The Truth you carry inside Yourself

What is intended in these encounters is for you to really and intimately approach yourself. It is important for you to be closer and closer to yourself. Your mental conditioning is something that moves you away, whereas attention, careful observation of yourself, brings you closer.

In general, people believe they know themselves. Human being believes he/she is alert, attentive and awake. Actually, when you do not approach yourself, what you perceive by seeing yourself is just repetition – the repetition of your prejudice, beliefs and conditioning patterns. So you do not know yourself. All your movement is of estrangement from yourself. You do not know yourself. You do not know others neither the world.

You are confused about your relationship with wife, husband and children, at work or anywhere. So, a real approach to yourself is necessary. It is necessary to recognize who You are. And it is interesting when we talk like that, because, in fact, you cannot know who You are. You can only know what You are not. You are not an object separate from yourself to be recognized.

So, it is not about knowing who You are. You are the very own Knowledge! You are That which is able to know! And what you can know are not You. You can know your body, your mind, your thoughts, feelings, sensations, emotions... None of this is You! You are this Presence that knows, that can know all of this. So, if you have a real approach to yourself, you will be free from everything that is not you, from all illusion about yourself.

A very common thing is you see yourself as a person. But it is important you remember that all you can see is not You. You are That which sees! Then, if you see yourself as a person, you are not this person. This person is an object, and you are this Reality that sees this object. This person is an image you make of yourself, you have of yourself. This person is not real – no person is! All people are just images the thought creates therein.

So, if you do not have a real approach to yourself, you will still not knowing who You are, and naturally you will not know others, will not know the world.

All you have is just repetition of beliefs, of opinions, of ideas, judgments, prejudice, because all your relation with others, with the world or with yourself is imaginary. While this imagination remains, this illusory relation of subject and object remains. There is not Consciousness! There is not Truth!

Realization is the Awakening of the Truth about Yourself. It is the end of this imagination, the end of this subject-object relationship. If you understood this correctly, you realized that this subject is still an object, part of imagination.

You should accept this possibility I am presenting to you here. You must have a very receptive attitude to this possibility of verifying the truth I am putting for you here, about how the illusion of your life in this old pattern has been. That is why we call it self-investigation: the investigation about the Truth we are, about what we really are, about what You are.

Satsang means the encounter with the Reality, with the Truth. We are pointing out your Natural State, which is not the state of the mind within this conditioning, this repetition, this programming. Then, being open to this investigation is something fundamental.

Every thought inside you represents a concept, no matter if it is a word or an image. All of this is part of this mental world, of this world imagined by thought. The purpose in this encounter is for you to go beyond the mind, beyond this program, beyond this programming, beyond this mistaken vision of yourself, of others and of the world. Something the thought produces and sustains, which you are very used to. Taking a leap out of this means knowing your Natural State, which is Meditation. The complete liberation from this world imagined by thought.

So, as you have just heard in this talk, all you see running in this program is just conditioning; it is just mechanical repetition. This is your psychological relationship with life. It is essential that this end! You think, for example, you are listening to someone talking, and what you are listening to is just repetition, mental programming. They are just beliefs, prejudice and ideas being heard. This listening is not real! In fact, we are inside a program of repetition. That is why nobody understands each other, there is no comprehension, there is no intelligence. It is the same old pattern!

You think you know someone or someone knows you, but, in fact, there is not anybody in this. It is just the same old mind repeating itself in this or that mechanism, in this or that human organism. This explains all this confusion in the human relations - all jealousy, envy, fear, anxiety, confusion.

Liberation is to awake from this! It is to discover Peace, Love, the Truth about Yourself. This is the Truth you bring in Yourself, the Truth of your Being. Truth is pure knowledge! Once in your Freedom, you can know everything but without being a prisoner of anything.

* Online meeting transcription, originally held on November 21^st, 2018 - First published in Portuguese on January 12^th, 2019. 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 access: http://mestregualberto.com

The Divine Perfume

This work is the most important thing and absolutely nothing is as fundamental as carrying on with it. This is called Self-Realization, Realization of God. It is the most important thing of your life. This is the real encounter with Happiness, with the Truth about Yourself. Only this is definitely the end of all suffering. People experience constant restlessness in a continuous process to become something. Incompleteness and dissatisfaction are constant. What I mean is that you project an image of yourself. First, you make this image and then you project it. So the image you have about yourself is dissatisfaction, incompleteness, and you project this image wanting to become someone different than that.

There is constant dissatisfaction with the image you have about yourself, and this is what you are identified with. As long as you see yourself as this “someone,” this entity, this independent and private identity, suffering will be present. The ego will constantly be looking for fulfillment, safety, achievement and self-protection. So you have this necessity of becoming, of reaching and of achieving something, and that means you never get in direct contact with What You truly are. The movement of your life is purely mental, just a projection within mental concepts you make of yourself and, naturally, you project an imagined world around you created by this false “me,” by this false entity you believe to be.

Then, you are really never in touch with Life as in fact It is, because this requires something you do not have – deep sensibility and openness that I have called vulnerability... the beauty and the grace of the vulnerability, of the openness. Only then, this unrest, this restlessness, this dissatisfaction of this world projected by the thought may end. This is because you are getting in direct contact with “something” outside time, outside the mind, outside the known. The mind is this time of “coming to be”, of becoming something different, and that is the known, the mind’s world.

Without this idea, this image you have of yourself, you are in direct contact with the Reality, in these sensibility and openness, in the beauty and grace of vulnerability. Only then, the True Intelligence is possible, which is the Intelligence of the Sage. Here, “Sage” means your True Nature, your True Identity, pure Intelligence. When this Intelligence is present, Its movement is present and something completely new is perfuming your existence – the real Divine perfume, the real perfume of God in Life, the Real Life.

Then, your Being carries this Divine fragrance of Intelligence, Happiness and Love, and there is no longer any intention of becoming something, of becoming someone or obtaining something. At this moment, you are complete, in truth, You are this Completeness! Happiness needs nothing else. Happiness desires, seeks, or wants to reach nothing else. So, you are completely free from all interference of the world of the ideas – there are no more beliefs, concepts, ideologies, and imagination.

All that I am putting here for you is perfectly achievable, because This is your Real Nature. Actually, you were born just to realize This. Whatever you have already achieved in your life is useless for you, absolutely useless and, in fact, it has produced more dissatisfaction and restlessness – you are more worried than when you were born, more distressed than when you were a child. So, what good is it having studied so hard?

Everybody experiences some moments of absence of self-image, of temporary absence of this false “me,” and these are moments of great and indescribable peace. That is the reason why you travel; you spend weekends at the beach. You look for places where you can momentarily forget about yourself, about your personal cares and concerns, about your business, about your family concerns... That is, you look for places where you can free yourself of preoccupation, which means emptying yourself of intentions and mental occupations. Notice that the more thoughts you have in your head, the more restless and worried you are; the more mental occupation, the more suffering. Am I right to say that? The more you think, the more agitated you are, aren’t you?

In this way, there is no this Space, there is no this Intelligence, there is no this perfume, you do not perceive your Presence, you are not conscious, not aware of your Reality, because there is no this vulnerability, this openness, this sensibility. So, every time you return to this self-image, this intention of being “someone” sustaining this idea about yourself, you see yourself surrounded by personal problems. Then, whatever you do intentionally and yearningly belongs to this ego, to this “me;” it is a pure reactive act in search for fulfillment, safety, an action based on fear, on this restlessness. This is all the misery of the sense of separation!

The Truth of your Being is just Consciousness, free from all unrest, from all self-projection, from all this world of thought with its private history, linked to work, accomplishment, family and so on. The real work of surrendering to this Truth, the flourishing of this sensibility is something that is born in this Real Meditation, which I have always talked to you in Satsang. So, the essential here is to become conscious of your intimate Divine Nature, of your Being (which is neither to become “someone” nor to become something else). It is to be aware of Your “Self”! This Your “Self” is this True Being, the Real Self. Only then, it is possible to be free from all this illusion produced by this belief about the false “me”, from what it intends, seeks and wants to become. This is a tremendous illusion!

Therefore, become aware of how you work, become more alert to this chaotic movement of restlessness the mind produces inside you. That is, you need to work on it, to be aware. When this really begins to happen, you begin to become more aware of your body, your sensations, your feelings, your fears, your thoughts, and your emotions. Thus, you discover by yourself and in yourself that the body, the sensations, the feelings, the emotions and the thoughts are part of the "mental world," of a dream the mind itself produces. So you notice the overlap of that image the thought says is you creating all this confusion.

This is Intelligence, Consciousness, in this Awakening. It is when Reality brings this Divine perfume and everything else ends, all illusion is gone.

* Online meeting transcription, originally held on November 7th, 2018 - First published in Portuguese on January 7th, 2019 - 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 access: http://mestregualberto.com

To work this is to be in Satsang

In general, it is believed that the matter discussed here is something we can approach through resources imagined by the mind. One of the most common things is the trust in some system or technical method. The mind searches through the resources it has to reach something beyond itself, what in fact is impossible.

There is no technique, no system or method by which you can approach this Reality. This is something that is not clear yet for many of you, mostly for those who are now arriving in Satsang. When you first come here, you believe in systems, in techniques and in methods. Is not it so? Has this already happened to you or is it still happening? Truth is revealed when every practice, technique, system and methods are abandoned, which is what the mind does not want to do. The mind lives on its principles of will, of choice and desires; this is quite typical of an intelligent person, and you are very intelligent.

This is the difficulty we have in Satsang: to work with intelligent people. In general, we call intelligence the experience and knowledge that are accumulated. The mind is a kind of warehouse with different levels and departments. Some of these levels are more accessible while others are less. It seems that psychology tries to explain these levels or these different departments - the closest ones are considered the conscious levels and the most hidden ones, the unconscious ones; those of easy access are the conscious ones and those of difficult access are the unconscious ones. This is a division created by the own mind to explain itself, but we are talking about one single “warehouse,” one single “big store.” So, there are knowledge and experiences, but they are just memories, some are easy to access while others, more hidden, more concealed, called “unconscious."

I am just putting it in a simple way because I do not know this (I do know all this terminology). I would say that knowledge, experiences, memories, and thoughts are “birds of a feather.” Without memories and thoughts, there is no mind. Then, basically, the mind, whether it is called "conscious" or "unconscious," is only a "warehouse," a "store" of memories, of symbols. The sounds, the words, the images and the symbols are memories and all of these are thoughts. The mind has created this division in itself and it is searching through a technique, a method or system, to approach Reality, That which is beyond mind, but this is only division. So, it is very clear that it is not possible, because everything the mind can do is inside it. The mind cannot be beyond itself.

Do you follow this? Is this so or not?

The mind does not exist without thought, nor is there thought without memory, and without it there is no "warehouse." Memory, in this sense, is conditioned, something imprisoned in the past, in the remembrance; memory is remembrance, which is past. The structure of all of this, which is the structure of the mind, is based on pleasure and pain. So, every technique, method or system the mind can create will be something inside this, something circumscribed in this movement. This way, there cannot be Freedom, Love, Peace, Happiness. All you can find in the mind is knowledge, experience, memory, past, pleasure and pain. Is this simple or not?

So, if you pay attention to what we are talking about and if you really strive and are really interested in working on this, you will realize by yourself the mind cannot reach anything beyond itself. It can expand itself, which is the same as having access to other departments and levels inside the same store, the same warehouse.

Nowadays, some call this “expansion of consciousness,” though the word "consciousness" is being used in a very misguided way. They speak of attaining “cosmic consciousness," "expanded consciousness," but all of this is still within the mind. It is part of this movement, this energy in motion. You can have several experiences of “supreme consciousness,” as they are called, or mystical, spiritual experiences, and some even believe this to be the final Realization. You can access the past or the future, other dimensions, which are called fourth, fifth, sixth and so on. However, all of this is still within the dimension of the mind.

Therefore, this is what a system, a practice, a technique can give you, but “you” will remain there. Now “you” are a spiritual being in contact with the fifth dimension, you can access other worlds, because your “consciousness has expanded;” you are really such an “extraordinary being”!

Is there anybody like that in the room?

All of this is within this circle, which seems to be very wide, profound, magical and mysterious, but it is still part of the limitation of the mind. You are still inside this old game, this old vicious circle, you remain in the game. You think you have gone through a major transformation, but you remain in trouble, with problems. Then, all this effort has resulted in the continuity of the ego (now a divine ego, spiritualized, an “enlightened” ego). This is the mind still being perpetuated. It is the old game. This has nothing to do with what we are dealing with here at this meeting.

We are talking about Freedom, Peace, Love, Happiness, something the mind cannot reach, because This is out of it. Silence, Truth, Reality is something outside the mind, outside the knowledge, outside the experience, the memory, the thought, the past, and outside this so called “expanding consciousness.” What we are dealing here with you is not an achievement; it is not an accomplishment, nor the result of a technique, of a method or a system.

This effort of yours will just perpetuate and will reinforce this ego, this “me,” on its self-importance. The more you be specialized, the more skilful and practical you become, the narrower, the more limited and the more imaginative you become, living all the experiences inside the field of the mind and calling it “transcendental consciousness,” “cosmic consciousness,” “enlightened consciousness.” This may let you a little disappointed, because you believed you were doing so well, you were already so close to achieve This... None of this could put an end to this entire “program,” to this conditioning, to this entire “warehouse.

All you need is to be beyond the mind! Only then, you can recognize your Real Nature, the Truth about Yourself. Only this way, the Real Intelligence will be present. I often say this Intelligence is not that of the “intelligent” one, but of the Sage. This is what, in fact, can be considered or called Enlightenment, which is the Realization that there is no person, no burden of conditioning, of image therein, because there is no mind, there is no more this “store” or this “warehouse;” there is no longer any image about yourself, the others and the world. This Realization is the end of illusion, as well as of ignorance and knowledge. This is only possible when you become completely aware that every idea you have about yourself, every image you have about yourself is an illusion that sustains pleasure and pain.

This Intelligence is Real Consciousness and This is Realization, the end of the sense of “me,” “my,” body, mind, world and every implication thereof. This is something possible when Meditation assumes its place through self-investigation and surrender. Therefore, I repeat it: this has nothing to do with techniques, systems and practices. Reality reveals itself, and then the Heart reaches this innocent State of surrender and acceptance, this full recognition that Life is what It is. So, Freedom, Peace, Love, and Happiness, which is your Being, reveal themselves as Silence, Truth and Real Consciousness.

To work This is to be in Satsang. I wait for you in this proximity.

Namaste.

Online meeting transcription, originally held on November 14th, 2018 - First published in Portuguese on December 18th, 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 access: http://mestregualberto.com

What is Liberation?

Some people are looking for experiences in order to describe them afterwards. And yet all they are finding are experiences within the mind. Is it not like this? In whatever experience you may have, you will still be there to report what has happened.

People think they are so evolved, rather special, because they can get experiences and talk about them later. But, these experiences are still part of the known, within time and space, still part of the mind. Then, the "I" appropriates these experiences and describes a state. Truth, Consciousness, Liberation is not a state.

In general, people do not like to hear this. You can acquire a differentiated, a sublime state through meditation practices, prolonged fasts or long hours of chanting mantras. This can generate some internal change, can bring about spiritual well-being. Then, the mind may quiet down, there may be certain silence, or even an inner exalted state, some call this "altered state of consciousness," but everything that can be altered is within the field of mind. Consciousness knows no state; It does not change.

So, you experience this altered state, but after that, you are back as the same person again. No matter how refined, how deep, how extraordinary the experience is, you cannot stay in it forever. Why not? Because it is not natural! It comes through a work, provocation, intensification, and that diminishes when this work, this intensification, and this provocation subside.

I am saying this because people write to me asking if they are evolving or if what they have experienced directly was Enlightenment, which went away afterwards. They want my confirmation! So, they talk about kundalini going up and down, etc. The mind has created this kind of thing.

Liberation is not something for the person. There is nothing "you" can do or achieve through some psychological, emotional or spiritual experience, no matter how exhilarating this experience is. A spiritual, psychological or emotional experience is only a personal experience; it is where the "person" appears, that is, where the illusion appears, because there are no "people." Therefore, these experiences are also part of this illusion.

This Liberation does not require "you." This is the absence of the illusion of "you" with all that "you" represent: effort, experiences, sensations, visions, intuitions, and so on. People go through this and soon "get enlightened," and then they begin to tell others how easy "enlightenment" is.

Liberation is simply the end of the illusion of someone present here and now. There is nothing like lights, rays, thunder, lightings, sounds from another world, ringing of bells, angels with powers or singing with their harps. There is no location for this Consciousness; It is not "there" after "eight steps."

There is only Liberation! It is the Liberation of the sense of "I," here and now! There are no trumpets resonating, no excitement. This Liberation is the perfect Freedom from all the burden, from all fear, desire, choice ... it is this wonderful freedom to realize there is no choice, because there is no person, there is no separation, there is nothing out of place, nothing to happen

I laugh at that, because it is really very funny the expectation the mind has about future: a great episode, a great event, in which mind itself will end up very rich, powerful, strong, and big! There is none of this!

Liberation is you in your Natural State free from the sense of history that surrounds you, from what reinforces this false "me" and what it values as something real: properties, family, achievements, prestige, fame, power, and, finally, this enlightened, strong, great, powerful and special "I." In this Liberation, it is clear that everything is simple and natural. An apparent story goes on, but it is not real. It's a story for someone who wants to tell it, but you have no more interest. For you, it's just an apparent story, but for that one who thinks he/she is there, it's a very real story.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on December 15th, 2018. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

Here, it is not about knowledge, it is about flowering!

Your nature is Consciousness. You always have the power, the freedom of mistaking yourself for the present experience or of maintaining yourself as a witness. You are a witness of the experience when you are completely present. But, you are not present when you are interpreting, translating, judging or evaluating what happens through the thought; you are not conscious.

You are Consciousness, but in general, you mistake yourself for the thoughts about what happens and you give illusory identity to the experience the body is living through sensations and perceptions. Here is the ego, the unconsciousness. You are totally free to live without the ego, but you need to make use of it, otherwise you will never discover what it means.

Right now, “listening to” is the Consciousness. Interpreting what you “listen to” is unconsciousness. For interpreting, you need the thought evaluating, agreeing, disagreeing, accepting, or rejecting. For listening, don’t. When you listen to a bird, you are not worried if it is singing right or wrong, if it is in tune or not. But, when you listen to a human being, you pay attention if he/she is out of the tune, if he/she is going to sing a wrong note. That is the point! Here is the unconsciousness. So, you are pure Consciousness listening to a bird, but you are not Consciousness listening to a human being singing. You cannot live in this Freedom of only listening, because you are too addicted to be someone. And when are you someone? When you judge, interpret, translate, evaluate, measure, choose, like, or dislike.

Participant: It is impossible to understand This. It is only possible to live This.

Master Gualberto: You have to live this Freedom to discover It. You need to work on that. This is the purpose of Satsang: to work the disidentified attention of this false “me.” Trying to understand, for example, is an effort, and intellectually we are addicted to this. Why do we do this? Because, in the ego, we want to capture what is being said in order to own this, in order to have something else added to the collection of our old trunk of trash called “trunk of knowledge.” It is enough to listen without effort, without ambition, without desire, without wanting to understand it, or without rejecting for not understanding it.

The problem is not “to misunderstand” it, but to want to understand it. When a bird sings, you do not understand what it is doing, what it is singing, but you do not care, because you are free to listen to it. But when it is a Guru, you say, “Gosh! I want This he has!” There you are, ambition has arisen and you have missed it.

Participant: I am here because I want this State the Guru lives in.

Master Gualberto: But you cannot reach this State by wanting It. You can realize This in you by relaxing. What do we do in Satsang? We learn how to get rid of what we have always done. We start by stopping doing anything, and Grace comes and runs us over. Then, there are no “us” anymore, just the Grace, the Wisdom, the Intelligence, the Presence, the Consciousness, the Truth.

We hear the sound of two hands clapping hands. Now, what is the sound of just one hand clapping? This is a Zen koan. You cannot get there by the intellect, you can be here and now, in This, in this relaxation, in this “listening,” in this attention without effort, then this “Thing” that is already there emerges, comes up, it has the liberty to get out of the cage of the ego, of the intellect, of the envy, of the ambition, of the desire of possessing and achieving. The Guru gives you This, God gives you This. It is not you who catches Him, it is not you who reaches Him.

Participant: In this work, we must have patience and calmness. It is no use getting desperate because of any annoyance, because of any pain, because of any doubt.

Master Gualberto: This comes through internal ripeness, through the blooming of the Natural State. Because of the vasanas, the tendencies of the mind, it takes some time indeed until you know what I am talking about, because until then, you do not know it.

You still do not know just to hear. You hear and it seems you are trying to catch what I say. It is not possible to catch my speech, but it is possible for This to establish there on you. In the beginning, we intellectualize, analyze it, “Wow, that's it! I know it!” But it is not like that, because here it is not about knowledge, but flowering. When you somehow think you are not growing, you are not evolving, you are not making progress, using Robert Adam’s words, “this is a sign you are making progress!”

Participant: There is no food for the ego here, and then it says, “I am not evolving!”

Master Gualberto: There is no food for it. What we have here does not strengthen it. Studying Ramana’s words, Bhagavad Gita, Vedanta, this is what strengthens, feeds it. But, there is no food here, it is just about emptying.

* Online meeting transcription, originally held on July 4^th, 2018 - First published in Portuguese on October 16^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 access: visit http://mestregualberto.com

The key

Truth is "something" ever present, we lack trained eyes and ears to see and to hear It. When we speak about Truth, we are dealing with this ever-present Consciousness. Everything else is intermittent apparition - one moment, it is here, and in the next, it is gone; in an instant, it is present, but in another one, it is gone. The good news is that this Truth is present in all of us and it is not a thing found within time and space.

Everything that arises in time and space is intermittent. Thought is something like that, so are feelings, emotions, sensations and perceptions of the senses. That, which is ever present, cannot belong to time and space; it is beyond that, necessarily. Therefore, it is not intermittent; it is not an apparent thing. This is the Reality of Being, of Consciousness; it is the Reality of that True Presence, of this present Truth.

Your thoughts are not always present; they are changing from moment to moment, all the time. So, you have to make a clear distinction between "thinking" and "Being Consciousness."

When thoughts are present, you have the illusion you are thinking, and this is not true! When thoughts are present, it means that Consciousness remains silent behind that apparition, which is thought.

Therefore, thoughts are phenomena of this Consciousness, they are not "personal" thoughts, because there are no "people," there is no "person" behind the thought. All that is present is this Truth, which is Consciousness, and It is not personal. What holds for thought is also applied to sensations, perceptions or feelings.

I am giving you the fundamentals for you to understand you can live completely free from identification with this phenomenon called "thought," "feeling," "emotion," "sensation," or "perception," because your Essential Nature is Pure Consciousness.

Thus, this Realization of Truth is the realization of What is always present as your Real Identity, as your Divine Nature. This is what some people call the "Realization of God." When you no longer lose yourself on, no longer mistake yourself for, nor are entangled with the experience of thought, you are Free ... Free in your Being, in your Essential Nature, in this Consciousness, in this Truth.

Basically, this means being free of the sense of separation or of duality, as it is being called nowadays. This belief that it is the mind that perceives does not make the slightest sense. There's the illusion! The mind perceives absolutely nothing! It is only perceived, but it does not perceive anything. It is not the thought that perceives what is present. It is this ever present "Thing" that perceives the thought. So, the mind is perceived, but it can’t perceive anything.

Therefore, when you say, "I feel it!” In fact, there is the "feel", but there is no such "I." This "feeling" is already the illusion of a "me," it is only a phenomenon in the Consciousness, and This is beyond the "feeling," because It is beyond the body and the mind.

We use words such as "Truth" or "Consciousness" for What is beyond time and space. That, which is within time and space, is still part of what we call “mind" (which are thoughts, emotions and sensations).

To be beyond the illusion of separation or that sense of duality is to be beyond the identification with the mind, this prison of time and space. This, in fact, is only an illusion the mind imagines. It is still part of it, but not part of your Divine Nature, of your Real Nature. So, when we speak of Meditation, we are talking about that Natural State of Being, which is Consciousness, the total disidentification from body and mind. This is the state of Real Love, Truth and Beauty. This is the Nature of Consciousness! The absence of separateness is pure Love and Truth.

In human’s heart, there is this longing for That, which is outside time and space, for That, which is not part of body and mind. Inside human being, there is the longing for this Discovery, for this Consciousness, which is the yearning for Love, for Truth and for God. Therefore, Truth, Love, God is what is beyond time, space and mind.

It is necessary to discover the Truth about yourself. When you watch a movie, the character seems to be moving while the screen is still. When you come to Satsang, to this meeting, all I can do is to show you the importance of being still. So, you begin to realize the movement of this character is not your Real Nature. This character is the false "me" moving. Your Real Nature is the Presence of Truth where the whole movie unfolds. Your Real Nature is immutable, but the character is changing all the time.

As long as you are mistaking yourself for what thought projects, idealizes and seeks, you will continue to mistake yourself for this character and you will remain unaware of your Real Nature. You will be mistaking yourself for what happens in time and space as if this were happening to you, whereas it is only happening to the body and to the mind. This is not you!

Having only intellectual understanding about this will not solve anything. Real Meditation reveals the truth of That. So, when we are together in Satsang, we work this out, we go deep into this investigation, into this direct observation. That is why I have always highlighted the importance of face-to-face meetings. It is important the end of all theory about This.

When you are fully aware of your Essential Nature, nothing else can create conflict. This is the end of fear, the end of suffering. This is the true and direct Realization.

* Online meeting transcription, originally held on December 29^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

Just wake up from this dream

Happiness lies in remaining disidentified from the experience. There is no happiness in the experience when there is an experiencer. Remaining disidentified from the experience is happiness. In the experience, whatever it is, the present experiencer separates oneself from what happens; if one separates oneself from what happens, there is a present entity. Then, there are two: he/she and the thing, he/she and the event, he/she (the experiencer) and the experience; in this division, the conflict is present. When there is conflict, there is no happiness, there is no peace.

The basis of all war conflicts in the world is the idea of "the other and I": "my country and your country," "my interests and your interests," "I want one thing and you want something else," "my God is stronger than your God," "my country is more beautiful than yours, it is richer, more powerful, has more guns, more bombs and I can destroy you because I am stronger." This division... conflict. Where there is conflict, there is no Love, there is no Peace, there is no Happiness. If while sitting here on this stone, you do not separate your buttocks from the stone, there is no conflict. In God, there is no division; in God, there is no war!

All I want to show you is Life as it is. In Life, everything happens without division: prosperity, wealth, abundance as well as poverty, lack, scarcity, everything... without division. Some are poor, some are rich, some are healthy, others are sick, but there is no division. The division lies in the interpretation of thought about what is presented, about this experience, about that experience, about what is here, about what is happening. Abandon the mind, then the conflicts end, because the divisions end.

Is not that simple? Why do you make it so complicated? Why do you want to change everything? Why do you want to alter everything? This is God's plan. God is playing with contrasts, with hunger and with satiety. When I am hungry, I eat. There is no division between eating and hunger. Marriage, a game, a divine game... the food is for a hungry stomach. There is no problem in being hungry, the body needs hunger, and this is a problem of the body. When thought arises, it complains about hunger, but hunger has its place, everything has its place. Hunger is not misery, lack is not misery, poverty is not misery, scarcity is not misery, and lack of something is not misery. It is the thought about it and about what should not be so that creates conflict, creates suffering. The mind revolts and says: it could not be so. There could not be that, that is wrong! There should be no hunger, there should be no poverty, there should be no disease, death is a wrong thing. My father is dying... but you forget your grandfather has already died too; your great-grandfather has already died too. Everybody dies! Whoever is born dies! It is the game of life. You have nothing to do with it.

So do not meddle, do not nose into it, do not interfere! Let everything there as you have found, just wake up from this dream, from this dream where the food is for the stomach, the death for the living ones. Let it all there, let everything as you have found. Millions have died and you do not miss them, because it is a dream. What is the problem? It is all very funny, very amusing, because there is no suffering, there is no interpretation. This is wisdom... to see things as they are!

You are here to find God! But you cannot find God... you are fighting against life. You want to change things. You want to own His things; you want to control God's business. You are also part of It just like your body, your experiences and the events related to that shape. Every time you perceive your mind generating conflict, observe it... you are separating yourself from what is happening, you are demanding, you are requiring, you are imposing your person over the situation, and this is ego. Ego is conflict.

I want to show you how it is possible to live without ego, naturally. Paying for the tuk tuk, walking, drinking water, eating, smiling, even crying. There is no problem in crying if the ego is not behind that tearful face. Having a tearful ego is ugly. Crying is a beautiful thing. If the ego is present, even a smile becomes ugly, but if there is no ego and there are tears shedding on the face, it is very beautiful. It is God crying, God is smiling. God loves it!

God is very good-humored. You will never see a bad-humored sage. You will never see yourself as a sage if you continue to carry that burden, the weight of conflict, the weight of separation, the belief you are one and what is happening is something else.

Everything that is happening is a divine game, you are within that context, just one piece, just a little thing inside a larger context, bigger than this one you believe you to be.

Sometimes I ask myself: what do I have to say to you? Everything is so natural. You force me out of the silence and then you complain that I talk too much. You do not know how to be silent and blame me. You blame me because I talk. Even speaking, you do not pay attention; you do not give attention to that. If you cannot listen to my speech, how will you listen to my Silence? It is not lack of maturity to speak; lack of maturity is to listen when there is no listening; immaturity lies in not listening to the Silence.

What is today's lesson? Do not think! Do not draw conclusions... about anything, absolutely anything!

* Presencial meeting transcription, originally held in in the city of Tiruvannamalai, India, during a retreat on September 2016. First published in Portuguese on February 1, 2017.