The mind cannot capture That!

The mind is very curious and its search for knowledge is tireless. The mind is always looking for something that can feed itself, and nothing is more appetizing than understanding, which is born of knowledge. When there is knowledge, understanding happens; and for that, there must be descriptions, that is, words and images are necessary. And this is food for the mind. This constant hunger, this insatiable thirst for knowledge is common in the egoic mind.

When we speak of “egoic mind,” we are talking about the sense of separation, which is prison. Therefore, knowledge is within that prison, and that is why you cannot use it to understand what is Liberation. This is outside of mind! So, we are not dealing here with something to be understood by the mind.

Thus, we come to a point here: This cannot be understood, and therefore This cannot be seen until it reveals itself. The mind does not achieve this, because it will not "get there." This shows that an action of a totally unknown dimension is necessary for What is outside the known - that is, outside the mind - to be revealed. That is why Wisdom is not the result of knowledge, but of this revelation of the Unknown that I have called "Intelligence."

So, when we talk about Enlightenment, we are talking about the Awakening of the Unknown. It is something outside of what the mind knows. Here is the importance of Grace... Grace is this mysterious element capable of revealing itself as Liberation in this or that mechanism, organism. Then, this Liberation is an action of this Grace, which cannot be understood by the mind but can reveal itself and make itself known. This is the Mystery of Christ, of Buddha, of the Enlightened One.

So, no idea, no thought, no word can reach That! No thought can create a model about It. No idea can define It. No word can describe this Mystery called Liberation. Ideas and words cannot define It, and the mind cannot capture That! Now we are facing a paradox: the mind, which is an imagination, an overlap of Reality that is already present, may have the impression that this “Thing” is far away.

However, the only Reality is Liberation, That, which is here and now, present as your Natural State, which is the Grace. Every effort and movement is only a departure from That, which is here and now, present as pure Consciousness, as this Liberation unreachable by the mind, ideas, words, or thoughts.

Then, to realize This, is only possible in this self-revelation, in this very own action of Grace. This Liberation has nothing to do with the mind and its movement. It is this movement indeed that needs to stop for That, which is already present, to reveal itself.

What I am saying is that Liberation is covered, hidden by this movement of the mind. It is the mind that is hiding, camouflaging and making invisible What is already present as Consciousness, which is Liberation. It is like Liberation did not exist and the mind were real! That is a paradox! But it is only so for the mind, because it is the mind that sees it this way.

The mind sees itself as being real, as if it were the light, while the truth is that Consciousness is the Light, the Presence. It is like the moon believed it had its own light, that the light came from itself, while, in fact, it comes from the sun. That Consciousness is the sun! Let me translate this for you in a simpler way: you see yourself as a person and this is very real, but this is a mistaken view of the mind, because there is no "person."

This whole movement of listening, speaking, feeling or thinking is only a phenomenon of this Consciousness. That is, the real light is the sun and this phenomenon is only a movement of the moon with a borrowed shining light. So, the mind lives within this constant movement of searching for a meaning, and Liberation is the end of it.

The mind is searching for understanding life and its meaning, while Liberation reveals the meaning of Life. It is Life itself! This means there is no mind present in It, that is, there is nothing to seek or understand.

Thus, there is no meaning at all! If that becomes clear, the illusion ends and so does suffering, which is the mind in this constant search for life and its meaning. This movement of the mind is basically separation and, therefore, duality, which sustains all forms of conflict, confusion and suffering.

When I put this here, it is for you to see This! Language, by its very nature, only describes duality. It speaks of events, experiences, thoughts, feelings, phenomena... So, there is no language, no verbal or thought expression that can describe That, which is outside of duality.

So, the Real is not being explained in this meeting. I am pointing out the Real, but I am not describing It, because the Truth cannot be described. I talk to you about the Unknown, but This remains unknown, unless It reveals itself through Silence, through Consciousness itself, which is "the Sun," that Real Light.

The instant that Light, this Sun, which is Consciousness, predominates, illusion is no longer important. So the “moon” can no longer try to pass for what it is not. There is not "someone" there! That is why in this Awakening, this constant sense of “being a person” looking for the meaning of life, loses its importance completely, ends immediately.

All are quite addicted to this search for the meaning for what happens, for what they believe to be and to do. So, they spend many years busy with the “person,” judging, comparing, interpreting, and they don't realize they are just small pieces of a chess game or puppets.

There is an invisible hand moving these pieces, playing with these dolls, giving these puppets an apparent life. Have you ever seen a puppet play? Those dolls look like they are alive! They talk, move, dance, but there is a pair of hands doing that.

That is life: a game. A puppet play is just a game, funny for those who watch it. There is nothing serious going on. One puppet sings, the other dances, other talks about "important" things, another one represents an intelligent teacher... You see all kinds of things there!

What I mean is that there is nothing serious happening, that you are not living "your life.” There is only one Life, and It is playing as being "you." You are not real. You are just a little doll who believes that can resolve, decide and choose things.

I know it is disheartening to hear this. You will seek a second opinion to find out if this is true, but you will not discover it in the mind, because only Grace can reveal It. This revelation of the Grace is an expression of Consciousness, which is Meditation.

In short: you only have problems because you believe you exist! You only suffer because you believe you have or can have things! Nisargadatta said that the world is full of hooks and the person is always stuck on them. By this, he meant that no person has freedom, that the “sense of person” is necessarily a prison. So, everything you "own" imprisons you, all you "have" is your prison.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on October 28th, 2019. - First published in Portuguese on February 5th, 2020. For more information about how to participate, click here.