If you have not Realized This, you have not accomplished anything

This meeting here cannot be just a speech. This here cannot be just one of dozens or hundreds of speeches you have already read or heard. What you are cannot be found in a speech or be revealed through words. The best of all speeches or written words can, at most, provide an indication for the importance of this investigation. This direct revelation is something that has to be yours. Words cannot reveal the truth or bring clear comprehension, because words are always within the mind. As we express them, we make use of concepts and thoughts. Words are basically this: concepts and thoughts.

The mind has been using words in order to create techniques, but none of them can make you get this Realization or show you what This really is. Most of the seekers are still trapped within this process of constant search for concepts, words. This is all to achieve certain experience. Realization is not about an experience. The vitality of truth lies in a direct realization of what is beyond the mind, and this is not an experience, this is not knowledge.

You are totally ready, here and now, for this verification of what is beyond the mind, but for this, you need to get rid of all your concepts, thoughts, theories, and techniques. So, it is not about a practice or reading. All of this is making you go away, because it is putting you in an opposite direction. You are going to a wrong direction because you are going away from yourself, from that what you are, because this is within the movement of the own mind.

It is the mind that learns, deduces, concludes, analyses, and chooses. This is the very impediment. This is the mind of method, of practice, of experience. We can leave all this aside, because you are, right now, here. While you are listening to me, you are very sure that you are present, undeniably present, and this means to be conscious. While you are listening to me, you exist in this Presence, in this Consciousness. The mind is not necessary.

Actually, the comprehension reaches you when there is no more thought therein, no idea, no conclusion, no concept, no agreement or disagreement with this speech. You are present and conscious before listening any word, before the next thought appears, before any feeling or sensorial experience.

There is something always present and conscious prior to everything. This Consciousness is what you are, what you have always been. This is always present. Every thought, perception and sensation appear in It. This Consciousness does not move. It does not change. It does not alter. The techniques, practices and thoughts are a separation from what is always present and natural. Meditation is the flourishing; the awakening of What is always present here and now. Then you have to abandon all this (techniques, practices, thoughts).

This present Reality, this Consciousness is not dependent; that is, It does not happen because of the thought, the feeling, the sensation or the emotion happen. These are just temporary phenomena, apparent and attached to the body. While, You as Consciousness, as present Truth, remain completely effortless, here and now, disidentified from this phenomenon of the mind. That´s why no practice can reveal This, because all of them are part of the time and, therefore, part of the mind. You need no practice or technique to exist, to be. This will never give you Realization!

Realization is Happiness. It is Peace. It is Intelligence. It is Wisdom. It is Joy. It is Love. This is not part of the mind. You can neither gain nor lose This. This is the awakening of your True Identity, of your Real Nature. Some call this as Realization of God or Enlightenment. Here, the word "identity" is in a different sense from "personality," from this particular "me." It is something entirely different from this separate "person," from this separate identity.

You cannot find the Truth outside! Thus, the whole quest for happiness or for the end of the problems is a completely flight of fancy, an imaginary fantasy, an impossible escape from all this confusion, because you cannot escape from yourself. As long as there is this illusion of identification with the mind, with this sense of separation, the ignorance will remain and, naturally, the suffering, because the lie will remain there.

Then, this Comprehension, this Real Life, this Real Intelligence, this True Happiness, is no other than something Natural as your own Being. Thus, when you are totally conscious, aware of the Truth about your Self, nothing is more important than This. If you have not Realized This, you have accomplished nothing. If you Realize This, you have nothing else to accomplish, there is nothing else to be accomplished. You are here in this life to Realize Life itself, which is not the story of this character with a name, age, profession, a particular family, culture... none of this! All of this is still part of a phenomenon, of this body-mind-world phenomenon, which is just a dream. It has no Reality. This is not You.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on May 17th, 2019. First published in Portuguese on June 10th, 2019. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

The recognition of Happiness

In this work, we are bringing to you the direct observation there is something that remains present, something open to the Unknown. This is what we address to you  in Satsang. Some call this as the present Reality here and now, open to the Unknown, as Consciousness, while others call it Presence. It is in This where every experience is written, where every experience appears. We are talking about the Reality of your Being, the Reality of your Divine Nature.

This work is meant to bring you closer to this Vision about who You truly are. In fact, This is something already so close, so evident that, for the great majority, it goes unnoticed. It is something so close that it cannot be known as an object. It is such an intimate thing, so real, that it is the Truth of each one of us, the unique Truth about yourself. The recognition of This is Happiness. Non-recognition is confusion, suffering and fear.

The mind alienates you from who you are. This state is confusion, suffering and fear. The Realization of the Truth about yourself is this remembrance of your Real and True Identity. It is not a private identity, personal, individual one. It is something that reveals itself as the Wholeness or as the Nothingness.

In this work, you find out the beauty of Meditation, which is the direct path to this Realization. Meditation, Self-investigation, surrender... It seems we are talking about three things, although, in fact, we are talking about only one thing. The Truth about yourself is something completely natural, effortless. It is something that is constantly shining, in any and every experience, beyond the mind, beyond this limitation of the self-image, which is the idea you have about yourself.

What I am saying is that this Reality is something always present. However, it is out of the time, beyond this sense of “now.” It is something timeless. Everything else in your life comes and goes. Some things had come and have already gone away, other things will come and will also go away, but This remains immutable.

Notice that we are pointing out something that does not vary. Your personal experience, private one, in this ego-identity, is always changing. What today gives you joy, pleasure and satisfaction; tomorrow it is going to bring you worry, suffering and anxiety. Some things give you “happiness” now, but tomorrow these same things will give you worry, unhappiness and some sort of suffering. This is the experience of the mind, which gives identity to what appears at this moment, passing as the agent. Then you become active or passive before the experience in this belief of being a present identity living this.

Our work in Satsang is for you to improve your vision, to recognize this timeless Consciousness, this Presence that is outside the mind, which is out of the image of a present experiencer. It is when you can find out, in your Being, in your Real Nature, that you are not an experiencer. This is the liberation from the attempt to hold onto, to be attached to yourself, to attach yourself to what comes and goes.

We have neglected this because we are attached to the illusion of an experiencer on his/her experience, on his/her model of life centered on this ego-identity. You put too much emphasis on the mind, on the egoic centered model of the illusion of this separate identity. What I am saying is that the answer to the true Freedom and Happiness is not there. This has created the illusion of the idea of someone able to accomplish something and to be in the control. The agent’s idea in the control, whether active or passive form, is a very strong conditioning in this mental state of confusion. This is something common to all. However, you are not in control of anything!

I repeat it: the answer is not in this model. There is an “open gate” that points to Freedom, but it is in another direction. The sun goes on shining, but it is above the clouds of the mind with its beliefs, concepts, ideologies, dreams and projections.

The Truth, the Reality is beyond the known, and naturally beyond the mind and everything that is part of it. Beyond its imaginary field. If the sun can shine above the clouds, it does not worry about them. It is above it. It does not depend on them for anything. This Consciousness, this Presence is never touched by feelings, thoughts, emotions, sensations and experiences. The problem with this “sense of a person” is that it is neglecting the Truth of his/her own Being, for his/her interests are attached to the matters of the mind.

In the mind, it is not possible to see this “gate” and the real direction of Freedom, of Happiness. Among these clouds, it is not possible to realize the dimension of the reality of the sun, which is far beyond them.

When you come to Satsang, we work on the direct recognition of this “gate,” which is in the other direction, which is in the direction of Freedom, of the direct recognition of this Light, of this Love present in the Sun of the Truth, beyond the limitation of the mind.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on March 25th, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on May 31st, 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

Liberate the world from this unconsciousness

Participant: Reading the transcriptions on the blog, I saw that in one of them you explain that untill 6 months, 1 year, 2 years old, we are still "in consciousness." Then, the process of identification begins, after that in some people enlightenment happens. Could you comment about this whole process and say what our nature is. Is it about the consciousness in early childhood or from enlightenment?

Master Gualberto: You did not understand it very well. This identification gets clearer after this age, but this unconsciousness is already there before that.

Participant: Is unconsciousness already present since the beginning of birth?

Master: Everyone is born asleep. This work is a work that indicates the importance of Awakening. Before that, all that prevails is sleep. The sleep is the unconsciousness that is clearly shown on that identification human being has got with the imagination.

Imagination is the shape that thought takes. And thought is assuming all the time this shape in which this so-called human being identifies with. Here, identification means being confused, getting lost in it.

This is the ordinary state, the common state, the known state. It is the mind in its own movement. All of our interest in these meetings is to deal with you about this great and important task of going beyond that imagination. Beyond that cluttered, chaotic, insane and miserable movement, deeply disturbed, which is the movement of thought.

You are born this way, and from a certain age, it gets much more explicit. It becomes increasingly clear. Then, you grow up and it remains. In fact, for those who are around you, it seems worse. But it is interesting because it is such worsening that everybody accepts as something natural, because this is the model, this is the standard.

All you can get from society around you is the model of conflict, suffering and fear. Of course, with a few rare moments of joy and personal satisfaction, which soon get deteriorated and you are back again in the same old confusion. This state is a general state of sleep. In fact, a somnambulistic sleep state, kind of collective hypnosis. That is what we call unconsciousness.

This state, which we think it is natural, is only the common state. The state we take as real, which everyone experiences in the waking state, is only a form of sleep.

In this sleep, in this waking state, the mind believes to be lucid and intelligent, because it can calculate the distance between the earth and the sun, can build bombs and planes, and can create great resources by making use of science and technology.

However, all this, in fact, is happening in this vigil state of unconsciousness - a vigil of sleep. That is what everyone knows. Your parents knew it, so did your grandparents, and you once again repeat the same program, the same model; so do your children. If you have grandchildren, so they do.

Unless this sleep is over, unless this vigil sleep in this unconsciousness is over, the world will continue the same way.

I am proposing that you free the world from this unconsciousness. You free the world by leaving this unconsciousness that has produced this world. At night when you dream, you are in a private and particular dream. And when you wake up in the morning, you realize that world was just a dream, where there were all sorts of things going on, with people and places.

So, this “your world", in this unconsciousness, in this so-called vigil world, which is this state of hypnosis, is a completely private world. You free this world when you abandon it, when you go beyond that unconsciousness.

In fact, we are not experiencing others birth and death. We are in the imagination of the birth and death of others. We are not experiencing anything except appearances and disappearances of mere perceptions, which are projections of the mind itself interpreting what is happening.

So, these experiences, which appear as appearances and disappearances, are just perceptions the mind interprets as birth and death of others, but this Real substance, the essential substance of these perceptions, does not appear and does not disappear. It is something always present. It is our own Self. It is the Presence. It is the Consciousness. Thus, our invitation is to That.

It is only the thought that conceives all the time a multiplicity, a diversity of things. And That is always here, now. There is only That, ever present now. It is not a thing that exists forever. It is something present now, in the Silence of this State of pure Consciousness, pure Presence.

What else can we say about That? We can say That is whether experiential or a mere theory. As a theory, it is just another belief.

The belief does not change anything. It is just another idea in the intellect field. Therefore, this direct experience is fundamental. The direct experience is this "Thing."

The direct experience is the one that does not depend on concepts, ideas, thoughts and beliefs. It means being beyond all knowledge, which are concepts, ideas and beliefs.

Our concepts, ideas and beliefs, which are our knowledge, are knowledge of the mind. And it is interesting because the knowledge of the mind and of the body is still thoughts, images, sensations, perceptions, beliefs, concepts, which still belong to the mind itself.

Participant: Is this direct experience present only when “everything is finished” (complete absence of ego), or can we have glimpses of that?

Master: You put this “everything is finished” as something happening in the future, and I have just said this is something always present at this time.

This now or never! Time is just a mental construction; the future is just a mental construction. Paradoxically, this is still just a concept, an idea. It is only an imagination too, only a belief.

Relax about it. Your job is to realize what you can realize right now, because you only have this moment to realize it.

This “instant” can be within two minutes, but that is not the future. It is always this moment. It sounds very paradoxical, but it is like this. Time is just a mental construction imaged by the thought. Forget about time.

The difficulty is when you take these answers and make them a formula, transforming them into the solution of a question of a test, or into a mantra.

Today, one of you wrote me something similar, about a mantra that he/she is practicing. I never prescribed you affirmations, words to be repeated, but the mind builds it very quickly.

Everything, absolutely everything, is now and here. When I speak now, it is not about the "now," this moment of time, because time is that construction of thought. I am talking about that ever-present Presence, Now, that is Consciousness. And That is exactly out of time, out of this "now" time. What you will do with this answer, I do not know. Just listen to this and relax.

Well, let’s stop here. See you next meeting. Namaste!

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on May 04th, 2016 - First published in Portuguese on May 13th, 2016 . 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

Happiness comes from the Real Intelligence

Everybody hopes to get a life free from trouble, suffering, and naturally from all kind of conflict. That’s what everybody seeks. The search for peace, freedom, happiness is the search for a life free from conflicts, dilemma, and problems. Self-realization is this possibility. The Realization of the Truth about Yourself is the Awakening of the Real Intelligence. Intelligence is something that has nothing to do with thoughts, and this is the first thing to be seen. It is needed to comprehend this very clearly. Thought is an element of limitation, of restriction, and, therefore, born of the psychological point of view, an element of conflict.

I am going to talk to you a little bit about this matter of intelligence and the direct relation it has with the Real Happiness. What I can tell you about this, is that Happiness is impossible without the Real Intelligence. And it is impossible for the Intelligence to exist while the egoic mind is present. Egoic mind is the illusion of a personal, private mind, separate from Consciousness. The present Truth is always Consciousness, while the mind is this limitation formed by a huge set of thoughts that go on within you. In the mind, you are always projecting something. So, you are not a present reality in the experience of thoughts.

Thought is a conditioning and automatic movement. It creates the illusion you are present in this experience of the thought, projecting the future or trying to get rid of some burden, some memory, and some remembrance of the past. The problem is that you believe you are dealing with the past or with a possible future. You believe that memory is something of yours and that remembrances, coming from the past, are a reality you control. The same way, you believe you are managing the ideas about what might happen, which is the future. In fact, you never move; neither with the past nor with the future. Thought is not an element by which you move. That´s why you cannot move to the past or to the future.

I decided to talk to you, at this moment, about the beauty of Intelligence. Notice the truth of this: Intelligence has no relation to thought. Thus, there cannot be Intelligence in imagination. Thought is not part of Intelligence, and there cannot be Intelligence in memory. Therefore, you cannot know It if you believe you can move based on thoughts. Thoughts are abstractions, concepts, beliefs. This way, the past and the future are forms of a belief. You may imagine the past and the future, but you cannot live them. This imagination is a movement of the thought, and you are never present within it. This is, basically, the movement of this illusion of the ego identity. Follow it up with attention! When people say they are worried, they are afraid of the past or are anxious about the future. Here is an example of non-intelligence. This is not you in your Real and Natural State. Therefore, here is the illusion of the sense of separation.

I am talking to you today about the importance of Happiness. The beauty of Realization, which is Happiness, cannot be found in the thought. When thought is not present, You are already That what you are seeking. You cannot be anything else than this Reality, which is Consciousness. And It does not move. It cannot be found in the movement. It cannot be found in the mind. It is needed that the mind disappear – this movement of memory and imagination of the future. Here is the cause of all your problems: the movement of the mind, of thought, and the absence of that Intelligence, which is You in your Real and Natural State. Real Intelligence is the presence of this Consciousness free from the mind.

Then, what is the cause of your problems?

When you take a look at your problems, what do you see? All of them begin from beliefs, and this is something possible only in the sense of separateness. When there is not Consciousness, problems are present. That is, the presence of the egoic mind, of this movement, is the absence of this Natural Consciousness. It is quite weird to say that because, for me, it is very clear that Consciousness is never absent. When the mind is occupying this space, which is when you are trapped, identified with the illusion of this “someone” in the movement of the thought, it is like this Consciousness, indeed, no longer existed.

A little one-year-old child in front of a mirror will be able to see his/her image reflected on it and how much this image looks like him/her. It is possible for the child to play and to have fun with that image. But at this age, this self-consciousness, the consciousness of the “I” is not clear yet for him/her, because he/she was not told that “he/she is that body.” What is missing? The belief, the idea, the thought.

So, the idea “I” is just a thought, something you learn. If the child at the age of only one year old plays and has fun with his/her image, there is a perfect consciousness, a complete experience happening, but he/she does not individualize it. He/she does not say: “I.” Consciousness is present, but the illusion of separation is not present. The one who lives in his/her Natural State, the Real State of Being, like this child, also lives in pure Consciousness without the sense of separation. Your Natural State is absolute Intelligence! It is when the idea “I” arises that the sense of separation appears. Without this illusion of “I,” there is not a sense of separation.

Then, what is the real cause of your problems? The thought, the idea about how life should be, how things should and must be for “you.” So, there is “you” and “life.” There is not Consciousness. Your private worry, personal, egoic one, is always about this self-consciousness. Consciousness is present, but it is like It were not present. So your concern is not about your Consciousness but about the self-consciousness, about being always present in the experience, experiencing life as it expresses itself, as it manifests itself. Here is the sense of duality, of separateness, the sense of “me.”

What I am saying is that there is no “I.” This is part of the imagination of the thought. It is part of the conditioning. It is a belief. All that is present is this Intelligence, which makes everything. Your hair and nails grow, the heart beats, the breath happens... The cells of your body are alive, they make the digestion and the body assimilates calories. Everything is happening in this Intelligence! So what you call “my body” is a manifestation of this Intelligence.

This “I” is not necessary. All we have present here is a child in front of the mirror. There are no problems, because there is not the sense of “me.” Look at your thoughts... They are not “yours.” They are part of the culture. There is no original thought. Everything is just a copy of the copy of the copy... Life is happening as pure Consciousness, which is your True Nature. You are pure Intelligence! There is no reason for suffering or space for misery in You. All this is created only by the illusion of separateness, which is when the child assumes the illusion of self-consciousness and thinks he/she is in control, seeing himself/herself as a entity separated from the mirror itself.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on April 22^nd, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on May 24^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 Truth you bring within your Self

You are the most precious thing . The point is to acknowledge yourself, because You are the Truth. The purpose of these meetings is the Real Knowledge of What You Are, and this is fundamental. When you acknowledge the Truth about yourself, you find out the Nature of Peace, the Nature of God.

While you maintain concepts, ideas, opinions, judgments, you are attached to a model created by the thought. My invitation to you is for this True Knowledge, something that deeply happens in the Presence of your Being, the True Being. You can understand It but not within the mind. This is what everyone seeks in religions, philosophy, and psychology, everywhere. When they go to churches, to the office of their analysts and therapists, people seek the comprehension of the Truth about themselves, about who they are, in every form of external search. But all this movement to the outside is a separation from Yourself.

Nothing and absolutely nobody can give you This. You can verify this in Yourself, but you cannot receive it from the outside. You cannot find someone, some teacher, some technique or some external achievement that could give you This. Everything outside is changing. Something that is here at this moment, soon it is not going to be here anymore. That is, nothing is safe, permanent; nothing remains immutable. So, this Realization is a revelation of the Truth you bring within Yourself.

Basically, everyone wants to be free, happy, to be at peace, and to live free from conflicts, problems, and suffering. However, this is not possible while you mistake yourself for the mind. In the realm of the mind, your life is this one common to all. You get rid of a problem and another soon arises. You get rid of a mess and another soon appears. This "your life" is like a roller coaster in which one time you go up and another you go down, one time is fine and another is bad. Sometimes you go through periods of quietness, of peace, of joy, but soon your roller coaster car goes down, and there you go to be frightened again. That is, stillness, peace, and joy go away, and you return to your old model of strong feelings, restless thoughts, lamenting for bad things that are happening: "People deceived me!"; "These situations could not be that way!”...

Here, in Satsang, you find yourself facing what I have called "challenge," which is to look at yourself. You need to transcend the common mentality, to go beyond this roller coaster, this model of inner chatter, of psychological, mental disorder. You need to go beyond those motivations of desire, being forced to do things or failing to do them because of fear. You need to discover something in yourself beyond this common model. You are "something" beyond the mind, body, and circumstance, but you must discover This, discover your Being, your Real Nature, your Essential Nature. To discover who You truly are.

Thus, everything you have understood, learned and lived until today is being challenged now. You have to review your experiences, your knowledge, your certainties, your reasons, your motives, and to find out if they are worthwhile, if they are part of the Truth about who You Are. The challenging here is to hear someone like me telling you that this has nothing to do with the Truth of who You Are, that this is pure social, cultural and humanistic conditioning!

Awakening is something very important. This dissatisfaction, this disquietude, this void, this feeling that something is missing, is not solved without the Real Awakening. So the faster it gets clear (not intellectually but rather due to a real work on yourself), the better for you. Some want This but on their own way. However, this "way" is from their conditioning background, from their model, something that still belongs to their pattern of ideas. There cannot be on your way! Therefore, all your knowledge is being challenged here.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on March 29^th, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on April 25^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

A matter of focus

Deep down, everyone wants Freedom. Inside everyone, there is a need to know what is Real, what is True. So, there is an internal motivation towards this Awakening, towards the end of suffering and of all this confusion the mind has been living in.

The whole matter is that, in general, since your childhood, you are paying too much attention to the thoughts. I am not saying you are attentive to thoughts, but that you are paying much attention to them, giving much confidence to them. You do it because deep down you believe they are saying something very important about who you are. But they aren’t. So you are in the wrong direction.

Thoughts inside you spin around an idea: the idea of who you are. Some people will say there is nothing you can do to break this vicious circle. Here is a paradox:  this is partly truth and partly not truth.

It is untrue that there is nothing you can do to Awake. You can notice the circular and repetitive movement of the thought, and then you will find out it is memory and imagination. It is memory within the imagination and the imagination making use of memory. You can look at this process.

In this sense, there is something you can do, to become aware of this process, of this movement. This sight brings the Real Investigation and reveals that what you take so serious is not real. Thought tells you things that seem very real for you, very serious. But when you look closer at it, you see what it tells is not serious, not true. Thought deals with imagination and memory, and this is not you.

Therefore, the investigation reveals that you take the illusion about what you are very seriously. This approach is a fundamental step for Awakening as it explains what You are by clearly showing what You are not. In the light of this clear vision, you can see by yourself you are not this story thoughts tell you. Consequently, the illusion disappears, ends, and all this confusion created by thought and its stories are completely removed. This is the basis of Meditation, essential to this Awakening.

Everyone wants to be free, wants to know what is real, but there is a fight, an internal contradiction, since the mind - this illusory movement - has no interest in Freedom, in What is Real. In other words, there is something in yourself willing That, but also  something that does not want it. This unconscious movement of the thought is the part that does not want That. It has a very strong, very skilled and quite surprising structure.

In the mind (and here I use the expression “mind” for this movement), you are under a repetitive pattern that I call as “conditioned bias.” You face moments when you are completely numb, drunk with thoughts. Thoughts work like a kind of drug, dragging you into quite known states to the mind. If you start paying real attention to that and becoming aware of this movement (what I call as “Investigation”), you stop being too  enchanted; the 'drug' loses its effect. Therefore, imagination ceases to provide you pleasure and this flight of fancy on mental stories cannot fill you anymore.

That’s when you give up trusting thoughts are telling you the truth about who you are, so thoughts lose strength and no longer prevail. In the same way, the feelings connected to these thoughts, apparently strong at first, start to slow down as they are not reinforced anymore. They lose their power to prevail, they lose stability and continuity.

In the beginning, it is like a toboggan: going to the top and down. At some point you are more aware and there are fewer thoughts about who you think you are, about that self-image, as I usually call it. In another moment, you are more stuck, attached, attached to this imaginary character that the thought says you are. Then, one time, you are on top; another, you are down, but you are going to find in yourself a place, a space, outside that waviness of the toboggan.

Notice that everything is a matter of focus. You need to focus on this Reality outside of the thought, that is You. Some call it as Presence; others as Consciousness or Being – all of them are names for your True Nature. By doing so, you reduce your focus on thoughts and your distractions with mental images, with imaginations and with the mind’s fluctuations will cease dramatically.

Realize how you can keep this through a real work. Keep it very simple: stop now and examinate; there is no difficulty on doing that. Stop and examinate what thoughts have to say. This is the only possibility you have to go beyond the illusion of the sense of a present “me” at this moment.

This is not self-analysis and you will not analyze the thought. It is not an "I" analyzing the thought. You will only approach that and to look at it. Do it now, at this moment.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on February 18^th, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on March 28^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