The indescribable Ocean of Full Happiness

How to look, hear and feel? How to think? How to deal with what presents itself? What we do in these meetings is to discover how to get out of this model, the old personal model. You are always limiting the perception of what is by making conclusions. What is, is very vast, wide, deep, but you assume a conclusion about this, about the situation, the circumstance or the appearance. So, you place yourself into a limitation, because your perspective, vision, is totally personal.

This explains unhappiness. For example, everything that is born, dies. However, who accepts death? All sentient beings, all living beings, every biological life die (I say “biological life” because, perhaps, you do not accept that everything is Life expressing itself). Everything that is alive, grows up, gets old and dies. However, Nature is very capricious and, sometimes, before getting older, a living being has an accident and dies. Not always the cycle completes itself.

Do you know what happens? Your mind is trained to not accept what is. So, you do not accept disease. You do not accept accident. You accept old age and death. I am giving you just an example of how you behave when you think, decide, make conclusions about how Life is. However, Life is not as mind concludes and desires. The mind has an image of permanence, safety, control, but Life is Real. It is not in the imaginary. Life is in the mystery, in the unknown, and it is not giving explanation to anyone, because there is no one for It.

So, if I could give you a piece of advice, it would be: let things just as they are! Do not meddle in the Divine’s business. Everything is God’s business! Life is God’s business! So, do not get attached to conclusions, do not fall in love with objects. Fall in love only with Life, with the manifestation of Life, not with the objects where Life manifests itself. Notice that there is a difference. The Sage is in Love with Life, but he is not attached to the objects where Life manifests itself.

Because Life is this mysterious movement. Life is manifested in an object, but then It leaves this object and remains in next one. So, you say that the first one has died and the second is alive. This is also just conclusion. Life is manifesting itself in another shape. However, you are living in the mind, so you are in love with objects. You call this love, but this is suffering, illusion. There is no Truth in this.

So, let it all loose! This is only possible when you are without conclusions, without ideas about right and wrong, without this “I like this,” “I do not like that.” You do not need any time for this Freedom. You have an insight… Do you know what an insight is? In Zen they call it Satori. It is when I am talking something here and you feel, you know, you perceive it and say “I know what he is talking about!” It is not an intellectual understanding, which is useless. An insight is a direct perception!

If you work fixing watches or cars, you need to understand intellectually how a watch mechanism works or the mechanics of an automobile. Intellectual understanding is important in some areas, but regarding to Consciousness only "intuition" is necessary. I use the word "intuition" very carefully, because I am not talking about what mystics and esoteric ones take for intuition. Intuition is Satori. It is this insight. It is this perception outside the mind. It is this Consciousness of Reality about what is here and now.

So, when you know what I am dealing with here, not sentimentally or intellectually, in imagination, but in Silence, in the direct Silence of this non-verbal Perception, this is Satori. Then, something within you says “ah!”, but you are outside of the mind, of conclusions, of imagination, of ideas. Therefore, the point here is always this: remain in your Being! Remain outside of the mind! Do not give room to this model of thinking that repeats itself! This way, you are always here and now, new, fresh, unique, without story. This is to be outside of report, of description. Story is description. Life does not carry story. Story is a dead thing; it is a description of an event in the past. Here, at this instant, at this present moment, there is no story. There is never story!

People talk about eternal love, but phrases like that are completely absurd. If it is Love, it is not eternal, and if it is eternal, it is not Love. We are socially educated for mediocrity. So, in the mind, you are reproducing the culture of lying, of illusion. When we miss someone, we call it as “eternal love;” and we call lack and neediness as “love”. When there is Love, there is only Love, there are not objects; and since there are no images, there is no story. So, since there is no time, it cannot be eternal or non-eternal. Love is timeless. It is not connected to objects or images and shapes. Love has nothing to do with stories and cannot be described.

We only have one “thing” here – That which is indescribable, nameless, without story! This is Meditation! So, do not do anything else! Remain in Silence! Remain disidentified from shapes, names, images, thoughts. This is Samadhi, the Natural State. Thus, birds can be heard, because no thought interrupts their singing. They are singing when there are no thoughts, images, story. When there are no objects capturing your attention while the birds are singing, they are neither outside nor inside; they just sing… Inside and outside disappear! This is Meditation! “You” are not there, and when “you” are not there, Buddha is present, Christ is present. Now, throw away the word “Buddha”, the word “Christ”, the word “God”, the expression “Pure Being”. Throw everything away! Remain there!

Now you know what I am talking about, and when you know what I am talking about, there is no longer “someone” talking, there is no longer a Master, there is no longer a disciple. That is the Truth! There is no Buddha either; and if you find him, you “cut off his head”! We have just done this. To "cut off the Buddha's head" is to be here in the Ultimate Truth, when you know there is no Master or disciple; that there is no inside or outside, wisdom or ignorance, illusion or truth. Everything is in the right place, absolutely everything in the right place! This is Happiness, which is when nothing else is expected, nothing else is sought, searched for, when there is no more desire, fear, past, future. Future comes with desire and past comes with the story. What was, is not; what is, was not; what is, will not be; what will be, is not; and here is everything!

People want a practice, but I do not recommend practices. My recommendation is: Give up! Stop! See how simple it is. You are so used to moving... And you do this not only physically, but also and mostly psychologically. So, although the body is still, you are with your family; But there is no family here! You “move” towards your child, your parents… I am saying: Stop! Remain here! Without family, without internal sound. So, you can hear the bird, you can hear this voice, which you do not know whether it is coming from outside or from inside, for the inside and the outside have disappeared. The voice does not interrupt the Silence, just like the bird singing. This is because the voice is the Silence, the bird’s singing is the Silence. You are the Silence!

In some moments of your life, you have “scratched” Happiness, had a small taste of the indescribable Ocean of full Happiness. You could not cut It deep; it was just a little scratch. At these moments “you” disappeared, you were not there. Then the mind came back and said, “What was that?” There were not measures for that joy, fullness, freedom… So, you were looking for adjectives. I am saying that you have only “scratched” Happiness, and you only got this when you were not present.

Samadhi means being immersed in this Ocean of Bliss and Happiness, and not about just a brief “scratch.” Samadhi is to disappear! It is like the drop that falls in the ocean and you can no longer distinguish what is ocean and what is drop. This is the meaning of Existence – Samadhi, Supreme Beatitude, Supreme Bliss! This is present when you are not present, when your eyes are God’s eyes. Do you know how God sees? It is the way you see when “you” are not present. You find that look when, at a glance, you look at a baby. In the time of our watch, it lasts about two seconds. Two seconds in which you are not imprisoned, because "you" are not present. At that moment, you are not a prisoner of time. You are in timeless Love and there is no mediocrity, no limitation. In your Being, there is no limitation! You are God all the time!

So, surrender! Surrender! God is the unique Reality in your Being! This is God! The heart beats, the bird sings and you hear the sound. Do not worry about your life, because there is no “your life.” “Your life” is the Life of God! There is only God everywhere, in everything! This understanding is Samadhi. My understanding about Life is that You are God. I only see God! Do not struggle with your thoughts, with your emotions, feelings, perceptions. Do not fight! Just live in this disidentification. It is so simple! Why do you turn this into something so difficult? Why do you live in your attachments? Your Love is God! I decided only to live in this Love. My Guru showed me this Love.

What is your real need? If your heart is full of God, there is no need, because there is no fear, desire, conflict and attachment. Do you understand this? If you want to be free, be it! Right here and now! This is an Ocean of Happiness! This beautiful Ocean is open for you! My Guru showed me what Real Meditation is. Meditation is the key! Please, listen carefully: Real Meditation is the key! The master key! All doors are open with this key! It will open the door of Wisdom, the door of Intelligence, the door of Love, the door of Silence, the door of Happiness. One single key is enough and then You are in Heaven. I am not referring to heaven in opposition to hell. I am talking about Heaven without opposition – the Kingdom of God, and This is within You. So all you need to say is: “My Beloved God, my life is yours!”

* Face-to-face meeting transcription originally held in Ramanashram Gualberto in Campos do Jordão city-SP-Brazil, on March, 2018. - First published in Portuguese on January 8th, 2020. For more information about how to participate, click here.