Human relations. Self-image, psychology. Learning about Self-Awareness. Psychic suffering.

I want to touch on this issue of relationships with you here. When we talk about human relations, we are basically talking about relationships. There is something very interesting here, in this issue of relationships. Note, a relationship is quite possible when there is real contact, real communion. In reality, the presence of Love is what determines the truth of a relationship. Now, look at this condition in which we, as human beings, find ourselves within relations, these human relations, and answer me: is this exactly what we find? You see, what we actually find in these human relations is not the truth of relation. The presence of relation is a contact, it is a contact of the heart, it is a contact of the mind, it is a contact of feelings, of emotions, it is a contact on all levels. A real contact, where we have the presence of communion, we have the presence of a true relation. And that is not what happens. We do not have a real relation with the world around us, with people around us. With the world around us, it is the relation with objects, with situations, with events; with people is what we call a "relationship," but we are unaware of it.

Here, with you, we are working on this issue of the beauty of this encounter with the Truth of the relation. It is something that becomes possible when we have the presence of Truth in this contact, and we are unaware of this. What is the Truth that should be present and yet is not present within this relation, within these human relationships, within these human relations? The Truth is the Divine Truth. Here we are, with you, showing you that, yes, in life it is possible to discover a contact with him or her, with people around you. A contact free from all this activity of the "I," from all this pattern of egocentric behavior, which, when present, separates us, divides us. This division creates problems, this division creates confusion, creates disorder. And why does this happen? Because what is present in these encounters, in these contacts, is the presence of an element that should not be occupying a certain place and yet it is there. I refer to the presence of thought.

Notice that when you are in contact, at a certain level in this contact with him or her, thought becomes needed. When, for example, we talk, we have to use words, so we have the presence of thought. We then have an intellectual activity involved in this conversation. Note, at this level we have the presence of thought, something very simple and natural, and yet, this conversation can have the inclination of the continuity of this sense of "I," of the ego, of this element in us that comes from the past, seeking to superimpose on something as simple as a dialogue power, pride, presumption, vanity, the exercise of control over the other. So, we have the sense of "I," of the ego, present in this conversation, in this dialogue, and if this is present, there is no longer this contact of real relation, of real encounter, of real communion. And this is how, in general, we have established our relationship lives: we are constantly in contact with the other, with life, imposing our desires, motives, reasons. Something purely egocentric.

Here, with you, we are investigating what a Real life means, therefore, a Divine life, where we have the presence of Real Intelligence, which is the Intelligence of God, to deal with others. We cannot deal with others based on thought. Note that this is exactly what we have been doing in these contacts, we are placing thought element as the most important element in our relations. The most important element in the relation is the presence of complicity, it is the presence of Intelligence, it is the presence of Love. However, we are unaware of this because we are living in the ego, living in the "I." We are living within a sense of self-centeredness and, therefore, of isolationism, something purely egocentric. My contact with you is a contact based on thought.

See, we are here investigating the truth about who we are; this is what makes us perceive this behavior present in each one of us, which has as its principle this model of activity pattern, an activity that generates conflict, that generates contradiction, that generates suffering, an activity that is born from the thinker, from this element that is this "me", this "I." To realize this, to become aware of this, is to work towards the end of this condition so that, in fact, there can be between us, as human beings, something beyond the relation between people. What are these relations between people? They are relations that are based on thought, it is the thought that "I" have about you and it is the thought that you have about "me." The thought that "I have" about "me," notice, is an image that thought itself has constructed about who I am. The thought that you have about yourself is an image that thought has constructed about who you are. We do not know the importance of the contact of communion, of the contact of Love, and here the question arises: How does this become possible? And what is this contact, in fact? Since our contact is a contact in separation, in division, in conflict; since our contact is a contact that is based on thought. Thought is the element, in you, of error.

So, here we have the possibility of contact with the other based on this possible communion and Love, when we have the presence of Silence, of a mind free from all this background, from all this pattern of egocentric behavior; or we have this behavior. This behavior is the behavior that arises from this thought that comes from the past. When "I" come into contact with you, "my" contact with you has as its principle all the memory that "I" bring about who you are. But this memory, note, about who you are, is something that the thought in "me" imagines about you. Thus, everything that I went through with you, experienced with you in the last two days, in the last two years, in the last twenty years, is what is present at this moment when I meet you. So, what I am doing is just projecting an image that I have about you in this relation, in this relationship. Then, there is no true relation, and this relationship is the relationship between images. This is because you do the same in this meeting with me.

It is very common a mistaken contact within relationships, because there are some things that "I" like about you and others that "I" don't like about you. The things that "I" like about you are the things that "I" appreciate based on my personal, particular sense of liking. See, this has nothing to do with you, it has to do with how "I" get in touch with you based on the vision that "I" have, that "I" expect, that "I" await, that "I" desire about you, and vice-versa. Note, this subject here is the subject of self-image. In psychology, this has already been discussed. However, we remain in a very superficial sphere when we theorize about this, without a real comprehension of what it means, of the implications present in this psychological condition of existing as someone, as being this self-image. Can we discover life happening in this moment, in this relationship, within a true relation where this contact is the simple contact where we have this Communion and this Love present? Because, notice, unless this is present, we as human beings will continue not only to suffer, but to give continuity to all of this. Thus, we will only be maintaining this old condition in which, as human beings, we have been living for tens, hundreds, thousands of years.

Contact with life is contact with Love. We do not know what Love is; what we know is self-interest, self-centeredness, isolated life. The husband is interested in his own things, the wife is interested in her own things. So, they meet - the husband meets with the wife, the wife meets the husband - but each one is living in one's own particular egocentric world, in this isolationism and personal self-interest. Then, this contact is not the contact of Love, it is not the contact of communion. We live making arrangements, adjustments, because of the mutual interests we have. As long as these interests are sufficiently attended within this relationship, this relation continues. When there is a divergence - and this is very clear to the point of a somewhat violent, aggressive contradiction - separation occurs. So, we do not know the Truth about Love. Love is that which is present when we have the presence of Silence, and it is in this Reality of Silence that the Truth of a relation is where Love is present.

So, in life, we need to go beyond this psychological condition of isolationism in the "I," in the ego. If this is present, as human beings we are in psychological suffering. Note how important it is to investigate this: if you are suffering psychologically, if you carry some level of psychological suffering, anxiety, depression, anguish, stress, nervousness, fear. What we have present is a confused, psychological state, in disorder, we do not have the presence of Love. Then, human beings relate to each other living in states of this type, and these relations are not real relations, because what is present is the model of thought, of this thought of the "I," of this egoic consciousness, of this egocentric consciousness. We have dealt with all of this here, on this channel. We have hundreds of videos delving into these subjects here, with you.

So, becoming aware of the reality about yourself is eliminating this psychic suffering. This is possible when you learn about Self-Awareness. What is this learning about Self-Awareness? It is discovering what it is to look at your reactions, and when you learn to look at all of this, it vanishes. Then, we have the end of fear, the end of anxiety, depression, anguish, worry, envy, we have the end of stress. Thus, we have, at this moment, a new state of presence, of consciousness here, not this old consciousness of the "I," not this state of egocentric isolationism, where we are living based on thoughts, sustaining images of people, sustaining images about ourselves. All of this is part of the movement of the "I," of the ego. The elimination of this is possible in this learning about Self-Awareness, in this learning about ourselves.

We have a playlist here on the channel about learning about Self-Awareness, about this issue of psychic suffering, about what is the truth of this self-image, which this sense of "I" sustains. The elimination of this is the beginning of something new, it is the presence of God, it is the presence of your Being. It is when we truly know the beauty of relations. It is the Truth of a Divine relation, it is the Truth of a relation of God, it is the presence of your Being, it is the presence of Truth. So, we can have direct, simple contact, without this involvement of the sense of ego - as was mentioned at the beginning of the speech - for example, within a conversation. A free mind requires a quiet brain, where we have the presence of this Silence, and something present within this vision, in this contact with him or her, which is the absence of self-image.

Looking at the world without thought, dealing with others without thought. I refer to this conditioned thinking, this thinking that sustains, in its self-interest, this egocentric isolationism. Contact with the Reality of life is contact with Wisdom, it is contact with Truth, it is contact with God. This is communion with him or her; however, this is something that is present only when the sense of "I" is not there. These meetings here on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, are for this purpose. Here is the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings on weekends, where we spend two days together delving deeper into this. In addition to these online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. Therefore, if this is something that makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and please, write a comment here: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we will see each other! Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Learning about Self-Awareness. Observer and observed thing. Wisdom, intelligence, knowledge

In life, we are faced with countless issues, and these issues cannot be answered without first knowing the basis on which these problems rest. So notice that: we have the issues, and the issues are actually problems, but there is something on which these problems are based. We can't have an answer to these issues without first examining where these problems are based, where they are established, and where these issues actually appear. And what is this element? It's what we're studying here with you.

This is not about studying science, mathematics, biology, botany, chemistry; this is about studying ourselves. Without a basis about who we are, we don't know where these issues, these problems lie. Thus, we have something to learn here, and that's what we're trying to show you, how it becomes possible in this life. It's about learning about ourselves, learning about Self-Awareness.

Notice that issues like "what is Enlightenment," "what is Meditation," "what is the truth about life," "who am I," "the Reality of God: what is that Reality," these are the problems we have, these are the questions we come across to have an answer. Thus, first of all, we have to learn what it is to learn about who we are, what it is to learn about ourselves.

This learning about ourselves requires contact with life at this moment without the movement of thought present, and we're going to clarify that for you here. Why do we need to have contact with life at this moment without the movement of thought present? Because every movement of thought in us is the picture that represents what was, what already happened, what already occurred.

Thought is basically remembrance, memory, and so are all the forms of knowledge that we acquire. Notice, knowledge is acquired; all knowledge comes from the past. If you know something, you know it because you've learned it, and learning is becoming aware of what has already been known. So, when you're going to learn something, that thing has already been known, and this learning as we understand it - and we put this expression "learn," this verb "to learn" - consists of acquiring that which has already been, which in this case is knowledge.

All the knowledge you have is something that has already been. So, there's no such thing as learning now for knowledge as we know it, because knowledge as we know it, is something you've learned. If you speak a language it's because you've learned it; if you know mathematics it's because you've learned it; if you know construction engineering or mechanical engineering it's because you've learned it. Thus, the knowledge you have is something that comes from the past.

Here, in these meetings, when it comes to this Divine Truth revealing itself, which is the Truth of God, we are not dealing with something that has to do with knowledge. Notice how interesting that is: you can't know God. You see, our intention is to know God, but here we have an enormous difficulty. The first is that we're not dealing with something we can situate in the past. We can't situate God as part of the knowledge we have, because that's something that comes from the past, and Divine Reality isn't in the past.

If you have some knowledge of God, that knowledge isn't exactly of God, it's of an experience of memory, of a remembrance you have, because of something you've already had. Divine Reality is not known, it cannot be known by memory. What is this memory? Thought, remembrance, recollection.

So what is the truth of this "knowing God"? You see, having knowledge of God is an illusion, but this "knowing God" is possible. But this "knowing God" is, at this moment, becoming aware of the Nature of your Being here and now. We are not treating, dealing with, contacting something that can be framed within time, something that we can acquire at this moment and take back to the past. We are dealing with Something that is outside of time and, of course, outside of the known, so it cannot be known.

This knowing is possible, but not the idea of time present in this knowing. You know that the idea of time is what we have when we talk about something that was, something that is and something that will be. So, here we have something that is and something that will be; something that is now and that has already been. We're not dealing with God as something that is, that was and that will be, we're dealing with that which is beyond the known. So, that's the first point. This contacting God, this knowing God means being aware of the Nature of your Being, of That which is You outside the known - it is in this sense that we use the expression "Being" here, in this context of speech.

Divine Reality is the Reality of this Divine Presence, of this Real Consciousness, of this Real Being. We have this "being" of ours as we know it, we have this consciousness as we know it, we have this presence as we know it, this presence of being someone, this human consciousness, this consciousness of the person, and we have this "being" personal, this psychophysical being, which we present ourselves to be within the context of human relations. The Divine Reality is the Reality of this Real Being, this Real Consciousness, this Real Presence, Something outside the known: this is the Reality of God.

It's important that I say this here for you too, because some people listen to these speeches and don't understand that here we use expressions very freely. So these words need to be seen in context. You listen to this speech here and we put it this way for you; you'll listen to another video of ours and you'll hear it in another way, with a new meaning or with another meaning, expressions that we use here, and then you'll draw the idea, the conclusion that we're contradicting each other. That's actually not true. It's just that we're using expressions, the same expressions, and giving them new meanings, according to the context of the speech.

So, this also requires you to follow the speech without getting hung up on the words, which requires listening without translating, without interpreting, without evaluating, and without drawing absolute conclusions. This is part of getting in touch with yourself, in this awareness of learning about how you work. One of the things we don't have in life, for example, is this 'listening'.

This listening is part of learning about ourselves; this learning about ourselves is learning about life, it's learning about God, it's learning about Divine Truth revealing itself. And look at what we've just said: it's not acquiring information, it's not having knowledge and experience now and based on the past. You become aware of this knowing yourself, this knowing God, right now. This is learning about Self-Awareness.

When you, for example, talk to someone, relate to him or her on the basis of memories you have of him or her, that quality of knowledge that is the knowledge based on memory. What does that tell us? You are in front of him or her, and he or she, here and now, is something new, is a new presence, is a Reality present at this instant. But by dealing with him or her on the basis of this knowledge, of the experience you have of him or her, you're not dealing with him or her, you're dealing with the known, which is this knowledge, which is this experience. This known knowledge, or experience, is thought, it's memory.

Thus, in your contact with him or her, there is no such thing as learning about yourself, learning about him or her, because you are dealing on the basis of the past, within that relationship context. Our life consists of this presence of the "I," the ego, this "me," this person that I am, that I feel I am, that I have learned to be. In other words, when ignorance is present, the Truth of the Divine Reality, the Reality of God, the Reality of this Real Being, this Real Consciousness, this Divine Nature... because of the absence of this Reality, our contact with the other, our contact with ourselves, in this ignorance, sustains the illusion, the illusion of this non-vision of the Truth about ourselves.

Thus, this contact with ourselves based on the past is ignorance; and our life has been exactly like that. We are living in ignorance because we are living in the past, living within the known, living within memory. Everything in us, in action, in speech and, therefore, in behavior and in saying, in communicating, represents this ignorance, represents this psychological condition of illusory identity present, which is this identity of the "I."

So, what is this learning about Self-Awareness? It's having contact with this instant without the past. As long as I maintain this condition of contacting him or her on the basis of the memories I have of him or her, there will be no real vision of Self-Awareness. Thus, I can't have a vision of the truth about what I am, I can't understand this past here, which is this "me," so that it ends. Then, I don't understand what real contact is with him or her outside the ego.

See how important this is to understand. As long as our relations are established in this ignorance, in this position of past-present - note, past-present at this moment - there will be suffering, there will be discord, conflict, disorder, and confusion. We are unaware of the presence of Love in our relations, for example, because the presence of Love is only possible when the past is no more present. And all we've done is sustain the past, we're only dealing with memories, with reactions to memories. Thus, the sense of individuality, of separation, prevails.

Our relations are centered on the "I," and this is the absence of Love. Love is the presence of Truth, it is the presence of God, it is the presence of Reality here and now, in knowing the Truth of God, which is knowing the Truth about who we are, when the ego is not present, which is when we comprehend who the other is, when the ego is not present.

Our work here in these meetings consists of this self-discovery; it's when we manage to perceive a Reality present outside the "I," outside the ego. At that moment, this look at that instant, in this relation with the other and with ourselves, breaks with this pattern of someone who is situated in thought, who is situated in history, who is situated in memory. So, at that moment, there is no separation in this gaze, since this observer disappears.

Notice how we have worked: we have the idea of something being seen by someone who sees it; that someone is the observer, and the thing being seen is the observed thing. Thus, we have the observer and the observed thing, and that observer and the observed thing disappear when there is only the gaze at that moment. The gaze at him or her is that gaze without the background, without that knowledge, without the one who separates and looks from ideas he or she has, memories he or she has of him or her. This is the end of the observer and the observed thing; we then have the end of separation, the end of this duality.

When we don't have that duality, we have that Presence of Love, that Presence of the Divine vision, of the vision free from the ego, of the vision free from the "I"; that's when we approach the Truth of Wisdom. Thus, the Truth of Wisdom - we have a playlist here on the channel: Wisdom, Intelligence and knowledge - comprehending the difference between Wisdom, Intelligence and knowledge is fundamental. We've just put it here for you: knowledge is that element in us that comes from the past, while Intelligence is the Reality of this Presence, this Being, this Divine Consciousness, here and now, revealing a Life in Wisdom.

Accessing Reality with a vision of the Truth about what is happening to us at this moment is becoming aware of this Intelligence, this Blossoming of Divine Intelligence, this Wisdom present in relations; this is when harmony, Beauty, Truth, the Revelation of this Divine Truth, which is the Truth of God, can be present in this context of our human relations. This is when we have the Presence of That which is outside everything that thought knows.

Therefore, that's our job here with you. We have Saturdays and Sundays together, in an online meeting, to go deeper into this. You can find our WhatsApp link for this online meeting on weekends here in the video description. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If what you've just heard makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your 'like' here, subscribe to the channel, and please, write in the comments: "Yes, that makes sense." OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Psychic Suffering | What is thought? | What is Spiritual Awakening | What is Enlightenment?

Here with you, our focus is on this awareness of the Truth about who we are, because that is what gives us the basis for the comprehension of these many problems we have. Note that these problems are many and we do not approach them in a true way to investigate. Our intention is always to get rid of problems, and it may seem reasonable, but the truth is that this attempt to get rid of problems - that is something common to most of us - is not the true way to deal with them.

When we have a problem, the real way to approach this problem must consist of studying it, investigating it, of comprehending what it represents. That's indeed the way to get rid of problems. That's because we are not dealing with problems that when we believe we have gotten rid of them, we were, in fact, already free of them, because here it is about problems of an internal order, of a psychological order. And these problems require, from each one of us, a new perspective, an approach to comprehending them, and not a mere temporary liberation, a mere temporary removal of this or that condition, or symptom of a problem.

Human beings are not really searching for comprehension, which is what would bring them liberation; they are searching for getting rid of problem. That's what we generally call "getting rid of problems," but when you get rid of a problem like that, you are not free from it. Liberation from a problem means the comprehension of what that problem represents. Then, yes, we have an end to the problem. That's because when we are dealing with fear, anger, jealousy, envy, with some form of psychological suffering - and this is our subject here, with you, the end to all forms of psychic suffering - when we deal with this quality of suffering, we are dealing with something linked to this issue of the person, of this "me," of this "I."

In general, we believe that we exist as someone separate from what is happening. That is what makes us believe that we can get rid of problem. A close investigation, a direct look at all of this, will show us that the presence of this problem is the presence of an element within the problem. You do not have a problem like fear, or anxiety, or depression, or any other problem, without you being directly involved with it. You see, it is very basic, it is very simple: the presence of the problem requires the presence of someone in the problem.

Therefore, there is no separation between you and the problem, because, in particular, this quality of problem of a psychic, emotional, feeling, or thought nature requires the presence of a direct comprehension of it. Why? Because the presence of the problem is the presence of this one with the problem. This one with problem is the problem! There is no separation between you and fear, between you and anger, between you and sadness, between you and any psychological aspect of feeling, emotion, or thought.

It is a false, mistaken idea, this belief we have, which is the belief that we exist separately from the problem. So, there is "me" and the problem; if "I" get rid of the problem, "I" become free. However, who is this element that is free from the problem? What is the truth about the "I"? What is the truth about this "me"? Our ignorance about the truth about who we are has put us in this condition, in the condition of living in life, in the world, in existence, with problems. But this living with problems, because of this ignorance about who we are, we do not become aware that this problem is ourselves.

It is the sense of someone present, of someone with fear, anxiety, depression, anger, worry, living in some disorder. It is the sense of someone having these things. We are faced with something totally false. There is no someone living these things, these things are appearing to this person who sees oneself separate from them. So, this internal condition sustains this suffering and establishes itself as the pattern of our lives, the basis of our existence.

Comprehending the Truth about yourself means having an answer to the question "What is Spiritual Awakening? What is Spiritual Enlightenment?" This answer is the awareness that the present reality is the Reality of life. It is only thought that is establishing this conflicting, distressing, and suffering condition for each of us. Here, together, we are investigating all of these subjects on the channel. In playlists, you will find several videos on any of the topics discussed here. The basic subject for this psychological condition, for this psychological disorder, for this psychological conflict, psychological suffering, for this psychic suffering, is the presence of thought.

So, this is one of the issues here: What is thought? . Therefore, what is thought? Thought present in you is giving you an image, a picture, a mental picture about who you are. This image, mental picture, or frame, this truth about you is the truth established by thought. And what is the truth about thought? Thought in us is a representation of an image. Then, what is thought? Any word, for example, that you speak, is nothing but a symbol representing an image. This image or symbol in that word that you pronounce is not the truth, it is a mental figure of representation. That is a thought!

Then, what is the truth about thought? The truth about it, about this figure or this image, is that it is not the reality of the thing itself. The word "shirt" is not the shirt, the word "house" is not the house, the word "person" is not the person. Thus, your name is not you. A set of words about you is just a set of images. That is the story, but that story, that set of images or words is not you. So, we are giving thought a truth that it does not have. We are constantly using images, words, symbols, but none of that deals with Reality, none of that deals with Reality, it is just a representation of thought.

So, what is thought? It is an image, it is a symbol, it is just an idea, it is a concept! Thought is not the truth of the thing itself. However, we are dealing with thought as if thought were the very reality of the thing, and it is not. Thus, thought has built this structure of life. This thought, which also carries emotion and feeling - these emotions are part of this internal movement of feeling, also linked to thought itself - and we are carrying this as if it were the Reality of what we are.

Our life is based on thought. Thought has constructed an identity; it has established continuity based on an identity. This identity is the idea we have about who we are. When we use the pronoun "I," we are talking about a symbol, a mental representation, an image. The various states of distress, suffering, and problems that we have revolve around thoughts, feelings, and emotions.

Here, with you, we are investigating the structure of the "I," the truth about this "I," what it represents, whether there is anything at all beyond a symbol, an image, a mental representation about this "I." When you look, learn to look, notice, and it is only when you learn to investigate yourself, to study yourself, to become aware of how you function, that you become aware that the structure of your life is the structure that thought has established. It is thought that is establishing, in you, actions being taken, words being expressed, feelings being lived, emotions being experienced.

And once you are identifying with the body and the mind - here the mind is this structure that involves the brain, the heart, this entire psychophysical being -, learning how to get closer to yourself and look at all of this is to be open to a realization of something beyond all of this. This is when we come across the blossoming of something beyond the mind, beyond thought and this entire structure of feeling and emotion and sensation, and all of this is still part of this brain and this mind.

To discover something beyond all this is to perceive the reality of life, to go beyond psychic suffering, to go beyond this psychological disorder of this idea of being someone. So, the comprehension of the truth about thought is to see the structure, the nature, the complexity of what it has represented, of what it has been representing in our lives. You were born for Freedom, you were born for Happiness, you were born for Love, you were born for Wisdom. The Awareness of the Truth of your Being is the revelation that life, Real Life, is something beyond this very idea of someone who was born, of someone who is living and heading towards the end in this so-called "death."

There is a present Reality, a Reality beyond thought. Thought does have a very practical and objective place in life, and we have been talking about this here on the channel. The comprehension of the place of thought - the place it actually occupies or should occupy in life - comprehending this is being free from thought. Like any tool, you use this tool when it is necessary. You don't use a hammer without needing it. When you need a hammer, you use it; when you need scissors, you use them; when you don't need these tools, you don't touch them.

Thought within us, when there is this internal space of Intelligence, Freedom, Wisdom, the thought present within us is only a tool. A tool that we use when needed, and when it is not needed, we leave it aside. This psychic suffering within us, within the human being, is something present due to the disorder established by thought. It is the lack of comprehension of the right place for the tool. It is constantly occupying this psychic model of existence of this someone. This someone is an illusion! There is a Truth present, it is the Divine Truth, that is the Truth of your Being.

Here, at these meetings, we have online meetings on weekends, where we explore this together, delving deeper into this subject with you. These are online meetings; we are together on Saturdays and Sundays. Here, in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, go ahead, leave a "like" here, subscribe to the channel and, please, write a comment here: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time.

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? Search for spirituality. Conditioned mind. Learning about Self-Awareness

I would like to discuss some issues with you here in this meeting, in this talk. The first of them is about this encounter with God. Here the question is: how to find God? The Truth about God is that we are before a Reality present here, at this moment. Thus, the idea of meeting presupposes a whole movement towards, at some point in the future, this happening.

Thus, we already come across a mistake, basically, because when we deal with God, we touch on the only present Reality, everything else, exactly everything else, is within a delusion that is here now and that will disappear, because everything, absolutely everything, in life is temporary, it is fleeting, it is there in one moment and in the next moment it may no longer be there.

Why is everything in life temporary? Precisely because everything in life is within time; if it is within time, it began and will have an end, it appeared and will disappear. Divine Reality is not like that, the Reality of God is not like that.

Therefore, this very idea of seeking, of searching to find, is something that is established in a model of thought that we have about God. But a thought about God is an image that thought creates and projects; if it creates and projects it, it is within it. It is not the Divine Reality, it is not the Reality of God that we are touching when thought is involved in this. Any involvement of thought, because it involves the presence of thought itself, is part of thought.

Thus, what do we really need to find God? Here, first of all, is to become aware that this Reality, this Divine Truth, is not somewhere, it is not within space, it is not within time, like any temporary thing that is here and will disappear. We are before That which is present; and if it is present, it is not something that will be found, but rather something to be verified. This is the difference that we make here, within this channel, regarding this awareness of God.

Most people are involved in the process of spiritual search; here you become aware, we are together with you approaching a new approach, a new way of looking at all this and, thus, we become aware that this is not a spiritual search or a search for spirituality, this Truth of the Revelation of God. And here the expression is Revelation of God, Acknowledgment of God, it is not this "finding God." So, this is a second aspect within this speech.

And here we also come across another point. Who is this element involved in this search or quest? If the only Reality present is Divine Reality, an element involved in this search is part of the mistake, part of the illusion, part of an appearance within time. And who is this element within time in this search or quest? It is the presence of the "I," it is the presence of this "me."

Thus, we are projecting this Reality based on an idea that the thought within us is projecting, and this element in this projection process is the "I" itself. So, here we also come across yet another confusion on our part: the idea that "I," this "me," the "person" will have an encounter, through the search, with God. Therefore, through the search, there will be this encounter with God, and the element that will have this encounter is the "I."

Here, we are investigating exactly what prevents us from having a Real awareness or Revelation or verification of this Reality in this instant, which is the Divine Reality. What prevents us is exactly the presence of this "I," this sense of someone in the experience of this instant, which is felt, seen, perceived - of course in thought, in imagination - as a present entity separate from this instant.

Our focus here is to become aware of this Reality, which is the Reality of God, and this is the true and profound purpose of life, of learning about life. We have been involved throughout our lives with learning. Everything in life consists of something that is accomplished through learning. Everything that you represent yourself to be within the context of this existence is something learned. Everything that you know, everything that you do, every thought pattern present within you, is something learned.

And what is the truth about why we learn? What is the deep truth, the real meaning in life of this need to learn? Yes, for practical purposes in life, everything we do, know, and accomplish has been learned. Speaking is something you learned, writing is something you learned, everything you do you learned, and in life we also need to learn about ourselves. Note that everything you know, do, and accomplish is external, but who is this element involved in that knowing, doing, and accomplishing? You don't know.

You do not know the truth about yourself, and to become aware of the truth about yourself, you need to learn. And here we are telling you exactly this: when you become aware of this learning about Self-Awareness, when you become aware of this "I," you discover something beyond this "I" - which is this entity that is in time, that is part of time - then at that moment you can have the Revelation of That which is beyond the "I," through Self-Awareness. Then, learning about yourself is what gives you the basis to discover the truth of the illusion of this element that sees itself present doing things, knowing things and achieving things; this element is the "I."

What is the truth about you? Who are you? So, notice, in life we are here for this discovery, only for this discovery, only for this Revelation, for this becoming aware of this Reality of God, which represents the end for this "I" when there is this awareness of Self-Awareness. And that is what we are here with you investigating, deepening, working with you, discovering that becoming aware of God is the only thing in life, that it is life itself that matters.

See, the only awareness that matters in life is the awareness of life, and the awareness of life is the awareness of God. This awareness of God shows itself when we have the end of the "I," the end of this illusion of this sense of someone who sees itself as separate from life, separate from existence, separate from others, separate from its own thoughts, feelings, or emotions, this sense of someone who sees itself as a thinker, or one who feels, or one who sees, who perceives, who relates to.

Life consists of relationships happening and this "I" sees itself relating to people, places, and situations. All of this is part of a mistaken view we have about who we are, about what life is, about others, that we carry about God. All of this is inside us, inside a model of illusion to be discarded, to be comprehended.

When there is comprehension, we have a clear vision; when there is no comprehension, because of lack of clarity, we are confused. If confusion sets in, because of this lack of comprehension about ourselves, we are living in ignorance, in illusion about all this, in illusion about life, in illusion about ourselves, in illusion about God. That happens to us because of the lack of comprehension about ourselves.

Our way of thinking, acting, and feeling in life is completely wrong. Thus, we also come across another question: why does that happen? And why are we living in this format of illusion and ignorance? We are living this way because we were programmed to live this way, taught, organized, placed in this condition because of this mind present within us, this form of mind we know, in which we are structured for this life. This is the presence of the conditioned mind.

Since we were little, our parents have told us things; they told us "this is right," "this is wrong," "don't do this," "don't do that," "this is good for you," "this is not good for you." We received from our educators, from our teachers, teachings of ethical, social, moral values, of this community, of this world, patterns of sociological, philosophical, spiritual teachings, that gave us this formation. The formation we have is what makes us evaluate life from the perspective of thoughts that we received from this culture, this society, this world, from those who arrived here before us. Therefore, the mind is conditioned.

We follow the patterns of the culture we were born into, the society we grew up in, the world we know. So, your entire way is learned, and we need to find out the truth about all of this here because this Reality of God, this Divine Reality is not within this context of society, of the world, of cultural thought. We are here wanting to become aware of something that is outside of the known, which is the Divine Reality. As long as we are within these walls, as long as we are within these walls of this conditioned mind, all we will have within these walls, living within this structure, is something within the known.

There is a Reality present, but it is not part of what is known, it is not part of the mind, it is not part of time. We can only become aware of the Truth when we leave illusion, and illusion is this context of life, it is this context of existence where a behavior is present in us that is the repetition of all this behavior of the world, of society, of culture. These internal states that prevail, invariably, expressing themselves externally in our relationships, are internal states of a conditioned mind.

Envy, jealousy, fear, anger, the sense of people, the difference, the divergence, the conflict that we establish in our relations, all of this is within a context of human history. Our parents, grandparents, and our ancestors lived this way, and if today we have a family because we are married and have children, we are communicating exactly this to our descendants. In this context of egoic identity, without this awareness of Divine Truth, we are simply maintaining or continuing this frame of ignorance and, therefore, of human unhappiness.

Here we are together looking at this Spiritual Awakening, this Spiritual Enlightenment, this awareness of God, which is the Truth of your Being. This is what we are working on together with you, showing you how it is realized in this life. These meetings we have here on weekends, Saturdays and Sundays, two days together online, have this purpose. 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. If this is something that makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Please give your 'like,' subscribe to the channel and write here in the comments: "Yes, it makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

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Joel Goldsmith | A Parenthesis in Eternity | Self-Investigation | Atma Vichara | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast, and 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 "A Parenthesis in Eternity." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Observing our inner thoughts and feelings, keeping our consciousness aligned through the continuous recognition of God." In this excerpt, Joel Goldsmith talks about observing our thoughts and feelings. Would Master share his vision of what self-investigation is, which Ramana Maharshi called Atma Vichara?

MG: Gilson, Atma Vichara, which is Ramana Maharshi's proposal, the expression "Atma Vichara" means investigating yourself, the direct observation of the Atma, which is this "I." Hence the expression "Atma Vichara." Getting closer to yourself requires looking at your reactions, at what is happening to you. The position of the human being in life is the position of the one who responds to the present moment, to the experience of the present moment, from a background of response and reaction of memory.

At every moment you are asked to give an answer to what is happening here, at this moment. And your way of approaching this moment is usually from thought and feeling, and you are not aware of this process while it is happening. The expression "Atma Vichara," which some translate as "self-inquiry" or "self-investigation" also, I prefer the close, more literal view of it, which is self-observation, which is observing, becoming aware of the "I," of the movement of the "I," at this moment.

So, we are not aware of what is happening to us while the process is present. Thus, every reaction, every response, every answer to this moment, in relation to events, situations, people, including the relation with ourselves, when a thought is present, or a feeling present, or a sensation. Self-inquiry, this self-observation, is becoming aware of yourself, becoming conscious of yourself, of what is happening to you, of what is happening to you at this moment, in this contact with the moment, in this contact with life.

As long as we are merely reacting or expressing a response to this moment in an unconscious and therefore automatic way, without this self-observation, we will maintain the continuity of this ignorance about who we are. This ignorance places us in the space, in the field, in the dimension of the illusion of separation. So, the sense of being someone present in life is to be someone present separate from life; this is the condition of ignorance, and in this condition we do not have the Awareness of God, the Awareness of Truth. And without Truth, we do not have this Freedom, we do not have this Love, this innate Happiness. Here, it is strange, paradoxical also, the fact that in an internal way, in an innate way, we already carry this Freedom, this Love and Happiness, but we do not realize it, because we lack Self-Awareness.

So, we lack this look at ourselves, this self-study, we lack the awareness of what is present at this moment in order to go beyond this unconsciousness, this mechanicalness, this way of acting in life based on the past. The problem with this is that life is happening at this moment and our actions are the actions of repetition, continuity, and permanence of the past. Thus, we never have a true answer for this moment in "my" relation, for example, with my wife, with my husband, with people around me, or "with myself," because there is this illusion of someone who is present, while, actually, I do not know who I am. See, I do not know this aspect of the sense of ego, of person, of personality, and I do not know this Divine Reality, beyond this person, beyond this "I," beyond this ego.

To approach life is to approach yourself, an approach that is possible when you become aware of life happening without the "I." However, to become aware of this life happening without the "I" requires that you first recognize the presence of this "I" through self-observation. This is when, through Self-Awareness, we are able to discard what is present within us, which is illusory, which is this way of thinking that we bring from the past. For example, your way of feeling about people, about events, about yourself, is a learned way of feeling - something from culture, something from society, something within this model of the world.

You don't have a real way of approaching the present moment because you are living within a plan, a program, a mental conditioning, a psychological conditioning. The final result of this is problems, the various difficulties we face and don't know how to deal with, and they end up becoming problems. So, our minds are full of problems. Every type of situation that arises, these situations cannot be dealt with as they need to be dealt with and they turn into problems, due to the absence of this vision of life, which is the vision that Intelligence brings. I refer to this intelligence that is born from Self-Awareness, I refer to this Intelligence for Wisdom, this Intelligence that gives you this vision of God.

We do not know how to respond to life due to the absence of this Intelligence, and if it is not present, our psychological condition is one of confusion, it is the condition of suffering, it is the condition of this illusion of someone present, separate from God, without the Awareness of this Truth, which is the Divine Truth. Here, getting closer to oneself is through Atma Vichara, through this looking, through this observing, through this becoming aware of these present reactions. Note, it is not to correct this, it is just to verify it. Then, a new quality of action arises in this realization - this is when this liberation from the ego, this liberation from the "I" occurs. The vision of Truth is the portal to this Freedom, to this Awareness of the Reality of Love, of Happiness, to the Awareness of this present State, which is here and now, which is the Reality of your Being, which is the Reality of God.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, César, who asks the following question: "How can I discover who I am?"

MG: Gilson, that is exactly what we are discussing here with you. We are, with you, approaching, through this self-investigation, through this self-observation, the answer to this question "Who am I?" So, when you ask: "How do I know who I am?" . By becoming aware of who you are, at this moment! Learning to look at this moment, at what is happening, at what is processing, at each and every reaction, response, inclination, tendency, feeling, emotion, and sensation present; learning to look at this. There is nothing in life as important as this art of self-observation. Self-observation is discovering what it is to look at this "I," learning about it, learning how to deal with thoughts, feelings, and emotions; it is not learning what to do with them. Learning here to deal with this means learning to observe without getting involved with them. The moment you learn to observe your reactions, without getting involved with them, you are beyond them, you transcend them. You in your true nature reveal yourself as something beyond these reactions.

So, the basis for Self-Awareness is this learning about ourselves; this is what reveals this "I," this "Who am I?" There is something present here to be verified. It is something similar to watching a movie. When you're going to watch a movie, you're not going to get involved with the movie, with the scenes, with the episodes, with the events; this is something for the actors, this is something for the characters. All of this is within the movie, all of this is happening because of the presence of the director's idea. You have nothing to do with what happens in the movie, your place is that of a spectator. You are watching the movie, you will watch, you will be a spectator of the movie. Here, there is something to reveal - this something is this movie.

We are the human movie, the movie of humanity; everything that is present in humanity is present in us, everything exactly. Everything that you see in a movie, that is present there, is what we have in humanity, and what we have in humanity is present in each one of us. And we need to look, observe, be a spectator of this, without getting involved. That is when, in fact, we break with the movie, we break with the content of this human movie. Then, there is the flowering of something new, outside of this history of humanity; this is the Awakening of Consciousness, this is the Awakening of God.

The Divine Nature, the Nature of God, the Truth of your Being, is something that is outside of this context of movie. The production of this movie, everything that it contains, is within a context of the human mind, of the egoic mind, of consciousness of separation, of consciousness of duality. The beauty of an encounter with Truth is that Truth liberates, and you encounter Truth when you learn to be a spectator, when you learn to watch, when you discover that everything in the movie is within a dream, an imagination, a creation of thought - of ordinary thought, of human thought, of mental conditioning.

Then, this encounter with Divine Reality is the end of this story, it is the end of this memory, it is the end of this movie, or it is the clear vision of what the film represents. So, at that moment we have the awareness of the truth about this "I." Comprehending the truth of this "I" is becoming aware of something that is beyond the "I," which is this Divine Reality. Some call this "Spiritual Awakening" or "Spiritual Enlightenment," it is when life is present without the history of thought, without the history that thought has constructed. Then, our contact with this moment is a revealing contact. Thus, if your question is how to become aware, how to know, how to have clarity about who "I am": by looking, being a spectator, discovering what this encounter with Meditation is.

That is why we have emphasized the importance of Meditation. We need to discover, in life, what Meditation is. You reach 50, 70, 80 years of age, without approaching this study of yourself, mistaking yourself for the illusion of a present identity, which is the identity of the "I," which is situated in the mental life, which is this life of thought, which is this whole structure of dreams, of films, of human history. So, human beings live in ignorance because they live in illusion, because they lack the art of Meditation, the awareness of this encounter with the Divine Truth. And, here, Meditation is nothing like what people say out there about meditation; here we put the expression Meditation in a new way, too. That is why I have called it "Real Meditation in practice." This is what the presence of Self-Awareness is, of looking at yourself, discovering how you function - this is a real approach to Meditation.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, Leandro makes the following comment and asks: "Master, after activating Kundalini energy, will it repeat itself or does it only happen once?"

MG: Gilson, this is a question - notice the concern people have. We were told about this energy, about this presence that we have within us, and that is dormant. They told us a lot about this so-called "Kundalini," and they told us about this Kundalini Awakening, and the idea people have about this Awakening is that it is an experience. So, we have the idea of Kundalini Awakening as being an experience, an experience that we will have one day. And then questions arise: "And when this experience happens, what will it be like?"

You see, we are here studying with you the Truth of the Awakening of Consciousness, this Awakening of Consciousness - I mean this Divine Consciousness, this Real Consciousness - this Awakening is in itself the Awakening of Kundalini. It is not an experience, it is not something that will happen once and for all, like an experience that someone will have. The flowering of your Natural Divine State is Kundalini Awakening, but it is not an experience for someone. It is exactly when the illusion of that someone, which is this personal consciousness, which is this consciousness of the person, vanishes. That is, the illusion of this present, active, thinking, feeling, acting consciousness ends.

We have, then, the awareness of this illusion. The awareness of this illusion is the end of this illusion, and this is the flowering of Kundalini. This requires a complete emptying, a total emptying of this egoic sense, this sense of separation, this sense of "I." This requires the presence of Self-Awareness, this requires a true approach to Meditation, this requires work. But I say again: it is not an experience, it is not something that is obtained, it is not something that is achieved, it is not something that is conquered, there is no one in it; it is exactly the end of this idea of being someone. This is the Divine Awakening, this is the Awakening of God.

The expression "Kundalini" points to this Presence, to this Real Consciousness, to this Divine Energy available. An Energy that, by the way, in this sense of the ego, of the "I," of this someone, we are constantly wasting in this mental world, in this world of the "I," in this egoic consciousness. Once a work happens - and this work is the work of approaching self-investigation, self-observation -, this brings you closer to Meditation. This reveals to you the power of Meditation, the presence of this Silence, this inner Stillness of the mind and heart. It allows, yes, this power of Divine Presence, which is the Real power of True Meditation, to emerge, to happen.

So, yes, there comes the Awakening of God, the Real Kundalini Awakening, but talking about Kundalini as an experience or as something that a person has to go through, or needs to go through, is an illusion. That which is Real Consciousness is True Kundalini, because Kundalini is synonymous with Real Consciousness. In turn, this is synonymous with Spiritual Awakening, with Spiritual Enlightenment. We have, Gilson, here on the channel, a playlist about this, about the Kundalini Awakening. Becoming Aware of the Truth about yourself is assuming the Truth of what this Awareness of God is, this is Kundalini Awakening. When this happens, the sense of separation, of egoic identity, vanishes, then suffering ends, because the illusion of this sense of separation is no longer present. Then, we have the Reality of God, we have the Divine Reality. This is what we are working on here with you, deepening here, with you.

GC: Thank you, Master, our time is now up; thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are watching the videocast until the end and want to delve deeper into this knowledge, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These are online weekend meetings; there are also in-person meetings, including retreats. These meetings are much more profound than the videos here on YouTube, because in the meetings the Master answers our questions directly, and much more than that: the Master shares this state of Presence in which he lives, and in this sharing, we end up taking a ride on this Silence, this Grace and this Power. And this is an incredible facilitator for us to know ourselves, so that we can comprehend what is beyond intellectual comprehension.

So, the invitation is in the first comment, pinned, with the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Go ahead and 'like' the video, leave a comment with questions for us to bring to the next videocasts, and if you are not subscribed to the channel, please, do it. And once again, Master, thank you for the videocast.

January, 2025
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