Practicing Self-awareness. What is Self-awareness? Ego-identity. What is Mindfulness?

For some people, the idea of ??self-awareness is something to be practiced. That is why they use the term "practicing self-awareness." The Truth about Self-awareness, of this awareness, the direct answer to the question what is Self-awareness, refers to an approach to oneself for the direct comprehension of the movement of the "I."

Unlike studying this in books or through a system, a technical methodology, this look at our reactions, which are these internal processes that occur within each one of us, requires the presence of attention on this. This attention is looking directly at what occurs within each one of us and outside of ourselves.

And why is this fundamental? Because this is what makes you have direct contact with the form, with the pattern, with the model of this consciousness, which is the egoic consciousness, which is the egocentric consciousness, which is the consciousness of the "I." Without this approach, there is no comprehension; and without this comprehension, person's life is the egocentric life of this ego identity.

The quality of life in the ego, the life in the "I," the perspective, the particular vision of the world present in the person is one where the presence of ignorance is present. This sustains in us suffering, the illusion of a relation with the other, having, by nature, this mistake, which is the mistake of the egoic mind, of this personal consciousness. This makes us live an egocentric, exclusive, isolationist, separatist life. Thus, basically, this is the life of ego-identity.

What is this ego-identity? It is the egocentric identity. We are not in touch with the beauty of life, with the uniqueness of life, with the totality of life, because our actions are born from this background of experience and knowledge, present in each one of us, which is the result of memory. We have several unresolved issues; these unresolved issues are the problems.

The various problems present in the life of human beings are something that are present due to the lack of awareness of the Truth of Life. When people talk about problems, invariably, within these problems - and this is the basis for the problems they have -, when they talk about problems, they are speaking precisely from the perspective of someone present, having a vision of life in resistance.

We do not comprehend life and, nevertheless, we are projecting onto life objectives to achieve, to be happy. We lack the Truth that Happiness is something that is already present, being something innate, inherent, something present in life itself, when there is no longer illusion. But the fact is that we are born within a context of life in separation; this separation is established in us due to the presence of the error of thought.

The element of separation is the condition where memory has taken on this prominent place. We have given thought an extraordinary value, and since thought is the result of memory, memory has taken over our lives. See what important things we have to comprehend here; hence the need for a real vision of Self-awareness.

We need to comprehend the place that thought has in our lives or, otherwise, thought will be occupying this place, this place of command, of control. You never doubt, for example, beliefs, and the fact is that, psychologically, our entire formation of consciousness is based on beliefs, on things that were shown to us, taught to us, given to us by this context of human history, by this context of culture within humanity.

We were raised within patterns of behavior, speech, thought, language, within a doctrine of human culture. So, we have been indoctrinated to be exactly who we are, to live exactly as we are living, and the quality of life we ??have is the quality of life centered on this illusion of separation, where there is a strong feeling, a frequent thought that life is something separate from what we are. So, there is "us and life," there is "us and them," there is this "me" and the "not me."

What we have been emphasizing here with you is the importance of this vision, this new vision, this real vision of yourself. It is only when you start to look at what is happening inside you, it is only when you start to look at the world on the outside, without the interference of thought, without the interference of preconceived ideas, that you begin to perceive life as it happens, externally and internally.

We were not raised for this Intelligence, for this approach to the moment, to experience, to events, to what is happening externally, that is, outside the body, and to what is happening inside each one of us, that is, in our mind and in our heart. We were not educated to look, to see, to listen, to perceive, to know what is happening to us. On the contrary, we were raised precisely to follow, to copy, to imitate, to be like the other people around us.

Thus, this pattern of conditioning in which we find ourselves places us within a consciousness that is not this true Consciousness, that is not this Real Consciousness - the feeling that we have present, for example, of an individual consciousness. You have the illusory sensation that you think what you want, that you feel what you desire, that you know what you need.

We have various forms of perception of life, both externally and internally, which are based on the illusion of a belief, which is the belief of this "I" in control. For example, you see yourself as someone who is thinking about things. One of the things we have been studying here with you is the truth that you are not thinking; thinking is a process in you that occurs in the brain. It is part of the mind, of this known mind in us, the presence of thought, the presence of thinking, but there is not someone in thought.

If I ask your name, you have your name; if I ask your address, you have your address; if I ask something about your story, you have your story. But this story, your name, your address, are not the truth about you, they are just a remembrance, a recollection, something that comes from this memory. And we are living in memory, living by memory, living within memory, being memory itself: this is the life of this "I."

But what is this "I," what is this "me," this sense of being someone? We don't know it! We are identifying it exactly with the name, with the story, with the address, with all the remembrances we have from the past. What are these remembrances? These remembrances within us are the presence of thought. What are these thoughts? These memories, these recollections of the history, of this body and this mind.

But what is the truth about you? The question seems simple, but we are faced with a question that requires a depth, a dimension of vision that we do not have in the intellect. All that we can answer from the intellect will be answers given by thought, and these thoughts are these remembrances.

We believe that we are these thinkers, we believe that we are the element of this answer, as being someone, as being this "I," while these answers are coming from this intellect, from this memory, from this brain. We continue not knowing the Truth about ourselves, we continue trapped in the illusion of this "I," in the illusion of this mind. What we call the mind is this mechanical, unconscious process, this movement of memory, of memory response, these are mere reactions that arise at every moment due to stimuli, to challenges. We remain in ignorance.

What is the truth about you? This encounter with Self-awareness will reveal this Truth about you. The first aspect of this Truth is this state of psychological conditioning in which we find ourselves. As a person, you are fear, you are anger, you are someone who has friends, who has enemies. As a person, the human being is what he or she shows himself or herself to be, what he or she appears to be. This is what we are in this sense of "I," in this sense of ego, in this sense of someone present in this moment, seeing oneself as someone separate from the other, separate from life itself.

What is this look for each of us? It is this observation of everything that is happening in this moment. When you are faced with a thought, the idea of ??you being present thinking is an illusion created by thought itself. When you are angry. We all have had moments of anger in our lives, for countless reasons. There are many reasons for anger, and there are countless ways in which anger can be expressed, but anger itself, the feeling, sensation, emotion, and presence of anger is one.

We all know what anger is, we have all lived with anger since childhood, but look at how much harm, how much confusion, how many problems you have created in your life due to sudden moments of anger, due to the presence of anger, and yet you still do not know what anger is. We have lived with anger since childhood; but not only with anger, we live with fear. There are countless fears, there are many forms of fear.

Do we know what fear is? We still do not know! Do we know what anger is? We still do not know! And yet, we are victims, in this sense of the "I," of the ego, of these states, which are problematic states, which are states of disorder, confusion, imbalance, suffering, and we are constantly maintaining this continuity of anger, of fear - fear in its many forms. Envy is part of this, jealousy is part of this.

Some people associate, in a pleasurable way, this issue of jealousy with the presence of love. Love is not pleasure. Pleasure becomes displeasure, pleasure can produce irritation, insecurity, annoyance; pleasure can produce fear, it can produce jealousy: this is not Love. Note that we are living in various states of conflict, distress, suffering, disorder, imbalance, due to the fact that we do not know ourselves.

We do not know what it is like to have an approach to these reactions, to look at them closely, to come into direct contact with them, to go beyond them. This is what we are working on here together, talking to you about the possibility of a life free from all this complication, from all this disorder, from all this unawareness, from all this unconsciousness; a life free from this model of egocentric consciousness, from this consciousness of the "I," which is, in fact, unconsciousness about all this, which is the untruth, the lack of comprehension of all this.

An encounter with Divine Reality is an encounter with the vision of God, an encounter with the vision of your Being, an encounter with the vision of life, free from the "I." Thus, it is this coming closer to oneself, in this instant, to put an end to this inner confusion in which this sense of "I," of the ego, has placed us, that we need to understand, that we need to discover. The Truth of God is the Truth of Life, free from the "I," free from the ego, free from this consciousness, which is the egoic consciousness. Thus, this model of thought, which is the model of memory, which has become the most important part of the egocentric life, of egoic life, this is undone.

We need memory, just as we need thought, but only on a practical, objective, direct level, to deal with very simple matters in life. Your address is just technical knowledge; your birthday is all part of the story of this body, this mind; your phone number, each and every form of knowledge that you have, professional knowledge, is something practical. Here we are dealing with thought, but with practical thought.

A thought about facts is not a thought that deals with the purpose of an egocentric identity, to imagine things about it. You cannot create anything special with your address, with your technical, professional knowledge. However, the sense of "I," the sense of ego, which is this sense of psychological self-preservation, in this egocentric life, is creating a particular life for an identity that does not exist, for a being that is not real, which is this "me," this person.

Can we come into contact with life in such a way that this sense of person is seen, comprehended and, therefore, undone, nullified, annihilated? This is the end of the ego, this is the end of the "I," this is the end of this sense of identity that sees itself separate from the other, from life and from God. It is the presence of the comprehension of these reactions present in each one of us. How can we approach this? By observing.

Observing does not require the presence of an observer; it is precisely this observer who, when observing, judges, evaluates, likes, dislikes, accepts, rejects: this is the life of the "I." We are living within this observer, as being this observer, we are living as being the thinker of thoughts, as being the one who has feelings.

When you are sad, the illusion present is the idea of ??someone in the experience of sadness; this someone is "I," this "me," this person. Here, what is present is a suggestion given by thought; it created the one who is in the feeling, the one who is thinking about what one is feeling. Thought created this "I," thought is sustaining life and continuity of this "I." It is this quality of thought that we need to free ourselves from, and we free ourselves when we become aware that this "me," this "I" does not exist.

It is only the observation, the looking, the perceiving, the listening to these reactions that puts an end to the continuity of someone present in this old model, which is the model of this thought of memory, of history for this identity. Looking at life without this model of thought is to break with this conditioned intellect, with this conditioned mind, with this conditioned consciousness, with this pattern of person, of "me," of "I," of egoic identity. This is what we are working on together, here, with you.

Can we have contact with life, with the present moment, with what is here and now, without this pattern of conditioned mind, conditioned intellect, psychological memory, which is this pattern of thought that is giving continuity to the illusion of this "me"? Can we have contact with this moment without the past? See the beauty of this. Life is something now, happening here, we do not need thought - not this quality of thought.

Now, here, at the moment, we are using speech. Speech, of course, is the presence of verbal expressions; the word is part of thought. But what is the basis of this word? Does it come from this psychological background of conditioning, from this memory of psychological thought? So, notice, we can use speech, as a use of thought in our relations, without the presence of the model of an identity behind this thought. We can use speech without this conditioned intellect, which is promoting itself and maintaining its egocentric continuity, based on thought.

We can simply deal with life, in this moment, as it happens, without the weight of this psychological thought, this conditioned intellect, this particular vision of this "I", this ego. Thus, contact with the moment is the contact of life with life, this is the awareness of God, this is the awareness of your Being. This is what we are working on here in these online meetings on the weekends; we are together for two days: Saturday and Sunday. I would like to leave you an invitation here: you can find our WhatsApp link here, in the video description, to participate in these online meetings on the weekends.

In these meetings, we are delving deeper into these subjects with you, discovering the art of this approach to Self-awareness and the Truth about Meditation, which is what makes all this possible. So, we are together for two days. In addition, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you have just heard makes any sense to you, here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment saying: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

May, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness, Mindfulness and Meditation.

Here I want to draw your attention to our work of investigation, here, into a few subjects. There are some questions that are truly challenging for each of us, and that need to be investigated. One of them is: How to find God? The other refers to the issue of what some call mindfulness or full attention.

So, here we have the matter of mindfulness, of this full attention and meditation. The relation between mindfulness and meditation. So, we're going to start with a fundamental point. I don't know if you've ever heard of a lock pick-yes, a lock pick. The lock pick is more popularly known as a master key.

What is a master key? It's the key that gives you the ability to open several different locks with a single key. So, you're faced with a system with several different locks, but there is a single key: the lock pick-or the master key. Therefore, it's something that authorizes you to open these locks. If it doesn't actually authorize you, at least it enables you, as in the case of the famous lock pick.

Thus, a criminal uses the lock pick to open different locks. If you have a lock pick, you can open different locks or padlocks. Here we are together revealing to you, working with you on this revelation, the revelation of the vision of self-awareness. This is the master key.

When we have comprehension, vision, and clarity about who we are, we realize that the various problems present in human life are there because of ignorance. It is ignorance that keeps us trapped within problems, problems that have no solution without first having a key for that lock.

The problems facing human beings are countless. However, they are countless because of the presence of a basic problem. The basic problem of human beings is the problem of the "I"; it is the element within us that maintains the continuity of these closed locks, these closed padlocks.

Thus, suffering for human beings in its various forms... There are countless forms or presentations of internal states of distress, disorder, and suffering in each of us, and this is something present because we do not know the truth about ourselves. Knowing the truth about us means having a clear vision of our relations.

Relations in life, for each of us, occur on different levels. We have our relation with the world, with the world of ideas, which are opinions, beliefs, concepts, ideologies. We have the world of people, and so are our relations with people. There is the world of objects; in particular, the objects we own or that are with us. We have the world of feelings, of emotions.

Therefore, our relations with these worlds are diverse, and we lack the key that brings us comprehension of how to deal with the world, how to also deal with ourselves. Thus, experiences, whether external or internal, without a vision of the truth about who we are or what we are in this context, keep us in ignorance and, therefore, in suffering.

And what is the element that allows us to comprehend ourselves in these different relations that we have? The present element is the presence of perception. It's not the presence of specialization, it's the presence of perception. If you know your profession, what you do professionally, very well, you have a specialty. We acquire specialty in what we do when we have extensive knowledge and extensive or profound experience in that area.

Here, the awareness of comprehension of the truth about ourselves requires the presence of perception. Therefore, what is this perception? It's what we need to investigate here, it's what we need to comprehend here, because it is perception that gives us the key to comprehend ourselves. This comprehension of the truth about who we are, about what I am, in this context, is the key to Life, to comprehend Life, to seeing Truth.

When you ask "How to have an encounter with God," "How to find God," comprehend something here: Divine Reality is present. It is not something that will appear, it is not something that will be found, it is here and now. It will not be found because it is not in the future, it will not be found because it is not "there," somewhere else; and it will not appear because it is not hidden.

We are dealing with a Truth, with a Reality, as I just said, that is not hidden; it is something present. However, it is not reached, seen, or visualized by the model of this consciousness present within us, which is the consciousness of "I," which is the consciousness of the ego, where the mind as we know it is present.

Thus, what enables us to have a vision of That which is indescribable, That which is unnameable, beyond thought, is the comprehension of the truth of who we are. As we approach this learning of Self-awareness, the truth of the revelation of who we are takes place when there is a discarding or disappearance of this psychological condition of egoic consciousness, of consciousness of the "I."

Therefore, we need to discover what it means to perceive, what it is the perception of Reality, of life as it is happening; what it is this perception that allows us to comprehend the world, the world of our relations. Perception is the presence of a gaze on this moment without the past, which requires the presence of this Attention. This is where Mindfulness and Meditation become important.

The presence of Attention on our reactions, the awareness of the presence of thought, the comprehension of the presence of thought, of opinion, of judgment, of evaluation, of comparison, of the way we look at others, at situations, at what happens within us and also outside. Bringing Attention to this moment, Mindfulness, is being in direct contact with Meditation.

So, what is Meditation? Meditation, what is it? It is the awareness of the present moment revealing itself without the past. Therefore, Meditation is not something you practice, something you specialize in. Meditation requires the presence of a gaze on this moment, a gaze without the past. It is not a specialization, because it is something that is already present. You will not learn Meditation like you learn math, or chemistry, or physics, or any other activity that requires specialization, that requires knowledge and experience.

Meditation is something that is present here, revealing itself, moment by moment, when we bring attention to these reactions that arise, to thoughts, to feelings, to emotions. The way you deal with the present moment requires the presence of this perception. It's simply perceiving, not interacting mentally or psychologically with perception.

We don't know the art of Meditation because we are constantly trapped in the model of interfering with the present moment; we interfere from the past, from this "I," this ego. The element present here that interferes with life as it unfolds is the presence of this ego-identity. The thinker in you, the experiencer in you, the observer in you is the present element that judges, compares, and evaluates. So, we lack the presence of perception.

Perception is looking at the present moment in this Attention, in this Mindfulness. Then a space opens up. This space is the presence of Meditation. This is how we approach Self-awareness, this is how we approach this key. Life is Real. It is Real when this psychological and internal posture of the "I" is no longer present. Then, yes, in this moment, there is a Revelation.

It is the Reality of God that reveals itself, not you having an encounter with God. Therefore, the idea of ??someone having this encounter is an illusion. The nature of your Being, the nature of the Truth about you, is Divine Reality, which I repeat: it is not hidden; it is the Presence that is indescribable, unnameable, but That is not hidden. It just cannot be accessed from the known, from thought. Thus, we are faced with the Unknown.

The Reality of God is the reality of the Unknown, the Indescribable, the Unnameable. The nature of your Being, the Truth about You, is this Mystery, the encounter with Spiritual Enlightenment or the Awakening of Consciousness. There are many names for You in your Natural State of Being, and here we are faced with Life being life itself. This is what we are doing here with you, delving deeper into, working on.

We have online meetings on weekends; we have two days together: Saturday and Sunday. I want to extend this invitation to you. Here, in the video description, you'll find our WhatsApp link for our online weekend meetings. In addition to the online meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. So, here's an invitation for you. You have the opportunity to do this work, to dive into this vision of the truth about oneself, about you.

So, if this resonates with you, here's the invitation. Leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!

August, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Living between two worlds | How does the mind work? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast, once again Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master! Today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Living Between Two Worlds". In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Let us have no golden calf in our minds, no confidence in any images." In this excerpt, Joel talks about the mind. Master, can you share your vision on how the mind works?

MG: Gilson, what we call "consciousness," "being conscious," "functioning in this world," in this awareness of experience, at this moment, is what we call "mind." What we know as "mind" is the presence of this consciousness, which includes intellect, emotions, perceptions... So, we have this aspect, which for us will remain theoretical, until the moment when we really, truly, in fact, approach this reality, the reality of the mind. We do not really know how the mind works, because we have not learned the art of this approach. We do not have this art of looking directly at how we function. We know nothing about ourselves, and everything we have about who we are is something based on ideas that thought has organized within us.

When we take a large number of thoughts, we can organize those thoughts into ideas. So, what we have about who we are is not the comprehension of the mind, it is not the comprehension of ourselves. We do not have the Truth about ourselves, and we need that. We do not have this Truth because we do not have the comprehension of how we function, how the mind functions. Therefore, this is a good question: How does the mind work? Learning to look at your reactions, learning to observe how you respond with feelings, emotions, thoughts, with sensations, to the experiences of this moment; becoming aware of that, having clarity about that, is having the vision of what the person is, of what this "I" represents in this context of life happening. Unless we have a direct comprehension of that, a clear vision of that, there will be no comprehension of the Truth about ourselves. And it is the Truth about ourselves that frees us from the illusion about who we are, about who we believe we are, about who we seem to be, which is exactly who we are in this context of human relations, the relation with objects, the relation with people, the relation with ourselves, the relation with situations that arise in life, with incidents, with accidents... The relation with life and the relation with death.

None of that can be comprehended without the clarity of the Truth about who we are. Thus, a theory, a concept, an idea about how the mind works, we can acquire this by reading books or listening to lectures by these so-called "experts of the mind." Here, the awareness of the mind is not something that an expert can give us, that a book can bring us. It requires a direct comprehension, not an understanding of words, intellectual, verbal, conceptual. Not the mere comprehension of words that are mere symbols and representations. Note that words are just that: symbols and representations of things, places, thoughts, and feelings. The word itself that is part of the thought is these symbols! The mere intellectual vision of this does not solve it. It is the direct contact with the mind, it is the direct contact with yourself - a contact that is possible when you learn to look. To look at how you function, to perceive how you respond. If this becomes clear, you will perceive that the way you respond, all this response that you have, can only necessarily be a response that comes from the past, that comes from memory, from recollection, from remembrance.

When you have an experience, it is recorded. It now becomes part of this structure that will react when the challenge arises. When you know my name, the memory that you have of the name that I have becomes available. When you deal with me, you will refer to me or speak directly to me by the name that you know. This knowledge is the experience of the name, it is the recording of the name, just as the recording of the face. This is memory, this is remembrance, this is the way the mind works: it works with records and with reactions. It records experiences and responds reactively having as its principle the past, which is memory, which is remembrance. Comprehension of life requires the end of memory, the end of remembrance, the end of knowledge and experience, because life is something that is here at this moment, always revealing itself in a new way. But our responses are from the past, because they are reactive.

So, the mind is happening in a programmed, conditioned way. We need another quality of mind that attends to this moment free from the past. This new quality of mind is not part of this person, of this "me," of this "I." Then, here we have the value, the importance of the revelation of That which is you, the Reality about you. So, we have the Reality of the Truth about you and we have the Truth about you. The truth about you that you know, and the Reality of the Truth about you, which is the Unknown. The Awakening of the Consciousness of the Divine Realization brings you the clarity of this Reality of your Being, of your Divine Nature, of your Real Nature. Contact with Meditation is the awareness of life itself, of the very Reality of your Being.

What we are together looking at here, investigating here, examining here, is how to have in life this approach to the truth about this mind, which is the egoic mind, which is the mind of the "I" - the truth about this person, which is the person that we are. When there is this vision, we have liberation from illusion, from the illusion of this ego-identity. Therefore, our meeting here is a meeting that consists of this discovery, this observation, this clear vision about ourselves.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, Eliane asks the following question: "Master, could you explain the difference between 'I am' and 'who am I?' in the process of liberation from the conditioning of the egoic mind?"

MG: So, Gilson, this "who am I?" and this "I am," as we've just stated in the first answer - and this is the second answer - as we stated in the first answer, the difference cannot be comprehended at an intellectual level, at the level of words. There will be a direct vision in the experiential comprehension in this awareness of Meditation. There is a Reality present - this is the Reality of this Being - and, however, we have the truth of this being that we are... The truth of this being that we are, of this psychophysical being that we demonstrate to be, of this person that we present ourselves to be. First we need to have a direct vision of the truth about this. That's the comprehension of the truth about "myself," about the person, about the "I," about this egoic mind. We have no way of putting into words this Divine Reality, of your True Nature. This difference is comprehended experientially. It is always the Truth that liberates, and not theory, or belief.

When people try to engage in some level of search or pursuit and then apply some form of technique to solve this issue of the presence of Meditation, they are mistaken. Because there is no True Meditation as long as the sense of "I," of the ego, remains uninvestigated. It is the investigation of the "I," the investigation of the ego, the comprehension of the truth of what we are, that lays the basis for the flowering of Meditation. So, the only real way to end this conditioned mind, this psychological conditioning, is through self-revelation, through Self-awareness. If we have this as a basis, we have a door that opens up to the presence of this Divine revelation, which is Meditation.

One important thing, too, which can never be neglected, is the clarity that it is the very presence of the Divine Grace; that is the main element in this whole process of Awakening, of this awareness of Divine revelation, of the end of this egoic mind, of this conditioned mind. Therefore, we come closer to ourselves by an action of Grace. And the Truth of this Divine Reality, of this Being, shows itself by an action of the Divine Grace. Then, Meditation flowers. It is Meditation, the real contact with this moment, without the conditioning of the mind, without the conditioned mind, without this old condition of jealousy, envy, fear, suffering, or any form of conflict. Unless we have the end of suffering - of conflict, of this condition of control, fear, fixation on attachments - unless we have the end of all that, we do not have the slightest condition for this awareness of this Divine revelation.

That is why every form of practice or applied meditation technique, when a person sets aside a moment to meditate and sits there, crosses their legs, chants a mantra, tries to push away their thoughts, all of this is practiced by someone. That someone at that moment relaxes and thus experiences some level of silence and stillness, because, in fact, the brain is quieted, the mind is quieted, but it is something that is achieved through a technique, through a practice. Since there is an intention behind this technique or practice, there is always a level of effort and someone executing it. This is not Real Meditation. Contact with Meditation requires the presence of attention on our reactions, which requires no effort. Self-awareness requires no effort, the observation of life at this moment, revealing itself, requires no effort. Being aware of your reactions, whatever they may be here and now, requires no effort. It requires the presence of this look at what is happening here, without getting someone involved in it.

Therefore, we need to comprehend the difference between the one who wants to get involved and the one who has been getting involved all the time with these reactions, being the basis for these reactions. This is the vision of the truth about oneself. This is what makes it possible to discard the "I," the discard of the ego, the discard of these reactions. So, this is the real contact with the presence of Meditation, because at this moment we have the end of the past, we have the death to this "I," to this ego, to this psychological condition of ego-identity. Ok?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. He asks the following question: "I don't know how to deal with the truth. Would it be through meditation?"

MG: So, Gilson, once again, the question here is to deal with the Truth. When you ask: "How can I get in touch with this Truth?", and you already have the answer, when you ask: "Is it through meditation to deal with the Truth?", notice your statement. Dealing with the Truth requires awareness of what is present here at this moment. Dealing with the Truth requires the presence of this attention on what is shown here, at this moment. This attention opens up this portal of self-comprehension. You need to know what is happening to you, but you cannot know this from this separation of someone involved in this observation. Every effort we have made is for someone to improve, for someone to transform, for someone to become better. this someone is this "me."

"I want to improve," "I need to know myself," "I need to know the Truth about myself." This is a mistake, because there is a separation between the one who wants to know and that which he wants to know. It is not about knowing yourself. The Truth of this knowing requires the presence of the comprehension of how this "me," this "I," this conditioned mind works. This is the encounter with the Truth that we need. We have to, before anything else, have the comprehension, this is the true knowledge of oneself. This knowledge is not for changing, for improving, for someone to do something with what they are seeing in themselves. Here, the comprehension is becoming aware of your reactions, without getting involved with them. This awareness of these reactions is without the observer, it is without this "I" that observes, it is without this someone who wants to change something.

Therefore, the encounter with Truth requires this look at ourselves, it requires Self-awareness. When we have the presence of Self-awareness, which requires a vision from this perspective that does not react, that does not get involved with this model of the "I," of the ego, this attention to our reactions is the presence of this Self-awareness. So, yes, with the presence of Self-awareness, we have the Truth of Meditation. The Truth of Meditation is a space that arises when there is Self-awareness. Thus, in this space that is Meditation, there is this Freedom that is exactly liberation from the ego, liberation from the "I," liberation from this egoic sense. Truth is this contact with life as it is, at this instant, when we do not interfere with this moment. Thus, the ego does not enter, the past does not take its place again, which is of reaction, of memory response, of remembrance response. Therefore, the presence of Meditation is the absence of this "me," this "I," this ego, this thinker, this experiencer, the illusion of this identity present here, at this moment, in the experience, being the one who experiences this, who is living one's particular life.

There is nothing more significant in life, of greater value and importance than the presence of Meditation, because Meditation is the revelation of life, the revelation of beauty, the revelation of love. You were born for this vision - for the vision without someone in that vision, for this perception without someone in that perception, for this feeling without someone in that feeling. It is here that life shows itself present as Joy, Happiness, and Bliss... In this Intelligence of dealing with the present moment without the "I," which is the past, without the ego, which are the remembrances, which are the reactions of memory, so the presence of Wisdom, the presence of Divine Reality is revealed. OK?

GC: Thank you, Master, our time is up. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who find meaningful what Master Gualberto shares, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings. In these meetings, which are held online, in person, and also as retreats, Master Gualberto answers our questions directly. But something much deeper happens than that: because the Master already lives in an Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares an energy field around him. And in these meetings, we end up carried by Master's energy field. It is a field of Presence, Silence, and Power, and carried by Master's energy, we naturally quiet our minds and enter the state of Meditation... We can comprehend what is beyond intellectual understanding. So, here's the invitation: in the first comment, pinned, there is the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. And go ahead, give a "like" to the video, subscribe to the channel and leave comments here, bringing other questions for us to bring in the next videocasts. And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

May, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? Meditation: What is it? Learn about Self-Awareness. Mindfulness: How to practice it

The idea of ??mindfulness as a practice is quite interesting. People ask, "How to practice mindfulness?" I want to draw your attention to something very basic. Every morning, you find yourself in front of the mirror. It's not something you practice; it's something so natural, and you've been doing it since you were a child. Looking in the mirror is observing your own face, becoming aware of yourself.

So, the real question is: How do you become aware of yourself? How do you become aware of something? Isn't it by looking, by observing? And does this require some technique, some practice, in the sense of something being done in a way that's like an exercise based on a method, a system?

The awareness of self-observation is the awareness of looking at ourselves to comprehend who we are. Therefore, it's not a practice, a technique, but a way of looking, of perceiving. It's something that involves perception, awareness. All we need in life, here, is to become aware of the Truth of What we are in our Essential Nature.

The awareness of the Truth about yourself is what you truly need. This awareness requires Self-awareness, learning about Self-awareness. And learning about Self-awareness is being attentive to ourselves, aware of this psychological face, this psychological structure, this psychological image that thought has constructed about who we are.

So, looking in the mirror of life, of relations, of contact with people, of contact with situations, of contact with oneself, of contact with the present moment. The mirror is present in these contacts, and it is in contact with these given things, with these situations, it is in this contact that the vision of the mirror resides.

Life consists of the presence of a mirror. We can become aware of ourselves in this mirror, in this contact, or we can remain in our dream world, in our dream world, in our sleep. The encounter with the Truth of your Being is the answer to the question some ask without investigating, without studying it. The question is: "How to find God?"

The awareness of your Being, which reveals itself in the mirror of Self-awareness, of comprehending the truth about this image, this is the work that puts us in direct contact with the Truth of Meditation. Thus, we have three very basic things here. The first is the importance, the value, the beauty of this self-discovery, of the discovery of this "me," in this learning about Self-awareness. The second is something directly linked to this first, which is the Truth of Meditation.

After all, what is Meditation? Is it something that someone practices? Is it something that, through a technique, an exercise, or a practice, I can do? And for what purpose? What is the truth about Meditation? What is Meditation? Here we have emphasized for you the importance of Meditation and what Meditation truly is.

When you approach and investigate the nature of the "I," you become fully aware of this image that thought has established in you as you, as being yourself. The end of this internal state of imagination, of self-image, is the presence of Meditation, which naturally requires the Truth about yourself.

Therefore, learning about Self-awareness is bringing this very Mindfulness into this moment. The Truth about this Mindfulness brings us closer and allows us to see this face in the mirror directly, and thus we have this self-revelation of Truth, this third fundamental thing, which is the awareness of God.

The yearning, the longing for this encounter with something beyond the known, beyond the world, beyond this boredom, routine, this monotonous life, beyond this search for love, happiness, and peace-here is present the Realization of God. The Truth about Yourself is the Supreme Bliss, the Supreme Happiness. However, it is impossible to have this Revelation of God, this encounter with God in time.

When we engage in any kind of search, any kind of practice, we move away from this Truth, from this gaze upon what we are here and now, in this contact with life; looking at who we are when we are in relation with people, in relation with situations, in relation with thoughts that arise within each of us, as well as with feelings and emotions. Therefore, the true way for the Revelation of What we are requires the presence of this Attention, this Mindfulness of our reactions.

Thus, when we have this Mindfulness, when we pay attention to our thoughts, here, in this moment, to our gestures, the words we use, what we feel in contact with him or her, with life's situations, observing what is happening within each of us, as well as externally, bringing to this moment a gaze that does not judge, compare, or make choices, a gaze where there is no sensor, no observer, this element that comes from the past, which is the thinker, behind this gaze. Thus, there is a noticing of these internal reactions and of everything that happens externally, without any involvement from this "I."

Thus, your contact with the present moment allows a new space to open up, because the mind naturally quiets. Then, this silence arises, the brain quiets, and thus there is the presence of Meditation. Meditation becomes possible in this moment because there is a natural stillness that arises from this observation without the observer, from this perception without the perceiver. Therefore, the presence of Mindfulness is the presence of awareness-awareness of this moment, of this instant.

We need to discover the beauty of a new brain, a new mind; a brain free from the model of thought and, therefore, from everything we know; a mind that no longer lives in this restlessness, chatter, and unawareness of its own movement. Yes, because when you place Attention on your reactions, the brain quiets. All this internal chatter, this restlessness, is creating, producing, and sustaining within you the continuity of the movement of this image, this self-image, which is the "I," the ego.

What people need to comprehend is that there is no truth in the person to have an encounter with God. What we understand as a person is a set of images, memories, and recollections that thought has established in each of us. The mere description of an image, of a self-image, is the presence of the person. However, what is the Truth of your Being? The Reality of your Essential Nature is the Truth of God.

You won't find God; you will become aware of the Reality that is present when the sense of "I" is not. When you become aware, this awareness is the very awareness of God. You don't go to God, you don't find Him. He reveals Himself as the Truth of your Being. We need to deeply and clearly comprehend the truth about who we are, about who we show ourselves to be in this self-image.

That's why all this contact with people, situations, and thoughts is revealing. Because you place attention here, in this moment, to observe what's happening within you, in this contact, when someone treats you well or badly, when someone likes you or dislikes you, when someone accepts you or rejects you. What you feel, who is this element in that feeling?

When you're sad, who is the sad element? When you're happy, who is the happy element? When you feel special, who is the element that feels special? When you feel diminished or rejected, who is this element? Thus, we have, in this revelation of this "I," this "who I am," the end of this psychological structure of egoic consciousness, of mental consciousness, of self-image, because the clarity in this mirror makes you perceive illusion.

It is Truth, it is clarity, it is comprehension that liberates, that puts an end to this internal psychological disorder present in this self-image, in this "I." Only then do we have, in this moment, the Revelation of God's Truth. You in your Natural State of Being are the Reality of Life. The Truth of Life is the Beauty of God. Comprehension, Wisdom, the Presence of Love, Freedom, and Happiness is what is present here when God reveals Himself. When He reveals Himself, illusion is gone, illusion is no more.

Therefore, it is Truth that liberates, not desire, not will, not the desire to be free. This is why the comprehension of what Meditation is, is fundamental in life. Comprehending this Attention, bringing the gaze, the perception, without the past, to this moment, is the Truth about how to live this Attention-this Mindfulness. Your Natural State of Being is this a new, free mind; in fact, it is this Reality beyond the known. Thus, this meditative mind reveals Something indescribable, Something beyond thought. Thus, there is Life revealing itself, God revealing itself, the Reality of this Being present.

Here, these weekend meetings we hold, where we are on Saturday and Sunday, have this purpose: to work on this together-two days online. You can find our WhatsApp link here, in the video description, to join the online meetings on weekends. In addition to the online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard resonates with you, here's the invitation. Like it, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment below: "Yes, it makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon.

August, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Escape from reality psychology. Fear what to do. Fundamental questions of life. What is meditation?

This is a common way of dealing with life, as it happens. We don't have the readiness to respond perfectly to life's events. Life consists of situations arising, situations happening. Our psychological condition of existence in this sense of person, in this idea of being someone in the context of life, in this context of living, places us in a position where we do not truly respond, in an appropriate way, to these demands of life, to these challenges of life, to what life represents. And why are we unable to do this? Because our responses are ready-made, they are based on past experience that we have already had.

So, let's calmly look at this. We are here with you studying these fundamental questions of life, and one of these is our inability to deal with the present moment. This ends up representing for each of us various forms of complications, problems, and suffering. And, since we don't know how to deal with these complications, these problems, and these sufferings, we enable ourselves to escape - what is known as "the escape from reality" in psychology.

Our approach to life, our approach to the present moment is inadequate. Since we don't know how to respond to it, suffering is present, and we don't know how to look at it, we don't know how to deal with it, we don't know how to deal with the present moment. So, notice: there is the present moment, it is challenging; our inadequate response to this moment produces suffering; we don't know how to deal with suffering, so we run away! It's the escape from reality. We're going to work on this a little bit with you here.

For example, we have the issue of fear. We do not know the beauty, we do not have an idea of the importance, the value, the comprehension of what fear is. There is great Beauty, there is great Truth, there is an indescribable Freedom in life, when there is no fear. And we do not know how to deal with the experience of the moment; because of this, fear settles down. Since we do not know how to deal with this pain that fear causes, that it provokes, we run away. Then, the question arises: "What to do with fear?" "How to deal with fear?" "Fear, what to do?" We do not know how to deal with the present moment, because we do not know how to deal with what we are.

The present moment requires new action, because we are always facing a new challenge. Life happens like this: it is happening for the first time at this moment. Everything present at this moment is unique. That has never happened before and will never happen again. We do not know how to respond to this moment because we have the idea that we are someone present and that we need to respond to this moment. So, the first point here is the idea of being someone; it misleads us. There is life happening, but there isn't someone present in life as we believe to be someone and situated in life, separate from it. This is the first point: you believe that there is someone present, and then you believe that you have to respond to life as it happens.

Here, with you, we are working on the Awakening of Spiritual Intelligence, of the Vision of Wisdom, of the Freedom of living free from the past. And, free from the past, we have a comprehension of this moment based on this Intelligence. And, when there is this Intelligence, the answer to this moment is not of someone. There is no past, there is no someone, and we do not have an inadequate answer to this moment. So, life happens, but you in your Essential Nature, in your Divine Nature, are one with life. There is in you, in your True Nature, this Divine Intelligence to deal with the present moment with wisdom. Then, no form of contradiction, disorder, separation and conflict is established.

Naturally, there is no room for fear when Intelligence is present, and Intelligence is Divine Truth. Then, how can we deal with what we are feeling, living, going through, within this context of life as we know, for example, fear? It may be that when you hear all this that we have just explained to you, it may seem like a utopia, like something so good to be true. But here I have to tell you: what we are saying, yes, is real. What is real is Bliss, Happiness, Love, Peace. Therefore, why do we have these meetings here? We have these meetings with one sole purpose: to become aware of the Reality of God. And this Reality, when it is present, there is no longer that someone, no longer that past, and no longer that inadequate response to life as it happens. All of this is arising due to a psychological condition of existence that thought has established within each one of us, as if it were really the truth about who we are.

Thus, there is a mistake: we are situating ourselves in life as someone, we are situating ourselves in life as a person. Your way of relating to the present moment is not a real way of attending to what is here, but it is a way in which we try to adjust the reality of the present moment to this thought within us that comes from the past. This is where the problem lies, this is where fear lies. So, you ask: "Fear, what to do?" If there is one of the subjects within these fundamental questions of life that we deal with here with you and we continually return to, it is this issue of fear.

We greatly underestimate the truth of the presence of fear in our lives, but the human being, psychologically, is fear. Look at yourself and you will, if you are honest, recognize that your life is based on actions that are based on desire and fear. In general, we separate desire from fear, but we do not realize that the presence of fear is what drives us to desire. When you want to obtain something, you want to obtain it because you are dissatisfied at that moment. What you want to obtain, this desire, is the projection of an ideal of fulfillment and satisfaction in that achievement. And you only have this because, at that moment, you are feeling emptiness, insufficiency, lack, some level of discomfort, of pain.

So, this impulse of pain, discomfort and lack, which is suffering, drives us to seek something to free ourselves from this condition of suffering. Behind this desire, there is the worry that this will not be achieved, that this will not be accomplished, that this thing will not be obtained. This is fear! If there is something that we are not aware of, it is the truth that life, in this sense of the "I," of the ego, in this psychological condition in which we find ourselves, is a life full of fear, dissatisfaction, suffering, conflicts and contradictions. Thus, we are unable to give an answer to life at this moment, an adequate answer to life, because the foundation seeking to provide this answer is the basis of the illusion of a present identity, which sees itself separate from life, trying to attend to this moment based on the past.

So, we need to discover, in life, what life is free from the past, what life is free from the "I," what life is free from this psychological movement of the existence of an identity, which is this someone. Notice, this someone is situated in this dissatisfaction, in this fear, desire, and suffering. Thus, any response that one can give to this moment will be inadequate. This is the sense of the "I," this is the sense of the ego. We are here, with you, investigating how to assume, in this life, the Reality of That is. Now, it is important that we understand this together, too: that there is no one who can do this.

So, what happens to us, dealing with life as it happens because of this individualistic personal position, this "me," this "I," this ego, this someone, is dealing with life in this discomfort, this pain, this suffering, this fear. And as long as we are running away from this reality - because this is the reality of "me," this is the reality of each one of us - as long as this sense of egoic identity remains, the reality that we know, the known reality is the reality of fear, it is the reality of suffering, it is the reality of pain. Can we discover in life, at this moment, what it is to look at this without running away, without running away from this reality?

See, we are before something very basic, very simple, easy to observe. The truth for the end of this escape from reality is to become aware of our reactions at this moment, when you become aware that this element, which is this "I," is looking for something to escape, to run away from. It is separating itself, and in this separation, it is maintaining the continuity of this pain, this suffering, this fear, this conflict. All this alternative of achieving something out there through desire is just a way of escaping from oneself, of running away from this pain. So, approaching the truth of this moment reveals this sense of someone present, and when you learn to look, just to look, to observe, to become aware of this pain, this conflict, this contradiction, this dissatisfaction, when you learn to just look, without running away, without escaping, it ends.

So, the beauty of this encounter with Self-Awareness reveals to you this psychological condition of dissatisfaction, fear, conflict, pain and suffering, and it ends. But we spend an entire life feeding the continuity of this someone and, therefore, of this past. And therefore, of this idea of facing this present moment from this background. The encounter with life at this moment requires the presence of this awareness of this separation, of this idea of this "I" and the non-"I," of this observer observing things; of this person who, when faced with situations, is always looking at these situations from a particular and personal perspective, which is the perspective of this person who lives in this acceptance or rejection, in this liking or disliking.

So, how can we get closer to ourselves to go beyond this "me," this "I," this someone? By looking, discovering what it means to listen to life as it happens, to look at life as it happens. to look at all the movement that arises in you and perceive that this movement is something that comes from the past, creating the illusion of this someone. Discovering what it means to look at this is to put an end to this condition, in contact with life at this moment without the past, without the observer, without this experiencer, without this "me," without this someone. And this approach is what occurs when we have the answer to the question: "What is Meditation?"

The presence of Meditation is the awareness of this moment without someone present within it. So, the way life shows itself, the way life reveals itself - without someone who is the past, at this instant, at this present moment - reveals That which is beyond the mind, which is beyond all that is known, which is the presence of the Divine Reality. Then, this is the contact with the Truth of Meditation. There is no someone in Meditation. There is no past in Meditation. We have life, at this instant, revealing itself without this "me."

Here we are, together, looking at this, delving into it with you and saying that yes, this is possible in this life: the awareness of the Reality of God, the awareness of the Reality of life without the "I." So, this is our topic here, with you. We have online meetings on weekends, where we are, on Saturday and Sunday, delving into this with you. These are our online meetings. Here, in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. In addition to these meetings, we have our in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you've just heard makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Please, leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel and write here in the comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.

December, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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