The identity is present because it is supported and sustained by a basis, which is basically the thought. If you seek the Origin of thought, if you go to the Source of thought, if your look turns to find the Essential and Substantial Nature of thought, you find the Void. The Void is the end of this basis that sustains this illusory presence of someone.
Your Real Nature is the Void! In your Real Nature, there is no such basis; although thought may appear, it is only a phenomenon. What gives identity to this phenomenon called thought, is that inattention in which you were raised.
All of you are inattentive. Everyone is sleepy. You are not really awake. You all are sleeping. This sleepiness is this inattention that makes the thought be the basis that sustains this identity.
However, in fact, there is no such identity, all that exists is the Void, which is your Essential Nature, and which curiously functions as the basis of this identity... A divine game.... You are free from this game when you are not entangled in the midst of it, lost in the midst of it. This is called Consciousness. This Consciousness is Attention.
You need to "develop" this Attention! What people gave you since childhood was inattention; that is the modus operandi, which is this way of acting, of moving idealized, planned, calculated and executed by thought. We might call it unconscious, but this division between conscious and unconscious is such very arbitrary division – there is no division in thought. Every thought happens in this inattention – we could call it unconsciousness. When it is happening in this Attention, it is happening only in this Consciousness... then there is no unconsciousness.
When there is no unconsciousness, there is no mechanicality, there is no such thing calculated, idealized, planned and executed by that ego-identity, that person-identity.
You have to undress yourself of all conditioning, and this is only possible at the end of this inattention. When you come to Satsang, I give you fire to this bonfire – the bonfire of Consciousness – I give you fire by putting firewood. Firewood is the tip... It is what in India they call upadesa – the teaching. The quality of my teaching is not to teach you, it is to awaken you. It is to bring you to Consciousness by giving you Attention, feeding this flame. Then, in this bonfire of Consciousness, the flame is nourished by Attention, and what makes this fire of Attention burn are the tips I give you. This is my upadesa, my teaching...
My teaching, basically, is that there is nothing to learn. Being is not about learning! Being is like Love: it happens; you do not make it happen. It is something that explodes inside you in a natural and spontaneous way. Love is neither learned nor cultivated. It is not like a relationship cultivated by agreements, by dialogues, by this thing of discussing the relationship... In this way relationship is cultivated. Nevertheless, relationship is an ego thing, this is not Love.
Love is in the relation, not in the relationship. Love is not cultivable, and relationship is cultivable. You spend years in a relationship called love. I would call it a sleeping relationship, the agreements that are made to maintain the relationship, an asleep and non-loving relationship. Love does not know relationship and thereby it cannot be cultivated.
Just as Consciousness, as Attention, as this teaching, so also you cannot cultivate this. You can awaken to It, and you awaken to This in a natural and spontaneous way. It is a happening, just as Love is a non-cultivable happening. God is only recognized in this realization of Love, and this is not cultivable. You cannot “grow” in that direction. You can awaken to It. In the field of science, religion, philosophy, psychology, or any area of the human knowledge, or of the so-called divine knowledge, of this so-called spirituality, in these fields, you can cultivate something, but not here.
Meditation is not cultivable. Meditation is Consciousness, which is the Attention that receives all fire material to smolder the flame of this teaching, of this upadesa, that is why Satsang is fundamental.
Satsang means being in good company, in the company of the sacred, of the divine. This has been known for thousands and thousands of years in the East, the importance of being near to a man or woman who is a bonfire – an incendiary bonfire on fire. In the East, they call it Guru.
To be in good company is to be with the Guru, the One who is out of the game, this game that is the whole inattentive, unconscious, habitual, mechanical, planned, idealized and executed thought´s movement. Outside of the game, you are wise. Inside the game, you are stupid. Outside of the game, you are Bhagavan – an Indian term for the blessed one, that one who lives free from the misery of the ego mind. Bhagavan is the Sage. It is you in your Real Nature. It is to be out of the game, a bonfire on fire, heating everything, giving shine and warmth around.
Your Real Nature is the Void! In your Real Nature, there is no such basis; although thought may appear, it is only a phenomenon. What gives identity to this phenomenon called thought, is that inattention in which you were raised.
All of you are inattentive. Everyone is sleepy. You are not really awake. You all are sleeping. This sleepiness is this inattention that makes the thought be the basis that sustains this identity.
However, in fact, there is no such identity, all that exists is the Void, which is your Essential Nature, and which curiously functions as the basis of this identity... A divine game.... You are free from this game when you are not entangled in the midst of it, lost in the midst of it. This is called Consciousness. This Consciousness is Attention.
You need to "develop" this Attention! What people gave you since childhood was inattention; that is the modus operandi, which is this way of acting, of moving idealized, planned, calculated and executed by thought. We might call it unconscious, but this division between conscious and unconscious is such very arbitrary division – there is no division in thought. Every thought happens in this inattention – we could call it unconsciousness. When it is happening in this Attention, it is happening only in this Consciousness... then there is no unconsciousness.
When there is no unconsciousness, there is no mechanicality, there is no such thing calculated, idealized, planned and executed by that ego-identity, that person-identity.
You have to undress yourself of all conditioning, and this is only possible at the end of this inattention. When you come to Satsang, I give you fire to this bonfire – the bonfire of Consciousness – I give you fire by putting firewood. Firewood is the tip... It is what in India they call upadesa – the teaching. The quality of my teaching is not to teach you, it is to awaken you. It is to bring you to Consciousness by giving you Attention, feeding this flame. Then, in this bonfire of Consciousness, the flame is nourished by Attention, and what makes this fire of Attention burn are the tips I give you. This is my upadesa, my teaching...
My teaching, basically, is that there is nothing to learn. Being is not about learning! Being is like Love: it happens; you do not make it happen. It is something that explodes inside you in a natural and spontaneous way. Love is neither learned nor cultivated. It is not like a relationship cultivated by agreements, by dialogues, by this thing of discussing the relationship... In this way relationship is cultivated. Nevertheless, relationship is an ego thing, this is not Love.
Love is in the relation, not in the relationship. Love is not cultivable, and relationship is cultivable. You spend years in a relationship called love. I would call it a sleeping relationship, the agreements that are made to maintain the relationship, an asleep and non-loving relationship. Love does not know relationship and thereby it cannot be cultivated.
Just as Consciousness, as Attention, as this teaching, so also you cannot cultivate this. You can awaken to It, and you awaken to This in a natural and spontaneous way. It is a happening, just as Love is a non-cultivable happening. God is only recognized in this realization of Love, and this is not cultivable. You cannot “grow” in that direction. You can awaken to It. In the field of science, religion, philosophy, psychology, or any area of the human knowledge, or of the so-called divine knowledge, of this so-called spirituality, in these fields, you can cultivate something, but not here.
Meditation is not cultivable. Meditation is Consciousness, which is the Attention that receives all fire material to smolder the flame of this teaching, of this upadesa, that is why Satsang is fundamental.
Satsang means being in good company, in the company of the sacred, of the divine. This has been known for thousands and thousands of years in the East, the importance of being near to a man or woman who is a bonfire – an incendiary bonfire on fire. In the East, they call it Guru.
To be in good company is to be with the Guru, the One who is out of the game, this game that is the whole inattentive, unconscious, habitual, mechanical, planned, idealized and executed thought´s movement. Outside of the game, you are wise. Inside the game, you are stupid. Outside of the game, you are Bhagavan – an Indian term for the blessed one, that one who lives free from the misery of the ego mind. Bhagavan is the Sage. It is you in your Real Nature. It is to be out of the game, a bonfire on fire, heating everything, giving shine and warmth around.
Inside the game, you are a fool. No matter how much luxury you live surrounded, no matter how much health there is in your body, or how much wealth you have or believe you have, you remain a wretch.
This is only in inattention, in unconsciousness, not in the basis of the Reality present; this is still the periphery, the surface, the movement of the game, the movement of the unconsciousness of thought.
That is why my invitation to you is: Awaken! Take a leap out of the mind. Go beyond duality. This duality starts with the personal pronoun I, when you refer to yourself, pointing to the presence of the present body there. It is not about a mechanical, learned and unconscious matter. This is about awakening! This does not require time. In fact, this is the end of time. For deals and agreements, time is needed. Once again, we are seeing the fraud, the lie, the illusion, anything happening within time, this is assuming Happiness’ place. What happens in relationships: a contract, a settled thing, I give this to you and you give me that. It works that way.
You are already complete, you are not making an agreement with life, you are not in a relationship with it, you are not separate from it as Consciousness. Therefore, Consciousness is Love! There is no agreement there. You cannot have a relationship with God, you cannot make a deal with Him, you cannot enter into a contract, you cannot control this. It is so simple... you cannot do it in time, you cannot negotiate. Don’t fool yourself about it, you cannot negotiate with me. It is not an agreement but surrender, surrender in this awakening.
This is very uncomfortable: to get out of control. Everything you are in contact with, you transform it into a relationship, a possibility for you to trade, to bargain, basically to control. It is impossible to awaken like this. Awakening requires vulnerability, which implies having no power, no control, and this is very frightening. As if there was no fear in control, as if control was not exactly a need for safety that fear itself produces. You are conditioned to live in fear, so you have to control everything.
When you come to this space called Satsang, you only come here because you are tired of relationships. You are tired of all this game, then I can give you upadesa. You are tired of all this inattention, all this unconsciousness, all this control, all this sense of being someone. That’s when I can give you something to feed that flame, that flame of Attention, which is possible in this Consciousness. Then, your fire burns, and when it burns you are out of the limitation of time, space, an "I"... so Bhagavan is present, the blessed, the Buddha, the Awakened One!
This is only in inattention, in unconsciousness, not in the basis of the Reality present; this is still the periphery, the surface, the movement of the game, the movement of the unconsciousness of thought.
That is why my invitation to you is: Awaken! Take a leap out of the mind. Go beyond duality. This duality starts with the personal pronoun I, when you refer to yourself, pointing to the presence of the present body there. It is not about a mechanical, learned and unconscious matter. This is about awakening! This does not require time. In fact, this is the end of time. For deals and agreements, time is needed. Once again, we are seeing the fraud, the lie, the illusion, anything happening within time, this is assuming Happiness’ place. What happens in relationships: a contract, a settled thing, I give this to you and you give me that. It works that way.
You are already complete, you are not making an agreement with life, you are not in a relationship with it, you are not separate from it as Consciousness. Therefore, Consciousness is Love! There is no agreement there. You cannot have a relationship with God, you cannot make a deal with Him, you cannot enter into a contract, you cannot control this. It is so simple... you cannot do it in time, you cannot negotiate. Don’t fool yourself about it, you cannot negotiate with me. It is not an agreement but surrender, surrender in this awakening.
This is very uncomfortable: to get out of control. Everything you are in contact with, you transform it into a relationship, a possibility for you to trade, to bargain, basically to control. It is impossible to awaken like this. Awakening requires vulnerability, which implies having no power, no control, and this is very frightening. As if there was no fear in control, as if control was not exactly a need for safety that fear itself produces. You are conditioned to live in fear, so you have to control everything.
When you come to this space called Satsang, you only come here because you are tired of relationships. You are tired of all this game, then I can give you upadesa. You are tired of all this inattention, all this unconsciousness, all this control, all this sense of being someone. That’s when I can give you something to feed that flame, that flame of Attention, which is possible in this Consciousness. Then, your fire burns, and when it burns you are out of the limitation of time, space, an "I"... so Bhagavan is present, the blessed, the Buddha, the Awakened One!
*Presential meeting transcription, originally held in meeting held in João Pessoa city, Brazil, on August 2017. – First published in Portuguese on December 10, 2017. For more information, please access: http://mestregualberto.com.
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