A careful investigation into ourselves has been an extraordinary and powerful tool for the encounter with our True Nature. Although the religious practices and all forms of moral behavior people gave us, have a certain disciplinary role, they were never enough for giving us what we believe we can find there: profound Peace, True Love, and Real Joy.
We keep always adding something to ourselves that we did not have. That has been the great illusion we were taught by those who were looking for something before us and like us. We do not realize this race never stops, let alone it ends.
Everyone is telling us we are in the right direction and someday, in the future, we will get there. Ask these people what we will find there: they will have an answer on the tip of their tongue. Now, ask if they have met or known someone who has already found what they believe they can find, someone who has already stopped rushing, who found the end of his or her search. The answer is obvious.
We cannot find the Truth by accumulating, within this illusory personality, all kinds of information, knowledge, and experience. The Truth of what we seek and search for is not part of what can be intellectually known or emotionally experienced as we were led to believe, and the opposite is also totally true. Those that one day have experienced this illusion of running a race - just like us - and have realized, after leaving this marathon, it was just a desperate escape from suffering, have soon understood that instead of accumulating something, they need rather to give up everything they have accumulated and empty themselves of all content in order to recognize their Divine Consciousness.
What we say is that, in the Now, in the clear Vision of who we internally are, beyond all this accumulated content (materially, intellectually and emotionally), lies the Truth we search for, the Eternal Happiness.
How to live This? Now, in your Being. Do not mistake yourself for what is going on in your head. Thoughts are just thoughts! Do not give them a life they do not have by identifying with them. This has been the insane human being behavior. Human beings are guided by thought, so everything they do is based on desire and motives created by thoughts, which creates even more confusion and suffering.
Allow your Pure Consciousness, “Something” beyond your head and therefore beyond thoughts, to Awaken therein. Find out that there is a space between thoughts. There is always a space between two thoughts! That is the space of the Silence of Pure Consciousness, of the Divine Consciousness! Just disidentify with thinking and you will be Free, or rather, you will know the Freedom that has always been yours.
We keep always adding something to ourselves that we did not have. That has been the great illusion we were taught by those who were looking for something before us and like us. We do not realize this race never stops, let alone it ends.
Everyone is telling us we are in the right direction and someday, in the future, we will get there. Ask these people what we will find there: they will have an answer on the tip of their tongue. Now, ask if they have met or known someone who has already found what they believe they can find, someone who has already stopped rushing, who found the end of his or her search. The answer is obvious.
We cannot find the Truth by accumulating, within this illusory personality, all kinds of information, knowledge, and experience. The Truth of what we seek and search for is not part of what can be intellectually known or emotionally experienced as we were led to believe, and the opposite is also totally true. Those that one day have experienced this illusion of running a race - just like us - and have realized, after leaving this marathon, it was just a desperate escape from suffering, have soon understood that instead of accumulating something, they need rather to give up everything they have accumulated and empty themselves of all content in order to recognize their Divine Consciousness.
What we say is that, in the Now, in the clear Vision of who we internally are, beyond all this accumulated content (materially, intellectually and emotionally), lies the Truth we search for, the Eternal Happiness.
How to live This? Now, in your Being. Do not mistake yourself for what is going on in your head. Thoughts are just thoughts! Do not give them a life they do not have by identifying with them. This has been the insane human being behavior. Human beings are guided by thought, so everything they do is based on desire and motives created by thoughts, which creates even more confusion and suffering.
Allow your Pure Consciousness, “Something” beyond your head and therefore beyond thoughts, to Awaken therein. Find out that there is a space between thoughts. There is always a space between two thoughts! That is the space of the Silence of Pure Consciousness, of the Divine Consciousness! Just disidentify with thinking and you will be Free, or rather, you will know the Freedom that has always been yours.
*This text, written by Master Marcos Gualberto, shares the Sage's view about life, was published for the first time in Portuguese on October 12, 2010. It was the tenth 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, click here.
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