Satsang is an invitation to Conscious Life, to Intelligent Life, free from all confusion. In the mind, the experience in life you know is confusion. In some aspect of your life, in some area, you are in confusion, which is the fruit of non-clarity. When there is not clarity, the present tree produces confusion – this is the tree of unconsciousness. The real Recognition of your True Nature, of your Divine Nature is the Awakening of this Intelligence, of this Intelligent Life, and this is what we are talking about in Satsang. Some call this Intelligent Life, which is free from confusion and suffering, as Enlightenment or Awakening.
Words about This are not so important, but the direct experience, yes! Knowing directly what This is about, this is indeed important! You can learn a lot about the theory and in a practice way be very far from experience it. Thus, confusion, the illusion and ignorance remain. There is not Intelligence!
Intelligence is the result of the Natural State of Meditation. It is not something you learn from your parents when you are born. Parents can teach you many things, including the model of their lives, but they cannot teach the Art of Meditation, which is the Art of Intelligence. When Meditation flourishes, Intelligence assumes the whole space. When there is Intelligence, there is no confusion, there is no disorder, there is no suffering.
Intelligence is the flourish of Consciousness, which is the Source of all manifestation, of all apparitions. So, it is very simple and natural to deal with any Life expression. Here I do not use the word “challenge, but the term “Life expression.” The one who breathes this natural atmosphere of the Art of Meditation lives in this Intelligence, which is Consciousness. For this one, there is no problem. Problems disappear because challenges disappear. Life is not challenging, it is mysterious – this is the vision of the Sage, of the Intelligent man.
The Intelligent man is not a man of intelligence, but the one who is free from the sense of separation. Then this is the man of Consciousness. It is the Consciousness itself in expression in this man shape. Your Real Nature is Consciousness and this is pure Intelligence. Therefore, I am not talking about the common and intelligent man, but about the one who is free from the mind: the Sage. This is Consciousness in its expression of Intelligence, and this is only possible in the Natural State of Meditation.
You do not learn this from your parents, from society, or by following the national politics. This Consciousness, which is Real Intelligence, is out of this culture, this society, this world model you know. What I am saying is that you, in your Being, in your Natural State of Pure Consciousness, are Intelligence and no society, no culture, or education can give you This. This Art is something you discover inside you.
This space is called Satsang: the encounter with the Truth. In it, it is possible this flourishing, this discovery, this clear vision of Life as It shows itself, as It presents itself. Then It appears as a great game. When there is this recognition of your True Divine Nature, Life is this Mystery and not this “challenge” the mind knows. A Mystery of great Beauty, Silence, Grace, something indescribable!
However, when you do not know that the game is like this, it is very complicated, very hard, because you believe you can play it, you believe you are in control. Then, you take all the roles that are presented, all demonstrations of Life, of this Mysterious Manifestation, in a very serious way. It is when drama, perplexity, adversity, difficulty, confusion arise.
Being in Satsang means being vulnerable, open to the flourishing of this Art of Intelligence, which is Meditation, Consciousness. Only This can show you all this game. Then, you discover that You are the game itself, not something separate from what You are. You are pure Consciousness expressing yourself in every manifestation! There is no existence separate from You!
When you discover that your Real Nature is beyond the game itself and that it is You, without any separation, you go beyond thought, beyond all this conceptual, imaginary story that happens to the body – a story that tells about birth, family, profession, and everything else. Now, you do not take it so seriously, you are deeply relaxed in your Essential Nature, because the game is yours, there is nothing to fear.
This identification with the “me” or this “psychological sense of being” is a merely apparition in this Consciousness, just an image. Realize the beauty of the Truth implicit in these words, the beauty of such simple and straightforward talk about what is this whole game. This is Enlightenment: resting in Life as it is, without resistance, without struggle, without fight, without confusion, without desires. Remember this: You are Consciousness!
You are identified with the story of a character named John, Mary, Joseph... This is just a name! A private imaginary identity! This is not you! Even spiritual life is based on the presumption that you are there, that there is individuality inside you. A body and a face appear, you see them at the mirror every morning, and then you think they are yours, they are you. You think you are a person behind the eyes that looks at the mirror. This is not true! It is not real!
Every search, every method and practice you have learned, all you have been doing until today, in this search for spirituality, are still part of this illusion. You are the Lord, the game is yours! When I say the game is yours, I am saying you are beyond the game, but you trust it too much.
You are trying to change, to modify, to fix, to improve it through this search for spirituality. You try to qualify, to technically prepare yourself to find this through spiritual practices. However, Meditation is not a practice!
Meditation is a discovery of something present as Consciousness; What You already are! No one can teach you what is Meditation, but in Satsang it is possible the Awakening of this present Natural State of Consciousness, which is Meditation. This is an action of Grace, this was the action of my Master, of my Guru. I did nothing! I just messed it up for a while. All of you are very good at doing this, at messing it up, just because you believe you are there to do something.
So, the person sits down on lotus position, visualizes a blue ball, full of light, breathes, imagines a sun on the chest, or a lotus flower on top of the head, with thousands of petals opening… This is so funny! It is what spiritual life imposes for you to reach the Divine.
Then, you start practicing ceremonies, diets, special sexual conduct, a fight to get to destroy, to slay the ego, all kind of thing like this. You have to become vegetarian, celibatarian. You have to practice tantric sexuality. You have to do transcendental meditation, to chant many mantras, to eat many vegetables… You have the day of the union with the full moon, the day of the violet flame, and so on. I cannot enumerate it, because there are many systems, many methods, many things. The ego loves to practice all of this, for it has the sensation that it is going somewhere, that it is progressing, evolving, getting closer to see this light on top of the head in the shape of a thousand-petaled flower… all nonsense!
Words about This are not so important, but the direct experience, yes! Knowing directly what This is about, this is indeed important! You can learn a lot about the theory and in a practice way be very far from experience it. Thus, confusion, the illusion and ignorance remain. There is not Intelligence!
Intelligence is the result of the Natural State of Meditation. It is not something you learn from your parents when you are born. Parents can teach you many things, including the model of their lives, but they cannot teach the Art of Meditation, which is the Art of Intelligence. When Meditation flourishes, Intelligence assumes the whole space. When there is Intelligence, there is no confusion, there is no disorder, there is no suffering.
Intelligence is the flourish of Consciousness, which is the Source of all manifestation, of all apparitions. So, it is very simple and natural to deal with any Life expression. Here I do not use the word “challenge, but the term “Life expression.” The one who breathes this natural atmosphere of the Art of Meditation lives in this Intelligence, which is Consciousness. For this one, there is no problem. Problems disappear because challenges disappear. Life is not challenging, it is mysterious – this is the vision of the Sage, of the Intelligent man.
The Intelligent man is not a man of intelligence, but the one who is free from the sense of separation. Then this is the man of Consciousness. It is the Consciousness itself in expression in this man shape. Your Real Nature is Consciousness and this is pure Intelligence. Therefore, I am not talking about the common and intelligent man, but about the one who is free from the mind: the Sage. This is Consciousness in its expression of Intelligence, and this is only possible in the Natural State of Meditation.
You do not learn this from your parents, from society, or by following the national politics. This Consciousness, which is Real Intelligence, is out of this culture, this society, this world model you know. What I am saying is that you, in your Being, in your Natural State of Pure Consciousness, are Intelligence and no society, no culture, or education can give you This. This Art is something you discover inside you.
This space is called Satsang: the encounter with the Truth. In it, it is possible this flourishing, this discovery, this clear vision of Life as It shows itself, as It presents itself. Then It appears as a great game. When there is this recognition of your True Divine Nature, Life is this Mystery and not this “challenge” the mind knows. A Mystery of great Beauty, Silence, Grace, something indescribable!
However, when you do not know that the game is like this, it is very complicated, very hard, because you believe you can play it, you believe you are in control. Then, you take all the roles that are presented, all demonstrations of Life, of this Mysterious Manifestation, in a very serious way. It is when drama, perplexity, adversity, difficulty, confusion arise.
Being in Satsang means being vulnerable, open to the flourishing of this Art of Intelligence, which is Meditation, Consciousness. Only This can show you all this game. Then, you discover that You are the game itself, not something separate from what You are. You are pure Consciousness expressing yourself in every manifestation! There is no existence separate from You!
When you discover that your Real Nature is beyond the game itself and that it is You, without any separation, you go beyond thought, beyond all this conceptual, imaginary story that happens to the body – a story that tells about birth, family, profession, and everything else. Now, you do not take it so seriously, you are deeply relaxed in your Essential Nature, because the game is yours, there is nothing to fear.
This identification with the “me” or this “psychological sense of being” is a merely apparition in this Consciousness, just an image. Realize the beauty of the Truth implicit in these words, the beauty of such simple and straightforward talk about what is this whole game. This is Enlightenment: resting in Life as it is, without resistance, without struggle, without fight, without confusion, without desires. Remember this: You are Consciousness!
You are identified with the story of a character named John, Mary, Joseph... This is just a name! A private imaginary identity! This is not you! Even spiritual life is based on the presumption that you are there, that there is individuality inside you. A body and a face appear, you see them at the mirror every morning, and then you think they are yours, they are you. You think you are a person behind the eyes that looks at the mirror. This is not true! It is not real!
Every search, every method and practice you have learned, all you have been doing until today, in this search for spirituality, are still part of this illusion. You are the Lord, the game is yours! When I say the game is yours, I am saying you are beyond the game, but you trust it too much.
You are trying to change, to modify, to fix, to improve it through this search for spirituality. You try to qualify, to technically prepare yourself to find this through spiritual practices. However, Meditation is not a practice!
Meditation is a discovery of something present as Consciousness; What You already are! No one can teach you what is Meditation, but in Satsang it is possible the Awakening of this present Natural State of Consciousness, which is Meditation. This is an action of Grace, this was the action of my Master, of my Guru. I did nothing! I just messed it up for a while. All of you are very good at doing this, at messing it up, just because you believe you are there to do something.
So, the person sits down on lotus position, visualizes a blue ball, full of light, breathes, imagines a sun on the chest, or a lotus flower on top of the head, with thousands of petals opening… This is so funny! It is what spiritual life imposes for you to reach the Divine.
Then, you start practicing ceremonies, diets, special sexual conduct, a fight to get to destroy, to slay the ego, all kind of thing like this. You have to become vegetarian, celibatarian. You have to practice tantric sexuality. You have to do transcendental meditation, to chant many mantras, to eat many vegetables… You have the day of the union with the full moon, the day of the violet flame, and so on. I cannot enumerate it, because there are many systems, many methods, many things. The ego loves to practice all of this, for it has the sensation that it is going somewhere, that it is progressing, evolving, getting closer to see this light on top of the head in the shape of a thousand-petaled flower… all nonsense!
*Online meeting transcription, originally held on July 29th, 2019 – First published in Portuguese on October 1st, 2019. For more information, please access: http://mestregualberto.com.
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