The observer and the observed thing | The importance of Self-awareness | How to find God?

When you ask about this encounter with God or what it means, what it really means, we need to take a different approach here. In general, the idea of finding God is to get rid of despair, pain, suffering and existential emptiness. So, in the midst of this pain of loneliness, anguish, depression, or in the midst of some form of suffering, thought builds up in us the idea of a refuge that is permanent.

We already tried to escape in various ways and it hasn't worked. The whole movement of human beings towards the search for external conquests or achievements, in this idea of finding happiness, love, freedom, peace, there is behind it all, this movement of escape from the pain that they bring, that they carry within them. And we've been trying this, human beings have been trying this for a long time. And when they get tired of it, they now start to have religious ideas, aspirations for what they idealize, project, plan within this, so-called, encounter with spiritual life or the encounter with God. So, this idealism is just another way of escaping from the pain.

Here, with you, we are deepening this issue of this encounter, this real encounter with God; but this encounter with God is a contact, a contact that is possible when the Truth of God comes closer. You don't go to God being the person you believe to be. The Reality of God is revealed when that person is comprehended. The Truth of an approach to God is God Revealing Himself, and God Reveals Himself when we learn to look at what we are, without running away, without escaping.

What people don't comprehend is that people - the idea of being a person, this imagination of people present and of being a person in the context, in the relationship with them - what people don't comprehend is that we are dealing with an imagination, with a construction of thought, but it's not such a simple construction, it's very elaborated, extremely complex. This is the condition of human consciousness, of egoic consciousness, of this consciousness of the "I."

All this complication, disorder, confusion and suffering that is present needs to be seen. You must approach yourself; this approach to yourself will reveal to you that this element present in this approach is an idea of someone, it's just a belief, a thought model formulated in a special way, separating itself from the whole, which is the various thoughts we have.

It's just like when you look at a bonfire. When you look at a fire, you're not just seeing the fire, you're also seeing sparks, sparks coming out of that fire. When you're in front of a fire built of sticks, wood, firewood, you hear the sound of the fire and you also see sparks leaping out of the fire. The presence of this "I" is a special thought, it's a spark that has detached itself from the fire; it's a thought that has detached itself from the whole set of thoughts.

This detached thought is the "I," it's the "me," it's the "person." It finds itself frightened by the rest. It finds itself frightened by the rest of the fire, it finds itself loving the rest of the fire, it finds itself liking or terrified by the rest of the fire. This sense of "I," this "me," sees itself as a separate element, in itself, from itself, because thought is the "I" itself. This " I " is the thinker. This thinker does not separate itself from thought, it is part of thought, but it imagines itself as a separate element.

The spark in the fire, the flicker in the fire, is part of the fire. In the same way, the "I" is part of thought. That thought is the thinker, that thinker is the "I." There is no separation between the thinker and the thought. Why is the comprehension of this so fundamental? Because this clear vision of the illusion of separation between this "me" and the "not me," between this thinker and thought, between the one who observes and what it is observing, is the comprehension that we are facing an illusion, which is the illusion of duality, which is the illusion of separation, which brings us closer to a Real vision of God.

In this vision of God, God is aware, conscious, real, the only Reality present at this instant, without any separation; and in this present Reality, there are no more problems, no more suffering, no more searching, no more "finding God." It is the Reality that is present here and now, outside of the future, outside of this need of an encounter tomorrow. That tomorrow is mental, that tomorrow is an imagination of thought, that tomorrow is the future of the mind.

The moment you learn to observe your reactions without separating yourself from them, because there is a full comprehension that there is no such thing as duality, these reactions vanish. Look at the question: how long can you sustain sadness without thinking about what has made you sad? How long can you sustain anger, which is the memory you have of someone, when this memory is undone?

The remembrance is the element that sustains the anger of someone you are angry with. Without the memory of someone, what happens to the anger? Without the memory of what gave you sadness, what happens to this feeling, this sensation, this emotion that involves the presence of this pain, which we call sadness?

Thus, what is the truth about suffering? Discovering the truth about suffering is the end to suffering, and it is when suffering ends that it becomes clear that there is no one to suffer; and if there is no one to suffer, Something is present, and that Something is not part of suffering, that Something is the Reality of this Being. Notice that when you want to get rid of suffering, every move you make is to try to do something about suffering. That's the idea of getting rid.

You don't want to get rid of what is giving you pleasure, you want more of what is giving you pleasure. By wanting more of what is giving you pleasure, you support the continuity of someone in the desire. By wanting to get rid of what is causing you suffering or pain, you feed someone present in fear, rejection and resistance.

What gives continuity to this sense of "I," this someone, is precisely the movement of reaction; of a positive reaction in the search for more or a negative reaction in rejecting, refusing, trying to get rid of. So, we have the presence of an element separated from the condition, from the condition of pleasure that we desire or from the condition of pain that we want to get rid of. This separation is the continuity of the "I," the continuity of the "ego." It is this separation that sustains the authenticity of an egocentric movement, of a separatist movement, of a movement in duality. If this is present, it is not possible for Divine Reality to reveal itself.

Thus, the search for God is the projection of an entity that sees itself as separate from God. As long as this search is sustained, there will be this element in the search: this is the continuity of the "ego," this is the continuity of the "I." Besides, all this searching, as we've just said, is just a way of escaping from pain. Notice that when you're happy, there's no thought in you. At the instant of Happiness, at the instant of that Joy, of that intensity of ecstasy, of Freedom, of Grace, of Stillness, there is Something present beyond those words we've just mentioned.

The Reality of the state is none of these words. And when the Reality of this state is present, there is no element to separate itself from, to say: "How happy I am," "How wonderful this peace is." When any kind of thought like that arises, it's because that state is no longer there. See what an important thing we have here.

Real contact with the present moment, with experience, is the absence of an experiencer, of an element that separates itself from experience and, at this moment, there is no "I," there is no "ego," there is no God-seeker, no pleasure-seeker, no pain-seeker. Thus, it's the contact with the present moment, with life as it happens, when the "I" element isn't present, the presence of a Reality outside the known, outside the model of words, the model of thought, outside that future to reach or that future to get rid of. This is because there is no separation between thought and the thinker, the observer and the observed thing, the experiencer and the experience.

Can we deal with this moment without placing the thought on this moment, without placing the idea on this moment? Can we deal with this state without calling it pain or pleasure? This is the real approach to Self-awareness. The presence of Self-awareness ends this duality, ends this separation. The presence of Self-awareness reveals a complete emptying of all this psychological content of words, beliefs, ideas, concepts, conclusions, and it eliminates this sense of "I."

Thus, when we come to understand the truth about the importance of Self-awareness, which is to look at what is here without getting involved, without bringing in that element which separates itself in order to like or dislike, agree or disagree, think about it, draw conclusions, when we no longer bring in that element, there is a total emptying of all the content of the "I," of all the content of separation, of duality; this is when we get closer to the Truth of Meditation.

What Reveals the awareness of God is the approach to non-duality through Self-awareness, in this real approach to Meditation. The Truth of Meditation is something that is revealing itself in this very moment, when there is this approach to the present without the model of thought, without the model of the observer separating from the observed thing.

Notice, the observer is the observed thing. This separation is one that thought establishes within us. It is when this observer separates itself that it begins to idealize God, in the future, as something apart from itself, Love as something apart from itself, Peace as something apart from itself, pleasure as something apart from itself, the end of fear or suffering as something to be attained tomorrow. But such a thing does not exist because this psychological tomorrow does not exist.

Thus, the truth of this encounter with God lies in the Revelation of this non-dual Being, who is present here and now as the Nature of God: this is the Nature of your Being, this is the Nature of the Truth about each one of us, That which is present when the "ego" is not present, when the thinker is not present, when the observer is not present, when the experiencer is not present. This is what we are deepening here with you. This is what we are working on with you in these meetings.

We have online meetings on weekends, where we're together on Saturdays and Sundays, diving deeper into this subject with you - two full days. In addition to these, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If this resonates with you, consider this an invitation. Go ahead and leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and write in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense," alright? See you next time. Thanks for joining, and until next time!

May, 2025
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Practicing Self-awareness. Escape and Self-awareness. What is Self-awareness Egocentric Action

Here, together, we are approaching with you the Truth of this Blossoming, this Realization, this Awareness of Divine Truth, of That which is You in your True Nature, in your Real Nature. You need to investigate all these aspects linked to this sense of "person" you believe to be. What we are saying here is that you are not who you believe to be, and the truth about who you really are is despised due to the presence of ignorance. This ignorance is what reinforces the problems in life, particularly, in your life.

A life without problems is a life free of issues, because those issues are resolved. A problem is something we have that is not resolved, and needs to be attended to, needs to be seen, needs to be fully comprehended. The foundation of this work lies in the comprehension, the comprehension of the problem, the comprehension of the issues, that's their solution. So, yes, life, from this moment on, is seen as it truly is, that is, without problems.

That's why our statements may sound strange; to say here, so clearly, that there are no problems in life, there are only problems within us. So, the problems we have are, in fact, the problem that we are, and we are the problem that sustains all other problems in life; and it's not about life as it unfolds externally, it's about the personal life of each one of us. I want to touch with you on this model of action, which is the quality of our action, which has been continuously generating disorder, confusion, and problems in this particular life of each one of us.

What would be a life free of problems? It is a life free from those actions or activities that arise from a center - that center is the "ego," the "I." Our actions are not truly actions; they are activities of the "I," activities of the egoic mind, activities of this personal consciousness, they are egocentric activities. A direct observation of these activities reveals the presence of that central element, which is the center. The center is that element from which these actions occur. And what are these actions? They are actions born out of thought.

Follow along with me here the importance of this comprehension. Let's together perceive this here. Our actions are actions in effort: in the effort to obtain and in the effort to get rid of. First, we want to obtain what society, the world, the collective, the social structure tells us that we need to have to be happy. Thus, we are in search of this, and this search implies the presence of effort to obtain.

We need to obtain what the conditioning model of the world says we do, and we also need to get rid of what makes us unhappy. We need these things for happiness and we also need to get rid of these other things for happiness. So, the idea is to take actions, through effort, to achieve; through effort, to take actions to free ourselves, to free ourselves from situations that are afflicting us and preventing happiness. We never question who is this element in the effort. This element is this center.

What basically is this center? The feeling, the thought, and the sensation you have of existing as someone in the context of the experience of life as it happens, it is basically this "I," this "me," this is the center. Here, together, we are investigating the truth about all of this, and we already start, in all the videos here, questioning exactly this. We need to have clarity about this model of thought we carry, because it is the model of thought of the human culture, and it hasn't worked.

We do not find human beings in Happiness. We do find human beings in achievements, but in the midst of these achievements, fear, anxiety, depression, anguish, the view of greater emotional, sentimental, physical dependence on what they possess, or on what they believe is them. Thus, the psychological condition of human beings is one of suffering in the midst of comfort, in the midst of fame, prestige, public acceptance, in the midst of success.

What we call success, achievement, fame, is something inside the context of everything that is reached through effort. And why is it that none of this has really worked? What is it that we truly want?There is a difference between what you desire - desire because it was given to you as a goal to reach - and what you truly need. What you truly need, you are unaware of, and what is only part of an accumulation of external achievements, with no inner meaning, is what you seek.

There is an existential void, there is a lack, there is a real need in the human being: it is the need for Love, Peace, Freedom, Truth, and Happiness. The point is that this is not reached through effort, nor is it obtained by getting rid of what causes you discomfort. The Reality of this reveals itself at this instant when illusion ends, when ignorance is no longer present.Thus, the human being has a behavior of escaping from what causes discomfort. So, this topic of escape, of the various forms and mechanisms of escape we have, we have been dealing here with you.

We are escaping from what is painful; that is, after achieving, the pain shows itself to be present, because everything that is achieved, that is obtained, that is accomplished through effort is part of an ideal that is born from the model of thought, and thought in us is the element of mistake, the element of deception, it is itself the proposal of this illusory peace, love, happiness, and freedom. So, in the midst of this pain, the human being tries to escape, to flee toward new achievements, new entertainments, new forms of pleasure and psychological fulfillment.

So, we are inside a vicious circle: through seeking, we achieve; and after we achieve, we perceive that it wasn't that, and then we want to get rid of it, and we enter into this escape, and this escape is another form of seeking, and then we achieve again, and later we want to get rid of it. So, we are inside a circle. This circle is spinning around this "I," this "ego," this center.

Can we realize, in life, the Truth about this? Because it is the acknowledgement of the problem, the comprehension of the problem, that is the end of it. And the end consists in the comprehension of the Truth about Self-awareness. So, we have been addressing here, presenting to you, this matter of escape and self-awareness. It is the Truth of Self-awareness that we need. This is a real and urgent necessity for each one of us.

Thus, what is Self-awareness? Self-awareness is the approach to the truth about what we are in this context; it is comprehending the nature of the "I," the nature of the ego. The comprehension of the nature of this structure around which all of this happens is the comprehension that leads to the end of this psychological condition of ego-identity. This is the end of egocentric action; it is the end of this model of egoic activity, of the activity of the '"I," which is the action born from thought and, through effort, adjusts itself, enters into models of self-discipline to achieve goals, which later prove to be useless.

There is also a confusion regarding the expression "self-awareness." Some people use the expression "practicing self-awareness." The Truth of the awareness of Self-awareness is not a mechanical exercise, something done in a technical way; it requires the presence of Attention to our reactions, to this behavior pattern, to this model, which is the model of the "I."

Here on this channel, we are working with you on the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awareness of your Being, the Truth of the Revelation of God. This Reality is not external, it is not something that is obtained, that is reached. The Divine Reality, the Reality of God, is the Awareness of this Being; and this Being is not this "person," this "me," this "ego." The end of this condition of the "I," of the "ego," is the presence of this Divine Reality.

Our focus here is on this approach, on this Real Vision of Life as it happens, without this sense of "I," without this sense of "ego." When you learn to approach yourself and look at this whole internal movement of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, this internal movement of programming, of conditioning becomes clear. To look at this, to become aware of this, to become conscious of this movement is to become aware of your reactions, it is when they have the possibility of undergoing a deep change, a radical transformation. It is a change, a transformation not in them, it is the end of them; It is the end of these reactions, it is the beginning of something new, because at that instant, the mind quiets down, a new space of Silence opens, which is the presence of Meditation.

The truth of Meditation, the Awareness of Meditation, requires the presence of Self-awareness; then, yes, Reality presents itself, it reveals itself. That is our real need. The Awareness of Awakening, the Truth of this Revelation of Wisdom, of this Revelation of what is present at this instant revealing itself as the Nature of your Being, which is the Divine Truth. Only this, and nothing but this, is the Truth.

The presence of Truth is the presence of Happiness, it is the presence of this Divine Reality. It is not about someone who has achieved happiness, it is about the Revelation of Truth when there is no one, when this "I" no longer exists, when this center, which is the basis of the "I," which is the basis of the "ego," which is the basis of this sense of separation, which sustains the illusion of someone separated from Life, separated from God, separated from Truth; when this center vanishes, we have the end of this illusion.

All this approach we have here is for the direct comprehension of what we really are, of what we demonstrate to be, what we seem to be and are in the context of the "I," of the "ego," of this center and, at the same time, the end of this condition reveals Something, which is the presence of the New, which is the presence of the Unknown, which is the presence of the true Nature of God in You, where You are the Reality of this Real Consciousness, of this Divine Consciousness. We are before Something indescribable.

That's what we're working on with you here these weekends. We'll be together for two days: Saturday and Sunday. It's an opportunity to delve deeper into this - here, in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link for these online meetings on weekends. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and retreats as well. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave a "like," subscribe to the channel and leave a comment saying: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? And we'll see you soon. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

May, 2025
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How to get rid of jealousy and insecurity? How to get rid of fear? Psychological time. The illusion of time

The question here is: "How to get rid of jealousy and insecurity"?The presence of jealousy is the presence of someone involved in a relation, where self-image is present. The idea that the other is there, based on the belief that you are here, with your expectations, hopes, desires, waiting for something from him or her, the idea of being present as someone, in this context of relations, is the basis of jealousy. Unless you comprehend this, unless this becomes clear to you, everything will remain the same. Comprehending the truth about yourself is eliminating the illusion of someone in this dependency.

Your problem is not because the other is the way they are; your problem is because you have an idea of yourself, a mental picture, a representation of what life should be for you, of how the world should happen for you. Unless you free yourself from this self-image, fear will be present; and fear has many forms of expression, one of them being insecurity in relations. This is present because we lack the Truth of Freedom.

There is something very important here to be comprehended. We are lacking Freedom. There is no Freedom! We don't have inner space, inside ourselves, for this Freedom; and the absence of this Freedom is the presence of contraction, of fear. When there is Freedom, we have, in Freedom, the possibility of the presence of Love. Wherever there is some form of dependence, of lack, of projection, of pleasure, of fulfillment and satisfaction in the relation with the other, what is present is the absence of Freedom, not the presence of Love.

Love is not present in possession, in control, in envy, in suspicion, in dependency, in jealousy. Love is present when Truth is present, and Truth is the presence of Freedom. Without Freedom, we do not have Truth, there is no way for Real Love to happen. One thing we do not comprehend, that is not yet clear for most people, is that this sense of person is an illusion.

By freeing yourself from the illusion of the person, by freeing yourself from the idea of this "me," of this "I," of this ego, we have the presence of this Freedom, because Truth is present, then Love Blooms - Love in relations. You will never have Love in relations until you comprehend what this relation is. Our human relations are sustained within a pattern of images established by thought - this is how our relations are happening.

The image established by thought is the image I have about who I am; this is my self-image. The image I have in this relation is the image I have about who the other is. When we meet, this meeting is a meeting between images, it is the expectation I have of him and that he has of me, that I have of her and she has of me. This expectation is born from this lack, this pain; this expectation is born from this lack, this suffering, this dependency in the search for fulfillment in the other.

It is very common, the idea of finding love. Love is not something to be found, Love is what reveals itself at this instant; it is not something to be found in the future, in time. That's because we have never investigated this matter of time, then we speak of finding this in the future. There is no such thing as time. Time is an illusion.

We need time to build a house, we need time to take a course, to learn a profession. We need time to learn to sing, we need time to learn a technique. Here, time exists, it is chronological time, it is calendar time. Many hours of study, dedication, and commitment will give you that result. But there is no time for Love, there is no time for Happiness, there is no time for Freedom, there is no time for Peace, either this is present at this instant, or it will not be present. It is not something that is achieved in time, that will be established at some point in the future. There is no such thing as psychological time.

Psychological time is a fantasy created by thought. Thought created time; it is postponing when it creates this time. Thought, in you, says: "tomorrow I will be happy, tomorrow I will have peace." In the same way, thought says: "tomorrow I will start this diet," "tomorrow I will start exercising." What thought is saying is that it is not going to do any of that. What it is saying is that it is not going to reach peace tomorrow, it is not going to reach happiness tomorrow, it is not going to reach love tomorrow.

Deep,deep down, thought knows that Love has nothing to do with it, that Peace has nothing to do with its presence, Happiness has nothing to do with its presence, neither does exercising, nor starting a diet. Notice the game. Thought has created psychological time in order to postpone; it is assuming the place of action when it says "tomorrow," when it says "in the future," when it imagines what it will do.

Truth consists in the presence of action, and it is now. Love is now, Peace is now, Happiness is now, diet is now, exercise is here. Either there is the presence of exercise or there is no exercise happening now. Either we have the presence of diet at this instant or we don't have, at this instant, the diet; we have the imagination of the diet, the thought about the diet. Thought is not action, thought is postponement.

We live a deeply mistaken life, which is the life of thought.There is no life in thought.Thought in us is the presence of memory, it is the presence of what was, the presence of the past. It is the past projecting itself into the future in the imagination of exercising, in the imagination of peace, of love, in the imagination of losing weight, or the imagination of health. Thought imagines all things. Some things are good, and other things are bad. These bad things and good things are always from the perspective of thought itself, but it is still the presence of postponement, it is its presence.

Thus, people ask how to get rid of jealousy and insecurity, how to get rid of fear. It is always thought looking for a path, a formula, a method, a way to deal with it in the future. Notice how thought moves inside you. It speaks to you of the past and it speaks to you of the future. It has no awareness of this instant, or gives any value to this moment, all it does is take something from this moment to remember, to store, to record in the so-called past. All it does at this moment is project itself, again through thought, into the so-called future.

A life centered in thought is a life where we live in a world of abstraction, where we live in a world of imagination, which is the world of ideas, conclusions, opinions, and beliefs. We are not dealing with facts; we are dealing with idealisms, with plans, with dreams. "How to get rid of fear?" Coming into contact with this instant, with the experience of the fact, is something very different from having ideas about fear, imagination about fear, thoughts about fear, and how to get rid of fear.

Notice that, for example, this matter of fear is nothing other than thought within us. Here, at this instant, we are dealing with life as it happens. As it happens at this moment, we do not have the presence of thought; but for it to happen in the future, we need thought. Notice that all fear in us is explainable, justifiable, which becomes noticeable, which is shown due to the presence of thought.

What are you afraid of? Your wife. But what is a wife? It is a thought you have about her right now. You are afraid of your husband? But what is the husband? It is a thought you have about him right now. Your fear is of the future. It doesn't deal with what is here, at this instant. It deals with the psychological future. It deals with imagination. It deals with the past. It deals with the future. You are afraid of getting sick: that is the future. You are afraid of aging: that is the future. You are afraid of something you did in the past that will be discovered: you are afraid of the future based on the past.

It is always the presence of psychological time, which is thought. We are facing the illusion of time. Life is what is happening here, at this instant, and yet you are sustaining the illusion of a present identity, which is the "I," living in thought, living through thought, being the very thinker. But this thinker is the thought itself, because there is no such thing as the thinker when there is no thought. Once again, we are facing an abstraction, an illusion, a belief. This is the image that thought has established in you as being you. This self-image is the thinker. It is the thinker who wants to get rid of what it doesn't like and hold on to what it does like, what gives it pleasure.

Here, with you, we are discovering what it means to eliminate this thought, to eliminate this "I," this ego, this self-image, in order to come into contact with Life at this instant, free from fear, free from insecurity, free from jealousy, free from the illusion of loving and being loved based on a mental construction, a construction of thought. Contact with Life at this instant is contact with the Freedom of Being. Here we have the presence of Love now, of Happiness now, of Freedom now, of Peace now.

Life being accepted as it is, at this moment, does not require the presence of thought. We need technical thought to deal with things like performing a profession - there, thought is necessary. We need thought to build a house - there, time is also necessary. Technical thought is necessary in the form of knowledge and experience. Time is necessary to build a house, or take a course, or deal with things related to the calendar.

So, chronological time is present in our lives, but we don't need psychological time; we also don't need thought. I mean this psychological thought, this thought of images through which the sense of "I," the ego, is establishing and anchoring its own structure of identity in itself, and making the world a projection from it, and the other from it.

The Freedom to live within relations with the other without the model of thought is the Truth of the Revelation of Love. And if Love is present, there is no attachment; and if Love is present, there is no fear, no insecurity, no dependency, no jealousy. This encounter with the Reality of Life is an encounter with the Freedom of Love. And if it is present, that is the Truth of God. And it is when Love is present that God Reveals Himself, that Freedom is here, that Truth has blossomed.

This is what we are working on together in these weekend online meetings. It's two days together: Saturday and Sunday. I want to leave you an invitation here: you have, in the description of this video, our WhatsApp link to take part in these online meetings on weekends. Besides these meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, here's your invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and write in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Okay? And see you. Thanks for this meeting, and see you next time!

May, 2025
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Psychological time. The illusion of time. What is thought? How to deal with thoughts? Duality.

It seems to me that the most important thing here is the discovery regarding the Truth about who we are, and this involves a real, direct comprehension of the truth about thought, because there is no element more intimate to all of us than the presence of thought here, inside each one of us; it is something present in this movement that we call "the mind," "our mind."

But what is the truth about the mind? What is the truth about thought? What is the truth about me? What is the truth of this "I"? That's what we are, with you, here, deepening, investigating. Thus, the question is: what is thought? Notice that thought in you is the simple remembrance of things, people, places, and situations. Your name is a remembrance, your story is a remembrance. The presence of your story and your name, which is a remembrance, is the presence of thought.

Now, the story is something that happened. Your name is a remembrance you have, due to the knowledge you carry. What you carry, you are bringing from the past. Knowledge comes from the past, remembrance comes from the past, thought comes from the past. So, what is the truth about thought? Thought is something linked to the idea of what has already been; it is exactly what has already been, being remembered here, recalled here.

So we have linked the presence of thought to the issue of time. Now, notice the curious thing we have here: what time are we talking about? Since we are talking about something remembered, recalled, something that happened, this something happened in chronological time, and that was in the past. Thus, we have chronological time where things happen. Then, things happened, things are happening, and things will happen. The remembrance of these things is always the result of the past.

You only have remembrance because there is the past, but this past, in remembrance, notice, it doesn't exist. There is no past in the remembrance. In the remembrance, now, what we have is only a representation of the past, it is not the past. So, look at the important thing we already have here to comprehend, since we are investigating the truth about ourselves; since we are investigating the truth that thought is something very intimate in each one of us, and we do not know how to deal with thought.

That is why people ask: "How to deal with thoughts?" They do not know how to deal with thoughts because they do not comprehend the process of thought in them, how it happens, how it is processed, how it occurs. So, it is part of a vision about ourselves, it is part of the vision of Self-awareness, the comprehension of thought. Thus, this comprehension of thought requires that you comprehend clearly that time is not real - I refer to this psychological time.

We are dealing with the illusion of time when we are dealing with the idea, with the imagination of an entity present at this instant, which is the "I," the "me," the "person," living in time. The belief in us, and this belief is just one more thought, is that you as a "person" are someone who came from the past, is present in this moment, and walking toward the future. From the psychological point of view, we are dealing here with an illusion which is the illusion of time, because psychological time does not exist.

There is no such movement of continuity of a "person" present, of an entity present, which is this "I." We only have Life happening at this instant, Life happening at this moment, and the way it happens is by favoring moments where experiences are arising at all times. What has given rise to this illusion, which is the illusion of the "I," is the contact with this moment with no attention to this instant. When we do not bring Attention to this instant when going through an experience, it, in fact, takes on this character of experience for this element, which is the experiencer. This element, which is the experiencer, is a suggestion of thought.

The model of thought present in us is confusing, disoriented, disordered, problematic, generates conflicts, problems of all kinds, because it is being processed in a mechanical, unconscious way, because, at this instant, there is no Attention, there is no Real Consciousness about these reactions when they occur. Your contact with the present moment is a contact of experiencing, but when thought stores, and records, it does so with the intention of maintaining the continuity of experience in the future. Thus, thought establishes the belief in the psychological tomorrow, the psychological future. This is how it has functioned in each of us.

We are living, psychologically, either in the past or in the future. And this present moment, for this model, which is the model of the "I," which is the model of the person, of this "me," is to transform this moment, which is the moment of experience, where the presence of experiencing is here - and it is only the experiencing - this sense of the "I," of this "me," of this "ego," which is exactly this movement of thought seeking continuity, what it has done is to transform this instant of pure experiencing into an experience. It records this, and this begins to become part of the story of this "I," of the memory of this person, and this person is moving in life within this illusion, which is the illusion of past, present, and future.

I hope this is not too confusing - maybe you're here on the first video on the channel. What we put here for you is that life happens at this moment, and at this moment it ends. The idea of someone having psychological continuity is the illusion of time, because this continuity does not exist. What we have present is only memory, remembrance. To deal with life at this instant as it happens, without the illusion of identifying the experience with the experiencer, without this illusion of recording the experience to maintain continuity, is to assume the Truth of Life, without the "I," without the "ego." This requires the presence of a look upon this moment without the past.

When we pay attention to our relationships at this moment, the past, this record, loses relevance; and when it loses relevance, the sense of "I," of "ego," of this "me," loses importance. So, what is this "me," this "I," this "ego"? The presence of this ego, this "I," this "me," is the whole set of memories, of remembrances, of recollections, something present when thought is present. When thought itself sustains the idea of ??someone present in this, of someone in self-importance in this, in self-valuation in this, the opinion of this continuity arises. This is what we call "me," "I."

This thought and feeling of existing as someone is something that thought is establishing in each of us. It is thought itself that separates and creates this identity, establishes this identity. Life as it happens at this moment is just Life. We need memory, we need the record. In some areas of our life, of this life, we need to make use of knowledge and, therefore, of memory, which is thought. Your address, for example, your name, for example, this is part of memory, this is part of knowledge, this is part of remembrance. So, at this level, thought is needed, but what we do not need is the illusion of an identity present in this memory.

And we are leading our lives within this frame, within this form, within this illusion, the illusion of someone present; this someone is the feeling of being, this thought of being, a creation of thought, a suggestion implanted in us by thought. You have an idea about yourself about who you are. We are dealing here with an abstraction, because you are not your name, just as you are not your story, but the idea you have about who you are, is an image that thought has established as being you.

So, we carry, in this illusion of time, the belief that we came from the past, are present in this moment, and are walking toward the future. All of this is part of the model of the "I," of the "ego," which is the way thought is moving within each one of us, in this mind, in this consciousness. Now, let us comprehend something very interesting here. On one level, thought is necessary, knowledge is necessary, and therefore remembrance is important; but on another level, the model of thought, of memory, of remembrance is something completely unnecessary, dysfunctional, and that is producing confusion, producing suffering, producing disorder in our lives.

Thus, we have the practical, the objective thinking, which deals with facts, your name, your story, your professional knowledge, your technical knowledge - all of that is part of thinking, all of that is part of memory, all of that is part of what are facts in our lives, which are recorded and have their place - but there is a quality of thinking in you that is completely wrong, which is what I have called psychological thinking. For example, you have friends; these friends are constructions within you and established by thought.

When you like someone, you don't know them, but you have the illusion of knowing them. What you like in him or her is the behavior, it's the way they speak, it's their manner; something in them is pleasant and you like what you're seeing in them. So, when you say you like someone, you are liking them as they present themselves in that moment, and you carry the illusion that you know them because they behave that way, because they are pleasant in that way. What you have of him or her is an image established within you, built by thought, recorded by thought.

This quality of recording is the experience of the experiencer, it is the thought of the thinker, it is the view of the observer, which is this "me," which is this "I." This quality of thought is the quality of psychological thought. We are dealing with life from this quality of thought. You don't know him or her because you also don't know yourself. In the same way, you have an image of yourself. You like some things but you don't like others. This element in this liking and disliking is the image you have built about who you are, just as you have built an image about who the other is.

Our psychological life is exactly within this movement, which is the movement of the experience to the experiencer, which is the movement of thought to the thinker, from what is being seen to the one who sees. This liking, this disliking, is based on this self-image, on this mental frame, on this suggestion of thought. This model of the "I" is living in this psychological condition of the idea of life in continuity, in this pattern, in this format.

Can we eliminate thought from our lives? I don't refer to this technical, functional, practical thought that deals with facts, I refer to this quality of thought that deals with abstractions, with beliefs, with suggestions. Notice: temporary suggestions of thought because you like him or her as long as they please you, as long as what they do, and say, meets the expectations of your "ego," of this "person," of this "me."

The comprehension of the truth about oneself is the breaking of this self-image and, therefore, of every image you have of the other, as well as of life, of experiences. This is the end of illusion, it is the end of the illusion of thought, it is the end of the illusion of time, it is the end of this psychological time, of this model of being someone who lives in expectations regarding people, events, and situations. When time ends, thought ends. To deal with this instant, free from the past, from the illusion of this present moment for this "me," and of this future for oneself, and of this future for it.

Thus, the Truth of the Revelation of your Being is the Real Awareness of how to deal with thought. This requires the presence of how to deal with experience, with perception, with sensation. It requires this awareness of Attention at this instant, at this moment. It is the presence of this Attention that is the end of this program, of this model, which is the model of psychological thought, which is the model of thought that moves in time, that keeps making choices based on this self-image.

We do not know the beauty of this real encounter with the other, just as with life, because we do not comprehend the Truth about Love. We are unaware of the Reality of Love because we are living, psychologically, in time, in this model of the "I," in this model of the "ego." When Love is present, there is no longer this liking or disliking. There is something present, which is the comprehension of life as it happens, in this relationship with him or her, in this relationship with yourself, without the sense of "I," we come into contact with Divine Life, with the Life of God.

The Truth about You is the awareness of Love, it is the awareness of Intelligence, of Wisdom, of the Truth of this contact with the moment, without the presence of the experiencer; of the contact with the moment, without this pattern of sustaining images, of thought constructions, in this format of psychological memory. It is these memories that are giving continuity to the illusion of this ego-identity full of problems, full of all forms of conflict, disorder, and confusion.

Here, together, we are investigating this: how to approach life free from this psychological time, this illusory time, which is the time of the "I," which is the time of the "ego," which is the time of the mind. The contact with life at this instant is contact free from separation. There is no you and life, there is no "me" and life, there is no experiencer for this experience, which is life. The truth about Life is the truth of experiencing. Can we look at the present moment without the past, without this model of self-image? In that look, there is no observer. The Truth about Life is the Truth of looking without the observer, of perceiving this instant without the perceiver, of experiencing without the experiencer, of contact with him or her without the image of him or her.

People live forty years in a relationship under the illusion that they know the other. If you do not have the awareness of the Truth about yourself - which is Life free from this model of psychological thought and therefore free from the very "I," from the very "ego" - how can you know the other? The comprehension of Life is the comprehension of yourself. This is where the comprehension of the other lies. If there is this comprehension, we have the presence of Truth, the presence of God, the presence of Love.

Real Life is Life free from the ego, free from this self-image, free from this illusion of time, free from this psychological time, free from this model of psychological thought. Thus, Life as it happens is present, and as part of this Mystery called Life, there is naturally the presence of thought - but not of psychological thought, not that format of egoic mind, of "I" consciousness.

Here, in these meetings, we are going deeper into this with you. We have two days together. These are two days, in an online format, here. You have our WhatsApp link to join these online weekend meetings, where we go deeper into this topic with you. In addition to these online meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, here is your invitation: go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel, and write in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? See you! Thanks for this meeting and see you next time!

May, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? How to overcome fear

Here, with you, we have delved into these subjects; they are placed here to be investigated. We investigate this when we are close to the experience itself. Otherwise, we remain only in theory, we stay only in ideas, and that is not our purpose.

Here, the only purpose we have is to perceive directly. When we have direct perception, we have something beyond intellectual formulations, something beyond concepts: we are before a comprehension. Therefore, what we need is comprehension.

These meetings here, these moments we have, are moments of discovery, moments of verification. So, let's touch on this matter of fear with you here. The question is: "How to overcome fear?" That involves a comprehension, and it can only be real if it is direct; it involves the comprehension of thought, not the theory about thought, not what books say about thought, not what this or that specialist says about thought, but rather your own direct verification.

No theory - and theory is what someone has already told us - no concept - and a concept is what we are intellectually capable of explaining - no theory, concept, or opinion about this is real. If our proposal here is to investigate this issue of fear - and here the question is: "How to overcome fear?" - we already need to correct our language in approaching this subject.

What you achieve through struggle, through self-discipline, through effort "overcome," you will continue to be present having to win other times. It's not about overcoming fear, it's not about you being present in this victory, it's about the comprehension of fear. It is the comprehension of fear, the seeing of fear, the liberation from fear.

Therefore, there is a difference between the end of fear, the ceasing of fear, and the victory over fear, the overcoming of fear. The interest in overcoming is the interest of someone having a victory. Here, there is no such someone. Here, the comprehension of the presence of fear requires the clear vision that it is exactly the presence of that someone, of that person, of the person you are, that is the presence of fear.

An irregular approach, an unsatisfactory approach to this issue of fear, does not resolve it. To approach fear is to become aware of yourself in relation to that given experience, and it requires a clear vision about thought. Here, we are facing something that permeates our lives, that is present in everything in this particular life of the person, of this "me," of this someone, which is the presence of thought.

What is thought? Thought is an element in you that doesn't allow contact with the present moment in a free way, because our eyes become blurred and internally we become insensitive to life in that encounter with it, from the standpoint of thought. It is thought that sees, and when it sees, it compares, it accepts, it rejects, it judges, it colors the experience of the present moment.

It is this thought here, it is that thought there - it is the presence of this element - the truth about fear. You don't have fear without the presence of thought. Only when thought tells you something does that thing become real to you. It happens because thought arises as an element that, upon arising, creates a separation between you and it.

Thought in us spins around, functions, happens by evaluating for us, judging for us, accepting or rejecting. This "us" is the very presence of thought. When you are sad, angry, or afraid, it is thought that created this idea of someone being present in that feeling, in that emotion. This is the continuity in us of the pattern of thought; it needs someone to be present, and that someone is this "me," this "I."

The presence in you is of you being what thought says you are, to live that, to feel that. Therefore, thought has constructed an image; that image is you. You are the very self-image. So, you are the self-image; the element present to live the experience that thought proposes in this format of feeling, sensation, emotion, or experience. Then, this division is established in us, and in this division there is someone present for fear, someone for sadness, someone for this or that type of suffering. This is the life of thought; it needs someone involved in this. That someone is the presence of the thinker.

We don't know how to deal with thought, because we know nothing about the awareness of thinking. So here, the first point is this: it is thought that speaks to us about a future it doesn't want to live. When you remember a disease you had and don't want it to happen again, notice that it is the presence of thought, of that memory, of that remembrance, that upon arising, speaks to us about you, speaks to us about this "me," about this person who went through that.

You wouldn't have any memory of yourself, in the fear that that illness might return, without the presence of thought. You remember yourself being sick again because thought is present, bringing this "you," this image. This self-image is you. And when you appear, fear appears, because thought is present. It is the presence of thought, the presence of fear. Without thought, there is no you with fear.

Therefore, the presence of thought and you is a single phenomenon, a single appearance. There is no separation between you, who is this self-image, and this memory that causes you fear. Therefore, it's not about overcoming fear, it's about getting rid of the self-image. The self-image is the presence of thought itself. There is no separation between that self-image and that memory, which is thought.

Once you get rid of the self-image, there is no more you, there is no more thought, and there is no more fear. You are not going to overcome fear; there will be a full awareness of the truth that there is no you when thought is not present. Thus, we need to discover what thinking is.

When a thought arises, at this moment, become aware of it, become aware of its presence. It is because you are not aware of the presence of thought that it settles inside you, creating this psychological condition of separation, supporting this image, this self-image, and sustaining this memory. Looking at a thought, the truth of this direct looking at a thought that is arising here, at this instant, this ends the thought.

Thought cannot continue when it is verified, when it is observed. But this observation is only observation when there is no one observing; it is only observation when thought does not separate itself by constructing this "I," this self-image. Therefore, everything here revolves around this vision, the vision of the truth about yourself, about how you function, how the mind functions. This is the awareness of thinking.

We don't know what thinking is. We have the pattern of thought happening, exactly in this way we've described here, creating this separation. The truth about thinking is the vision of what thought represents, and also what feeling, emotion, or sensation represent.

The truth about thinking is that when thinking is present, there is no "I," there is no such element as the thinker, the experiencer, the observer. So, it becomes clear that looking at thought without someone in this looking. And when this is present, thought ceases, fear does not arise - what is seen at that instant, in that way of looking, is this memory, is this remembrance, is this picture, which is the picture of a disease, of the memory of having gone through some illness, and this memory is now returning.

Notice, this is just one example of the presence, in a specific form, of fear. We have countless forms of fear, and all of them are tied to the issue of thought, of memory, of remembrance - something that comes from the past. Therefore, this way of looking dissolves this image, dissolves this thinker, this experiencer, this "I" of fear.

The end of fear is something different from overcoming fear - it seems that now this has become clear here. You don't overcome fear. There is no fear in this Attention to our reactions. There is no experiencer when there is this Attention. There is no observer when there is this Attention: that is the presence of thinking.

We were not taught, in life, about thinking. We were told what to think, because we were given the illusion of the continuity of a thinker. This is the presence of ego, of this false identity, of this illusory identity we are assuming. Therefore, the comprehension of life is the comprehension of ourselves, and this comprehension ends with this illusory identity present for the experience of living, for the experience of feeling, for the experience of fear.

In your True Nature, in your Real Nature, what You Are in your Being, this self-image, this thinker, this experiencer, this observer is not present. The Truth of your Being, the truth about you, the truth of the person you appear to be, must be investigated and comprehended. If this happens, the illusion of this person dissolves, the illusion of this identity that separates itself from life, vanishes; we have the presence of the Reality of this Being.

Therefore, there is a Reality about You, and there is this presence of the person, which is the truth about you, what you have assumed to be in this illusion of separation, where this memory is still present, bringing at this moment this identity that comes from the past to project itself into this time, which is the future, in fear or in some form of despair or psychological suffering.

To assume the Reality of your Being is only possible when you comprehend the truth about this "me," about this "person," about this "I." Our invitation here is for a direct look at this instant. A possible look is this direct look, free from thought and therefore free from the past, then there is no fear, no conflict, no contradiction or suffering.

This is our proposal to you here, working with you in these online meetings on weekends. They are two days together, Saturdays and Sundays, where we go deep into this. These meetings reveal the Truth of What You Are in your Essential Nature, in your Real Nature. The Reality of this Being needs to be comprehended.

Therefore, we are together for two days. You have here, in the video description, our WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Besides these online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and leave a comment: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok ? See you next time. Thanks for the meeting!

June, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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