Learning About Self-awareness | The Awakening of Wisdom | What Is Thought? | Anxiety

The element that establishes us in this model, which is the model of becoming or ceasing to be, is the presence of thought. We cannot exhaust this subject; it is very vast. Paradoxically, it always starts from the same base, always points to the same principle and, nevertheless, it is something very extensive, requiring on our part this careful, investigative, exploratory, adventurous approach of looking, and looking, and looking once more, and continuing to look.

This learning about ourselves is not a thing for, after a few hours, you to say: "I know." It is a learning in which this verb is always here, without any change. It is not a verb that has a change; it has no verb tenses. It is a verb that, curiously, is not or is not located, is not for the person, is not located for the person. Learning, learning, learning... learning about oneself, learning about thought, the thought in you, how it happens, how it processes, how it acts, how it moves.

So, we are facing something that is fascinating. There is no adventure in life more extraordinary than this self-discovery. Look at people who go climbing, who bungee jump, or do hang gliding flights, or skydive, or involve themselves with extreme sports; they do not have the slightest idea of the adventure that it is to dive into this new dimension, to scale these heights, as well as to descend to these depths of the truth about oneself. This requires this learning about ourselves. As the entire base of the person, since the person is constituted of thoughts, investigating the nature of thought, the movement of thought within you, is the greatest of all adventures.

Look at your head: it is thought that says who you are and made you be who you are. So, who you are, is who thought shaped. You were shaped by thought. The person that you are, is just thought. What you feel, what you do, what you speak, what you do not do, what you do not feel, all of this has a hand in it, the approval, the presence of thought. Your future, your past, your present is thought. See, everything in the idea is within the model of thought. The comprehension of the truth about the "I", about the person, about you, reveals to you something beyond thought. Beyond thought, we no longer have this "you" with your life, with your history, with your memory, with your model of being someone. This is the great Discovery, this is the great Revelation, this is the great Awareness of the Unknown.

So, to investigate the nature of the "I", to investigate thought in each one of us, to investigate thought within you. You have no way to find this in psychology books, in religious books, in philosophy books. There is no book, no specialist who has ever written about you psychologically. Having the comprehension of oneself is to come across this vision, this adventure, the adventure of this learning about ourselves, of this learning about Self-awareness.

What importance does this have? All. In fact, in life, the only thing that matters is the Truth, and there is no Truth in the person, there is no Truth in this life of this someone, of this "me". There is no Truth. You are not the Truth as a person; you are a fraud, you are a fiction, you are an imagination established by thought for itself. It is in this relation that you are with the other; you are a fiction, an imagination, an idea established in oneself in this relation with him or her. But he or she is in the same condition as you. So, there is nothing more important in life than the very Awareness of Being. This is Real. Because this is the Awareness of Life, this is the end of this fiction, of this imagination, of this structure, which is the structure of the "I", of the ego, of the person.

So, we are not forcing this, it is not a forcing of statement to say that there is nothing in life more important than the adventure. It is not rock climbing, it is not mountaineering, it is nothing like that. The Real adventure is the Awakening of Truth, it is the Awakening of Wisdom, it is the Awakening of this Divine Intelligence to deal with life as it happens and not as thought says it is happening. You are someone very intelligent, you have already been awarded, you are seen there in some circles of well-understood, intelligent people, specialized in some areas. You are seen there as someone of prominence. Okay, that is commendable, it is beautiful, it is enviable.

That is how people look at one another, based on models, of reference; this raises in them envy, which we think is very natural. This model of being someone comparing oneself, but leaving that aside - because that is completely stupid. But these are our rules of coexistence in society, in the world, in this model. We admire the most admirable, we envy those who are enviable, we want prestige, applause, recognition. Perhaps a beautiful car like that one, or a beautiful house like that one, or a handsome boyfriend like that one. So, we appreciate this very much. This is the model that we have in life to be someone. But this person who is seen like this, there, in that context, because she does not know herself, because she does not comprehend herself, when she arrives home, in the closest relation she has, with the people she says she loves or feels she loves or that she loves them - at least that is how she believes -, she does not know how to be happy there, because she does not know herself.

So, it does not matter if you studied a lot, if you achieved a lot, if you are very intelligent; but if you do not know the truth about yourself, nothing replaces this Silence, this Peace, this Freedom, this Real Intelligence to deal with the husband, with the children, with the family, with the world around you. You are very intelligent, but you are zero in Intelligence. Your intelligence is specialized; that is why you are awarded. But you, girl, know nothing of yourself. It is the search for happiness, where? In external realizations. So it has been our life, the life of the person.

Therefore, learning about oneself, learning how the mind works, this is the most important thing. Never again depending on medicines to control these internal states, no longer depending on consulting someone to help you understand your anger, your fear, your despair, this affliction. The freedom of looking at life without the past, of dealing with him or her without the illusion of what he represents to you, once you are free from the image you sustain about who you are, and do not depend now on his or her image. You do not want anyone to adjust anymore, nor do you need to adjust to you anymore. Not only that: you want nothing, expect nothing, seek nothing, look for nothing - in people. There is no person for you; only him or her, human beings. This occurs when you discover the truth about you, which requires the comprehension of the truth about thought.

What is thought? We return to the beginning of the talk. What is this learning about thought? Look at your head. Do you not think, or is thinking in you the thinker occupying himself with his thoughts? Are your thoughts the repetition, the continuity of a restless, chatterbox, repetitive, mechanical - I would say stupid - model of chattering, of thought processing within you?

These days, someone wrote in one of the comments - it is there, one of the last comments on the channel: "Why am I here ruminating? I stay ruminating all day." The person wrote exactly this: "I have the addiction of ruminating." Do you know what ruminating is? Do you know this expression, this verb? Ruminating is what cows do. Ruminating is this, it is what cows do. We are doing what cows do. When the cow eats during the day, that is ruminating. Animals do this. They eat the grass; you go to sleep; if you get up at dawn, you hear the cow ruminating. She is sleeping, but she is not sleeping. She is receiving back the bolus in her mouth, chewing again and swallowing. This is called ruminating, for your information. Ruminating is this: it is to keep bringing back what was swallowed and chewing and swallowing again. It is this, ruminating is this. Cows do this. And this young man wrote and said: "I stay ruminating thoughts." What he wants to communicate to me is this: it is that I do not know what to do with this that I am swallowing, which every time comes back.

See, that is how the mind works. That is why it is useless for you to achieve what you wish to achieve without first comprehending who you are. Because you are going to be just someone, like a good cow, ruminating stories, memories of the past, living in the past, living off the past, off what was already swallowed. Do you comprehend now the importance of learning about this? Of learning how your mind works, so as to no longer live in the past, off the past, so as to no longer live off thought? You do not deal with the husband, with the wife, with the family, with life as it happens when the past is present. Who is dealing with the present moment from the past is not the Reality of this Being. It is only this "me", this "I", this "you", who, like that "good beautiful cow", is ruminating the past. Psychologically, we need to get rid of thought. That is what we are saying here. Get rid of thought, get rid of the past, get rid of this movement of ruminating.

So, the person who wrote is here on the channel; later you can read it. He said: "I have the addiction of ruminating, I spend the entire day ruminating." Because he heard one of the talks and said: "Wow, what is this that he is talking about? I stay here ruminating exactly what you are saying, I stay ruminating." He used this term; suddenly, it is someone who deals with a farm, with cattle. So, "I stay here ruminating." I found the verb interesting. "I stay here ruminating." So, in the mind, that is how we function. Because we do not comprehend what thought is.

What is thought? Thought in you is the experience that is coming back. The experience that is coming back is thought. Every memory that you have - listen to this -, every memory that you have is "something coming back from the stomach." It is something coming back again. It is something repeating itself. Do you remember on that day that someone said that to you? Of course you remember, because it is coming back, and it is only coming back because "it is coming from the stomach again." And you are there ruminating: "Why did she talk like this with me? I never did anything to her. She pays me, but she does I don't know what..." That is how, psychologically, the mind works in all of us.

Why is someone's problem disturbing you? Because you bought the problem. You swallowed it; it is coming back. Did you perceive? If you had not swallowed it, would it be coming back? If it were not this background of memory, if it were not this background of memory, if it had completed itself at the moment you listened, would it be coming back? Why is it coming back? Because you listened. You listened and particularized it for yourself. You became an accomplice to a psychological condition that has nothing to do with you. No, now it has everything to do with you. In fact, the person already told you because she knows that you are great, great for complicity, of this quality of "happiness" that she communicates when she tells you problems.

So, what is thought in us? Thought is a response of memory, like a reaction comes back and stays there knocking on your head, saying: "Do something, solve this." So, what is thought? Thought is this. Now, what is the thinker? The thinker is this one for whom thought comes back. Let us see if we comprehend well. What is thought? Thought is this memory, okay? But for whom is this memory coming back? For the thinker. When memory arrives, it finds you, who are the thinker, to stay like this: "Hum... what do I do? What can I do? But I cannot do anything." It is the thinker. Do you comprehend? So, we have thought and we have the thinker. We think they are two separate and distinct things; they are not. When thought arises, it already brings the thinker, because who kept this experience, and it did not complete itself, was exactly the thinker.

So, thought in you is the presence of the thinker. If there were no such thinker to occupy himself with thought, thought would not be coming back. If there were no such registration, it would not be coming back. And we do not know how to deal with this. When you are worried, when you are sad, when you are angry, when you are afraid, realize: it is only the presence of thought that found someone, who is the thinker. So, what is the thinker? The thinker is this one who occupies himself. And what is thought? It is memory.

What would internal life in you be if you did not have the weight of this psychological occupation, of this thinker occupying himself with little stories of other people's lives or with this little story of one's own dissatisfied, disoriented, disturbed life in this relation with the husband, with the child, with the boss? What would your life be free from thought, without the past? You know that the moments of peace that you have are moments without thought. Is it not like this? Why is peace present when thought is not? Because the thinker is not. The person is not. We do not have the presence of thoughts without the presence of someone occupying himself with them. Listen carefully to this.

Here, we have a key to liberate ourselves from thought, which either places us in the past or in the future - and that is problem all the time. In the future of desires, of what I need to achieve and so on - which is desire, which is affliction -, or in the past: "What do I do to solve that, that, that?" So, we live in the field of the mind, in the field of ideas. This is the model of the mind programmed to be like this; this is our conditioned mind. So, studying thought is to become aware of the thinker involving himself with it.

Perhaps you say: "And what do I do with thought?" This idea of doing something belongs to the thinker. That is why it has not worked out. You do not get rid of thoughts wanting to get rid of them. Because who is it that wants to get rid? The one who is occupying himself with thought. What do we need? We need to discover what, in fact, we need. We need to discover how the mind works, how thought works, for a life free from thoughts, for a life free from someone thinking. Is this possible? Yes. Yes. It is just that nobody ever told us this. Because everyone lives as a person thinking all the time, psychologically occupied with the past or with the future. They do not recognize the beauty of the moment, the beauty of this instant.

The encounter with this moment is an encounter with Intelligence to deal with him or her, to deal with oneself, to deal with thoughts, with feelings, with emotions, without placing a present identity there, which is the thinker, which is the one who experienced, the one who sees himself responsible. All of this is part of the illusion of the person, of this "I". In this learning about oneself, the end to all of this occurs.

So, yes, this is Real. The presence of Intelligence is the Freedom to Be One with Life, one with the present moment, without this model of thought that comes back. "Ah, but what about functional thought?" That is none of your business. That is a matter of technical memory in your brain. Free from this pattern of egoic thought, which is the thought that I call psychological thought, which is psychological memory, at the base of all the problems of your life, functional thought continues.

If you know how to speak a language, you continue knowing, free from psychological memory, because that is not psychological memory; it is technical memory. If you know how to fix something, you will continue knowing. If you know how to cook, you will continue. If you won an award there in the academy, if you won an award in the university, if you have a specialty, how wonderful! That is beautiful, it is wonderful. That will continue. But, for sure, you will no longer suffer with thought in the relation with the world around you. Because the thought that makes you suffer is the thought of being someone, of the person, which is the past, which has problems, which has to solve problems, which has things to take care of, things to protect. We do not know how to deal with life as it happens.

If you are a mother or a father, the children, what is the problem? Attend, take care, but do only what is real, not what is imaginary in this relation. If you come to me and ask: "What do I do in this marriage?" Be only the husband or the wife. Without the idea of being husband or wife, everything becomes light. With the idea of being husband or wife, the "I" enters, the ego enters. Violence arises, fear arises, emotional dependence arises, affective neediness arises; every type of confusion arises when the image you have about who you are, about how you deserve to be treated, or how you should treat the other, is present. See how simple it is: it is just getting rid of the ego. "What are you saying? Is it simple?" No, let me correct: perhaps it is not simple, but this is a matter of yours. You are in life to solve this. So, solve this. Live a life free from the ego.

So, there is no problem in being there as the husband, or the wife, or as the child, or having children, or taking care of business, or taking care of whatever you have to take care of. If there is illusion of someone, this requires a work in oneself, which nobody will do in your place. To become aware of this model of thought that does not complete itself and that positions you as someone to occupy yourself with matters that are not yours, like, for example, taking care of his or her future. His or her future is not in your hands. But when the mother thinks she has the future of her children in her hand, she places herself as mistress of the universe, as God Himself. How we love this: being a person all the time, in the relation with people all the time.

So, the idea of being someone - can we let go of this for contact with life, as life happens, without someone present? In this intelligent relation with the moment, without the past? Without this model which is the model of thought? You do not need thought that does not complete itself. The only thought you need is functional, practical thought; this one is present. When you are seated, you are seated in a posture of memory of this body. This has nothing to do with the presence of someone seated; it is only the body.

Thus, dealing with thoughts is something simple when the thinker is not. But when the thinker is, when the experiencer is, when the "I" is, when the ego is, dealing with thoughts is complicated. You will be dealing with the thought of the past, with something that did not complete itself and that is coming back and placing you in this context of illusion of someone present in time, someone who lived that or someone who will have to live that other thing.

I know that all of this sounds very strange, because our idea - because it is all that we know of life - is that life is going to happen; and life has already happened. And here we are saying that life is what happens; it is only what happens. Outside of what happens, thought in you creates the idea of someone, imagining what was or what will be. And, in this that was or what will be, there is this image that we build about who we are, within our relations with the other, with ourselves, and with life.

A person in a frame of anxiety is only the image she established about who she is, in the context of what she needs, of what she deserves, of what she does not deserve. It is the self-image, it is the image of the "I", it is the image of the ego. But what goes for anxiety goes for all frames of disorder, of mental pathology, of issues of the mind. So, there is no mental health, there is no health in the mind, when thought is not comprehended and finished, and finished when the psychological model of being someone does not end.

So, what is the Awakening of this Intelligence? What is the Awakening of this Awareness? What is the Awakening of this vision of Truth? Here, Awareness is not the awareness of the person. I refer to timeless Awareness. What is Awakening? It is not that awakening that pulled you out of bed this morning. I am talking about the Awakening of Truth about you, which includes the discarding of the illusion about who you are, for the comprehension of something beyond this, which is there, beyond the known, beyond the known. All right?

Thus, the great adventure, the great adventure, our great climb, the summit of the highest mountain, that great jump, the descent to these unreachable, unattainable depths, is Something present here, when Life is here, in this Silence, when the mind quiets down, this new Space opens up, this Reality reveals itself and, in it, is the Awareness of Supreme Intelligence, the Intelligence of God. In it, Truth is present, in it, Wisdom is present, in it, That which has no name is present.

February, 2026
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Invisible Supply | How to Find God? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone, we're here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is with us. Thank you, Master, for being here. Today, I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Invisible Supply." In one passage of this book, Joel Goldsmith makes the following comment: "We come to comprehend that, although the supply may come through these channels, its source is within us." Well, Master, in this passage, Joel says that the source is within us. Within these topics, Master, can you share your vision on how to find God?

MG: Gilson, here we face a mistaken idea. It's the thought of having this encounter with God-that's the mistaken idea. Present Reality is God's Reality. You, in thought, cannot have an encounter with God. What becomes possible here is the awareness of this Reality; the comprehension of this present Reality. Unless you have this comprehension-which is the Reality of this Self that is present here-there will be no encounter with God. The encounter with God is to embrace the Reality of Being.

Life doesn't happen for someone, just as God isn't something present for the person. The Reality of God present is the Reality of this Self that is You. This isn't the presence of the person having an encounter with God; it's the awareness of God's Truth here, in this moment. When you go to a lake, you look at that lake and what is there, is the surface of the water; there is no depth. Our relation with ourselves is also a superficial relation. There is no revelation of that lake, of that Life. Therefore, what is present here is being seen by each of us on the surface. There is no depth of Life, the clarity of Life, the truth about Life. The Truth of Life is Divine Truth; it is the Truth of God.

You ask: "How to find God?" First, have the revelation of the truth about yourself. Who are you? If there is no revelation of the truth about yourself, if you don't know the truth about yourself, how will you know the truth about God? Finding God requires knowing where He is, where He is. For us, God is a truth in the future because, when we talk about this encounter, the mind projects the future onto the encounter. The idea is someone having an encounter with God. Investigating the nature of the truth about oneself is to discover that this "I" is not real. There is no one present here to have this encounter with God. There is no one present here to think about Life, about the future, to think about tomorrow. The presence of this someone is the presence of the thinker having thoughts.

But what is the truth about thought? To have awareness of this "I," which is the thinker, we must, first of all, comprehend what thought is. The idea you have about yourself is a thought present there. What is the truth of this thought? Is there such a thing as someone's thought? Is there a separation between the thought present here, at this moment, and someone having this thought? Or is this someone having this thought a single phenomenon, a single event?

Note, for this answer-which is the answer to the question "How to find God?" -, we first need the answer to the question "Who am I?" Who is this who thinks? Who is this who is having this thought? Comprehending the truth of thought about God is comprehending the truth about this "I" who thinks about God. It is precisely here that the answer to this question lies, because Truth, when it reveals itself, shows itself as a single present Truth. The truth that there is no such thing as this "I" when thought is present. What is present, when thought is present, is memory, recollection, remembrance; it is the suggestion given by thought itself. Therefore, it is thought itself that creates this "I" seeking this answer.

Your contact with the Reality of God, with Divine Truth, in this encounter with God, is That which is revealed here, present when thought is not present, because this "I" is not present. There is only Life happening. Life is this Divine Reality, here and now. The idea of ??someone present having thoughts about Life, about God, about the world, is something imagined by thought itself; constructed, established by thought itself.

It's important to listen to what we're saying here, but it's not just about dwelling on these words. It's necessary to become aware of this directly; and you can-and should-become aware of this directly by learning about yourself. It is when there is this self-learning-which is true Self-awareness-we discover that the presence of thought for this "I is an illusion. In this learning, we discover that when we discard thought, we discard this "I," and Life reveals itself as the Truth of God. This is the Truth about you.

Therefore, you are not to be found in the future. You are here as this is the Reality of Life itself, to self-reveal. In this self-revelation, you have this encounter with God. But, in this encounter with God, there is no separation between the Reality that we call God and you. Notice, this is something entirely different from everything that thought has put there as a belief: the idea of ??God there and you here; you as someone, as a person, and God as the Supreme Reality. The Reality of God cannot be there, cannot be in the future, cannot be in time. This is part of the imagination of thought.

Thought in us is the element that comes from memory. The presence of memory is the presence of thought. Thought is, basically, memory. Memory is, basically, the past. Thus, what there is in the future, for the future, is what thought establishes. And, therefore, the future is still the past. Therefore, what is present is the presence of the imagination of God in the future. It is thought, the element of the past, that imagines this encounter for this "I" that it has established, that it has constructed.

The comprehension of Truth requires the end of thought, of the past and, naturally, of the future. There is no such thing as this future without thought, without the past; and there is no such thing as this "I" without the presence of thought. Your contact with this instant, without thought, is contact with Life without the "I," without the ego, without that person. It is this contact that reveals That which is beyond the mind, beyond thought, beyond the past, beyond the future.

You ask: "How to find God?" By becoming aware of the moment, without thought; by becoming aware of this instant, without time, without the past and without the future. Unless you, in your Being, assume the Reality of Life in this moment, there will never be this encounter with Truth, this encounter with God. There is no such thing as an entity here, which is the "I," to have an encounter with something there, somewhere, that thought calls God. God is the Reality of the moment revealing itself when thought is not.

Therefore, we are faced with Something unattainable by thought, unattainable by words. Your true encounter with God is not an experience for the person, for that "me," for that "I." Your true encounter with God is the awareness that there is no such thing as a separation between You and Him; between Him, You, and Life; between Life, Him, You, and the Other. There is no such thing as a separation. It is thought that is establishing all this confusion. It is thought that establishes in us this search, quest, or project for the future. There is no future, no project, no search.

Here, revelation shows itself present, at this moment, when we learn to look, to listen, to perceive Life without thought-without thought, without the "I." What prevents us from having this real vision of God is the very presence of this "I," which is the observer; which is this element constituted of thoughts situated in time, projecting the future from the past. I hope this becomes clear to you. The true clarity of this will emerge the moment you discover how to look. Then, by yourself, the Reality of That which is present becomes clear, which is the Truth of your Being.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, my thoughts are always focused on lack and limitation. How can I change these thoughts?"

MG: Notice, here you talk about this limitation created by thought, at the same time that you talk about this need to change thought. But who is this present element that wants to change thought? Who is this present element that is seeing the lack, the limitation? This idea of ??changing thought requires the presence of someone carrying out this purpose. This purposeful movement of that person is born from the very desire to change this. This desire is the very presence of thought.

Therefore, notice how the mind works in us: first, it generates dissatisfaction; then, it produces the desire to change it. But it is the mind itself, the very movement of thought in its dissatisfaction, producing an idea of ??change in this project. This is how we position ourselves as someone present, as this "I" that wants to change. Therefore, this "I" is the very presence of thought in its dissatisfaction, projecting a satisfaction that it desires.

Your real contact with the truth about yourself-which is to look directly at these answers created by thought (see, at these problems established by thought and at these answers created by thought itself)-to look at this without placing another thought on top of it is to get rid of this "I"; it is to eliminate the continuity of this movement of dissatisfaction and, therefore, of lack and limitation. The point is that we are trapped in a game: the game created by thought itself.

Therefore, thought created this game and placed us as someone present to get rid of a problem that thought itself established. There is no way to get rid of a problem created by thought within thought. That is why we are here looking, perceiving, listening to this movement. The awareness of this movement-which is a movement within the mind itself, which is a movement of thought itself; a movement that is establishing problems and creating projects to solve the problems-looking at it, being aware of it, without interfering, then Something new emerges, Something new happens. It is when this movement of thought is observed, perceived, that it dissolves and, when it dissolves, this sense of "I," of the ego, of this "me," also dissolves.

The Truth of this Being, the Reality of this verification, of this perception, is the Liberation from this condition, from this suffering, from this disorder, from this lack, from this limitation. Therefore, all we need in Life is to discover how the mind is happening for each of us; how this movement is being processed here. It is being processed, occurring in a completely unconscious, mechanical way. This unconsciousness and mechanical nature of this movement is the presence of conditioning, of a pattern of repetition. Discarding this psychological condition is Liberation, in this life, from this confusion, this disorder, conflict, contradiction and suffering.

Therefore, what awakens this Liberation is not the attempt or desire to change, because all of that is still within the own project, the own ego, the own "I," the own mind, the own thought. What brings about change, real transformation (it is not the desire to change; what brings about the New is, in this sense, where we have true change), is the comprehension of this entire process. That is why we have emphasized the importance of Self-awareness and this encounter with Meditation, Real Meditation. We have several videos here on the channel delving deeper into this issue of Meditation and Self-awareness.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, is there a real possibility of knowing what the present moment is? Is it possible to ascertain this from the body?"

MG: Gilson, the awareness of this instant, of what is present here, this is the presence of the moment. There is only this moment, there is only this instant. Our questions are quite curious. You ask: "Is it possible to verify this from the body?" What is present here is Life happening. The presence of the body, of the world, is something present here, in this instant, in this moment, just as the presence of thought is here in this moment. It is not a matter of a technique or a method to ascertain this. All that is necessary is to look, to observe our reactions, whether physical or psychological. It is about bringing awareness to this moment.

So, in this sense, the comprehension of the moment is achieved when there is this Attention. When thought is present and it is observed, without interacting with it, without reacting to it, without placing a present identity in it-which is the thinker-it is something similar to a gesture. Therefore, becoming aware of your gestures, your tone of voice, awareness of speech, of the gaze, as well as awareness of a thought happening within you, or a sensation, simply becoming aware of this is enough to realize that Life is now and here. It is when we intend to change something. This movement of intention is born from this psychological background that wants to change, transform, modify. So, we interfere with the moment, we interfere with the instant. This interference is the interference of the "I"; it is, again, the interference of the past.

This is how we are living our lives: always involved with the present moment from the perspective of the past, from this center that is the "I," which is the ego. But when we discover what it is to look at this instant-just to look-it is like listening; it is only listening. When you listen to something and make a comment about it, express something about it, at that moment the sense of "I" arises to interfere, to give an opinion, to accept or reject. But when there is only listening, there is no interference. When you listen to music that interests you, you simply listen; you don't interfere, you just listen. It's just about appreciating, perceiving, listening.

When we introduce a present identity to compare what we are hearing with something we have already heard, at that moment listening is interrupted. The presence of comparison, of evaluation, the presence of this agreement or disagreement completely alters the perception of the moment, because the sense of "I" emerges. Looking at something is just looking. But when that look is to create comments, to make evaluations, at that moment that "I" emerges with its background, with its past, with its concept, prejudice, with its pre-formed idea.

Therefore, the moment here and now is self-revealing when the "I" is not present, when that sense of someone does not interfere. That is what we are here together to verify, to discover, to perceive. Thus, in this perception, that which is outside the known, outside of time, outside of the mind is revealed. That which is outside the mind is outside of this idea of ??yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It is outside of time. The Reality of this Being, Divine Reality is timeless. This is the Reality of this Being. This is the Truth about God. The awareness of oneself. The awareness of that which is present here, beyond the "I." Therefore, this is our work together. This is what we are investing our minds and our hearts in.

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master. Our time is over. Gratitude for this videocast. And for you who are watching the videocast to the end and truly wish to live these Truths, you are invited to participate in the intensive weekend meetings that Master Gualberto provides.

These meetings are much more profound than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions live. And second, and much more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares an Energy field around Him, a field of Presence, Power, and Grace.

And in these meetings, we end up being carried by this field of Presence from the Master. And by being carried by the Master, spontaneously, without any practice, without any technique, without any effort, we enter a meditative state, silence our minds, and can have a real understanding of the subjects discussed here on the channel.

So, the invitation is extended. In the first pinned comment, there is a WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Also, please "like" the video, subscribe to the channel, and leave comments here, bringing questions for us to address in future videocasts. And Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

February, 2026
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Learning about Self-Awareness. How to find God? How to find Happiness? Jnana Yoga.

What we have investigated and explored here with you, what we are seeking to comprehend together, is the truth of real knowledge. There is an expression in India for the presence of ignorance, spiritual ignorance, lack of comprehension, lack of vision of life; they call it avidya. Avidya is ignorance.

Our interest here lies in comprehending what this comprehension, this knowledge is; it is a quality of knowledge, it is the truth of a comprehension, different from what we intellectually understand as comprehension or knowledge.

Some people dedicate themselves to this search through jnana yoga. The word "jnana" means knowledge, it is the path of knowledge within this tradition. So, in the Vedas, the truth of this jnana yoga is the revelation of this comprehension, this knowledge, which requires the presence of discernment between what is real and illusion.

Therefore, we start from a principle here; the principle is: Who am I? This gives us a direct comprehension or direct knowledge of Divine Truth. But there's something here I want to draw your attention to, so you can investigate it with us: it's the no need for an intellectual approach, as we generally believe we need.

We believe that by reading many books, studying a lot, we will gain insight into this Reality. Whereas, in reality, what we need is discernment between what is false, so that the Truth may be revealed.

So, what is false, the discernment of falsehood? It is clarity about falsehood that reveals the Truth, and this doesn't come from intellectual studies, from reading books. It comes when we learn to let go of the false, to reject the false; here, rejecting not as a positive action, but as discernment.

By discerning the false, there is a comprehension and, at that moment, naturally, a distancing from it. It is when the false is denied, when we let go of the false, when we relinquish the false. We, here, with you, are investigating this question of encountering God, in the question "How to find God?", as well as in the question "How to find Happiness?", and this requires the presence of this quality of knowledge, this quality of comprehension.

Here, when we use the word "knowledge," it is in the sense of comprehension, and not in the sense we generally employ for this word. For us, knowledge is something that is acquired, it is information that is received. When, for example, I can pronounce your name, it is because I know it. Yes, this knowledge is something I have acquired, it is learned knowledge. Thus, I keep the information within me.

In general, we call knowledge the information that is stored, that which has been learned. Here, contact with the truth of comprehension, of the real perception of life, is what we call knowledge. It is not something that is acquired, that we theoretically have within us as words, as memories, as stored experiences.

Contact with life is comprehension. This comprehension is the real knowledge of Truth, of Divine Truth. So, how to find God? By embracing the Reality that is present here when there is discernment between the Real and the false. That which is false, that which is illusory, detaches itself, shifts, and dissolves.

This is a Real vision of life, this is the true comprehension of what is, without the idea, without the concept, without the model of thought about how things should be, about how life should happen. This "should happen," this "how it could happen," is within the realm of thought.

Thought does not portray Reality. Thought is a photograph of the past; it does not deal with the present moment. Thought is something present within us that deals with the past. See, it is something present, that arises in this instant, but bringing a representation from the past. Thus, the presence of thought distorts the Reality of the moment. It is not a portrait of Reality, it is an interpretation.

Look at yourself and you will realize that the evaluation you have, the comparison you make, the discrimination you make of the present moment, is revealed now because of a moment that has already passed. That moment is the past; that past is the thought arising here, at this moment, making this evaluation, this comparison, accepting or rejecting, liking things or disliking them.

We don't know what it means to have contact with the present moment when we look at it through thought; and that's what we've been doing. This prevents us from having a real encounter with Life. This encounter with Life is the encounter with Happiness.

For us, Happiness is something to be found tomorrow. Here, the encounter with Happiness is in this instant, when there is no longer the illusion of what should be, when we no longer have the illusion of the model of this portrait, which is thought evaluating, judging, comparing this moment with some moment that has already been or with some moment that will be. The moment that will be is the imagination of thought. The moment that has already been is the memory of the recollection, which is thought.

Therefore, how to find Happiness? Your encounter with Happiness is your encounter with Life, when there is no longer the illusion that distorts the reality of the moment, when this false is abandoned, when this idea, when this conclusion, this evaluation is no longer present.

How to find God? The presence of this encounter is the presence of Silence, of the Revelation of Life without the "I." The truth of Meditation brings you closer to this moment, this moment of Revelation of That which is real.

Therefore, what is Meditation? It is an encounter with the instant, without the past; it is an encounter with the moment, without thought. The revelation of this moment is this encounter; this encounter is the Revelation of God, and here lies the awareness of Happiness. All this requires the presence of a clear comprehension of who we are.

Therefore, the question is: Who am I? Thus, in jnana yoga, or in the vision of discerning Reality, we have this question to discern the false, to comprehend illusion. The comprehension of illusion, the discernment of the false, is the end of the false, is the end of illusion. This requires the presence of self-comprehension.

Therefore, learning about Self-awareness is studying how the mind is functioning for each of us, the way the mind works, the way it processes itself in each of us, sustaining its old model of continuity from the past.

Life is something here, in this instant, revealing itself. There is no encounter with life here, at this moment, when we confront what is, what is showing itself here, with the idea of ??what should be showing itself here. So, we confront what is with what should be, because we are sustaining this old model of thought present in each of us, of mind present in each of us.

It is the vision of discernment, it is the vision of comprehension, it is the vision of knowledge that is the end for this condition. But I continue to say here: It is not knowledge that is acquired, it is knowledge that is born from the discernment of what is false, of what is illusory. We cannot approach God through thought, because thought is based on what has already been.

This approach to Divine Reality, this approach to God through discernment, is the discarding of falsehood; then there is comprehension, there is knowledge of God. To know God is Being. There is no separation between the Reality of this Being and the Truth of God. There is no separation between the comprehension of God and the Reality of that which is present here beyond this "I," which is this Presence of Being. I am referring to the Nature of the Truth about You.

Therefore, the comprehension of God is Being, knowing God is Being, just as Happiness is Being; this is the presence of Life, this is the presence of Reality. Our focus here, all our work here, consists in studying our reactions to discard the illusion of this thought model. This thought model is the thought that comes from the past and sustains this identity.

Note that every thought in you is just a memory, even the thought of objects. Objects are only recognized based on remembrance, memory. When you recognize an object, you recognize it because you remember; you remember the shape, the name. The memory of that object is the presence of thought.

But there is a quality of thought that gives structure to the false, to this illusory center, which is the "I," the ego, and it is this quality of thought that keeps us in ignorance, in avidya, in the illusion of an identity that sees itself present, separating itself from the moment, separating itself from life, separating itself from God.

It is belief, it is suggestion, it is the hypnotic condition, it is the sleep-like condition of an identity that sees itself present, a suggestion given by thought, by this quality of thought, which is psychological thought. It is not thought about facts, it is not thought about memories of events, occurrences, objects, places.

It is not thought that gives us the memory of him or her. It is the quality of thought that makes us see him or her as a person, as an image that I have of who she or he is. It is the quality of thought that gives us an image, the image of who we are to ourselves. This quality of thought is psychological thought, it is psychological memory, which sustains this "I," this ego, this person.

Therefore, this encounter with Divine Reality, this encounter with the Reality of Happiness, of the Truth of Being, consists in the disappearance of this "I," this ego, this illusory model of identity that sustains itself in this psychological thought.

On an objective, practical level, thought is interesting, it is functional, it is practical, it is something objective. Thought is as objective and clear as an object before your eyes. We are dealing with something material. But when we deal with the model of psychological thought, we are dealing with an abstraction, with a model of imagination, of ideation, of fiction.

The presence of the person that they are for me, that is an idea, a fiction, an imagination. We are not dealing with something practical, we are dealing with a mental abstraction when we are dealing with people based on the person I believe myself to be. Follow this calmly.

There is no present person, unless the model of thought is here creating this image, this fiction, this imagination, this abstraction. We don't need the psychological thought model to deal with life, to deal with the present moment, to deal with him or her, to deal with the Reality that is here, which is the Truth of God.

We place this self-image to do this, we place this person, and, in this way, we are imagining all kinds of things. We imagine God, we imagine happiness, we imagine him or her, we imagine life. They are mental images, they are ideas, they are beliefs, they are abstractions. It is the model of psychological thought that is feeding this.

Can we free ourselves from this illusion? Can we break free from this psychological condition for a life free from thought? It is when thought ceases. We don't need thought, except to deal with very practical matters in life, in this dream we call life. So, yes, thought is there.

In reality, thought, like any other phenomenon, in this dream of existence, is something that continues to appear. But can we, internally, live free from this idea, this suggestion of a present identity that looks at life from the past, from this psychological model of mental representation, which is thought? That's what we're seeing here with you.

Your true encounter with Life is the true encounter with God, it's the Revelation of this Self. That is Love, Happiness, Freedom, that is the Awareness of God, something present when this vision flourishes, which is the vision of Self-awareness. So, we encounter Reality, that which is beyond the "I," beyond the ego, beyond the mind. Okay?

That's what we're working on with you in these meetings. We have online meetings on weekends, Saturday and Sunday. I want to extend an invitation to you to participate in these meetings. You can find our WhatsApp link for these meetings in the video description.

In addition to the online meetings we have on weekends, Saturday and Sunday, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. So, if this makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, this makes sense." See you soon! Thanks for watching, and until next time!

February, 2026
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How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learning about self-awareness. How to deal with loneliness?

The human being carries a search, a quest for connection, for internal psychological connection with other people; people who can represent to them something of profound meaning, something that represents a profound, meaningful fulfillment. This search, every search of the human being toward this connection may seem very reasonable to us; however, we need to investigate here what is in fact happening.

Because when do we feel this pain, the pain of loneliness? The question is: How to deal with loneliness? How to deal with the pain of loneliness? Why do we have this pain present? When we look closely, investigate, we discover that this search or quest of the human being is something that, in reality, is present precisely because of one's state of isolationism, of a profound disconnection from the very Reality of Life.

We were educated, conditioned, programmed, formed from a young age for a psychological vision of the world where the basic belief is of the existence of the 'I,' of this 'person,' an image that thought constructed about who we are. This person, this self-image was educated to seek one's continuity in relationships, to find, in relationships, completeness, fulfillment. Therefore, the search of the human being is the search for a psychological fulfillment for the person, for the self-image; this is the presence of the 'I,' it is the presence of the ego, which is in pain.

The ego lives in an internal condition of isolationism, of separation, in the belief of the need for the other, but the other does not exist for it; what exists, for it, is the completeness of its continuity in the encounter with the other. Notice, we are before something here that needs to be investigated, or we will never know the truth about the pain of loneliness, of this existential void, because we will be maintaining the continuity of this self-image, of this solicitation of the ego, of this 'I.'

Dissatisfaction, incompleteness, the suffering of disconnection is not, in reality, with the other; it is the presence of a projection of thought, of an imagination of thought that the other or life is something that separates itself from this 'I.' By reason of isolationism and the sense of separation, we have the presence of pain and that nothing fills. So much so that the one who feels the pain of loneliness may be surrounded by many people; people may be giving everything to him or her, and yet, there it is the pain.

The problem does not reside on the outside; it is not resolved on the outside. It is not what is external that is the cause of the problem; it is not what is there, on the outside, that is the solution to the problem. Thus, people cannot resolve the pain of loneliness of someone; it is the presence of someone that is the presence of pain. The comprehension of the truth about who we are is something that requires the presence of a new learning in life.

In life, we learn everything. You learned to walk, to eat by yourself, you learned to speak, you learned to read, to write. You learned a profession; now you know something, a technical specialty, which you also learned. Everything in life we learn: to get dressed, to brush our teeth, everything, absolutely everything. Life consists in having relations with people, places, objects, situations, events, which requires the presence of learning to deal with all of this. And here we also need a new learning.

The point is that most of us spend an entire life without this learning of which we are speaking, which is learning about Self-Awareness. Unless you have a comprehension, an awakening to learning about oneself, you will continue, in life, within an illusory position, the position of an identity that sees itself present in the experience of life as it happens, being the experiencer of the experience. When you have thoughts, you do not know how they happen, because you have not learned what thoughts are.

We are dealing with the Totality of Life, and not with a part or a fragment of it. Knowing rules of table etiquette, or knowing a profession, or knowing how to write, or speaking another language is part of life; it is a fragment of knowledge that is made necessary in life for practical matters in life. But we have the Totality of Life, and as part of the Totality of Life we also need to learn what thought is, what feelings are, what emotion is, sensation, perception, the truth about who 'I am.' Yes, the truth about who 'I am.'

I do not have the truth about myself. This 'me' is something that thought established as an idea. An idea is, in reality, a set or several sets of thoughts, which, by the way, I have no comprehension whatsoever about. A set of remembrances, of memories is the presence in me of thought, which gives the constitution, which established this 'me'; only an image that thought constructed about what I am. Yes, the great truth is that we know nothing about who we are, and how we feel, and how we think, and how we act.

So, the comprehension of life requires a vision of totality, which requires the presence of Self-Awareness, of the comprehension of ourselves. It is fundamental, it is essential in life the comprehension of that which it represents, which requires a vision of the truth about who I am, about who the other is, about what life is. Therefore, we need this learning about ourselves. Learning about Self-Awareness brings you closer to Life, to the Awareness of Life. The Awareness of Life is the awareness of the Mystery, of That Which is unknown. The Awareness of Life reveals itself when there is Meditation.

Therefore, Meditation, what is it? We need to learn about Meditation. Self-Awareness, what is the truth about this 'me'? We need to learn about Self-Awareness. In life, we are in contact with people. We do not only have contact with the cutlery at the table while we have lunch or dinner. We do not only have contact with the tools of our profession while we work. We are in contact with the husband, with the wife, with family, with coworkers, with the boss. We are in contact with ourselves, with the thoughts that happen here, with the feelings also, with emotions also.

After all, what does this represent? What is the truth about who I am in the context of life in its totality? We have emphasized here with you the beauty of the encounter with Life, which requires the presence of this vision about ourselves. Then, we have the end of this psychological condition of ego-identity and, therefore, of isolationism, of separation. It is the end of the pain of loneliness; it is the end of the illusion of this search for psychological connection with the other. It is the end of the illusion of the need for the psychological presence of the other for this 'me.'

Yes, life consists of relations happening; relation occurs all the time. Just as we have relations with the thoughts that occur within us, we have relations with feelings, emotions and also with people. Unless we have a complete comprehension of the process of relations and of the real place they have, we will be within psychic, psychological frames of disorder, of suffering; as an example of this thing we have anxiety, depression, anguish, the various forms of fears, anxiety in its varied forms.

So, it is not only the presence of the pain of loneliness; it is the presence of the 'I,' of the ego, which represents all these internal states of affliction, of contradiction. Thus, there are innumerable problems for the 'I,' because we do not have awareness of this art, which is the art of Meditation. Therefore, Meditation, what is Meditation? It is the awareness of Life being seen in its Totality, without the internal, psychological movement where the condition of ignorance, of illusion is present, that which thought constructed as this self-image, as this person.

Contact with Meditation is the absence of the meditator; it is the absence of self-image; therefore, it is the absence of the person. The presence of the Awareness of Meditation is the vision of Life without the past. Thus, the internal condition of psychic suffering, of psychological suffering is completely eliminated, in all its diverse expressions and forms, because the element that makes possible this condition of particular existence, of individual existence, of isolationism, is no longer present.

And how can we approach Meditation, since Meditation is the contact with Life without the mind as we know it, without this peculiar and particular form of ego-identity? The answer to the question 'What is Meditation?' consists in the comprehension of ourselves. Therefore, learning about ourselves is learning how the reactions are happening. And why the expression 'reactions'? Whatever is arising here, from the past, is not free. When you here, in this moment, are, for example, having a thought, you cannot have a thought that does not have a base or an already-known structure of memory, of remembrance.

The thought you have is the portrait of what has already happened, of what has already been. Every single thought in you is a remembrance, it is a recollection, it is a memory; it is, therefore, a reaction. When you are sad, you are not sad because now, here, you are having an action of sadness. Let us examine this thing calmly.

When you are sad, it is not because now, here, you are having immediately, firsthand, for the first time, this sadness; this sadness has its root, its foundation in thought, and thought is an element in you that comes from the past. When here, in this moment, you are sad, this sadness is the memory, it is the remembrance, it is the image that comes from the past of something that happened, or of something that in this moment represents some pain, but the foundation does not consist in the Reality of the moment; it consists in the representation of thought, in how thought deals with the present moment, and thought is the element that comes from the past.

When you are sad with someone, it is a sadness that thought brings from an image of someone. Thought brings from the past the frustration, the disappointment, the rejection. The root of pain in us is in the past; the root of this pain of loneliness, of this depression, of this anxiety, of this fear. The impression is that we are before something here, and, in truth, we are in the thought about something here. And thought is not new; thought is not the portrait of reality, of what is. Thought does not deal with what is; it deals with what should be; it deals with what could have been or with what will be.

Thought tells you: 'Why do they treat me this way?', 'Why did they do this to me?', 'When will this change?' Notice, thought is always bringing the past and the future. It is the movement of thought in us that is the presence of self-image, of this 'I,' of this ego. Therefore, the root of emotional, sentimental, psychological pain, the root of suffering for the human being is the presence of the thinker, of the experiencer; it is the presence of thought; it is the presence of the ego. Contact with the Reality of Life is the awareness of Life as it happens, without the past. Therefore, when we eliminate the past, we eliminate reaction.

What is learning about ourselves? What is learning about Self-Awareness? It is learning to look without reacting. The awareness of our reactions is the awareness of thought here, of feeling here, of emotion here, which is coming from a psychological background; this background is self-image, it is the thinker, it is the experiencer-it is the element that separates itself to observe, wanting to alter, to change, to do something; it is the presence of reaction.

See that we spend our entire life without the awareness of how we function, and because we do not have this awareness, there is no comprehension. We cannot free ourselves from that which we do not comprehend; we cannot deal with that which we do not know what it is about. Thus, it is impossible to free ourselves from psychic suffering, from the psychological condition of this ego-identity, without the vision that we are dealing with a fallacy, without the vision that we are dealing with a fiction, with an imagination determined by thought, established in us for millennia.

Because, yes, we are the history of humanity. We are only twenty years old, thirty, forty, sixty; humanity has been here for millennia, but everything that is in humanity is in us; everything that our parents, psychologically, felt, lived, we are living. Can we break with this? This requires the presence of Truth. Thus the question is: How to find God? People project, also, this encounter in the future.

Here we are, with you, investigating also this question: How to find God? The Awareness of the Revelation of God is the Awareness of the Truth of this Being; it consists in the comprehension of the Totality of Life. You do not reach, you do not find, there is no such thing as the future for this encounter with God. The Awareness of God reveals itself here and now when the 'I' is not, when the ego is not, when we no longer have the illusion of this self-image. To realize in life the Awareness of your Being is to have awareness of That which is present here being the only Reality, which is the Presence of God.

Therefore, this is what we are working on here with you. We have meetings on Saturday and Sunday to investigate these questions together. You have here, in the video description, our WhatsApp link for these online meetings that we have on weekends. Besides the online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you have just heard is something that makes some sense to you, then here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel and put a comment here: 'Yes, it makes sense.' Okay? And we will see each other. Thanks for the meeting and until next time!

February, 2026
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Human Relations | The Importance of Self-awareness | Mindfulness | What Is Meditation? | The Mind

This subject of relations, which is your question: your question is whether we have to look at the other or look at ourselves, if we have to become aware of what goes on within us or if we have to look also at the other, at what they do or at what they represent. First, before everything, why does this happen? At what level are our relations? When you relate to someone, who is the person with whom you relate? Who is the person that is you in this relationship?

This is what we have to study, this is what we have to comprehend. It may seem reasonable to want not to suffer in relations, but human relations are overloaded with suffering. And why does this occur? So, despite not wanting suffering, it is present. And why is it present?

It is the comprehension of this that frees us from suffering, and not the desire to be free from suffering in the relationship. What you will observe within the relationship is that we do not have a real encounter with the other. And why do we not have this encounter? Because we do not know who we are in this contact, in this relation. You cannot have a real encounter with him or with her starting from the idea you have about who he or she is.

And we are doing this all the time, because we do not only have ideas about others: we have ideas about who we are, about what we deserve, about what we do not deserve, about how the other must treat us, receive us, accept us. So, our relation is always a confused, problematic relation. It is the relation of confusion. This is not real, Real Relation. There is something here that escapes us all the time: it is the fact that people, in fact, do not meet.

They do not meet. They are like opinions: each one has their own; perhaps there is an agreement of opinions. In that moment, apparently, an encounter happened; other than that, it is a total mismatch. So, first, before everything, we have to investigate the truth about who we are. We have no way to have the truth about the other.

Moreover, the vision of the truth about oneself will show you, yes, that which you are. The comprehension of that which you are will make you see the other. But the point is not to see how the other treats you; the point is to see how you feel in this treatment. There is something that we do not perceive. We are not different from one another: psychologically speaking, internally, from the point of view inside us, we are like all other people.

You do not realize that you are envious - this would be very painful for you to realize - but you are envious. You do not realize that you are violent - this would be too painful for you to realize this. You see yourself as you desire to be, and not as you in fact are. So, you see yourself as a peaceful, loving, understanding, intelligent, true, loyal, kind person. You see yourself as you desire to be, as you idealize being; you do not see yourself as you are.

Do you know what the result of this is? When the other does not recognize this ideal that you have about yourself, this hurts you, offends you, saddens you, bothers you or makes you angry, or leaves you too furious. And you call this a relation, a relationship. Yes, let's call this a relationship, but we are unaware of the presence of the true Relation. So, our model of being someone is this: it is the model of the person.

When are we hurt? When are we wounded? When do we become like this, angry? It is when the belief we have about who we are is not recognized by him or by her. And we live in this search, in this longing, in this need for appreciation, because we are, in truth, very poor; internally we are very poor little creatures, poor, yes.

Poor in Intelligence, poor in Freedom, poor in discernment, poor in perception of reality. Poor. We live as very needy little creatures and we appreciate this. So, what do we lack? To comprehend, to comprehend, to comprehend oneself, to comprehend the truth of life, how it happens.

But we are living in ideas, we are living in thoughts; this is the life that we know. What may seem to us here very strange, but fundamental, is the importance of comprehending ourselves. It may seem strange, because the idea that you have is that you know yourself, that you comprehend yourself. Look at yourself. We do not let go, we do not disentangle ourselves from pain; we haven't let go, haven't disentangled ourselves from suffering.

And we have this as a very natural thing, that is, that which is common around us we have, for ourselves as something natural. So, living anxious, living worried, living with anger, living with fear, living suffering - this is very natural. And here come the specialists and they tell us: "Look, it is just like that; no one will ever have the possibility of going beyond this condition, because it is so. " Notice: they are right, they are reasonable within that which is their particular experience. So they tell us: "Look, no one can get rid of this 'I', of this ego, of this element in you, which is the person, which is the person who suffers, because this is natural.

" So, they speak from where they find themselves. What is it that we need here? It is to comprehend ourselves, and it is comprehension that frees. It is comprehension that makes us see that we are dealing with a model of existence common to all, but within the illusion of all. These all are not different from one another, nor do they differ from us.

We are like everyone. Unless we have a clear vision of the Truth about ourselves, unless there is a rupture with this condition of mental life, of psychic life, of psychological condition, we will continue looking at the world from this "I", from this ego, and living what everyone is living. The way I see it, the real sense of a relation is complicity, it is companionship, mutual cooperation; this requires the presence of Intelligence, and there is no Intelligence in the ego, there is no Intelligence in the "I", there is no Intelligence in the person. We transform this - which would be a real purpose in relations - into another thing. Our relations are to obtain pleasure, to extract from him or from her something that gives us a compensation and that fills us.

Look at yourself. We want to do things to be someone; we get married to be happy. Notice: the most absurd thing. How is an action of searching for something in someone who is also searching for something that I am searching for? Will I be capable of giving to the other what I do not have, and he gives me what he also does not have?

But we believe that every movement in life must have a purpose for this "me", for this "I". And this purpose will be found when, in this relationship, this happens. So, we live always in this pattern of psychological need for the world, for the other, for things and for people. So, this real purpose of encounter was lost. So, what do we have?

A lie, a lie of a life from this false center that is this "I", which we are unaware of, which we do not comprehend, which we do not have any clarity about. So, what are we together doing here? We are approaching the important question: who am I? This is the importance of knowing oneself, this is the importance of self-revealing, this is the importance of getting rid of the illusion, of the suffering in you. It is when you will no longer project the end of this suffering being given by another person, but we live in this lie.

We want the other to free us from suffering by marrying us. But he also, or she also, is waiting for the same thing. So, the idea that the world will make us happy, the other will give us what we don't have, is completely ridiculous. So, is it challenging? Yes, it is challenging to know that life is not that which we expect or desire or wait for it to be; it is something different.

What we wait from it or expect from it is false. Here, we are inviting you to become aware of what you are, and not of who the other is. Here, we are inviting you to investigate the nature of your pain, abandoning the illusion that the world is causing you pain, the other is causing you pain, the other is making you suffer, or the other has the possibility of making you happy, or fulfilled, or full. This is false, completely false. But it is what we have, it is what we received from human history, from the culture in which we live.

They taught us that the world can and needs to contribute to us, in some way. But who are you? Who am I? It is this that needs to be revealed; no one will do this in your place. I want to call your attention to something here that I have as the key, I see as the key to this clarity, to this perception, to this lucidity.

This is the presence of a look at ourselves, of a perceiving that which goes on with us, without reacting to it. This is the presence of an Attention upon oneself, something - listen calmly - because it is something entirely different from what we know. Our idea, always constant, is to react and never to just stay aware. We want to stay aware to do something. Here, I am inviting you only to look, to look at that which goes on with you, within you.

If someone bothers you, the annoyance is yours, it is not theirs. Notice what a strange thing what you are going to hear, very strange. When you are bothered, this has a cause; we cannot deny the cause of this annoyance. It's just that the cause of this annoyance is not the answer to the end of this pain of being bothered. So, when you are bothered, in general what we do is find the cause to explain to ourselves, to justify to our own selves why this state of pain is here.

And what do we do when we are bothered? Taken by this emotion, we react; this gives a relief, when we express it by cursing, fighting, hitting the other, blaming the other. But this does not solve it, because we are going through this now, in this instant. You are thirty years old, you have already been bothered at least some three times. evident that not: you have already been bothered many times.

If you are thirty years old, it wasn't only three times. So, what occurs with us? We live constantly, for example, becoming bothered, and we never realized what annoyance is. This is like having a problem that is never solved, and we having to deal with it time after time, after time. So, it is no use for you to run away from the annoyance, to run away by fighting, cursing, doing something, because you will continue being a person who gets bothered, a person who gets annoyed, who gets hurt, who gets offended, who gets sad - because it is not only annoyance.

Anyway, the state in us, of internal condition, of psychological condition, is of continuity, and this does not end until we have real comprehension of it. And we do not know how to comprehend this, because we were not even. at no moment did they call our attention to the possibility of this comprehension. That is why it is said that no one can live free from the "I", free from the ego, because this is the common. Our references are of people around us, yes or no?

Are they not the people who are around us? Do we not live with people? Do we know any extraterrestrial living with us? No. They are people, and people are like that.

But will there be something beyond that? This is the challenge of a talk like this, of a quality of encounter like this. Do you know how I consider this encounter? I consider this encounter as a profoundly religious encounter. But religious in the sense of a pointing to Something beyond.

beyond the known, beyond the common. But also beyond spiritualist practices or doctrines, or what we understand out there as religion. Here, it is about an encounter with the Truth about you. So see: we have the truth about me, and there is a reality about you. This reality about "you" is not this truth about this "me"; this "me" is this one who gets bothered, who gets hurt, who gets sad, suffers, loaded with problems.

So, how can we have a real approach to this? By becoming aware of how we function. This requires the presence of a look at our reactions in attention. When you are bothered, you are inattentive. Listen to this: you are inattentive.

And why are you inattentive? Because you are explaining, justifying, looking for the cause, looking for who did this to you; you are absorbed in the pain, but separating yourself from it, by doing this. So, you are inattentive. Try, the next time you get bothered, to embrace this. It is a great challenge not to find the reason, not to find the cause, not to find the why.

Just stay with the pain, with the sensation, feeling, or emotion. You know that when you feel something, and when it has the freedom, for some reason, to express itself, this feeling becomes an emotion; it involves the body, it involves something physical. So, the next time you feel something of the sort, such as sadness, do not find the reason. I know it is a very great temptation not to find the why of being sad. Try, when you are sad, to stay without the reason for the sadness; try that and see if it sustains itself.

Observe: when you are sad, is there not a story? Is there not a story? Can anyone stay sad without the story of that someone? When is it that you are sad? You are sad when something you did not expect happened, something you did not wait for for yourself arose.

You are sad when you are rejected, when you are not accepted, when you do not have what you desire; that is when you become sad. But is it just sadness, or does it transform into annoyance and also into anger, and it begins. And why does all this occur? Because there is no Mindfulness toward this image that is you, that you have about yourself, which was hurt, which was despised, which was rejected. We defend this image, we defend this person that we are; to justify, we explain.

So, this is the game. This is how we are giving continuity in this inattention toward ourselves, to this "I". So, how can we approach this? Looking. This is the presence of Awareness upon our reactions.

See: upon our reactions. It has nothing to do with the other, nothing to do with what happened on the outside; it has nothing to do with the cause, with the reason; it has to do with our reactions. What we are communicating here to you is the key to the approach to Meditation. Which requires the base for it: the base is to know oneself, Self-awareness. The importance of Self-awareness shows you what it is to learn about yourself, and you learn about yourself when you stop having ideas, thoughts, conclusions about what is out there, the reason, the cause.

Notice that we do exactly the opposite: we live all the time waiting for the other to never offend us, never hurt us, always treat us the way we expect. We live in this dependence; this internal poverty of awareness of self, of oneself, places us in this condition. So, we lack Awareness upon ourselves, a Mindfulness, complete, a vision of that which processes itself here, within us, in this instant. Your question in the morning was: what is staying with what is? See: the first approach is to become aware of what is.

Wait: are you telling me that I have to continue with the anger, with the fear, or with this pain? What we are saying here to you is: stay aware of it. It is not you staying with it. It is the awareness that this state and you are not separate. This is the point.

See: our conditioning was different. We have the idea of someone sad, someone hurt, someone bothered. There is no such thing. I will say it again: there is no such thing. In the annoyance, that is everything, that is you; there is no "you" bothered.

In sadness, you only stay sad when you think; then you see yourself as someone. But, when there is sadness, it is a pain, it is a sensation, it is an emotion, it is a state, it is a condition. Become aware of it, just look, perceive, observe. This is how we approach that which is present here. And, when we approach like this, there is no someone in this approach; it is an approach without someone.

This is Meditation. The presence of Meditation is the comprehension of the illusion of someone; otherwise, there is no Meditation. When someone uses the expression "meditation" as a practice for someone, the idea is of someone in the exercise of that. Whereas, in Meditation, what we have is the comprehension of the nonexistence of the meditator; this is Meditation. When there is Meditation, the "I" is not.

When there is Self-awareness, which is the comprehension of that which is present here, there does not remain someone. This expression "self-awareness" is an expression much used in psychoanalysis, in psychology, in psychiatry, in this area of study of human thought. But do people know there what self-awareness is? Because the comprehension of the Truth about this "I" is the clear vision that no "I" exists. So, when you approach to investigate the nature of this "I", in the question "who am I?

", if this deepens, no "I" is found. The question "who am I? " has no answer. There is no answer to the question "who am I? ".

Because it is not a question like a problem that brings a solution; it is a question like an insoluble problem. Because it is insoluble, we are before a Mystery: the Mystery of Life, when this "I" is not found. So, you ask the question, but it is not to have an answer; it is to enter the Mystery that there is no one there. Someone there to stay bothered, someone there to stay sad, someone there to stay hurt, someone there to have fear, someone there to get rid of fear. This requires the presence of a look, this requires the presence of a new perception.

When you look at something, either there is the look or there is someone in the look. The look is impossible in another way: either the look is present without someone, or the look is present having an observer. When is this observer present? When your look is to define, is to explain, is to speak about, is to give importance or value to what is being seen. Such as, for example: when you see something like a flower, and you say the name or you speak of the color, this quality of look has in it the presence of the one who observes.

But to be before the flower in this look, without the color, without the importance of the color, without the importance of the category of the flower, of the history of the flower, of the quality of the flower - it is just the look. So, one thing is looking; another thing is someone seeing. In general, our contact with the present moment is someone seeing. Here, we are inviting you to look. Look at these reactions in you without giving a name, without classifying, without the idea of who did, of who did not do that to you; just look, become aware.

What is it to have an approach to life without this "I"? This is the presence of Meditation. What is that? It is looking without the observer, it is perceiving without someone who perceives, it is staying aware without someone with any interest in what to do with that. We are unaware of this, people; we are unaware.

Because everything they taught us was to stick our nose in all the time, to be meddlesome. We are the whole time involving ourselves, involving ourselves, being someone, being a person all the time. It is an addiction: being a person is an addiction. When you approach a girl or a boy or an object, it is: "What is this going to give me? What is this going to bring me?

" This is there, it is within this psychological structure of human conditioning that we bring. Everything is to give us pleasure or bring sensation. So, we live always as persons, all the time. When someone comes to speak something with you, as a person you wait for what they are going to say. If they say what you like, you like them; if they say what you do not like, you do not like them.

So, we live all the time being persons. When you arrived here in the morning and said: "I said something there, and when I finished saying it she came with five stones in her hand. " This is how we approach the other: it is from the person we believe ourselves to be, in the illusion of a person we just met. Result: confusion for sure, all the time. Such are our human relations.

The secret of this internal richness, which is this vision of life without the conclusions of the thinker, of the observer, of this "I", is to look at this moment without expecting, without waiting, without seeking anything from it. And this moment can be an encounter with him or with her. So, there is a difference between you dealing with him or with her, or with them, and dealing from the person with persons. If you look from the person, you see persons; if you look from this place, there is no person. There is no person to frustrate you, disappoint you, deceive you, make you suffer or give you something.

This encounter is something completely different, this is something completely different. This approach to this instant is something entirely new, when the "I" is not. Then you say: "How to realize this? " You are not going to realize this; you are going to become aware of what is here, of how your mind functions, how you react, how you respond, how you speak, how you listen, how you gesticulate. Listen to this: it is this Awareness upon our reactions, the presence of a look free from the need for a consideration, of a person there, because you are no longer caring about the illusion of someone there; you are attentive to these reactions.

This is Meditation. So, what is Meditation? I used to think it was to sit down, cross the legs, repeat "om". It is not that, it is not that. Meditation is the awareness of Life as it happens, and it happens when there is no longer the idea of how it should be.

The idea of how it should be is a psychological aspect of the illusion of an identity that sees itself present being the person. This is alienated from Life, this is distant from Reality, this is distant from the other. So, couples live together for ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, forty years, but they never met, because they are persons. Persons with their beliefs, opinions, ideas, desires, fears, expectations, hope, despair. They are persons who are keeping within them the unhappy and miserable moments they lived together more than the happy and pleasant moments they had, because it is typical of the ego: it loves to remember, especially that which gives it identity, and nothing gives it more identity than being a sufferer, than having gone through lies, problems in the relationship.

Result: we look at the world and say: "Where is Happiness? " Illusion tells us that we are going to find Happiness in the relationship. But persons in relation are like trains coming on the same line, in opposite directions. Persons do not meet; they clash, they clash. The trains are coming, each in its own direction, but no one is occupying themselves with the other; it's just that the line is the same.

The sense of the "I", the sense of the ego, the sense of someone present is that. What is Freedom? What is Happiness? What is Love? What is Peace?

It is the presence of the Relation free from the "I", free from the ego. Life is relation. You are breathing: your relation with oxygen is very intimate, very deep; you do not even realize that you are breathing and that there is a relation between this body and the oxygen of the environment. This is life; Life is relation. But, in the sense of the "I", there is no Life, because it lives in isolationism; it never relates; it has what interests it, what it seeks, what it looks for there, in him or in her, in the other.

So, the quality of relation that we know is very grotesque, not to say problematic, not to appeal and call it deeply miserable, because it is full of problems. But how would it be different, if "I" am the problem? It is not another the problem; "I" am the problem. So, I am this train that comes. How can we look at this?

There is only one way: looking. If you look in any other way, you are going to look from the thinker, you are going to look from thought, from conclusions, from personal ideals and purposes; you are going to be a person, and that is your addiction: being someone in this relation. And, in this relation, there is no Truth, there is no Truth. Thus, this encounter with Life cannot be an encounter between two trains; it cannot be an encounter with the person; it must be an encounter with the Truth. This is what is You, when there is no more illusion.

So, before taking the flight of fancy, before being a train in some direction, find the sense of it, find the sense of it. What society taught us was something else. They said that we had to study, grow, then get married; they were giving us directions, and we are exactly in the direction they gave us, and it seems that it is not working out. It is not working out. Let's look at this, ok?

February, 2026
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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