Being present here and now, you can see what is, not what you want, not what you crave, not what you avoid, but see what is. Learn to see without filters. Without the interference of your anger, pride, craving, fear, lust, gluttony, greed. Learn to see without desire. With that type of perception, you can start to see what is.

If you are having a fight with your loved one and you are feeling angry, it is very difficult to let go of the anger and see things as they are, because the anger has a lot of power. When you are enflamed with lust, it is very difficult to see without the influence of the lust. When you are infected with envy, it is very difficult to see without the envy, but we have to learn. Learn by first seeing the condition itself.

Observe how those experiences of lust in your psyche exhaust your energy, color your perceptions, filter your perceptions, drain you of vitality, cause a great deal of negativity to arise in your heart and mind—a lack of respect for others, a lack of love, the arrival of animality, cruelty, selfishness.

Observe the consequences of your psychological states and you will start to acquire knowledge of them.

(Self observation)

The reason humanity is in the suffering it is in now is because we lack knowledge of the consequences of our actions, and we lack knowledge of the divine. We lack knowledge of the divine because we cannot see the divine if we are conditioned by psychological defects. To see the divine, free yourself from psychological conditioning. When you are free of psychological conditioning, you naturally perceive reality.

“Action cannot destroy ignorance for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance as light destroys dense darkness.”