For many years of my life, I followed the common pattern of seeking God. I was raised in an environment, like most people, being trained to talk about God as if I knew Him. However, you do not know God through words, concepts, and beliefs that are nothing more than verbal statements.
We are ready to defend any mental image as reality, putting it in the place of the thing itself: the idea of the husband instead of the husband himself; of the wife instead of the wife herself; of the children instead of the children… We do the same with the idea or the image of God, taking it as God Himself. Then, they teach us to believe, to accept mental images instead of the thing itself.
This way, we are limited to believe, to believe again, and then to believe once more, and so forth: doctrines, beliefs, philosophies, concepts… Our heads are full of images about everything, and we know nothing truly firsthand. For this reason, we are living a superficial, narrow, confusing, and profoundly contradictory life.
Although we have all the theories and words about how to live a life in peace, in love, in freedom, and in happiness, in fact, we do not experience this. The years go by and, with them, our physical, mental, and emotional capability, but we keep affirming things that we do not really live, we do not know. We say one thing, we think another and we do another. Pure contradiction! That is, we are theorists, verbal creatures full of theoretical answers for everything, and even so, we are confused.
The question is, can we get entirely rid of all this conditioned pattern of living? Can we get rid of all the theories, beliefs, and concepts to enter in a Direct Vision of God? This way of speaking leads us to a dangerous area, the area of belief, in which we can step in again and accept the “me” able to see a God separated from him/her, and so afterward we may carry this image and talk about Him to everybody.
However, all those who have had this Real Encounter speak like Moses before the Pharaoh, “I Am has sent me to you.” A Direct Experience with God destroys all theories, beliefs, and naturally all images. They are all part of memory and therefore of thought, of what can be described by the thought, and so they are limited. All descriptions are limited because all thoughts are like this.
Moses has said that the one who sees God dies. Therefore, when the “I” disappears, God appears as “I Am,” as Silence, Love, Bliss, Self-Realization, and Peace.
We are ready to defend any mental image as reality, putting it in the place of the thing itself: the idea of the husband instead of the husband himself; of the wife instead of the wife herself; of the children instead of the children… We do the same with the idea or the image of God, taking it as God Himself. Then, they teach us to believe, to accept mental images instead of the thing itself.
This way, we are limited to believe, to believe again, and then to believe once more, and so forth: doctrines, beliefs, philosophies, concepts… Our heads are full of images about everything, and we know nothing truly firsthand. For this reason, we are living a superficial, narrow, confusing, and profoundly contradictory life.
Although we have all the theories and words about how to live a life in peace, in love, in freedom, and in happiness, in fact, we do not experience this. The years go by and, with them, our physical, mental, and emotional capability, but we keep affirming things that we do not really live, we do not know. We say one thing, we think another and we do another. Pure contradiction! That is, we are theorists, verbal creatures full of theoretical answers for everything, and even so, we are confused.
The question is, can we get entirely rid of all this conditioned pattern of living? Can we get rid of all the theories, beliefs, and concepts to enter in a Direct Vision of God? This way of speaking leads us to a dangerous area, the area of belief, in which we can step in again and accept the “me” able to see a God separated from him/her, and so afterward we may carry this image and talk about Him to everybody.
However, all those who have had this Real Encounter speak like Moses before the Pharaoh, “I Am has sent me to you.” A Direct Experience with God destroys all theories, beliefs, and naturally all images. They are all part of memory and therefore of thought, of what can be described by the thought, and so they are limited. All descriptions are limited because all thoughts are like this.
Moses has said that the one who sees God dies. Therefore, when the “I” disappears, God appears as “I Am,” as Silence, Love, Bliss, Self-Realization, and Peace.
*This text, written by Master Marcos Gualberto, shares the Sage's view about life, was published for the first time in Portuguese on October 5th, 2010. It was the fifth original publication on the blog in Portuguese and is part of the collection related to the first years of this work, whose texts, after being kept offline, are now being translated to English and will be published in a series as a tribute to the Master. For further information, visit our website, clique aqui.
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