Satsang highlights the present Truth. We are here always pointing out That which is never absent. Your job here is to investigate What remains immutable. It is to find out there is no “me,” no “person” present in this experience. This investigation itself happens as a mysterious phenomenon, for there is not “anybody” to investigate anything. However, the investigation is important and needs to happen. There is no “me,” there is no real sense of an entity present in this experience called “human life.” In other words, all the sense of limitation you experience in life is as false as the experiencer.
As time goes by, you formulate an idea about who you are, that is, you have an image, a picture, a mental concept. You have an image about yourself and you really believe how true is this image. So, all your reference about life is based on this image, the illusion of a present entity, and therefore of a centered ego, a sense of a central “entity,” in which experiences happen. So, when you believe you have done, felt, or lived something, it is just a thought arising to confirm the belief of this identity. Thinking is a practice, a habit.
This format of the thought, “I did,” “I felt,” “I thought about it,” this is a habit. These statements are just beliefs. So you have a feeling that you have not done anything right, that you could have done better, and in the future, you will be able to do differently than you believe you have done. Nevertheless, this is only self-image, a creation of the thought, a picture, a painting created by ideas. The ideas “I was not good enough,” “I am sad, because I did it wrong,” “I could be a better person,” these are just mental images and have no power. To investigate and see this trick in which the mind has been captured, this is our job in Satsang!
This ego, this “me,” this “I,” this “person” does not have any real substance, because its construction material is a fiction, is made of imaginative matter. Thought is the imaginative material of the construction of this identity. This notion of past, present and future is also part of it. Present is the idea “I am here.” Past is the idea “I was there.” Future is the idea “I will be in another place out of here.” However, I am here to tell you there is no “me,” there is nobody in this ingenious, mysterious, and magical project of the thought. Thought is just a phenomenon, like rain that appears for a while, makes a big fuss, gets everything wet, and then it stops.
When you say “I can hear it,” who is hearing? Are you hearing now? Or is this hearing just a mechanical phenomenon of this structure, of this biological living machine? The body is this: a biological machine. You swear you are hearing, seeing, feeling, but it is just an experience of this biological structure. What You are is beyond this experience. However, you do not know the Truth about yourself. Then you mistake yourself for the body among these experiences and two hours later you say, “I heard that,” “I saw that situation,” “I was there,” referring to the supposed past in which you believe you had lived as an entity that witnessed something.
All you are doing is just about sharing memory. What is a memory? It is basically an imagination present in this mechanism, in this organism, in this brain. So, you are reporting a supposed event that you believe you have lived. Notice: I am not denying what happens, I am just saying that there is nothing going on for "someone." That is exactly why you suffer: you take seriously the imagination of being someone in the experience to whom everything happens. So, there is the matter of desire, of choice, of illusion about the freedom of doing, of the fiction of the control, and this implicates future.
If you look closely at this, you will find out there is no future under your control, under your choice, under your desire. To believe in this control is to sustain the suffering. When you are thinking about something, this is only a phenomenon of the thought happening, there is no “you” in this experience. However, because you believe to be in this experience, you believe in loving and hating, in frustration, hope, and all kind of things. The truth is that you cannot think, because “you” do not exist. There is no way to think about the past or the future, because thought happens in this machine, in this mechanism, without "you."
You do not control your thoughts and yet you feel guilty. Notice the absurdity of this: there is the illusion of someone feeling guilty for simply believing that he/she should have thought and done differently than what he/she had thought or done. There is someone afraid of what might happen, just because he/she is imagining the future, as if he/she had any control over it, over what thought produces, or over what might happen. In fact, when the thought about future is happening, that is imagination happening now, without someone's control. So, trusting in thought is the dumbest thing on the part of a human being. Nothing is as stupid as that! All human stupidity and mediocrity start from this: confidence in thoughts.
Thought has no any power. It decides absolutely nothing! Some things happen in such a way that they seem to be confirming some idea that went on in your head, and based on that, you have been spending your years trusting it is the thought that happens. What happens is Life! Thought is also just a happening, but it determines nothing. As a matter of fact, it does, determines all the illusion of your life, all the confusion and disorder. Because you believe to be the thinker who can control, do or choose, you are in confusion with problems as imaginary as thought.
What is going wrong in your private life, or in the world, if thought cannot say anything about it? Tell me about your problem without the idea, the belief, the memory, the remembrance, therefore, without the imagination of a thought. Without thought, what is your story and what is wrong with you? What is out of place in your private life in the world? The moment you begin to understand that your thoughts are just mental concepts and that Life is just going on, giving no importance to whatever form of thought you have, you face the opportunity to discover that thought is illusion.
This makes all the difference for the end of this illusion of the sense of someone present, of this belief in a separate entity. This way, this body-mind, which you call "me," has the opportunity to live without conflict, effort, and suffering. What I am saying is that thoughts are phenomena that happen, but there is no one involved in it. Choices also happen, but there is no one in the choice. Control, choice, thinking, or whatever seems to happen, happens without someone. It is only the Existence working, the Consciousness, which is the only Truth present making everything happen spontaneously, effortlessly, without an author, without a doer, without a controller, without a thinker.
The unique Real Presence making all of this possible is this Intelligence, Energy, Presence, Truth, Consciousness. This is the Nature of all manifestation. It is your Identity, your Real Nature. This is Supreme Intelligence, with no need for this illusion of doing, thinking, feeling, controlling. Realization is this Verification. Everything else is happening as a mirage, which seems to be real, but it is not. It is just this false identity that feels under a very strong sun and stepping on hot sand. If this identity disappears, the mirage also disappears, and what remains present is this Intelligence, Energy, Consciousness, Truth, God. So, it is possible to live Love, Real Joy and Real Happiness!
To know God is to be God! I have just named God as this Intelligence, Energy, Consciousness, but if you do not like these words, you may eliminate them. God is not going to be bothered with that.
As time goes by, you formulate an idea about who you are, that is, you have an image, a picture, a mental concept. You have an image about yourself and you really believe how true is this image. So, all your reference about life is based on this image, the illusion of a present entity, and therefore of a centered ego, a sense of a central “entity,” in which experiences happen. So, when you believe you have done, felt, or lived something, it is just a thought arising to confirm the belief of this identity. Thinking is a practice, a habit.
This format of the thought, “I did,” “I felt,” “I thought about it,” this is a habit. These statements are just beliefs. So you have a feeling that you have not done anything right, that you could have done better, and in the future, you will be able to do differently than you believe you have done. Nevertheless, this is only self-image, a creation of the thought, a picture, a painting created by ideas. The ideas “I was not good enough,” “I am sad, because I did it wrong,” “I could be a better person,” these are just mental images and have no power. To investigate and see this trick in which the mind has been captured, this is our job in Satsang!
This ego, this “me,” this “I,” this “person” does not have any real substance, because its construction material is a fiction, is made of imaginative matter. Thought is the imaginative material of the construction of this identity. This notion of past, present and future is also part of it. Present is the idea “I am here.” Past is the idea “I was there.” Future is the idea “I will be in another place out of here.” However, I am here to tell you there is no “me,” there is nobody in this ingenious, mysterious, and magical project of the thought. Thought is just a phenomenon, like rain that appears for a while, makes a big fuss, gets everything wet, and then it stops.
When you say “I can hear it,” who is hearing? Are you hearing now? Or is this hearing just a mechanical phenomenon of this structure, of this biological living machine? The body is this: a biological machine. You swear you are hearing, seeing, feeling, but it is just an experience of this biological structure. What You are is beyond this experience. However, you do not know the Truth about yourself. Then you mistake yourself for the body among these experiences and two hours later you say, “I heard that,” “I saw that situation,” “I was there,” referring to the supposed past in which you believe you had lived as an entity that witnessed something.
All you are doing is just about sharing memory. What is a memory? It is basically an imagination present in this mechanism, in this organism, in this brain. So, you are reporting a supposed event that you believe you have lived. Notice: I am not denying what happens, I am just saying that there is nothing going on for "someone." That is exactly why you suffer: you take seriously the imagination of being someone in the experience to whom everything happens. So, there is the matter of desire, of choice, of illusion about the freedom of doing, of the fiction of the control, and this implicates future.
If you look closely at this, you will find out there is no future under your control, under your choice, under your desire. To believe in this control is to sustain the suffering. When you are thinking about something, this is only a phenomenon of the thought happening, there is no “you” in this experience. However, because you believe to be in this experience, you believe in loving and hating, in frustration, hope, and all kind of things. The truth is that you cannot think, because “you” do not exist. There is no way to think about the past or the future, because thought happens in this machine, in this mechanism, without "you."
You do not control your thoughts and yet you feel guilty. Notice the absurdity of this: there is the illusion of someone feeling guilty for simply believing that he/she should have thought and done differently than what he/she had thought or done. There is someone afraid of what might happen, just because he/she is imagining the future, as if he/she had any control over it, over what thought produces, or over what might happen. In fact, when the thought about future is happening, that is imagination happening now, without someone's control. So, trusting in thought is the dumbest thing on the part of a human being. Nothing is as stupid as that! All human stupidity and mediocrity start from this: confidence in thoughts.
Thought has no any power. It decides absolutely nothing! Some things happen in such a way that they seem to be confirming some idea that went on in your head, and based on that, you have been spending your years trusting it is the thought that happens. What happens is Life! Thought is also just a happening, but it determines nothing. As a matter of fact, it does, determines all the illusion of your life, all the confusion and disorder. Because you believe to be the thinker who can control, do or choose, you are in confusion with problems as imaginary as thought.
This makes all the difference for the end of this illusion of the sense of someone present, of this belief in a separate entity. This way, this body-mind, which you call "me," has the opportunity to live without conflict, effort, and suffering. What I am saying is that thoughts are phenomena that happen, but there is no one involved in it. Choices also happen, but there is no one in the choice. Control, choice, thinking, or whatever seems to happen, happens without someone. It is only the Existence working, the Consciousness, which is the only Truth present making everything happen spontaneously, effortlessly, without an author, without a doer, without a controller, without a thinker.
The unique Real Presence making all of this possible is this Intelligence, Energy, Presence, Truth, Consciousness. This is the Nature of all manifestation. It is your Identity, your Real Nature. This is Supreme Intelligence, with no need for this illusion of doing, thinking, feeling, controlling. Realization is this Verification. Everything else is happening as a mirage, which seems to be real, but it is not. It is just this false identity that feels under a very strong sun and stepping on hot sand. If this identity disappears, the mirage also disappears, and what remains present is this Intelligence, Energy, Consciousness, Truth, God. So, it is possible to live Love, Real Joy and Real Happiness!
To know God is to be God! I have just named God as this Intelligence, Energy, Consciousness, but if you do not like these words, you may eliminate them. God is not going to be bothered with that.
*Online meeting transcription, originally held on June 10th, 2019 – First published in Portuguese on August 2nd, 2019. For more information, please access: http://mestregualberto.com.
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