How to find God. Meditation: what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness. Wisdom in practice.

It seems to me that this is already becoming clear, at least to some of us, that human life is very confusing, very problematic. For most of us, confusion, disorder, and suffering are the most common thing. And when we find ourselves overwhelmed by the tremendous suffering this represents, we seek help, we look for someone or something that can help us escape this confusion, or at least improve, alleviate this situation, lessen this situation.

Here, together, looking at this, observing, is investigating. Is there another way to approach the end of confusion, conflict, and suffering for each of us? This is what we are here investigating, inquiring, exploring with you: the possibility, in this life, of embracing the truth of a free life, where Reality life is present. And what we have said here, revealed to you in each of these meetings, is that life is comprehended, becomes clear, and becomes real when, in practice, Wisdom is present.

We need to differentiate the truth of Wisdom from the mere understanding or intellectual comprehension of some aspects of life. You can, technically, have a deep knowledge of some areas-for example, in your profession-or a certain skill in human relations and have a certain success in them. The presence of this quality of knowledge and experience enables you to deal with everything reasonably.

Here, our interest is not partial, but complete, total. We are not interested in simply improving ourselves as individuals. Here, we are investigating the truth about the person with you, and this will show us that no matter how good they are, no matter how successful they are at the moment, they still, as a person, carry the illusion of separation between themselves and life and, naturally, between themselves and others. Thus, all success or achievement is something within a limitation, because it is a life sustained by knowledge and experience.

There is a quality of life, which is Real Life, and it is unknown to thought. It is not part of what you can achieve through knowledge and experience: it is Divine Life. Life where Wisdom is in practice, in the practice of living. This living is the living free of "someone"-"someone" living, "someone" who sees themself as the center of experience, when experience is here. The true awareness of Life is practical Wisdom; in it, there is no separation between this living and life.

To put it another way: You are Life in this living, when practical Wisdom is present. It is a way of approaching the present moment, where the presence of Intelligence prevails. When there is Intelligence-I refer to this Divine Intelligence-you have complete freedom to interact with people, without the illusion of the image that thought, in general, constructs about the people we are dealing with. This is because we have an image of who we are, relating to the other, as we believe they are.

The idea of ??what they are, of who they are, of what they represent to "me," is in the image that thought within me has constructed about them. Here, the presence of Intelligence, which is the vision of Life in a practical way, in this living, there is no "I," no ego. This is what we are here, with you, investigating. The presence of Life is the presence of Divine Reality in this living, when there is no longer illusion, the illusion of separation. The presence of this illusion is the presence of the conditioned mind, the mind we know, the mind that lives in confusion, disorder, and suffering.

We are here inviting you to the Awakening of your Natural Divine State. It is an invitation to assume, in life, the awareness of God. We have no awareness of Reality, no awareness of Truth, and therefore, there is no Freedom. The awareness of Truth frees us from illusion, from this sense of "I," from this sense of separation. Then, we encounter Life, and in it there is the answer to the question; the question is: "How to find God?" It is here, it is now, in this instant. This requires a new brain, a new mind; it requires the presence of knowledge of a different order.

The knowledge we have, like the experiences we bring. We have technical, scientific, biological, and psychological knowledge, knowledge of science, biology, chemistry, and mathematics. Here we are talking about new knowledge, which is not the knowledge recognized by thought. It is the presence of a quality of knowing beyond the mind. It is Divine Reality revealing itself.

There is the presence of knowledge and there is the Reality of the Unknown. When we touch here on a quality of knowing beyond the mind, beyond the ego, we are pointing to the Unknown. The true comprehension of life consists in knowing Divine Reality. It is not "someone" having this knowledge; it is the presence of knowing, the presence of that which is present here beyond thought. You will never have awareness of Life, of how it truly is, by looking at it through the model of thought.

Is a brain that sees without the past possible? This is the new brain; a mind that approaches the present moment in Silence, in Freedom, without the bonds of all this history of memory, of recollections and remembrances. A mind free from knowledge is a mind ready for this knowing, for this perceiving, for this looking without the past. This is the result of this learning about ourselves.

Why have I emphasized the importance of learning about Self-awareness here? Because it brings you closer to this state of mind, brain, and heart free from thought. It is the approach to Meditation. What is Meditation? What is the truth of this art of meditation? It is to face life without the past, to face life in this perceiving, knowing, in this looking. Then, this divine encounter with God is revealed.

So, how to find God? Not in the future, not in time. God is not a reality to be found there; this time is not real. See this carefully: what we call time is something within a model of chronological experience. Leaving this place for another requires space-time. But with regard to Divine Reality, the Reality of Being, it is precisely the absence of time. It is precisely because we are living in the illusion of time that we are in the idea of ??someone who sees themselves separate from God. We are in the illusion of a person who sees themselves separate from others, a person separate from life.

It is precisely because we are in the illusion of time that we are idealizing happiness tomorrow, love tomorrow, peace tomorrow. There is no such thing as "tomorrow" for Peace, for Love, for Happiness. We are in a model of mental abstraction when we bring this idea: "I am not happy, but I will be happy," "I do not have love, but I will have love." It is the idea of ??time, the presence of thought, that is the element within you that constructs this quality of time.

What will a life free of thought be? We face the present moment without the idea of ??the past or the future. The present moment reveals what is here as Being, not as this idea of ??becoming, of achieving, of obtaining, of getting there, or even of getting rid of. Notice the beauty of what we are pointing out to you here. Life is here and now, but we have been educated, within thought, for the idea of ??tomorrow, for the idea of ??something later. We are living, psychologically, in thought, in time.

Therefore, there is no separation between thought and time-this time and becoming, this achieving. That is why we are in constructs like: "God to be found tomorrow," "happiness found tomorrow," "love will arrive tomorrow, when someone comes into my life or something happens." It is always the future. We separate ourselves from this moment when we place thought as the present element here.

The idea you have is the image that thought has constructed of you: you to find God, you to be happy, you to love, you to peace. This separation, this duality, is the presence of time, the presence of space, something that thought is establishing. A direct vision of oneself, in this learning about what you are, there will be, here and now, the recognition of the illusion of the thinker, the illusion of the element that sees itself separate from life. This is the end of the "I," this is the end of the ego. This is the space that reveals itself when there is the presence of Meditation.

Some people talk about meditation as something someone practices. See, someone in the exercise, someone in the practice, and this requires time, it requires exercise of someone. The truth of Meditation is the awareness that there is no such "someone." The reality of Meditation is the space that opens up when time, duality, the experiencer, the meditator, thought ends. We are talking about a single movement. The presence of thought builds the experiencer, builds the thinker, builds the meditator, builds the idea of ??the future, the image of God tomorrow, of happiness tomorrow, and everything else. It is the presence of thought.

So, what is this awareness of self-discovery, which is the presence of Self-awareness? It is looking at this moment without the observer, it is perceiving this moment in this listening. This is learning about ourselves, becoming aware of what thought has been established in this mind, which is the egoic mind, in this consciousness, which is the consciousness of the "I," and then, it dissolves. When we have this dissolution, in this space, we are faced with the art of Meditation; and if Meditation is present, there is the revelation of That which is the only Reality here, which is the Reality of this moment.

The Reality of this moment, exactly as it is, reveals to us That which is beyond time, beyond the known; this is the encounter with God. Therefore, you do not enter into meditation; Meditation assumes reality when this "I," this "me," the idea of ??someone is not present. Therefore, you do not have an encounter with God; the Reality of God reveals itself as the Truth of this Being that is present here, which is not the "I," the person.

The encounter with Self-awareness is not "someone" having knowledge of oneself; it is the awareness that there is no "I," no ego. There is life as it happens, moment by moment, and it is already present within it... It is not something that will be achieved in the future, accomplished tomorrow, conquered by someone. I refer to the Truth of Bliss, of Love, of Freedom, of the comprehension that what is present here is Divine Truth.

Therefore, the encounter with God is the realization in this knowing, in this quality of knowledge, which is not knowledge for someone, it is the acknowledging of this recognition. This is the presence of Wisdom, of a life in Wisdom, in practice. Therefore, there is no separation between Life in Wisdom and this living in practical Wisdom, in the Wisdom of the moment, in the Wisdom of the instant, in the Revelation of That which is present here. Self-comprehension is the Awakening of this true vision of Life.

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

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Joel Goldsmith | Leave Your Nets | How to get rid of suffering? 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: "Leave Your Nets." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "As you have been stripped of your material possessions and clothed with the mantle of God, so now you will find security, goodness, and satisfaction only in the Divine Mantle." In this excerpt, Joel comments on finding security in the mantle of God. On this subject, can the Master share your vision on how we can get rid of suffering?

MG: Gilson, on this issue of suffering, observing, looking closely at it, is fundamental. When you tell me, when you speak to me, when you tell me about suffering... if it's here, look closely at it. When you say, "I have to free myself from this suffering," what are you actually talking about? Something that's here right now or something you sometimes feel? What is the truth about suffering? What is the truth about the person who suffers? Is there a separation, when suffering is present, between the person who suffers and the suffering? The answer is very simple. When you speak to me of suffering, are you talking about a suffering that is here or a suffering that sometimes happens? Are you talking to me about a memory or are you portraying a present suffering?

Is the portrayal of present suffering the presence of real suffering, is it here, or is it the idea of ??a suffering that may appear at some point, or that has already been here at some point? The investigation of the nature of suffering, Gilson, puts us in direct contact with what is. What is - is the presence of suffering. But, when suffering is present, there is no separation between the idea of ??suffering and suffering. The idea of ??suffering is someone's idea of ??suffering. The presence of suffering is not someone's idea - the presence of suffering is the presence of the one who suffers. This is not an idea, it is not a concept, it is not a theory.

We need, first of all, to have a clear discernment of this: when suffering is present, no one is present to have an idea about suffering. When suffering is present, the one who suffers is the suffering. Suffering is the one who suffers. There is no separation between the sufferer and the suffering. We are faced with the same one experience. Why is this comprehension crucial? Because, in general, we are stuck with a mere verbal, conceptual, intellectual understanding of the subject.

When you say, "I need to free myself from suffering," I ask you: what suffering are you talking about? There you have a report of suffering. You tell me the story of suffering. You say what you feel about suffering. This description is the description of the intellect, of thought; it is the presence of the mind speaking of suffering.

If we truly want the awareness of truth, of liberation from suffering, which represents the end of suffering, it is necessary to comprehend that there is no separation between the sufferer and suffering when it is present. This is where we encounter the possibility of comprehension of the truth about this sufferer. It is the presence of the one who suffers the very presence of suffering. We cannot speak of someone suffering without the truth of suffering. And that is exactly what we have been doing: we speak of someone suffering when suffering is not there. But when suffering is not there, there is no suffering. We are merely using an abstraction-a theory, a concept, a belief, a foundation of history and memory.

Elimination of pain requires the comprehension of pain. Comprehension of pain is the end of pain. And this pain ends. When it ends, there is no one in pain. We need to comprehend the presence of truth, of non-separation, of non-duality between pain and the one in pain. When you are sad, there is no "you sad." You may speak to me of sadness, but that is not "you" sad, it is the story of someone who has been sad, of someone who will be sad. This story is the presence of thought. This is how we are living in thought-whether in the past or in the future. Thought is the portrait, it is not the thing. Thought is the figure, it is not the thing; It is the image, not the thing. The thing itself is the pain, the suffering, this malaise, this discomfort, this grief.

We don't know how to deal with the present moment because we are dealing with the present moment in abstraction, in theory, in concept, in idea. Thus, we separate ourselves from the present moment because of the theory we have, the belief, the concept we bring. Therefore, if we truly want liberation from suffering, we must comprehend that there is no separation between the one who suffers and suffering. When there is no one who suffers, there is no suffering. When there is no suffering, there is no one to speak of suffering. The true way of a direct approach to suffering is without the idea, without the concept, without the belief. Come closer and look-without the idea, without thought, without the story-at this pain, this grief, this suffering. Do this.

In the moment of pain, of suffering, there is only pain. Don't put someone in charge of getting rid of it. Don't tell a story about it to justify, explain, or find a way to get rid of it. In general, we are constantly running away from pain because we are searching for paths. This alternative path is a distancing from pain through a thinker, an experiencer, through a concept, an idea, a belief. When we do this, we don't free ourselves from pain, because we maintain continuity of this element that is constantly separating itself from the experience. The experience is the pain; the experiencer is this element-it is the "I," the ego.

What we learn in life, what we have been trained to do in this contact with pain, is to run away. It is to escape. And we confuse this escape with "getting rid of the pain." The end result is that we are constantly experiencing moments of suffering and never truly free ourselves from it. We don't free ourselves because we don't free ourselves from the illusion of this "I," this sufferer. We are running away, escaping. There is no real contact, no real confrontation, no direct gaze. It is always based on beliefs, ideas, concepts, formulas, paths, to deny, justify, explain, rationalize the presence of suffering, the presence of pain.

What does it mean to approach life? It is to approach what is here. This approach is not the approach someone makes-it is the approach of the realization that there is no separation between what is here revealing itself and the one to whom it reveals itself. This is our real contact, the real confrontation, the direct comprehension of experience. It occurs when we do not place the experiencer, the thinker, the one with ideas, the one with something to say.

Our great invitation to life is to embrace the Reality of Life without someone present who separates oneself from it to choose between pleasure and pain, between joy and sadness. Getting closer to oneself requires the presence of this gaze, this observation, this perception, without these choices, without these thought directions, and therefore, without the past, without this thinker. Thus, we look at the present moment beyond thought, beyond this idea, the concept, and abstraction. The sense of "I" is eliminated, and when it is eliminated, there is no suffering.

Thus, the answer to your question-"How to get rid of suffering?"-is: get in direct contact with the moment, without the presence of the experiencer. Then, experience dissolves. Suffering disappears, because there is no longer the presence of the sufferer. This requires Self-awareness. This requires the presence of Meditation. This requires a Real contact with Life as It Is.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, I'm very afraid of losing the things I've achieved-my job, my stability. How do I face this fear?"

MG: Look, Gilson, this fear of losing what you've achieved is present in the illusion that you are someone who has things, who has achieved things. Look at yourself. We have absolutely nothing in life. What we have, for example, as the most intimate is the presence of the body. But is this body yours? Do you actually control it? Do you determine its health, its well-being? What do you determine for the body? What do you control?

We have no control over life, over health, over our heartbeat. We carry, Gilson, the illusion of an identity that sees itself present-and, because it sees itself present using what is around it and what life has provided it, it believes it exists as someone separate from life and possessing these things. There is no such person. It is not real.

The person you are, with the life you have, in the control you exert-all of this is entirely false. What is present is Life. There is no one having things, possessing things, having control over them. Everything just happens. Everything just arises, stays for a while, and disappears-in Life, not in a person's particular life, because there is no such thing as a person with their own particular life. It is the presence of thought within you telling this whole story-the story of being someone who possesses things, has achieved things, and can lose things. Therein lies the root, the cause of fear.

You want to get rid of fear, but you haven't yet comprehended that your fear is you. There is no separation between you and fear. Therefore, free yourself from the illusion of someone present. Then, things will remain there-or will go away-but there will be no one left to deal with them, to occupy themselves, to worry, to think about them, and therefore, to fear.

Liberation, in this life, is the awareness that there is no such thing as "I" and that this life is not the life of the person, but rather Divine Life. We are faced with a game in which things arrive and then move away, approach and move away. The body is born and dies. Objects arrive and disappear. There is no "someone." There is no "I." There is no person. All of this is within imagination, within thought-and we are living in thought. The illusion of someone is the idea of ??the person. Let go of that, and fear ends. Suffering ends. And the illusion of attachment or detachment also ends.

Some people talk about detachment of things. Your big problem is not things. You can be surrounded by all sorts of things and, at the same time, not be psychologically present, internally, carrying this sense of "I," of ego, present, in the midst of it all. Therefore, it is not about detaching, or getting rid of, or protecting or defending yourself so as not to lose things. Here, it's about freeing yourself from illusion-from this center that is the "I," the ego, which finds itself in the middle of all this. Your fear is you, the person, the "I," the ego. What we're working with you here is precisely that: the end of this illusion, this illusory condition, this egoic mind.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. He made the following comment: "Master, how can I realize that life in the ego is an illusion? Everything seems so real."

MG: Once again, Gilson, the question is: How to realize this? How to perceive this illusion, is that it? The question is: How to get rid of this illusion? By becoming aware. It's necessary to have clarity, lucidity, vision, perception. It's this comprehension. It's the clarity of this look at how reactions occur within you and outside of you-and this will show you that life is like this: there is no one in life. There is Life, the presence of the perception of Life as It is. In It, there is no one.

When a thought is present and observed, and you don't get confused by it, neither accept nor reject it, it dissolves. It doesn't remain. Any continuity of thought within you requires the presence of inattention to that thought. This is how we give continuity to the ego's sense. It lives in the model of thought about itself, about others, and about life. This is the ego's illusion. But when you pay attention to thought-looking without interfering-it loses its importance, it loses its value, it loses the energy of intention, desire, fear, and continuity. This is how we eliminate time. This is how we truly deal with life. This occurs when we don't place the experiencer, the "I," the element of intention, the person.

A direct comprehension of how the mind works, feelings too, and sensations occur, emotions arise; how it all processes: emotions arising, thoughts, and sensations. A direct look, without interfering with what is happening within you, just as with what is happening externally. At this moment, Life begins to reveal itself without the "I," without the person. The foundation lies in comprehending ourselves, in perceiving how we function, how Life is unfolding.

The presence of Self-awareness opens up this space for the comprehension of Meditation. And in it, there is no longer the "I," no longer the ego, no longer the meditator. Here, the presence of Meditation is not what some out there understand as meditation. It is the acknowledgment of Life in this moment, without the past, without the "I." Participating in online meetings, in-person meetings, is fundamental.

Therefore, our Real contact with Life is the truth of a real contact, here and now, with this Being, with Divine Reality. You, in your Real Nature, are the Truth of God. It is the presence of this Freedom, this absence of the past. It is the presence of thought that maintains the continuity of the past for the thinker; the continuity of the past for the one who has lived experiences-the experiencer; the continuity of the element that observes from ideas, concepts, beliefs, and evaluations-which is the presence of the observer.

The discovery of Reality about this is the nullification of the continuity of this pattern of behavior of the egoic mind, of the conditioned mind, of the life of the "I," of life in the ego. The discovery consists of a look, a perception, a direct verification that Life is the Only Reality present. There is no room in It for this illusion. This arises because of thought, the error of thought, the illusory suggestion of thought. Looking at this is the end of this condition. It is clear that this requires work on oneself, which is what we are proposing here in the online and in-person meetings.

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master. Our time has come to an end. Gratitude 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 meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These are intensive weekend sessions. These meetings are much more profound and transformative than these videos here on YouTube.

First, because the Master answers our questions live. And second, and much more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares a field of presence around himself, a field of energy, power, and Grace. And in these meetings, we are carried by this field of Master's presence. And, by being carried by the Master, spontaneously, effortlessly, without any technique, we enter the meditative state, quiet our minds, and can have a glimpse, a vision, a comprehension of the topics discussed here on the channel.

So, here's the invitation!

In the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to join these meetings. Also, please "like" the video, subscribe to the channel, and leave comments with questions for future videocasts.

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

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

"It is quite a simple fact, the fact that life, for most of us, consists of problems, in such a way that amidst confusions and various forms of suffering, which are these problems, we are in search of a solution. Thus, as life consists of problems, we want to solve these problems. And what we have as the first expedient for the solution of the problems we have, is the idea of seeking help from knowledge and experience.

We know that when we have a technical problem of some kind in our lives, we seek, in knowledge, the solution to that problem. If I have a problem with the car, I go in search of a mechanic, or help from technical knowledge for the solution of that problem, because I know nothing about this, I do not know automobile mechanics. If I have an electronics problem, I also look for a technician, a specialist in that area.

Here, when we face internal, psychological problems, emotional, sentimental disorders, we also go in search of help. In general, we can be helped, but afterward we need other appointments. Therefore, the search for this support to deal with the problems we have in life is something very common.

Here we want to investigate with you the non-necessity of knowledge, since knowledge can give us this support to solve technical matters which, naturally, may happen again, and psychological matters. Then we find ourselves, temporarily, with relief or a temporary liberation from this condition or that other condition. But here, with you, we are investigating the truth about the "I," about the "ego."

Here we investigate the possibility of a Life free of both technical knowledge and psychological experience to deal with problems within each one of us. All technical support or all psychological support may be helpful, but they do not resolve the issue of the "ego," the issue of the "I."

Only the comprehension of the Truth, the Awareness of the Realization of That which You essentially are, represents the end to all problems and, therefore, to the various confusions and sufferings that we know, that we have. Therefore, we are, with you, exploring the issue of the encounter with Wisdom. It is different from the encounter with knowledge and with experience.

There is a difference between the presence of Wisdom and the presence of knowledge. Knowledge is something that is acquired, just like experience. The presence of knowledge and experience is the presence of memory, and it gives us a formation of conditioned action, of action standardized by knowing, by knowledge. We are always within a limitation when we are dealing with knowledge and experience, whereas the Awareness of Truth is the presence of Wisdom.

Truth is something definitive, it is an encounter with the New, it is the presence of the Unknown. You were not born simply to acquire knowledge and experience. This appearance in this dream called "life" is for the Flowering or the Awakening of Wisdom, for this true encounter with Truth. It is the comprehension of Truth, it is the Awareness of Truth that, in fact, confers Life upon us.

True Life is the Divine Life, it is the Life of this Being. There are no problems there, there is no confusion and suffering. You were born for Bliss, you were born for Happiness, and here we are, with you, in each of these meetings, insisting on this, on the Truth of That which we are when illusion is no longer present.

Thus, what we need is Truth, which is the presence of Divine Wisdom, of God's Wisdom. This is the presence of Spiritual Wisdom. When you deal with life, this "dealing with life" of yours either occurs from knowledge and experience, from this model of psychological experience and from the model of technical knowledge, or this "dealing with life" is in line with Life. In line with Life, in the flowing with Life, the presence of Wisdom is present, which is not the presence of knowledge nor of experience, but is the vision of the Unknown.

The Unknown is this Reality present beyond the mind, since the presence of knowledge and experience is the presence of memory, it is the presence of conditioning. Here we emphasize with you, study this: the possibility of a mind free from the past and, therefore, from memory, from knowledge and experience; the mind capable of meeting the present moment without the illusion of an identity that sees itself as present separating itself from Life, which is the "I," the "ego."

This clear vision is the Truth of Wisdom, of Spiritual Wisdom. It is something present when there is true Awareness of God in this encounter with the Unknown. In the question "how to find God," the confusion for people is the idea that they need, through knowledge, by reading books and studying, listening to talks and acquiring more information, more concepts and theories about this, and that they will find God.

Thus, for people, the idea consists of seeking knowledge or going through experiences. Life, for most of us, is tedious, complicated, and quite repetitive, something that places us in internal conditions of constant dissatisfaction, pain, and problems. So, we idealize some level of experience, where at this new level we can, there in that experience, enrich ourselves with God, with something outside the known.

But here we tell you that the presence of Reality, of Truth, yes, is the presence of the Unknown, of That which is outside the ego's pattern, the mind's pattern, the pattern of this life as we know it, but this is not an experience. You do not have an encounter with God in the future, He is not a Reality in the future. This idea of Him in the future is a belief present, it is part of the conditioning that the mind has, because we learned this, we acquired this, it is part of a so-called spiritual information, from sacred books, from talks we've listened to.

We situate God in time and ourselves here, as someone present; that someone is the person that we are, that thought tells us we are. Thus, we are in time and God is in time, because if He can be found, He needs to be found by someone, and He will be found later; it is not a present Reality, it is something that is there, somewhere, to be found.

Thus, the idea of having an encounter with God in the future is on a false basis, because we are putting here the presence of time. God cannot be a Reality in time. Note how this is very basic. The presence of time presupposes that which is inside time. The Divine Reality is outside time. That which is inside time is in the limitation of time. The presence of time and the notion of space is something present in us by the reason of the presence of thought.

We have the distance between one object and another, we have the space to travel from one point to another, so we have physical space and chronological time in this dream of existence, of manifestation, of universe, of world. However, psychologically, the whole idea of time and space is inside thought.

Thought is the author of time, it is the author of space. Therefore, what is thought? We are dealing with an image, with a mental formulation; when we speak of thought, we are dealing with memory. When is it that you have a thought? It is when you have a recollection that is a memory. Without memory, without recollection, there is no thought. This thought is an image; an image in time, an image in space.

The Reality of the encounter with God is the acknowledgement of That which is present here, but beyond time. Here, it is about something that is here, but which is not part of the known and, therefore, thought cannot recognize it, because it is not part of memory. You were born for the acknowledgement of Reality, of Truth, of Life, of God, the Nature of this Being, which is you when the illusion of the person, of this "me," of this "I" is not present.

Your question is: "How does it become possible?" It becomes possible when we learn the art of Meditation, which is to approach this instant without the old model of thought, of this mind that we know, which is the mind that lives in the programming of knowledge and experience, of the mind that is living with confusion, with problems, with suffering. It is the mind of the "I," it is the mind of the "ego."

There is a Reality present here, and it is acknowledged when we approach this look at the present moment, without the "I," without the "ego." Without the meditator, the reality of Meditation becomes clear. Meditation is to be in the present moment in this Being, without the sense of the "I." This is what shows itself here and now when we have the presence of Self-awareness.

Our emphasis here consists in learning how the mind works, how we are functioning. In this learning about Self-awareness, the Reality, the Truth of the Unknown becomes clear. And when we have the Reality of the Unknown, of That which is present here, beyond the "I," then we have the presence of Spiritual Wisdom.

Therefore, it is not knowledge and experience that we need to resolve human problems, to resolve our problems, but rather the presence of Divine Wisdom; it is Divine Wisdom that is born from Self-awareness and reveals the Truth of this encounter with God. There is no separation between You, Life, and God in this encounter.

It is what we are here, with you, emphasizing, working on, becoming aware: an approach to the moment without the presence of the thinker, which is the presence of thought. This quality of thinking we know, this quality of action we know, this way of positioning ourselves in life as an entity that separates itself from life that we know, all this is part of the known.

Your Natural Divine State is the Truth of this Being, which is the presence of the new, which is the presence of the unknown, which is the presence of God. It is what we are here, with you, working on, looking at closely. We need to assume the Reality of That which we are, having the direct comprehension of the Truth we bear.

When the mind is free from the past, this shows itself as being the only Reality, the only Truth, the Truth of people, the Truth of the world, the Truth of all situations, because all this idea of people we previously carried in us is no longer present. There are no people out there, there is no person here; there is a Reality present and it is Life happening beyond thought. This is the Supreme Bliss, this is the Awareness of Meditation, of the true encounter with God. There is no one present; it is God in expression, it is Love present, it is Happiness present.

It is what we are here, with you, working on. We have online meetings on weekends where we are with you on Saturdays and Sundays. It is two days in an online format. You have here, in the video description, our link to participate in these online meetings. Besides, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you have just heard is something that makes some sense to you, then here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and leave a comment here: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we will see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

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Joel Goldsmith | The Foundation of Mysticism | What is the conditioned mind? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We're here for another videocast, 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 "The Foundation of Mysticism." In one excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "The spiritual life is yielding to the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is a renunciation of desires." In this excerpt, Joel comments on the renunciation of desires. Regarding this topic, Master, can you share your perspective on the conditioned mind?

MG: Gilson, what is the instrument within us of perception, understanding, and comprehension? Isn't it the presence of what we call the "mind"? Isn't the mind within us the instrument that perceives, understands, and comprehends? Now, what is this comprehension? What do we really have as comprehension, or understanding, or perception of life? Is it true that the way you look at life, describes, reports, and faithfully portrays what life means, what life represents? Our model of consciousness, which we call the "conscious and unconscious mind," is the presence of this instrument, which looks from a background it brings, from a condition in which, as an instrument, it finds itself.

And what is this condition? What do you know about life? What do we know about life? What do we know about others? What do we know about ourselves? Isn't it a set of ideas? When we collect or gather together a huge number of thoughts, concepts, beliefs, we have the presence of an idea. A set of ideas is what we, in the mind, in this background, have about life, about others, and about ourselves. And all this content is basically, within us, memory, remembrance. It is the presence of experiences recorded within us, it is the presence of thought.

So, what is this conditioned mind? It's the presence of an instrument incapable of dealing with the reality of life as it is, because all this instrument has is the past, memory, and remembrances. We have life here, the reality of life in expression, but we also have the presence of thought about it. The thought about this is the conditioned mind. We're not dealing with life; we're projecting an ideal of life, a thought about life. That's how we function. You see the world from your conclusions, evaluations, and beliefs... You see the world from a political, philosophical, or religious perspective, from a family tradition, from the history of the country where you were born. This is conditioning!

What we are here, discussing with you, investigating with you, is the possibility of abandoning this, of freeing ourselves from this conditioning, from the conditioned mind, from the conditioned, programmed thought pattern, because it is preventing us from a true relation with life. The true relation with life is not the relation of someone, it is not the relation of this "I," this person, this mind. The conditioned mind is synonymous with a person programmed to think, to feel, to act in life based on this program, this background. Breaking with this is the emergence of what is present here beyond this situation, this condition. And yet, what is present remains unknown.

Contact with reality is the end of the illusion of what we comprehend, understand, and judge to be real. What we understand, comprehend, and judge to be real in life is based on this old structure, which is the structure of the conditioned mind; it is not reality. Contact with reality is contact with the Unknown. The presence of the Unknown is the presence of this Being, this Divine Reality. Reality is present, but it remains outside the mind. How can we access this? By becoming aware of the Unknown, abandoning the illusion of interpreting life, of judgment, of comparison, of evaluating life based on the past, based on thought. That is the answer!

We need a new brain, a free mind, a perception without the past. Our form of perception is not real, it is the perception of a perceiver; this perceiver within us is the person we are. And what is this person we are? This set of ideas! All conclusions, beliefs, judgments, concepts, opinions. That's always something personal in this conditioned brain, this conditioned mind. It is the pattern of thought that looks from the thinker's perspective. The eyes that see life are the eyes of this observer-this observer is the "I"!

The acknowledgment of reality is Reality assuming this space. There is no separation between the reality present and the Truth of Being, therefore we no longer have the eyes of the observer, the gaze of the observer, we no longer have the perception of the perceiver; it is the presence of Divine Reality in the acknowledgment of life, in the awareness of Being. Comprehending this, perceiving this, assuming this, is not something for "someone"; it is something possible when the Reality of this Being, which is Divine Truth, shows itself present. It requires the end of the illusion of the conditioned mind, of the way we are feeling, acting, thinking, and acting in life.

The old way of acting here, of thinking here, always follows the same principle of this consciousness common to all, which is egoic consciousness, which is human consciousness. To let go of that is to go beyond this condition. Truth is present when illusion is no longer there, the Divine is present when this idea of ??someone seeing oneself as separate, seeing oneself apart, seeing oneself as someone in the world, no longer exists. This is what we are, here with you, working on. So, a new mind, a new brain, a new heart, Something is present-this Something is the presence of the Unknown, of that which is indescribable, which is the Truth of God.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel who left the following comment: "Master, I feel like my desires are controlling me. I spend all day thinking about what I want and what I don't have. How can I free myself from that?"

MG: Gilson, when desires control us, when you say, "I spend much of the day desiring, wanting what I don't have," who is under the control of desires? Who is this element present that is desiring what one doesn't have? What is the Truth about the "I"? You see a great conflict between the desires you have and the person you are. This conflict is established precisely because of another desire, which is the desire to stop being as you are. Therefore, you have the conflict between the desire to possess what you don't have, to achieve what you haven't achieved... this desire in conflict with the desire to stop being this way, to no longer want to be this way. The basis of the mind within us is the basis of the "I," of the ego-this is the element that is in contradiction, in the conflict of desires, in the conflict between desires.

We have been educated, molded, into a cultural pattern where the belief is that by fulfilling desires, you will be happy... but there comes a time when we want to free ourselves from desires, and this becomes another desire, one that clashes with the desire to have, with the desire to possess. We place this condition of the thinker, the experiencer, this "I," into thought, in this model of becoming. We are living in this conflict because we don't look at our reactions. We need to free ourselves from the illusion of the idea of ??"someone." It is the idea of ??someone present; that is what imprisons us in desire, including the desire to free ourselves. So, all that is needed to end the conflict, to end suffering, is the awareness of this "I." Just acknowledge, be aware, become aware of your reactions, be conscious of your desires, including this desire to free yourself from desires. Look at that!

Any and all movement-and this is the pattern of behavior within us- it is always a movement to free ourselves or to achieve. Achieving the result of freeing ourselves from desires-which is another desire-or obtaining freedom from desires. This "obtaining" is still a purpose, still a target or another desire. Here, looking at our reactions is becoming aware of how the mind is functioning; then you become aware of this "I," of this one who wants to free oneself, this one who wants to achieve. Then, it vanishes. It is the presence of this learning about ourselves that is the end for this internal condition of an identity present, moving with purposes. As long as desire is present, the one in desire will separate oneself from it to do something: either to pursue what one longs for, what one desires, or to free oneself from that same desire, and all of this is still the movement of the ego itself, of the "I" itself.

There is no separation between desire and the "I"; it creates this separation when it places this "achieving," this "becoming," this "obtaining," or this "getting rid of." Looking at this requires paying attention to our reactions. Thus, we break with the "I," we break with the ego; then Something new is present. This new Something is not part of the "I," not part of this condition of purpose to achieve or purpose to get rid of, desire to obtain or fear of not achieving. Fear is another aspect of desire itself, the same as suffering and conflict. The comprehension of ourselves is the end of this "I."

We must investigate the Truth about this person we are. For us, desire is the problem; the reality of the problem is this one in the problem. This one in the problem is inseparable from desire-it is the presence of the "I," the presence of desire, the presence of the problem. Looking at our reactions, looking at each and every movement of thought, feeling, emotion, this longing or yearning for more-looking is the end of this, the end of the "I," the end of desire. Okay?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, who commented the following: "Marcos, how to go beyond 'liking' and 'disliking'?"

MG: Gilson, this "liking" or "disliking," "wanting" or "not wanting," is the presence of thought. When thought moves within you, it moves in projection. The presence of thought is a movement, within us, between past and future. Every thought here and now, appearing, is a portrait of the past. Therefore, we are engaged with what the past represents when thought is here. Sometimes thought, here, projects itself into the future. The whole interest of thought in us is continuity, maintenance, and the perpetuation of its presence. Notice how fundamental it is for us to understand this: when you have a thought, it's not satisfied with simply appearing, it has to continue itself. It maintains its continuity by reinforcing the past; it maintains its continuity by projecting itself into the future-that's how thought works.

So, we always live within a constant model of acceptance or rejection, of like or dislike, of seeking something in the future, of freeing ourselves from something from the past. This is the movement of the mind within us, this is the movement of consciousness, of the presence of the "I." You ask how to free yourself from this "like" or "dislike"... The very idea of ??freeing yourself, the very purpose of freeing yourself, must be investigated. We are still faced with a thought when we believe we can attain this Freedom in the future: the Freedom to want or not to want, to like or dislike.

Here, the vision of the comprehension of thought is fundamental; then, it ends. And when it ends, this choice ends, this idea of ??someone present drawing conclusions, making evaluations, deciding whether to want or not; this disappears due to the presence of the comprehension that thought is merely a memory. We are giving to a memory-which is the present thought, which is arising here-an identity. We are constantly placing the person, the "I," and we do this based on intention-the intention to obtain or the intention to get rid of; the intention to like or dislike. This intention places an identity present in the memory-which is thought that is appearing here, at this moment-an identity, an identity that comes from the past. This identity projects itself into the future; it requires thought for this movement. We do not have "coming to be"; we have, here, the Reality of Being.

The presence of this "becoming" is the presence of the "I," the "person," this "me." Every thought within you seeks "coming to be." This "ceasing to be" is also part of this movement, which is the movement of thought-a movement that, I repeat, is present because the "I" is present. When we pay attention to this moment, this attention brings a vision of the instant that eliminates this intention, that eliminates this "I." Every time you are attentive, this attention is something that, when present, this conscious sense of "I" is absent! Become aware of this, observe this within yourself: when you are in a moment of full attention, the sense of this conscious "I," which is the movement of thought, does not enter. Thought does not project itself into the future and it completely loses the importance of what it has to say about the past, when we bring this attention to this moment. This attention is something that is present here, but we do not have the presence of this "conscious I," this conscious or unconscious mind. There is Something that transcends the presence of the one who chooses to like or dislike.

Therefore, the true way to approach life is without "someone" in this approach. Then, Truth-the Truth of Being-is revealed. This is Liberation, this is the Freedom to live free from this egoic sense of like or dislike. Okay?

GC: Gratitude, Master, our time is up now. 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 meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These are intensive weekend meetings available online, in-person, and also as retreats. These meetings are much more profound than the videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions live, and second-and much more impactful-is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares a field of Presence around himself, a field of Energy, Power, and Grace. 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, effortlessly, without any technique or practice, we enter the Meditative State, quieting our minds, and gaining a vision, a true comprehension of the topics discussed here on the channel.

So, here's the invitation: in the first pinned comment, you'll find the WhatsApp link to join these meetings. Also, please give a "like" to the video, subscribe to the channel, and leave comments here, asking questions for us to add to future videocasts. And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

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How to find God | Meditation: what is it? | Learning about Self-Awareness | Mental suffering

The question here is: "Why does this suffering exist? This psychological suffering present in each of us." It is present because we haven't studied the truth about who we are, about how the mind within us functions, how it works; it's the absence of comprehension.

We are living in a pattern of behavior that is sustained by what thought evaluates. Thought is the element that makes evaluations; it looks at the present moment within the conclusions it draws. Life, in thought, is the presence of a life within the recognition that thought can reach, perceive, and deal with.

It's interesting to know, to comprehend, something fundamental: thought is an element within a limitation; it doesn't encompass the vision of the totality of life. Thus, its evaluations are limited evaluations, and we are living within these limitations, as people. So, why does such a thing as mental suffering exist? Because we are living in the mind.

But what is the mind? What is the truth about the mind? The internal movement of consciousness within us, what does that mean? It's the presence of recognition; a recognition that, because it arises from thought, comes from the past. See the implications of this. What do you know about the other? Everything you can know about them is based on what thought has to say about them.

What can you know about yourself other than what thought tells you? This is what allows you to have not only an idea of ??who you are, but also an idea of ??who the other is. You don't have the truth about them, you don't have the truth about yourself; you have what thought tells you. We have to investigate this, to have a clear understanding of this limitation.

If here, for example, I use an expression, a word, immediately, in your brain, this creates a mental representation; this mental representation in your brain is not reality, it is the image that thought is producing about what we are talking about here. Note that each word, in the dictionary, has numerous meanings. So, what exactly are we talking about here? If any of these words has multiple meanings, thought can create a specific image of a given word, and yet that's not what we're communicating here.

So, how can we approach life, how can we approach others, or ourselves, through words? Words are an element of communication, but they are limited to this condition of multiple interpretations. These are the evaluations of thought. We don't have contact with life as it happens, with ourselves, as we are, with others, as they are. And we don't have it because we haven't learned to observe, only to observe.

Our gaze becomes contaminated by thought, by this evaluation, by these various interpretations that the image creates-we do this all the time. Therefore, if I use a word here, whatever it may be, for example, the word "chair," you immediately have an image, but you don't know which chair I'm talking about, because there are countless chairs, and chairs come in many different shapes. And you have a particular image of a chair, but you don't know if that's the chair I'm talking about. So, this is the difficulty.

We are dealing with life through thought, through the evaluation that thought makes within us about a given thing. All our contact with others, with ourselves, with situations in life, through thought, is through a thinker, someone who is evaluating, that is, drawing conclusions, forming images, having ideas about something.

Here the question is: Is it possible to have contact with life without ideas, without images, without evaluations, and therefore, without thoughts? Such a quality of contact would be fundamental for true comprehension. We don't know what this true comprehension is because we are living in thought.

Why do we need to learn about Self-awareness? Because it is this that will reveal to us the Truth of Life as it is. You cannot have the Reality of Life as it is based on a mistaken idea about who you are. And this mistaken idea is the idea that thought has formed about who you are, and we are living in this thought.

We cannot comprehend life without first comprehending the truth about thought, about this image model that thought has established about who we are. Once again: this image is a particular image of evaluation, of comparison, of self-acceptance or self-rejection.

Note the implication of this: we are not dealing with the truth about ourselves, we are merely dealing with an imagination about who we are, when we are grounding our particular present person, which is the image that thought is establishing-establishing within our relations, with ourselves and with the world around us. Notice how complicated this is.

Learning about Self-awareness is investigating the nature of this "I," the nature of this self-image, the nature of this quality of thought. A true approach to oneself is a new vision of life, without the "I," without this one that thinks, feels, acts, evaluates, compares, or judges. And who is this? This is the presence of thought in this self-image. This is what we consider ourselves to be, the person. The person is this self-image.

Learning about ourselves is discovering the truth about this; and when there is full awareness of the truth about this, what we know as thought within us undergoes a profound, significant, and radical change. It is when we encounter Something beyond thought, and this is the end of mental suffering. This mental suffering is the presence of the one who suffers. There is no separation between this suffering and the one who suffers.

Now, what is this suffering essentially? If there is no separation between suffering and the sufferer, and if it has already become clear that the sufferer is thought itself, which is this self-image, this is the "I," the "I" that suffers. Therefore, the end of psychological thought, the end of thought, is the end of suffering. Thus, contact with Reality eliminates illusion, and illusion is this person, self-image, the "I," and this is nothing other than thought in this format.

Thus, we stop living in thought and embrace the Reality of Being. This is our true encounter with Truth. The encounter with Truth is the encounter with God. Notice what an extraordinary thing we have here now: How to find God? By embracing the Reality of Life without the "I." It's not something for the future, not something for tomorrow, not something for later. God isn't there waiting for you-so you would have to get out of here and get there.

The Reality of God, Divine Truth, the Truth about Life, is here and now, when the "I" is not. This awareness, this Revelation, is the presence of Meditation. Therefore, when we approach this learning about ourselves, we are having an answer to the question: "What is Meditation? Meditation, what is it?" Will there be "someone" present in the practice? Will there be"someone" present in the exercise, in the technique, when there is the presence of Meditation? The answer is simple: there is no one present when Reality is present.

Therefore, the presence of Meditation is the absence of the meditator. When there is the Revelation of this Being, which requires the presence of Self-awareness, here is the answer to the question: "What is Meditation?" It is the Revelation of this moment, when the "I" is not present. Therefore, we are faced with this awareness of Life when we learn to look at it without the old model of thought, which evaluates, judges, compares, draws conclusions, and interprets.

We are in direct contact with Life when thought, or word, or symbol, or image, is no longer present. Therefore, here in these meetings, investigating this, is embracing the Truth of what is present here, without the "I." This moment here, for example, is something that requires an encounter beyond words and, therefore, beyond thought, beyond these diverse meanings we give to each word, each image, each symbol.

We need to have an encounter here beyond speech, where, in the heart, something new emerges, something new happens. It happens in this space between words, it happens here in this gaze, in this feeling, in this perception. Real communication is this communion beyond the known, beyond all this symbolism of words, images, and mental representations, something beyond thought.

Thus, this moment here, like each and every moment, is always an opportunity for Meditation, since the presence of Meditation is the awareness of the moment, without interpretations, without evaluations, without comparisons, without thought. Therefore, what is this learning about ourselves? What is this presence of Meditation? It's about approaching this moment and simply listening, looking, and perceiving.

Therefore, don't judge, don't compare, don't evaluate, don't interpret. Then, in this Attention, in this simple and direct listening, something beyond speech, beyond words, happens. So, notice, this is a moment of Meditation, this is a moment of encounter with Silence, of encounter with Freedom, of encounter with Peace. It is the Reality of this Being, the Truth about You. This is the Divine Presence, it is Real Consciousness, it is that which is present here beyond the "I," beyond the ego.

Therefore, our true encounter with God consists of this awareness of Being, of simply Being. This is the end of mental suffering, the end of this idea of ??someone present as the thinker, the experiencer; this is the end of this idea of ??the person, of this "me," this "I." Your true encounter with Life consists of the acknowledgment of this moment. This is what we are here, together, working on in these meetings.

We have online meetings on weekends, where we will be working on this with you on Saturday and Sunday-two days online. I want to extend an invitation to you. You can find our link to participate in these online meetings on weekends here, in the video description. In addition to the online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard resonates with you, here's an invitation. Like it, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!

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