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