How to find God? Meditation: What Is It? Learning about Self-Awareness. Wisdom of Silence

The way we face events, situations when they arise, everything that appears here, in life, in general, how we deal with it is something we need to investigate. We are dealing with life as it unfolds from a perspective, a particular worldview where, in this view, the mistakes, the error, illusion, and ignorance are present. We lack a true vision of life, the presence of Silence for Wisdom.

I want to touch on a few topics with you here, one of them is about the beauty of the Silence of Wisdom. We need Silence, we need the Wisdom of Silence to deal with life. You can be very capable of dealing with situations in an intelligent, clever, and highly skillful way. Therefore, from the perspective of dealing with external matters, with technical and professional matters, your ability to make a living, to make money, to build, to undertake-all kinds of knowledge, experience, and intelligence you can have. This quality of intelligence is common intelligence.

Here we are with you, investigating a quality of Presence, of awareness of life, which I have called Divine Intelligence, Divine Wisdom, which is the Wisdom of Silence. Therefore, you can have all kinds of skills and abilities to deal with all kinds of external matters, and yet, in the absence of this Wisdom of Silence, this Divine Wisdom, this Spiritual Intelligence, you don't know how to deal with yourself. So, you deal with external matters, but not with internal matters.

Note that we do not know what the presence of thought, sensation, feeling, and emotion is within each of us. We are constantly responding to life, in an inadequate, mistaken approach, because we do not know ourselves-this is a fact. If you truly knew the truth about yourself, which you don't, you wouldn't have internal problems like stress, anxiety, fear, anger, rage, problems like envy, jealousy, attachments. You wouldn't experience psychological suffering, because this is something that exists due to ignorance, the absence of Wisdom, the absence of this quality of Intelligence, which is Divine Intelligence-and that's what we're here with you, exploring, investigating.

We need Divine Awareness. We need the answer to the question "How to find God?" Some people set out on a quest, undertake, invest in a path, on this so-called spiritual journey. Then, through books, esoteric or spiritualist practices, they embark on a journey. Here, with you, we're dealing with the investigation of this question, of this true encounter with God; and we're showing you that none of this is real.

You can't find Divine Reality outside, by taking a walk, a journey, to the exterior, to the external. Divine Reality is the Truth of this Being, which is You in your Essential Nature. It comes from learning about yourself. Learning about yourself is learning about Self-awareness. This is what will give you a clear vision of the Truth about Yourself, allowing you to cast aside the illusion that prevents you from truly knowing that Divine Truth is already present.

God is not something to be found at the end of a journey, something to be found in sacred books or in spiritual or esoteric practices-God is the Reality that reveals Itself here and now, when there is the discarding of illusion, when there is the discarding of the mistaken view of who we are. This is about investigating the nature of the "I," the nature of the mind, the nature of the ego. This investigation is the presence of Meditation.

What is Meditation? The Truth about Meditation, what is it? It is the investigation of the nature of the one who engages in the practice, engages in the technique, engages in meditation. The presence of Real Meditation requires no technique, no practice; It requires investigating the nature of this present element that sets out to practice, that sets out to meditate, and that also sets out to seek God.

The problem with the search is that the seeker is present with a goal, and that goal is in the future, and they need a journey. Here, investigating truth is comprehending the illusion of thought, establishing the presence of time to have an encounter in the future. There is no such thing as the future; Reality is present here. Here and now, beyond the very idea of ??this here and this now.

Divine Reality is not in time, it is not something you will meet. You, as a person, as someone, are the imagination of thought itself, because the Reality about You is the Truth about God. The idea of ??someone is the thought about a person, while the Reality of Being is not a person. All this vision, revelation, and clarity arise when there is the presence of this learning about ourselves, which is the learning of Self-awareness.

Then, the mind, becoming aware of its reactions, of all the internal movement present within it, becomes still, a space arises, and in this space the Truth of this Being, which is the Reality of God, is revealed. When this is present, the presence of Wisdom is Silence; this Silence is contact with the present moment, with life as it unfolds, in its internal and external aspects, without conflict, without disorder, confusion, or suffering.

Therefore, we need to discover the beauty of this encounter, the beauty of the acknowledgment of the moment, of that which in this moment is beyond time: it is the awareness of Love, of Bliss, of Peace, of Freedom, when this brain and this mind. Here it is present, in this moment, revealing itself, in this quality of mind, in this quality of brain, the presence of Silence, the presence of Wisdom.

We have an agitated, anxious, stressed way of dealing with life as it unfolds, because we are always looking at life from a place of separation, because we look at the present moment from the perspective of someone, the "I," who lives within a deep dissatisfaction with oneself, within himself, because we have a restless mind, an agitated mind. It is the presence of egoic consciousness that creates restlessness, suffering, the structure of separation, where someone is present and dealing with life, as if there were a separation between life and this person.

Why do we need to learn about ourselves? Because it is in this learning that That, which is outside the "I," outside the ego, outside the mind, is revealed. It is in this learning that this quality of mind and brain is revealed, where there is this space of Silence, where there is this vision of life without separation. This is the presence of Divine Wisdom, the Wisdom of God, the Wisdom of Silence. Some call this the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment; it is the Awareness of Life as it truly is when there is no longer any illusion. This is your true encounter with God.

Now, observe this carefully: this is not someone having an encounter; here we are referring to the presence of a contact, a communion, a realization that there is no "I," that there is no such person. The Realization of Truth is the comprehension of the mistake, the comprehension of deception, the dissolution of illusion. Once this is comprehended, clarified, the mistake disappears, the error dissolves, illusion ends. There is no such thing as someone and life.

Therefore, as human beings, we are different from each other in the external, physical aspect. But from a psychological point of view, human beings have always carried a background of mental conditioning, of psychological conditioning, which is common to all. When you realize it, when you become aware of this situation, this psychological condition, through self-comprehension, it dissolves. So, there is Something that shows itself present, which is no longer this "me," this person; it is the presence of Truth.

Therefore, the Reality of the human being is Divine Reality. However, what we see as the truth of the human being, in this psychological condition of collective consciousness, of egoic consciousness, is the illusion of separation and, therefore, of confusion, problems, and human suffering. You were born to the awareness that there is Something present here that was never born. This Something present is the presence of Life itself, which is the presence of Truth, which is the presence of God. This is the Nature of your Being, this is the Nature of Silence.

Therefore, Silence reveals Life. Your Natural State of Being is the presence of this Silence. We were educated to have an idea, a belief, a concept of God as an element also separate from ourselves, just like life itself. Thus, we were educated to an image, to a belief. The Reality of Life is not a belief, it is not an image, it is what is present here, being Life itself, the Mystery itself, That which is indescribable; and this Truth is inseparable from That which is You in your True Nature.

Therefore, we are working on this together. This Self-Realization, Spiritual Enlightenment, or Awakening-there are many names for this state free from ignorance and, therefore, from suffering. There are many names for this state of Wisdom, of Being, but the name doesn't matter. We are here to have the awareness of this given thing, beyond words, beyond any idea or belief about it. This is your real encounter with God. This is the real answer to the question "How to find God?" It is not someone, it is the Reality of God present.

This is what we are here working on, with you, in online meetings on the weekends. We have two days together-Saturday and Sunday-for these meetings. You can find our link to join our online meetings here, in the video description. In addition to the meetings, we have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you just heard resonates with you, here's your invitation. "Like," subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment below: "Yes, that makes sense." OK? See you soon. Thanks for joining and see you next time.

September, 2025
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How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness. Human wisdom.

"It is interesting that we investigate this issue of limitation. I want to touch here, with you, on the truth of this limitation of what we understand, accept, or comprehend, which revolves around this idea of wisdom. For us, the idea is human wisdom. There is something present in knowledge, which is the presence of limitation. No matter how broad and profound, representative and significant knowledge may be, it will always carry a shadow, the shadow of limitation.

As human beings, we are developing, evolving technologically, scientifically, biologically. Thus, in several other areas there is growth, expansion, evolution. Our confidence is very great in this, so-called, wisdom, which is human wisdom. Here we want to investigate this with you.

Observe that, despite all that we have achieved, accomplished, or obtained, the majority of human beings, in this aspect of a person's life, despite all that we have achieved in the various areas of human knowledge-in physics, in chemistry, in biology, in technology-we remain confused, distressed, worried, in disorder, and in suffering.

Is there a quality of life different from what we know, from what we are living? If this quality of life is real, it is, in fact, not in the realm of the known, it is not within this recognizable pattern that we have for life. And this is our proposal to you here: the investigation of the possibility of a discovery, the discovery of Life outside of what we know, outside of all this limitation that we know in this, so-called, human wisdom.

Real Life is the presence of Truth; in it is the awareness of That Which is beyond the known. Beyond the known and, naturally, beyond what we know in this ordinary life, in this life where we have only the presence of human wisdom. To assume the Reality, the Truth, the Awareness of Life is to approach something new, something that is not part of thought and, therefore, not part of what we recognize: it is the presence of the Unknown. This is the presence of Divine Wisdom, of God's Wisdom, something that reveals itself in this encounter with God.

Therefore, here the question is: how to find God? Setting aside the common, known idea we have within the known we recognize, that God is something that is there waiting for us, expecting us, and that we can have an encounter with him. We have to leave this moment and go towards the future, we have to leave this place for that other place, travel that distance and overcome this issue of time between the present and the future to have an encounter with God.

Here, when we use the word "God," the pointing is to something that is beyond the idea, beyond thought, of something there, somewhere, separated from what is present here, separated from this moment here and now, separated from what we are. We discard this, because we are facing a construction of thought. It is thought that has given us this particular view of who we are and what God represents, of where we are and where God is.

There is a Reality present, and this Reality is the Unknown, it is the Indescribable, it is That which is beyond words, beyond symbols and images, it is the Divine Reality. It is not found in time, it is not found in space. It is the Reality of this Being, without a real separation between what this Being represents and Life. You are not who you believe to be. You believe in the person that thought imagines about you.

A thought you have is an image that arises in the brain, in the mind. This cannot be the reality about you; it is only a thought. Thus, when you have a description about yourself and tell me, the use of speech, of words, is the use of images, of mental symbols-this is not you. No idea, no concept, no description about you is the Reality of your Being. Approaching and learning about this is fundamental.

Humanity has been living life for millennia without the awareness of Life. There is no awareness of Life, because humanity does not carry the awareness. We, as human beings, are aware of ourselves, we do not study that, we do not investigate that, we have not worked on this. We are evolving, growing, expanding scientifically, technologically, however, from an internal, psychological viewpoint, we remain the same.

Three hundred years ago, five hundred years ago, two thousand years ago, five thousand years ago, there was envy, jealousy, anger, and fear, with a different name, but there was anxiety, and depression. So, all these years passed and, psychologically, we are the same. Today we have fast means of transport, very fast communication, today we have facilities, comfort and, for some, food. Curiously, we continue suffering, not only physically, but all kinds of limitations, because we are disorganized, for example, in this issue of food distribution, not everyone has enough food.

So, despite all we have built and accomplished, internally, psychologically, we remain possessive, ambitious, avaricious, violent, controlling, we are creatures filled with problems. What are we missing? We are missing the awareness of ourselves, we are missing the comprehension of the Truth of the Reality of Life. The life we know is the one thought has shaped.

All religious, political, social, economic structure, everything that as human beings we have built, we have built within the mechanics of the mind with its thoughts. We are living within the limitation of thought, and thought in us, in a disorganized way, has been creating problems since forever. Will a life free from thought be possible, free from this guidance, condition, position that thought has established?

The real comprehension of this requires the presence of Divine Wisdom, because this, so-called, human wisdom has not solved any of that. The presence of this Wisdom requires the study of ourselves. The basis for Wisdom, for Real Wisdom, consists of this learning about Self-awareness. It is when you learn about how you function that you can free yourself from this idea of this "me," of this "I," which carries this psychological model of human conditioning, of human existence.

Thus, we are merely sustaining the same condition as those who arrived here before us. The presence of the vision of Truth, of Reality, of Life, of That which we are in our Essential Nature is the Liberation from ignorance and, therefore, from all this confusion we have just stated, from all this suffering we are producing in the world as human beings, in our relations.

Learning about Self-awareness is to become aware of the Divine Reality, of the Reality of God, of That which is present here beyond the ego, beyond the mind. Then, we need to become aware of this, to assume the Reality of this Truth, of That which is beyond the known. It is in this sense that the question "how to find God" makes perfect sense. This encounter with God is the verification of the Unknown. Here the word "God" in the sense of That which is beyond the mind, of That which is beyond time and, therefore, beyond beliefs.

It is not this "I," this ego, having an encounter with God; it is the Reality of God, it is the Reality of this Being, of That which is beyond the known revealing itself here and now. Then, this sense of ego, of person, of mind as we know it, vanishes. In this learning about Self-awareness we have the answer to the question: "how to find God?" It is here that the answer lies, because it is exactly at this moment that the art of Being pure Presence, pure Consciousness is revealed-here I refer to this Real Consciousness, to this Divine Consciousness.

Wisdom is the Revelation of this Supreme Intelligence, which is present beyond this mind, which is the conditioned mind, which is the psychological condition of the culture of the society, of the world as we have just stated. To go beyond this human history, this psychological memory, this limitation of the "I," this is the end to fear, this is the end to suffering, this is the end to confusion. So, Meditation, what is Meditation? What is this art of meditating? To Meditate is to assume the Reality of That which is present here.

When we have the presence of Meditation, there is no one meditating. The presence of Meditation is the Revelation of That which is present here beyond the mind, beyond the known and, therefore, beyond thought. Thus, we are here with you dedicating ourselves to this, to exploring this subject, to investigating this. Happiness, Love, Freedom, Peace is something present when the "I" is no longer present.

Humanity has been living like this for millennia, but here we are telling you: you don't have to continue like this. When we look at our parents, our grandparents or great-grandparents, our ancestors lived like this, and our descendants will continue like this, unless Awakening is present-this Awaken reveals itself here and now. That is why we are here with you inviting you to the Divine Life, to Real Life in Wisdom, in Love, in Freedom.

What gives us the basis for a relation with the other, with ourselves, with Life in its various expressions, what gives us the basis for our relations, where communion, Freedom, Happiness is present, is the awareness of your own Being. A life free from the mind is a life where Something new is present; this Something new is That which is revealing itself here moment by moment as the Unknown. This Unknown is the Presence of Truth, it is the Presence of Joy, it is the Presence of Peace.

Will life be possible like this? Without stress, anxiety, fear, anger, jealousy, envy, possessions, and controls. The idea of someone present having that, controlling, possessing, clinging. A life free from stress, from all forms of anxiety, from depression, where Love is present, where God is the Reality of this moment. This is the encounter with God. In this encounter with God, the other, life, everything around you is this unique Reality.

That's what we are doing here with you, on Saturdays and Sundays... It's two days in an online format. I want to leave an invitation here for you: you have here, in the video description, our link to participate in the online meetings we have on weekends. Besides these online, we have in-person meetings and, also, retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and write a comment here: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!"

September, 2025
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Joel Goldsmith | Awakening Mystical Consciousness | What is True Freedom? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We're here for another videocast and Master Gualberto is here with us again. Thank you, Master, for your presence. Today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Awakening Mystical Consciousness." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Acceptance of what is, without resistance, is the path to inner peace." Well, on this subject, can you share your vision of what true Freedom is?

MG: Gilson, the awareness of Being, the Truth about yourself, the Reality about life, the Truth about God-this is the definition of the question "What is Freedom?" Now, notice: everything we've just mentioned, all these phrases, mean absolutely nothing when viewed from an intellectual perspective. When we look at the dictionary, we have the meaning for every word. When you look up the meaning of a word, you find the meaning of that expression, but the verbal meaning is not the real meaning; there is a difference between the word and the thing itself. The word "love" is not Love; the word "freedom" is not Freedom...

We have many ways of expressing "freedom," and within words we can give this expression many meanings. We generally use the expression "freedom" to refer to economic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of action, financial freedom, emotional freedom, freedom to come and go... We have many ways, we use this expression with several meanings, but here we are discussing the awareness of the Divine, the awareness of Truth. We are here to address a new meaning to this expression.

Note that in life, "freedom" is also synonymous with space; without space, we cannot speak of freedom. When we have space, we have freedom. Now, look at what interests us here, investigating this expression: psychologically, within ourselves, in our minds, in our hearts, we are unaware of Freedom, because we are living within patterns of feelings, emotions, and thoughts within a restriction, within various restrictions. Our relation with others, with ourselves, and with life, is very narrow, very limited. We lack the presence of space, so we are unaware of the Truth of Freedom.

The presence of Freedom is the space that allows us, in our relation with others, as well as in our relation with ourselves, internally, to enjoy Peace, Silence, and Love. Thus, I would say that true Freedom consists in the awareness of this Being, which is the awareness of God. It is not about political freedom, economic freedom, freedom of speech, or any other form of freedom, but rather the Freedom for Love, for Peace, for Happiness, something that becomes possible when we have a comprehension of the Truth about ourselves.

Note that people speak, write, and compose songs about freedom, but this remains only in the realm of ideas, theories, and desires. We do not assume the experiential Truth of Freedom, and we do not assume it because we do not come into direct contact with what we are. We remain in ideology, in concepts, in ideas, in intentions, but not in the direct experience of what is present here, revealing itself as who we are within relations-our relation with him or her, our relation with ourselves, our relation with life. So, we don't have the awareness of this in a direct way.

What we are saying here is something we cannot put into words-that's what we are doing here, in these statements, telling you very clearly that the Reality or the Truth of Freedom is not restricted to theoretical formulations of words, desires, or ideas... We can only truly know what the Truth of Freedom is by assuming who we are in our essential Nature-which requires the presence of the Awakening of Consciousness, the true vision of God, the true awareness of life. This is what we are here together, working on with you, deepening with you. The presence of this contact, the Truth of this vision, the clarity of this moment we can call Freedom, is something indescribable. You were born for the Reality of your Being, for the Truth about God.

Here, the expression "God" is used not in the sense of an idea, a belief, or even a concept, but of a direct experience of Supreme Happiness, of Supreme Love. It is in Supreme Love, in true Happiness, that what we can call, in fact, true Freedom, lies. Freedom is something that concerns your Being, the presence of life free from the ego, free from the "I," free from the "person." This sense of identity we have is a limitation. We are living within a frame of illusion, in a circumscription of ignorance, trapped in a program of collective consciousness, social consciousness, and worldly consciousness, which represents a quality of life that is asleep, dreaming.

Your true contact with life is a contact where there is no separation between you and life as it is; and within it, there is Freedom indeed, when the ego is not, when the "I" is not. This is what we are here with you to comprehend, to experience. This is the presence of true Freedom, this is the presence of the Truth of your Being. Some call it "Spiritual Enlightenment" or "Awakening of Consciousness"; That which is indescribable, unnameable, That which is beyond words, and beyond thoughts.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, how to live true love in relations?"

MG: Gilson, that's a good question. We don't know the Truth of Love. We have feelings for people, they have feelings for us... We relate to each other based on the presence of thought and feeling. As long as you are pleasant to me in this relation, as long as our thoughts and feelings remain pleasant, we call "love" this pleasure present in the relation. When we begin to disagree in thoughts and feelings, the way we treat each other changes completely, and with this change we have a difference; we no longer have the presence of pleasure, we have something that is no longer pleasure in the relation.

We use the term "love" to describe this affinity of thought, feeling, sensation, and emotion, which represents the presence of pleasure. What brings us closer to the other, the fond memory of them, the pleasant thoughts of them, we call "love," but the central basis, the foundation of this, is actually sensation, satisfaction, fulfillment, and pleasure. When it changes, we experience resentment, hurt, sadness, anger, jealousy... So, what we call "love" is something that alters, something that changes. We are constantly experiencing sensations. If they are pleasant, we cling to them; if they are unpleasant, we move away or no longer want them.

Here, together, we must investigate this issue of the Truth of Love. Love is what is present when what we know as "love" no longer exists. See, there is no possibility of verbally describing, in words, what Love is, but we can investigate-yes, using expressions and words-what Love is not. Love is not possession, Love is not control-see, possession over the other, the desire to possess-it is not control, it is not exercising dominion so that the other, in this possession, can fulfill me.

Thus, investigating what is not Love, what is present in our relationships in general is not the presence of Love, because control is present, possession is present, and dependence is present. All of this is violence, fear, and if this is present, any change in thought and feeling reveals that, behind the pleasure, what we have present is this condition within the relationship. Therefore, what we call "relations" are relations where what is present is the presence, in these relationships, of all forms of problems, which remain hidden until they become manifest, when we experience frustration, disappointment, and betrayal. And this shows itself much more frequently than we imagine. Everything seems to start well, but in reality, we are just playing a game of appearances, when what is hidden behind what is apparent, is something else.

The Reality of life free from the ego, free from dependence, free from attachment, control, envy, jealousy, possession... When we have the Freedom of a relation where we have not the presence of the "I," the presence of this self-centeredness, this search for fulfillment, pleasure, and fulfillment of sensation in him or her, we have That which is present beyond this separation, this duality. Therefore, the Truth of Love is the Reality of this Being, That which is present here when there is no longer the illusion of thought, feeling, and sensation for this center, which is the "I," which is the ego.

The truth is that, in this center, in this ego, all our reasons, motives, intentions, interests, desires-all of this revolves around the search for a particular fulfillment, a self-centeredness, which actually isolates and separates us. This isolationism, this separation, is actually the presence of conflict. Note, conflict is already present, suffering is already present, but it is hidden. You don't become aware that, behind this pleasure, fulfillment, and satisfaction in the relation, there is no love, but dependence, fear, jealousy, possession, and control. This is how we live in the mind. This is the movement of thought within us. This is the movement of the ego.

We need to go beyond the "I," beyond the ego, beyond this sense of someone present who needs to find some level of fulfillment in him or her, so that in this Happiness of Being, in this Freedom of Being, the Reality of Love is truly present. And when Love is present, your relation with him or her is no longer one of dependence, fear, lack, or seeking something in him or her. Therefore, living the Truth of That which is you in your essential nature is to assume the Reality of Love. Then, this Love is present, but the other is not the presence of this Love, the other is not the fulfillment of this Love, the other is not the joy of this Love.

When Love is present, the other, life, and everything around you is included, is part of this Love, because you, in your essential nature, are the Divine Truth, the Truth of Happiness. Thus, the presence of Love is the most precious thing we have in life, but the presence of Love is not possible when the ego is present, when the sense of separation between you and him or her is present. Free from the sense of "I," the other is part of this communion of Divine Presence. The other is the Reality of this Being. If there is no separation, what is present in life is the presence of Love. Thus, we cannot put into words what Love is, but we can become aware of the Reality of That which is present here, at this moment, as the Reality of God.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. Maurício made the following comment: "How do I abandon my private desires?"

MG: Gilson, the idea of ??freeing oneself-see-from personal desires, is just an idea! Investigating the nature of the "I" is to comprehend the nature of desires. The "I" is this sense of dissatisfaction; in dissatisfaction, the longing for something is present, all the time. Therefore, freeing oneself from personal desires means comprehending the nature of the "I," having a clear vision of what desire represents. Desire is the presence of dissatisfaction; the "I" is this dissatisfaction present, this incompleteness. Becoming aware of our reactions, seeing clearly how the mind works, here at this moment, at every instant, in contact with the present moment.

When you come across something, you have a perception. As that perception of that given thing arises, a thought about it arises; along with it, a sensation arises. At that moment, thought projects itself to fulfill itself in that object-it is the presence of thought, when it projects itself to fulfill itself psychologically in something. From this perception, desire arises. Is it possible, in life, to become aware of the mechanics of perception, sensation, and thought? Of this projection of thought to fulfill itself in that object?

Note that it is the movement of thought. By projecting itself, it creates an identity that will be fulfilled in that sensation. So, at this moment, the Reality of the instant is lost, because the movement of thought is one of projection toward what it desires to achieve. Then, the presence of the future arises, of the future to be happy, of the future to be fulfilled, to be satisfied. So, we are constantly in a movement of achieving something to be happy or of getting rid of something-which is also a form of desire-to be happy. Alienated from this instant, this present moment, we are living, psychologically, in thought, in sensation, in imagination, in the longing for something.

Note that this is, essentially, suffering. Freeing oneself from suffering means being here and now, free from the movement of thought projection into desire-into the desire to obtain or the desire to be free. Perhaps, your question is precisely this. You ask: "How do I free myself from my personal desires?" Become aware of the movement of the "I." It is the presence of the "I," the illusion of an identity here and now present, in dissatisfaction, projecting oneself from thought to fulfill oneself in the future, the basis that sustains the suffering of desire.

GC: Thank you, Master, we've already completed our time. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are following along and truly desire to experience these truths, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings hosted by Master Gualberto. These meetings are much more profound and transformative than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions alive, and second, and most impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares a field of Presence, Power, and Grace around Him. And in these meetings, we end up taking a ride on this field of the Master's Presence. And, by taking this ride with the Master, spontaneously and effortlessly, we enter the Meditative State, quieting our minds, and gaining insight and comprehension into the topics discussed here on the channel.

So, here's the invitation: in the first pinned comment, there's a WhatsApp link to join these meetings. Go ahead, give a "like" to the video, and if you're not subscribed, please, subscribe to the channel. And, Master, thank you again for the videocast.

September, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness. Wisdom: how to attain it?

The question here is: "How to attain wisdom?" Thought, in general, is something that is acquired, obtained, achieved. We are always searching for something; the idea is that there is something out there to obtain, conquer, acquire, overcome, do. We are constantly engaged in an idea, in a thought that relates to the future for some level of satisfaction, fulfillment, and accomplishment.

So, when we touch on the issue of wisdom here, once again, we pose an ideal: "I'm not wise enough, I need to attain wisdom. I don't have enough intelligence, I have to acquire intelligence. I don't have enough freedom, enough love, enough peace." So, the idea is to obtain this, achieve this, accomplish this.

What is the truth of wisdom? See, your purpose, your ideal is to acquire. This is the purpose, this is your proposal, this is the reason for your search. But comprehend: Wisdom is the awareness of Reality. The direct awareness of Reality is the presence of Wisdom. The point is that Reality is not out there, not outside, not in a proposal, in an objective, in a target. The reality of Wisdom lies in the awareness of what is presently revealed here.

Therefore, the great secret to the awareness of Wisdom is precisely not to move toward the future, because what this movement toward the future is if not an ideal of becoming, while the reality of Wisdom consists of Being. You will not become wise, you will not be wise, you will not attain wisdom in knowledge, in experience. The awareness of Life in Being is the presence of Wisdom.

And how can I become aware of Being? By leaving this becoming, this obtaining, this accomplishing in the future. That is why we have emphasized here the basis for Intelligence. I am not referring to technical intelligence, scientific intelligence, spatial intelligence, the intelligence to deal with matters in this dream of existence as we know it. Here I am referring to the presence of Divine Intelligence. The presence of this Intelligence does not require knowledge and experience.

It's interesting to explore the difference here between the presence of Wisdom, the difference between what Wisdom represents and the experience of what knowledge means. We have the experience of knowledge. Knowledge gives us experience; experience broadens and deepens all the knowledge we acquire. However, this is not wisdom. It gives us the ability to make a living. Practicing a profession, your ability to make money in that profession, requires knowledge, experience through practice and exercise.

So, as you practice, you acquire greater knowledge and deepen all that experience, this enables you to be a better professional. Thus, what we call intelligence to deal with technical and scientific matters, in this dream of life, in this dream of existence, is something different from the reality of Divine Intelligence, which is Wisdom. Because here it's about dealing with life in its entirety, for example, in our relations.

Note that we don't know how to deal with our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts. We don't know how to deal with our relations with people, nor with the situations that arise; In situations, especially unpleasant and unexpected ones, we become completely stunned and lost.

In life, we live with problems of all kinds. We are capable of solving mathematical problems, scientific problems, medical problems, mechanical problems, physics problems, chemistry problems, carpentry problems, electronic problems, technology problems, but we are not capable of solving internal problems-the issues of anxiety, depression, fear, anger, the pain of loneliness.

The psychological problems we face are countless, innumerable, and these problems are not resolved through knowledge and experience, through exercise and practice, through intelligence in technical matters. Here we need a new vision; this vision is the presence of this Intelligence, it is the presence of Wisdom.

You must know very learned people and excellent professionals in some fields. Maybe you yourself are a doctor, an engineer, a technician, a scientist, but notice this: despite all the knowledge you have, that we have acquired to deal with external matters, we don't know how to deal with ourselves, we don't know how to deal with others or with the situations that arise. Suffering is present, pain is present, fear is here, anger is there too, the pain of loneliness, anguish.

There are countless problems: stress, anxiety, depression. See, I say it again, and I'm repeating it on purpose: there are countless psychic and psychological problems, and we don't know how to deal with them because we don't know ourselves-that's the point. We have technological knowledge, but we don't know ourselves. So, we need to learn about Self-awareness.

In this true learning of how the mind works, we can go beyond the psychological condition of suffering present in this entire conflicting, distressing model of being a person. This is possible when we learn about Meditation. In this learning about ourselves, in this studying of ourselves, we approach the awareness of Meditation.

So, meditation, what is it? The truth of Meditation, what does it represent? It represents your true encounter with life. Interestingly, this encounter with life is the encounter with the Divine. There is no separation between life and the Reality of God. So, something we're investigating with you here is how to have, in life, this vision, this vision of Truth about ourselves, this vision of Truth about God.

So, the question is: "How to find God?" See, once again, here we are faced with something that for many seems quite complicated, because people have the idea of ??having an encounter with God through religious, mystical, esoteric practices, following doctrines and beliefs, within religions, in organized religion, in this or that sect, in this or that religion.

So, there's also a big confusion about this, because, in our thinking, we've been educated, programmed-I use the term conditioned here-to constantly repeat the old belief model of a distant, separate, distant God, to be found by someone; that someone is "I."

Here we are investigating the nature of the "I," realizing that this "I," this person, is an illusion. It is the discarding of this illusion. It is when this illusion ends that it becomes clear that what is present here is Life, and Life is the Reality of God. The Reality of God is already present when the "I" is not, when the ego is not, when we no longer have the illusion of this person with all their beliefs, theories, concepts, in this idea that God is something separate, distant, that must be found in this or that doctrine, in this or that religion, mystical, esoteric, or spiritual practice.

When there is the end of this illusion, the Reality of Life is the Reality of God. This Reality of God is present, being the Truth of the Reality about You. There is the truth about you being investigated based on Self-awareness. The truth about you is the idea that thought has been constructed of the person you feel you are. Comprehending this truth reveals to you the Truth of the Reality of your Being. In other words, That which is beyond the person, beyond the "I," beyond the ego.

That's why we need to have a direct approach to Self-awareness, to the vision of the Reality of Meditation in an experiential, practical way. Then, in this moment, the presence of this Intelligence, which is the presence of this Being, is revealed, and this is Love, Freedom, Bliss.

From a free mind, a new quality of feeling, thinking, and acting. Here, with the expression "new mind," we're talking about something beyond the mind as we know it; there is the Truth of Wisdom. You in your Being... See, it's not about becoming, achieving, obtaining, but about assuming the Reality of this Being when we discard the illusion of the egoic mind, of this personal consciousness, of this ego-identity. You in your Being are Wisdom.

You won't acquire wisdom; you will assume the Reality of Being, which is Wisdom. If this is present, there is no more disorder, no more confusion, no more suffering. That's why some call this the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment. Yes, it is the presence of Something indescribable. I have sometimes called it Real Consciousness, but we are here speaking of Something or pointing to Something that is beyond words.

In this moment, in this awareness of this Being, That which is indescribable is revealed, That which is beyond names and, therefore, unnamable; beyond words, therefore, beyond images, beyond thoughts: it is the Truth of God, the Divine Reality. Thus, we have for the question "how to acquire wisdom," the answer to the question "how to find God."

Note, none of this is on the outside; it's something that's present here when illusion ends, when the idea, the thought, the image that thought itself projects in time, ends. Thus, we eliminate time, we eliminate the idea of ??past, present, and future for "someone"-someone who lacks wisdom and needs it, someone who hasn't found God and needs it, someone who needs to know themselves and doesn't know themselves, someone who needs to meditate to have an encounter or a mystical or spiritual experience. All of this disappears when we investigate the nature of the "I," the nature of the mind. Then, That which shows itself present is beyond thought.

This is what we're working on with you here on the weekends. We have two days together: Saturday and Sunday to delve deeper into this with you. So, online, we sit down and investigate this with you and approach this awareness of Meditation through self-inquiry, based on Self-awareness. So, I want to extend an invitation to you: two days in this online format. Here, in the video description, is our link to join our online weekend meetings.

In addition to the online meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you just heard resonates with you, here's your invitation. Leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? Thanks for the meeting, and see you soon!

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Joel Goldsmith | The Art of Spiritual Healing | What is spiritual life? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone, we're here for another videocast. Master Gualberto is with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here.

Master, today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called: "The Art of Spiritual Healing." In an excerpt from this book, Joel made the following comment: "The Son of God is always the servant of his fellow men, forever at the service of those who call upon him." In this excerpt, Joel Goldsmith comments on serving others. On this subject, can the Master share his vision of what spiritual life is?

MG: Gilson, our old habit is one of separation. We are constantly separating ourselves. Here, in the question of what spiritual life is, there is already division. We already find a distance, a separation between material life and spiritual life. Here, the question is: What is life? Yes, there is that life we ??know and there is Life as it truly is: this is Real Life. What we understand as life is a movement in which we are constantly interpreting what happens.

Therefore, what emerges there, in life as we know it, is a personal interpretation, a way of happening where the pattern of thought is determining this entire interpretation. This is the life we ??know. Yes, we can call it material life, a life centered on the person we believe ourselves to be, on the mind we know, on the consciousness we are living.

Therefore, what we could truly call Life-True Life, Real Life-is, in fact, Spiritual Life. And why Spiritual Life? Because it is Life as It is in its expression. It is in this internal movement of the mind that we are living in ignorance. I refer to this movement of the consciousness of the "I," where we are situating ourselves within the model of time. We do not live in an experiencing, in a verifying, in perceiving. We do not live in a way of looking, listening, or truly comprehending Life, because we are within a pattern of behavior where our thoughts are entangled with time. We are living in time.

Why have we emphasized here with you the beauty of an encounter with the moment? Why are we here investigating the importance of revealing this instant, of what is here, here and now? Because this reveals Life as It is, when the "I" is not there, when the person is not present. The person is the presence of the mind living in time. We are constantly capturing the present moment, storing the present moment as memory. This recollection is the mind's remembrance about life, it is the presence of the past, it is the continuity of this person.

Our life is personal, it is not real. The person is, in fact, a construct of thought, since thought is this remembrance, this memory, this recollection. Therefore, it is something that once was, but which is constantly appearing within our relations, in the form of a person. This is the life we ??know. The acknowledgment of Reality is the approach of Life. Therefore, Real Life is Divine Life, it is Spiritual Life; it is not the life of the person, it is your life. The way you represent the present moment, how you deal with the present moment, how you demonstrate the present moment, is based on an evaluation of thought; it is life in time.

Note that we are constantly in the past or the future. Now, notice what this statement we just made here means: the statement that we are constantly in the past or the future. We are affirming that our life is a life in memory, in thought. It is thought that lives on memories, it is thought that lives in the past. It is this past, these recollections, like thought, that project themselves into the future: this is the life we ??know.

We are emphasizing with you here the truth of an encounter with the Supreme Reality, with Divine Reality, with the Truth of God. It is that which is present here, not within time, outside the mind and, therefore, outside the past. It is the Timeless Reality, it is the Reality of Life, the Reality of God. It is the very Presence of this Being that you are, it is the Truth about You, when the illusion about you, in this truth of the person, is no longer present.

Therefore, there is the truth about the person: this is the truth about you, who you demonstrate to be, who you seem to be, who is expressing at every moment. However, there is a Truth about You, beyond this truth of the person: it is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God, that which is timeless, that which is the Unknown, the Indescribable, which is beyond thought.

Dealing with Life as It truly shows itself is to access the Reality of That which is timeless, of That which is not part of time. For practical purposes, we have chronological time-the time that deals with days, months, years; the time that deals with hours and deadlines. We call this movement in the known, this phenomenon of appearances and disappearances, as "time."

That which is temporal, that which comes and goes, that which is changing: this is the phenomenon of this dream. Therefore, between sunset and sunrise, there is time-chronological time-but the Reality of Life is beyond time: it is the Reality of Being. That which is eternal, beyond the known, is the Divine, the Truth of God, the Truth of your Being. Life there, is Real, Life there, is Love, Bliss, Freedom. This is what we are here, with you, working on and investigating.

So, what is Spiritual Life? Spiritual Life is Life when there is no longer the illusion of the mind sustaining the time that thought is producing, which is psychological time, where someone is present, someone who maintains their continuity in memory-we don't need that. Life is real now, here, when illusion is no longer present, when the mind, as we know it, is no longer present. Thus, there is no such thing as this "person," there is no such thing as this particular life of the person. The flourishing of this Divine State is your Natural State of Being, outside of time, beyond birth and death, beyond the idea of ??"mind, body, and world." It is Spiritual Awakening, the Awareness of Life, the Reality of Life.

GC: Master, we have a question here from a subscriber on the channel. She made the following comment: "Master, I feel lost. How can I find a greater purpose and begin to live a life with more spiritual meaning?"

MG: Gilson, the idea of ??purpose is the projection of thought in time. All thought does is project itself-either backward or forward. Note that thought within us does not deal with what is here; it is always dealing with what was or what will be. We are constantly, psychologically, either in the past or in the future. The element present here, in this movement, is the presence of thought. It assumes the idea of ??an identity-which is the "I," the person-to have a purpose, to achieve something, to accomplish something it desires, seeks, yearns for. It is the projection of thought itself onto an ideal of purpose.

The Reality of Life, Real Life, free from thought, is the purpose itself. Life itself is its purpose; it is not the life of someone finding a purpose. This person lives in a search, in a constant quest for some level of fulfillment, accomplishment, completeness. But what is the truth of the person in incompleteness, in dissatisfaction, and in the search? The truth of the person is the truth of a thought that is moving within us, giving us the basis for a fictitious, illusory identity. We are internally in an imaginary world, constructed by thought for someone; for someone who is either in the past or in the future.

There is a deep level of dissatisfaction within us, and that is why we speak about purpose. This dissatisfaction is the presence of thought. Thought within us will always be incomplete, always dissatisfied. It doesn't deal with truth; it deals with images, with imaginations, and we were educated to live this way, conditioned within an ideal, within various forms of purposes and objectives. Our human ideal, as people, is to achieve something surprising, extraordinary, "for me." But what is the truth of this "me"? It's what we need to comprehend, what we need to investigate.

The Reality of Life is its purpose. The beauty of Life consists in an encounter with what is present here, something possible only when thought is not here, making no interpretation, evaluation, comparison, judgment, projecting itself with its desires or fleeing from its pain. Fear is something present in pain. Pleasure is something present in desire. The presence of thought is the element behind this movement. This movement is fictitious, illusory. It is what we have called here "the time of the mind," "the time of thought."

So, when you speak of a higher purpose, notice... why do we speak of a higher purpose? Because life, as we live it in thought, is a life without purpose. There comes a time when you realize that, despite everything you've accomplished, you remain unhappy, troubled, psychologically and internally miserable. Even though you've accomplished things externally, there's no satisfaction, no fulfillment. That's why we speak of a higher purpose. In truth, there's no greater purpose than Life-not life for the individual, but Life without the individual. Life without the person is the Reality of Being. This is the true purpose, the only great purpose in life: to embrace the Reality of Being. This is Love, Bliss, the Awareness of God-the Awareness of That which is beyond the mind, beyond the world, beyond all our ideas about life.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber. In a video where the Master spoke about Self-awareness, the comment was: "It seems liberating to me. How can I live this?"

MG: You ask how to live this. You say, "That seems liberating." The Reality of life is the presence of Freedom. It's not about someone living it; it's about comprehending Life, the Freedom that is Life. There is no one to live it. It's the presence of this "someone," this "me," this ego, the limitation. We see ourselves within a circle, trapped within it: it's the life of the person. Real Life, in Freedom, there is no one in It. Your question is, "How to live this?" By assuming your Natural Real State of Being.

You are psychologically internalizing an orientation, a model, a program of action, thought, perception, sensation, interaction with others, with yourself, with the world around you. This is an illusory form of behavior, centered on a pattern organized by thought within you.

By freeing yourself from thought, you free yourself from this specific way of living; you free yourself from this psychological model of situating yourself in life. There is a break with the ego, with the "I," with the person. This is the true way to live this, the true way to embrace it. Anything else, any other project, search, pursuit, practice, or involvement with so-called "spirituality," or with any other technique, approach, or promise to achieve this state, is entirely false.

The basis, the foundation of this, is the presence of Self-awareness. When there is Self-awareness, there is an approach of this moment for a perception of life as it happens, without the "I" and, therefore, without this psychological form of existence that thought has been sustaining and maintaining in each of us. Then, we encounter this freedom. The expression "freedom" is quite curious: it's not something you will eventually achieve, it's something you deal with in this moment, from the moment you bring awareness, consciousness, and presence to your reactions.

It is necessary to be conscious, placing, in this moment, full attention on your reactions. This is what breaks this psychological model of existence, of conditioned mind, of prison pattern. This is what we are here, with you, working on. This is what we are working on with you in online meetings. We have online meetings, in addition to these videos. We are working on, with you, in face-to-face meetings. Discovering the Truth about yourself is the only thing that matters. It is real contact with life, it is life in communion, in a moment-to-moment flow. Then, we encounter this Freedom, this Love and Happiness.

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master. Our time is over now. Gratitude for this videocast.

And for those of you who are following the videocast to the end and truly wish to experience these truths, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These meetings are available online, in-person, and also as retreats.

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

And, in these meetings, we are being taken by this field of the Master's Presence. And, by being taken by the Master, we spontaneously enter a meditative state, quiet our minds, and have an incredible ease in knowing ourselves and observing our thoughts. So, here's the invitation. The first pinned comment contains the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings.

Also, please "like" the video, subscribe to the channel, and leave comments here, asking questions for future videocasts.

And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

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