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

Here, the point is that we need to investigate what lies behind this question, whether or not it has importance and relevance for each of us. I refer to this question: "How to find God?" What lies behind this question? What does this encounter with God truly mean?

Notice that this question is being asked by those who are in search or pursuit of Truth. But what happens in this search? We visualize Truth as something to be found, and then we move from a search. The movement of seeking within us is the movement of will, of wanting, of desire to get there, to find it.

The idea within us is that we are not living the Truth, and that we need to live the Truth, and that we will live the Truth when we move from here to that place where it is found. This Truth is God! This may seem very reasonable, plausible, and true to us, but why not investigate what is here? Why not become aware of what is present here? It is here that we come across a mistaken view.

The Truth is that which is revealing itself here, as we are, as we show ourselves, as we present ourselves. We do not want to look at what we are because we have an idea of what we need to be. We have an idea of what we need to become. Thus, we place the encounter with Truth for the future, for tomorrow.

What we need here is something else: we need to be aware of what is present here. It is the comprehension of what we are, the comprehension of the truth about ourselves. And it is precisely the comprehension of the truth about ourselves that performs a work, that operates a change.

It is the vision of the truth about ourselves that requires the presence of this learning about Self-awareness, which allows us to see the illusion of what we are within this Truth. The idea that Truth is in the future is something we are projecting now, within an illusory perspective, within a vision that tries to escape, to get rid of what is present here. What is here is uncomfortable, heavy, and difficult.

We have a tedious and afflicted life, complicated, disoriented, in suffering. So, we idealize Truth as being different from the condition in which we find ourselves. This idealization is the image that thought constructs based on the state in which we find ourselves. Yes, there is a Divine Reality, there is a Reality that is the Reality of God, but it is not to be found, it is the Reality that reveals itself; and it reveals itself when we comprehend the truth, but not the Truth about God, but rather the truth about ourselves; the truth about what we are, precisely this that we are, here, at this moment.

Learning about Self-awareness is to be aware of how we function, of what we hide and what we declare, of what is present on the surface of our private life, in our relations, and the awareness of what is hidden within ourselves, always finding a way of expression from this mind we carry.

The way we are responding to life, the way we are dealing with people, dealing with the world- the world of ideas, the world of people, the world of objects, the world of the relations we have with our possessions, with the objects we own... We are surrounded by objects, by people, surrounded by situations, and also, internally, we carry many particular forms of worldview, of views about others, of views about ourselves.

Thus, both what is external, on the surface, and what is hidden, in the depths, in what we might call the unconscious within us, the presence of mind in us has this surface and this depth. Everything we are holding onto but have not become aware of, is what is hidden within us-some call it the unconscious or unconscious mind.

We are dealing with one single mind: it is the mind of the "me," it is the mind of the person. And we are projecting a reality, a truth, beyond the condition in which we currently find ourselves, but this projection still comes from this mind, this illusory psychological condition in which the ego finds itself, in which the person finds itself.

We do need a Revelation of God. Note, it is not a movement of meeting Him; it is not to have an encounter, from this movement of encounter, what we are looking for, because as persons, we are living in an inner condition sustained by mental conditioning, by psychological conditioning, in an illusory condition, in a condition of fantasy, of fiction.

The fantasy, the fiction, the illusion consists in this "person," in this "me." The imagination, the fiction of an entity present here that can have an encounter with God over there. The Truth about you is the Liberation from illusion. Only when we become Aware of the Truth about us, about who we are, then this door opens, this portal to the Reality of God, to the Truth of God.

The Truth about who we are ends this fiction, this imagination, it ends this idea of someone present, the person here, separated from God, this "me" separated from the other, separated from Life. The vision of Reality consists in the end of the illusion of the truth of what we are demonstrating to be, seeming to be.

The presence of Self-awareness is the awareness of how we are dealing with others, with ourselves, and with life. We are dealing with him or her from the "I." The "I" is an element that thinks, that feels, that does, that accomplishes things. The "I" is the element that is in search or in pursuit. This element, this "I," is an idea of thought. Therefore, it is an imagination created by thought-the presence of this "I."

There is no such thing as someone present here to have an encounter with God over there. The Reality of Life is here, and the Reality of Life is Life itself, and this Life is the Divine Truth. So, the Revelation of the Truth of God becomes present when the illusion of this "I" is no longer there, this "I" that thinks, feels, does, desires, fears, carries problems and conflicts. When we have the end of this "I," we have the Awareness of the Truth of God.

Ramana Maharshi, the Sage of the Mountain of Arunachala, spoke about Atma Vichara. The words Atma Vichara are an expression that means self-inquiry, self-investigation. It is the investigation into the nature of this "I"; the importance of this discovery, of this verification that we are facing an illusion. To look at yourself and be aware of how you function is Atma Vichara, it is self-observation; and Atma Vichara is the presence of Meditation.

Thus, where we have the presence of Atma Vichara, of this self-observation, we come closer to the Truth of Meditation. What allows us to have the vision of the Reality of God, notice, to have the discovery of the Truth of God-is not, I repeat, to leave here to have a meeting with God in the future, but it is to have Awareness of the Reality of God revealing itself here-and what makes this possible is the presence of Meditation.

So, what is Meditation? Meditation, what is it? Meditation is looking at the present moment, discovering how to look at this moment without the "I." When you have a thought here, at this moment, the idea in you is that you are someone present behind that thought.

When you see the rain falling, you don't feel responsible for the rain falling; you are not the one responsible for the rain falling. However, when you see a thought arising in you, you believe that you are the element responsible for that thought.This responsibility is an imagination of the own thought that arose. If that thought weren't there, you wouldn't have any idea of being someone thinking. The idea of being someone thinking exists because the thought is there. What comes first is always the thought, and only afterward comes the thinker.

When we have the presence of thought, we feel like the parents of the thought, responsible for the thought. But if you examine, investigate, look closely, which requires the presence of self-observation, of this looking free from beliefs, conclusions, evaluations, and choices, free from liking or disliking, if you get closer and look at thought in this way, you'll perceive that thought is just a response arising now due to some stimulus that arose. However, that thought wasn't produced by you, it appeared because of memory, of recollection.That is, it's the presence of the past arising.

And when thought arises, our model of psychological conditioning, of mental conditioning, is to believe we are present, thinking. No, we are not thinking, it is thought that has arisen! The idea of someone thinking is also something that has arisen with the thought. Thought itself creates a fragment of itself, which is the image of the person, this "me," this "I," of this thinker. That's what we need to discover here in order to go beyond the "ego," beyond the "I," beyond the thinker.

Therefore, we need to discover the truth that there is no thinker for thoughts; and when that becomes clear, this idea of separation between thought and thinker disappears. When that disappears, we are simply facing an appearance. Just as rain is an appearance and you are not responsible for it, when thought is present, it is also an appearance. You assume responsibility only when, at this moment, you identify with thought, then arises the sense of the "I," of the ego.

In life, we are acting based on thought because we are assuming thought through this thinker. When we learn to look at thought without the thinker, thought does not sustain itself. When we learn to look at a feeling like sadness, at an emotion like anger, at a sensation like desire or fear, when we learn to look without the sense of an "I" being present, this experience undergoes a profound change; and when that happens, we have the end of this "I."

The presence of Meditation is a new space that arises when there is this quality of looking, of perceiving, of being aware of how the mind functions. And when that is present, at this moment, Something beyond the mind is Revealed. This Something beyond the mind is the Divine Reality. Can we, in this life, assume the Truth of this encounter with God, of this realization of the Reality of God? Thus, the word "encounter" here takes on a new meaning: the meaning of the realization of a present Reality, fully assuming this body and this mind.

When we have the cessation of the "I," due to the end of this internal psychological condition of a model of conditioned mind, we have the end of fear, the end of conflicts of desires, the end of this condition of sensation, something that brings us much suffering, something that brings contradictions, conflict, and suffering for this sense of "I." Then, at this moment, we have the Revelation of the Reality of God, when the mind quiets down, when the brain silences itself, and this internal condition undergoes a profound change.

So, we come face-to-face with the Truth of the non-existence of the "I." And then, with the comprehension of this Truth, the Reality of God reveals itself here, at this moment. This is what we are seeing here with you in these meetings. We have online meetings on weekends, where we are, on Saturdays and Sundays, working on this with you-two full days. I want to leave you an invitation: you'll find, in the description of the video, our WhatsApp link so you can join these weekend online meetings.

Besides the online, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard is something that makes sense to you, here's the invitation, go ahead, leave your "like", subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other again. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!

July, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Advaita Vedanta | How to find God? | Meditation: what is it? | Learning about Self-Awareness

Here we come across the beauty of an encounter with this knowledge of ourselves. And to know ourselves means to know our relation with life, with the world, with everything around us. Not only our relation with people, but also with ideas, with the situations that occur, with everything that happens.

So, we are here looking, investigating, going deeper into this matter. And what we have placed here is that we don't need technical, specialized knowledge, like, for example, to learn something. To learn something, you need knowledge and experience, it's something that gives you specialization.

Here, the approach to this view of life, of the world, of ourselves, in contact with him, her, situations and events, all that we really need to learn about Self-awareness consists in perception. Notice the importance of this expression here, within the context of this talk.

Perception is the way of looking at the situation; looking without the sensing element, without the element that compares, evaluates, that judges the present moment, that judges the experience. When you are with someone, you can look at them from a sensor, from an element in you that makes evaluations, judgments, comparisons, or you can look at him or her without this element. Here it is about perception, about perceiving, and not about evaluating, comparing, and judging.

So, when we learn about ourselves, we are in front of a mirror, of comprehension, of vision. When you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning, you don't look to censure, you look to be aware of what shows up there, which is yourself.

Our contact with the world, with life, with situations, with ideas, and with people, in general, this relation is very mistaken, because our relations come from the principle of the thinker. The thinker in you is the sensing element.

When you like someone, you like from the sensor, from the element that evaluates the other based on wanting or not wanting to be with him or her. That's because you like him or her, or you do not. You already bring this liking from the past.

The way we are dealing with the experience of the present moment is not an opportunity we take; at least we don't make this moment an opportunity for comprehending ourselves, because we don't use this mirror that is here. I look at the other from the idea I have of him or her, and in the same way, I look at myself.

Here we are inviting you to a contact with perception, and perception doesn't require that. We are not inviting you to be the perceiver, but to be in a perception. Self-discovery, the Self-awareness is the presence of Meditation.

There is no such thing as Meditation separate from Self-awareness. Therefore, what people practice in the name of meditation is not Real Meditation. Because Meditation is not separate from self-discovery, from self-verification, from the comprehension of the Truth.

The presence of Meditation is the absence of an element in Meditation, in the practice of Meditation-this element is the element that struggles for results. The struggle for results is the pursuit of the will for a goal. You have a goal and try to reach the goal in that struggle, from an effort. Meditation is not that.

There is no effort in Meditation, there is no struggle in Meditation and there is no purpose in Meditation. Meditation is the Awareness of the Reality of Life as it is, without the "I," without the past, without the sensor, without the meditator.

Therefore, Meditation, what is it? What is Meditation? It is the Awareness of Life, which reveals the fundamental element in life, which is present here and remains unknown; this element is the Divine Reality, it is the Reality of God.

Thus, the importance of Self-awareness is that Self-awareness is the basic element for the Truth of Meditation, of the space that opens, where the Reality of the encounter with God is revealed. How to find God? Becoming aware of the space where He is. It's not where He is located; He is not there. Where is He? He is present as the Reality of Life itself.

Another mistaken thing, besides the idea of someone, by effort, by practice, with the intention of obtaining the result of Meditation-as if there were a result in Meditation... For many, the result is the silencing of the mind, it is quietness, it is relaxation, it is the presence of a mystical or spiritual experience. Beyond this mistake, we also have the illusion of, by effort, in time, meeting God.

So, the person asks: "How to find God?" The idea is that, as a person, they can have this encounter. The Reality of God is the absence of the "I," it is the absence of the person, because the Nature of your Being, the Truth about You is that there is no person present. The person present is the illusion of the "I," of the "ego." It is exactly the element that is discarded within a clear view of Self-awareness.

It is here that we have the importance of looking. Just like you in the morning look at your face in the mirror and there you find your face. Here you look at the mirror of relations, you look at life as it is happening, and you come across the illusion of an identity present, that separates itself from Life. When you come across the illusion, the illusion ends.

The illusion is the presence of the "person," it is the presence of the "I." If it vanishes, now the space is the presence of the Truth, the space is the presence of the Mystery, of the Unknown, it is the presence of God. All this thought present in us, that comes from the past, that comes from a set of beliefs, of learning, in this so-called spirituality, is a mistake.

I refer to this knowledge, this thought that supports all this belief, that sustains and reinforces this separation between you and God. As if there were really something there, somewhere, to be found at some moment, from meditation practices or techniques, or from some form of spirituality, some model of practice, of search for exercises, so-called spiritual, for esoteric, mystical experiences.

Reality is different. Reality is that the Truth of God is the Truth of this moment, when the "I" is not present, when the "ego" is not present, when Meditation Blooms. Here is the encounter with the Truth of this Being, in the absence of the "I."

So, what do we need? We only need to be conscious, be aware of how the mind happens, of how thought processes itself. How do you become aware of the presence of a tree? By approaching it, looking at it, seeing the details, the branches, the leaves, the fruits. Looking at that tree, becoming aware of its presence, having an intimacy with the contact with it in this observing. It is only observing. The simple and direct observing reveals the details.

So, how do we approach ourselves? We approach ourselves by looking. In the same way that by looking at that tree you don't want to change anything, you just want to be aware of what it represents, of the beauty of that moment, of that encounter, here the same happens. You just look at these reactions that arise, at the thoughts, at the feelings, at the sensations.

When you are talking with someone, become aware of the gestures, of the tone of voice present in you, present in the other. You are not going to change, you don't wish to change, you just become aware, look, observe, become entirely conscious of that moment, of that instant, of that appearance. Then, in that moment, you are in front of a mirror. Then the comprehension of how the mind works occurs.

The comprehension of the mind, the comprehension of the gestures, of the tone of voice, of the feeling, of the gesturing, of perceiving all the movement present in that moment is the encounter with this mirror. Then, the truth of what you are reveals itself. It's not about something like the idea of who you should be, how you should be, or how you would be. You are before Life, before the revelation of what you are.

So, this moment reveals the non-separation of the totality of this encounter, of this moment. Then, Something new arises in this non-separation between you and the present moment, and everything that reveals itself there: it is the presence of Advaita.

The word "Advaita" comes from the Vedas, from Vedanta, from Advaita Vedanta. The word "Advaita" means non-duality, non-separation. Therefore, an encounter with the present moment is an encounter with Life as it happens. The encounter with Life as it happens is Advaita, it is non-separation, non-duality. Then, in it Something is revealed beyond the "I," beyond the "ego," beyond the egoic mind.

Thus, learning about Self-awareness, here, is the moment of the Revelation of this Being, it is the presence of Meditation. Then, That which is beyond the known reveals itself. This is the answer to the question "how to find God?" God is the Reality of the moment when the "I" is not present, when the "ego" is not present.

The very verification of the present moment, whatever is revealing itself here, at the level of separation, of duality, of egocentric model, at this moment it dissolves. It is the power of this Awareness of the present moment. It is the power of the presence of Meditation.

Therefore, Meditation is now, it's not in a reserved place, there, cross-legged, repeating a mantra, breathing in a certain way. You are here, talking to someone, driving your car, or engaged in some intellectual, professional activity.

The encounter with this moment, in this looking, without interfering, without getting involved, the very vision of the Reality of the moment, operates a deep change, a deep transformation, because the sense of the "I," this sensor, this experiencer, this thinker, doesn't enter. It's when, at this moment, the brain becomes quiet, the space that was before occupied with unconsciousness, with all this mechanics of psychological conditioning, is no longer present. It is a new space now. There is a space present, and in this new space the Awareness of God reveals itself, the Awareness of your Being.

We need, in life, to discover what Meditation is, what Real Meditation is. We need, in life, to become aware of this art, also, of learning about ourselves, because it is exactly this presence, it is this awareness, it is this space that reveals the Reality of God.

Life in God is the Life free from this duality, from this sense of "I" and "not I." When we have the end for the "I," for this ego-identity, we have the Revelation of Life, of the Real Divine Life, of the Real Life of God.

The meetings we have here on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays-two days in an online format-have this purpose: to work this with you. Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats, that happen at some times of the year.

Our online meetings, you have here, in the video description, the WhatsApp link to join them. So, here is an invitation for you. If what you've just heard is something that makes any sense to you, here is already an invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and write in the comments: "Yes, it 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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Social anxiety. You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? Anxiety and fear.

Have we ever investigated this? Have we ever really approached this to, for example, investigate this issue of anxiety and fear, this so-called social anxiety? Why is there always some level of fear, shyness, insecurity in our relationships? The truth about this is that, psychologically, we are functioning based on a mental representation of who we are and who he or she is to me.

The great truth about this is that you and this mental representation, which is this self-image, are very intimate. We can say this very clearly here, and when investigated, this will be clearly comprehended, the fact that you are the self-image. Only when there is the end of the self-image, we have the end of this condition, of this internal psychological condition; it takes place within us, and as everything that we are internally expresses itself, within our relations this form of fear is present, this form of social withdrawal, of social interaction withdrawal.

Our internal condition in this sense of the person, in this sense of the "me," of the "I," is one of suffering. Comprehending the truth about ourselves is going beyond this psychological condition of egoic conditioning, of mental conditioning. And that is what we are here for with you, investigating, deepening this comprehension. The element that creates this entire internal condition of contradiction, of conflict, of disorder and, naturally, of suffering within us is the presence of thought.

It is the thoughts present in you that are telling you things about who the other person is, about who you are, and about what life represents. You would not have the slightest chance of recognizing me without having seen me before, you would not have the slightest chance of knowing my name if I had not told you. When you meet someone, at that moment, you register the image, their face, and you also register their name; this is now part of your memory, part of your remembrance - you have a mental representation of them, they have a mental representation of you. When you meet each other, this encounter is not a meeting separate from the image you have of them and that they have of you; there is no separation between these images, they meet each other.

Is there a way to get closer to the other person without the psychological image of him or her? Yes, we need the image of their face, the remembrance of their name, but here I am referring to the psychological image that I have of him, of her. In our interactions with people, what we have done, and we have done this because of the presence of a lack of attention to our experiences... It is in this lack of attention to our experiences that we cultivate pleasure and pain in them.

In all relationships we have pleasant moments and also bad ones, moments of pleasure and moments of pain, and we are constantly recording all of this for future contacts. In these future contacts, in these new contacts, we are always bringing this past experience into these relations. When you meet someone, they are never the same person, they have already changed - you have already changed and they have already changed. But when you meet each other, you meet based on the experience you have stored of each other. In this contact, we are faced with a mistake, an illusory relation. I have called this illusory relation a relationship.

You have been with someone for five, fifteen or twenty years, your certainty is that you know him or her. In fact, what you have of him or her are all of these experiences stored within you, in this self-image that you have of yourself. This accumulation of images that you have of them is based on this self-image, which is the image that you have of who you are. When you meet him or her, your response is the response of the past. This is how our contacts are, this is how our relations are, which, in reality, does not represent the truth of the relation, it represents the truth of the relationship between images, between beliefs, in this liking and disliking, in this wanting and not wanting. So, the presence of fear, contradiction, conflict and suffering in this interaction is inevitable.

This is how we go about our days, living an entire life alongside someone without knowing, without knowing them, because we do not know ourselves either. If you don't know the truth about yourself, you won't free yourself from this self-image either - the image you've built about who you believe you are. When someone upsets you, they're upsetting the image; when someone makes you sad, they're saddening the image; when someone compliments you, they're complimenting the image. And the only thing you have about who you are is this self-image. This is the condition of ignorance in which we live in the ego, as people.

Is it possible to discover a life free from this self-image? What will life be like free from the ego, free from the "I," free from this "me"? This requires looking at what's happening to us right now, at this moment. It requires a deep comprehension of our reactions when we're challenged to respond based on this memory, this remembrance, this image. Then, yes, we can free ourselves from anxiety, we can free ourselves from fear.

A contact with the other, when it's real, in the truth of the relation - not in the relationship, but in the truth of the relation - there is no fear. So, this social anxiety no longer exists when you comprehend the Truth about yourself, when you free yourself from this mental representation that you carry of others, that you carry of life, that you carry of yourself, the idea of ??someone. It is the presence of this idea of ??being someone, it is the way in which thought is establishing in you this mental construct that is sustaining fear. It is something typical of the ego, it is something typical of the "I."

We need to approach life without the past, without these memories and remembrances of everything we have lived with him or her, so that we can, in fact, have contact with him or her without the image of him or her, as well as of ourselves. This is Liberation in this life, this is the end of self-image, this is the end of the "I," this is the end of the ego. The question is: how does this become possible? By having a comprehension of what thought is, what place thought has in your life and what place it should not occupy. It cannot occupy this space, which is the space of stillness, which is the space of silence, the space where the mind is free from the past, from this continuation of repetition of psychological thought pattern.

It is this psychological thought that we need to free ourselves from. Then, there will be a space of stillness, of silence. A space opens up in you for this vision of life as it happens here and now, in this instant, without the past. As long as we are carrying this mind trapped in this old pattern of repetition of thought, of continuation of thought, of occupation with thoughts, we will be cultivating this self-image, sustaining this image that I have of him or her. This happens because we do not know how to look at thought.

What is the truth about thought? What is thought? Thought is this memory that comes from the past. When you learn to deal with him or her, bringing Attention, at that moment, to thought when it arises, the feeling when it appears, whatever is arising in that contact, when this is seen from that look in Attention - Attention is the presence of a look free from the past -, when we look and in that look there is only the presence of the look, without that identity in the look, which comes from the past, there is no record, there is no image, there is no continuity of that pattern of psychological thought within relation.

We do not know how to look without the "I," look without the ego, look without self-image. We need to discover how this happens, how this, at that moment, becomes possible, and it becomes possible when you discover what it is to look, just to look. The thing is that we are constantly looking to agree or disagree, to like or dislike. When someone compliments you, at that moment, who does it affect? This self-image! So, at that moment, this "I," this ego, this self-image feels flattered; but when it is criticized, it also feels touched by irritation, anger, frustration, revolt. This is the presence of fear, this is the presence of anxiety.

When you bring Attention at this instant to look, in this moment, in this gaze, this sense of observer disappears, this experiencer disappears, this thinker disappears, this self-image disappears; and this requires the presence of Self-awareness, this gaze free from the "I," free from this "me," free from the past. Therefore, we need to learn the truth of this approach to this instant, this present moment, without conclusions, evaluations, imaginations, ideas about what this moment represents, about who he is, about who she is, about who I am. This requires a quiet, silent brain, a mind free of thoughts, evaluations, comparisons, and judgments.

The fundamental element that makes this vision of Self-awareness possible is the presence of this Attention on how the mind is happening here and now, for each of us. This is what we are here, with you, deepening, working on. A life free from the past is a life free from the model of psychological thought, from this form of thought that constructs this identity, that constructs this self-image, which is this sense of the present "I." Therefore, in our meetings here, we are, with you, becoming aware of this, how to bring to this moment the presence of this Attention, this Full Attention to our reactions, to go beyond this self-image, to the direct comprehension of life here and now, free from the "I," free from this "me," free from this person.

Here, in these online meetings on our weekends - we have two days together: Saturday and Sunday - we are, with you, delving deeper into this subject. Here, in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on the weekends. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and leave here in the comments: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

May, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Mental health | You and self-Image | The end of self-Image | What is thought? | What is thinking?

Here, there is something that may seem very challenging for each one of us. Maybe we even underestimate it, but listen carefully: our great challenge in life is, as human beings, to remain internally, psychologically, with mental health.

Our psychological formation, what we receive in terms of formation from this life context, from the cradle to the grave, is the learning of continuity, of the permanence of the illusion of an identity present here in life, in this moment, in the experience of living. Notice, just hearing this already sounds very strange to most of us, because we are sure, absolutely sure, that we exist as someone in life.

What we take as a person, as this "me," as this "I," being the person we are, that we believe we are, that we demonstrate to be - to us this is very real, and yet, we are only in an imaginary movement of thought - and we are not aware of it. The person present, this sense of someone I am, who came from the past and is going to the future, psychologically does not exist, it is not real.

What we have here as being you is the image, the self-image of this consciousness, of this self-consciousness, something established in us by thought: this is the person; and the presence of this person - it's strange to hear this - is imaginary. This sense of "I" is a movement of self-image. Therefore, you are the self-image.

There is no "you" separate from the self-image. You and the self-image are one single element; an abstract element, an imaginary element, and yet a very active one, which is moving in life based on criteria validated by this psychological structure, which is the structure of thought, feeling, emotion, and sensation.

This is the life of the ego, this is the life of the person. A life, by the way, that is particular; it is apart, it is separate from Life itself as it happens, however, it interacts with Life from memory, which is thought.

An encounter with the Reality of Life is the end of the self-image. The end of the self-image is the encounter with Life. That is the real encounter with God, the real encounter with Truth, with Freedom, with Happiness, with Love. We have the truth about who we are in the idea of being, and we have the Truth about us in line with Life as it happens. We are facing two very distinct situations.

Our work together, our effort here, is to investigate this, to be fully aware of this, of how we are happening in life; and we are happening in thought, as people. "I love you, but I can also hate you." "I am your friend, but I can become, at any moment, an enemy - and a very dangerous one." "I feel happy at this moment, and in the next moment I can be sad, depressed, anguished, worried, or angry, or jealous, or afraid."

These various psychic states or conditions in us are present due to the presence of the person, due to the presence of this entity that sees itself as apart, that sees itself as separate from the experience when the experience is present. It is part of life as we know it - anguish, sadness, worry, fear, anger, jealousy, envy - but it is part of life in this structure, which is the structure of the "I," which is the life of the self-image. The presence of all this is the absence of sanity, of mental health.

We need a free, healthy, clear, lucid, real mind that knows how to deal with thoughts, and it requires the presence of the comprehension of thought - that is a playlist also here on the channel. All these subjects here are placed in playlists. "What is thought?" The answers we give to people when they ask us questions are answers born from thought. The way we interact with them, we interact from thought. What we feel about them comes from thought.

The presence of thought is evident in everything, in life, in relationships, in experience. The relation, life and experience as we know them, as we recognize them - there lies the presence of thought. So, what is thought? Thought is something that comes from the past, it is something that is born and is the result of acquired knowledge, of lived experience.

Experience and knowledge form thought, which is memory, image, remembrance. By acquiring knowledge, you acquire memory, remembrance. By acquiring knowledge, you acquire experience, know-how, science of that: this is the presence of thought.

Our contact with people, with ourselves, with emotions within us, as well as feelings and sensations, has the explanation, the justification, the representation of memory, which is thought. And we are living in thought. Thought has taken over this whole place in our lives, and here we are questioning this, we are asking if we can, in life, know this sanity, this psychological health, what it represents, at this moment, to deal with the present moment free of thought.

Yes, because thought is needed at times; in reality, in very few moments, because most of the time, during the day, during our hours, in the relation with life as it happens, the presence of thought is the problem, the presence of thought is the element of separation, because it enters with opinions, with judgments, with evaluations, it enters from images it is producing in its imagination within these relations. And when this is present, suffering is present, emotional disorder, the conflict that thought produces within relationships. It is thought that shows us friends, it is thought that shows us enemies; but there is no separation between it and this "me," and this "I."

The person you are is thought. The idea of someone present in the relation with him or her is the image that thought established in this brain. So, this brain there carries the image about who you are; this image is an imagination, it is an action of image that is within these relations.

Here, for example, in human relations, we do not need the presence of this quality of thought, which is psychological thought, which is imaginary thought, which is the thought that distorts, that judges, evaluates, gives opinions, believes, disbelieves in itself, and in the other. An evaluation of life based on beliefs, opinions, ideas - this is within this model of conditioned mind, of egoic mind.

Can we discover life happening at this instant through thinking? Thinking, just like acting and feeling, dispenses with the presence of self-image, once this self-image is an imaginary structure of an identity that is present. This imaginary entity present is the "I." It is the "I" that thinks, it is the "I" that feels, it is the "I" that acts, and all this activity from this "I" is the generator of problems, produces confusion, disorder, it renforces suffering - suffering for oneself and suffering for the other.

That is how thought is functioning, psychologically, in our brains. That is the condition of the absence of health. Can we discover life at this instant, free of thought? We need technical, objective, and practical thought to deal with very simple matters, like the memory of getting a glass of water from the fridge - that requires the presence of thought. If you don't know the address of the water in your house, to drink it, something is wrong with your brain. That is the presence of thought functioning in a precise, technical, practical way.

If you don't know your home address, don't have the memory of where you live, your brain is not functioning well. At that level, thought is needed, but we don't need thought to like people or not like them. This liking or not liking has as its principle a model present in us of mental disorder, of the absence of freedom and internal health - this is the presence of the ego, it is the presence of the "I."

It is the ego that separates, it is the ego that divides, it is the ego that loves or hates, it is the ego that likes or doesn't like, it is the ego that clings, attaches, grabs on and says it loves, controls, possesses and is jealous of that - of that object or that person. It is exactly that - the model of psychological thought in this self-image; and this is the ego, which also, from this "love" - because that's what we call it, this attachment, this possession, control, dependence, this neediness of the other - this same "I," this same ego, this self-image, when it feels betrayed, rejected, this state changes, it is no longer love. Now it's anger, resentment, grudge, it becomes aggressive, violent.

Actually, this is the psychological condition of the ego: it lives in thought and in the model of pleasure and pain. It calls pleasure love, and pain has many names: it calls it anger, hatred, rejection. We are always, psychologically, trapped in classifications, in namings, and the basis, the principle, is the model of sensation - of the sensation of pleasure or pain. Here we are together being aware of the end of this psychological condition of ego-identity. Then Something beyond this "me," beyond this model of thought, of this psychological condition, which is the condition of the "I," reveals itself.

Thus, we need to discover Life free from the ego, free from this self-image, free from this psychological condition of disorder. So, a new brain, a new mind, a new view of this instant, a new view of this body and this mind, and also of the other and of life as it happens - this is the Awakening of Consciousness. And thus, we come across Freedom, Love, Happiness, when the "I" is not present, when this self-image is no longer present.

These meetings we have here on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, have this purpose: to discover Life as it happens, in this Real Awareness that Reveals the Divine Truth, which is Meditation. You have here, in the video description, our WhatsApp link for these online meetings on weekends. It's two days together: Saturday and Sunday. Besides these, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. I want to leave an invitation here for you. If this is something that makes any sense to you, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and write here in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? See you next time. Thanks for the meeting, and see you soon!

August, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Anxiety and fear of dying. How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness.

I want to touch with you here on this concern about the fear of dying. Some people complain about anxiety and fear of death. So, what is behind this anxiety and fear of dying?

There is something here to be seen, and what we need to see is the need to know ourselves, to know our relation with the world of thoughts, with the world of ideas, and also with people, with the life around us and, above all, especially, this relation we have with what we possess, with what is under our power, under our control.

What is behind this anxiety? What is behind this fear? The great truth is that the presence of fear, especially the fear of death, involves our mistaken relation with known things, with what we know and with what we control or believe we control.

The truth about the fear present in us is something that is directly related to the way in which thought happens within us, how it is processed inside each one of us, because thought is part of the world of our ideas. It is thought that is part of what we have in contact with people in our relations. Thought is also part of the interpretation or evaluation we make of our relations with situations.

Thus, the presence of fear is part of the presence of thought. If there were no thought, there would be no fear. We have a relation with objects that are our objects, with situations that are our situations. Our relation with all of this is, in general, the relation based on thought.

We, as human beings, are living in thought, and it is thought that is producing in us anxiety, worry, suffering, conflict, and fear. Without the presence of thought about what we have, about what we can lose, without any thought about this, there is no fear. It is the presence of thought about what we control or wish to control that causes us anxiety.

We need, in life, the Truth about ourselves, the direct awareness of what we are in the context of these relations - these relations with ideas, people, situations, objects, and particular, personal activities we believe we control. It is here that this sense of "I," of "ego," resides.

That's why we are here with you investigating this learning about Self-awareness, to come face to face with the Freedom of a mind free from contradictions, conflicts, and problems. This is the presence of the mind that has the answer to the question: what is Meditation? It is the awareness of Meditation, it is the Truth about Meditation, the Freedom of this comprehension of the Truth about who we are in life.

Human beings need to be aware of the Reality of their Being, of the Reality present in life, beyond what thought places as life. Our particular worldview comes from thought. So, all the relations we have are related to the model of thought that is present. However, the presence of thought in us is a movement of the past present in each of us. Yes, it is the past present in each of us.

Every relation you have with the world around you or with the world inside you, which is this world of ideas, feelings, emotions, every relation we have with the world, whether external or internal, is our mistaken relation with the past, with the model of thought that is present here.

We are not in real contact with life as it truly is, we are in contact with thought about life, with thought about people, with thought about situations, with thought about objects that we believe are ours. The particular life of the "I," the particular life of the "ego" is the presence of suffering, because it is the presence of this psychological condition, not only of fear, but of all these psychological states we have known for a long time.

There are countless names for these internal states of afflictions, contradictions, conflicts within each of us, and all of this is happening because we are living in thought. Our life is a mental life, not a real life. We are living a life that thought has built, that thought has established.

Thus, what we feel about who we are is something that is the presence of memory, it is the presence of what thought has established as an image that we have about who we are and about what the world is. Therefore, we are living within an abstraction, a model of the world built by thought.

To learn about who we are, to discover the truth about the "I," about the "ego," about this center, is to approach life by discovering the most important thing in life, which is the beauty of this encounter with Life as it truly is, free from thought. It is because we are living in thought that suffering, fear, ignorance, and illusion are present.

A life free from thought is the presence of Meditation. Therefore, the Truth that Reveals the Beauty of Life, the Truth about Life-I refer to the Divine Reality, the Reality of God. For those who ask "how to find God," here is the answer: you will not find Him out there, you will find Him within yourself.

It is the very awareness of the Truth about yourself that discards the illusion of the person you believe to be. It is here that That which is unspeakable, indescribable, is revealed, which is the very Divine Presence, which is the very Presence of God. What is the encounter with God? It is the verification. It is not something to be achieved, something out there to be seen. It is not an image that thought has established within you about this Divine Reality, which we call God.

It is not an encounter, it is a verification of Life here, at this present moment, when thought is not present, when it is no longer establishing this mistaken relation. Observe that the relation you have with people is relation in thought. That is all you can have of people, it is the knowledge you have of them. The knowledge you have of them is the memory or recollection of moments you lived with him or her.

Observe that it is a picture of the past. It is not what you have of them now, it is what thought has established in you about them, something that comes from the past, and that has no relation with Life here, in this present moment. So it is also with this issue of death. You do not have the truth of death, you have the idea about death.

No human being is afraid of death here and now, in this exact second. The fear of death that the human being has requires the presence of the future, and the future is nothing more than the thought about tomorrow. In life, the future is unknown; in the mind, all that thought knows is the past, the idea of the present, and the imagination of the future.

Therefore, there is no future here and now, there is no future in life. The future is part of what thought has established, of what thought has built around this center. This center is the image you have about who you are. You have friends, you have enemies, therefore, you are the presence of thought.

Every idea about you is thought. Without any idea about you, you know nothing. You know nothing about yourself unless you have an idea, an image, a memory, or a remembrance. We need to discover life by revealing at this moment this Awareness of God; we need to discover the Beauty of the moment being revealed when Meditation is present.

And Meditation is something that is present here, when we put Attention on all this movement of thought that arises in us, that comes from the past. The movement only arises due to a reaction of memory. Once we are present here, aware here of every reaction of memory, of thought, something that comes from the past, at this moment Something new is Revealed, because we do not place in this awareness, in this presence, the illusion of an entity in this experience.

We need to discover Life without the thinker, without the experiencer, without the "I." Then there will be no fear, because there will be no thought. There will be no presence of the future for someone. If there is no future for someone, there is no one to die. It is the idea of existing as someone losing the things they have, the power and control they exert over these things, it is here that fear is present.

It is the fear of losing what you have, it is not possessing the power to be someone in these things that is the presence of fear. That is why we need to comprehend the Truth of these relations. It is the comprehension of the truth about these relations that is the vision about Self-awareness and the discarding of this thinker.

Thus, with the presence of Self-awareness, we have the Truth of Meditation; and with the presence of Meditation, the Revelation of That which is present, which is beyond the "I," beyond the "ego," beyond thought. It is because we are living exactly in the model of the "I," which is the model of thought, in the idea of someone having relations with people, with situations, with material possessions, with the control of things, that fear is present. It is something present in the illusion of this identity, of this false center, of this "me," because the Reality of this Being is the Reality of Life, it is the Reality of God.

The verification of the Truth about You, of the awareness of this Being, beyond the "I," is the Revelation, it is the answer in this encounter, in this verification of the Truth of God. Thus, all we need in life is the presence of Self-awareness and the awareness of Meditation, for this "encounter," for this verification of the Truth of God. Then we have the end of suffering. Not only the end of anxiety and the fear of dying, but the end of every form of psychological suffering.

This is what we are working on with you here. We have two days, Saturday and Sunday; two days in online meetings. I want to leave an invitation for you here. In addition to these, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard is something that makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and write in the comments: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

August, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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