You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? How to meditate correctly

Here, our commitment together consists in discovering the person, the truth of the revelation of this person. The important point here is the fact that this person, who is the person we believe to be, is what thought tells us about who we are. That's basically it. And everything that thought tells us consists of an image it has created.

If, for example, I ask you to give me a description of someone, describing that person to me means that you will give me, at that moment, the image you have of them. That's how you can describe someone to me; it's like making a spoken portrait - that's basically it, it's literally that.

To make a spoken portrait, you need a mental picture, a representation in thought of the shape of the nose, the shape of the eyes, the type of head, hair, chin, whether they have a mustache or not, and so on. So, describing a portrait is creating a mental image about the one you want to describe, that you need to describe.

When you deal with people, you don't realize something very basic that we've been working on with you here, checking, investigating with you: the simple fact that when you deal with people, you are dealing with representations in thought of what you know about them, which implies the presence of a mental creation, an image in you, established in you, about who they are.

What is the truth of the person you are to yourself? The other person, to you, is also only an image. But what about you to yourself, would it be any different? Not at all! The idea you have about yourself is also a mental creation.

When people annoy you, they annoy you because they disturb that image you have created about yourself. If you have an image of yourself as someone intelligent, and I call you dumb, ignorant, stupid, at that exact moment you feel offended, hurt, angry, furious with me, because I touched that image; that image is being injured, is being harmed.

Notice that all our relations are relations in this level - in the level of images. The image you have about yourself needs to be respected by me, and vice versa, or we'll end the friendship, or we'll become enemies, and we might even resort to physical violence, due to the anger you'll cause me, or I'll cause you. That's how our relations are.

Our relations with people are relations at this level. So let's comprehend the first thing here. The first thing is: you and the self-image. You and the self-image are something so close and intimate that we can say without any mistake that you are the self-image. Everything you have about who you are is everything you know about yourself. Everything you know about yourself is everything thought has to tell you about you.

Now, notice the illusion present in all this - in this condition of life we are living. Because if our life is based on the self-image, this life is not real, it is a life of abstraction, a life of opinion, comparison, evaluation, and judgment. When you agree with me, I'm your friend; when you disagree with me, I become your enemy, or I distance myself from you, and vice versa. That's how human relations are.

What is the truth about you? You don't know! Your name is not you, your age is not you, your story is not you. All of that is memories you have about who you are, about yourself. But about yourself, all you have is a construction of thought.

Is there a truth present beyond this truth, which is the truth of the self-image? Because that's what you are as a person. So much so that you take very seriously everything you feel about what people say about you. If they say good things about you, you feel good; if they say bad things about you, you feel angry, upset, because you are unaware of the truth about yourself, or the truth about yourself is only that. That's what you identify with, that's what you mistake yourself for.

A work toward Divine Realization, toward the Realization of God, is the awareness of what is the Truth of your Being, what is You free from this "you" that thought built, free from this image that thought established. That requires you to comprehend some basic, main elements involved in this issue of this "I," this "me," this "person." One of the basic elements, which we've returned to many times here, is the truth about thought. Thought is the main element in all of this.

So, what is thought? You don't have one single memory without a symbol, without an idea, without a mental picture, without an image. Every memory is basically this - and this is thought. All thought in you, is not something that is going to arrive. All thought in you, is not something that will appear from the future. All thought in you, appears in you from the past. It is not something that is coming from the future; it is something that comes from the past.

So, here we have two things present in this issue of what thought is. Thought is the past; being the past, it is memory, it is a remembrance. The other thing is that thought has a form, a mental representation, it has an image. Then, all thought in you is something that comes from the past, and it has a form, it has an image.

I can only recognize your face because I have an image of your face in that thought format; otherwise, I wouldn't be able to recognize your face. And I can only recognize your face because it was already known - it is part of the known. Thus, the presence of memory is recognition, and it is the recognition of an image, something that is already present inside each of us: this is the presence of thought.

When people want to be free of problems, they don't comprehend that the base of problems is the presence, in them, of this element. You wouldn't have any problems with people if you didn't have images, memories of them.

When someone says: "Oh, I really wish I weren't still hurt by so-and-so, or angry at her, but when I remember." Yes, of course when you remember, it comes back, because without the memory, you don't get hurt. You don't get angry toward someone you don't remember. The presence of thought is the main element in this psychological way of existing as someone, as a person.

It sounds strange to hear this, but there are no people. People exist in memories. Listen to that carefully. They are present in memory; they are present in recognition. When you forget someone, the truth is that they don't exist - they are not part of your field of consciousness, since that consciousness is mental consciousness - that's what we call consciousness.

What we call consciousness is the consciousness of the "I," it is the consciousness in this self-image. This self-image, which is the "I," has its memories; these memories are the psychological condition of the existence of the person that I am. But where is this person when this self-image doesn't exist? When you have no memory of something, where is it? Where is the truth of that which you don't remember?

So, we are facing something very basic and of great relevance to this vision that interests us in these meetings, which is the vision of the comprehension, which is the vision of liberation from this dream, which is the dream of existing as someone, which is the dream of existing as a person, since the presence of the person is the presence of the self-image, and this self-image is what thought has established in you about who you are and also about the world of relations with other people. Therefore, the truth about thought is that thought is memory.

Can we discover what it is to remain free from thought? Free from thought, we are free from this self-image. That's the end of this self-image, that's the end of this person as we know it, this "me," this "I," this "ego."

Is it possible to live a life free from being hurt, offended, free from the illusion of sentimental, emotional dependency on other people we believe we love? Free from emotional dependency on other people we believe we hate? Can we free ourselves, in this life, from this sense of "I," of "ego," to be beyond this so-called love, which is mere emotional dependency in relations? - a dependency linked to the issue of self-image.

Can we discover what a life free from the idea of liking and disliking is? - since this idea is in the thought, in the self-image. If it becomes possible, we are here, for the first time, approaching the end of this self-image and the real approach to Meditation.

When the question is: "How to meditate correctly?" In general, the idea is someone getting involved with the practice of Meditation to find the end of problems. In general, the idea of how to meditate correctly. because this is an issue for some: "How can I approach Meditation?" - since Meditation is the Liberation from this model, which is the model of thought, which is the idea of someone involved in this whole process of thoughts present.

So, how to meditate correctly? The truth of approaching Meditation requires the comprehension of the truth about what thinking is. To deal with the present moment, free from thought and, therefore, free from the image I have about who I am, about who the other is, is to approach this instant in the comprehension of thought.

The truth about thinking is that thinking is what is present when there is no longer this self-image, when there is no longer this pattern of vision based on the image, since this vision based on the self-image is the vision of the thinker, of the experiencer, of the element that comes from the past, which is the "I." So, what is thinking? It is dealing with thought, free from the thinker, free from the experiencer, free from this issue of self-image.

We don't know the truth about thinking because we live inside a context of thoughts from the perspective of the thinker, from the perspective of this self-image. So, we live inside this context of the creation of thought, of illusory thinking, of illusory feeling, of illusory living, because we are within this life of the "I," this life of the "ego," where we have this one who is the thinker with its thoughts, the experiencer with its experience, the one who likes, the one who dislikes, the one who sees from these memories, from these remembrances.

To deal with the truth of thought requires the presence of a look at thought without getting involved with thought. This is the end of this quality of thought that is producing in us this illusory identity, which is the person, which is this "me." Here on the channel we have some playlists, and one of them is "What is thinking?"

Is there a way of thinking free from thought? Is there a way of feeling free from this "I" in the feeling? Is there a kind of emotion free from an identity present, mistaking itself for the experiencer of this experience called emotion? All of this requires an investigation of self-comprehension.

Contact with the Reality of Life consists of thinking, feeling, acting, and getting emotional. Not someone present in this; not this sense of the "I," of the "ego," of this "me," this thinker, this experiencer, this observer, which is the "I," present in it.

If this is your first video, this is very confusing. You need to watch other videos here on the channel to better situate yourself about the topic we are working on with you. But we are pointing out for you something beyond the "I," beyond the "ego," beyond what thought in us identifies as real, and that, in fact, is not.

There is a Reality present, and this Reality is the Divine Reality, it is the Reality of your Being, it is That which is present beyond this self-image, beyond this person, beyond this thinker, beyond this element in feeling. That's what we are working on with you here, deepening with you here.

What is the truth about thinking? What is the truth about feeling? What is the truth of Meditation? What is this Real Meditation? If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation. We have online meetings on weekends, where we're together Saturdays and Sundays. You have, in the video description, our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings.

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

June, 2025
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How to find God. Meditation what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness. Accelerated mind what to do ?

The accelerated mind, what to do? That's the question. Why do we have this question? This is just one of the countless questions the mind presents. Every question is, actually, a problem. When you receive a question, you have a problem. When you take an exam or a test, what you're given are problems, which are the questions.

The accelerated mind is one of the mind's questions. But what is the mind? The mind is all this internal movement present in each of us. What we have called consciousness is the very movement in the mind. It's this movement in the mind, the movement of thoughts. Therefore, when thoughts move, always carrying some level of sensation, feeling, or emotion, we have the movement of thought, we have the movement in consciousness, we have the movement of the "I."

The mind is nothing other than the movement of memory that thought has, that remembrance contains. This entire movement is an internal movement of consciousness present in each of us. We have two levels here. The first is the superficial one we know, easy to access, with which we constantly relate; the way you feel about life, about others, about yourself, in a superficial way. Thus, on the surface, we have this first aspect of mind, of consciousness, this movement of thought.

And we also have the second aspect, what we have deep down, what is hidden. We have this first layer, and then we have the second layer. In this second layer, we find our memories, our recollections, all impulses that occur not in a clear or visible way to each of us, and yet they're happening in every moment. That's why some divide the mind into conscious and unconscious: the surface awareness and this model of unawareness, in this deeper, hidden layer.

This entire internal movement is the movement of the "I," of consciousness. But here's something we need to tell you: when you talk to us about a restless, chatty mind, that's constantly moving uncontrollably, when you talk about this accelerated mind and ask what to do, your idea is of someone present in that mind; this someone is the presence of the "I." That's how we feel we are, how we believe we are, how we perceive we are. However, the news is: what is present in this context is the idea, the imagination, it's the very construction of thought about who we are.

What we have present is the reality of what is happening here, the truth of what is being shown here, and yet we bring with us the thought about it, the idea about it, the belief, the suggestion about it, which also involves thought's explanation of this feeling we're experiencing. In other words: there is no such thing as "this I," no such thing as this mind. The idea of consciousness, which we divide into two layers or many others, is the presence of thought-the element that builds this thing.

Reality is life as it happens, and the sensations present, that's all! At every moment, your contact is with a sensation. There is no one present in the sensation; it is the presence of thought inserting someone there. We have the movement of thought, but it is typical of memory, in the brain, to move. The presence of the brain in us, in this restlessness, this accelerated movement of thoughts, is something that occurs because of the absence of a Real Awareness about this process.

What we take as awareness is, in fact, unawareness. The presence of this movement of thoughts and the way the brain functions in each of us is happening due to the absence of Attention, of Presence, of a Real Awareness of this process. That's how we have the "self" with its problems, the mind with its many questions.

Anxiety, depression, anguish, nervousness, stress, fear-the various problems present in each of us-are problems that arise due to the movement of thought within this consciousness that we have, that we know; which is, in reality, the way thought functions within the pattern of brain that exists in us, in most of humanity. This whole thing happens this way because we are not aware of what is going on within us.

The presence of the person we believe we are, within the context of humanity, is the presence of this lack of awareness. You are a person and you see yourself as something separate from life, because of the unawareness of the truth about yourself. There is a Reality present here. It is not the person present - not this "I," this ego. The ego, the "I," the person, is the movement of psychological disorder, of mental confusion, within a brain programmed to function this way. That has been happening for millennia.

You are eighty years old; for eighty years you've lived as a person in the sense of an "I" who sees itself as separate from life, separate from others, having this inner restlessness of accelerated, repetitive thoughts, negative thoughts, sensations and feelings that follow those thoughts. So, as human beings, in the "person," we suffer; in the ego, we suffer. The element present in suffering, the own sufferer, is not separate from the suffering it experiences. It is the ego's life, the existence of someone, which is an illusion.

I say it again: there is a Reality present, this Reality is comprehended when there is the recognition of the truth about who we are. We have this first aspect, which is the aspect of what we present ourselves to be, which is within the context of human culture, of humanity, which is the presence of the person. Therefore, each one of us is living as a person and encountering other people. However, the person, people are an image that thought has constructed about who we are, and this is where all kinds of problems lie, within this condition of mind we know.

Here, we approach this work for the comprehension of the truth about who we are, which requires the presence of this learning about Self-awareness, which is what we're doing here together. In this learning about Self-awareness, we encounter the Reality of the presence of the Awareness of Being. The Reality of this Being, of this Truth that is present here, beyond this person, is the Divine Reality. Thus, we find ourselves with the possibility of comprehending the Truth about Meditation.

What is Meditation? Meditation, what is the reality, what is the truth about Meditation? The presence of Meditation is the Revelation of the Truth about God. The only Reality present is Life; Life is the Divine Reality. In the question "how to find God," here is the answer. In the Revelation, in the Awareness of the Truth about yourself, here lies the answer to that question.

God is not a reality to be found in the future, it is That which is already present, being the only Reality, the Reality of Life itself revealing itself moment by moment. And we can only have direct contact with this Reality when we are beyond the mind, beyond this pattern of behavior of this consciousness, which is the ego consciousness, the consciousness of the "I."

So, based on Self-awareness, we have the presence of a direct gaze into how the mind works, how the brain functions. Then a shift happens, a transformation occurs, and we come to the end of this programmed, conditioned model of the egoic mind, because now there is Attention to these reactions, and so an internal shift occurs. That's when we come to the end of this known consciousness, and a new, real, profound vision of ourselves arises and, therefore, of the Reality of this Being.

Life reveals itself when there is the presence of Meditation. Here, I refer to the truth about Meditation, not to a technique or a practice for someone, for a person. This is not about a person meditating, it's about a space that emerges when the brain becomes quiet, when the mind falls silent. In this space, there is the presence of Meditation, and it arises because of this Attention to our reactions, which is Self-awareness.

Thus, to learn about Self-awareness is to come across the Awareness that reveals this real encounter with the Divine, the real encounter with God. Here, the Reality of God is not something in the future, it is not somewhere to be found or verified, but it is the Divine Reality revealing itself here and now as the Truth of this Being. So, the idea of finding God is just an idea. The real answer to the great question-"how to find God"-lies in the awareness of what is being revealed here as the Truth of your Being.

We need a free mind, a silent brain; then, here and now, we have the Revelation of Life. The presence of this Revelation is the presence of Love, the presence of Freedom, the presence of Happiness. A silent brain, a quiet mind. Not a mind that was quieted through a technique or practice of Meditation, but the mind that is quiet, the brain that has become silent due to an Attention to our reactions. The presence of the true awareness of Meditation requires this verification of how the mind is happening. So, when the mind becomes silent due to this Attention, the truth of the moment reveals itself as Meditation.

This is our proposal to you here, a work in this direction. Then, the mind is no longer what we've known. Therefore, the countless problems of the mind disappear when the illusion of the mind is no longer present, when what we've understood or known as the mind is no longer present. The Reality of the moment is Life. There is no person in Life, no "I," no movement pattern, which is the movement of thought as we know, in this new State of Being.

The point is: yes, this is possible in this life. This requires the presence of Divine Realization, the Realization of God. It's not someone having this Realization, it is this Realization revealing itself here, when the illusion of the "I" ends, when this programmed mind, this restless pattern, is no longer present. Thus, we want to invite you to these meetings. We have online meetings on weekends to go deeper into this with you. Two days together: Saturday and Sunday.

So, here's an invitation for you. In the video description, you'll find our WhatsApp link to participate in our weekend online meetings. Besides these meetings, we also have in-person events and retreats. If what you've just heard makes sense to you, here's the invitation. Go ahead, leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and write in the comments: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for joining us, see you next time!

August, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learn about Self-awareness. Kundalini: how to awaken?

It's quite interesting when people use expressions like "kundalini"; when they ask about how to awaken kundalini. The idea they have about this expression makes it very clear that they are associating it with all sorts of things in a very confused, quite disoriented way.

We have within us the presence of a Reality that is present, but despite being present, it remains silent, unknown, mysterious: it is the presence of the Truth of Reality about You, it is the Reality of this Being; this Being is Divine Reality. The ancient Indian sages used the expression "Kundalini" referring to this silent, hidden, unknown Presence within us. Therefore, the expression "Kundalini" is, in reality, synonymous with the Divine Presence in each of us.

So, what is the Reality of Kundalini Awakening? Will it be the awakening of mystical, so-called spiritual powers? Observe that these powers are still associated with some level of personal achievement. And what is the truth about the person? Here we are dealing with an illusion, because the Divine Truth of Being, which is Kundalini, is not a person.

We see ourselves in time and space as a present entity separate from life, to obtain something, to conquer things. This is the idea of achieving something special for oneself. This only gives us specialism, it makes us more "someone," beyond the "person" we are; now we are special because we have certain virtues, certain power, certain achievement.

However, the Truth of Spiritual Awakening, of Divine Awakening, is not the awakening for someone, it is not the awakening of someone, it is awareness of the Truth; the Truth that the person is not real, the Truth that the sense of the "I" is an illusion. So, what is, in fact, the Kundalini Awakening? It is the awareness that there is a single one Reality here and now revealing itself; this Reality is the Reality of this Being. It is not someone who awakened, it is not someone becoming better, special, or virtuous, or powerful.

What brings us closer to the Truth of Awakening, of the Flowering of this Being, is the Truth about who we are, it is the recognition of that. And there are two aspects here. The first is the truth that we are in what we demonstrate to be, in what we appear to be. As people, we live overwhelmed with problems of psychological disorder, of emotional disorder. As a person, we live in stress, with anger, with fear, with anxiety, with worries. As a person, we live in a state of isolationism, of separation.

Thus, the person we are consists of a set of memories we carry about ourselves. Therefore, the idea of someone present is the idea of the person "I am." Therefore, the first aspect here, which once seen, clarified, ends up being discarded, is the illusion of the ego, the illusion of the person - so, that is the first aspect. The second aspect is the awareness of the Truth, of the Divine Reality that is present here, which is not the person.

So, there is something present: it is the Reality of Being. And there is also something expressing itself here, in this model that has been repeating for millennia within this context of human history, and particularly for some years now, ever since we see ourselves as people, ever since we were born. This form of representation of being someone is the life of the "I," it is the life of the ego. Therefore, the truth about this is the discarding of this psychological condition of a mind that repeats itself, of a mind that follows this program of culture, of society, of the world.

This is how thought within us is repeating itself, having as its principle, as its basis, the model of memory. How can we be aware of this? By the study of ourselves, which is what we are proposing here for you: to study oneself, to comprehend the person you are. It's not you, see, it's not you acquiring knowledge about yourself, it's you being aware of yourself. The awareness of yourself discards the illusion of this "you" that thought established, that thought constructed.

So, the broader and deeper the vision, the more enlightened and lucid the perception of oneself, the closer we will be to the Truth of Self-awareness; and it is this Self-awareness that liberates. Freedom here is the end of the "I," it is the finalization of the "I," it is the end of the "I," of this false identity. So, Spiritual Awakening or Divine Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment, the names are diverse for something that is beyond words; this something that is beyond words is the Awareness of the Truth that this mind as we know it, within the known, no longer exists.

This is the contact with life in this learning about Self-awareness. If you drive a car, it's because you learned; if you speak a language other than your native tongue, it's because you learned; if you know something, it's because you learned. In fact, in life, everything was learned. It may seem curious, but you learned to see. Yes, because when you are a baby, your little eyes are open, but you don't know how to see. You learn to see, to be aware of objects, to have perception of details in vision.

So, the baby learns to see, he has all the potential, all the capacity to see, but he is just being aware of shapes, of colors; he is in a learning process; in this learning, he is learning to see. We learn to listen, we learn to walk, we learn to speak, we learn to chew, everything in life we learn. Here, we also need this learning, this learning about ourselves. What differs is that this learning does not require memory.

All other forms of learning require the presence of memory. So, we go through experience, register the experience, and acquire memory. This memory is now knowledge. This knowledge takes a form of expression, which is the presence of thought, of image, of picture, of word, it is the form. All this represents the presence of memory.

Here, learning about ourselves requires a new way of learning, which represents contact with life, at this moment, without conclusions, without evaluations, ideas. Ideas, evaluations, and conclusions are something that come from the past, are something that come from memory. Unfortunately, we are always having contact with life at every moment without the art of this new learning, so we are always evaluating, judging, comparing the experiences of the moment based on the past, and that is not learning about oneself.

Learning about oneself requires looking at the moment, allowing that moment to be comprehended and dissolved, so there is no record, no memory, no knowledge. And yet, we have at this moment, in this new learning, which is learning about the Truth of what we are, the presence of understanding, of the understanding of Life.

It is not someone having an understanding of Life, acquiring an understanding of Life, storing an understanding of Life, accumulating knowledge about Life. It is the presence of comprehension, the awakening of intelligence itself to deal with the present moment without the interference of the past, without these evaluations, conclusions, ideas, and concepts.

Notice the beauty of this. This encounter, in this new format with the present moment, in this learning about ourselves, in this learning about the Truth of Being, which is learning about Self-awareness, we have here the presence of Meditation. The most important thing in life is the art of Being, without any idea of becoming, without any belief of needing to be, to become, to achieve, to obtain something. So, we discard the very idea of this Kundalini Awakening as something to be obtained.

Here, this Awakening is to assume the Truth of Being; this embracing the Truth of Being is the awareness that reveals itself at this moment when memory has lost its importance. We don't need the past to deal with life here and now, we only need the awareness of this Presence, of this Divine Intelligence.

So, what is Meditation? What is the Truth of Meditation? What is it? It is the Presence of Life revealing itself in this learning, here and now, moment by moment. So, it is revealed, here and now, at this moment, your real encounter with God, with the Divine, with Life, with Truth. Therefore, the answer to the question "How to Awaken Kundalini," if it is well understood, is the answer to the question "How to find God."

However, in thought, people place this in the future, they place Kundalini as a project, as something to achieve, as a mystical, esoteric, spiritual experience; they place the idea of God as something, also, in the future, that will be found through an experience that is also spiritual or esoteric, of meditation practice.

Notice that here we use these expressions, but with a completely different meaning. Here, the Truth of Meditation, Real Meditation, is not a practice for someone to perform. It is not about technique or practice, where you dedicate a few minutes to silence the mind through technique, through effort, through concentration, or a breathing technique. It is not about something like silence obtained through practice.

Here it is about the Revelation of the Truth of this new space where, yes, in fact, the mind silences, the brain quiets down, and Divine Reality reveals itself here and now. This is the real encounter with God. It is not someone having an encounter with God, it is the Reality of this Being, which is the Divine Truth, revealing itself at this moment.

Therefore, there is no separation between the Truth of Real Meditation, which is this awareness of the Truth of Life, which is this awareness of Life here and now showing itself without the sense of the "I," and the Truth of this encounter with God, which also is not separate from the Beauty of the Awakening of Consciousness. The Truth of this Real Consciousness, of this Divine Consciousness, not of what we also know as consciousness, which is the presence of the egoic mind.

Thus, this Real Consciousness is Divine Reality, it is the Reality of Being. This is the Presence of Kundalini. So, there is a new brain, there is a new mind, there is a new heart, there is a new way of dealing with the world around you, as well as with people, with situations, as well as with everything around you, without the illusion of someone present seeing themselves separate from all this, because the sense of the "I" is no longer there, because the sense of the ego is gone. So, the beauty of the encounter with Divine Reality is the awareness of the Kundalini Awakening. It is not someone who awakened Kundalini, it is the Truth of this present Reality, which is the Truth of this Being.

This is what we are working on together here on weekends, Saturday and Sunday, in online meetings. I want to leave an invitation for you here. You have our link here, in the video description, to participate in these online meetings on weekends. In addition to online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like", subscribe to the channel, and put in the comments: "Yes, this makes sense." Okay? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

August, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? | Meditation: what is it? | Learning about Self-Awareness | Conscious mind

"The idea of this division between conscious and unconscious mind is very common. Yes, what we have on the surface, this superficial movement of thoughts that we have, the way we are dealing with life as it happens, in general, this is being attended to by this surface, and we also have this depth. Thus, we have a deeper layer and a superficial layer.

That is why we divide-this division is very common-between conscious and unconscious, the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. The unconscious is this deeper, hidden part, where the memories, the recollections, all this story of the person are. Here, with you, we are investigating the truth about the person, once it is comprehended that we do not have a person present; what we have is the presence of sensations for this body, for this mind- sensations, perceptions, the sensation of cold, heat, pleasure, and pain.

We place the idea of someone in feeling, in feeling pain, in feeling heat or cold, someone in the presence of thoughts. We have thoughts and someone before thoughts, being responsible for this operation of thoughts. Observe that thoughts process in us, in this brain, in an automatic way; it is the reaction of memory, it is simply that. When the brain receives a stimulus, it responds from the past.

Your stimulus is, for example, a question. If I ask you a question, your brain receives a stimulus, then the recollection arises; this recollection, memory, is the presence of thought. We are facing a physical, neurological phenomenon. Therefore, what we call psychological is the neurological response of thought, or of a sensation, or of an emotion, but we do not have the presence of the person. And if we do not have the presence of the person, what we call mind processing in us is something chemical, neurological.

Will the discovery of the awareness of Life as it happens be possible, and not as thought, psychologically, is sustaining, establishing? Because this psychological model is a construction of thought itself, because what we have is a neurological form of happening in this body. The presence of mind is part of this. This psychophysical being functions like this. However, we are sustaining the idea of someone present; this someone is the 'I,' the person, and I repeat: there is no person here, there is no one.

When you say something, I listen. When something is presented to me, I see. This "I see," "I listen" is the mechanics of the body, it is the presence of sensation, it is life in expression. There is no entity here, a psychic being, separating itself from life, unless thought establishes this psychic being as part of an ideological, mental, psychological construction, as we wish to call that.

The fact is that Life is here and now happening, and we need to comprehend ourselves to go beyond this illusion, the illusion of the person that thought says we are, that thought believes, that assumes in the format of a thinker, to be someone. There is no someone, there is no "me," there is no person. We have Life arising, happening here, moment by moment, and we can only become aware of this through Self-awareness.

In this learning about Self-awareness we come across the Truth about the Reality of Life, the true encounter with the Divine, in the question "how to find God?" Here we have the answer. The Awareness of the Reality of this Being, which is present here, is the Divine Reality. This Being Reveals itself when we have the presence of Meditation.

Therefore, what is Meditation? Meditation, what is it? It is the awareness that Reveals this Being when we have the presence of this attention on all the internal movement that happens here and now, within each of us. Then, we mischaracterize, we free ourselves, we abandon the illusion of the personal identity for the Truth of the awareness of this Being. There is no separation between that which is You in your Essential Nature and the Divine Reality, and the Presence of Life.

Therefore, the Reality of Being is Life. There is nothing else. It is the thought in you that creates the idea of separation, where we are living in a world as an entity separate from the world, separate from what happens, separate from the other, separate from situations. To assume the Truth is to look at that which is revealing itself here without placing an idea upon it.

Note that ideas in us are expressions of thoughts. Thoughts in us are the result of something you learned. Note how fundamental it is for us to have this comprehension here. Something you kept within you from past experiences is now the presence of thought. This set of thoughts forms ideas, and we are looking at life from ideas, from thoughts, from acquired knowledge.

Here we have been telling you that you were born for the awareness of this Being, for the Revelation that there is no life as an idea present inside your head. That is, the life that thought idealizes is not real. Real Life is that which is present here, and it is revealing itself when thought does not enter.

What we are saying here, in these encounters, is that all the problems you have are problems that thought has established, in this pattern of behavior of reaction to life as it happens. The way we are living, from thought, from ideas, which are this knowledge we have, is a mistaken way of living, where we see ourselves here as someone present, always establishing the idea of separation between that which you are and Life as it happens.

We have Life as it happens and we have thought about what it should be, thus we are establishing, in division, in separation, the illusion of someone present having choices, looking to see if they like or dislike, if they accept or reject. This is a conditioned, standardized, mechanical, unconscious way of moving in life. It is the way thought processes within each of us that gives us this specific way of feeling about life, of thinking about life.

So, we are sustaining this illusion, the illusion of duality, the illusion of separation and, internally, the main element that sustains all this misunderstanding is the thought "I," it is the person that the image, that thought built, established in each of us, in this brain. Thus, we speak of mind, which, in reality, is all this internal movement of thought, we speak of this mind, in this vision also of conscious and unconscious division.

Can we go beyond this so-called conscious and unconscious mind? Can we abandon this base which is the self-image, where the person that thought established here about you is present? Can we abandon that? That is what Reveals the Truth in this encounter. In the question "how to find God," here we have, if we comprehend the question well, the key to Liberation in this life, from all this suffering, confusion, and problems we have.

The Reality of God is the Truth of Life revealing itself here and now. It is not something to be found in the future, realized tomorrow, but rather to be verified here and now, when we no longer have the illusion of this mind, which is the model of total unawareness of this internal movement. This unawareness is the internal movement of the mind, which we divide into conscious and unconscious.

To assume the Reality of this Being, the Divine Truth is to be before this space where the absence of mind, the absence of the "I," the absence of the ego is present. This is the Real Revelation of the Truth about God, of this encounter with God. It is not someone having an encounter with God, it is the Reality of God revealing itself here and now, when the illusion ends. Then we have the end to suffering, the end to confusion, the end to this psychological disorder in which we find ourselves.

Your Real encounter with Love, with Happiness, with Peace, with Freedom lies in the Revelation of the Truth about God, which is the Reality of this Being, which is Life here and now, Something revealing itself here and now when there are no more illusions. To assume the Reality of That Which You Are is to assume the Truth of Life as it is, without the imagination of what Life should be, of what I need to be, of what I am and need to get rid of.

That which I am, that I have to get rid of: that is the idea, or that which I am is not enough and I need to be better, greater, broader, I need to be different; the idea of being or ceasing to be, the idea of being or becoming, or the idea of what I lack to have and need to have, or the idea of that which I have that is not cool, that is not good, that is bad, of which I have to get rid. Thus, we are living in the field of ideas, in the terrain of thoughts.

To break with this is to become aware of the Reality of Life as it happens, when the illusion of "I am" or "I am not," or "I have to cease to be" is no longer present. "I need to stop being, of being someone unhappy, problematic; I need to become someone loving, happy, successful, intelligent": all this ends when we have the awareness of the Reality of the moment, the awareness of the Reality of Life. Then Life is present, there is no longer the illusion of the "I."

That is what we are working on here with you in online meetings on weekends. It's two days together: Saturday and Sunday. I want to leave an invitation here for you. Besides these online meetings that we have here on weekends, we have in-person meetings and, also, retreats. If what you've just heard is something that makes some sense to you, then an invitation is already here. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and write a comment here: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!"

September, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? Meditation: What Is It? Learning about Self-Awareness. Wisdom of Silence

The way we face events, situations when they arise, everything that appears here, in life, in general, how we deal with it is something we need to investigate. We are dealing with life as it unfolds from a perspective, a particular worldview where, in this view, the mistakes, the error, illusion, and ignorance are present. We lack a true vision of life, the presence of Silence for Wisdom.

I want to touch on a few topics with you here, one of them is about the beauty of the Silence of Wisdom. We need Silence, we need the Wisdom of Silence to deal with life. You can be very capable of dealing with situations in an intelligent, clever, and highly skillful way. Therefore, from the perspective of dealing with external matters, with technical and professional matters, your ability to make a living, to make money, to build, to undertake-all kinds of knowledge, experience, and intelligence you can have. This quality of intelligence is common intelligence.

Here we are with you, investigating a quality of Presence, of awareness of life, which I have called Divine Intelligence, Divine Wisdom, which is the Wisdom of Silence. Therefore, you can have all kinds of skills and abilities to deal with all kinds of external matters, and yet, in the absence of this Wisdom of Silence, this Divine Wisdom, this Spiritual Intelligence, you don't know how to deal with yourself. So, you deal with external matters, but not with internal matters.

Note that we do not know what the presence of thought, sensation, feeling, and emotion is within each of us. We are constantly responding to life, in an inadequate, mistaken approach, because we do not know ourselves-this is a fact. If you truly knew the truth about yourself, which you don't, you wouldn't have internal problems like stress, anxiety, fear, anger, rage, problems like envy, jealousy, attachments. You wouldn't experience psychological suffering, because this is something that exists due to ignorance, the absence of Wisdom, the absence of this quality of Intelligence, which is Divine Intelligence-and that's what we're here with you, exploring, investigating.

We need Divine Awareness. We need the answer to the question "How to find God?" Some people set out on a quest, undertake, invest in a path, on this so-called spiritual journey. Then, through books, esoteric or spiritualist practices, they embark on a journey. Here, with you, we're dealing with the investigation of this question, of this true encounter with God; and we're showing you that none of this is real.

You can't find Divine Reality outside, by taking a walk, a journey, to the exterior, to the external. Divine Reality is the Truth of this Being, which is You in your Essential Nature. It comes from learning about yourself. Learning about yourself is learning about Self-awareness. This is what will give you a clear vision of the Truth about Yourself, allowing you to cast aside the illusion that prevents you from truly knowing that Divine Truth is already present.

God is not something to be found at the end of a journey, something to be found in sacred books or in spiritual or esoteric practices-God is the Reality that reveals Itself here and now, when there is the discarding of illusion, when there is the discarding of the mistaken view of who we are. This is about investigating the nature of the "I," the nature of the mind, the nature of the ego. This investigation is the presence of Meditation.

What is Meditation? The Truth about Meditation, what is it? It is the investigation of the nature of the one who engages in the practice, engages in the technique, engages in meditation. The presence of Real Meditation requires no technique, no practice; It requires investigating the nature of this present element that sets out to practice, that sets out to meditate, and that also sets out to seek God.

The problem with the search is that the seeker is present with a goal, and that goal is in the future, and they need a journey. Here, investigating truth is comprehending the illusion of thought, establishing the presence of time to have an encounter in the future. There is no such thing as the future; Reality is present here. Here and now, beyond the very idea of ??this here and this now.

Divine Reality is not in time, it is not something you will meet. You, as a person, as someone, are the imagination of thought itself, because the Reality about You is the Truth about God. The idea of ??someone is the thought about a person, while the Reality of Being is not a person. All this vision, revelation, and clarity arise when there is the presence of this learning about ourselves, which is the learning of Self-awareness.

Then, the mind, becoming aware of its reactions, of all the internal movement present within it, becomes still, a space arises, and in this space the Truth of this Being, which is the Reality of God, is revealed. When this is present, the presence of Wisdom is Silence; this Silence is contact with the present moment, with life as it unfolds, in its internal and external aspects, without conflict, without disorder, confusion, or suffering.

Therefore, we need to discover the beauty of this encounter, the beauty of the acknowledgment of the moment, of that which in this moment is beyond time: it is the awareness of Love, of Bliss, of Peace, of Freedom, when this brain and this mind. Here it is present, in this moment, revealing itself, in this quality of mind, in this quality of brain, the presence of Silence, the presence of Wisdom.

We have an agitated, anxious, stressed way of dealing with life as it unfolds, because we are always looking at life from a place of separation, because we look at the present moment from the perspective of someone, the "I," who lives within a deep dissatisfaction with oneself, within himself, because we have a restless mind, an agitated mind. It is the presence of egoic consciousness that creates restlessness, suffering, the structure of separation, where someone is present and dealing with life, as if there were a separation between life and this person.

Why do we need to learn about ourselves? Because it is in this learning that That, which is outside the "I," outside the ego, outside the mind, is revealed. It is in this learning that this quality of mind and brain is revealed, where there is this space of Silence, where there is this vision of life without separation. This is the presence of Divine Wisdom, the Wisdom of God, the Wisdom of Silence. Some call this the Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment; it is the Awareness of Life as it truly is when there is no longer any illusion. This is your true encounter with God.

Now, observe this carefully: this is not someone having an encounter; here we are referring to the presence of a contact, a communion, a realization that there is no "I," that there is no such person. The Realization of Truth is the comprehension of the mistake, the comprehension of deception, the dissolution of illusion. Once this is comprehended, clarified, the mistake disappears, the error dissolves, illusion ends. There is no such thing as someone and life.

Therefore, as human beings, we are different from each other in the external, physical aspect. But from a psychological point of view, human beings have always carried a background of mental conditioning, of psychological conditioning, which is common to all. When you realize it, when you become aware of this situation, this psychological condition, through self-comprehension, it dissolves. So, there is Something that shows itself present, which is no longer this "me," this person; it is the presence of Truth.

Therefore, the Reality of the human being is Divine Reality. However, what we see as the truth of the human being, in this psychological condition of collective consciousness, of egoic consciousness, is the illusion of separation and, therefore, of confusion, problems, and human suffering. You were born to the awareness that there is Something present here that was never born. This Something present is the presence of Life itself, which is the presence of Truth, which is the presence of God. This is the Nature of your Being, this is the Nature of Silence.

Therefore, Silence reveals Life. Your Natural State of Being is the presence of this Silence. We were educated to have an idea, a belief, a concept of God as an element also separate from ourselves, just like life itself. Thus, we were educated to an image, to a belief. The Reality of Life is not a belief, it is not an image, it is what is present here, being Life itself, the Mystery itself, That which is indescribable; and this Truth is inseparable from That which is You in your True Nature.

Therefore, we are working on this together. This Self-Realization, Spiritual Enlightenment, or Awakening-there are many names for this state free from ignorance and, therefore, from suffering. There are many names for this state of Wisdom, of Being, but the name doesn't matter. We are here to have the awareness of this given thing, beyond words, beyond any idea or belief about it. This is your real encounter with God. This is the real answer to the question "How to find God?" It is not someone, it is the Reality of God present.

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

September, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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