aunifyingmomentum
00:00:06 Speaker: Welcome, friends, in this awakening world in which, the wisdom of your true self, of your inner divinity, of your innate good nature is, so strongly actually available. You know, if you think about how it used to be that you would have to travel long distances to actually even come into, into this um, type of knowledge, self knowledge, true self knowledge and teachers, you know, would check your eligibility, um, whether you are actually, um, ready for this type of knowledge. And nowadays which is beautiful, it is readily available, you know, there's so many um realized people that actually talk point you back have all these different means and tools and compartments in which they share this kind of knowledge again. So it's a very precious time, actually, a time in which this is readily available to you. It's always an invitation, but it's readily available. But what I want to talk about today, because it also actually shows this movement towards oneness again, which I find very touching to observe, is that many of these modalities, you could say they're actually starting to, to, to merge again to, to come together and, to come together. I mean, in the sense of really understanding the the wisdom that lies deeply embedded in each one and that is shared. That is the same. That is the same truth. And, you know, oftentimes when what we have been through as a humanity is this very strong compartmentalization of these fundamentally same truths, and then a lot of fights about it and a lot of righteousness about it and a lot of, um, a lot of Distancing, you know, one tradition to the next. And I don't mean the discussions necessarily because, you know, um, there can also be discussions, you know, about what was found. I just mean the, the rejection, the rejection of the wisdom that this truth that was, um, that was talked about in actually all the traditions is fundamentally the same. You know, when we look at religions like the, the origin of this word religare, it means also to reunite, to link together similar actually to yoga, yuj, you know, to remember your innermost self as consciousness or as awareness. Now if you realize what you are, you sort of become a misfit because what you are, first of all, in this process, for all of you that are on this discovery process, the sincere inquiry into who you are, you, you, you know that this is no longer pertaining to someone else stating something for you or an ingested theoretical knowledge it is really you finding you, having to confirm you, having to find what is pointed to and depending on your sort of. Perception then of your finding it is sort of a different emphasis. Like the truth is the same. The emphasis is slightly different even in terms. You know, if I say to you, you are pure awareness. It also makes a slight distinction saying this is which is true, you know, is it is that what you are is aware, is alert, you know, or I could say to you consciousness or I could say to you divine, divine in the sense of its fullness, the fullness of the self, the, you know, the, the source from which all of manifestation arises. And also to start understanding that as you realize what you are, this personal stance collapses. There's a clarity what the personal stance is. This identified notion of self. These identified thought streams. And there's also then as you are sort of reabsorbed by consciousness, there's a handing over. And then what comes through is no longer filtered through the mind. It is, it is. You know it is. You are you are distinctly prompted by consciousness. That's why it's so different. Because what collapses is this self centered, entity, you know. And then. We also see what's so beautiful is. Is this nowness, you know, like consciousness, what gets prompted is always now. It is always relevant for this moment of now. Now teachings that come from the self. That's why they are also. If you read them, you know, if you study those texts, no matter if they are religious texts or if they are. texts that pertain to a philosophical tradition. They contain this purity because they come from beyond time and space. So they hold this relevance that is still valid even thousands of years later, because the truth that is spoken about is no longer a truth that is relative is no longer a truth that just pertains to this moment of time. And yet, at the same time, you will see that what comes through, especially as you remember yourself, is also always new. And it's also always actually a remembrance, both of the absolute, like always a remembrance of no longer just pertaining to the relative. It's always a pointing back to you as the absolute, you as the divine, you as source, you as pure consciousness, pure presence, pure awareness, however you want to call this. So always actually the remembrance of that that then streams through that then is pointed to that then is stronger actually pointed to even by the presence alone. By your presence alone, by your realization alone, by your being alone. But also it's always now. It always pertains to now. What was what it, you know, it is this, this remembrance of what is before, before. Like you are remembering what you are before mind, before thoughts come in, before all this, all your conditioning comes in, your cultural conditioning, all, all of this. Your existence is always prior. You're remembering yourself as prior and at the same time as you remember what you are. What streams through is always also pertinent to the spiritual, the spiritual conglomerate of of conceptual knowledge that will actually also wants to sort of be broken up. You know, look at the great masters that we have known. You know, look at Jesus. He studied the Torah. And yet at the same time, there was this huge, this huge rebellion actually against the priests that were just performing rituals where it was no longer about the, the, um, the realization of one's inner divinity, you know the divine that you already actually are. So there was a rebellion against it. You know, look at the Buddha. You know, if you read the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali canon, for example, is mostly very, very nice, but he's discussing very strongly, actually with the Brahmins of his time. Same kind of setup. You know, same kind of where a caste has certain privileges and divinity has become a part of a distinct portion of society. And the same rituals, etc. and, And then the realization and how everyone can realize what they are because everyone is that. So there's actually no, um, you know, no, no one that is more that or less of that. And in that way, it is always also a breaking through of the conventions, the spiritual conventions at a moment of time. And right now I feel that's very beautiful because a lot of these true teachings deeper and, and by true teachings, I mean teachings that can offer you the clarity to realize what you are that can offer you pointers. You know, I see more and more consensus in the different traditions. You know, where when there's talked about awareness as what you are, it can both come from someone in Advaita. And it can also come from someone that is in the Buddhist tradition, because the again, the truth that has been found is the same, just different, different emphasis on different aspects or different findings, different discoveries on that very, very, very, very, uh, subtle level that are potentials for you that are possible for you to find. But this is a. This is a heart movement. A movement of starting to see where are we all caught up in rituals, in, in, in a conceptual understanding or in the relative, you know, and again, always obviously your relative life is important. It holds utmost importance, holds utmost importance that you take care of yourself. But it's always if, if we remain within this dualistic frame, if we remain within the mind, if we remain at the level where each one just sees duality and another one as separate, I'm not actually allowing both myself and the other to realize what they are. Divinity. I'm actually I'm actually continuously putting another down. I'm actually continuously holding them small. I'm actually continuously, you know, assuming a mask to be reality both in myself and the other. And so there is, there is a lot of movement right now happening. A lot of people want to, you know, come back to the actual knowledge, realize what they are, recognize what they are. And again, you become a misfit because what you are recognizing and realizing is always lies, always beyond, beyond the conceptual frame, beyond what you can imagine, beyond what what you can ingest or prepare for or whatever. It just is, it is, it is, you know. So this is very beautiful because it starts these encrusted versions of spirituality. You know, they, they start to this, they're starting to to open. They're starting to, to. I don't know what's the word to, to fall off. There's an oh, there's an opening again. And also a hearing, you know, not just a hearing. What is my tradition saying? What is it that that has been that has been taught what what are my beliefs? What has been ingested? What did my teacher say? Take these teachings from whatever tradition you are you have learned and make them your own in that, not in the sense of an egoic whatever, but in the sense of find out what they were talking about. Go inside and discover what it is they point to Find it again. Do not feel demotivated, do not remain just in the relative. Do not think self-realization is not for you. Do not hold yourself and others small. Do not hold these teachings so small. Come to know, discover. Find out. There is more opportunity. There's more invitation. There are more different options for you these days than ever before. To come to self-knowledge. To come into recognition. To remember. And then in the same way, you know let that divine essence that you already are, stream into those compartments of your life, of your knowledge, of your traditions, of your, your spaces. You know, all almost not sure about all of them, you know, not studied enough. But there's a lot of these traditions are actually from the get go, talk about your discovery of this knowledge. You having to come to know it. You having to make it yourself, this knowledge, you discovering it. Yoga talks about anushasanam, a discipline that has to be discovered. It has to be experienced. Advaita talks about aparoksa jnanam, same, you need to discover this. It cannot just stay conceptual. You have to explore, Discover. Find out what is it they talked about. And then come back. Come back from wisdom. Understand what was talked about. And so this is so nice, you know, because a part of hearing can we hear what we don't know yet if it is coming from love. Very important. The relative conceptual self doesn't know itself. It is deluded. Can I accept that fact on my self discovery. Can I listen? Can I find out? Can I dare to actually also bust some of these concepts I have ingested or some of those traditional ideas of self or not self that I have learned. Can I leave that knowledge for some time and just go into discovery? Just go into finding and then try to reformulate? Isn't that much more exciting also that you're reformulating what you're finding? You know, that's teaching also, you know, I can talk a lot, but teaching is always. You have to find out otherwise how. How will you want to share? How can you share? And then to always come from this finding what you are finding, not what you're thinking about, what you are actually experientially finding, what you're discovering. What's your discovery? So this is huge, I feel and very beautiful to witness how people, how people start, like how there is convergence again, you know, after after all this separatist kind of movement, how there's an understanding, understanding in many traditions, many philosophies, many religions, that we share the same kind of wish for people to discover what they are, to come back to a discovery of their innate nature, of their inner goodness, of that which isn't continuously swayed and which isn't also continuously, um, subject to conditioning, you know, subject to the filters, subject to the traumas subject to this. There is something that is unencumbered. always already here there's there's, there's, there's the you that is no longer limited by time and space. Isn't that what we all actually want to find out want to discover ourselves to be. So there is a a common sense now, a unifying sense within the spirituality that talks about true self knowledge. True self discovery, the truth of what you already are. And this stronger purport again. Remembrance again of of what what this what we fundamentally all are already. But also what is what is the fundamental. What. What is the fundamental of spirituality like? What is the deepest, the deepest questioning, the deepest inquiry, the deepest, the deepest wish for people to to know actually, again, within the within, within spirituality, it's always about self-knowledge, the knowledge of the true self no longer. No longer the definitions, you know, no longer the subject, no longer all of that. And so see that in those teachings also, as much as obviously, respectfully, there are different masters, different accentuations, but it's the same, the same truth, the same wish, the same hope also for your discovery, the same wish that you are deeply touched by, by, by those teachings or, or, or by this discovery, you know. The wish to come out of suffering. The wish to know your divine nature, your inner goodness. The wish to find a happiness that is not any more a feeling state. But what you are.
