How to abandon the lie of being a person?

In these meetings, we work with the fundamentals to enable the attainment of what everybody, in a certain way, is pursuing: Happiness. 

I have noticed how easy you get disoriented. When walking in the wildwood, a huge attention is required to not allow for the loss of the sense of direction, as it can result in a death dangerous situation. You are prone to lose the sense of direction easily, when you lose yourself in the phenomenon, in the appearance of the events. You forget yourself, you forget your Real Nature and you become entangled with any external phenomena.  

It is curious, but thought, feeling and emotion are also external phenomena. Notice this is a fundamental thing to you, who are working for Awakening, for God’s Realization: not to lose yourself in the “external” things. 

When something happens outside of the body (for example, when a relative experiences an accident, or when a relative is hospitalized, or when somebody leaves you, or when you lose the job, etc.) you lose yourself in these events, you forget your Real Nature, you get worried dealing with “external” events. “External” can be both events: the ones on the outside and the thoughts inside. By doing this, you forget there is something in you greater than the “external”. 

When you come to Satsang, I say to you: “None of this is real!” It may be real only as phenomena, but it is not real as your Being, as your True Nature. It is not real because it comes and goes. Thoughts, feelings, emotions, jobs, accidents, hospitalized people, people dying and being born are such things, but none of this can harm You, your Being. However, you do not believe me; you prefer to believe in this and then you have problems and suffer. Do you get this? 

The most challenge thing in life is to live with it without making up anything. Thought loves to invent! It interprets, translates and tries to manipulate what happens. This is ego! “To be pushy” is ego; to resist, to fight against what happens is ego. You go beyond this limitation when you embrace your Being, your Real Nature. 

"The most challenge thing in life is to live with it without making up anything."

Your True Nature is in Peace, it has no problems. In deep sleep, you experience This because you are not there as an ego-identity, as a person with choices, desires and fears. 

Satsang invites you to go beyond all this limitation; it is the key that opens the door to the end of illusion, to the end of this suffering entity, of this “person”, of this disturbed person. I do not know a good person, because “person” means craziness. When you go to Satsang, you meet a Realized Being who looks at you and says: “You do not need to suffer, but you have to detach from your history, from the thought, from your world, because ‘your world’ is problematic. Wherever your world appears, the problem will follow.” 

Nevertheless, you are addicted to thinking, to feeling, to being “someone”; you are addicted to the world, to the personal history. So, there is no room for Consciousness, Meditation, Being. If you live in your Being, there are no more problems. This is your Awakening! You have to get out of this sleep state, of “your world” in your head. This is your only problem! 

You need to understand this, not intellectually, but in a practical way. When a phenomenon comes up, do not get involved with it, do not trust in it. When thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, and events arise, leave them to God. It is not your business, so do not get involved with them! Let God take care of everything! If you do not so, you will lose your hunger, you will lose sleep, you will dream at night, you will be grumpy during the day, you will get very angry, you will be disturbed, mentally disturbed. 

So, turn to the Truth about yourself, to Consciousness, to the Presence, to God, and abandon the mind. That is why I have been recommending people to come to Satsang: because it is the only way to abandon the lie of being a person. 

You are too addicted to live this way, too addicted! You live among "junkies," "drugged people”. Then you go to Satsang and come across a "sober one" amidst a crowd of egos, of people "drunk" with illusion. 

The mind has the ability to turn life into a problem. The mind is always personal! The mind turns the experiences it undergoes - such as thoughts, feelings, emotions and whatever it happens on the outside - into something private, personal, something to "someone". To whom? To You! So you say, "I have a problem that nobody has!" - This is the particularization of the mind. 

Now what we call "ego"has become clear. Ego is this illusory sense of a center where things happen. This is craziness, since everything that happens to this "me" is just an imagination for that self-image you believe to be. Look how interesting: you imagine being someone, therefore you have problems. This only exists in the mind! 

Life says: "I Am what I Am, I do not care for your imagination!" So, this self-image gets revolted, angry, in suffering, and this never ends, unless the dream ends. Welcome to Satsang!

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on August 24^th, 2018 - First published in Portuguese on September 20^th, 2018. Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 pm (Local Time: Brazil BRT), except during Retreat periods. For more information about Paltalk app and how to participate, please visit: http://mestregualberto.com