen, of the monk Baso and his master Nagaju. You probably know this story.

Baso was within this process of Spiritual Awakening, within this process of practice, and one day his master finds him sitting in the practice of zazen (we’re going to talk a little about this practice of zazen).

He is in his practice of Zazen, and the master comes and says: “Your practice is very interesting, but what’s the purpose?”

He looks at the master and says: "For sure, Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment." This is his answer.

At that moment, the Master takes a roof tile and starts rubbing this tile on a rock. When Baso witnesses that scene, he asks his master Nagaju: “Master, what are you doing?”

And the master replies: “I need a mirror. I'm turning this roof tile into a mirror. I’ll polish it until I have a mirror.”

Baso upon hearing this starts to laugh and says: “Master, this will be impossible! You can’t transform a roof tile into a mirror by polishing, by doing this work.

To this, the master replies to Baso: "This is your practice of Zazen to attain Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment."

This story is interesting.

The practice of meditation, or the practice of zazen, is not for achieving Realization or Enlightenment. There's no purpose to be accomplished by practice concerning Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment.

Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, is something already here, at this present moment. Your practice isn’t for Spiritual Awakening. It must go on, but your work of practice, the practice of sitting in zazen is Enlightenment itself, the Awakening itself. There’s no separation between sitting without mind – and that’s what the word zazen means, it’s just sitting without mind – and Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening.

So, Meditation, as I’ve been putting it here in our meetings, I call the True Practical Meditation, is not separate from Spiritual Enlightenment. This Spiritual Enlightenment is the practice of Meditation. I prefer to call it Practical Meditation.

In general, people get frustrated when they practice meditation because when they stop meditating, they realize that the egoic sense, the mind’s sense, is present once again. They want to meditate for the purpose of Enlightenment. The practice of True Meditation, as I’ve been putting it here on this channel, is to remain free from identification with the mind. This is not a process to do at specific times of the day, in a place prepared for it, silent, quiet, where you can stop the mind, stop this process of identifying with the mind, through practice.

I recommend here the True Meditation, Real Meditation. It’s something present here and now. In this State of Presence, in this State of Consciousness, Practical Meditation is present. This Practical Meditation is zazen – sitting down without mind, sitting down without the movement of thought, without mistaking yourself for thought.

Thus, the truth about True Meditation is the truth about attaining Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening.

And the truth is that there’s no way to achieve what’s already here and now. Achieving presupposes the future, presupposes a movement in time, presupposes an objective, a purpose to be accomplished, while Realization is the Acknowledgment of your Being here and now.

This is very paradoxical in a practical sense because You are This, and yet, you realize that you are still identifying with all this movement of the egoic mind. Then, in a real way, This is present, but not in an existential way. And this is where you shouldn't stop practicing, even if practice won't give you that result. I’d say that practice predisposes you to become aware of What is already here; it's basically that.

This work of Self-recognition is all that is needed. It’s not about achieving Spiritual Awakening, but rather about Acknowledging the Truth of your own Being, here and now.

So, zazen isn’t a ritual practice, a ceremonial practice. Zazen is simply being present here and now… sitting without mind. This can literally mean sitting in a place and remaining there free from this identification with this movement of thought.

In this self-observation it is possible to break this identification with this egoic movement. Since zazen is to remain in your Being, settled in your Being, as I’ve been saying within these speeches here, in our meetings, both here on our channel and within in-person and online meetings, you can practice zazen walking, driving your car, watching TV.

That’s why in Zen it’s unforgivable to separate the practice of Meditation from Enlightenment itself. You cannot separate Enlightenment from Meditation. For Zen, Enlightenment is Meditation, there’s no separation, no distance.

So, our meetings, our work together, is to show you that Spiritual Awakening is possible, but Spiritual Awakening is the Realization of your Being here and now. This is Enlightenment! Therefore, it is an Acknowledgment and not an achievement, a direct Perception of this Natural State of Being, free from the egoic mind. That mind lives in that duality. Illusion consists of this sense of duality internalized in the body and mind by thought.

Another important point that I have emphasized and, in general, I have not noticed this even in those who share the possibility of Awakening, is that there’s no possibility of this Spiritual Awakening without work in this mechanism, in this organism, in this body-mind.

And this is the work of Consciousness, bringing Awakening, bringing the Perception of the Reality of What You are; and what You are, transcends body and mind. So, if there’s no work of disidentification from the mind and body, there will be no Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment.

You can believe This, study a lot, read a lot about This, learn a lot about This, and existentially, Spiritual Awakening won't happen, because without a change in that mechanism, This doesn't happen. I refer to this Acknowledgment – It doesn’t show itself. It presents itself when there is this break of identification with the body and with the mind, and this is a work of the Awakening of this Energy, which is in a potential state in the body, ready to Bloom, ready to Awaken, ready to Manifest Itself in this mechanism, in this body. I refer to the Power of Kundalini, which is the Power of Consciousness itself in this body.

Therefore, the Acknowledgment of the Truth of your Being presupposes the actualization of this Divine Potential, which is the Potential of Kundalini. I never dissociate Kundalini Awakening from the process of Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment; it’s something that goes hand in hand, something that happens simultaneously, and it’s in this organism, in this mechanism, that this Acknowledgment takes place.

Then, this whole process of practice must go on – and here I mean Real Practice. Real Practice is in Meditation. You need to discover the art of Meditation. You can also continue within a so-called "meditative practice" or "meditation practice" for ten thousand years, and what I’m telling you is perfectly based on the principle of Awakening, according to Yoga.

Meditation requires Consciousness, Presence. It’s not what is known as meditation out there – meditation for calming, meditation for de-stressing, meditation for a therapeutic purpose. This is a wonderful thing, but it cannot bring you this Acknowledgment of the Truth of your Being. This requires disidentification with the egoic mind; it requires the breaking of this sense of duality internalized in this supposed egoic mind, in this supposed “me.”

As long as there is this sense of egoic mind, which is this sense of an identity, which is the “I,” there will be the world out there. So, this internalization of duality needs to be broken, this illusion between the observer and observed thing, between thought and thinker, experience and experiencer. Reality is What is here and now. There is no “I” thinking. Thought appears, but there is no “someone.” This duality needs to be undone; this illusion needs to be broken. In feeling, there is feeling, but not “someone” feeling; in emotion, there is emotion, but not “someone” in emotion; in thought, there is thought arising, but not "someone" thinking.

Therefore, a real basis is important, and the real basis is in the True Practical Meditation. Here on our channel, I have a playlist on it. In the True Practical Meditation, it is possible to break the identification with this illusion, which is the illusion of the egoic mind, the illusion of this false center, this false “me.” I call the egoic mind this state of mental consciousness for this supposed identity present here and now. This is not real.

Thus, our meetings are for the investigation of the Truth of this false “me,” this false center; our meetings are for the breaking of this illusion of duality, for the direct Realization of Non-Duality. Non-Duality is your Being, it is this Real Consciousness. Acknowledging This occurs because of this work of Real Meditation. This is possible when there is Self-knowledge. So, the mere practice of meditation, without the Self-knowledge, will not represent a transformation, a change; it will not represent the Awakening of this Divine Power. So, there is no way for this internal movement which is Kundalini Awakening, which is the Flourishing of Consciousness, to take over this body and this mind.

Then, this Acknowledgment takes place, the Acknowledgment that What You are is already here and now. However, a process is needed in that body, in that mind, and that’s why Real Practice is needed – and here it refers to Real Practice. It is necessary to find out what is Real Zazen or True Meditation.

So that's the subject here for you. In your life, in your daily life, you put this in evidence through self-observation. The observation of the movement of the mind breaks this identification with this movement of the egoic mind. So here, the art of Meditation is the art of self-observation, which Ramana Maharshi called “Atma Vichara,” self-observation. Self-observation is Atma Vichara, and that is the True Practical Meditation.

So, this Realization is the Realization of Zazen, which is Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, Awakening in Consciousness, your realized Self, free from the illusion of all psychological suffering, from all this confusion that the egoic mind represents. This is Love, This is Peace, This is Freedom, This is Happiness.

If this is something that touches you and you still haven't subscribed to the channel, take the opportunity now, subscribe to the channel, leave your "like…" Reminding you that we also have in-person meetings, we also have online meetings. If this is something that touches you, let's work it out together! Ok?

Thanks for the meeting.

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Krishnamurti and the Non-Duality. Advaita Vedanta | Practice of Mindfulness | Psychological disorder

Hello guys. Welcome!

Let's start another meeting here. Today I want to talk a little about this approach to Reality from some words used by Krishnamurti.

It is interesting to say that each Realized Being walks through a specific form of language, he develops a specific language. And the language of Jiddu Krishnamurti is interesting. Krishnamurti talks about, for example, this view of non-duality in a very characteristic way. As an example of this, we have that famous position of his on the observer and the observed thing.

In reality, there is nothing new in what Krishnamurti says. Krishnamurti simply addresses what the Indian sages have been addressing for millennia, and this we find directly in the Vedas – this issue of non-separation, non-duality. In the Vedas… the last part of the Vedas is Advaita Vedanta. Specifically in this part called Vedanta there is the essential part, which I would say is the most important part of the Vedas, this approach to the Reality of non-duality, which is Advaita Vedanta.

So, Krishnamurti's language... Krishnamurti's teachings address this. And here on our channel, I have been putting it in a very broad way, quoting some Realized Beings and presenting something about their speeches, within this vision, which is not a theoretical one. So, a whole process of Realization took place here over twenty years, and today I share this vision, although here in our channel we are using all this broad language. Today, I want to talk a little about this approach, within the view of Krishnamurti on non-duality.

And here, touching this aspect of non-separation, which he calls “the non-existence of the observer.” Notice that there is this illusion, the illusion of “someone” present… always the illusion of someone present here in this experience. The point is that there is no “someone” present here in this experience. Life is a whole happening without any division, without any separation. The only Reality is this Reality that is here and now, present in this moment. I would have many ways to put this. And we are working on this within the channel – the form of the vision of Life, the format of Life, the apprehension of what Life is. We are investigating the Beauty of Self-realization or Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening. Now, I want to talk a little about this non-duality in a manner closer to that of Krishnamurti.

This observer's view… There is no such observer. The observer is present when there is a sense of separation. This observer presents itself when the observed thing is present. So, see, it's very simple! Life is happening here, so there is this perception of reality.

You have right now the observation, as I have called it; you have the perception; you have the hearing; you have the presence of touch, of smell; the senses are alert, they are alive, they are functioning, and there is this contact with this Manifestation, with Life as It is. And the presence of these senses is the presence of Life as it is. There is no one present in this.

So, there is this vision, but not the one who sees; there is the hearing, but not the one who hears; there is touch, but not the one who feels; there is flavor, but no one present in the experience of flavor. What we have in mind is just the experience without the experiencer. I mean pure, direct experience. This experience, in its Essence, in its Reality, is something that transcends the very limitation of being aware. When you are aware of the experience, the sense of separateness arises, the idea of an identity present arises in that experience, and this is not real.

It is important that you look at this experience and notice that it arises when there is this Consciousness, but not the thought translating, interpreting, evaluating, judging what is happening. When this happens, the experiencer emerges within that experience. In a simpler way, this means that when there is sadness, it does not need to be sustained, because there is no identity present in that experience; when there is worry, there isn’t someone who is worried.

Worry is simply the movement of worrying thoughts. This movement of thoughts is the thought anticipating a situation in the future, harmful to this “me,” to this “I,” however this “I” is not real.

So, the experience itself is the experience of thought, so there is no need to be confused with “someone” within that experience, and that represents the end of worry. So, the practical side is that there is no “me” present to be sad, to be worried, to be anxious, to be depressed, to be melancholy, to feel lonely. Psychological suffering is idealized by this structure of duality, of separation.

So, Life is what It is, happening here. And yet thought appears creating this sense of separation. So, how does the presence of this entity arise? How does it emerge in the midst of all this? By thought. Thought is what gives structure to this egoic identity, to this inner identity, to this particular center, to this observer. So, the sense of “someone” present to observe, to hear, to speak, to feel, is something produced by the illusion of the sense of separateness, it is sustained by this sense of separateness created by thought.

The non-observation of the movement of thought, the non-direct observation of this movement sustains this experiencer, this observer, this thinker. None of this is real! The presence of the observer is the illusion of “someone” in the observation. That observation is the Reality, there is no such observer. The thinker's presence is the illusion of "someone" present in the process of thinking.

The observation of the movement of the mind, the pure and direct observation… and that is possible when you are not confused with what appears, with what arises. So, we are facing what I have been calling Meditation.

True Meditation is to not be confused with experience. If a thought arises, it is just a present thought, there is no thinker.

But when that thought arises and there isn’t this disidentified observation of the thought, when there is this separation between the thought and the thinker, then the idea of doing something with it arises. It is when, for example, you lie down to sleep and a memory of a debt or bill to pay is present, and you are simply trying to sleep. You're not there, at the cashier's desk to pay the bill. That moment is to sleep. But this psychological condition, this psychological disorder, this configuration of the egoic mind presents this thought, and when that thought presents itself, at that moment, the illusion arises of the idea of someone responsible for that movement, someone inside that thought.

So, thought sustains the illusion of a thinker, and thought keeps coming on, keeps appearing, keeps popping up, asking for an answer, asking for a solution, asking for that to be resolved, asking a supposed “someone” to solve that – this supposed thinker.

And yet, all we have at that moment there, is the body lying on the bed to sleep and the movement appearing in a repetitive, continuous, compulsive way, and being fed back by the illusion of a thinker.

So, in this duality there is conflict, and at that moment what prevails is contradiction, fear, anxiety in that form of insomnia, suffering! The situation will resolve itself on Monday and on Saturday this situation begins – Saturday night at bedtime, Sunday night at bedtime, and the situation will resolve itself the moment the bill is paid. The idea of someone psychologically present in that experience, lying in bed, has no reality.

So, this has been our psychological condition of being, of living, of existing. Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Realization, happens because of an inner work of becoming aware of who You are, about the Truth, the Truth of your Being, which is non-dual. So, it is necessary that there be, that there be an end to this chaotic-psychological condition, to this condition of duality, of separation, of conflict produced by thought, creating the thinker, creating the observer, creating the experiencer, creating the one who feels .

So that sense of duality dissolves when there is a work of True Meditation, and the True Meditation is that Full Attention, that Mindfulness. Once you give Full Attention on this movement of thought, there is nothing to acquire there. Now you are seeing non-separateness, non-duality, you are simply seeing that thought is a disordered, uncontrolled, chaotic movement. You don't judge it, you don't compare it, you don't evaluate it, you don't analyze it, you just notice, observe, and when this is done, there is a break in identification with that thought, with that thought model, with that pattern of thought.

This Full Attention over the movement of thought, this Vision of thought, some call Mindfulness. Mindfulness is simply an English term for the attentive mind, for Full Attention, taken from Zen Buddhism, from Zen Buddhism. So, note: the language, either used by Krishnamurti or in Zen, or in any other school, for example in Yoga, or in any other school of Self-realization, of Realization of Spiritual Awakening; the language is different, but the one who Realized his Being, who is established in his Natural State of Consciousness, has this Freedom to make use of any of these descriptions.

But they all point in the same direction, to the same Reality.

So, every Realized Being has a way of expressing it. I want to invite you to understand this in an experiential way, to understand the practice of Mindfulness, here and now.

This attention to this movement of the mind is the Freedom to assume the Truth about who You are here and now.

This Vision of Reality is the Awakening of your Essential Nature, the Truth about your own Self, the Truth about your Divine Nature. That is to be beyond this false center, this false "I," this false identity, this "me,” this ego, the illusion of this experiencer, the illusion of this observer, the illusion of this thinker.

So, it is in inattention that the observer arises. Once you pay attention to yourself, there is a break to this illusion - the illusion of the observer separating himself from the thing observed. Once you pay attention to yourself, there is a break in identification within that ego identity, that false “I.” That's the end of conflict, that's the end of suffering, that's the end of illusion. OK?

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Awakening to Meditation. Insomnia anxiety. The Mental health comes from within. The True Meditation

Well! The purpose of these meetings is to show you that it’s possible to go beyond this condition: the condition of the egoic mind, the condition of that consciousness I’ve called mental consciousness.

Reality is What is present here, at this moment, and it transcends this state of mental consciousness, transcends this state of consciousness of the egoic mind.

The mind lives within a project of past, present and future. I’m referring to the egoic mind, to this movement of this consciousness common to all. Spiritual Awakening, the Realization of the Truth about who You are, transcends “being conscious,” it means being Consciousness, not simply being conscious.

In general, you mistake being conscious for being the Truth about who You are. You are conscious of what is happening here, right now, around you. This seems to be so, it seems to be true. What you have here is a representation of what thought has about this present moment. So, this “being conscious” means being bound to identifying with an illusory identity, which is this person you believe to be. In other words, you are in a state of sleep when you mistake yourself for what thought says about what is happening here, right now.

This is the basic prison of time, of psychological time, of the illusion of time. This is where the difficulty of living in Completeness, in Freedom, in Peace, in Love, in Happiness lies, because everything you have in this “being conscious,” or in this apparent consciousness you believe you have, everything you have is what mind tells you about life, about yourself, about others, about the world. That state is the sleep state. The Sages have called it sleep because it is a state of unconsciousness.

In this unconsciousness, the behavior of the human being, for the most part, is very, very insane. Violence, for example, present within the human being, is a very strong, very clear aspect, and one of the things human beings don’t realize is that this movement of violence is a movement based on an existing suffering in them. And this suffering is present because of an internal contradiction.

What happened was the following: human beings created an internal identity, they carry an internal identity, and this inner identity demands life to be as it wishes. This inner identity has a model for what life should be like for itself, however, it just doesn't fit, life doesn't fit, life is what it is. And as life is, as life shows itself, there’s an inner contradiction, inside, there’s a rejection, a struggle. In this contradiction, what is present is the presence of suffering. Thus, that explains all this violence in human beings. Their relationships are conflicted and suffered because of this violence.

Then, there’s violence in the relationship between you and those you say you love, between you and those you want to love, or those you should love. So, there’s a conflict within you, and this conflict is expressed in these relationships you have with those closest to you, with family members, with friends, with people at work... So, there’s always an internal contradiction upholding suffering and, therefore, violence in relationships. This is easy to see by those who pay a little attention to their own behavior, which is also not so common, because, in general, the level of unconsciousness, the depth of unconsciousness of the majority is very, very big.

Our job here in these meetings is to investigate the Truth about who we are and, naturally, to discover that there’s a quality of life completely different from this life based on the egoic mind and, therefore, free from violence. First, be free from suffering. As long as you don't free yourself from suffering, you’ll be an aggressive human being. Aggressive in gestures, aggressive in speech, aggressive in behavior, in actions, aggressive in relationships.

We don't have much compassion for those who are violent towards us, but this is already part of violence in ourselves, and this only exists in us because of the suffering that already exists within each one. We’re not patient with ourselves; how would we be patient with others? If we are suffering, we don’t accept being attacked, but this aggression is, rather, inside you than inside the other. But all this passes in a way you don't realize, because of this unconsciousness. I’d say because of this consciousness, this mental consciousness.

And what is the difference between this mental consciousness and What I’ve called here in these meetings of Real Consciousness? This mental consciousness is consciousness based on the model of thought. So, what thought dictates, what it describes, what it affirms inside your head, this is assumed to be you, to be yours – this is mental consciousness. You mistake yourself for it; you give an identity to that thought when you put an inner identity to it.

This is a general, generalized belief. Everyone believes they are conscious of themselves. In fact, the consciousness they have of themselves is the mere consciousness thought has of who they believe they are. And life guided by this condition is, of course, conflict, suffering, violence. So, that mental consciousness is useless. You need to go beyond that.

Thus, our purpose within these meetings is to tell you that there’s something beyond the mind and this state of consciousness as you recognize it in yourself. That would be the same as saying to you: there’s a Consciousness outside of that consciousness you have about who you are, and you only discover this Real Consciousness when you doubt this mental consciousness you have; in other words, when you start doubting what thought tells you about who you are, about what is happening to you, about who the other is, about what is happening to others or what is happening in the world.

That's why Ramana Maharshi left a question; the question is "who am I?" Here, the purpose of this question is to show you that you are not who you believe to be. Human beings don’t ask themselves this question “who am I?” The state of mental consciousness or general unconsciousness is so strong, it is so dense; it is so deep in the great mass, in the majority, that people never question themselves, they never ask themselves if they are real in what they think, in what they feel, how they react, in what they do. So, it’s a responsive movement, a reactive movement, this movement of the “I,” of the “person.”

Therefore, the question “who am I?” … it opens a space for the investigation of something that transcends this person you believe to be and that you are absolutely sure you are. This is mere mental consciousness. Understand this… Mental consciousness is that, it's within that context of existence based on beliefs, on ideas, on concepts, which is basically memory, the memory about you, the story about who you are. But this story is nothing but thoughts, nothing but thoughts. With those thoughts you identify yourself, and thereby you have created an inner identity, an internal identity, in that experience – this is what I’ve just called mental consciousness.

There is something beyond that, and something beyond that is experienced by Meditation. And now I'm going to say something very strange to you. You need, first, to become conscious, aware, of this movement, which is the movement of the mind, of this mental consciousness. Only then can you go beyond this mental consciousness. When you become aware of the movement of the mind, of all its movement, of everything it has represented to this “me,” to this “I,” to this person, to this character…

To become aware of this movement is to open a door to go beyond this movement. This movement, which I’ve just called mental consciousness, is nothing but psychological time that thought creates – past, present, future, imagination, remembrances, memories, anticipation, future projects.

This psychological time is this mental consciousness. As long as you don’t become aware of this movement, which is the very movement of unconsciousness, you cannot go beyond that unconsciousness. That movement, which is the movement of this mental consciousness, is unconsciousness. You need to bring Consciousness to transcend this limitation of unconsciousness. This state of unconsciousness is a human disease, a condition of human pathology. The egoic mind is not natural.

I've been using this example: you have all your teeth in your mouth and none of them are hurting right now, because if they were hurting, you wouldn't be here listening to me. This is a sign that when the tooth hurts, you are not in a state of peace; you are in a state of distress. The presence of toothache is a state of oral, physical unhappiness. So, the presence of the egoic mind is not natural, it is the presence of unhappiness itself, it is the presence of the “I,” of the ego, of this “me.”

This is not natural. It has been seen as something natural, but it’s not natural. It’s not natural to live in violence, it’s not natural to live in suffering, it’s not natural to live in fear, and it’s not natural not to be able to sleep when you go to bed at night because of the volume of worrisome thoughts running inside your head, compulsive thoughts, with no control… You can't do anything about thoughts at all!

Thoughts run through this mental consciousness in a completely disordered, uncontrolled way, and you only realize this when you lie down at night and can't sleep. But actually, throughout the day, your inner state is experiencing this, is experiencing conflicts. Some are camouflaged and almost don’t become very apparent, even because, due to the different daily activities, some are apparently forgotten, but they are there. Then, you throw yourself into other activities and you don't realize that there is a thought in the background, a certain volume of thoughts in the background, creating disorder, creating distress, creating suffering. And when you lie down to sleep, as you are no longer busy with anything that might make you forget or not notice, what is deep down comes to the surface, and now you can’t sleep.

So, this state of insomnia is not natural. This goes for insomnia, it goes for anxiety, and this goes for conditions, whether more critical conditions of depression or milder condition of depressive states, but it's not natural to suffer. This is not part of your True Nature, your Real Identity; this is not part of your Being, of What You are.

What you were never told, I’ll now tell you here: you weren’t born for unhappiness, and all these are states of unhappiness. All the conflicts, contradictions… are innumerable! They are present states that, over the years, you get used to, you got used to. Some people reach a state of pain so acute they look for help, go in search of a doctor, a specialist, a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, a psychiatrist and, in a certain way, they help you, but there’s no final solution to the egoic sense other than its disappearance.

And this channel, here with you, in these meetings, I want to tell you that this is possible, the disappearance of this egoic sense, this sense of separation, this condition of mental consciousness, into this Vision of the Reality of your Being, which is You here and now as Consciousness. So, the tooth doesn't hurt anymore; so, there’s no longer pain in the tooth; so, you are in your Being, now you are in your Natural State, and not in this state of lack of control, contradiction, conflict, psychological, emotional and physical disorder.

Our meeting is for the investigation of the Truth about who we are. The question “who am I?” is the basis of this. With this base, you have the possibility to step into this art of Being, Pure Being; not of being conscious, but of being Consciousness, which is the art of Meditation.

So, here we touch on this need for Awakening to Meditation. Yes, that's right, Awakening to Meditation. Meditation for the Awakening of this Consciousness is needed, but before this Meditation for the Awakening of your Essential Nature – which, as I am putting it here, is Truth, Peace, Sanity – you need, first, to awaken to Meditation.

What I've noticed is that people, when they approach, they don't realize the importance of first awakening to Meditation. If they fail to realize the importance of awakening to Meditation, they’ll not approach Meditation to Awakening. So, the Awakening of your Being, the Radical Healing, won’t come from outside. No one can help you in this regard, or any help you can receive psychologically from others is always palliative; this is not the final solution.

The Real Health, Real Sanity, comes from within. The True Mental Health comes from within; it comes from your Being. Your Being is Consciousness, It is not touched by contradiction, by conflict, by desires, by fears; It is not touched by appearances, by forms, by names; your Being transcends time and space; your Being knows no disease... This contact with the Truth of your Being through the True Meditation – this is what we’re dealing with.

This True Meditation I call the True Practical Meditation. Only that can show you the Truth of What You are, beyond this consciousness common to all. Your Natural State of Pure Consciousness, of being Consciousness, in India they call it Samadhi or Turiya State. It's not the vigil state, it's not the dreaming state, it's not the deep sleep state, but it's the Turiya State, it's a fourth possible state for you in this lifetime. And that is the Realization of the Truth, of Spiritual Awakening, or Spiritual Enlightenment, or God’s Realization.

Here, on our channel, we have several playlists delving into all of this. We have a playlist about the True Meditation. I recommend you come and check out this playlist. Another very important playlist, within this context, is the Kundalini Awakening, What makes all this work possible internally, in this body, in this mind, for this Natural Awakening of your Being, the Real Flourishing of this Freedom, of this Love, of that Peace, which is the Divine Truth, to happen.

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August, 2022
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