Kundalini energy. Kundalini Awakening. Atma Vichara Ramana Maharshi. Advaita. What is Kundalini?

There is some confusion in people's minds regarding this subject, which is the subject of Kundalini. Nowadays, there's a lot of mystification about this expression “Kundalini,” and it has even become a myth. The truth is that people don't know what it is, what this word really represents. People have some mystical, so-called spiritual experiences, extraphysical contacts or contacts of some kind, and they attribute this to the presence of or contact with Kundalini. We need to demystify this.

Here on the channel and also on our other channel, we have several videos giving you the real meaning of this, demystifying this idea that thought has built up. Our thoughts are capable of great constructions, from the imagination to create all kinds of things. The simple truth of Kundalini is the direct awareness of this Real Consciousness present here, at this moment.

We are not aware of this Real Consciousness, we are not aware of the truth of what Kundalini is. The presence of Kundalini here, in this body-mind, is the presence of this true Consciousness. What some call Kundalini energy is nothing other than this vital energy, it is the vital energy of Kundalini, which is present in this mechanism, in this organism.

When there is a Kundalini Awakening, note, it's not contact with something mystical, esoteric or so-called spiritual, it's a change due to the power of this energy, which was previously directed towards the external or towards the experiences of the senses or being wasted in the conflict present in duality, something present in this egoic identity.

Notice, in this sense of “I” we are living a life where there is this pattern of duality, there is this “I” and experience, “I” and life, “I” and the world, of course, “I” and thoughts, “I” and feelings, “I” and emotions. In this separation is present the psychological condition of the human being in conflict, in suffering, and this represents a waste of energy.

When this energy becomes available for something new, and this something new is the Truth of the Revelation of your Being, from Self-Awareness, being aware of what Meditation is, naturally we have this Kundalini energy operating a change in this body, in this organism, in this brain – in the own brain cells we have a profound, radical change. So, this is the simple and direct truth of Kundalini Awakening.

Notice, it's the emergence of a state free of the ego. If there is no such state free of the ego, there is no Real Kundalini involved, present. Everything the mind creates is within its model, it's within itself. It can have fantastic, extraordinary, so-called profound or fulfilling experiences; it can acquire certain powers, but they are psychic powers for that mechanism, for that organism. So, it's very common for people to mistake this truth of Kundalini Awakening for acquiring extraphysical powers.

Human beings can develop powers, it is possible. Due to certain psychophysical changes in this organism, some powers may arise, but please note that the truth of Kundalini Awakening is not the achievement of powers, but the awareness of the absence of duality, of separation. Those who realize the Truth of what they are, which is the Truth of God, become aware of non-duality.

The expression here is Advaita, non-separation, non-duality. So, your Natural State of Being is a state free from duality, it's a state where what is present is this energy of pure Consciousness, taking over this body and this mind. This is the Presence of Consciousness. The Real Consciousness in you is Being, Happiness, and that is Kundalini.

Notice that this contact with Reality, which is beyond the known, is contact with the Truth of God. You, in your Being, in your Natural State, function in a completely different way to the average human being. In our common model of thinking, feeling and acting, our actions are egocentric, our thinking comes from a model of psychological conditioning, our feelings are guided by this psychological model of thought conditioning.

So, in this conflicting state of being, this being present is the egoic identity. This is not real in your Natural State, this is common in the egoic mind, in this sense of the “I,” in this sense of someone present in life, living experiences. A real work on oneself is the end of this old condition, the end of this restrictive model of life, of egocentric existence. The sage of Arunachala, called Ramana Maharshi, left the Atma Vichara. Atma Vichara means the observation of this “I,” the awareness of self-observation. It's in this sense that we have self-investigation.

In general, people translate Atma Vichara as self-investigation. Here it would be more accurate to use the expression self-observation instead of self-investigation. This is about approaching a free look from the “I” towards this experience of this instant, this present moment. This is how we approach Self-Awareness, this is how we approach Meditation and this access to Kundalini Awakening. Now, there is an energy available to bring about this transformation, this change.

Understand what we are putting here for you. The moment you are upset, angry, worried, afraid, the moment you are involved within a pattern of psychological conditioning, where your pattern of thinking and feeling is involved with some level of egocentric activity, you are in a waste of energy, occupied with this common pattern of conditioning, in duality.

The thought in you moves from a thinker. Notice how interesting that is. A feeling moves from an element, which is that “I” in feeling. A perception is seen from a perceiver. Notice that here we have a movement of separation, of duality. When you are preoccupied, it is the movement of thought, the images that come from the past, guiding a life of a present entity, which is the thinker, which, in fact, we are dealing with an imagination.

In this pattern of duality, there's the thinker with its thought, the worrier with its worry. If it's anger, it's the angry one with its anger, if it's fear, it's the fearful one with its fear. This is the model of duality, of illusory separation. Here is the waste of energy, when the one who is the observer is observing its experience, when the one who is the experiencer is experiencing its experience. So, that's what this waste of energy, of Consciousness, lies.

Look how simple it is. All the energy you have available in your body comes from food. This vital energy has the physical aspect and also the mental aspect, and this is something that is being wasted in this psychological condition of conflict, due to duality. When you learn to become aware of this movement of duality, at that instant you highlight the presence of an Attention, an Attention that makes this observation available.

So, this self-observation is observation without the “I,” without the observer, and when this is present, this duality is undone. So we are in direct contact with the presence of Self-Awareness, which is Meditation. As there is no longer this waste of energy because this Attention is no longer sustaining, this Mindfulness on this instant, is no longer sustaining this duality, where there is this worried person with its worry, this fearful one with its fear, this thinker with its thought, there is no longer this separation, there is only a present experience and a look free from this center, which is the “I,” the ego. Thus we have a direct observation of what is happening here and now with this mechanism, with this organism, with this body, with this mind.

There is only a perception without the perceiver, there is only a look without the observer. Then this energy becomes available because the mind quiets down. There is a space that opens up when the mind becomes silent; it is aware of itself, aware of itself and therefore free of this duality – get this – free of this separation. That's when there is the Awakening of this energy, the energy available for this work in this body, in this mind, which also includes, naturally and above all, this brain.

Note, we're talking about something scientific. It's a science that we don't know about. So, Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of Spiritual Consciousness, the Realization of God, there are various names for this Natural State, including this expression, the Kundalini Awakening. So, what is Kundalini Awakening? You'll notice that we're presenting you here with a very different approach to what people understand Kundalini to be.

Note, it's not an experience that someone has, goes through the experience and then says: “my Kundalini has awakened.” There is no such thing as “my Kundalini.” There is only this Real Consciousness and it is not personal, it does not belong to someone. You can't have an experience called Kundalini because the truth of Kundalini is the Truth of Real Consciousness, which, when it takes up its space, the experiencer is not present, there is no someone present to report something. It's not something that happened in the past, it's not an experience, it's not part of memory, it's not part of knowledge. Everything that is part of memory, that is part of knowledge, is part of time.

Here, contact with Divine Reality is something that is outside of time. Do you get that? There is a Reality present here, at this instant; this present Reality is outside of time, outside of the known. Notice, it's something outside the movement of the ego and therefore of memory, it's not part of thought. Thought, time, memory is something within the movement of the known, which is part of the “I,” which is part of the ego. Here is contact with something outside all that.

So, becoming aware of this Reality of your Being at this instant is the Awakening of your Divine Nature. Thus, an approach to Ramana Maharshi's Atma Vichara is an approach to the awareness of Real Meditation. We have several playlists here on the channel presenting you with this issue of Meditation, Self-Awareness and Kundalini Awakening.

I'd like to invite you: we have online meetings that take place on weekends, where we work on this with you. It's a possibility, through questions and answers and in this contact with Silence, to get closer to the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of this Being that we are. I'd like to invite you here.

We have meetings here on this channel, as well as on our other channel. You can find the link to our other channel in the description of the video and find out about the videos we have there. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If this makes sense to you, go ahead, leave your “like” here, subscribe to the channel and please say “Yes, it makes sense” in the comments. OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

August, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Awakening Mystical Consciousness | How to silence the mind? | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master, for being here.

Today, I will read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called “Awakening Mystical Consciousness.” In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel Goldsmith makes the following comment: “When the mind is silent, there is integrity, fulfillment, and awareness of spiritual identity.” On this subject of silencing the mind… Can the Master share his vision of how to silence the mind?

MG: Gilson, here, we are faced with the fundamental question: how to silence the mind? Note, we do need this Silence, but here we are faced with a great difficulty, and the difficulty lies in the idea that we can do this. That is why most people get involved with all forms of meditation techniques, systems, or practices with the purpose – note – of silencing the mind. Yes, the truth of the silence of the mind reveals something beyond the mind, but the problem lies in the fact that we cannot attain this without a real work in this direction, and this work is not through a technique, a system or a meditation practice.

What we can have, through a meditation technique, or system, or practice, is a silence that we can temporarily impose on the mind, through effort. So, we are dealing with something, in a mechanical way, to deal with a situation, which is this mechanism of the mind. We apply a technique, a method to, through this method or technique, silence this mechanism of the mind, temporarily. So, the mind becomes quiet, but it is, in fact, quieted; and when it is quieted, it returns to its restlessness again.

See, we need the truth of silence of the mind, of a quiet mind, but not a quieted mind, but not a calmed mind, but a mind that silences and that quiets itself; and the basis for this, the true basis for this real stillness, for this real silence of the mind, is Attention on its movement. Once you put Attention on this movement, there is an approach to how it works, to the truth of how it processes, how it manifests, how it presents itself. So, we are facing an approach to the truth of Self-awareness.

If we do not have a real basis – and the basis is Self-awareness – for this silencing of the mind, everything that is achieved in meditation, as this expression is generally used for these techniques, does not solve anything, because we are not dealing with the Truth of Meditation, but rather with a meditative technique. The basis for Meditation is Self-awareness. It is Self-awareness that reveals the movement of the mind, the real movement of the mind. So, we have the vision of this thinker with thought, of this one who is moved by his emotion, of this one who looks from the past at what he is seeing at each moment.

So, we have an verification of the movement of the ego, of the movement of the “I,” and we realize that this movement is just this movement of psychological agitation, which is the movement of thought. Once we approach this attention to this movement, we have a new perspective on this study of ourselves, which is Self-awareness. So, in a natural way, thought is discarded, because this thinker stops being valued within this movement of thought. Only when this thinker is discarded… You see, this thinker always assumes roles, and one of the roles it assumes, generally, for those who engage in a process of so-called “spiritual” search, is the role of the meditator. So, this thinker assumes the role of the meditator for a meditation practice. You see, it is still the ego, it is still the “I,” it is still thought. That is why it does not work.

A true approach to the silence of the mind requires the absence of the thinker, the absence of this element that observes from the past, that feels from the past, that desires, that hopes from the past. The mind, in a natural way, once aware of its own movement, when there is this Attention, the mind becomes aware of its own movement. This is all it can do because of the presence of this Attention. So, this Attention is the presence of a new energy that allows the mind to become aware of its own movement, and this is enough for this natural stillness, for this natural silence. Then, something beyond the mind is revealed, something beyond this movement of thought, of experiences, knowledge, memories, remembrances… So, we are faced with the Truth of Meditation, and this Meditation reveals God, reveals the Truth.

In these meetings here, we are with you proposing this new perspective, which requires the presence of this Attention. It is a state of complete Attention to our reactions. This Attention is Mindfulness, it is True Attention, it is Real Attention to our reactions, here and now, in this moment. Therefore, an approach to the Truth of That which is You requires this new look at this movement. We are not, Gilson, facing something so simple, because our model of life is the model of dispersion, it is the model of inattention, of this not looking. We are constantly trapped in a pattern of mental confusion, of emotional disorder, where we are present in this movement of the “I,” of the ego, constantly confusing ourselves with these emotions and with these thoughts.

So, discovering what it is to look without this element that gets involved with what it sees, discovering what it is to become aware of thought without being confused by what thought proposes in this like or dislike that it has: this is the real way to bring, to this moment, the Truth of Meditation, possible through Attention, possible through Self-awareness. Work, Gilson, is necessary in this direction. In these meetings, we are showing you how this becomes possible, and there is an element present that makes this work real: it is the element of Divine Grace. It is not about someone doing it. It is not about the “I” doing it, the ego doing it; it is about the power of this Presence, this Intelligence, this Divine Love doing this work.

GC: Master, we have a question here, from a subscriber on the channel. Eder makes the following comment and asks: “John said that a time would come when there would be a new earth and a new heaven. What is your understanding of this?”

MG: Yes, there will be a time for this new heaven and for this new earth. That is what we are proposing here for you: the awareness of this new time. See, it is time outside of time. We need to discover, Gilson, that our notion of time and space is within the error of the thought model. So, our vision of the world – and here we have heaven and earth – is the vision of the dream. So, there will be a time… This time is now. This is where time ends.

See, in this instant there is no time. Time presupposes the future or the past, or some notion of the present. In this instant, we do not have this notion of the present, we do not have the past and we do not have the future. So, this time is now, but in this now, in this instant, there is no time. This is where the Vision of Reality, the Vision of Life outside the dream, is revealed. Outside the dream – you in your Natural Divine State, in your Natural State of Being, which is the Reality of God – there is no time. This is the Nature of God's Truth, That which is timeless, That which is indescribable, unnamable, and this is the Truth about you, when we no longer have this old heaven and this old earth. That is, when we no longer have this old time and space.

This time and space, and this old heaven and earth, are part of the old movement of time, of this model of time that thought has constructed, where the sense of “I,” where the sense of ego is present. Here, the Flourishing, the Awakening, the Waking Up, is the end of the dream, it is the end of this old time, where this time and space, this heaven and earth are present. So, we are facing something new, but it is the indescribable new, it is the new without a name. The point, Gilson, is that we were born to realize This, to assume the Truth of a new heaven, of a new earth. That is what we are together, here, working with you.

We have all that is needed to get closer to this, we have the whole possibility of attaining this in this life. However, this requires that we get closer to ourselves in a way we have never done before. The human being lives involved in his search or search in the external world, in this world of appearances, in this dream, in this old psychological condition of continuity, where the “I,” the ego, is present. So, we do have the old heaven, the old earth, and it is here that the human being is searching for truth, love, peace, happiness.

Thus, within a dream condition where, in the ego, the human being finds himself, everything he can find, within the dream, is part of the dream for a dreamer. In this condition of existence, ignorance, non-Truth, illusion, and sleep are present. Awakening in this life is assuming the Truth, the Truth of your Divine Nature, the Truth that the Reality of Life is Love, is Bliss, is Freedom, something possible within this Divine Awareness, within this Awareness of God.

GC: Master, we have another question here, from another subscriber to the channel. The question is the following: “And what is the Truth? I thought that Truth was Christ from beginning to end, that the Son was the key to all Truth.”

MG: Yes, she makes a good point. First, asking the question: “And what is the Truth?”, then she says: “I thought that the Truth was Christ.” Notice, Truth is Christ, but it is not part of thought. So, when you say “I thought that the Truth was Christ” ... Every thought that we have about Christ is not Christ, it is just a thought, and, as a thought, it cannot be the Truth.

Understand what we are saying: there is a Truth present, this Truth is Christ, but a thought about Christ is an image, an idea, this is just an imagination, because the word “Christ” is not Christ. It is a name! And the image we may have about Christ is just an image that thought projects, draws, idealizes. This image is not Christ. Gilson, we need to know the Truth of Christ, to become aware of the Truth of God. We become aware of the Reality of God when we assume the Reality of That which we really are, when the “I” is not there, when the person, the ego, is no longer present.

Otherwise, whatever we have to say, that we are talking about Christ, we are only speaking from an imagination, from a projection of our own thought. See, this is how we were taught. This is quite understandable. We received from our culture a particular mental vision, of course; intellectual, of course; based on word studies, of course, about Christ, but they did not give us a Real Vision of Reality. A True Vision of Reality is revealed when we are beyond thought, beyond words, beyond concepts, beyond ideas, images and beliefs. Then, the Truth of God, which is Christ, is the only Truth. Allowing this only Reality to completely take over this body and mind, this is the end of the ego, it is the end of illusion, it is the end of suffering.

See, Gilson, when we are born, we receive from the culture, we receive from the country where we were born, a vision of God. So, if you are born in India, in Japan, or anywhere in the world where religion is professed, you receive within the organized religion there, from that culture, within that country, when you are born, a vision of belief or non-belief. Because there are countries where people do not believe in God, so you receive non-belief, and if you are in a country, if you are born in a country where you are taught concepts about God, you have an idea about Him and a name for Him.

If you are born in India, there are hundreds of gods there. If you are born in a culture like ours, Judeo-Christian, you are taught monotheism – the idea, the belief, the concept of a single God. So, we all have ideas, beliefs, that are taught to us from childhood, according to the culture, according to the place where we were born, but all of these are beliefs. Divine Reality, the Reality of God, is not a belief. To become aware of this Reality is not to believe in God. It is to become aware of your True Nature, your Real Nature.

So, the expression “Christ” or any other expression for God, is an expression, it is a word. What is the Truth of That which we are? What is the Truth of your Being? To assume this Reality is to assume the Truth. We need to go beyond speech, beyond verbal expressions, beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond beliefs. Beliefs are cultural, something intellectual that we receive from society, from the world, from culture, while Truth is beyond the intellect, beyond words, beyond thought. To assume the Truth is to assume your Divine Nature, which is Love, which is Wisdom, which is Comprehension. Then, there is the Truth of God present.

It is also important to say here, Gilson, that this has nothing to do with organized religions. The Reality of God is beyond all of this, it is outside this movement of religious culture, of cultural religiosity. It is in this sense that true religious life is the awareness of God, and not the science of doctrines, beliefs, concepts, ideas, words. The Awakening of your Divine Nature is the Revelation that God is the only Reality, that Christ is the only Truth, that the only Truth is the Divine Truth.

GC: Thank you, Master. Our time is over. Thank you for this videocast.

And for those of you who are watching the videocast and have a sincere yearning to get closer to oneself and comprehend this truth, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers. Here, in the first comment, pinned, is the WhatsApp link, so you can join the group and participate in these meetings. The meetings are online, on weekends, and there are also in-person meetings, including multi-day retreats. And these meetings are much more profound than these videos, because we can ask the Master our questions directly. Furthermore, what is most important is that the Master, because he already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, shares this State of Presence in which he lives. He shares a Presence, a Power, a Silence, and we end up being able to get a lift along on this Silence of the Master, and by getting a lift along, it becomes much easier for us to investigate ourselves, to have a vision of what is beyond understanding. So, here is the invitation!

In the first comment, pinned, there is the link. In addition, please give a “like” to the video and leave questions for us to bring to the next videocasts here in the comments.

And, once again, Master, thank you for the videocast.

August, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Social anxiety: how to control it? Importance of self-awareness | How to deal with low self-esteem?

We have a way of dealing with experience – experience is what happens here, at this moment – ​​that is quite mistaken, and that is what manifests for each of us, immediately, in the medium or long term, as complications. When someone comes along, for example, and asks: “How can I control my anxiety? I have social anxiety, how to control it?”

Note that each of us will face this or that internal state or situation of disorder, discomfort, and suffering. Just pay a little attention to yourself and you will discover that this is present. And why is this present in all of us? This is present because of the psychological condition in which we find ourselves; the psychological condition – and now I will make a note here – for most of us, if not for all of us.

In these meetings, for example, here on this channel, we are proposing to you a Freedom that is possible for each of us, and here in particular we are not sharing with you something that is a theory. Here, we are touching on a subject with you that is possible to have, in this life, a direct awareness about all of this.

It is the lack of comprehension that puts us in this condition, which is the condition – and this is the “caveat” – of most people. So, on some psychological level, most people are experiencing internal situations of disorder, conflict, contradiction, problems, and suffering. It is this psychological suffering present in human beings that is determining the human suffering present in most people.

Here, our disposition is for the comprehension of that. We do not have a direct comprehension of this within ourselves, we do not know how to deal with the problem. We, as human beings, are burdened with problems, especially problems of this order, of this type. It is not just the issue of anxiety, depression, anguish, the pain of loneliness or jealousy, we have several other situations of psychological unhappiness present in this condition of psychological suffering, and we do not know how to deal with it. We do not know how to deal with it because we do not have a true comprehension of it, and I want to touch on this subject here with you.

How can we have a true understanding of these internal states of disorder, conflict and distress that we carry? It is worth noting here: see that in this contact with others, with the world, with life around us, based on pre-established thought models within us, such as belief models that we have, as ways of believing and disbelieving, of accepting and rejecting life as it happens, this is what has placed us within this context of existence or life, in this or that situation of suffering.

And in this contact with others, in this contact with life, this disorder or this distressing way of living within us is representing suffering. It is not just our suffering, my suffering, it is the suffering of him or her who lives with me, with the world around me. So, we do not come into direct contact with the problem, we do not know how to do that.

We even seek therapeutic help, so psychotherapy can help. But in the sense of help, the practice of meditation, as people practice out there, can also help. Involvement with religious beliefs, with prayers and supplications, can also help. But here with you, we are delving deeper into these issues, because our interest here is not in receiving help, but rather in having a direct vision, a clear understanding of the problem.

By approaching the problem and having a clear vision of what it means, how it acts, how it functions, what it represents, we are thus placing ourselves in a new position in the face of this psychological condition, in the face of a new condition, which is one of investigation, of studying ourselves. And when we do this, we can indeed have a great discovery, the discovery of the end to this psychological condition. It is not about help, but about breaking away from this old and ancient condition.

This is our commitment; this is our interest here with you on this channel. We need to become aware of the truth, of what is happening to us at this instant, at this moment. This is where we have the greatest difficulty. This is where we come across the real complication in directly approaching the problem, because we are always, based on the idea that thought constructs about the problem, postponing it, delaying it.

There is a thought, notice, about these states, and there is the state itself. There is a difference between an idea, an image, a representation of thought about the state and the state itself. In general, we do not confront the state, because we have ideas about it, and when we seek help, we do not understand how the state works within ourselves. We want others, something or some other alternative to alleviate it, lessen it, ease that pain, but in general we never come into direct contact with it, because we are always, based on our thoughts, having ideas of what to do, how to get rid of it, how to overcome, triumph, control it, as here in the question.

So, if you come and say: “Look, I have social anxiety, how to control it?” In general, that is the idea, but it is from ideas that the mind works. We are living based on ideas, beliefs, alternatives that thought creates. So, we are not dealing with what is present as it is, we are with ideas about what it should be. So, we don't get in touch with what is present, but we are left with ideas about what to do with it: get rid of it, overcome it, control it.

So, we spend our entire lives involved with internal states linked to this movement, which is the movement of this egoic consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I,” without ever really investigating the structure and nature of this movement itself, which is the movement of thought, which is always procrastinating, postponing, trying to find a way to get rid of the pain, which is a fact, which is what it is, based on an idea of ​​what it should be. So, follow this here calmly.

We were educated to run away, educated to escape, to get rid of it, to control it. They never told you that this could end. So much so that we overcome now and then we have to overcome again in the next moment, and then in a third moment and in a fourth moment, and we spend our entire lives overcoming, in reality, without overcoming, because the thing keeps coming back. When anxiety is not about a given thing, it is anxiety about something else.

So, we are not told that we need to eliminate this condition of continuity of thought, of the idea, of the ideal, of the purpose and the objective of overcoming, of getting rid of, of surpassing, of controlling. Here on the channel, we are telling you that this psychological condition, which is present as a present fact of pain, is something that can end when we have a direct comprehension of what it represents. And this comprehension is only possible when we eliminate the idea, the ideal about it. Then, we get closer to what is present and stay with it, we look at it closely, without the separation between what is and what should be.

When you place the idea on what is, there is a separation. There is what is and there is a thought, a concept, a belief, a suggestion, an idea about it. This is how we are procrastinating, postponing, this is how we are running away and escaping. So, we don't have an understanding of the problem, because between what is, between the truth of what is and this idea of ​​what is, notice, there is a gap to surpass, to overcome, to get rid of. This gap is the gap of time.

Throughout our lives, we have been educated to believe, trust and be confident that there is time to accomplish things. We accomplish everything in life based on time. We know that everything takes time, learning a language takes time, doing professional training takes time, building a house takes time, getting ready for a wedding takes time, studying a certain thing and learning it and becoming an expert in that certain area takes time. Everything takes time, and because everything takes time, we also believe that not suffering takes time.

We believe that happiness requires time, peace requires time, love requires time, freedom requires time, truth requires time, because there is this whole idea of ​​finding truth, finding peace, finding happiness, finding love, and all of this is in time. The Reality of Life is not in time, and the Reality of Life entails Freedom, Love, Peace, Happiness and, of course, entails the end of suffering.

The end of suffering is now. It is not about finding this, obtaining this, achieving this, but it requires that you eliminate this time, this time gap between what is and what should be. The problem with us is that we have been educated to live within this model, believing that one day we will be able to control, to overcome. Everything that you control, you have to continue controlling, so as not to lose control. Everything that you gain, you have to continue gaining, otherwise there comes a time when you lose. Everything that you obtain, you have to hold on and sustain, because otherwise one day you may see it slip through your fingers.

Here, when we address the issue of the Awakening of Consciousness, of Spiritual Enlightenment, we are talking to you about a life in full Intelligence, where the understanding of what is, is naturally present; and this understanding of what is, is the mind free from these psychological conditions, where there is a distortion of reality, where the sense of “I,” of the ego is distorting life as it is, having hopes, expectations, desires, goals, and purposes that are very particular, personal and egocentric, coming into conflict with life as it is and, naturally, suffering.

This explains this condition of social anxiety, but also of anguish, depression, fear. Can we discover life in full Freedom, Beauty, Love, now? This requires the elimination of this psychological time. So, this notion in which we were educated to live, raised to maintain ourselves in life like this, this needs to disappear. I refer to this condition where “I am not, but I will be,” “I do not have, but I will have.” “I need something,” so there is this movement towards the future to obtain, to achieve, to accomplish. This naturally puts us in a state of anxiety, of some form of fear, because we are living within a posture, a position of psychological future.

So, there are several unresolved problems present within this psychological condition of being someone. So, this is the condition of the majority of humanity. Now, I say again: practically every human being, unless he has realized the Truth about himself, which is the Divine Life, which is the Life of God, which is the Truth of That which he is in his True Nature, unless this is clear, everyone suffers from fear, worries, problems. There is always one form or another of suffering present, and the solution to all of this lies in the end of the “I,” in the end of the ego.

When there is the end of this psychological time, there is the end of this gap between what is and what should be, then we have life as it shows itself, without the presence of this sense of “I,” of “me,” of the ego and, therefore, of problems. This is our topic here with you on this channel and also on our other channel called “Marcos Gualberto” – you can check it out later, there’s a link here in the video description.

For this purpose, we have online meetings on the weekends. On Saturday and Sunday, we’ll be together delving deeper into this matter with you. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these meetings. In addition, we have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you just heard is something that makes sense to you, touches you on some level, leave a “like” here, subscribe to the channel and leave a comment here: “Yes, it makes sense.” Okay?

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August, 2024
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Self-Awareness | Obsessive thoughts about someone | Thoughts generate feelings that generate actions

What I have observed is that we have great difficulty in approaching these issues that are being discussed here. Not because the issues are complex, but because each of us has a very complex psychological model. We rarely approach something to, with the simplicity of a direct look, become aware of it. In general, our approach is this traditional way of approaching problems already wanting to solve it, already wanting to find a solution to it, based on the concepts we have; on these concepts we carry within us, having ideas about what to do, what to achieve or how to deal with it. So, it complicates everything.

Here, we invite you to look more carefully at all of this. These subjects we are discussing here with you require careful, cautious examination. They require that you, by looking closely, discover what this look is for a comprehension. I have emphasized the difference – and this has to be clear to all of us, and this is where we come across the difficulty – there is a difference between understanding a certain subject or having a comprehension of it. Either there is a comprehension, and this is the experience of it, this is a comprehension, or there is a mere understanding. I may know how to make a cake because I have a recipe in my hands, but this knowledge of the recipe is a theory, it is a formula. The one who makes the cake is the cake maker. I only have the formula, the recipe, so can I say that I know what a ready-made cake is? No, I know what the recipe is, what the cake is made of, but I do not have the ready-made cake, thus I only have the formula.

This is the difference between understanding and comprehending. Comprehension puts you in direct contact with the reality of what is, while understanding puts you in theory, in the concept of it. I want to address a subject with you here that someone might say: “Oh, this is a serious problem,” someone might say to us: “Oh, I have a serious problem.” Notice, every problem, for the one who has the problem, is a problem, and every problem requires a very real approach to it because every problem, as a problem, is serious. So, someone says: “I have obsessive thoughts about someone.” Notice, this is serious. Yes, for the one who is experiencing this, it is serious! Every problem is serious for the one who has the problem. “I have obsessive thoughts about someone, how to deal with this?”

Note, here, we are before a subject that I want to address with you, which in my opinion is fundamental: it is the comprehension of our actions. Notice that our actions are determining life. I have emphasized, here, that we have a particular vision of life. In this particular vision, where this so-called “my life” is situated, which is the life of this person, of this “me,” of this “I,” actions are happening. Life is action happening all the time, but this particular life of this “I,” of this “me,” is very delicate. The sense of “I,” the sense of ego, the sense of someone present in life, in the experience of living, is this particular life, where actions are happening. And as long as we do not have a comprehension of where these actions come from, what is the basis that sustains these actions, these actions will create problems.

“I have obsessive thoughts about someone.” Note that it is the thoughts within us that determine our behaviors, because thoughts generate feelings that generate actions. So, these thoughts that generate feelings produce behaviors. Look at yourself and you will see this clearly: your life, until this day, until this given moment, everything you have done or not done has been based on thought. It is thought that determines, but thought is always accompanied by feelings, sensations, emotions. Look closely at this: every thought carries a level of sensation. When you have a memory, it is loaded with a sense of feeling, emotion, pleasure, pain, fear, desire…

A thought always carries sensations, always of some kind. Even the simplest thought, this feeling, sensation, emotion, comes along with the memory, with the figure, with the image. Every thought in us, we do not understand the internal movement of consciousness within each one of us. I refer to this consciousness that is the consciousness that moves, it is the consciousness that is recognized by this movement, which is the movement of thought. This is the consciousness of the “I,” of this sense of being, where there is this impulse for action based on emotion as well as sensation and thought. This entire movement of the consciousness of the “I” is a movement within us, present because of thought. We do not know how thought is processed, we do not understand the truth about thought, but it is thought that is determining our actions.

I have been emphasizing this a lot here with you: the value of Self-Awareness, the importance of Self-Awareness, because it is about having an approach to this model of consciousness present. This idea of ​​consciousness, this thought of consciousness, this concept of consciousness we have – as long as we do not comprehend what this consciousness is and how it works, as long as we are unable to perceive the presence of this thought, feeling, sensation and perception in this consciousness… as long as we do not discover what it means to go beyond this consciousness, we will always be victims of internal, psychological states of disorder. These psychic disorders, these psychological pathologies, these confused states of mind, these internal states of contradiction, conflict and suffering… something present because you think one thing but feel something else and do a third thing and do not perceive that, in fact, you are basically being guided by thought.

It is thought guiding your actions, guiding these behaviors and naturally producing problems and conflicts. There is no happiness – note this – there is no happiness in our lives because, we are living this life in this particular model of consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I,” where these internal states of disorder of thought, feeling and emotion are present. So, human beings live with problems and we do not have an approach to investigate this, because we do not know how to look at it. These states of stress, anxiety, depression, anguish, fear, conflicting, contradictory desires… When you come to ask for help, you have already lived in this condition for a long time. Only in more acute cases does someone approach and seek help, but human beings have lived like this for millennia.

The truth is that we spend our entire lives in this condition of envy, jealousy, ambition, fear, and various fears – we have been discussing the issue of fear with you on the channel – can we get to the root of all this? Can we finally free ourselves from suffering and psychological suffering from all these problems and conflicts? What is it that we are really missing? The comprehension of who we are, of how we are functioning! We can discover the Truth about ourselves, but discovering the Truth about yourself means first, before anything else, becoming aware of who you are here, at this moment. This is the truth about you. What are you at this moment? This is your truth! This is the truth about you. You are anger, you are fear, you are envy, you are jealousy, you are possession, you are control, you are emotional dependence. You are this internal movement of contradiction and conflict, present in this model of thought.

Becoming aware of this truth that is you means going beyond this “you,” because this “you” is within this context of the consciousness of the “I,” of egoic consciousness. There is, indeed, a Reality beyond this “you,” but this Reality is the unknown. It is not part of this model that thought reaches and that, therefore, this consciousness of the “I” can identify, can recognize. Our proposal here, with you, is to show you life without this “my life,” without this particular life where the “I” is present, carrying this model of thought. So, how to deal with obsessive, compulsive thoughts? How to deal with thoughts of this quality, which are present within this consciousness of the “I”? We have to discover what the approach to Self-Awareness is.

When people have questions like, “How to deal with these thoughts?”, obsessive thoughts, or negative thoughts, or chattering thoughts, or thoughts… Notice, all of this is part of this model of psychological restlessness, of psychological disorder. We need to discover that the thinker is nothing other than the thought. This element in you, worried about getting rid of this or that thought – follow this calmly – is the thinker itself. The worry about getting rid of a thought is created by the thinker itself, but this thinker bothered by the thought is thought itself in the discomfort.

So, here we are already approaching this. We have countless videos here, on the channel, showing you the Truth that the one who thinks is not separate from the thought that produces it, and this thought that is produced by the one who thinks, in reality, is one single phenomenon happening. The idea that we have, the concept that we have, is someone who produces thoughts. This someone we call the “thinker.” The great truth about this is that thought is present together with the feeling, a sensation, an emotion and a way of perceiving, but it is this thought that is creating this sensation of someone present being the thinker. Then, when you want to get rid of something, this something that you want to get rid of, is still this “you.”

See how basic this is for a direct comprehension of how to realize, in this life, the end of this particular life of the “I,” of how to comprehend this movement which is the movement of the egoic consciousness. See how basic the comprehension is that there is no thought without the thinker. Thought is present, the presence of a thinker is implied; when there is no thought, there is no thinker. Note, you cannot be afflicted by something that is not present. That which afflicts you is present afflicting you, but the one who is afflicted by this something is not separate from this thing. So, what we have in an affliction is only affliction. This separation between this afflicted one and what afflicts one, is an idea.

So, follow the simplicity of this: if thought is present, there can be a sensation of someone thinking; if a feeling is present, there can be a sensation of someone feeling. When there is sadness, there is the possibility of an element here, feeling sad. Thus, there is no sadness, there is no thought, there is no emotion. If there is no emotion, there is no emotional person; if there is no sadness, there is no sad person; if there is no thought, there is no thinker. This separation between thought and thinker, between the one who feels and the feeling, between the emotion and the one who is emotional – follow along with me here –, this is a belief. In fact, it is a conditioning model we have received from our culture.

Here, I am showing you that the contact you need to have with thought is contact without the thinker. Contact with feeling is without this element in feeling; with emotion, it is without this element in emotion. We have an approach to experience without the experiencer, without the “I,” without the ego, without this feeling of this “you” there. So, here, it is about looking at experience without the observer, observing thought without the observer. This “observing without the observer” is just observation. Note, here we have already touched on the approach to Self-Awareness. We need to know this movement of consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I” present in each one of us.

And how do you become aware of this? How do you comprehend this? How is it possible to have a direct comprehension of this? By looking. Just by looking, observing, perceiving. Perceiving without the perceiver, looking without the observer, being aware without this element of the “I” being aware. When experience is there and the experiencer is not present there, that experience vanishes. So, how do you get rid of this quality of thought that generates feeling and generates action? By becoming aware of thought. Once you become aware of thought, you simultaneously get rid of the thinker, you get rid of this pattern of behavior and action. Because this pattern of behavior and action stimulated by feeling and emotion, it vanishes when there is just “looking.” This is something that requires the presence of attention on this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” which is the movement of the ego.

So, here on this channel, we are working with you precisely on the end of this “I,” this ego, this movement that is the egocentric movement of being someone, because that is what carries all this suffering, all this confusion. This is our subject here, on the channel, and also on our other channel called “Marcos Gualberto.” We have several videos delving into these subjects here, with you. If this is something that makes sense to you, we have online meetings that take place on the weekends. On Saturday and Sunday, we are together, delving into this subject here, with you. Then, we have an opportunity to work on this together. Here, in the video description, you have our WhatsApp link to get closer to these online meetings, on the weekends. In addition, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead, leave your “like” here, subscribe to the channel and leave here in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense”. Ok? And we will see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.

October, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Self-Awareness importance. Mental health: what is it? Mind and psychological time. Ramana Maharshi

The question for me: “Mental health, what is it?” The answer to that question requires an investigation of the truth about the mind. Then, the answer will make sense, that answer with words. We have to investigate the structure and nature of the mind. Once we understand that, a verbal answer will make sense; otherwise, it won't make any sense.

Here's the answer... That's the verbal answer, but we need to investigate it in a direct way, within each one of us. The truth about mental health, what is it? What is the truth about this sanity or this healthy mind? It seems to me that the issue of mental health requires the absence of the psychological condition of the time present in the mind. As long as the psychological condition in the human being is one of time, of the notion of time, past, present and future, from a psychological viewpoint, there will be no mental health.

Notice, every year specialists, doctors, those who study this, are always coming up with new findings and names for psychological disturbances, psychological disorders, mental disorders. So, every year new names are added to this manual of psychological disorders. They are names that portray new conditions or new names for old psychological disorders.

So, the psychological condition of the human being is problematic. Thus, we don't know the truth about the healthy mind. The healthy mind is the mind free of psychological time. We can call it a mind, but here we are dealing with something unknown to this mind as we know it, which is the mind of the “I,” this “me,” this ego.

We need to eliminate this psychological condition from within each one of us. This thought, emotion, feeling and sensation of being someone – follow me through this very carefully – that you have, has no basis in Reality. It is based and structured on the model of thought, this psychological conditioned thought that we have. If I ask you your name, you tell me your name. If I ask you for your address, you give me your address. But this information is information from memory, from the brain structure of this mechanism, this body-mind that is there, that you say is you.

What is the truth about you? Are you the body? Are you the mind? In fact, do you have a name? Do you have an address? Get that with me here. In deep sleep, do you have an address, do you have a name, do you have a body, do you have a story? In a faint or under general anesthesia, do you have a name, a story, a body? Note that this arises with thought. Thus, what we call mind is nothing other than thought.

When this thought moves, we call it consciousness. See how basic and simple it all is. What we call consciousness is the movement of thought, and what we call mind is the presence of thought. This is what is present in this body and in this mechanism that we call the mind: thought, emotion, sensation, perception. And all of this necessarily moves in time.

Thus, we have chronological time. Over millennia, millions of years, we have the appearance of life on the planet. The human being is also here as a biological, psychophysical mechanism in this so-called life on the planet. The movement of this so-called mind, which is the movement of thought – note this – is a present movement that we call consciousness. But without the movement of thought, this so-called human consciousness doesn't exist. It is the presence of thought, something that has been formed over these thousands and millions of years – I refer to this brain structure and the mechanics of how memory works, of remembrance, of recollection, because this is thought – that has given rise to this so-called consciousness in us.

Notice what an interesting thing we have here. This is a movement that takes place in time. So, we have chronological time, which is the time we know from the clock and the calendar; this is what has given rise to thought because the structure of thought is based on this time, which is memory.

Thought in you is nothing other than a memory, a recollection. You don't have a single thought that isn't a memory, that isn't a recollection or a remembrance. This is knowledge, this is experience, and this comes from the past. When this thought moves, we have this presence of consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I.” You are aware of everything you recognize, and everything you recognize, you recognize because of the presence of thought.

But here we have a misunderstanding: we mistake the presence of thought, which is memory, which is the recollection recorded in the brain of a past experience, we mistake this thought for the presence of someone. So, for us, there is the thinker who produces thoughts, which is not true. What we actually have is the brain responding from thought, which is memory, to this or that stimulus reaction.

So let's take a moment to look at this. And why is it fundamental to have a comprehension of this subject, note, not intellectually, but experientially? Because every kind of suffering, conflict, problem, disorder and, therefore, all these disorders of emotional, psychological, psychic disorder, of psychic suffering, are present in us because we don't comprehend how this mechanics, which is the mechanics of thought, is processed.

We have a brain present in this mechanism, but there is no comprehension of how it works psychologically. The result of this is that thought is creating an identity for each of us, so you see yourself as someone separate from the other, from life, from events, from happenings. You see yourself as someone inside the body, also separate from the body, from feelings, emotions and thought.

What is producing this? It’s a thought. It's just a thought that positions you in life, in this existence, as being someone. Follow this through calmly. You see yourself as someone, and this “seeing” comes from thought, when it separates itself and creates an identity, which is the “me,” the “I.” If I ask you your name – let's go back to that again – if I ask you your address, it's not you who's giving me the answer, it's the brain. This you is an idea that thought has of a present thinker giving an answer. Do you get that or is it too complicated?

When you use the pronoun “I,” notice, it's a thought. It is the thought that is creating that pronoun, sustaining that pronoun and giving you a sensation, feeling, emotion, certainty of an entity present with an “I,” with the word “I” as a simple pronoun. It is thought that is giving you this suggestion of an identity present here and now, in experience. Let's investigate this with you.

My question to you: without thought, who are you? If there is no thought, here and now, who are you? In deep sleep there is no thought, in fainting there is no thought. When you receive a strong blow to the head, it takes a few seconds for you to become aware again of that feeling, sensation and thought “I am here,” because at that given moment of the blow to the head the brain has no answer to that question, if I ask you the question; you need time for the answer, to recover from the blow to the head. That time is thought.

From deep sleep to vigil state, time is needed. Only when you wake up and become aware of yourself, self-aware, can you give me an answer. We function, notice, on the basis of thought. This sense of “I” is present on the basis of thought. That's how we've been functioning, that's how we are functioning. So, there's a very close relationship between the mind, as we know it, and psychological time.

The presence of thought is time. The idea of being someone that you have is based on the past, which is memory, which is remembrance, which is time. Everything you can say about yourself to me is based on memory, which thought has registered, which is registered there, which the brain has registered. So, the thought registered in the brain, which is the past, which is remembrance, which is memory, which is time is telling me about this someone. Then, the “I” is the past. This “me,” which is the past, speaks of this “me” that is in the present and this “me” that is going to the future. There is no such thing, it's just a model of thought based on the idea of what was, what is and what will be. That's the meaning of the “I,” of the ego.

In you, the problem is the psychological condition of being you, which is nothing other than a condition of disorder, of psychological disorder, due to this model of psychological time. To investigate the nature of the “I,” of the ego, of this “me,” of this “you” is to go beyond the mind and psychological time to your Natural State of Being, which is timeless, which is non-spatial, which is non-mental.

Thus, your Natural Real State of Being is true Consciousness, which is Happiness, which is Love, which is Intelligence. This has nothing to do with this sense of “I,” with this feeling, thought, emotion “I” that the ego knows, which is within this psychological conditioning. This psychological conditioning is the result of the entire history of humanity present in this brain, in this model of conditioned intellect.

Thus, we've always talked to you here about the importance of Self-Awareness because it's Self-Awareness that gives you the chance to discard this illusion, the illusion of this ego-identity. Here I'm referring to the Truth of Self-Awareness. Here on the channel we have a playlist about the Truth of Self-Awareness and Real Meditation in a practical way, take a look at this playlist later on.

Here we use the expression “Self-Awareness” in a different way from psychology and philosophy. We put it in the sense of the direct comprehension of the truth about this so-called consciousness of the “I.” The truth about this consciousness of the “I” is that it is nothing more than a set of memories and recollections giving an illusory identity to this mechanism, to this body-mind, and this is discarded when there is the Truth of Spiritual Awakening, of the Realization of God.

So that's what we're working on here with you within this channel. That was the message of the sage Ramana Maharshi. When people came to him, he had one question for them. The question is: who are you? Look at yourself, investigate this, ask: who am I? What is this “me?” Thus, that's our job here with you.

We need to discover this Natural State of Being. If This is present, we have the Truth of what the free mind is, what the new mind is, what the free mind is from this egoic mind as we know it. It is You in Your Natural State of Being, where Divine Reality is present. So, to have an approach to Self-Awareness and the Truth of Real Meditation in a practical way, as we have been working with you here on this channel, is fundamental.

So, we're telling you that, yes, it is possible to have a life free from any form of psychic suffering. A free, new mind, a mind free from this psychological model of time, free from this illusion of “I was, I am and I will be” is You in Your Natural State, free from the ego. Some call this the Awakening of Consciousness, which is Happiness, which is Freedom. You were born to attain this.

So, that's our work here on this channel and also on our other channel, called “Marcos Gualberto.” Take a look at our other channel later on; you'll find the link to our other channel here in the video description. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and retreats that take place at certain times of the year. Apart from that, every week we have an opportunity to get together: we have online meetings, which take place on Saturdays and Sundays. Two days together, through questions and answers, going deeper into this, working on it with you. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description.

If this makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your “ like” here, subscribe to the channel and please say in the comments: “Yes, it makes sense.” OK? And see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

September, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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