As long as you are waiting for something beyond what is present, you are in illusion. This is the only thing discovered in this kind of meeting. Accepting that is a huge blessing. You are expecting something in life, because you want to find more than you already have. You want to be happier than you already are, have more peace than you already have. This “more” is just a concept, an imagination about what you should find, about what you believe you have not found. You have an imagination of happiness and peace as something that is yet to happen.
However, what the Sage acknowledges is that there is nothing to be found, conquered or realized in the future. Therefore, as long as you keep looking, expecting, waiting for something, you will never know Happiness, Peace, Truth. This is the only thing the Sage knows – that there is nothing beyond what Life is, as It is here and now. Life is found as a revelation present at this moment. There is no future for This. Life does not offer you suffering, conflict, or confusion. All of this happens due this disorder, this imagination, this fantasy of the mind. It is a fantasy to believe that the Universe is against you, just like believing the Universe can cooperate with you at some point. Life is not for or against you. This is a fiction, a thing from imagination. What is hidden behind phrases such as “the Universe cooperates in your favor” is only fear, imagination.
So, the whole idea of positivism is a very childish thing. Seeking self-help is quite typical of the mind, on its ingenuity, fantasy, and imagination. The nature of the mind is always duality, and, if something is on your side, it can also be against you. It is a coin with two sides, and that is called “egoic mind.” There will never be good without evil, justice without injustice, pleasure without pain. You should not expect anything from Life! All this movement of hope is a movement of the mind and then based on fear. You should not expect anything from the world, from Life, and not even for something that would be permanent, such as love, peace, and happiness. Success and failure are ideas of mind, as it is the common process of it, in its imagination. Real Happiness is not something that comes from the mind but from your own Being, as your own True Nature.
You believe in all of this because of cultural conditioning. Everything you have received from culture comes from the mind. Culture is mind, and mind is duality, the dual experience of imagination. It is in the mind that exists this structure of good and evil, of true and false, of pleasure and pain, of the so-called “happiness” and unhappiness. There is no Truth in the mind! There is no Wisdom in the mind! Mind carries a lot of knowledge, but all knowledge of it is pure conditioning, within this limitation of experience, this duality – positive and negative, right and wrong, good and evil. That’s why I have always been giving this recommendation to those who come to Satsang: go beyond culture, the world, the mind, knowledge, imagination, beliefs, ideas, principles, known values, because, in this way, the True Happiness, that is Peace, Intelligence, Freedom, is possible.
This Real Happiness, which is Peace, Freedom and Intelligence, is not a cultural thing. You cannot receive This from culture, because it is out of it. You have to be outside of the mind, of what is cultural, to know Happiness, Freedom, Love, Intelligence, and to become Aware of the Truth of God, of the Divine Truth. Why? Because This is beyond the mind and so beyond the common experience of duality, beyond this vision of opposites. I have been talking to you about the Nature of the Truth, and I have done it in an indirect way, because we cannot approach This directly, since it is out of imagination. So, the way I use to talk to you about the Nature of Truth is by discarding the illusion, the confusion, the limitation of the mind.
For that reason, I have been talking about Meditation, Self-Investigation, and Real Surrender. Meditation is the access to this Truth outside time, the known, imagination, mind. Satsang is a unique space, because here we manage to investigate the Truth by discarding illusion (that which is the movement of the known), perceiving Life as It is (That which is beyond this movement). This non-dual Truth, Consciousness, Wisdom is Happiness, and This is Meditation. I want to invite you to go beyond mind, and this “to go” is not a movement to get somewhere. It is an encounter, here and now, with what You are, because You are beyond the mind.
Satsang is this great moment in which you have this great and extraordinary opportunity to discover the mind and its movement, which is pure limitation, conflict and fear. Our meetings have this approximation through a deep discernment. Only in this way, you can stop living on the mistake, within this self-deception created by the mind. This requires a real work in yourself, a deep self-investigation about the nature of the very own mind, about its movements therein, in this mechanism, organism. For this, it is fundamental a clarity of purpose, a passion for the Truth, a focused intention, a unidirectional focus, a deep interest.
Realization is your True Nature! When This establishes as your Natural State of Being, because It is You, there is no more suffering, conflict, illusion. So, I recommend that you be very focused, honest and sincere in this direction. The second recommendation is that you be very sincere, focused and determined in this direction; the third is that you be very focused, determined and sincere within this purpose. I still have the fourth and last recommendation: keep yourself in this direction, sincere and very focused within this objective, within this purpose.
It is necessary to abandon this illusion of choice, this illusion of self-identity, of personality. The contact with my Master showed me that. I was 24 years old when He found me, and then it started to become clear, here, the importance of this sincerity, this focus, this determined direction. Start to observe your reactions, what goes on inside, all thoughts, sensations, emotions, perceptions, for this is something intimate. No one can do it for you. There is no one better than you to do this, because it is all about you! Only you really know what goes on therein, and this is good news. Nobody can prevent you from discovering your madness, imaginations, fantasies, beliefs, dilemmas, conflicts, fears, and desires. This is your life. It is not somebody else’s life, and you must discover the Truth about Yourself and not the “truth” about the other. This means going beyond illusion, the sense of “me,” of duality. Does it make any sense or not?
What I am saying is that You are the one who takes on this Freedom there, there is not anyone else in your place. This Realization is the result of a real work that happens in you, with you, through you, in this surrender, in this surrender to this Power, which is the Power of Grace, the Divine Power, the Power of Consciousness. Do not entrust the mind to do this, because your ego has no honesty, sincerity, focus, nor real interest in This. This internal movement of cultural psychological conditioning, of beliefs, ideologies and concepts are not interested in being demolished, destroyed, in disappearing. This will always continue to insist on keeping the same way.
Participant: What is the ego for?
Mestre Gualberto: To create confusion. It only serves to imagine itself as a real entity within time and space, solving, doing, getting things done. Now, what is basically the ego? It is only this set of beliefs, conditioning, programming, ideas, that mind makes about itself within this mechanism, in this organism there. In other words, there is no real entity called “ego.” The ego just believes that it exists. It is the imagination of an entity. If you visit a madhouse, you will see people there believing they are famous characters of history. You will meet “Adolph Hitler,” “Mussolini,” “Pedro Álvares Cabral,”, “Napoleon,” “Princess Isabel,” etc. So, this imagination is a cheat, and this cheater is not real.
Surrender yourself to the Divine Truth, to the Reality of God, and this will reveal the Truth about Yourself. The heart of God will be revealed! There is something about you, therein, that can show what You really are. Surrender to That! Surrender to your Being, to your True Nature, to Your Real Guru!
However, what the Sage acknowledges is that there is nothing to be found, conquered or realized in the future. Therefore, as long as you keep looking, expecting, waiting for something, you will never know Happiness, Peace, Truth. This is the only thing the Sage knows – that there is nothing beyond what Life is, as It is here and now. Life is found as a revelation present at this moment. There is no future for This. Life does not offer you suffering, conflict, or confusion. All of this happens due this disorder, this imagination, this fantasy of the mind. It is a fantasy to believe that the Universe is against you, just like believing the Universe can cooperate with you at some point. Life is not for or against you. This is a fiction, a thing from imagination. What is hidden behind phrases such as “the Universe cooperates in your favor” is only fear, imagination.
So, the whole idea of positivism is a very childish thing. Seeking self-help is quite typical of the mind, on its ingenuity, fantasy, and imagination. The nature of the mind is always duality, and, if something is on your side, it can also be against you. It is a coin with two sides, and that is called “egoic mind.” There will never be good without evil, justice without injustice, pleasure without pain. You should not expect anything from Life! All this movement of hope is a movement of the mind and then based on fear. You should not expect anything from the world, from Life, and not even for something that would be permanent, such as love, peace, and happiness. Success and failure are ideas of mind, as it is the common process of it, in its imagination. Real Happiness is not something that comes from the mind but from your own Being, as your own True Nature.
You believe in all of this because of cultural conditioning. Everything you have received from culture comes from the mind. Culture is mind, and mind is duality, the dual experience of imagination. It is in the mind that exists this structure of good and evil, of true and false, of pleasure and pain, of the so-called “happiness” and unhappiness. There is no Truth in the mind! There is no Wisdom in the mind! Mind carries a lot of knowledge, but all knowledge of it is pure conditioning, within this limitation of experience, this duality – positive and negative, right and wrong, good and evil. That’s why I have always been giving this recommendation to those who come to Satsang: go beyond culture, the world, the mind, knowledge, imagination, beliefs, ideas, principles, known values, because, in this way, the True Happiness, that is Peace, Intelligence, Freedom, is possible.
This Real Happiness, which is Peace, Freedom and Intelligence, is not a cultural thing. You cannot receive This from culture, because it is out of it. You have to be outside of the mind, of what is cultural, to know Happiness, Freedom, Love, Intelligence, and to become Aware of the Truth of God, of the Divine Truth. Why? Because This is beyond the mind and so beyond the common experience of duality, beyond this vision of opposites. I have been talking to you about the Nature of the Truth, and I have done it in an indirect way, because we cannot approach This directly, since it is out of imagination. So, the way I use to talk to you about the Nature of Truth is by discarding the illusion, the confusion, the limitation of the mind.
For that reason, I have been talking about Meditation, Self-Investigation, and Real Surrender. Meditation is the access to this Truth outside time, the known, imagination, mind. Satsang is a unique space, because here we manage to investigate the Truth by discarding illusion (that which is the movement of the known), perceiving Life as It is (That which is beyond this movement). This non-dual Truth, Consciousness, Wisdom is Happiness, and This is Meditation. I want to invite you to go beyond mind, and this “to go” is not a movement to get somewhere. It is an encounter, here and now, with what You are, because You are beyond the mind.
Satsang is this great moment in which you have this great and extraordinary opportunity to discover the mind and its movement, which is pure limitation, conflict and fear. Our meetings have this approximation through a deep discernment. Only in this way, you can stop living on the mistake, within this self-deception created by the mind. This requires a real work in yourself, a deep self-investigation about the nature of the very own mind, about its movements therein, in this mechanism, organism. For this, it is fundamental a clarity of purpose, a passion for the Truth, a focused intention, a unidirectional focus, a deep interest.
Realization is your True Nature! When This establishes as your Natural State of Being, because It is You, there is no more suffering, conflict, illusion. So, I recommend that you be very focused, honest and sincere in this direction. The second recommendation is that you be very sincere, focused and determined in this direction; the third is that you be very focused, determined and sincere within this purpose. I still have the fourth and last recommendation: keep yourself in this direction, sincere and very focused within this objective, within this purpose.
It is necessary to abandon this illusion of choice, this illusion of self-identity, of personality. The contact with my Master showed me that. I was 24 years old when He found me, and then it started to become clear, here, the importance of this sincerity, this focus, this determined direction. Start to observe your reactions, what goes on inside, all thoughts, sensations, emotions, perceptions, for this is something intimate. No one can do it for you. There is no one better than you to do this, because it is all about you! Only you really know what goes on therein, and this is good news. Nobody can prevent you from discovering your madness, imaginations, fantasies, beliefs, dilemmas, conflicts, fears, and desires. This is your life. It is not somebody else’s life, and you must discover the Truth about Yourself and not the “truth” about the other. This means going beyond illusion, the sense of “me,” of duality. Does it make any sense or not?
What I am saying is that You are the one who takes on this Freedom there, there is not anyone else in your place. This Realization is the result of a real work that happens in you, with you, through you, in this surrender, in this surrender to this Power, which is the Power of Grace, the Divine Power, the Power of Consciousness. Do not entrust the mind to do this, because your ego has no honesty, sincerity, focus, nor real interest in This. This internal movement of cultural psychological conditioning, of beliefs, ideologies and concepts are not interested in being demolished, destroyed, in disappearing. This will always continue to insist on keeping the same way.
Participant: What is the ego for?
Mestre Gualberto: To create confusion. It only serves to imagine itself as a real entity within time and space, solving, doing, getting things done. Now, what is basically the ego? It is only this set of beliefs, conditioning, programming, ideas, that mind makes about itself within this mechanism, in this organism there. In other words, there is no real entity called “ego.” The ego just believes that it exists. It is the imagination of an entity. If you visit a madhouse, you will see people there believing they are famous characters of history. You will meet “Adolph Hitler,” “Mussolini,” “Pedro Álvares Cabral,”, “Napoleon,” “Princess Isabel,” etc. So, this imagination is a cheat, and this cheater is not real.
Surrender yourself to the Divine Truth, to the Reality of God, and this will reveal the Truth about Yourself. The heart of God will be revealed! There is something about you, therein, that can show what You really are. Surrender to That! Surrender to your Being, to your True Nature, to Your Real Guru!
*Online meeting transcription, originally held on January 20th, 2020 – First published in Portuguese on June, 11st, 2020. For more information about our meetings, click here.
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