Anxiety and fear of dying. How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's something we've been emphasizing with you: It's the way we should approach these subjects we're discussing here with you. Here we are together studying ourselves, something that involves learning about Self-awareness. And this requires a new way of looking at our experiences, at what we are living, how our life is unfolding, how each feeling, thought, emotion, sensation is processed within us, how our actions are processed within us, what drives them, what the motives are, what lies behind the action, as well as a present thought or sensation or a feeling. This is the true way to approach it.

Therefore, when someone uses the expression "mindfulness technique," it seems to me that they haven't quite comprehended that we are dealing with something that requires an encounter with the moment. Every technique presupposes prior knowledge; first you acquire the knowledge, you acquire the skill: the knowledge, the skill, and the practice of the technique. The presence of attention on this moment, on this instant, does not require technique, it requires interest. When we face something as natural as observation, it doesn't require technique.

When something interests you, you observe, you give your mind and your heart, because your interest is there-it's a simple and direct interest. Then, there's this enthusiasm, this gaze, this quality of approach, and this doesn't require technique. Thus, this attention to our reactions, to what happens within us, and externally, in our actions, words, gestures, this doesn't require technique, it requires interest, the enthusiasm to observe, to become aware of ourselves.

Therefore, when people use the expression "technique" for this mindfulness, they haven't quite comprehended what this attention is. The presence of an alert mind, aware of its reactions, is Mindfulness. This alert mind is due to this interest in looking, this joy of observing, this enthusiasm for seeing. The presence of a technique is the presence of an exercise that is learned, and everything we learn is part of memorized knowledge-so are techniques. And every exercise is part of mechanical learning.

The presence of attention is not a technique, it's not an exercise, it's not something mechanical. Therefore, we need to learn about ourselves, because that's what gives us an approach to the Truth about Life. This contact with Truth requires a mind free from all its old behavioral patterns. Look at yourself, how your mind works. Observe your inclinations, your intentions, motivations, desires.

It's very common for this inclination of the mind, this mind programmed to move in this way, which is the conditioned mind, to be looking outward, involved with its own interests; these interests are egocentric, personal, private, and this is a complete absence of attention. It is in this inattention that this quality of mind, this quality of life, is present, and this puts us in a condition of alienation from the Truth about Life and, therefore, from the Reality of Truth.

What is this encounter with Truth? It is the encounter with the Divine, it is the encounter with God. When you ask "How to find God", realize: the comprehension of Truth is this encounter with God. But Truth is not seen, comprehended, or learned intellectually. It is not the result of an exercise, a practice, or a mechanical pattern of behavior. Thus, we discard this idea, we discard this form of searching through technique. We approach it through the genuine interest of looking, observing, and becoming aware of how we function.

At every instant you encounter Life as it happens; at every moment you have the opportunity for this encounter with God. You see God as something separate from you, distant, somewhere else. Reality, Truth, God is That which is present here when this conditioned mind model no longer exists, this way of looking at life from the past, something in this background of conditioning, in this pattern of behavior of the mind trapped in the model of memory, knowledge, and experience. This is conditioning.

We need a free mind, and this free mind is born from this attention, this gaze, this Mindfulness for this instant, for this moment. It is when this entire model of personal consciousness, in this conditioned mind, is seen and discarded. This is the presence of Meditation. Once again, the presence of Meditation, as well as this Mindfulness. In general, people separate meditation from mindfulness. The presence of Self-awareness brings this attention, this quality of seeing. In this quality of perception of life, there is the presence of Meditation.

Therefore, there is no separation between Mindfulness, Self-awareness, and Meditation. What is known as mindfulness, without Self-awareness, is not real. What is seen as technical meditation or meditation practice, without Self-awareness, is not Real Meditation. When there is the presence of Meditation, there is no one in the technique, there is no "I." The truth about Meditation is the comprehension of the one who meditates, of the one who makes use of some technique, of some practice.

This element that makes use of technique, practice, or that engages with some model of effort to achieve something, to obtain something, this element is a construct of thought. It is the appearance of thought, in this pronoun "I," and here the idea of ??someone in the exercise, in the practice, or in the effort is present. When thought dissolves, this thinker is no longer present.

Therefore, the Truth about Meditation, what is Meditation? Meditation, what is it? It is the awareness of Life, it is the vision of Truth that is present here, when the model of thought, the model of the "I," of this "me," of this ego-identity, no longer exists. Your real contact with Life is the contact of this awareness of Being with the Reality of the moment. Thus, Meditation is when this Self, which is the Nature of Truth about You, which is the Divine Truth present, when it Flourishes, there comes the presence of Meditation. It is not someone in Meditation; it is Meditation when this "I" does not exist.

Therefore, we must completely discard the idea of ??someone in the exercise, in the practice or technique, just as we must discard the illusion of someone to find God. In the question "How to find God?", it is God or Truth, it is Reality, it is that which is present here, which is the Supreme, revealing itself, this encounter with God. It is not someone having an encounter, it is the Reality of God revealing itself, it is Truth revealing itself. This requires a mind free from the past, free from conditioning, free from the way we currently deal, in thought, with life, with situations, with events, with others.

Note that the way we deal with others is in the format of an encounter between people. For us, the idea of ??someone there and someone here is quite reasonable. Therefore, our thinking, in relation to others, is the idea of ??people meeting each other, the "person I am" having an encounter with "the person you are." Reality, Truth, God, is That which is present here, being the Truth about Life, the Reality about this moment. Therefore, there are no people, as we believe, having encounters.

In conditioned thinking, in this format of personal, egocentric consciousness, which is something within a context of alienation, ignorance, and illusion, we are constantly sustaining this format. Therefore, what is this real encounter, what is Meditation? What is the truth of this learning about ourselves? The expression "self-awareness" has been misunderstood in a very misguided way. Generally, self-awareness is understood as someone knowing themselves. However, if you investigate the nature of the "I," of this "person," it becomes clear that this "I" does not exist, this "person" is not real.

Therefore, it's not about someone knowing themselves. When there is Self-awareness, what is present is the awareness of Life. The Reality about Life is the Truth of this Being, and there is no person, the "I" does not exist. Thus, when we enter into this investigation of the truth about ourselves, what is revealed is as God revealing Himself, and not as a person being understood, comprehended, improving, perfecting themselves, acquiring a technique to improve as a person. Yes, because, in general, that is what is understood by self-awareness. Here we present this expression in a different way.

Self-comprehension is the end of illusion of someone; it is the perception of Silence, of Freedom, of the Bliss of Being. This is what we are insisting on with you here, this is what we are working on with you. Perceiving the Reality of the moment, becoming aware of the Truth about Life is seeing the Truth that Life is here as it is, not as thought idealizes, conceptualizes, believes, or imagines it. You were born to assume, in this life, the Truth that this Life is the only Life. It is not the life of a person, it is Life as it is. And as it is, there is the Reality of the Divine, the Reality of God.

There is no separation between what you are and Life at this instant, and the Reality of God at this moment-??that is the other. When we no longer have this illusion of the person, of this "I," of this separation, there is the presence of Truth. Once It is present, Bliss is present, Love is present, Peace is present. That's what we're working on with you in these online weekend meetings, where we're together Saturday and Sunday, two days online.

In the video description, you'll find our link to participate in these online weekend meetings; just click the link and join the group to learn more about this work. In addition to online meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard makes sense to you, consider this your invitation. Like the video, subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, this makes sense." Okay? See you soon! Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

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

Here, when we are faced with life, we are faced with a movement, and we do not know the origin of this movement. The foundation, the structure, the nature, the basis of this movement, this is something unknown to all of us.

Here, together, we are investigating the truth about ourselves. All of our effort here is directed toward learning about Self-awareness. It is through this learning that the movement of life reveals itself, this mysterious movement that we do not know. Self-discovery is the key to seeing Life as it is truly unfolding, it is when we become aware of the movement.

The wise sage Ramana Maharshi left us an expression, and that expression is Atma Vichara. Atma Vichara, in English, would be self-observation, or self-inquiry, or self-investigation. We approach life when we approach ourselves, through this self-discovery. This direct look, into what we are, requires the presence of Meditation.

When people ask, "Meditation, what is it? What is Meditation?" They usually associate it with some technique or practice being performed. That's how people generally know or approach what is commonly referred to as meditation out there. Here, the Truth about Meditation is the approach to observing the movement of the "I," the "ego," and this requires the presence of Self-awareness, not a technique called self-awareness, or a technique called meditation.

Here, our emphasis is on discovering the truth of this movement. After all, what is it that is moving? What is the truth about this movement? So, all this movement we encounter in life, we are before a misunderstanding, a misconception, a mistaken way of perceiving, illusory and false, because we are living in our minds, living within a psychological internal condition that is illusory.

There's a short story of two monks who were having a discussion. They were looking at the temple flag-it was fluttering in the wind. One monk said to the other, "Note how the flag moves, how it flutters." The other asked, "What are you seeing?" He replied, "The flag, observe!" The second monk said, "No, there's no flag fluttering; what is moving is the wind, it's the wind that causes the movement, not the flag." One said the movement was of the flag, the other said it was of the wind.

After a few minutes, the Master approached and heard their discussion. At that moment, the Master asked, "What are you two talking about?" One of them, looking for the Master's agreement, said, "Master, note, the flag is moving! It's just the flag's movement." The other interrupted and said, "Master, notice, I've just explained to him, it's so obvious: it's the wind that moves, not the flag. It's the movement of the wind and not of the flag." At that moment, the Master looked at them both and said, "There is only one movement. It is not the movement of the flag, nor of the wind. There is one single movement present, and that movement is the movement of the mind." When the Master said that, they both fell silent and remained quiet.

Here, in life, there is only one movement, and this movement continues without being seen, comprehended, or clarified. We need to become aware of the truth about ourselves, the truth about the mind. It is the comprehension of the movement of the mind, the clear seeing of one single movement. Clarity about this movement is its end, because that is the end of the mind. Then, there is no longer a flag, no wind or mind.

There is a Reality present beyond movement. Thus, Life as it unfolds remains a mystery to us, one that thought tries to solve, that thought tries to decode, that thought tries to comprehend, but it cannot. Here, together, we are with you, investigating the truth about the mind.

What is the truth about Meditation? What is Meditation? Meditation is the encounter with the Truth of Life as it is revealed, without any thought about it, any idea, concept, or belief about it. It is the end of the movement of the known, the end of the movement of thought, the end of the movement of the mind, it is the vision of Life as it is happening. Therefore, self-observation is the beauty of this encounter with the present moment looking into its movement, toward the end of this movement.

All movement, here and now, is the mistaken movement of the evaluation of the past, the evaluation of thought. The way you deal with others, the way you deal with yourself, the way you deal with the present moment, with arising experiences, with everything that happens, when it comes from this movement, which is the movement of thought, it becomes problematic.

The presence of Divine Reality, the presence of God's Reality, is the absence of movement. Something new is present, it is no longer the movement of the mind, It is no longer the mistake, the illusion of what is external or of what appears to be internal, but which still remains illusory.

The encounter with the Truth of What You Are essentially, in your Being, in your True Nature, is the end of this internal, psychological, mistaken movement of identity present in thought, in the mind. The contact with Divine Reality, the answer to the question "How to find God?"-this is a very common question among those caught in the movement of life.

Yes, in fact, life consists of movement, or at least, life as we know it, as we recognize it, because we recognize and know through the past, through the movement of memory, which is the movement of thought itself. Therefore, what does this encounter with God mean for those who seek the encounter with the Truth?

The encounter with Divine Reality is the verification of what is present here, beyond the mind, therefore, beyond the movement of thought, beyond this internal psychological movement, and beyond any idea of something happening out there as movement. Just like in the story of the two monks, where the movement was external. When the Master approached, he pointed out where, in fact, the movement was.

Now, what is the truth about the movement? You gain the vision of the truth about the movement when you investigate yourself: that is the presence of Atma Vichara. Who am I? What is the truth about this feeling, emotion, sensation, or perception? In the ego, in this "I," in the mind, the tendency is always, invariably, to look at experience through the past. So, we are seeing the world through a colored lens, which is the lens of thought.

Your contact with people, your contact with situations, your contact with yourself, the various inner states you find yourself in, are not resolved because they are not seen through the light of this comprehension; they are not seen within this clarity and vision. The way we approach problems within ourselves, and also in the external world, is always through the movement of the mind, the movement of thought.

We don't know how to deal with resentment, hurt, sadness, anxiety, or depression. We don't know how to deal with fear. We don't know how to deal with thoughts. We don't know how to deal with the feelings that arise. We don't know how to deal with the other, with him or her. We don't know how to deal with incidents, accidents, and unexpected situations.

There is an unresolved internal condition within us, which always shows up as an unsolved problem, as an unfinished problem: it is the presence of the mind as it is, as it functions. We don't comprehend the truth about ourselves because we don't study ourselves, we don't investigate ourselves.

So, what is this contact with Meditation? It is the approach to this moment, it is the looking into this moment, it is the perceiving of this moment without movement, without the mistaken movement, the conflicting movement, the result of memory, which is the presence of the movement of thought. Can we look at life without thought? Without the coloring of lenses, of these lenses, of this particular way of feeling, thinking, and acting? Then we are facing Life as it truly is, not as the mind makes us see, not as the mind makes us perceive. Then, a new space is present; this space is the space of the encounter with God, with Truth.

So, to the question, "How to find God?" Look at the movement, become aware of the movement, then we have the end of movement; Something indescribable is present, Something beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond the particular view that thought makes us have, makes us perceive, specifically.

Your contact with life is Life revealing itself as this Divine Reality, when the sense of "I" is not present, when the sense of ego is not present. There is nothing more important in life than approaching it in a real way. An approach that becomes possible when there is self-investigation, when there is this learning about ourselves, when there is this new space that arises out of Silence and stillness, where there is no movement. This is the vision of Wisdom, the Vision of God, it is the vision of Truth, of What is present when the ego is not there.

This is what we are here, together, working on with you. We have online meetings on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, where we go deeper into these issues with you, into this self-inquiry, this self-investigation. You'll find the link in the video description to join us for these online meetings every Saturday and Sunday. In addition, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard resonates with you in any way, go ahead and leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and comment: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for this meeting, and see you next time.

July, 2025
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Human suffering. You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking?

All this difficulty we have in dealing with human suffering, with this suffering within ourselves, is because our internal conditioned response to the presence of the experience of suffering is a response based on separation. We haven't learned to welcome life as it happens, and that prevents us from investigating the nature of suffering, the truth of suffering, what it actually is, what it represents at that moment.

Notice, it's not about learning something from suffering, but about discovering the truth of the element present in suffering, which is the "I." There is no real separation between the suffering and the one who suffers. However, our upbringing, our education, the way we've been taught, has been exactly that: that there is a separation between suffering and the one who suffers.

So, we already have a built-in conclusion, shaped by the model of thought we've inherited, that suffering is something to be rejected, not something to be seen, observed, investigated, and comprehended. Here, contact with the present moment must naturally be a contact of discovery, of verification, and that requires the presence of observation in order to learn about it.

We go through our entire lives experiencing suffering in different forms. When we lose a loved one to death, suffering is there; when we are rejected, suffering is there; when we don't get what we want, suffering is there; when fear is present, when anger is present, when worry is present... This is how we've been functioning.

We function in this mode: the mode of "someone" suffering. That's the shape, the model of the existence of the "I," the existence of the "person." And yet, we don't know how to deal with suffering, because we haven't learned the truth about it. The truth about suffering is that its presence requires the presence of the sufferer.

It's the way we deal with the experience that gives rise to an entity here at this instant, resisting life as it unfolds, resisting experiences as they arise, and then we have the presence of the sufferer. The one who suffers is suffering because of the image they've built about themselves, about what they deserve or don't deserve.

Our frustrations, disappointments, conflicts with people and situations are established in us due to the presence of this image, this self-image that thought has built within us about who we are - an image built by thought. Therefore, you, as someone present here, are this image.

You are this self-image, the person who sees itself rejected, unloved, the person who feels lost when lose someone it loves, the person who sees itself undeserving, the person who needed to succeed and didn't, the person who was abandoned, forgotten, the person whom others dislike, the person that people don't want to talk to. So, the image we've built about who we are separates us from the experience and puts us in this condition of suffering.

Can we eliminate internally, psychologically, within our minds, inside ourselves, this inner condition of self-image? Can we look at what we are without the defense of a self-image? Becoming aware of what is present at this moment, without trying to protect an image that thought has built? This is the real way to come into direct contact with suffering, with this learning about ourselves, which is learning about the one who suffers, about the one who is rejected, dismissed, unloved, who lost things, who was abandoned.

When we learn to look at ourselves without this psychological self-defense, without this idea of someone to be protected, defended, without the illusion of someone who doesn't deserve - learning to look at ourselves without self-compassion, without self-pity, without self-sorrow - when we learn to look at it, we eliminate this separation between the self-image and what is the cause of pain, the cause of conflict, the cause of suffering.

When there is no separation between this image, this self-image, and the suffering, we come into direct contact with the experience without the "I," without the experiencer, without the "ego," without this "me," without this self-image, because we've eliminated that space, that separation; and when that happens, we come to the end of suffering, because we come to the end of this self-image.

Your encounter with Life requires the absence of image and, therefore, the absence of thought. Notice how important this is! What is thought? Thought is this structure of psychological self-defense, of image. These are the images thought has been building, placing an identity present that separates itself from the experience. So, we need to discover life happening right here, without thought.

We do need functional, practical, technical thought to deal with very objective matters in life, like fixing a machine, finding someone's house from an address - that's the presence of thought - or remembering this or that person's name. Then, here is the presence of thought.

But we don't need the kind of thought that revolves around this self-image that produces attachments, desires, fears, self-compassion, self-pity, ambition, envy, the need to control, to possess, to cling, the kind of thought that creates emotional dependence, physical dependence, psychological dependence, the need to be accepted, to be loved as "someone," as a "person." That quality of thought is protecting the self-image, it places us in life within this illusion, the illusion of separation, the illusion of duality.

Then, that's the discarding of this model of thought, this element that comes from the past, which reinforces the illusion of ego-identity. This requires real contact with Life, a real response to Life. And here we're emphasizing with you the beauty of this encounter with action, with feeling, and also with thinking - the truth about thinking.

What is thinking? Thinking is an intelligent response to this moment, without the model of the past, without the model of thought. We know nothing about the importance of a real intelligent and free contact with the present moment, which requires the presence of action free from the "I," of feeling free from the "I," of thinking free from ego, free from self-image. And this is what we're exploring with you here, going deeper with you, discovering together.

The Reality of God, the Reality of Life, the Reality of this true Being is not this self-image, is not this "me," this "I," this "person." Can we meet life as it unfolds, without inserting the presence of a thinker, of an experiencer, of this element that comes from the past and looks at the world through its preferences, acceptances, and rejections? That's the real contact, lucid, true, intelligent; we are before Life as it really is, not as the "I," the "ego," this "me" wants, expects, or seeks.

Therefore, the Truth of Life is the Truth of That which is present when thought is no longer building stories around an identity it created. Your contact with people through this self-image, your contact with objects, with situations, with incidents, with accidents, all through this self-image, is a contact based on separation. So is present, this division between you and life as it happens; and in this division, a space of separation is created, and within that space, conflict is present, suffering is present, disorder is present.

Here, together, we are looking directly at all of this, so we can go beyond this illusion, investigating this matter of the "I," of this "me," of the "person." Life is Real when there is no longer this abstraction of an illusory identity that sees itself as separate from Life, making demands, making choices, seeking to reaffirm itself again and again and again.

This entire movement of the self-image, of this center, which is the "I," the "ego," is the movement of egocentric isolation; and if this is present, no matter what human beings may have achieved externally, that achievement is still within the illusion of an identity present, who believes it has achieved, that believes it can hold on, control, possess, and thus, there is no Love, there is no Peace, there is no Freedom, there is no Real Happiness, because the illusory sense of "someone" separate from life is still present.

There is no such "someone"! We are before Life; Life is this Divine Reality, and this Reality is the Truth of your Being, this Realization in this life is the Realization of God. That's what we're working on here with you in these online weekend meetings. It's two days together: Saturday and Sunday. I want to leave you this invitation. You'll find the WhatsApp link in the video description to join these meetings.

Besides these online meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If that's something that makes sense to you, here's your invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, this makes sense." Alright? See you soon. Thanks for being here, see you next time!

July, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? Real Consciousness.

The point is this: caught inside this routine - I mean this routine of the continuity of that pattern of thinking we have, that we know - in that continuity, it's almost impossible to live the truth of a healing for these internal patterns of psychic suffering that we have. We need to discover what it means to have a new contact with life that, at this instant, is present, appearing at this moment. Here with you, we have been discussing these issues.

There is a Truth present, and this Truth is Real Consciousness, the Reality of What You Are in your Divine Nature, in your True Nature. It remains unknown, and it's interesting for us to say this here to you: this Divine Reality Reveals Itself, but it doesn't Reveal Itself to be known by someone, which is this "I;" it Reveals Itself as Life itself in expression, in Revelation. In that self-revelation, we have the end of the egoic mind, the end of that self-image, as I have called it, which is the person.

You and the self-image: that's our topic here - among other topics. In a talk like this, we develop, with you, many themes. For example, here in this talk, we are working with you on the end of self-image, that self-image, which is the person, which is you. This is the presence of the mind, the known mind, the mind present in us. The presence of the mind is the presence of the past. We are living in the past, remaining in the past.

The persistence of the past is interesting. The persistence of the past is continuity; a continuity in a very particular, very special time, which is psychological time. As we grow older. The base structure of this consciousness, which is the consciousness of the person, of this "me," is that egoic mind; it lives inside a model of psychological time, so in parallel, we have time for the body. We age with the passing of years. So, we have this phenomenon, which is chronological time.

Parallel to that time, we have this time of the continuity of the psychological "I," of that ego-identity. Thus, there will never be a healing for that "I." What we need to investigate here is the truth about this. The fact is that, psychologically, internally, this egoic mind has no cure. We can become aware of the truth about this, and this awareness of Truth sets us free.

Liberation is not the cure. When you have patients, they can be treated and discharged. Then, they go home after the doctor discharges them. The ego is not a hospitalized patient being treated and waiting for discharge later. We are dealing with an element present that sustains itself in the imaginary world of thought, of creating ideas, opinions, beliefs, conditioning, response patterns, memory, recollection: this is the "I," this is the "ego." There is no cure for this condition.

Yes, Liberation from this state, this condition, this way of being is possible; it is when we have the end of the self-image, the end of this ego-identity. It's a supposed identity present and yet paradoxically, despite that, having a very particular and real life. Real, in reality, within its own terms, within its own stances.

We are living our days, aging in years, and at the same time, psychologically sustaining this repetition, this continuity, this routine of an internal psychological condition of suffering, contradiction, conflict, and disorder. The countless desires - many of them contradictory and conflicting - the countless forms of fears, something present in a relation with life, with events, with people, with the very thoughts that arise inside each one of us, here we have the presence of these diverse fears: that is the situation of the "I," the "ego," of the "self-image."

Thus, over the years, we grow older and the mind becomes less and less capable, smaller is the ability to look at the present moment without the past. So, we have a prisoner mind, centered on the past, without freedom. We are not dealing here with you with the issue of healing this "I," but rather the end of this ego-identity. Investigating that requires the presence of a new kind of perceiving.

What is thought? To perceive what thought is, is the foundation. Thought in us is the element present that is present because of the presence of the past; this past is the memory inside you, the psychological memory that hasn't been concluded. We can give you an example here of what thought is, because that's the question: "What is thought?"

When you treat me badly, you hurt my "I," my "ego," you hurt me. There's no separation between me and my ego, between that wound and what I am here, in this self-image. Therefore, you treated me badly, and that's this memory, this recollection that comes up as an image, a thought, and also a feeling and emotion of frustration, pain, revolt, anger I have toward you - that is the presence of thought.

We live inside thought, having this quality of unpleasant memory - we can extend this to many other forms of representations of emotional, psychological pain. But we also have pleasant, agreeable, delightful, happy memories, that this self-image also cultivates and sustains in us. That's how we live our days, maintaining this routine of the person's continuity.

This brain is addicted to living like this, cultivating this story, which is just memory, just recollection. We don't know how to die to this, allow it to dissolve, for a new brain, one that has freshness, this Freedom, this absence of psychological story, of psychological memory. Contact with thought at this moment, with the experience of this instant, when there's no record left, we have contact with the presence of thinking.

When you offend me, and at that moment there is full Attention on these reactions here, inside this body, this brain, when the offensive word arrives, the presence of this Attention on that reaction is the presence of a contact with the Awareness of Meditation, with the Truth of the Revelation of that reaction, and so I'm getting to know myself. It's not the knowledge of someone being aware of themselves to change like a person changes, it's not that.

Here it's about the Awareness of the Revelation of the "I" itself, and this requires the presence of an Intelligence, which here I have called "the truth of thinking." When we have Truth, Intelligence, we have the presence of thinking. It's not someone thinking, it's the presence of the Awareness of what thinking is.

So, what is thinking? Thinking is the awareness of looking with Intelligence at thought, without putting in thought the presence of the thinker. When we have the truth about how we function, we are free from thought, from feeling, from emotion, from sensation, from perception, because we are in direct contact with the Totality of Life, and not with the imagination of a particular identity, which is that self-image, which is that "I" consciousness.

Therefore, that's the contact with Real Awareness; it's not personal, it's not inside this time, which is the past, established in us by thought to draw conclusions, evaluations, to be hurt, offended, wounded, to have that self-image scratched. Are you with me? So, this requires a look at this moment, which is this look of perceiving.

We don't know how to perceive. There is no perception. The way we approach things inside is from someone perceiving. We are always putting a personal, particular, individualistic proposal inside life as it happens. So, we don't know how to perceive. To perceive what's happening doesn't require someone to make conclusions about it, to make choices, to compare, to judge.

When someone offends you, they only find you to offend you because there is no perception. If at this moment perceiving is present, that perceiving is Attention; Attention on that thought that arises inside, the feeling that appears. The image itself is part of that particular world view that resists, that fights, and so it gets offended, it gets hurt. The presence of that perceiving is the presence of that Attention, free from the past.

When we touch here, with you, on the Beauty of this encounter with Meditation, we are not presenting Meditation as a therapeutic technique, as something to heal you from the ego. Meditation is the vision of the Reality of Life as it happens, it is the Truth that Liberates. I repeat: it is not the healing of that psychological disorder that is the presence of the ego mind. It is Liberation, it is Freedom from the illusion of that self-image, that ego-identity - the presence of Meditation.

When the mind is purged, emptied, freed from that psychological content of conditioning, history, memory, psychological thought, particular world view, of the other, and of itself, we have the presence of that space. In that space Reveals That which is beyond the "I," which is not inside that known context: it is You free from that "me," that "I," that self-image, that you as thought says you are.

So, that's our purpose in these meetings here: full Awareness of this, the real vision of this Truth, the Truth that Liberates, that brings this Awareness of God, which is Love, Happiness, Comprehension, and Wisdom. That's the purpose of these online meetings we have here on weekends - Saturdays and Sundays. You have, in the video description, our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends.

Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. So, if this is something that makes any sense to you, consider this an invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and write here in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

July, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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