What is fear? Conditioned mind. How to deal with thought? Psychological conditioning.

Here, our emphasis with you consists of an approach to life within a comprehension of its meaning. The difficulty we have in life is that we don't welcome life as it happens. We were brought up within a model of the world where, from an early age, we were always given projects, goals, purposes, ideas and dreams. We don't deal with life as it happens, we are always dealing with life from this background of mental representation of how life needs to be, should be or could be for us.

Here, together, we are investigating this issue, which is this "I." There is no other element present separating itself from life to evaluate life from this background. The only element present to be investigated is not life as it happens, but exactly this "I" as it appears - and this "I" is us. So, we need to comprehend a few things here; in fact, we need to comprehend only one thing, and this one thing is the truth about this "I."

The way we look at life is from a psychological conditioning due to the presence of a conditioned mind. We don't know how to deal with thought, for example. This conditioning prevents us from a comprehension of what is going on to us. Thus, we need to approach life with a new approach, something that becomes very complex, not at all simple, because of this background of conditioning.

When we deal with life, we are dealing with what is there. Life represents several very complex aspects; the complexity of these aspects is due to the way we approach life itself. Life is not complex, it is not difficult, it is not what we believe it to be. Despite not being complex or difficult, life consists of something happening right now, at every moment, like a great mystery.

There is no way of approaching life from the viewpoint of thought. This format of thought, the way in which thought is processed within each one of us, is trying to make a reading of life. So we have from life from the viewpoint of thought, in this conditioned mind, in this psychological conditioning, a mistaken view.

Every moment, we come across something new in life; life is always something new coming up. Every moment, every instant, we are faced with something new, and attending to this new thing requires a quality of mind that we don't know. Only a free, unimpeded, silent mind with a quiet brain is really capable of looking at life as it happens, without generating conflict, disorder and confusion. But the mind we know is the mind that, when looking at life, carries its own perspective, its own peculiar vision. So, let's look at this together.

Why is it that when we look at the experience of life, or life as it happens, we produce conflict, confusion, disorder and suffering, not only for ourselves, but for the world around us? Why does it happen? Because we look from the past. It's the past that doesn't allow us to make contact with life in Freedom.

The absence of this Freedom: let's touch on this a little here with you. We weren't created, educated for Freedom; on the contrary, we were trained, conditioned, programmed to think, to feel and to act in life. In other words, our actions too, all of them, are shaped by this model of feeling and thinking educated by society, educated by culture, for a very peculiar behavior, and this behavior is the behavior of the "I."

What is the truth of this "I"? This "I" is this present element that moves through life from thought. Then, that's how we're moving through life. This movement from the "I" is the movement of the absence of Freedom. Our idea of freedom, in general, is the freedom to do what we wish, to do what we want, to be who we believe we are. Some use the expression "we need to be ourselves." What is "being ourselves"? All we know of this being that we are is what culture has taught us to be, shown us how to be.

So, when we talk about freedom to do what we want, to be who we are, we are only under the influence of desire. It is not possible to have a real vision of Freedom as long as our impulse to act is the impulse to acquire, the impulse to obtain what we desire.

Because, in reality, what do we want? We desire what is present in that background of mental conditioning. We've experienced pleasure, and now we want that pleasure to return, that's our desire, even if that pleasure implies suffering for the other, as is the case with this movement in us, for example, in ambition. We live within a dispute, trying to outdo others, to achieve what we want in order to get what we want. This movement, in general, is what we call freedom, whereas here we are only in the impulse of dissatisfaction.

There is an aspect within this issue of desire that we don't perceive, which is the presence of fear. The same impulse to obtain what you want, such as pleasure, is the same impulse that seeks to keep you away from what causes you pain - and that's another aspect of desire too. We desire pleasure, but we also want to escape pain. This issue of desire needs to be investigated. Desire is natural; desire just shows us that we are responding to life. The problem arises when we don't comprehend the place of desire.

The quality of desire we know is not the simple, natural desire to obtain what we actually need. The desire we know is psychological desire, it's what drives us in search of fulfillment and achievement at the level of the "I," at the level of the ego. This quality of desire also carries fear. We live in this pursuit of desire - I refer to this quality of psychological desire, which is desire in search of fulfillment and egocentric satisfaction - and we also live within this same model of escape from pain.

So, our desire also implies this escape from suffering; a suffering that, by the way, we create from these impulses. This whole model of the "I" impulse, the ego impulse, in its search for fulfillment and satisfaction, is something that involves the search for pleasure and the escape from pain. And the truth is that this whole movement is the egocentric movement, this whole movement comes from the past, it comes from this psychological condition, which is the condition of the "I," which is the condition of the ego.

Thus, when people ask what fear is, one of the aspects of fear we generally ignore, is that fear, is this escape from pain. But who is this element in this escape from pain if not the "I" itself, this egocentric movement within this desire to escape? Here, with you, we are investigating the end to this psychological condition, which is the condition of ego-identity, for a real encounter with Life as it happens at that instant, free from this model, which is the model of these egocentric activities.

Therefore, the presence of Freedom, of this free mind, is fundamental. How to realize this free mind? And how do we assume the Truth of this free mind? It happens when we abandon this internal condition from us, this internal movement, which is the movement of the "I," which is this movement of the ego. This is done by looking, by perceiving, by comprehending all this movement. What we have given here as the foundation for this vision, for this Truth of the Liberation from this psychological condition, which is the condition of this ego-identity, is to realize here, in life, the comprehension of ourselves through Self-Awareness.

Unless you have a direct comprehension of how you internally function, you will never comprehend life. As we've just said: life is not something difficult, it's not something complex, but it is the presence of a Mystery, which at every moment is showing itself, revealing itself, and you can't become aware of this Revelation from the past, from the model of thought. Then, the end of this conditioned mind, of this psychological conditioning, is to approach life as it happens, as it is. And in this encounter with Life, we have the encounter with Happiness.

In general, all this search for satisfaction, for achievements, for projects, objectives, dreams is what has been given to us as a model within this context of society, of human values, of worldly values. A life turned towards the Truth is the end of this old condition, towards an encounter with life at that instant without the past, without this pattern of a conditioned mind.

The position of the person in the world, of human beings as they live, despite all the external achievements they have - achievements driven by the common model, by the model of conditioned mind, of psychological conditioning - in the midst of all these achievements, human beings still remain unhappy, problematic, and unaware of the Divine Reality present here and now because they are living in thought, living in that old condition of the "I," of the ego. Their whole impulse in life is to seek pleasure; all this seeking of pleasure carries the presence of pain. We don't become aware of this because we lack a vision of how we function internally, we lack a vision that we are functioning in a programmed way, within a context of consciousness common to all.

Here, together, we are investigating all this to go beyond this psychological egoic condition, to go beyond this illusion of the sense of someone present needing something in life. The truth is that the Presence of Life is the Presence of your Being. This Being is Divine Reality itself, this is the True Nature, the Real Nature of What is You in Your Being. An encounter with Life is an encounter with Reality at that instant.

There is no separation between life as it happens and the Reality of your Being. However, as long as this sense of "I," this conditioned mind, this psychological conditioning, is present, you will always be asking: "what is fear," "how to get rid of suffering," "how to overcome depression," "how to overcome stress and anxiety." That is because all these frames are typical representations of this psychological condition, which is the condition of the egoic mind, this isolationist, separatist consciousness, this sense of the ego, this presence of the "I."

Approaching the Reality of Life, assuming this Reality, seeing the Beauty of Life as it happens, having a real approach to this Mystery, requires the absence of this old condition. The presence of Self-Awareness opens this door to the awareness that Reveals God, that Reveals your Being. Happiness is possible in this life when this Life is Real, when this Life is no longer this idea of "my life," when this Life is Divine Life.

Here, on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, we are together going deeper into this with you. There are two days online where we are working on this with you. You can find our WhatsApp link in the video description to take part in these online meetings on weekends. Apart from these meetings, we also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation: go ahead, leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel and say "Yes, that makes sense" in the comments. OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

March, 2025
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What is thought? Fear: what is it? What is suffering? How to achieve the desired reality

Our foundation here in these meetings is an approach to investigation, to discover the reason for this psychological movement present in each one of us. This is what can give us a real answer to these diverse internal conditions in which we find ourselves. An encounter with life as it happens is something entirely different from this encounter based on the principle of thought present, which is the model we know. This entire condition of incompleteness, of dissatisfaction present in us, as human beings, is something that needs to be investigated. That is because the nature of the Truth about us, which we do not know, is the Nature of Love, Peace, Freedom. naturally of Happiness. And here the word Happiness is completeness; in this completeness there is no dissatisfaction. Thus, here we have to ask ourselves the reason for this psychological condition present in each one of us, which leads us to this search or pursuit of external fulfillments, for example, in our desires.

There is a search in each of us due to this dissatisfaction. Thus, people ask: "How to achieve the desired reality?" That is, how can we achieve what we really want? Here the question is: Do we know what we really want? Do we know the truth about desires? What is desire? Why desire? If there were satisfaction, would there be desire? Or is the presence of desire a classic sign of lack, of insufficiency, of dissatisfaction? This issue of desire is very interesting here to be investigated. Since childhood, we have desires, but desire has two aspects that we hardly pay attention to. It has a physical aspect due to a need - if, for example, you are thirsty, you want water; if you are cold, you want to be warm; if you are hungry, you want food. So, this is a simple aspect of this issue of the presence of desire in this dissatisfaction, in this lack of fulfillment. We are faced with something very natural: if you need to get somewhere, you need a vehicle. If the distance is too long, you won't do it on foot, then you need to buy a plane ticket.

So, the presence of desire is something very simple, it is something very natural, but we have internal demands that we do not comprehend why they are here. That creates a quality of desire, present in us, which is psychological desire. It is the search for fulfillment, for psychological satisfaction or achievement. What is this element present in us, dissatisfied, that sustains this psychological need, this search for fulfillment in desires? Will this element in us ever be satisfied, fulfilled? The answer to this is very simple: The psychological condition of the human being is the condition of a particular view of the world where there is always this dissatisfaction present. This particular vision is the vision of this "me," this "I," this ego. This is the element present, responsible, in this psychological dissatisfaction that tries to fulfill by achieving desires.

That is all very complex because the mind has made it very complex. We need to achieve things in life, but to be fulfilled by these things as the ego intends, as it sees itself needing to do, wanting to do, this is what reinforces the presence of suffering within us. Achievements, objects, being in places like traveling, or meeting people, or having them close to you, believing that achieving these things must have the purpose of psychological fulfillment is to sustain a condition of suffering in life. This is what has generated all kinds of problems in our lives. We attach ourselves to places, people, objects, ideas, opinions, conclusions, ideologies. We call these attachments "love." If this is taken away from us or if we feel threatened with the possibility of losing it, it is typical of the ego's nature to accumulate, acquire, possess, control. If it feels threatened, it feels wounded, hurt, saddened, or angry.

Thus, our attachments are sustained by our achievement of these desires, these psychological desires. Here, with you, we are investigating the end of this psychological condition, which is a very particular condition of the "I." This is what sustains in us a typical condition of suffering called "fear." In general, we separate the two things, we see desire as something good. Notice, there is an element behind desire, which is dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction is the presence of suffering. Another element present in this issue of the presence of desire is that it produces, in addition to the dissatisfaction present behind it, the presence of something, which is attachment. The achievement of desires sustains in us the longing for more, the search for more and, naturally, the concern of not having it anymore, of not achieving it anymore, or of it being taken away from us. That is fear.

So, what is fear? People want to get rid of fear, but they don't want to get rid of desire. Notice, we can discover the free life in this inner freedom, where there is no dissatisfaction, only when the mind is free from all this old model of searching, of external fulfillment and achievements, in order to fulfill itself internally. Only when the mind is free can we have an approach to life as it really is. We are within purposes and objectives, built into us by culture, by society. They tell us what to wear, they tell us what to eat, they tell us what to feel, how to think, how to act, how to achieve purposes, how to have ideals, dreams and desires. This is how we function psychologically within this context of human culture. It is clear that we are within a conditioning program. In a way, some things are quite harmless. For example, we just mentioned the issue, here, of desire. If you need clothes, you look for clothes, and you buy the clothes that are offered. But transforming that into a psychological ideal... You can indeed opt and choose, based on this inclination you have, this simple liking of a style of clothing, but being tied to this fashion model, to psychologically fulfill oneself, is being a slave to a psychological condition of culture, of human conditioning, of conditioning of the "I," of egoic conditioning.

It is necessary a clear perception, a Real Intelligence to deal with life and to stay with it as it happens, and not from this model of thought, which is enslaved by this pattern of psychological conditioning, of human culture, of human values, of worldly values. A real awareness of life is the direct comprehension of what it represents, in its entire context. This requires the presence of Intelligence. Human beings seek to study everything, but they do not study themselves and they do not become aware of life as it happens - in fact as it happens and not as thought desires, projects and idealizes. We have lived and we are living in ideals of thought. This is what is sustaining in us the illusion, for example, of this search for the achievement of desires. We believe that the achievement of these desires is what will make us happy, fulfilled, and complete. Notice how much importance and value people give, for example, to this search, to this search for external fulfillment. It is a mistake this idea that, through external achievements, you will be happy, through the achievement of desires, you will be happy.

Can we deal with life as it happens? This is not about eliminating the presence of desire but about comprehending the beauty of a life free from desire. To do what is simple, to do what is truly needed, is something completely different from seeking complex solutions to this dissatisfaction of the "I," of the ego, for desires. So, when you come and ask, "How to achieve the desired reality?" The only Reality is that which is present here and now, and the awareness of this Reality cannot be achieved, cannot be obtained, cannot be desired. It is that which is present expressing itself as the nature of the Truth of your Being. This is what we are here with you exploring together, investigating together. This is why we need to understand the issue of thought. What is thought?

Thought is the element that connects that image to you. So, there is an image, a perception, a vision, a way of looking at this or that, that thing, from thought. Thought is this bridge that connects you to that object. You see something and you desire it, thought is the element that makes this connection. We do not comprehend this whole movement of thought within us. Without the presence of thought there is no such quality of desire, because we do not have this bridge. You see someone famous, then you have this vision of him or her and thought says: "It would be very nice, it would be wonderful if I were like him or her." This is the movement of thought within us, sustaining and continuing desire. Thought says: "If I achieve fame I will be happy, I will find peace, I will find happiness." Notice, we are just in a flight of fancy. It is thought that is continuing this fantasy - it is the bridge between you, this "I," and that ideal, and that purpose, and that desire.

Therefore, thought is the element that gives continuity. This is just one aspect of thought. So, what is the thought present in you? It is the element that sustains the continuity of this "I" in desire. Thought is the element in you that sustains the continuity of this "I" in fear. Without the presence of thought, there is no such search for psychological fulfillment of desire. Without the presence of thought, there is no such presence of fear. Then, what is thought? It is the image, it is the projection, it is the flight of fancy, it is this bridge, it is this ideal, it is this fantasy sustained by this psychological condition, which is the model of the "I," which is the model of the ego. Thought in us is an element that comes from the past. All its references are from the past. It does not deal with life at this moment, as it happens. It is always dealing with achieving, obtaining, accomplishing. It is an element present in us, sustaining this whole notion of "tomorrow." I refer to this psychological tomorrow, which is the tomorrow of the achievement of happiness, peace, love, and inner completeness. This is something completely illusory, completely false. And we have been living like this for millennia, within this illusion, within this psychological condition.

This is what feeds the presence of suffering within us. Notice, this is another answer here to the question: "What is suffering?" Suffering is the presence of thought sustaining this psychological condition of projection, of fulfillment and satisfaction in this notion of tomorrow, of the future. A future that thought produces with this idea: "I am not happy now, but I will be happy tomorrow." "I do not have this now, but when I have this or that, I will be happy." There is a very interesting expression in Sanskrit for this condition of illusory search for fulfillment and happiness in this condition of ignorance, of illusory identity that is "I," the ego. The expression is "avidya"; "avidya" is this ignorance. This is a Sanskrit word for "ignorance," for the ignorance that sustains, that reinforces suffering, because it reinforces this illusion.

Here we break with that. We need to have a direct comprehension of life, free from this psychological condition. So, these meetings we have here, on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, have this purpose. They are online meetings that take place on weekends, here with you. Two days together, we can work on this. Here in the video description, you have our WhatsApp link to get closer to these meetings. In addition to these online, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. Thus, if this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead, leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel, and please say here: "Yes, that makes sense." Leave it here in the comments, ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.

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The truth of death. How to deal with death. Psychic suffering. Egoic mind and suffering. Avidya.

We find questions like these quite reasonable, and we're going to investigate them with you here: "How to deal with death?" - or the search, the quest to discover the truth of death. We think this is very, very reasonable, but when we look at life as it happens, and there is this fluidity, freedom, when you are not in any level of discomfort, friction, conflict with life as it appears, as it arises, as it flows, you don't ask these questions.

Notice that, it's always when suffering is present at some level: discomfort, pain, conflict, contradiction, problem - that's the suffering present - when this is present, these questions arise. So, you see, we're already here with you working on this issue. Let's investigate this a little here.

When do we worry about death? Is it when we're happy? When we're celebrating? When you're laughing at a joke, do thoughts of death come up? Do any questions like this come up for you, such as: "how to overcome the fear of death," "how to get rid of suffering," "how to find peace" or "how to find love"? What I want to tell you here is that all these questions will always arise as long as this internal condition in you is the condition of some level of emotional disorder, of thinking, feeling.

Is it possible to discover life as it happens, without the idea of how it should be? Because, notice, this is where this suffering, this discomfort, lies. The very basis of these questions, in this psychological background, is the movement of psychological background with this suffering, with this contradiction, discomfort, conflict, and problem, which is the basis for these questions. But it is precisely within this psychological condition that all this appears.

Here, with you, we are precisely investigating the end of this psychological condition. We don't need the answer we are looking for, an answer to it, because we are in conflict, in suffering, in internal disorder, and so we put ourselves in this search for an answer to life or death, or to situations, or to what we don't understand, to what we don't comprehend.

Once you discover the truth of flowing with life as it happens, without this psychological condition... Notice, this psychological condition, where conflict, disorder, suffering, and problems are established, is precisely the presence of the "I," of this "me." It's when you see yourself as someone present in life and are at some level resistant to life as it happens that these questions arise, these problems arise.

Here, together, we are working on the very end of this element, which is the "I," the " me." Let's comprehend this clearly. This element is nothing other than this very conflicting, psychological state of being; it is this that, in its confusion, suffering, and discomfort, creates these questions. To discover life happening without this element is to no longer have questions about what life is, what death is, how to overcome problems, how to overcome death, how to get rid of suffering, and so on.

Discovering the beauty of this encounter with life as it happens, without this element that sees itself as separate from it, resisting this movement... Yes, life is what happens, it has its own movement, but when you look at it from this old model, which is the model of thought, where you live within principles of choosing what you want and what you don't want, what you like and what you don't like, what you accept and what you reject about life, that conflict is established, discomfort arises, disorder happens, within you.

There is no problem in life as it happens, and the appearance and disappearance of things is part of life. Our idea of death antagonizing life, fighting with life, note, is an idea. It does fall within the principle of appearing and disappearing, but it's life as it happens. Everything that is here, now, undergoes change: it's here now and then it's gone.

This whole notion of time that causes us so much discomfort, which is where change occurs, this discomfort is not caused by change itself, but by this pattern of thinking that wants to give a fixed structure to life as it happens. So, we reject death, we reject the end of things, we reject disappearance. There's a whole movement in each of us, in this thought pattern, which is a movement of possessing and holding on and not allowing change. Thus, we're always in a vain attempt to hold, in an unchanging way, that which changes, that which, by nature, is already changing.

You can't hold on to anything, no matter how hard you try. Everything goes away, everything disappears, it's just a matter of time. When we have the time for change, that's not the problem either, but it's the illusion of thought resisting change. That's what underlies the problem, that's what underlies the psychological suffering in each of us.

A real approach to the truth about yourself will show you that all the suffering present in you is psychic. It is only thought that is sustaining this suffering, when it resists life as it happens, when it wants to control events, happenings, people, feelings, and thoughts; it is always the internal movement of thought, in this format of the thinker, of the experiencer, of the one who separates oneself to observe and is seeing from oneself, from what one can see. Invariably, it is always like this. It is this sense of this "me," this "I," evaluating, judging, comparing, sometimes accepting, sometimes rejecting. This is the particular purpose of this center, which is the "me," the "person."

Thus, every form of psychic suffering is that which is present because of this psychological model of being someone in life, in experience, in events, in what arises. That is why we are investigating with you here the end of this egoic mind and suffering. There is no separation between this mind of the "I," this egocentric mind, this model that looks from this illusory center, and suffering. As long as it persists, the illusion remains.

In India they have an expression for this illusion, for this psychological condition of affirming this identity; this psychological condition of affirming this identity in life, seeing oneself as separate from life, as the experiencer of what one is experiencing - one sees oneself as the experiencer and as someone experiencing it - this condition in India they call avidya. Avidya is a word for ignorance; the condition of illusion that sustains suffering is avidya. So, what is this illusion? What is this avidya? It is the presence of this egoic mind, this mind of the "I."

When you use statements like "my house," "my car," "my family," "my business," "my life," "my story," here we are before a particular vision, centered on the "I." We have life happening, but we do not have the truth of this "I" having these things. This idea of having, of possessing, is of controlling, of maintaining, of holding, of sustaining. So, this psychological condition of suffering is inevitable when life as it is shows itself. Things disappear, vanish, are taken away from this "me," from this "I," then suffering is present, then questions arise: "How to deal with death? How to deal with this 'losing' of the things that one has, that one possesses?"

Life at this moment is something that is changing. Nothing is permanent and nothing is sustained as thought photographs it. In us, thought photographs it, records and tries to give a fixation to this, to that, and to that other thing. What thought does is to construct a present entity, being the manager of all this, the owner of all this. So, this whole psychological condition of the "I" is one of control, of attachment, of domination; this is what the "I" calls love.

Thus, all suffering arises because of this, so-called, love. However, there is no such thing, it is just a nice name that the ego gives, that this "I" gives, that this thought gives to the things that it tries to give stability, security, with it. Thus, the psychological condition of the person is one of attachment. So, fear is inevitable, possession is inevitable, suffering is inevitable. There is no way to get rid of it. Thus, there is no such thing as getting rid of suffering as long as the sense of "I" is present, this ego remains, this mistaken view of life as it happens is present.

A direct look at your reactions will show you that these reactions in you arise from thought, from this model structured in the past, seeking to maintain its continuity, holding on to things, holding on to objects, holding on to positions, holding on to people, holding on to relationships so that they do not undergo changes, so that losses do not occur. The central idea is to possess, control, dominate and sustain one's own "I," one's own ego in these things, in these positions, in these ideologies, beliefs and also in these relationships between people.

So, all this concern about death is something that is present because the sense of "I" wants to maintain its continuity. Here we are inviting you to the awareness of your Being, to the awareness of Life, to the awareness of Love, to the awareness of the Freedom of your Real Nature, which is the Nature of God, where none of this is present. This is the Real encounter with Happiness.

That's why we have these meetings here on weekends, where we're with you on Saturdays and Sundays. These are online meetings on weekends. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these meetings. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. So, if this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead, leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel, and please, leave a comment here: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

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Joel Goldsmith | The Heart of Mysticism | Wisdom, knowledge and intelligence | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast; Master Gualberto is here with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here. Today I'm going to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called "The Heart of Mysticism." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "It is not your knowledge, your wisdom, or your understanding. It is God's." On this subject, can the Master share his vision of what wisdom, knowledge, and intelligence are?

MG: Gilson, there is only one way to truly approach life, and that is through Wisdom. We can have this common approach to the experience of life as it happens based on the knowledge we have acquired. In general, we mistake this knowledge - see, there is a difference between the Truth of Wisdom, of Real Intelligence, and what we call "intelligence," linked to this background of knowledge we have acquired and the experiences we have gone through. It is very common, in life, to acquire knowledge through experience; or through knowledge, based on knowledge, to acquire new experiences. That only gives us, in life, an approach to life in this so-called "intelligence" we know.

Notice, human beings are very intelligent; we are creatures capable of great achievements. That has been proven over the centuries, especially in these last centuries, in these last hundred years, the achievements and conquests of this intelligence within us have already become very clear. So, we have great intelligence, but an intelligence that is based on knowledge and experience. Here, when we deal with you about Truth, Wisdom, we need a new quality of intelligence, which is not the intelligence of knowledge, which is not the intelligence of experience, which is not the intelligence based on thought. Note that all our knowledge is based on thought; all our experience is, in reality, knowledge, which is thought.

Now, notice, despite all these achievements, Gilson, we continue, as human beings, despite all the comfort, convenience, efficiency, and capacity - we now have resources in medical science, in fast means of transportation, we have the presence of computer mechanics, the ability of robots, and so on - we have accomplished wonders, but from a psychological viewpoint, internally, we continue to be anxious, full of anguish, worries, we have countless forms of fear, the various conflicts present within us, created by these contradictions of desires. We desire things that we do not want to desire. We know that it will create problems for us, we do not want to have that desire, and yet the desire is there. So, there is a contradiction in wanting for the sake of desire and, at the same time, not wanting to have that desire because of the problems it can cause.

Thus, we have conflicts of these contradictions of desires, we have countless fears, our inability to deal with people... We are always hurting each other, we are always offending each other, creating annoyance and inconvenience for him or her. We suffer from anxiety, insomnia, depression, we suffer from the pain of loneliness, we have various forms of psychic suffering present in each one of us, and this scientific and technological intelligence has not solved it. Yes, the pharmaceutical industry has created medications, but these medications are palliatives. That does not essentially solve the problem in each one of us, which is the problem of the "I," of the ego. It is the ego that is suffering. So, in the midst of all the comfort, driving a nice car, internally we are distressed, worried, and afraid.

So, we have advanced a lot technologically, scientifically, but psychologically we continue to be unhappy, with problems, in suffering, because we lack the vision of Reality, which is the vision of God. And the vision of God does not come through thought, through knowledge, or through experience. The vision of God comes through the Reality of Intelligence, this Reality of Intelligence is something present when there is, precisely, the emptying of this psychological content, which has sustained in us the illusion of an identity - which is the "I," "me," the ego - that sees itself separate from life itself, that sees itself separate from God. Can we have, in life, an approach to Intelligence? I refer to this Real Intelligence, which eliminates fear from each one of us, and the various forms of worries, which puts an end to the continuity of problems. Can we have a brain free of problems, free of conflicts, disorder, and suffering? That requires the presence of Intelligence, this Divine Intelligence, this Intelligence of God. This is what brings us closer to Wisdom.

Here, the question is: How to realize Wisdom in life. The presence of Wisdom is not the presence, I repeat, of knowledge and experience. The presence of Wisdom is the presence of the Truth about us. Only when you become aware of how you function, how the mind works, does it become possible to go beyond the mind, beyond this "me," this "I." Then, we have the blossoming of Wisdom, the blossoming of Truth, the Truth of God. Then, it becomes possible, in this life, to see what it represents. But now it is clear that there is no separation between you and life itself, because the sense of separation is no longer present. That is Wisdom! Note, it is not something you acquire by reading books, studying, or a teacher can tell you. You cannot discover the Truth about yourself from someone, from another. Only by having an approach to Self-Awareness do we have the basis for the awareness of God, which is Wisdom. And a life in Wisdom is a life in Love, in Peace, in Freedom. We have the presence of Happiness when the Reality of God blossoms, when the Truth of your Being emerges.

It is in this sense that we use the expression "Awakening of Consciousness" or "Spiritual Enlightenment" here. It is the Reality of this Truth that has blossomed, that is here and now, revealing itself in life, as the awareness of your Being. That is Wisdom. So, the Truth about Wisdom is the Truth about this Divine Intelligence. While, on the one hand, we have the presence of knowledge, based on thought and experience, regarding wisdom, what we have is the presence of this Intelligence, which is Divine Intelligence. You cannot learn this outside. This new learning about yourself is what gives you the vision of this Intelligence and this Divine blossoming. This is what we work on here, with you.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, which is the following: "Master, how do I get to know myself?"

MG: The comprehension, Gilson, just comprehending your reactions, that's all we need. When you have a thought, you don't become aware it's there, but you don't have just one; for a minute, an hour, five minutes, fifteen minutes. Note, every moment we have thoughts, but we are not aware of them. A thought arises and you don't become aware of it. It brings a sensation, it brings a feeling, it brings a state, your emotional state changes, your state of feeling changes, due to the presence of this thought, this feeling. So, we are constantly being touched by thoughts, feelings, emotions, within our relationships with people, with visual perceptions of environments, in this contact with ourselves, and we don't become aware of it.

So, what does it mean to have a revelation of the Truth about who we are? It means becoming aware of these reactions when they arise. Thus, every minute of every hour of the day, we have the opportunity to observe our reactions, what is happening here. When you look at someone, you look from the perspective of your thoughts and you don't become aware of that, at that moment, you are evaluating, accepting, comparing, liking, disliking, judging. This is something automatic, mechanical, unconscious, because of the presence of thought within you. You are not with him or her, you are with the thought about him or her, and you don't become aware of it. Becoming aware of our reactions, notice, is not something so simple. It requires, for this moment - and it is only this moment, you cannot postpone it, it is for this moment - it requires, at this moment, attention to these internal reactions that are happening within you, in this contact with him or her. Just as in this contact with yourself, with what is happening here and now.

Thus, what is this approach to Self-Awareness? It is, at this moment, an attention that looks at this thought, this feeling, this emotion, this sensation when it arises, without interfering with it. Looking at it and becoming aware of it is getting closer to Self-Awareness. This is interesting: the real way to approach Meditation requires the presence of Self-Awareness, and the presence of Self-Awareness requires this attention to this reaction that arises here and now. No one has ever told us about this! You are the age you are today, but you have never become aware of how you function, psychologically. And if you are not aware of this, and if you do not become aware of it, you will never break away from this psychological condition of identifying, in a mechanical, unconscious way, without any perception of yourself, of these states.

So, we are constantly responding to life in our relations with people, with ourselves, with what arises, with what happens, in a completely unconscious way, without any Freedom, because we lack an approach to Self-Awareness. And if this is not present, this awareness that reveals the Truth of your Being beyond the "I," beyond the ego, does not show itself, which is the awareness of Meditation. You need to have an approach to Self-Awareness, to have an approach to the Truth about Meditation, then this space opens up, free from the "I," free from the ego, where what is outside the egoic mind is revealed, outside this consciousness that is the egoic consciousness.

Discovering contact with life without this element that comes from the past, which is the "I," "me," the ego, requires the presence of Meditation. That is why we have meetings where we work on this with you. They are online meetings, in person, retreats. Discovering what it is to live free from the egoic mind, free from this mind of the "I," from this movement of thought, for a contact with the present moment, free from the past. Then, the Truth of life is revealed, the Beauty of Love, this Grace and this indescribable, unnamable thing, which is beyond thought, beyond imagination. I refer to this Truth of God.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. He asks the following question: "Master, how can we do self-investigation of the 'I' in our daily lives?"

MG: Notice, this question of yours has just been posed here, the answer to it. This investigation is not something that thought constructs, it is just this look without interfering with the movement of thought itself, it is the look without interfering with the movement of feeling or emotion. Try to look at someone, for example, without their past. See, you will be faced with an extraordinary challenge. Looking at someone without their past means looking at them without the thought you have about them. It requires the presence of attention in this look, which eliminates the past. In general, all the contact we have with life at this moment is contact from the past, from memory, from thought. A contact with this moment, with this instant, requires the presence of a look free from this image, this frame, this memory, this recollection. Is it possible to have contact with him or her, without the image you have of him or her? The answer to that is: yes! When you discover what it is to look, without interfering with that look and you do not interfere with that look, when you learn what it is to look without that observer, without that thinker, without that experiencer of the image.

Our entire model of life during all these years has always been that. We are always being personal within relations, because we are always putting this element that comes from the past, this "me," this "I," to like, to dislike, to evaluate, to compare, to judge. to want something from him or her, or to get rid of his or her presence. We do not know how to get in touch with life at this moment without the past, because we are too addicted to this model of being the experiencer, the observer, the thinker. And here we invite you to learn to look without the past, to look without the "I." That is Self-Awareness! Then, a new quality of performance, of action, of movement, will happen and, certainly, this "me," this "I," will not be present. This is when the brain quiets down, the mind becomes silent, and this space free from the past is present.

So, here, at this instant, at this moment, there is a contact with Meditation. And once Meditation is present, once Meditation reveals itself, there is a new fragrance in this relation. It is no longer a relation between images, you no longer have an image of him or her. In general, in our contacts with people, between people, the person is an image, the image you have of who you are, the image you bring of who the other is. Here we have the end for this in this look, in this becoming aware, in this perception. You are asking how to do this self-investigation. We put it here for you: become aware of your reactions. When a thought arises, an emotion, a sensation. look at it, but it is the look without this "I," it is observation without this observer, it is becoming aware without someone in this awareness. Try this!

The real way to approach life is through life with life. And you are life in your Being, when the past is not present. Thus, your contact with him or her is contact with life, with life when the "I" is not present, when this feeling, the thought of someone who lives in this wanting, not wanting, liking, not liking, is no longer present. We need to find out, in life, what life is without the "I," what life is without the ego, what life is free from the past. As it has been said, there is a fragrance, there is something new in this space, when it is not occupied with the model of thought, comparison, judgment, evaluation, of this liking and disliking. Unless this becomes clear in our lives, we will never know the Truth of Happiness, Love and Peace. Everything we have experienced in this sense of the "I" is the approach of sensations fulfilment; something mixed with pleasure where pain is present; with this so-called "love," there is jealousy, possession, dependence, some level of suffering. Here we are working on this together. The awareness of your Being is the awareness of Love, it is the awareness of Happiness, it is the awareness of God.

GC: Thank you, Master, our time is over. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are watching the videocast until the end and want to experience these Truths, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These are intensive weekend meetings. They are available online, in person, and even multi-day retreats. In these meetings, Master Gualberto answers our questions directly, and much more than that. Because the Master already lives in this Awakened state of Consciousness, he lives in this state of Presence, and this Presence is a very strong energy field. And in these meetings, we end up riding along on this energy field of the Master, and it helps us a lot to comprehend what is beyond intellectual understanding, it helps us to enter spontaneously - through this Power of Presence in the Master - into a state of Meditation.

So, here's the invitation. In the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Also, go ahead, give a like to the video, subscribe to the channel, and leave comments here, bringing more questions for us to bring to the next videocasts. And Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

March, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The truth of death | How to deal with death? | Psychic suffering | Egoic mind and suffering

There is something very curious about all this behavior in us, in this contact with life as it happens. Among us, we find philosophers, psychologists, the so-called religious people, we find mystics. When you look at nature, you do not find philosophers, psychologists, or those who dedicate themselves to the study of theology among sparrows, rabbits, or monkeys. Notice how interesting all this behavior that is in us. We have issues that we do not find in any other environment, only in this environment, within this context of human history, of human beings.

So, we have an intellect that we are proud of. However, this intellect, in addition to solving problems - in this encounter with a scientifically,

technologically life condition, as in the case of medicine and in several other areas, we see problems solved, problems resolved, and we are in a better life condition within this context of human culture, history, civilization, in this context of humanity -, although this is present, we also come across unresolved issues, and we have the idea that they are not resolved yet and that they may be resolved in the future.

But note: these are entirely intellectual issues that involve this issue of feelings and emotions in human beings, which we do not really find in nature, in the animal kingdom. Issues like: "How to deal with death?" You cannot imagine a bird having an issue like this. If you have a pet in your house, you never imagine your cat having this problem. See, an issue is a problem. For sure, you've never imagined your kitten wondering when it would die or about the old issue about the truth of death: "What is death?"

So, these are issues that are present in human beings, because we are philosophical, we are theological, we live within psychological principles, we want reason, the why for things, especially if these things affect us internally, create some level of discomfort, disorder, conflict, contradiction, and suffering.

Why do we have a question like this: "How to deal with death?" It's quite simple: we are not dealing with life; your pet, your dog, your little fish in the aquarium, those little fish there are dealing with life, because they are dealing with what happens; They do not speculate about what will come, about what will happen, about the losses they will suffer, but we, as human beings, despite all this intellectual capacity to resolve issues that bring us today an improvement in life, a better, more comfortable quality of life, such as the extension of our days, due to all these technological, scientific and medical advances, despite this, we continue, psychologically, to have problems.

And why is this present in us? This is due to the presence of this sense of "I," this sense of ego, this sense of "me." It is because we have things that we can lose, or because we have things that we want to achieve and that we have not yet achieved. This ideal of possessing in the future, and of not getting rid of what you have, is an internal movement of thought, within you, that produces conflict, that produces suffering.

Here with you we are investigating this issue of the end of this illusion, which is the illusion of this psychological condition in which we find ourselves in this feeling-thought "I," having all these things, needing to resolve these issues. We need to discover life as it is, and we cannot be in touch with it as it is while we are weaving ideas, concepts and beliefs about it, about how it should be or could be to "me." This is where there is the presence of this separation between you and life, between you and what is.

When this is established, there is the presence of ideas, philosophical ideas, spiritual or spiritualist beliefs, psychological concepts. All of this involves the question of this model of thought that is present in each one of us. It is this model of thought, which is limited as it is, that finds itself wanting to resolve issues outside its scope, outside its competence.

We cannot resolve issues of a psychological nature, since these issues of a psychological nature are issues created by this psychological model that, by structure and nature, is confused, disoriented, creating imaginative questions, questions like: "How to overcome death?" Note, we do not know what life is and we already want to overcome death. We do not know what it is to live, but we want to resolve the question of what death is and how to overcome death.

Note that all the psychological problems that we have are established in questions that thought itself establishes in imagination, within its model of confusion, limitation, speculation. Thought within us is trying to find the answer to the imaginary questions that it has. Take a careful look at this here.

This question about what death is, is like the question about what life is. Life here is just life as it happens, to be lived as it happens. Any discussion about it, any debate about it, is a mere imaginary speculation of thought. Death is a word that we construct, through thought, to talk, for example, about the end of things. But let's take a closer look, for example, at this word, which is a construct of thought.

Life, here and now, everything in this instant is appearing and disappearing. There is no such thing as a fixed structure called life that happened at a certain moment and will end at a certain moment in the future. This moment is an idea, and this instant in the future is also an idea. At each moment, life expresses itself in constant change. Everything is new at every moment. So, at each moment, everything is born and everything dies. There is no separation, there is no line that separates appearance and disappearance.

Why do we have questions like this? We have questions like this because we are living on thought. Thought has given us the illusion of being someone present in life, who has things, who controls things, who possesses things, and who cannot lose them. Thought has created the illusion of an identity, which is the "I," this "person" that thought says is you, and you, in fact, in thought, as a "person," believe what thought says.

Thought, for example, says that you have a car, that you have a house, that you have a business, that you have a body, that you have a life. Note that all of these are constructs of thought, they are ideas in thought. These ideas in thought are creating problems. Once thought is there saying that you exist as someone separate from what you have, you are just an extension of that, and if that is taken away from you, a piece of you has been ripped away. So, all of this psychological suffering present in us is a construct of thought.

So, we are living psychologically on things, on objects, on people, on ideas, on beliefs: this is the life of the "I," it is the life of this "me;" It sees itself as an entity separate from life as it happens, from everything that is here appearing and disappearing, and it wants to control, and it wants to dominate, and it wants to possess, it wants to have it for itself, it wants it to be its. Notice, this is the condition, in the human being, in each one of us, that sustains this psychological condition of psychic suffering.

This is what we have called here the egoic mind. What you call "my consciousness" is nothing else: it is this movement of thought that is assuming the illusion of this sense of "I," of this "me," of this entity, as if it were real. So, you see yourself as someone who has things, who is living life - and, here, life is about possessing these things. So, we always live psychologically within this internal condition.

This is life in the egoic mind, this is the life of the "I," an artificial life. As we have said countless times here: there is life as it happens and there is this illusory life of this supposed entity present within this living, within this existence, within this happening. Breaking with this condition is assuming Reality, the Reality of your Being, which is the Reality of God; it is the awareness of Life as it happens, without this illusion of living life because you were born and of losing life if death happens.

There is Something present in this moment, and That which is present in this moment is beyond this illusory life of the "I," it is beyond this model of thought, which is always raising, from itself, questions, problems, which it does not resolve. What we have stated here for you in a very clear way is that anxiety, depression, anger, fear, these various conflicting and distressing states, such as worry, hatred, these various attachments that we all know, all of this is within this psychological disorder of this "I."

The truth of approaching life as it is, is possible when we approach ourselves and through Self-awareness there is this direct comprehension of the non-need for the continuation of this psychological movement, which is the movement of the egoic mind, which is this movement of thought seeking answers for this life that it has idealized, that it has constructed.

Real Life is present, and we do not need this model of thought to deal with what happens. If this is real, suffering ends, fear ends, confusion, conflicts, disorders and the various problems present in this psychological condition disappear, because at this moment what is present is Life as it is, and in It the Beauty of God is revealed, the Beauty of your Being, the Beauty of your True Nature, which is not the person, the "me," the "I," the ego.

This is what we are working on here with you. These meetings that we have here on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday: they are two days together where we are going deeper into this with you. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and we also have retreats. Here in the video description, you have our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on the weekends and get to know about these in-person meetings and retreats.

So, here is an invitation. If this is something that really makes sense to you, leave your like, subscribe to the channel and say: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon.

February, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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