Paths of Wisdom | The psychological conditioning | Ego-free action | How to do the right thing?

The Truth of Wisdom. Some call it “paths of wisdom” … There is no such thing as “paths of wisdom.” The Truth of Wisdom lies in the Revelation of Self-Awareness. There is only one direct path to Wisdom, and that direct path lies in understanding the Truth about who we are. Studying oneself is the basis for the Awakening of Intelligence, and that’s what also leads to an ego-free action. If there is no ego-free action, because there is no Intelligence, no knowledge, however deep, broad or significant, could represent the Truth of Wisdom.

I want to study this issue of action with you today. What is this ego-free action? Notice that life is a movement, and as a movement, the only thing present in life is the presence of action; wherever you look, you will notice movement. There is the particular movement of atoms and stars, there is the movement of the Universe, there is the movement of thoughts, of emotions, of perceptions, of sensations, there is the movement of physical action, of emotional, sentimental action. Everything is movement. Life is action, life is movement.

I want to investigate with you whether it is possible, in this life, to live a life free from this sense that is the “I,” the ego. All our action based on this center, which is the ego, is an action born out of past conditioning, a movement of thought, which is something from the past. Notice how simple this is. First, experience happens in life. It becomes an experience because it can be remembered. It is remembered because it has been recorded. This record is a reminder, it's a memory, it's an impression stored in the brain. It carries the idea of an experiencer who went through it. When we face new experiences, these new experiences are seen from the standpoint of these old experiences, from these memories of past experiences.

Our actions are taking place based on knowledge, experience, memory, and recollection, on the presence of an experiencer. That experiencer is the “I.” Notice how interesting it is to investigate the question of ego-free action. Every action is an experiencing here and now. Right now, listening is an action, speaking is an action. In this fraction of a second, there is only experiencing. At this very moment, there is no presence of psychological time, of time created by memory, created by recollection, by thought. So, what we have now, here, is the experience of this instant, but the brain registers it, so a few seconds later, it has the remembrance. This remembrance is the past, which is memory, which is the record of experiencing. So, it's no longer experiencing, now it's just an experience for an experiencer.

So, our actions are always coming from a background of past experiences. When I meet you, I have a facial recognition, I have an auditory recognition of the timbre of your voice, but beyond this recognition, which is a simple brain recognition, I have an image of who you are; this image of who you are is already a projection of that “I,” of that ego, of that experiencer.

So, what we do in life is, when we go through experiences, record those experiences and turn them into something from this collection that is this center, this particular egocentric storehouse of memories. So, this is at the service of the experiencer, which is the ego. So, my contact with you is not a simple contact, it's a contact based on an image I make of who you are, based on a past that has no reality here, at this moment.

This past is the ego's psychological past. It's very simple, it's something you can observe. You compliment me and I like you. This “I” that likes you is the experiencer, it's the ego, it's the one that is registering a recollection, a memory of pleasure and is cultivating this memory. In this next meeting with you, I'll be in front of a friend or someone I like. Who is that seeing this friend? Who is it that is liking you? It's the presence of the ego.

So, our actions in life are on this level. So, I have friends, I have enemies, I appreciate and hug friends, I despise and turn away, or I violently attack enemies. So, our actions are conflicting actions because they are born from the ego, they are born from that memory. See how simple it is.

What is the Truth of an ego-free action? An action free from the ego requires the presence of an Attention of Full Consciousness in this moment, in this instant, so that there is no further record. So, the Truth of the Revelation of Self-Awareness is what truly brings you closer to life within true Wisdom. So, there is only one direct path to Wisdom. So, it's not a matter of “paths of wisdom,” but the only one direct path to Wisdom. The Truth of Wisdom lies in Self-Awareness, in observing this movement of registration.

I've said a lot here about the psychological conditioning. What is it basically? It's this mechanism of registration, of memory, giving us the illusion of this center. So, we're living in the ego, in the “I,” in this identity that is a set of recollections, memories, and remembrances, resulted from past experiences. There is no encounter with life now. When life presents itself now, that encounter is this old model of the past trying to adjust this instant, this moment the way it wants. This explains the disorder, confusion, and suffering in our relationships. We are always separate, divided. These images divide us, this approach based on the past separates us. So, these actions are conflicting actions, they are actions in disorder. We don't know what an ego-free action is.

Here the invitation is to understand the Truth about who we are, then to see all the mechanisms that are sustaining the conditioning – this inner conditioning that we carry. The ability to look, to observe, and to become aware of this mechanism is to break this mechanism, to get rid of this mechanism, to go beyond this mechanism. Only then can life, here and now, truly be found without this element of the past, without this “I” in this encounter with life, with the other, with whatever is appearing here. So, this action of life is a new action – thinking, feeling, acting, speaking, and listening.

What is the quality of ego-free action? It is the very action of life. Life is nothing other than an extraordinary challenge of expression, of action. Everything is this action happening. There is no direct response to this moment. At that moment, the psychological past is intervening, it's interfering.

When you look at a sunrise, it's never the same sunrise. A sunset is unique, the presence of the moon is always a moon present at that moment. Life is what happens here, in a new way. We don't have the same sunset, the same sunrise. We don't have the same moon, the same sunset, the same sunrise. We don't have the same person. When we meet the other, there is no such thing as “me and him,” only the thought in this sense of an “I” present within the experience, which is the experience of the ego, which is constructing this illusion. This is the time that thought has been constructed, that its conditioning has been appropriated to maintain itself as a mechanism of reaction, of action that always comes from the past. This is how our actions are constituted in this psychological time, which is the time of the ego. They are not actions here and now. They are reactions.

Look at the mess our lives have become in our relationship with ourselves, with others, with the world, because we are not in that freshness, that new thing, that newness of being Consciousness, Freedom, and Happiness. You see, This is the nature of What we truly are when the illusion of what we believe we are, what we seem to be, what we show ourselves to be, what we want to be is no longer present.

So, the presence of the Divine Reality is the presence of the Reality of God, this is the Reality of this Being that we are in this action, which is not a mere response of the past, a mere reaction of memory, of this experiencer. Is it possible to have a response for this moment free from the ego?

When we have the presence of this Attention on this movement that is the past, this psychological past, of registering, remembering, recalling, of conditioning the mind, this Attention eliminates this condition, so there is a break with this ancient and old movement, which is the movement of the ego. So, it's very important to have an approach to life without the ego.

People have questions like: “How to be calm?”, “How to act under pressure?” or “How to do the right thing?” Their intention is Happiness, it's Peace, it's Harmony, it's the presence of Intelligence in action. However, this is not possible in the ego. When the ego isn't there, a new action is present that doesn't have that gap between remembrance, desire, and action. So, there is the plan, the intention, the motivation and the action, that's how the ego appears within the movement of action creating confusion.

When the Truth of action is present, we have this Truth of this Being, which is Intelligence. That is action. There is no gap. Then, we have the presence of Wisdom. So, the Truth of Wisdom in Action is the presence of Divine Reality. This action is the ego-free action. So, we're exploring this here with you, investigating this here with you, delving into this here with you. We have a playlist here about this Truth of Self-Awareness in ego-free action, the presence of Self-Awareness, Self-Awareness and the ego-free action.

So that's our work here with you. We're going deeper into this here on the channel, we're going deeper into this in online meetings on the weekends. You can find our WhatsApp link in the video description to take part in these online meetings on weekends. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats.

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November, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The True Meditation. Approach Self-Awareness. What is ego? How can I get rid of suffering?

This is the true way, the right way to approach life. We have a wrong way of doing it, it's the way through thought, through what experience represents. Perhaps you have this question inside you: how to get rid of suffering? The truth is that your approach to life is wrong. We approach this instant with thought, with experience.

When you go through situations, you keep them inside you, and when you approach that moment, you approach that moment with those situations that have been stored. It's very curious that we approach to look and see this, that our action at that moment is an adjustment to an intention, a desire, a motive of ours, a thought and a past experience. In my relationship with someone, there is no freedom, so in this contact, conflict is present.

Life is a mysterious movement. Life is always a new moment, but we approach life in this new moment with our past, with our experience, with our thoughts. So, we don't have new eyes for the moment, we don't have a new feeling for the instant. So, we have no contact with the other from that moment on, it's always from the past. Look and you'll see this, the thought in you translating the experience.

You bring experience from the past, thought translates that experience into the present moment, and all it does is take that present moment and interpret it. Your contact with your wife, with your children, with your family, with the people in your relationship are never free relationships, free from the past, free from thought, and this implies confusion.

You like some people, but you don't like other people. The people you like are an interpretation of you, of your experience, of your thoughts. The people you like and the people you don't like are all part of your past, all part of your fear, your desire, your problems. So, these people are projections of the “I.” This ” I ” is the one who, at that moment, is trying to adjust itself to what is happening in order to get something out of it.

When you come to these meetings, I talk to you about Reality, about Happiness. This is Something Real when thought is no longer present, when the experience of the past no longer interferes in these relationships. So, your relationship with people based on this Joy, this Freedom, this awareness of the Truth is a relationship in Peace, it's a Real relationship.

What you feel about another person says a lot about how you feel about yourself. If you are Free, the other person is part of your Freedom. If you're Happy, the other person is part of your Happiness. If you are unhappy because you see yourself in trouble, with difficulties, with various forms of conflict, and in this internal contradiction between what you think, feel and do, if there is all this internal confusion, your relationship with the other is also this.

In general, we want people to make us happy, we want people to give us peace, we want them to offer us happiness. That's why we have this question: why do I suffer so much? Or: what can I do, how can I get rid of suffering? For you, the problem is that people cause suffering, it's the world that causes us suffering. But is that true? Is it the world that makes us suffer? Is it the other person who makes us suffer? Is it true that people don't understand us? Is that true? Do I have problems with people? Do people have problems with me? Or the truth is that I'm the problem?

The problem of the world, the problem of “my world” is “me.” The question is “Who am I?” The question is “How do I interpret experience?” What is this thought? What is this experience? Why are we always, in this moment, making this moment an old moment? It's not old, it's not outdated, there's nothing ugly about it. And why is this happening?

We absorb the new, which is this moment, into the old of our past. Look what a curious thing happens: the moment is new, but we absorb the new into our old, so our old is the new altered, distorted, problematic, suffering. So, what I want to tell you is that there is no problem in life, there is no problem with the other, there is no problem in this moment. It's just a question of absorbing the new into my old “I,” my judgment, my comparison, my evaluation, my liking, my disliking, and my experience.

It's just a particular way of looking at life, the particular way of the “I,” of interpreting everything. “Okay, you've shown me the problem. So, I'm suffering because I'm someone. My idea, my judgment, my comparison and evaluation are something very important, and it's wrong. Now I understand that I'm absorbing the present moment within my past, I'm interpreting the new with the old, the people, with the images I have of them. My demands are the real reason for my suffering.” Do you realize that? “Now I realize it. Okay, you've presented me with the situation. How can I deal with this?” What would you say to me if I came to you and said: “I have problems”? What would you say to me? How can I approach it? How can I go beyond that?

So now, in a few minutes, let's touch on that. How can I approach this moment without this past? That's possible, but you need to understand that this moment, you can't approach it in the same way as you always have done. That's why I've been inviting people to the art of Being Consciousness. This is Awakening, this is getting out of this condition. From that condition I've just described, which I call the dream – the dream of the “I,” the dream of the ego.

So, how should I approach this moment? Without the “I,” without the ego, without thought. It's not complicated. I've talked about this a lot with you. When you look at a person, if you look carefully, you'll notice the play of the image that thought presents when you look at them. So, when you look at someone you know, immediately a set of images appear; they're just memories of the past, of moments of pleasure and pain, of moments of joy and sadness that you had with her. So, something inside you says “I like her,” or something inside you says “I don't like her.”

When we come into contact with people, we are not in contact with them, but with the idea we have of them. Have you noticed that? That's why some people make us happy and others make us sad. Is that true? Do they give us joy? Do they make us sad or is it our thoughts about who they are, about what they represent to me? What is this “me?” Can we separate this “me” from the set of images that arise in this relationship? Do you perceive it? Or is this set of images this “me?” So, when I'm sad, what's sad? The “I.” What is happening to this set of images? Is it in discomfort? Perceive that. This is the sense of our relationships with each other. That's the point! The question is: does it make sense?

If we can look without the image, or if we can simply welcome this image from this understanding that it's just an image, does that cause any problems for us? When does it cause a problem? When you do something with that image, when you agree with that image or disagree with it, when you find pleasure in it or displeasure in it.

I've talked a lot about the existence of the “I,” the existence of the ego, and someone might ask: “But what is the ego that you talk about so much? What is the “I?” The “I” is this intention to do something with what appears. What is appearing? The image. When I look at him, an image appears; it's something from the past, it's a memory, it's a memory of a good moment I had with him, I had with her, that's an image. And what is the “I?” What is ego? It's the one that says “I like you,” it's the feeling that arises when this image appears. Can I become aware of this feeling? I can't do anything with the image, because it's automatic, it comes automatically, but I can become aware of the one that arises together with the image, which is the one that will observe the image, that will like the image or dislike the image, that will feel happy or unhappy with that image. That's the “I.” Is that clear?

So, what is the “I”? It's the one or the thing that wants to intervene, that wants to interfere, that wants to translate, interpret, reinterpret this image, which is the past. When this happens, what am I doing? I'm absorbing this present moment, this new moment into my past, I'm confirming the existence of the “I.” Is that clear? I'm saying: “You're important to me” or “You're worthless,” “I like you” or “I don't like you.” I'm giving to this present moment... Notice how subtle it is, how quick it is, how we do it all the time. Isn't it automatic? It's automatic. Thought arises, image arises. That element arises to do something with that thought, to do something with that image, and that “something” is to like it, to dislike it. When you do this, you're absorbing the present moment with your past.

So, after thirty years of being in a relationship, married, forty years, all we have is a set of images, of memories that this “me” carries, that this “I” carries, that “I” have of her and that she has of “me,” that “I” have of the boss, that “I” have of the employer, that “I” have of people. So, I spend my whole life in this process of cultivating “me,” of cultivating this “me,” because I have images of everything around me – not just people, I have images of places.

“I like some places; I don't like other places.” What is really going on? This whole moment is new, but it's always being absorbed by my past, by the sense of an “I” present within the experience, places, in contact with people and situations. Can we disarm this? The sense of an “I” present within the experience, in the relationship with people, with places.

I'm putting an external aspect here, but we also have the internal aspect of all this. It's when we have an image of ourselves. We can be alone and feel good about ourselves, or bad, without knowing the reason, without knowing the cause, without knowing why. It's just an image, a self-projection of the “I.” An image emerges, something unpleasant is here, there's nothing going on around me, no one around me, and I'm unwell. What is this “I unwell”?

If I'm not aware of what my thoughts are bringing up, what the image of the past is bringing up, if I'm not aware, I'm plunged into this condition of not liking that image, and that's sustaining a good or bad feeling. Here we touch on the most important thing for all of us: knowing ourselves, knowing what is happening here, in this instant, in this moment.

What is this “me”? What is this image, what does it represent for this “me”? The image I make of “myself” or the image I make of the other, the image I make of the world around me, the image of places, of situations: I'm always there. This “I” is this centering of an identity in experience, this self-centeredness. To approach this is to approach Self-Awareness. So, Meditation is the revelation of That which is outside of it. I approach this recognition, the recognition of the game, the game of the “I,” this is Self-Awareness.

To perceive Reality outside of this game of the “I” is Meditation. There is something we can call True Meditation, Real Meditation. It's when this Self-Awareness reveals Something outside the “I.” When this “something” shows itself, you are no longer present absorbing the present moment in your past. Your past, which is the “I,” loses relevance and this moment reveals itself. This is Self-Awareness. In this Self-Awareness Something outside of what is known by the “I” presents itself: this is True Meditation.

So, what is meditation? Eyes closed, legs crossed, breathing in a certain way, listening to a mantra? No! Meditation is the awareness of the Truth of this non-I, so it's the end of separation, because if that image is seen and there's no one valuing that image, it can't sustain itself. If pain appears, sadness appears, suffering appears... We start talking like this: “How can I get rid of suffering?” How can I get rid of it? I suffer so much; how can I get rid of it? By becoming aware. You become aware of what's happening here, now, you become aware of the “I”; and when you become aware of the “I,” there's no you; the brain quiets down to observe its own movement when you're aware of the game. The brain quiets down, the mind silences, something new emerges out of the game. This “something” is the Presence of Reality, the Presence of Truth, it is the Revelation that True Meditation brings.

Right now, all that is present is Truth. If that “I,” that “me,” doesn't appear and tries to absorb this present moment into its game, all that is present is Beauty, is Love, is Truth, is Silence, is Freedom; all that is present is Pure Grace; all that is present is Meditation; all that is present is the absence of the “I.” This is the Truth of God.

“How can I get rid of suffering?” You can't get rid of suffering, you can become, you need to become aware of the one who suffers. You see? The awareness of the sufferer is the end to suffering. It's the sufferer who sustains suffering. There is no suffering without the sufferer. There is nothing in this moment that represents suffering for you if you are not there rejecting, fighting, interpreting, translating or trying to do something with what is here and now. Is that okay?

Everything is here and now, just look at it, become aware of it. That's True Meditation. Okay?

November, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Real Consciousness. Self-centered actions. Freedom from jealousy, envy and fear. End of the ego

I want to work with you here today on how to get rid of the ego. This question is very interesting, because it encompasses other questions, it involves other questions. Freedom from the ego is also freedom from jealousy, envy, fear and the conflict present in desires. So, the answer to “How to get rid of the ego?” is the answer to “How to get rid of jealousy?”, “How to get rid of envy?”, “How to get rid of fear?”, because we're dealing with the same element here.

Now, let's make a few things very clear for you here. When we refer to the word “ego,” the idea we have is of a present entity, it's of an identity, at that instant, present causing the suffering of envy, the suffering of jealousy, the suffering of fear, the issue of ambition, the issue of conflict present because of desires, all that involves the presence of the ego. However, for us the ego is “someone,” it's a “person,” it's a present entity, it's an individual or an individual consciousness.

We've been saying here on the channel that the ego is a fraud, an illusion. We're not saying that it doesn't exist. Yes, there is a model of thinking, feeling and acting in us. This model is the model of conditioning, it is not the model of a real entity, of a true identity. It's a program, it's the way we function in this body-mind. So, we can say that the ego is an illusory individuality, that the presence of conditioning – of this way of feeling, acting and thinking – is what determines this illusion. So, the illusion is the illusion of a present identity. In this sense, it's an identity that exists, but it exists as a conditioning model, as a programming model. This is the identity of the “I.”

Can we get rid of it? Here we have to investigate the structure and nature of this “I,” this illusory center, this false center. An approach to this requires a study of ourselves, a study of who we are, however, none can give us this study, a book cannot give it to us, a technique cannot show it to us. We need to discover here how we respond to this moment from this “I,” this ego, this center. In other words, we have to discover this movement of conditioning expressing itself as being “someone,” as being a “person,” as being an individual consciousness expressing itself in speaking, feeling and acting.

So, let's look at one of the important aspects of this matter of the ego. Here I want to talk to you about one of the very clear aspects within this movement of conditioning of this “person,” this “I.” I'm referring to this pattern of action. How do we act from this illusory center, this false center? How do we behave? How do these present actions occur? How do they happen right now? Notice that they are always creating confusion, disorder, some form of contradiction, conflict and therefore suffering in our lives. Why does this happen? Why does this happen?

Our actions are born – and we all know this – out of thought. So, let's carefully investigate this with you. Our actions are born from thoughts, so first we have a thought and that thought is a stimulus. It carries a sensation. Thought carries with it a feeling, an emotion, a way of feeling and therefore a sensation. Based on thought, on that thought, we take action. So, what are our actions? See how important it is to investigate this. Our actions are the result of thoughts. What are these thoughts? They are stored remembrances and memories. We go through experiences in life and these experiences are recorded and stored in us as memories, as remembrances, and from there we know how to repeat these actions. So, our actions, as a result of memories, of past experiences, these actions, here and now, are reactive.

So, our actions – the actions that are born from this past in us – are the actions of this center, that is the “I,” the ego. The point is that these actions, and this is what hasn't become clear to you, a detail that isn't yet clear to you, is that this action never corresponds to the urgent, challenging need of the instant, of the present moment. In other words, we are always responding to this moment from that “I” that comes from the past, which is memory, which is recollection, which is the result of experiences from yesterday or many days ago. We are always responding to this moment in a reactive way. Our response, therefore, is not Free, not Natural, not Real, it does not respond, it does not correspond to the real need of this moment.

So, our actions based on this center, which is the “I,” are reactions that come from the past. The truth is that we don't know what that action means in the present moment, free from the center, the “I,” the ego. So, these actions are always producing suffering for us, suffering for the other, because they are actions centered on the “I.” These are the self-centered actions of this sense of person we believe ourselves to be. Is it possible to act here, in this instant, in this present moment, to this challenge of this now without this background, without this memory, without this action, which is merely a reaction from the past?

Contact with the other, contact with life, contact with what is shown here on the basis of this past is a separatist contact, it's a contact that divides, that clashes, that is a mere reaction to this instant, this moment, this challenge. What we're saying is that we don't have a Free action and, therefore, we don't have a correct, intelligent way of dealing with the instant, of dealing with the present moment. Why don't we have it? Because the basis of our action is memory, we are always in this movement of the “I”, in this instant, which is the past.

The past is here in the present, the past is here at this instant, in the present moment, projecting itself to gain something in the future. So, the intention of the “I” is always to accomplish things. So, the intention of the “I” is always to respond to this instant on the basis of what it already brings, what it already is, what it already represents. This model of conditioning, this programmed model of action is conflicting.

Here, we are working with you on the end of the illusion of the “I,” the end of the illusion of the ego and, therefore, the end of this movement that comes from the past and that reacts to this moment. For the ego, for the person you believe you are, you are “someone” who is here, in this instant, in this moment, paying attention to what is being shown here. The person here, in this moment, paying attention to what is here is just a reaction, it's just programming, it's just conditioning. That's the “I,” the ego. So, we are always within the present moment based on the past. Observe your mind, it works on the basis of memories, of recollections and remembrances. So, your responses to this instant are responses based on those recollections and memories.

So, psychologically, we live in time, which is the psychological time of the “I,” of the ego. “I am this because of what I was yesterday and I will be tomorrow because of what I am today,” but what “I am today” is only the representation of a conditioning that I already have from the past. So, today, in fact, “I am” only the past and tomorrow “I will be” only this today, which is still the past. So, what is this “I”?

This “I” is a movement in psychological time. There is no entity present in this condition, in this “person.” So, the person I believe I am is an illusion, it's just the result of past experiences, psychologically stored, preserved, always giving this “me” this notion of “I was,” “I am” and “I will be,” while, in reality, what we have here is just the past.

We go through experiences and we are always recording these new experiences on top of the past. So, we are always in this movement of accumulating, acquiring, preserving and cultivating more and more the sense of the “I,” of the ego, which is the past. There is nothing Real except for the Presence of this Intelligence that is outside of time, this Real Consciousness that is outside of time, this Real Being that is outside of time, because we live in this psychological time, which is the time that thought has produced because of its memory, its stories and records.

Notice that your name is a record of memory; your story in a dissertation or being told to someone is just the past that has been recorded. All the reference you have of the “person” you see yourself is the past. So, this is the central idea of the “I,” of the ego, this is the illusion of the “person,” of this “me” who lives in this time that I have called psychological time. What is the Truth about You?

The Truth about You is not in time. It is the Reality of that Being, of that Consciousness, of that Divine Reality, which in the ego is unknown, in the “person” is always something unknown. To get rid of this sense of “I,” of the ego, is to discover the end to this psychological content, to all this psychological baggage that gives you this sense of an identity in time, in this time that is today. It's the end for this “person” who believes to be here being “someone” today, who was “someone” yesterday and who will be “someone” tomorrow. This is the end of this experience of the “I” and therefore the end of this model of thinking, feeling and acting based on psychological time, on the illusion of this present identity.

Thus, understanding the Truth of your Being requires a study of yourself. When you study yourself, when you see all this movement, which is the movement of conditioning, which is the movement of pattern, which is the movement of repetition, which is the movement of memory of this illusory identity, this sense of “person,” all this is undone when there is an emptying of all this content. This becomes possible when there is an approach to the Truth of Meditation, to the True Meditation in a practical way.

I have been talking about the importance, the importance to you here, of Self-Awareness, because when we approach Self-Awareness, we have an emptying of all that psychological content, of that psychological time, of that sense of “I,” of the ego. This happens when we approach the Truth of Meditation, then a new action arises, an action Free of this illusory center, this sense of separation. This is the end of duality, it is the Truth of Non-duality, it is the Presence of God, it is the Presence of your Being.

For this purpose, we have online meetings on weekends. You can find our WhatsApp link for these meetings here in the video description. If this is something that makes sense to you, let's work on it together. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. So, here's the invitation. Please give us a like, subscribe to our channel and we'll see you, OK? Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

October, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Action free from reaction | The True Religious Life | What is thought? | The art of living free

We are talking to you about the art of living, the art of living free from conflict, contradiction, fear and suffering. This requires a quality of action that people are generally unaware of. Realize that our actions determine what our life has been or is at this moment. So, what our life has been and what our life is now, is something that has been determined by actions taken by each of us. We need to discover a quality of action that is truly free from this burden, contradiction, fear, every form of conflict and therefore no longer produces suffering either for ourselves or for others. In my opinion, this is the real way to have a Religious Life – I have called it the true Religious Life. It is a Life free from this sense of the “I” present, this “person,” this particular and personal movement of the ego in relationships.

So, what is a free action? What is this new way of thinking, feeling and acting? This requires each of us to approach this study of how we work. Our actions are determined by our thoughts. That's how we work. We have a thought, thought is present charged with a certain feeling or emotion, and this thought is naturally a form of sensation and this drives us to actions, drives us to a model of behavior in life.

So, we have to figure out a few things here. The first question is: what is thought? We are always here dealing with you and deepening these fundamental questions, these Real questions, which are life questions. What is thought? What is to think? What is to act? Our thoughts are shaping these actions of ours, yet these actions of ours are not free actions, because there is no Real thinking behind these actions. We can't have an Understanding of the Truth in our actions, of Freedom in our actions, of Intelligence in our actions without this Thinking. The Real Thinking is what will determine this action now, happening here. So, let's distinguish what Real Thinking is from this model, which is the conditioned, programmed model of feeling and thinking as we know, as we have lived.

Real Life happens in that instant. Life in illusion is that which, in that instant, has a representation of memory, has a representation of the past, in this format of conditioned thinking, of an internal conditioning model, of psychological conditioning that we bring with us. The human being acts without Real Thinking, without True Thinking, so there is the model of this old thinking, in this pattern of programmed thinking, of conditioned thinking, and therefore, an impulsive action, directed by the ego.

What is this ego if not the illusion of a present identity taking actions? What is this ego if not conditioning, this reactive memory programming that arises in this instant on the basis of thought? This reactive memory based on this thought is in this action model. Realize that we need to investigate, deepen and understand all of this.

“Why do I not succeed in my actions?” Because these actions are born out of that “I,” that egoic model, that “person” you see yourself. There's no way to act in a Real way, there's no new way of living, because all this action is a reaction that comes from the past, that comes from programming calculated by thought. Thought that is already conditioned, already programmed. So, human beings don't know what free action is, they don't know what it's like to act without this background, without this “I,” without this ego. So, we always have a reactive action, a reactive movement, because it's something that comes from memory, it's something that is born out of thought, it's something that is born out of planning that is already calculated, out of conditioned thought.

Look at your actions in your relationships with others, look at your actions in your relationship yourself. An action related to yourself based on thought is an action calculated by thought, which is based on an image you make of who you are. Notice that this type of action is always producing suffering to you. The action you carry out in contact with the other based on thought is a reactive action, which is born from this background that is the ego, which is born from this illusory center that is the “I.” This action in the relationship with the other is an action that produces suffering. Is there a quality of action free from this model of thinking? The answer is yes. Yes, action free from this thought model is possible. This action is born from True Thinking.

Here, when we use the expression “Thinking,” we are not talking about a present entity, which is the “I,” which already has a conditioned thinking model present in it, and which is always expressing itself in speaking, feeling and acting. Here, Thinking is what is present when there is absence of this thinker, of this “I,” of this programmed, calculated thought model, which is the result of past experiences that this ego, this “I,” this experiencer has cultivated within itself.

When we look at the world, we see the mess the world is in, [when we look] at people's lives, we see the mess they are in. They are in this mess because of this pattern of egoic behavior, this action that is not free. So, what we know as action is not an action, it's a reactivity, it's an activity of this illusory center, it's an egocentric activity. So, our behavior, which is born from this background of memory, which are the calculations that thought makes in order to make those decisions, these actions are reactive, they are mere reactivities of this illusory center that is the ego. This is happening because there is no Truth of Thinking.

The point here is that you can't act in a Real way – and here I use the expression Real in the sense of acting in Love, acting in True Consciousness, in Real Consciousness, acting free from this center that is the ego – it's not possible to act in this way until you understand how you work. So, as long as we don't understand how we work, as long as we don't realize that our actions are coming from a background that has already been programmed, calculated, from a conditioned thought model and, therefore, this action is a reactive action, as long as we don't become aware of how we work, our actions will always produce problems and confusion.

Every form of disorder present in this particular life, which is the life of the person, is something present because there is no Understanding, no Intelligence, because there is no Self-Awareness, no Understanding of the Truth about who we are. The result of this is a thought pattern generating problems, that is contradictory, violent, aggressive, full of desires and fears: these are the actions of the ego. Becoming aware of the Truth of yourself, learning to look at this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” of the “person,” of the ego present here, when you become aware of the movement of this “me,” of this thinker with this conditioned thought pattern, it becomes very clear that there is no Truth in action because of the absence, there is no Freedom in action because of the absence of Real Thinking, Real Feeling. Without this Real Feeling, without this Real Thinking, there is no Real Acting.

I want to put it here again. The word “Real” for this Thinking, Feeling and Acting, for this word I want to give the synonym of Love. An action in Love, Acting in Love, a thought that expresses the awareness of Truth, of Understanding, of Intelligence and, therefore, of Love. Here on this channel, we've been working with you to put an end to the illusion of the ego, of this false center. We say false center, we say ego illusion because the entity that you believe you are, that you show yourself to be or that you appear to be is not Real. You might ask: “So, what is it here that behaves in this format, which is called I, me, ego?” It's conditioning, it's a form that has already been programmed, conditioned, within an action that has been repeated like this for thousands and thousands of years in humanity, and for some decades in a particular way for this “person” as you see yourself. But there is no entity present or that entity is just this conditioning.

Can we get rid of this illusion? Can we get rid of this “I,” this ego and therefore this conditioning? This becomes possible when you approach and examine yourself, when you study all this inner movement, this so-called “consciousness” present. This human consciousness in us contains this conditioned mind in us, this thinker that is nothing other than conditioned thought itself, which separates itself to calculate, to analyze, to agree and to take actions; actions determined by thought itself. So, this thinker, this “I” is nothing other than thought itself. All this can be seen if it is observed. So, studying oneself is the basis for Liberation from this “I” and, therefore, for the Vision of what correct Thinking is.

Notice that correct Thinking doesn't need thoughts. This correct Thinking is that which, in this instant, doesn't need this element, which is the element of calculated, planned, conditioned thought in order to take an action. So, in this Real Thinking there is a Presence of Intelligence, of Vision, of Perception of what is Real, of what is present here in Love for an Action, for a Real Action, for a true Action, for a correct Action. So, I would say that the right thinking is the absence of conditioned thinking. This right thinking in this Real Thinking dispenses with this pattern of thinking as we know it. So, the Vision of Truth, of Life, of the art of living requires this Real Thinking, the true Thinking, the correct Thinking, the correct Feeling. This brings about this correct Action, this correct Activity. It is not reactivity, it is Action, it is Acting free of the “I.”

So, notice what we're dealing with you here on the channel. This art of Being, this art of living, this art of correct Action requires a Free brain, a Free mind, an entirely Free heart. The Awakening of your Real Nature, your True Nature, which is the Nature of God, is the Revelation of this true Thinking, Feeling and Acting in life. It is the Presence of this art, the art of Life. The Beauty of Life consists of Being what you essentially and truly are. This requires a Real approach to Yourself through Self-Awareness and True Meditation.

Here on the channel, we have two playlists exploring this in depth with you. Then, we have online meetings here on weekends, you can find the WhatsApp link here in the video description to take part in these meetings, to investigate the Truth about all of this. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. So, if this is something that makes sense to you, please leave a “like,” subscribe to the channel and say “Yes, it makes sense” in the comments. OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

October, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is the mind? Truth of Self-Awareness. How to get rid of chattering? What is thought?

What is thought? And what is thinking? These are two very important questions for us here, within this work, because the lack of direct understanding of how we work lies in exactly this. Human beings just work, but they don't know how they work. It's like when you get on a plane, the plane takes off and then lands, but you don't know how a plane works, you're just transported by it from one place to another.

In life, here in existence, the human being is born and spends his entire life without an understanding of the Truth of what life means, the meaning of it, so he spends an entire life without an understanding of the Wholeness of life, the Completeness of life, the Truth of life. All this happens because we don't understand the Truth of who we are, we don't understand ourselves, we don't know the Reality of our own Being, the Reality of our own Real Nature, we don't recognize the Truth of the Beauty of life. So, we are alive without life, because there is no understanding of the Singularity, Beauty, Truth of life.

Understanding who we are requires a view of how we function, so we have an understanding of ourselves. This is the understanding of the Beauty of life, of this being alive, of this Being Life that we are. This approach requires Self-Awareness, the Truth of your Being being revealed. A comprehension of how we function requires an understanding of how the mind works. So here we have another question: what is the mind? How does the mind work? In addition to “what is thinking?” and “what is thought?”

Observing the internal movement of remembrance, recollections and memories gives you a clear view of how thought works. The point is that we are, in general, always reacting to the present moment without the slightest awareness of this element that reacts to that instant, which is the thought element. It is thought that is reacting to the stimuli of the senses, to visual perception, to auditory perception, to each and every form of sensory perception. Thought, as a response of memory, of recollection, is reacting, and in reacting to this moment, in reacting to this stimulus, thought acquires even more information about the experience and stores this information within its own collection of memories and recollections.

So, in this present moment, we are always reacting and acquiring new experiences. These experiences become memories, recollections, which take this form, which is the form of thought. Then, faced with new challenges, we react again with these thoughts, which are already stored, which are recollections, memories, and so we are continually reacting and acquiring more recollection, more memory, more thought, more knowledge of these experiences. The responses to this moment are responses that are born of memory, that are born of remembrance, that are born of thought, and form new memories, new thoughts, which are stored again, and so we are always in this cycle. We have the experience, we keep that experience, it becomes a memory, which is thought, which responds to new reactions within new moments that arise, which become new remembrances, new thoughts, which are kept, and the cycle continues.

We're always responding to the present moment on the basis of the past, that's the movement of thought. So, what is thought? Thought is memory that reacts to this present moment, so this memory that reacts to this present moment is thought. What is thinking? We don't know what thinking is, because we're always inclined to this movement of thought reaction, we're always responding to this instant with the past. There is no such thing as “thinking.” There is only the movement of thought. This is the movement of thought, this repetition. I'm always reacting to everything that arises based on the knowledge that I already have, that I already have inside me. What is the truth about thinking? Thinking is present when there is no reaction. When there is this awareness of observing the movement of thought without reaction, we have the presence of thinking.

Let's explore this with you now. When you, for example, ask me my name and I answer you my name, that answer is a reaction from the memory I have inside me, from a remembrance I have inside me; to that question you ask me, I have an answer and that answer is a reaction. I don't make use of thinking, it's something automatic, it's something quick, it's something very fast; this answer is already born in a very automatic way from this memory background, so there is this element, which is the element of thought expressing itself. We believe that there is an element present, which is the thinker, that is producing this thought, and this is not true; this thought is only appearing as a reaction of memory, and this reaction of memory is thought itself.

This is how we move in life, this is the movement of thought, this is thought, so there is always this element of thought present in our life. When we don't understand that this is just a reaction of memory and we place an element to judge this thought experience, to compare this thought experience, to reject it, to fight against it, to say “I like this thought,” “I don't like this thought,” we are already placing a foreign element here, within the experience, which is the “I” element, the ego, the sense of “someone” present. This is the absence of this thinking.

In general, when we say “I'm thinking about this,” we're already placing this illusory element that is the “I” within this movement, which is the movement of thought. That's not thinking, that's reacting to that moment. The Truth about thinking is to be aware of the movement of thought itself, without reacting to it, without placing the thinker within it. So, in general, human beings don't know what thinking is, they don't know how it works because they are always captured by the reactive movement of memory, of the past, of remembrance, of this “I.” This explains why there is no silence in us, no stillness. The brain is busy all the time with memories, with recollections, with reactions that come from the past, so there's an internal chatter, there's a restlessness in the mind.

What we call the mind is this chattering movement of thought within us. So, what is the mind? It's this movement of perception, sensation, feeling, and thought which, in general, works in a very restless way in human beings. So, there is this restlessness of the mind because there is no understanding of this movement, which is the movement of thought. “How to get rid of this chattering?” How do I get rid of the negative thoughts? How do I get rid of obsessive thoughts?” These are questions that people ask because they don't understand how they really work. So, psychologically, the human being is stuck in a pattern of programming, of mental conditioning, of psychological conditioning, because we are always reacting.

We want to invite you to approach the observation of the movement of the mind, then there will be this awareness of how the mind works, there will be an understanding of what thinking is. When there is this stillness of the mind, which arises from this observation of the movement of thought, we are faced with thinking. Thinking is free from the thinker, just as feeling is free from the “I” that feels, just as observing is free from the observer. In this sense of ego-identity, in this psychological condition of always reacting to the present moment with this background of memory, of remembrances, of reactions from the past, always placing this element, which is the “I” element, to judge, to compare, to reject, to fight against this experience… In this way, we are always trapped in this model of the thinker with its thinking, the observer with its observation, the one who feels with his feeling, so there is no approach to the Beauty of the Truth of Being, this thinking free of the thinker, this observation free of the observer, this feeling free of the one who feels.

So, there is no Truth of understanding who we are because there is no Self-awareness. To see this, to become aware of this, of this inner movement, which is the movement of the “I,” of the ego, of this experiencer, of this observer, of this thinker, to become aware of this is to go beyond this, beyond this sense of the “I,” of the ego. Self-awareness gives you this approach. Here I refer to the Truth of Self-Awareness. It's not something you'll learn from someone, that you'll learn in a book, that you'll take a course on. Here I'm referring to the art of learning to look at the movement of the mind itself, which is the movement of this thought, this thinking, and feeling. To become aware of this model of thinking and feeling in the “I,” of this “I,” is to go beyond this thinker, it is to understand the Real Thinking, the Real Feeling, the Real Seeing.

So, the work consists of this awareness of oneself. Thus, the Truth of Revelation consists of understanding this movement about who we are, about what we show ourselves to be in that instant, so that this movement of duality, which is the thinker and thought, disappears, the one who observes and the what is observed disappear. The presence of That which is outside the “I,” outside the ego, of that Unnamable, Indescribable Reality, which is the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God, which is the Reality of your Being, shows itself in that instant.

So, this work here consists of learning the art of self-observation, which brings you closer to Real Self-awareness, to True Meditation in a practical way. We have two playlists here on the channel showing you the beauty of the Truth of Real Self-awareness and True Meditation in a practical way. So that's our work here on the channel. We have meetings on weekends, online – you can enter our WhatsApp link here for more information and you can get closer to these meetings – we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, please give your “like,” subscribe to the channel, and let's work on it, OK? Here's the invitation and we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

September, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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