Here, in these meetings, we talk about the Real Nature, and this is something beyond words. No matter the amount of facts we investigate here, the purpose of these meetings is to be able to go beyond words.
Truth is not an accumulation of facts. It is something without a cause... So, this I Am - which we talk about here - is not something abstract. It is not a concept or an idea. Teaching the Truth is not about sharing concepts. The real answer is revealed in the Silence. It appears in this Silence. It requires you to be open to this; that is, you need to allow yourself to be touched by the Truth, and this is something that requires real sensitivity to the Silence. Silence carries the fragrance of Truth!
When you listen to a song and care about the meaning of the lyrics, you stop listening to the melody. When you are going to listen to music, you cannot worry too much about the meaning of words. Truth is not revealed in the words but in the Silence. Therefore, my recommendation to you is: remain with the music, immerse yourself in this music, do not worry about the lyrics. When that happens, this openness to the music itself, to the Silence itself underneath the words, can bring you back home. Your home is your Real and True Nature.
When you say, "I am a mother" or "I am a son," you are not saying anything about yourself. When you say "I am an American" or "I am a Brazilian," you continue saying nothing about yourself. Therefore, the words within this meeting, with this song, are pointing out something prior to all this. This is the new kind of knowledge... It is not knowledge born from the accumulation of information, experience, and perception of facts, but the direct knowledge of your own Being, of your own Real Nature - the knowledge of who You are.
All knowledge of experiences, facts, and concepts is external to what You are. Nevertheless, this knowledge of which we are speaking here is something straightforward. So, when you say, "I am a mother" or "I am a son," or "I am American," or "I am Brazilian," it means absolutely nothing. This is the kind of knowledge the mind has, the mind seeks, the mind desires... There is no Truth in this kind of knowledge! This True Knowledge we speak in Satsang is the knowledge of your Real Nature, and it is non-objective, non-spatial.
The purpose of this meeting is to go back home, or to discover home Here and Now. This knowledge is the Real Knowledge of your Self. You need to investigate yourself; not what is outside, but what You are, Here and Now, inside you. Most part of the time, you are living in a reactive way, that is, giving answers to exteriorities.
I want to invite you to observe, to observe your reactions, to observe where this movement is taking place. You will soon realize it is only in the exteriority, and thereby they are mere reactive actions. Mind lives reactively, while your Real Being never reacts. The mind is reacting all the time, while your Being remains unattainable, Pure Consciousness... your Being is not bound to this knowledge of facts, of experiences – the objective knowledge. Your Being is pure Freedom, and in that Freedom, there is Peace, the Bliss of your True Nature, of your Real Nature.
So, you cannot discover the Truth about yourself externally through knowledge or objective experience. Real knowledge about you is the liberation of all conditioning and therefore of all knowledge that mind, experience and observation produce, which can be demonstrated or explained through facts.
We must discover the music; the music can reveal the Being, while the word can only point to This. We are using this expression “word and music” within that context, within that speech, exclusively. The emphasis on this speech is always about pointing out what is beyond speech and, in these words, pointing out the music itself.
So, the most important thing in this meeting is Silence, and not the word. It is the dive, the immersion in the music itself. Thus, you have to discover how to observe yourself, how to observe what goes on internally, what your purposes, intentions, reasons, and reactions are. Start doing it, Here and Now, right now. This provides this structure with the sensitivity and vulnerability for this encounter with you. This is Real Meditation!
Truth is not an accumulation of facts. It is something without a cause... So, this I Am - which we talk about here - is not something abstract. It is not a concept or an idea. Teaching the Truth is not about sharing concepts. The real answer is revealed in the Silence. It appears in this Silence. It requires you to be open to this; that is, you need to allow yourself to be touched by the Truth, and this is something that requires real sensitivity to the Silence. Silence carries the fragrance of Truth!
When you listen to a song and care about the meaning of the lyrics, you stop listening to the melody. When you are going to listen to music, you cannot worry too much about the meaning of words. Truth is not revealed in the words but in the Silence. Therefore, my recommendation to you is: remain with the music, immerse yourself in this music, do not worry about the lyrics. When that happens, this openness to the music itself, to the Silence itself underneath the words, can bring you back home. Your home is your Real and True Nature.
When you say, "I am a mother" or "I am a son," you are not saying anything about yourself. When you say "I am an American" or "I am a Brazilian," you continue saying nothing about yourself. Therefore, the words within this meeting, with this song, are pointing out something prior to all this. This is the new kind of knowledge... It is not knowledge born from the accumulation of information, experience, and perception of facts, but the direct knowledge of your own Being, of your own Real Nature - the knowledge of who You are.
All knowledge of experiences, facts, and concepts is external to what You are. Nevertheless, this knowledge of which we are speaking here is something straightforward. So, when you say, "I am a mother" or "I am a son," or "I am American," or "I am Brazilian," it means absolutely nothing. This is the kind of knowledge the mind has, the mind seeks, the mind desires... There is no Truth in this kind of knowledge! This True Knowledge we speak in Satsang is the knowledge of your Real Nature, and it is non-objective, non-spatial.
The purpose of this meeting is to go back home, or to discover home Here and Now. This knowledge is the Real Knowledge of your Self. You need to investigate yourself; not what is outside, but what You are, Here and Now, inside you. Most part of the time, you are living in a reactive way, that is, giving answers to exteriorities.
I want to invite you to observe, to observe your reactions, to observe where this movement is taking place. You will soon realize it is only in the exteriority, and thereby they are mere reactive actions. Mind lives reactively, while your Real Being never reacts. The mind is reacting all the time, while your Being remains unattainable, Pure Consciousness... your Being is not bound to this knowledge of facts, of experiences – the objective knowledge. Your Being is pure Freedom, and in that Freedom, there is Peace, the Bliss of your True Nature, of your Real Nature.
So, you cannot discover the Truth about yourself externally through knowledge or objective experience. Real knowledge about you is the liberation of all conditioning and therefore of all knowledge that mind, experience and observation produce, which can be demonstrated or explained through facts.
We must discover the music; the music can reveal the Being, while the word can only point to This. We are using this expression “word and music” within that context, within that speech, exclusively. The emphasis on this speech is always about pointing out what is beyond speech and, in these words, pointing out the music itself.
So, the most important thing in this meeting is Silence, and not the word. It is the dive, the immersion in the music itself. Thus, you have to discover how to observe yourself, how to observe what goes on internally, what your purposes, intentions, reasons, and reactions are. Start doing it, Here and Now, right now. This provides this structure with the sensitivity and vulnerability for this encounter with you. This is Real Meditation!
* Online meeting transcription, originally held on November 06th, 2017- For more information about how to participate, please access: mestregualberto.com
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