Free will is just a belief, a thought. In general, you believe you solve things, you do things, but everything just happens. From the day you were born until today, things happened by Divine determination and this will continue like that. This will not change; things will continue to happen.
For example, you believe you decided to come to this room today; you found an ad or somehow you heard about this work. You believe you found it, but in reality, it only happened. You are breathing... Is it right to say that? You think, but is it right to say that? If you think, why don’t you stop thinking? If you are the one who thinks, you could say: "I will stop thinking for five minutes.” Who here can stop thinking for five minutes? Is there anyone who says: "I will look at the clock and for two minutes I will not have any thoughts?” Try to do this out. Try this out for a minute or thirty seconds. Can you do it?
So, you are not the one who thinks; thought happens. You are not breathing; breathing is happening. You have not decided to come to this room; this is also only happening. Give me another example of freedom you believe you have... When you lie down to sleep, do you sleep or does the sleep happen? Have you noticed you do not sleep when you want to, but rather when sleep happens? What else do you think you do? There is no "you" doing anything! Are you with me? What about feelings, like sadness and joy? You say: "I am going to be sad" and so you are sad... Is it so? You say: "I am going to be happy" and then, are you happy? Do you decide on your emotions and feelings? Anger, for example, do you choose to feel anger or not?
So, where are you? Do you choose when you will be thirsty and hungry? I want to know what you do, what you decide on to do! How many times during the day do the eyes open and close? Do you choose this? Do you choose to make your heart beat? What is the pressure of your heartbeat, the speed of the blood flow into the veins, into the arteries? So, do you decide to feel happiness? You listen to a self-help speaker and he or she teaches you how to be happy, how to keep in control, how to not fall into depression, anxiety, that is, how to control "your present" to achieve "your future." People pay fortunes to listen to self-help speakers and do everything they are taught to be happy, since it is just a matter of choosing that. Is it so?
Are you sure the speakers also do what they recommend you? Can they do that? You simply decide "I will not fall into depression, sadness, anguish." Is it so? Or "I will not feel pain, be it physical, emotional or psychological." Does it work like that?
Participant: But, when we are more alert, we decide not to react in a certain way before a provocative word, for example. The state of Consciousness allows one to not act blindly. It is a choice, isn't it?
Marcos Gualberto: Consciousness is Intelligence! Consciousness does not choose! Consciousness does not have flights of fancy about a character. It is simple, and it is not a choice. Intelligence, Love, Freedom and Peace do not make choices. Peace is the absence of choice. Freedom is the absence of choice. Everything you have learned is false! You are not at liberty to have peace when you have Peace, and that is Freedom. You do not have the freedom to make choices, because when there is Freedom there is no choice. So, when there is Consciousness (and that is not a choice), there is no way to act blindly.
You said that "the state of Consciousness allows us to not act blindly," but I am contesting that. I am saying, when there is Consciousness, there is no action, no illusion, no author of the action doing anything, so there is no choice. In the ego, you make choices and decisions, and all of this is false. There is no naturalness in the egoic mind, since there is no Freedom, Intelligence, Truth, exactly because "choices are made." Actually, these choices do not exist; they are ego’s imaginations.
Participant: Do I decide if I want to dedicate an activity to God or not? Do I decide for God?
Marcos Gualberto: No! Consciousness does not decide that; Consciousness assumes that, the Truth there is only God. Do you get it? Wherever your decision is, there will be confusion, duality, liking or disliking; there will be no Intelligence! When you say “I decided,” who is this “I”? This “I” is obsession, imagination. Consciousness does not decide, does not do anything. I repeat: Consciousness does not choose, does not do anything, does not decide. Consciousness is Absolute Intelligence!
These decisions are on your moods, and you are inattentive of it, being in a good or a bad mood, and there is always an interest behind these actions. You treat someone very well and you do not realize you are falling into a trap. This is not a natural action, since it is not this never-acting Consciousness unfolding. Consciousness does everything, but without acting and without expecting results. In the ego, you are always stuck to results, as you start from the wrong principle of choosing.
When there is Intelligence, as no choice is present, there is no other place to be, except with God. If Divine Grace is available, there is nowhere else for you to be, except before that Grace. This is not a choice! This is Intelligence!
“Oh! I decided not to create any more confusion,” you say, but soon you decide something else. The same one, who decides not to create more confusion, soon decides to create it – it is always the ego! When there is Intelligence, there is no confusion, but that is not a choice. You say: "I decided to be happy"... Happiness is not a choice; Happiness is Intelligence! You say: "I decided to live in peace," but that is not a decision; living in Peace is Absolute Intelligence, because the Nature of Consciousness is Peace. Live in Intelligence, do not live making choices, decisions. Making a decision means assuming an illusion, and that complicates things.
Participant: How to differentiate what is illusory from what is real?
Marcos Gualberto: By being real, not thinking. Once thinking, planning and choosing, you will always decide for illusion. In order to differentiate what is illusory from what is real, just be real, and this requires investigating what is not real, and not distinguishing the illusory and the real, what is false or true – it is not a matter of differentiation, but rather of investigation. You need to investigate what the mind produces internally.
Investigation will show you how the egoic mind constantly deceives you by assuming a mistaken attitude, posture or movement. That investigation awakens Intelligence, and this is love for the Truth, it is devotion.
My job with you is to show what is false, not what is real, and your job is to abandon what is false, and that is devotion. There is no devotion without giving up on the false things. There is only a romantic thing for the Master, for the Guru, for Jesus, for God, for Krishna, for Buddha... This romanticism is not real devotion. Real devotion is to abandon what is false when Christ shows you, when God shows you, when the Guru shows you, when Life shows you. When you encounter an Awakened Being, a Realized Being, this One will show you what is false, only that. This One will say, "Look, this is false." This One will give you the Grace, the “eyes” to see what is false and the power to abandon that. But to really abandon that is up to you. This is your job.
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