Atma Vichara | How to find God? | Meditation: What is it? | Learning about Self-Awareness

Here, when we are faced with life, we are faced with a movement, and we do not know the origin of this movement. The foundation, the structure, the nature, the basis of this movement, this is something unknown to all of us.

Here, together, we are investigating the truth about ourselves. All of our effort here is directed toward learning about Self-awareness. It is through this learning that the movement of life reveals itself, this mysterious movement that we do not know. Self-discovery is the key to seeing Life as it is truly unfolding, it is when we become aware of the movement.

The wise sage Ramana Maharshi left us an expression, and that expression is Atma Vichara. Atma Vichara, in English, would be self-observation, or self-inquiry, or self-investigation. We approach life when we approach ourselves, through this self-discovery. This direct look, into what we are, requires the presence of Meditation.

When people ask, "Meditation, what is it? What is Meditation?" They usually associate it with some technique or practice being performed. That's how people generally know or approach what is commonly referred to as meditation out there. Here, the Truth about Meditation is the approach to observing the movement of the "I," the "ego," and this requires the presence of Self-awareness, not a technique called self-awareness, or a technique called meditation.

Here, our emphasis is on discovering the truth of this movement. After all, what is it that is moving? What is the truth about this movement? So, all this movement we encounter in life, we are before a misunderstanding, a misconception, a mistaken way of perceiving, illusory and false, because we are living in our minds, living within a psychological internal condition that is illusory.

There's a short story of two monks who were having a discussion. They were looking at the temple flag-it was fluttering in the wind. One monk said to the other, "Note how the flag moves, how it flutters." The other asked, "What are you seeing?" He replied, "The flag, observe!" The second monk said, "No, there's no flag fluttering; what is moving is the wind, it's the wind that causes the movement, not the flag." One said the movement was of the flag, the other said it was of the wind.

After a few minutes, the Master approached and heard their discussion. At that moment, the Master asked, "What are you two talking about?" One of them, looking for the Master's agreement, said, "Master, note, the flag is moving! It's just the flag's movement." The other interrupted and said, "Master, notice, I've just explained to him, it's so obvious: it's the wind that moves, not the flag. It's the movement of the wind and not of the flag." At that moment, the Master looked at them both and said, "There is only one movement. It is not the movement of the flag, nor of the wind. There is one single movement present, and that movement is the movement of the mind." When the Master said that, they both fell silent and remained quiet.

Here, in life, there is only one movement, and this movement continues without being seen, comprehended, or clarified. We need to become aware of the truth about ourselves, the truth about the mind. It is the comprehension of the movement of the mind, the clear seeing of one single movement. Clarity about this movement is its end, because that is the end of the mind. Then, there is no longer a flag, no wind or mind.

There is a Reality present beyond movement. Thus, Life as it unfolds remains a mystery to us, one that thought tries to solve, that thought tries to decode, that thought tries to comprehend, but it cannot. Here, together, we are with you, investigating the truth about the mind.

What is the truth about Meditation? What is Meditation? Meditation is the encounter with the Truth of Life as it is revealed, without any thought about it, any idea, concept, or belief about it. It is the end of the movement of the known, the end of the movement of thought, the end of the movement of the mind, it is the vision of Life as it is happening. Therefore, self-observation is the beauty of this encounter with the present moment looking into its movement, toward the end of this movement.

All movement, here and now, is the mistaken movement of the evaluation of the past, the evaluation of thought. The way you deal with others, the way you deal with yourself, the way you deal with the present moment, with arising experiences, with everything that happens, when it comes from this movement, which is the movement of thought, it becomes problematic.

The presence of Divine Reality, the presence of God's Reality, is the absence of movement. Something new is present, it is no longer the movement of the mind, It is no longer the mistake, the illusion of what is external or of what appears to be internal, but which still remains illusory.

The encounter with the Truth of What You Are essentially, in your Being, in your True Nature, is the end of this internal, psychological, mistaken movement of identity present in thought, in the mind. The contact with Divine Reality, the answer to the question "How to find God?"-this is a very common question among those caught in the movement of life.

Yes, in fact, life consists of movement, or at least, life as we know it, as we recognize it, because we recognize and know through the past, through the movement of memory, which is the movement of thought itself. Therefore, what does this encounter with God mean for those who seek the encounter with the Truth?

The encounter with Divine Reality is the verification of what is present here, beyond the mind, therefore, beyond the movement of thought, beyond this internal psychological movement, and beyond any idea of something happening out there as movement. Just like in the story of the two monks, where the movement was external. When the Master approached, he pointed out where, in fact, the movement was.

Now, what is the truth about the movement? You gain the vision of the truth about the movement when you investigate yourself: that is the presence of Atma Vichara. Who am I? What is the truth about this feeling, emotion, sensation, or perception? In the ego, in this "I," in the mind, the tendency is always, invariably, to look at experience through the past. So, we are seeing the world through a colored lens, which is the lens of thought.

Your contact with people, your contact with situations, your contact with yourself, the various inner states you find yourself in, are not resolved because they are not seen through the light of this comprehension; they are not seen within this clarity and vision. The way we approach problems within ourselves, and also in the external world, is always through the movement of the mind, the movement of thought.

We don't know how to deal with resentment, hurt, sadness, anxiety, or depression. We don't know how to deal with fear. We don't know how to deal with thoughts. We don't know how to deal with the feelings that arise. We don't know how to deal with the other, with him or her. We don't know how to deal with incidents, accidents, and unexpected situations.

There is an unresolved internal condition within us, which always shows up as an unsolved problem, as an unfinished problem: it is the presence of the mind as it is, as it functions. We don't comprehend the truth about ourselves because we don't study ourselves, we don't investigate ourselves.

So, what is this contact with Meditation? It is the approach to this moment, it is the looking into this moment, it is the perceiving of this moment without movement, without the mistaken movement, the conflicting movement, the result of memory, which is the presence of the movement of thought. Can we look at life without thought? Without the coloring of lenses, of these lenses, of this particular way of feeling, thinking, and acting? Then we are facing Life as it truly is, not as the mind makes us see, not as the mind makes us perceive. Then, a new space is present; this space is the space of the encounter with God, with Truth.

So, to the question, "How to find God?" Look at the movement, become aware of the movement, then we have the end of movement; Something indescribable is present, Something beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond the particular view that thought makes us have, makes us perceive, specifically.

Your contact with life is Life revealing itself as this Divine Reality, when the sense of "I" is not present, when the sense of ego is not present. There is nothing more important in life than approaching it in a real way. An approach that becomes possible when there is self-investigation, when there is this learning about ourselves, when there is this new space that arises out of Silence and stillness, where there is no movement. This is the vision of Wisdom, the Vision of God, it is the vision of Truth, of What is present when the ego is not there.

This is what we are here, together, working on with you. We have online meetings on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, where we go deeper into these issues with you, into this self-inquiry, this self-investigation. You'll find the link in the video description to join us for these online meetings every Saturday and Sunday. In addition, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard resonates with you in any way, go ahead and leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and comment: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for this meeting, and see you next time.

July, 2025
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Human suffering. You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking?

All this difficulty we have in dealing with human suffering, with this suffering within ourselves, is because our internal conditioned response to the presence of the experience of suffering is a response based on separation. We haven't learned to welcome life as it happens, and that prevents us from investigating the nature of suffering, the truth of suffering, what it actually is, what it represents at that moment.

Notice, it's not about learning something from suffering, but about discovering the truth of the element present in suffering, which is the "I." There is no real separation between the suffering and the one who suffers. However, our upbringing, our education, the way we've been taught, has been exactly that: that there is a separation between suffering and the one who suffers.

So, we already have a built-in conclusion, shaped by the model of thought we've inherited, that suffering is something to be rejected, not something to be seen, observed, investigated, and comprehended. Here, contact with the present moment must naturally be a contact of discovery, of verification, and that requires the presence of observation in order to learn about it.

We go through our entire lives experiencing suffering in different forms. When we lose a loved one to death, suffering is there; when we are rejected, suffering is there; when we don't get what we want, suffering is there; when fear is present, when anger is present, when worry is present... This is how we've been functioning.

We function in this mode: the mode of "someone" suffering. That's the shape, the model of the existence of the "I," the existence of the "person." And yet, we don't know how to deal with suffering, because we haven't learned the truth about it. The truth about suffering is that its presence requires the presence of the sufferer.

It's the way we deal with the experience that gives rise to an entity here at this instant, resisting life as it unfolds, resisting experiences as they arise, and then we have the presence of the sufferer. The one who suffers is suffering because of the image they've built about themselves, about what they deserve or don't deserve.

Our frustrations, disappointments, conflicts with people and situations are established in us due to the presence of this image, this self-image that thought has built within us about who we are - an image built by thought. Therefore, you, as someone present here, are this image.

You are this self-image, the person who sees itself rejected, unloved, the person who feels lost when lose someone it loves, the person who sees itself undeserving, the person who needed to succeed and didn't, the person who was abandoned, forgotten, the person whom others dislike, the person that people don't want to talk to. So, the image we've built about who we are separates us from the experience and puts us in this condition of suffering.

Can we eliminate internally, psychologically, within our minds, inside ourselves, this inner condition of self-image? Can we look at what we are without the defense of a self-image? Becoming aware of what is present at this moment, without trying to protect an image that thought has built? This is the real way to come into direct contact with suffering, with this learning about ourselves, which is learning about the one who suffers, about the one who is rejected, dismissed, unloved, who lost things, who was abandoned.

When we learn to look at ourselves without this psychological self-defense, without this idea of someone to be protected, defended, without the illusion of someone who doesn't deserve - learning to look at ourselves without self-compassion, without self-pity, without self-sorrow - when we learn to look at it, we eliminate this separation between the self-image and what is the cause of pain, the cause of conflict, the cause of suffering.

When there is no separation between this image, this self-image, and the suffering, we come into direct contact with the experience without the "I," without the experiencer, without the "ego," without this "me," without this self-image, because we've eliminated that space, that separation; and when that happens, we come to the end of suffering, because we come to the end of this self-image.

Your encounter with Life requires the absence of image and, therefore, the absence of thought. Notice how important this is! What is thought? Thought is this structure of psychological self-defense, of image. These are the images thought has been building, placing an identity present that separates itself from the experience. So, we need to discover life happening right here, without thought.

We do need functional, practical, technical thought to deal with very objective matters in life, like fixing a machine, finding someone's house from an address - that's the presence of thought - or remembering this or that person's name. Then, here is the presence of thought.

But we don't need the kind of thought that revolves around this self-image that produces attachments, desires, fears, self-compassion, self-pity, ambition, envy, the need to control, to possess, to cling, the kind of thought that creates emotional dependence, physical dependence, psychological dependence, the need to be accepted, to be loved as "someone," as a "person." That quality of thought is protecting the self-image, it places us in life within this illusion, the illusion of separation, the illusion of duality.

Then, that's the discarding of this model of thought, this element that comes from the past, which reinforces the illusion of ego-identity. This requires real contact with Life, a real response to Life. And here we're emphasizing with you the beauty of this encounter with action, with feeling, and also with thinking - the truth about thinking.

What is thinking? Thinking is an intelligent response to this moment, without the model of the past, without the model of thought. We know nothing about the importance of a real intelligent and free contact with the present moment, which requires the presence of action free from the "I," of feeling free from the "I," of thinking free from ego, free from self-image. And this is what we're exploring with you here, going deeper with you, discovering together.

The Reality of God, the Reality of Life, the Reality of this true Being is not this self-image, is not this "me," this "I," this "person." Can we meet life as it unfolds, without inserting the presence of a thinker, of an experiencer, of this element that comes from the past and looks at the world through its preferences, acceptances, and rejections? That's the real contact, lucid, true, intelligent; we are before Life as it really is, not as the "I," the "ego," this "me" wants, expects, or seeks.

Therefore, the Truth of Life is the Truth of That which is present when thought is no longer building stories around an identity it created. Your contact with people through this self-image, your contact with objects, with situations, with incidents, with accidents, all through this self-image, is a contact based on separation. So is present, this division between you and life as it happens; and in this division, a space of separation is created, and within that space, conflict is present, suffering is present, disorder is present.

Here, together, we are looking directly at all of this, so we can go beyond this illusion, investigating this matter of the "I," of this "me," of the "person." Life is Real when there is no longer this abstraction of an illusory identity that sees itself as separate from Life, making demands, making choices, seeking to reaffirm itself again and again and again.

This entire movement of the self-image, of this center, which is the "I," the "ego," is the movement of egocentric isolation; and if this is present, no matter what human beings may have achieved externally, that achievement is still within the illusion of an identity present, who believes it has achieved, that believes it can hold on, control, possess, and thus, there is no Love, there is no Peace, there is no Freedom, there is no Real Happiness, because the illusory sense of "someone" separate from life is still present.

There is no such "someone"! We are before Life; Life is this Divine Reality, and this Reality is the Truth of your Being, this Realization in this life is the Realization of God. That's what we're working on here with you in these online weekend meetings. It's two days together: Saturday and Sunday. I want to leave you this invitation. You'll find the WhatsApp link in the video description to join these meetings.

Besides these online meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If that's something that makes sense to you, here's your invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, this makes sense." Alright? See you soon. Thanks for being here, see you next time!

July, 2025
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You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? Real Consciousness.

The point is this: caught inside this routine - I mean this routine of the continuity of that pattern of thinking we have, that we know - in that continuity, it's almost impossible to live the truth of a healing for these internal patterns of psychic suffering that we have. We need to discover what it means to have a new contact with life that, at this instant, is present, appearing at this moment. Here with you, we have been discussing these issues.

There is a Truth present, and this Truth is Real Consciousness, the Reality of What You Are in your Divine Nature, in your True Nature. It remains unknown, and it's interesting for us to say this here to you: this Divine Reality Reveals Itself, but it doesn't Reveal Itself to be known by someone, which is this "I;" it Reveals Itself as Life itself in expression, in Revelation. In that self-revelation, we have the end of the egoic mind, the end of that self-image, as I have called it, which is the person.

You and the self-image: that's our topic here - among other topics. In a talk like this, we develop, with you, many themes. For example, here in this talk, we are working with you on the end of self-image, that self-image, which is the person, which is you. This is the presence of the mind, the known mind, the mind present in us. The presence of the mind is the presence of the past. We are living in the past, remaining in the past.

The persistence of the past is interesting. The persistence of the past is continuity; a continuity in a very particular, very special time, which is psychological time. As we grow older. The base structure of this consciousness, which is the consciousness of the person, of this "me," is that egoic mind; it lives inside a model of psychological time, so in parallel, we have time for the body. We age with the passing of years. So, we have this phenomenon, which is chronological time.

Parallel to that time, we have this time of the continuity of the psychological "I," of that ego-identity. Thus, there will never be a healing for that "I." What we need to investigate here is the truth about this. The fact is that, psychologically, internally, this egoic mind has no cure. We can become aware of the truth about this, and this awareness of Truth sets us free.

Liberation is not the cure. When you have patients, they can be treated and discharged. Then, they go home after the doctor discharges them. The ego is not a hospitalized patient being treated and waiting for discharge later. We are dealing with an element present that sustains itself in the imaginary world of thought, of creating ideas, opinions, beliefs, conditioning, response patterns, memory, recollection: this is the "I," this is the "ego." There is no cure for this condition.

Yes, Liberation from this state, this condition, this way of being is possible; it is when we have the end of the self-image, the end of this ego-identity. It's a supposed identity present and yet paradoxically, despite that, having a very particular and real life. Real, in reality, within its own terms, within its own stances.

We are living our days, aging in years, and at the same time, psychologically sustaining this repetition, this continuity, this routine of an internal psychological condition of suffering, contradiction, conflict, and disorder. The countless desires - many of them contradictory and conflicting - the countless forms of fears, something present in a relation with life, with events, with people, with the very thoughts that arise inside each one of us, here we have the presence of these diverse fears: that is the situation of the "I," the "ego," of the "self-image."

Thus, over the years, we grow older and the mind becomes less and less capable, smaller is the ability to look at the present moment without the past. So, we have a prisoner mind, centered on the past, without freedom. We are not dealing here with you with the issue of healing this "I," but rather the end of this ego-identity. Investigating that requires the presence of a new kind of perceiving.

What is thought? To perceive what thought is, is the foundation. Thought in us is the element present that is present because of the presence of the past; this past is the memory inside you, the psychological memory that hasn't been concluded. We can give you an example here of what thought is, because that's the question: "What is thought?"

When you treat me badly, you hurt my "I," my "ego," you hurt me. There's no separation between me and my ego, between that wound and what I am here, in this self-image. Therefore, you treated me badly, and that's this memory, this recollection that comes up as an image, a thought, and also a feeling and emotion of frustration, pain, revolt, anger I have toward you - that is the presence of thought.

We live inside thought, having this quality of unpleasant memory - we can extend this to many other forms of representations of emotional, psychological pain. But we also have pleasant, agreeable, delightful, happy memories, that this self-image also cultivates and sustains in us. That's how we live our days, maintaining this routine of the person's continuity.

This brain is addicted to living like this, cultivating this story, which is just memory, just recollection. We don't know how to die to this, allow it to dissolve, for a new brain, one that has freshness, this Freedom, this absence of psychological story, of psychological memory. Contact with thought at this moment, with the experience of this instant, when there's no record left, we have contact with the presence of thinking.

When you offend me, and at that moment there is full Attention on these reactions here, inside this body, this brain, when the offensive word arrives, the presence of this Attention on that reaction is the presence of a contact with the Awareness of Meditation, with the Truth of the Revelation of that reaction, and so I'm getting to know myself. It's not the knowledge of someone being aware of themselves to change like a person changes, it's not that.

Here it's about the Awareness of the Revelation of the "I" itself, and this requires the presence of an Intelligence, which here I have called "the truth of thinking." When we have Truth, Intelligence, we have the presence of thinking. It's not someone thinking, it's the presence of the Awareness of what thinking is.

So, what is thinking? Thinking is the awareness of looking with Intelligence at thought, without putting in thought the presence of the thinker. When we have the truth about how we function, we are free from thought, from feeling, from emotion, from sensation, from perception, because we are in direct contact with the Totality of Life, and not with the imagination of a particular identity, which is that self-image, which is that "I" consciousness.

Therefore, that's the contact with Real Awareness; it's not personal, it's not inside this time, which is the past, established in us by thought to draw conclusions, evaluations, to be hurt, offended, wounded, to have that self-image scratched. Are you with me? So, this requires a look at this moment, which is this look of perceiving.

We don't know how to perceive. There is no perception. The way we approach things inside is from someone perceiving. We are always putting a personal, particular, individualistic proposal inside life as it happens. So, we don't know how to perceive. To perceive what's happening doesn't require someone to make conclusions about it, to make choices, to compare, to judge.

When someone offends you, they only find you to offend you because there is no perception. If at this moment perceiving is present, that perceiving is Attention; Attention on that thought that arises inside, the feeling that appears. The image itself is part of that particular world view that resists, that fights, and so it gets offended, it gets hurt. The presence of that perceiving is the presence of that Attention, free from the past.

When we touch here, with you, on the Beauty of this encounter with Meditation, we are not presenting Meditation as a therapeutic technique, as something to heal you from the ego. Meditation is the vision of the Reality of Life as it happens, it is the Truth that Liberates. I repeat: it is not the healing of that psychological disorder that is the presence of the ego mind. It is Liberation, it is Freedom from the illusion of that self-image, that ego-identity - the presence of Meditation.

When the mind is purged, emptied, freed from that psychological content of conditioning, history, memory, psychological thought, particular world view, of the other, and of itself, we have the presence of that space. In that space Reveals That which is beyond the "I," which is not inside that known context: it is You free from that "me," that "I," that self-image, that you as thought says you are.

So, that's our purpose in these meetings here: full Awareness of this, the real vision of this Truth, the Truth that Liberates, that brings this Awareness of God, which is Love, Happiness, Comprehension, and Wisdom. That's the purpose of these online meetings we have here on weekends - Saturdays and Sundays. You have, in the video description, our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends.

Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. So, if this is something that makes any sense to you, consider this an invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and write here in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

July, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Spirituality. You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking?

There's a big confusion in this idea of spirituality. What would be the truth about this contact with this Reality? Because, observe something here: what we're calling spirituality, usually, we're mistaking all kinds of non-physical, unusual, mysterious, or strange experiences - like, for example, esoteric or mystical experiences - for the Truth of Spirituality - for us, that represents spirituality.

Here, we've been using this expression, investigating with you, and putting it in a different way. For us, this issue of this contact with Reality is the contact with Spirituality. Reality is the Truth; this unique Truth, which is this Reality, it is Spirituality. This is not something that you, through an experience, achieve, become aware of, apprehend, or comprehend.

It is the Truth, it is the Reality, it is the awareness of your Being. Your Essential Nature is the Truth of this Reality. That's Spirituality. Once the illusion is no longer present, once the awareness of Life as it is, as it happens, is there, then we have the presence of Spirituality. It's not someone being spiritual, it's not someone becoming spiritual, it's not someone having esoteric, mystical, strange, non-physical experiences. All of that is still part of what can still be, as strange as it sounds, identified and recognized by thought.

So, we first need to comprehend here this issue of thought, to really approach the Truth of Spirituality, because what is Real is beyond thought. Reality, which is this Spiritual Truth, is not something thought accesses, reaches, or recognizes. And why is that impossible for it? Because thought deals with remembrances, with memories, with images, with symbols, with representations that come from the past.

There's no thought that's free from the past. All thought is directly tied to a picture, a representation, an image, a sensation, an experience of memory, of remembrance, of recollection, and therefore, of the past. Reality, Truth, Spirituality can't be attained by a description. All this description is the description made by thought, through symbols, images, remembrances, recollections, and experiences, memories of the past.

Therefore, contact with Spirituality is the contact with the Beauty of timeless Life, of indescribable Life, unnameable. It's not possible for someone to assume Spirituality, exactly because the Truth of Spirituality, the Truth of this awareness of timeless Life is present when there's no "I," when there's no past, when there's no "someone."

When thought is not present, we have the presence of Divine Truth. Only the Reality of God is Spiritual. Everything else that we can describe, remember, recall, hold on to as an experience that someone lived, someone who is present, living it, all of that is still within limitation, still within the circle of the known, which is the circle of thought.

The Truth, which is this Reality of what is Spiritual Reality, of the Truth of Spirituality, is the Presence of this Being. Here, it's about the Nature of God; this Divine Nature is the Nature of this Being. You, in your Reality, You in this Divine Truth, are the Truth of God. Not the "person," not this "me," not this "someone," but the Reality that is present here and now, when the "I" is not there, when the "person" is not there, when the "ego" is not present.

That's why we need to comprehend what it is to live life without the model of thought. Without the model of thought... Dealing with thoughts in a practical, simple, direct, and objective way in life, for very practical matters. You need thought to have the knowledge of a certain technical skill.

To speak a language, to write, to know the technique of driving a car, to work with computers, or any other technical, scientific activity. In a simple and direct way, thought is necessary, but when thought enters the psychological field, it reinforces the illusion of an identity present that sees itself separate from life itself: this entity is the "I," it's this "me," it's the "ego," it's this "person."

We need to discover life happening at this instant, without thought, without this pattern, without this format, without this model of psychological thought. Therefore, your contact with life will not be contact from this "you" and this image that thought built about who you are.

Thought built an image about who you are. Since it is an image built by thought, this self-image and you, you and this self-image are part of an idea, a concept, they are part of an imagination, something that has been established in us as being the truth about who we are. However, we are facing something illusory, which is not real. This is taking over our lives. This illusion has particularized the life of this "me" and taken over this life.

Therefore, this life, this "our life," is the illusory life of an identity that sees itself as separate from the Reality of Life, from the Truth of Life, where the awareness of God, the Real Spirituality, is present. Our focus here consists of working the end of self-image, the end of this illusory identity that thought has established in us as being ourselves.

Therefore, the real encounter with God is the awareness of the discovery of God. You're not going to meet God, you're going to become aware of this discovery, the discovery of your Real Nature, the Truth that You are, the Truth that You bring. This moment is the moment of this encounter with the Divine Reality. This moment is the moment of the encounter with this discovery, which is the discovery of the Truth of God.

Life is Love, Beauty, Freedom, Happiness when illusion is no longer present, when this organized, structured, assembled, established structure affirmed by thought is no longer present; this ego-identity, this illusory identity, this sense of someone present dealing with other people, dealing with life, dealing with situations, dealing with experiences. Notice that this whole movement is the very movement of thought that comes from the past.

Everything you recognize, you recognize from thought. And every idea you have about yourself is within thought, every idea you form about others, about life, and about this Divine Reality, about this Spiritual Truth. Therefore, it is part of thought to build ideas about everything. These ideas are just suggestions of images that thought has constructed.

We are not dealing with Reality when we are dealing with thought; we are dealing with the truth of ideas, of images, something that comes from the past, something that comes from and is born of experiences that reinforce and sustain the continuity of the person, of this "me."

The real form of approaching Spirituality, of the awareness of real Spirituality, of true Spirituality, of this awareness of God, consists of the art, of the discovery of Meditation. So, we need to comprehend this matter of thought, to perceive the limitation of the presence of thought, to go beyond it.

The comprehension of Meditation is Life revealing itself, free from this pattern, which is the pattern of thought. It is when, in this encounter with the present moment, we can deal with the presence of thought in a free way. This is what we have called here "thinking." We do not know what thinking is. We have an already programmed form of thought happening in us.

Society, culture, the worldview we received, including the presence of advertising, of the way everyone positions themselves with experiences, we are just duplicating it, repeating it. This is a programmed form of thinking, something that was given to us. We do not know what thinking is.

The Beauty of this encounter with Life at this instant requires the presence of thinking, and thinking is present when we are free from thought, free from this guidance of an identity present, which is the thinker, having thoughts, or believing to be in control, in this "having thoughts," in this "doing things" from thought.

Thus, the present feelings from this thinker, from this element that sees itself as the one who feels, the presence of thoughts from this element that sees itself as the thinker who has thoughts - see, we are faced with something completely mistaken, illusory - this is present because we do not have the awareness of thinking.

What is thinking? Thinking is dealing with this instant without the past, it is dealing with this moment without the model of the thinker, without the model of thought, it is attending to life at this instant with Intelligence, with Clarity, Lucidity, and Freedom. Life happens in a real way, free, in Grace, Beauty, Love, and Intelligence, when we have the presence of Meditation.

With the presence of Meditation, we have the truth of thinking, we have the truth of feeling, the truth of acting in life from this Reality, from this Real Spiritual vision. There is no longer the sense of the "I," of the "ego," there is no longer this model of self-image; we have the presence of the Divine Reality, the presence of this Being, That which is You in your Essential Nature.

This is what we are deepening here, with you, working with you, in these meetings. Some call it the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment. It is the awareness of Life, it is the awareness of true Spirituality, it is the awareness of this contact or of this real communion with God. It is not you and God, it is this Reality of God fully taking over Life. There is no longer this particular life, this life of the "I," this life of the "ego," this life of the "person."

Therefore, in these meetings we have here on weekends - Saturdays and Sundays: two days together online - we are working this with you. I want to leave the invitation with you. You have here, in the description of the video, our link to participate in these online meetings.

Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and put in the comments: "Yes, it makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

June, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? How to meditate correctly

Here, our commitment together consists in discovering the person, the truth of the revelation of this person. The important point here is the fact that this person, who is the person we believe to be, is what thought tells us about who we are. That's basically it. And everything that thought tells us consists of an image it has created.

If, for example, I ask you to give me a description of someone, describing that person to me means that you will give me, at that moment, the image you have of them. That's how you can describe someone to me; it's like making a spoken portrait - that's basically it, it's literally that.

To make a spoken portrait, you need a mental picture, a representation in thought of the shape of the nose, the shape of the eyes, the type of head, hair, chin, whether they have a mustache or not, and so on. So, describing a portrait is creating a mental image about the one you want to describe, that you need to describe.

When you deal with people, you don't realize something very basic that we've been working on with you here, checking, investigating with you: the simple fact that when you deal with people, you are dealing with representations in thought of what you know about them, which implies the presence of a mental creation, an image in you, established in you, about who they are.

What is the truth of the person you are to yourself? The other person, to you, is also only an image. But what about you to yourself, would it be any different? Not at all! The idea you have about yourself is also a mental creation.

When people annoy you, they annoy you because they disturb that image you have created about yourself. If you have an image of yourself as someone intelligent, and I call you dumb, ignorant, stupid, at that exact moment you feel offended, hurt, angry, furious with me, because I touched that image; that image is being injured, is being harmed.

Notice that all our relations are relations in this level - in the level of images. The image you have about yourself needs to be respected by me, and vice versa, or we'll end the friendship, or we'll become enemies, and we might even resort to physical violence, due to the anger you'll cause me, or I'll cause you. That's how our relations are.

Our relations with people are relations at this level. So let's comprehend the first thing here. The first thing is: you and the self-image. You and the self-image are something so close and intimate that we can say without any mistake that you are the self-image. Everything you have about who you are is everything you know about yourself. Everything you know about yourself is everything thought has to tell you about you.

Now, notice the illusion present in all this - in this condition of life we are living. Because if our life is based on the self-image, this life is not real, it is a life of abstraction, a life of opinion, comparison, evaluation, and judgment. When you agree with me, I'm your friend; when you disagree with me, I become your enemy, or I distance myself from you, and vice versa. That's how human relations are.

What is the truth about you? You don't know! Your name is not you, your age is not you, your story is not you. All of that is memories you have about who you are, about yourself. But about yourself, all you have is a construction of thought.

Is there a truth present beyond this truth, which is the truth of the self-image? Because that's what you are as a person. So much so that you take very seriously everything you feel about what people say about you. If they say good things about you, you feel good; if they say bad things about you, you feel angry, upset, because you are unaware of the truth about yourself, or the truth about yourself is only that. That's what you identify with, that's what you mistake yourself for.

A work toward Divine Realization, toward the Realization of God, is the awareness of what is the Truth of your Being, what is You free from this "you" that thought built, free from this image that thought established. That requires you to comprehend some basic, main elements involved in this issue of this "I," this "me," this "person." One of the basic elements, which we've returned to many times here, is the truth about thought. Thought is the main element in all of this.

So, what is thought? You don't have one single memory without a symbol, without an idea, without a mental picture, without an image. Every memory is basically this - and this is thought. All thought in you, is not something that is going to arrive. All thought in you, is not something that will appear from the future. All thought in you, appears in you from the past. It is not something that is coming from the future; it is something that comes from the past.

So, here we have two things present in this issue of what thought is. Thought is the past; being the past, it is memory, it is a remembrance. The other thing is that thought has a form, a mental representation, it has an image. Then, all thought in you is something that comes from the past, and it has a form, it has an image.

I can only recognize your face because I have an image of your face in that thought format; otherwise, I wouldn't be able to recognize your face. And I can only recognize your face because it was already known - it is part of the known. Thus, the presence of memory is recognition, and it is the recognition of an image, something that is already present inside each of us: this is the presence of thought.

When people want to be free of problems, they don't comprehend that the base of problems is the presence, in them, of this element. You wouldn't have any problems with people if you didn't have images, memories of them.

When someone says: "Oh, I really wish I weren't still hurt by so-and-so, or angry at her, but when I remember." Yes, of course when you remember, it comes back, because without the memory, you don't get hurt. You don't get angry toward someone you don't remember. The presence of thought is the main element in this psychological way of existing as someone, as a person.

It sounds strange to hear this, but there are no people. People exist in memories. Listen to that carefully. They are present in memory; they are present in recognition. When you forget someone, the truth is that they don't exist - they are not part of your field of consciousness, since that consciousness is mental consciousness - that's what we call consciousness.

What we call consciousness is the consciousness of the "I," it is the consciousness in this self-image. This self-image, which is the "I," has its memories; these memories are the psychological condition of the existence of the person that I am. But where is this person when this self-image doesn't exist? When you have no memory of something, where is it? Where is the truth of that which you don't remember?

So, we are facing something very basic and of great relevance to this vision that interests us in these meetings, which is the vision of the comprehension, which is the vision of liberation from this dream, which is the dream of existing as someone, which is the dream of existing as a person, since the presence of the person is the presence of the self-image, and this self-image is what thought has established in you about who you are and also about the world of relations with other people. Therefore, the truth about thought is that thought is memory.

Can we discover what it is to remain free from thought? Free from thought, we are free from this self-image. That's the end of this self-image, that's the end of this person as we know it, this "me," this "I," this "ego."

Is it possible to live a life free from being hurt, offended, free from the illusion of sentimental, emotional dependency on other people we believe we love? Free from emotional dependency on other people we believe we hate? Can we free ourselves, in this life, from this sense of "I," of "ego," to be beyond this so-called love, which is mere emotional dependency in relations? - a dependency linked to the issue of self-image.

Can we discover what a life free from the idea of liking and disliking is? - since this idea is in the thought, in the self-image. If it becomes possible, we are here, for the first time, approaching the end of this self-image and the real approach to Meditation.

When the question is: "How to meditate correctly?" In general, the idea is someone getting involved with the practice of Meditation to find the end of problems. In general, the idea of how to meditate correctly. because this is an issue for some: "How can I approach Meditation?" - since Meditation is the Liberation from this model, which is the model of thought, which is the idea of someone involved in this whole process of thoughts present.

So, how to meditate correctly? The truth of approaching Meditation requires the comprehension of the truth about what thinking is. To deal with the present moment, free from thought and, therefore, free from the image I have about who I am, about who the other is, is to approach this instant in the comprehension of thought.

The truth about thinking is that thinking is what is present when there is no longer this self-image, when there is no longer this pattern of vision based on the image, since this vision based on the self-image is the vision of the thinker, of the experiencer, of the element that comes from the past, which is the "I." So, what is thinking? It is dealing with thought, free from the thinker, free from the experiencer, free from this issue of self-image.

We don't know the truth about thinking because we live inside a context of thoughts from the perspective of the thinker, from the perspective of this self-image. So, we live inside this context of the creation of thought, of illusory thinking, of illusory feeling, of illusory living, because we are within this life of the "I," this life of the "ego," where we have this one who is the thinker with its thoughts, the experiencer with its experience, the one who likes, the one who dislikes, the one who sees from these memories, from these remembrances.

To deal with the truth of thought requires the presence of a look at thought without getting involved with thought. This is the end of this quality of thought that is producing in us this illusory identity, which is the person, which is this "me." Here on the channel we have some playlists, and one of them is "What is thinking?"

Is there a way of thinking free from thought? Is there a way of feeling free from this "I" in the feeling? Is there a kind of emotion free from an identity present, mistaking itself for the experiencer of this experience called emotion? All of this requires an investigation of self-comprehension.

Contact with the Reality of Life consists of thinking, feeling, acting, and getting emotional. Not someone present in this; not this sense of the "I," of the "ego," of this "me," this thinker, this experiencer, this observer, which is the "I," present in it.

If this is your first video, this is very confusing. You need to watch other videos here on the channel to better situate yourself about the topic we are working on with you. But we are pointing out for you something beyond the "I," beyond the "ego," beyond what thought in us identifies as real, and that, in fact, is not.

There is a Reality present, and this Reality is the Divine Reality, it is the Reality of your Being, it is That which is present beyond this self-image, beyond this person, beyond this thinker, beyond this element in feeling. That's what we are working on with you here, deepening with you here.

What is the truth about thinking? What is the truth about feeling? What is the truth of Meditation? What is this Real Meditation? If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation. We have online meetings on weekends, where we're together Saturdays and Sundays. You have, in the video description, our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings.

Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, here's the invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like", subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!

June, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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