It is quite interesting to discover life is not what you believe to be. We are frequently observing in Satsang you have been imagining reality. What you call "life" is only an imagination about Reality, but the Truth about Reality is forgotten, as if it were lost. The paradox here is that the Reality is not lost, and even more paradoxical is to know It is not forgotten either. This is just a forgetful game, in which this Reality seems to be lost, and all this is due to ignorance. When you recognize the Truth, the Reality, for the first time you know you cannot forget nor lose That. The ignorance regarding who you are leads to this sensation.
What you call sadness and joy, peace and war, are symptoms of illusion. If at this current moment you feel peace, and in the following moment you see yourself in conflict, at war, there you have a classic sign of the presence of illusion. These are feelings happening due to ignorance. Thus, you are in a switching state between peace and war. This is the state of duality, of separation. You feel like a prisoner, suffering and seeking a solution to illusory problems due to ignorance. Whenever you feel unhappy and in trouble, you are accepting something imaginary concerning Life, concerning Reality, and so you have this fight. When there is ignorance, bad events are neither accepted nor understood. Those who have achieved this understanding just recognize this, so they have no surprises, since they know this is part of life game, of this game of duality.
So, there is no reason to be sad when bad things happen nor to be euphoric, imagining you have found happiness when good things happen. All of this is due to ignorance. The person who lives in ignorance is happy when good things happen and believes happiness will be eternal, but it is not so. If a good thing is going on, I have some bad news to give you: it will not last. That is because nothing lasts long, be it good or bad. All right? Can you hear this without being upset?
The egoic mind has a prospect of profit, of acquisition, of gain. The ego is always engaged in a big business, in something it cannot lose. All the time, the ego is striving for self-benefit! The ego must be loved, respected, praised and must win. That is how you had been trained to live; this is how you had been trained in this world. In every area and aspect, you will always long for good things to happen. I am not saying that longing for good things to happen is bad; I am saying that not accepting bad things can happen, when good things are also expected, is a bad thing. It is an illusion not to be ready for bad things, as you expect only good things.
I love Satsang, this encounter with Wisdom, where the words you receive are from pure Consciousness. They are not words for you to reflect, imagine, agree or disagree with, but rather only to hear and sleep with them, and preferably to wake up the next morning saying: "That is it and period.“ This is Wisdom! Satsang is the encounter with Wisdom. When you meet a living Master, you are faced with Consciousness Itself. Realized Beings are not abundant like bananas, easily found in the market where you can buy dozens, several bunches. Yet I tell you, even to find bananas you need to go to the right place, because if you look for them in a stationery store, for example, you will not find it.
This meeting we have here is the meeting with the Truth of Consciousness, with the Truth of Being. The one who has a clear understanding of That, knows that life always has two sides – sometimes you win, at others you lose. So, I recommend you to always investigate this matter of who is winning and losing and who is being affected. You believe you are a separate entity, and that is the reason for fear, for suffering. Actually, everyone in the planet is an appearance within that same Consciousness. There is only this unique Consciousness, in which everything appears.
We all know what it is like to start watching a movie and then saying it is a bad or a good film, but the interesting point is this is your own appraisal, not the screen’s. The screen does not care if the projection concerns a good or a bad movie; it makes no difference to the screen. The screen does not increase its feeling of being “alive” when the movie is being projected on it. Interesting, isn't it?
Therefore, if you understand you are neither the body, the mind, nor a separate entity and you abandon this entanglement, this inner confusion, which I call "identification with the mind," everything becomes fine. Everyone happens within that Consciousness, and if you embrace that, all limitation disappears.
When a glass is broken, space becomes unlimited. Before that, there was a limitation, but, after broken, the space is no longer confined into the diameter or limitation of the glass. As long as you believe you are the mind, the body and you see the world as your life’s reality, you are like the glass, believing this space you have inside yourself is the entire space of the universe. Notice there is no reason for fear. The glass cannot be afraid of losing space if it breaks, because if it does, it does not lose space, its space does not disappear.
When a glass you have at home is broken, others continue to serve the same way, and you throw the broken one in the trash. It is just like that in the Existence - everything disappears, but nothing disappears, nothing causes any loss. What goes through your head are just beliefs, false ideas about Existence, about Life, and you do not allow that limitation to break.
When Realization is present, there is no idea about Life. This is the simple and straightforward Vision, the Wise Vision. So, break the limitations you have created with your own thoughts, allow it to be broken.
Satsang is extraordinary, out of the ordinary, out of the common place, since here all these lies are broken. Your life is a lie, precisely because it is "your life" and not Life. In "your life" there is no Truth, Wisdom. Life is the "screen," but your “life” is the "movie," in which good things are happening at one time, and bad things at others. This is the "film," and this is what you call "life." This is the circuit of ignorance, since there are no good nor bad things, there are only things happening. To the "screen," things are just happening, but as you do not know who you are and mistake yourself for what you are not, you are seeing good and bad things.
What you call sadness and joy, peace and war, are symptoms of illusion. If at this current moment you feel peace, and in the following moment you see yourself in conflict, at war, there you have a classic sign of the presence of illusion. These are feelings happening due to ignorance. Thus, you are in a switching state between peace and war. This is the state of duality, of separation. You feel like a prisoner, suffering and seeking a solution to illusory problems due to ignorance. Whenever you feel unhappy and in trouble, you are accepting something imaginary concerning Life, concerning Reality, and so you have this fight. When there is ignorance, bad events are neither accepted nor understood. Those who have achieved this understanding just recognize this, so they have no surprises, since they know this is part of life game, of this game of duality.
So, there is no reason to be sad when bad things happen nor to be euphoric, imagining you have found happiness when good things happen. All of this is due to ignorance. The person who lives in ignorance is happy when good things happen and believes happiness will be eternal, but it is not so. If a good thing is going on, I have some bad news to give you: it will not last. That is because nothing lasts long, be it good or bad. All right? Can you hear this without being upset?
The egoic mind has a prospect of profit, of acquisition, of gain. The ego is always engaged in a big business, in something it cannot lose. All the time, the ego is striving for self-benefit! The ego must be loved, respected, praised and must win. That is how you had been trained to live; this is how you had been trained in this world. In every area and aspect, you will always long for good things to happen. I am not saying that longing for good things to happen is bad; I am saying that not accepting bad things can happen, when good things are also expected, is a bad thing. It is an illusion not to be ready for bad things, as you expect only good things.
I love Satsang, this encounter with Wisdom, where the words you receive are from pure Consciousness. They are not words for you to reflect, imagine, agree or disagree with, but rather only to hear and sleep with them, and preferably to wake up the next morning saying: "That is it and period.“ This is Wisdom! Satsang is the encounter with Wisdom. When you meet a living Master, you are faced with Consciousness Itself. Realized Beings are not abundant like bananas, easily found in the market where you can buy dozens, several bunches. Yet I tell you, even to find bananas you need to go to the right place, because if you look for them in a stationery store, for example, you will not find it.
This meeting we have here is the meeting with the Truth of Consciousness, with the Truth of Being. The one who has a clear understanding of That, knows that life always has two sides – sometimes you win, at others you lose. So, I recommend you to always investigate this matter of who is winning and losing and who is being affected. You believe you are a separate entity, and that is the reason for fear, for suffering. Actually, everyone in the planet is an appearance within that same Consciousness. There is only this unique Consciousness, in which everything appears.
We all know what it is like to start watching a movie and then saying it is a bad or a good film, but the interesting point is this is your own appraisal, not the screen’s. The screen does not care if the projection concerns a good or a bad movie; it makes no difference to the screen. The screen does not increase its feeling of being “alive” when the movie is being projected on it. Interesting, isn't it?
Therefore, if you understand you are neither the body, the mind, nor a separate entity and you abandon this entanglement, this inner confusion, which I call "identification with the mind," everything becomes fine. Everyone happens within that Consciousness, and if you embrace that, all limitation disappears.
When a glass is broken, space becomes unlimited. Before that, there was a limitation, but, after broken, the space is no longer confined into the diameter or limitation of the glass. As long as you believe you are the mind, the body and you see the world as your life’s reality, you are like the glass, believing this space you have inside yourself is the entire space of the universe. Notice there is no reason for fear. The glass cannot be afraid of losing space if it breaks, because if it does, it does not lose space, its space does not disappear.
When a glass you have at home is broken, others continue to serve the same way, and you throw the broken one in the trash. It is just like that in the Existence - everything disappears, but nothing disappears, nothing causes any loss. What goes through your head are just beliefs, false ideas about Existence, about Life, and you do not allow that limitation to break.
When Realization is present, there is no idea about Life. This is the simple and straightforward Vision, the Wise Vision. So, break the limitations you have created with your own thoughts, allow it to be broken.
Satsang is extraordinary, out of the ordinary, out of the common place, since here all these lies are broken. Your life is a lie, precisely because it is "your life" and not Life. In "your life" there is no Truth, Wisdom. Life is the "screen," but your “life” is the "movie," in which good things are happening at one time, and bad things at others. This is the "film," and this is what you call "life." This is the circuit of ignorance, since there are no good nor bad things, there are only things happening. To the "screen," things are just happening, but as you do not know who you are and mistake yourself for what you are not, you are seeing good and bad things.
*Online meeting transcription originally held on July 3rd, 2020. First published in Portuguese on October 1st, 2020. For further information about the meetings, please click here.
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