Sebastian Key

You ARE freedom, the thing that is afraid is the person you have imagined yourself to be.

The person “you” are is merely an idea. It is not real at all. It is an idea in your head. Nobody knows that idea except you. From this, you can already understand that this is literally completely personal and has nothing to do with reality. It might seem real because you believe it to be real, but that is merely because you do not know what you actually are.

The reason this seems so scary is because once you face your self (The actual self, not the one you think you are) you will understand all of this has been a lie, merely an idea, a thought in your head, has nothing to do with the actual you at all.

We all know we have to face it. This is your heart speaking, this is the truth starting to pour out because it can’t contain itself any longer in this idea of a person who has anxiety, who takes everything personally, who is choosing fear over love.

Because of this, you are starting to burn up inside. All that you are not is starting to burn, and you realize you have to release it.

You are not afraid of releasing it, neither is the actual you afraid of what is going to happen.

The only thing that is afraid, is the idea of that person itself. The idea is suffering from its own projections.

So, what is it afraid of exactly? well, it is afraid of ceasing to exist. What will happen after you release it, is that it won’t exist anymore. It seemed to have existed this whole time, it really believed it did. To now release it and see it for what it is, means that sense of self that is identifying as a person will cease to exist. This means basically, it is a fear of death. It is not actual death, just an illusion though.

The person, the idea that conditioning seemed to have created, is afraid to die! It itself is projecting fear, trying to keep itself alive as much as possible because once you release it, it is over for the idea of who you think you are. So, understanding this, the actual you has absolutely nothing to fear, and only to gain the peace that you are.

Once you stop identifying as a person, once you overcome the person and transcend the person, you see what you are and what you always were and always will be, everlasting peace, spaciousness, spontaneity, truth itself. You might know it as “Universal Consciousness”.

Now, knowing all of this, you may proceed and release this person which is just a thought and totally not what you are, as you are the one observing this. You are the one observing all of this.

5 years ago you were a person X, now you are a person Y, and in a year from now, you will be a person C.

The person has changed, it is unstable, unreliable. What stayed though? The witness of all these persons that were created by the mind. You are the witness. You are never changing. You are aware of it all. Be aware of your self, the awareness of existence. Know who you are, and all the things you are not will seem so superficial (because they are) and you will have no problem at all letting them be while knowing that you have nothing to do with them, they may even keep on living, they have nothing to attach themselves to, as long as you know that you are not these thoughts, not these ideas, not these concepts.

You are the unknowable witness itself.

You can experience your true self right now, although your mind will not be able to fathom it, as it is beyond the mind.

Look at your hand.

You are now aware of a hand.

Now be aware of being aware.

That is the state of enlightenment. Pure consciousness. Pure awareness. That is what you are. You were just identifying your self as some limited idea that the mind has created based on its own conditioning since birth.

You are free.

You were conditioned to have certain thoughts, beliefs, emotions, sensations, imagination, desires, attachments.

Because of this, you “see” life through a limited perception of these believed concepts and ideas.

If you “see” life through these concepts and ideas, what are you actually seeing? You are seeing concepts and ideas.

You are not actually seeing life, you “see” what seems to be conditioned concepts and ideas.

How is it so that every single person can look at a car, and every single person will have a different opinion?

Which opinion is true? Whose projection is the most real? Well, the truth can’t be an opinion.

Life can’t be a projection of the ideas and concepts you are attached to. If you would use the basic intuitive sense of putting things together and seeing them for what they are, you would instantly recognize, that in fact, you see life through a projection of your conditioning.

You must recognize this and understand this, and not say “ok, so what, we believe what we believe, and this is my reality!”

This is just limiting your self and causing suffering for your self. Be honest for a moment, the egoic-mind can think whatever it wants to think but you should not take its thoughts as the truth. Because again, all these thoughts and beliefs are simply projections. You won’t be able to actually see what I am typing right now if you were to use logic and the mind to fathom what I am saying. Wait a moment. Slow down.

Don’t you want to be seeing clearly? Do you not want clarity, peace, joy, love, compassion to be natural?

Is there a reason to keep on believing we are not enough, that we need to achieve things in this life, that there is a purpose to life?

The initial thoughts automatically generated by your conditioning would be: “No, we must achieve things! We must progress! We must have evolution! We are doomed to suffer and we are destined to see life through this limited perspective.”

Do you really want to believe that though? I promise you it is not necessary to believe that. Just the fact that you are aware of these thoughts and beliefs, means there is something greater, something beyond these limiting thoughts and beliefs.

Life was not destined to be seen through this limited perspective, we are not monkeys anymore, guys, please, try and see this clearly. Try and slow down for a moment and actually see with awareness. Not just thinking anymore. Thinking is something that the old generations of humans were doing. There is no need for that. Awareness is the higher intelligence, and that awareness is what you truly are. You are not mere thoughts that come and are perceived by you. You are the awareness itself.

I know it might sound really out there, and that there is no way that all of what you thought and believed about the world is not true, but contemplate for a moment, are you really settling for the life you currently have?

Is it not worth to live this life we have, extraordinarily, with clarity, with peace, with joy, with compassion, with love?

You already know these things, deep in your heart, your true being knows these things. I am not talking to what you think you are currently. I see every single one of you readers as the manifestation of joy, peace, love and compassion itself. I do not see you through the illusions of the mind. I do not see you as what you have been forced and conditioned to believe. You are way beyond that. You and I both know that this is the truth. We are limiting ourselves daily and because of these pre-conditioned beliefs, we are not able to break out of it.

What should we do about it? How do we get out of this cage? How do we live life truthfully?

The first thing is to CHOOSE to live this life. It means no matter what your mind, your thoughts, beliefs, sensations, emotions, ideas, concepts, imagination, desires, and attachments says - Say “NO! I will not settle!”

You are worthy of a much greater, deeper sense of self, not just a limited thought and belief of what you are.

You are able to be the manifestation of the highest intelligence itself in this universe. The universe is not separate of you.

You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the whole ocean in a drop.

Again these things might seem out there, but this is what is outside of your conditioning. It is a bigger, clearer truth which is whole and complete, there is nothing to seek outside your self.

You must break all these generational conditioning that we have been carrying forever. Tell your self, seriously “I am the last of my family name to hold this conditioning. I will break it free and will make a better life for all the next generations”

Do you want your own children, grand-children to be filled with lies? Children and life itself is so pure, it is so innocent, it is so loving, peaceful, joyful, and compassionate, and we are going to fill it with egoic-mind concepts?

Enlightenment was also conditioned to believe it is something out of reach, something that is practically impossible, something only a few individuals since the start of the universe have achieved. Question this belief!

You are not other than these individuals, they simply were able to break free from their own conditioning.

Christ, Krishna, Buddha, and whatever enlightened person you are aware of, they all experienced life just like you. They were suffering, they had a lot of misconceptions, a lot of false knowledge and beliefs. But it is VERY possible to leave all of that behind, but you must choose. Choose consciously to not be better, but to embody the divinity of the universe.

The egoic-mind does not know such concepts as “divinity” and it will only say this is some crazy theoretical talk, but seriously! Do not believe such a limited mind, that is conditioned to think that there is no more innocence and beauty in this life!

Beauty and joy are not having a new smartphone, or even going out to nature, or doing different drugs, or having superficial interactions, or any other material thing you can find in the external reality.

True beauty and joy are inside our hearts. It is our nature. It is not something to seek, it is something we are, the egoic-mind simply won’t believe and accept this! Why? Because you already have set beliefs and you are not consciously letting go of them to see a greater, truthful reality. You take all the egoic-mind says, thoughts, believes, and imagines to be true, without questioning anything. Is this the kind of life you want to lead? I know you don’t.

You must see through these illusions of the egoic-mind which just wants you to stay in this cage and conditioning.

Why does it do this? Because the egoic-mind is a result of the identity you believe your self to be.

This identity is insecure, anxious, greedy, judgemental, selfish. It will not let you see the truth because seeing the truth means to do or see something that might make the egoic-mind insecure, anxious. It will trigger the natural defense mechanism and will bombard you with thoughts and emotions to distract you from living a better, clearer life.

Your nature is not to be insecure, to be anxious, to be greedy, to be judgemental.

Look at children. Are they any of these things? No. They are conditioned and grow up to be these things, because of the adults that forced these things on these children. Children won’t know to embody love, joy, peace. It is their nature, but if their parents, something they love more than they are aware of themselves, tell them to be a certain way, it is not that they won’t listen to the parents. They will stop listening to themselves. Do not let this happen.

Seriously life is so, so beautiful, so precious, so joyful, so peaceful, so divine, it is just that you can’t see it because you think and believe it already to be something else. If you look at something while already believing it to be a certain way, you will never see what it truly is.

What do we do with all of this information? Start being aware. Start consuming guidances from gurus and from enlightened people, and do not just interpret it how the mind thinks it is, actually see it with your own consciousness, without distorting anything. See it innocently.

Awareness is the true source of joy, love, happiness, and compassion. Awareness is all you need.

Look at your hand.

You are now aware of your hand.

Now be aware of being aware.

If you were to stay in this state, if you were to be aware of being aware at all time, very quickly all of your thoughts, beliefs, concepts, ideas, identity, sensations, emotions, attachments, and desires naturally fall away.

How does this happen? Because instead of identifying with the thoughts that appear in awareness, you are aware of the awareness itself. With making this your default way of seeing again (because you were born like this, you were conditioned to not see clearly), you are literally unconditioning your self from everything so that only That which is true is left. Only awareness is left. From this moment, your life will be bliss itself.

Questioner:

It is more difficult to be aware and in the present, if you are surrounded by other people you care about who has a completely different mentality about this—driven by desire, anxiety, and other very base human drives.

Sebastian Key:

Why is it difficult? It is only difficult because you give the power of belief to your mind. It is not difficult until comes a thought saying “this is difficult” and you just believe in that thought, making it appear as if you are truly experiencing it as difficult. That thought is perceived, it is not you. You are not even seeing the truth at this point, you are already identifying with the mind, being unaware. You must simply be aware and determined to stay aware, and nothing will be difficult. See it as your only job. Perceive that which is perceiving.

Questioner:

I see them as imperfect individuals who are doing their best and love me.

Sebastian Key:

Why see them for something they are not? They might be ego-driven currently but their essence is pure love, pure consciousness, pure joy, pure compassion. The mask that they are putting should not affect how you see them. It makes no sense. You are basically putting on a mask your self and then judging them by their masks, as the ego does to its own projections.

Questioner:

Other days, however, I am more judgmental of them and it comes through in a negative way.

Sebastian Key:

You must be aware that you are not judgmental, and you can never be judgemental. To be judgemental means that you are doing something, which means you are doing the judging. That is not true, because the true being does not judge, it only effortlessly and naturally perceives. You are that which is perceiving judging, you can’t be the judging itself, nor the thinker of the judging. It is something that the self simply won’t do. The only thing that can be judgemental is a thought, once this thought is believed in by what you are (pure awareness) then it appears true. Thoughts that are anxious, judgmental appeared, and you decided to believe these thoughts to be yourself. You are not letting anything else other than these thoughts to flourish. You must discern between your self and the chattering mind within you. The chattering mind is very personal. Everything about it is personal. You must remain as the impersonal self.

Realizing yourself to be that which perceives the perceiving itself, will make life completely effortless. That which tries to do things with “effort” is itself perceived, it is not you. Anything that is anything less than peace, bliss, love, joy, compassion is perceived, when you perceive the perceiver itself, you notice that peace, bliss, love, joy, and compassion are all naturally radiating from that perceiver. Stay perceiving of that which is perceiving. It is not hard, it is very natural, it is a joy. You’ll notice how you will be literally present 100% of the day, whatever thoughts, emotions, or sensations appear, they are perceived also, you’ll be a light onto the world because what you are is truly light. We must simply stay in the place of our true position and seeing, not in the place of identification with thoughts. Even identification with thoughts is perceived. Perceive that which is perceiving, this will help you so so much. Whenever you expect an unconscious situation to appear, be in that place of perceiving the perceiving and do not let go of it.

Questioner:

I am grateful for this opportunity to practice patience and forgiveness with my family but also think I will personally develop and thrive more when I am away from them on an everyday basis, and be able to love them better.

Sebastian Key:

The mind makes you believe life is a practice. You are not here to practice anything, you are here to be purely the life that you are. You must simply exist as you are, and be aware (naturally, effortlessly you are and aware). If you are simply aware, everything will look and behave like heaven, simply because there is no identification with thoughts, emotions, sensations. Life is literally what you are. That divine love IS the life energy that you are. At all times. It can’t be anywhere else. It is being itself, and it is what you are.

The egoic-mind thinks “I will personally develop and thrive more when I am away”. That might be true, and it also might be that you won’t develop nor thrive. The self-realized does not develop nor thrive for anything. It is simply aware. The ego wants to develop and thrive, to show itself, to prove itself, but all of that is unnecessary suffering in your experiencing. You do not have to follow all of its plans and desires, you can simply stay as you are, at the place of perceiving the perceiver, you don’t have to do something and work all the time like everyone and everything wants you to. It is completely ok to just exist, enjoy the beauty and immensity that this vast universe is, just by doing this you are actually an infinite blessing to the world. It is encouraged for you to be the self. Every single thing in life will automatically be blessed by your presence.