You have to become aware of the Truth, that is, to go beyond your beliefs and any image you make of yourself and of the world. Only then, you will be able to become totally and completely Free. When you pray to God and He is very far, it is like God was not hearing you. It is not that He does not listen to you. It is you that cannot listen to Him. This is the world where you live, and that’s why you need to transcend it: in order to really hear God’s voice.
So, when the Presence of the Guru comes into your life, it is to provide you for the Vision of the Truth about who You are and about what the world in fact is. God is the Truth of your Being; however, you do not have access to Him until you find out how to access Him inside yourself. Thus, this mysterious Power takes the form of the Guru and shows you how to access This inside you. The Guru silences your mind and inclines your heart to the Truth. This is the mysterious Power of the Presence of a living Master.
All people around you are mundane, and all their inclination is to names and shapes world. They believe in everything and “follow the herd.” Do you know what a herd is? If you separate a cow or an ox from the herd, it is eager to go back. Once separated, the animal gets lost, not knowing where to go, because it loses the direction of the herd. In the ego, you are like that: when you separate yourself from the “herd,” you want to go back to it because you feel lost.
Then, Master’s Presence comes to provide you for a new perspective, another view, to take you out of the “herd.” Is This precious or not?
When you sit in silence and start watching the movement of the thoughts inside yourself, you notice how the mind is full of trash, which are preconceived ideas, beliefs, concepts, a huge amount of psychological garbage. When you do that, you can hear God’s voice, you can see God’s face, and this is the purpose we are together here, in this space. Since you cannot deal with What you do not know, you have to come closer to this internal movement of the “me.” That is, you cannot go beyond the mind without becoming aware of its movement. If you are not familiar with this movement of the very own “me,” how can you abandon that?
Now, notice what I am saying to you here: it is not about analyzing the “I,” for this is what psychologists and psychiatrists do. It is rather about seeing its movement. The analyst is not separate from what he/she analyses. When what is analyzed appears, it is analyzed just because there is an analyst present. So, both are always together – the analyst and the analyzed thing. It is just like thought and thinker. You cannot separate the thinker from the thought, both appear together. You cannot talk about a thought without the illusion of a “thinker.” So, if there is not a thought, there is not a “thinker.” If there is not an analyzed thing, there is not an “analyst.”
It is like fear; you do not separate fear from the one who is afraid. The one who is afraid is present there together with the fear. Notice that there is no separation. When there is not fear, there is no “someone” in the experience of fear, there is not the “fearful” one. Also, when there is no thought, there is no “thinker,” and when there is not anything to be analyzed, there is no “analyst.” So, what is to listen to God and see His face? It means being out of this illusion of duality: thinker and thought, analyst and the analyzed thing, fearful and fear. Therefore, when the Guru comes up, it is to show you the importance of being in this Space, which is not a “space.”
Now, the first step, which may be the last, is to observe, to get to know this mechanics. People ask: “But who is going to surrender?” I answer that the one who is going to surrender does not exist. When there is surrender, there is no “someone”! That’s why these questions people ask when they approach this work are completely wrong. They say: “What do I do to stop thinking?” It is impossible to stop thinking! Thought stops but you do not do it. Now, you can only figure out this mechanics by establishing yourself in Silence and looking at this. However, do not take it literally as many people do. Establishing in Silence does not mean that you cannot eat, walk, work.
Here, it is the very own Silence settled in Silence. It is not “someone.” If you believe you are “someone,” you are going to sit your body down and believe that you are really in Silence. So, establishing in Silence to know this mechanics means Silence itself settled and this mechanics being known. This is very interesting because you say to me: “I want to watch the mind.” However, you cannot watch the mind but only mistake yourself for it. When there is observation, there is no mind. You must be an expert in this matter of Meditation, which is this “establishing yourself in Silence.”
So, when the Presence of the Guru comes into your life, it is to provide you for the Vision of the Truth about who You are and about what the world in fact is. God is the Truth of your Being; however, you do not have access to Him until you find out how to access Him inside yourself. Thus, this mysterious Power takes the form of the Guru and shows you how to access This inside you. The Guru silences your mind and inclines your heart to the Truth. This is the mysterious Power of the Presence of a living Master.
All people around you are mundane, and all their inclination is to names and shapes world. They believe in everything and “follow the herd.” Do you know what a herd is? If you separate a cow or an ox from the herd, it is eager to go back. Once separated, the animal gets lost, not knowing where to go, because it loses the direction of the herd. In the ego, you are like that: when you separate yourself from the “herd,” you want to go back to it because you feel lost.
Then, Master’s Presence comes to provide you for a new perspective, another view, to take you out of the “herd.” Is This precious or not?
When you sit in silence and start watching the movement of the thoughts inside yourself, you notice how the mind is full of trash, which are preconceived ideas, beliefs, concepts, a huge amount of psychological garbage. When you do that, you can hear God’s voice, you can see God’s face, and this is the purpose we are together here, in this space. Since you cannot deal with What you do not know, you have to come closer to this internal movement of the “me.” That is, you cannot go beyond the mind without becoming aware of its movement. If you are not familiar with this movement of the very own “me,” how can you abandon that?
Now, notice what I am saying to you here: it is not about analyzing the “I,” for this is what psychologists and psychiatrists do. It is rather about seeing its movement. The analyst is not separate from what he/she analyses. When what is analyzed appears, it is analyzed just because there is an analyst present. So, both are always together – the analyst and the analyzed thing. It is just like thought and thinker. You cannot separate the thinker from the thought, both appear together. You cannot talk about a thought without the illusion of a “thinker.” So, if there is not a thought, there is not a “thinker.” If there is not an analyzed thing, there is not an “analyst.”
It is like fear; you do not separate fear from the one who is afraid. The one who is afraid is present there together with the fear. Notice that there is no separation. When there is not fear, there is no “someone” in the experience of fear, there is not the “fearful” one. Also, when there is no thought, there is no “thinker,” and when there is not anything to be analyzed, there is no “analyst.” So, what is to listen to God and see His face? It means being out of this illusion of duality: thinker and thought, analyst and the analyzed thing, fearful and fear. Therefore, when the Guru comes up, it is to show you the importance of being in this Space, which is not a “space.”
Now, the first step, which may be the last, is to observe, to get to know this mechanics. People ask: “But who is going to surrender?” I answer that the one who is going to surrender does not exist. When there is surrender, there is no “someone”! That’s why these questions people ask when they approach this work are completely wrong. They say: “What do I do to stop thinking?” It is impossible to stop thinking! Thought stops but you do not do it. Now, you can only figure out this mechanics by establishing yourself in Silence and looking at this. However, do not take it literally as many people do. Establishing in Silence does not mean that you cannot eat, walk, work.
Here, it is the very own Silence settled in Silence. It is not “someone.” If you believe you are “someone,” you are going to sit your body down and believe that you are really in Silence. So, establishing in Silence to know this mechanics means Silence itself settled and this mechanics being known. This is very interesting because you say to me: “I want to watch the mind.” However, you cannot watch the mind but only mistake yourself for it. When there is observation, there is no mind. You must be an expert in this matter of Meditation, which is this “establishing yourself in Silence.”
*Online meeting transcription originally held on May 16th, 2020 on Zoom app - First published in Portuguese on July 31st, 2020. For further information about the meetings, click here.
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