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