My question to you is: what is the secret of Meditation? Why do we talk so much about Meditation here? You are busy with thoughts all the time, and this is constantly producing different states to yourself. You are involved with countless thoughts! When you are engaged in some state internally, you are not in your Being. So, Meditation is a very important thing, since it is the science of how to remain in your Being, free from any state.
You have uncountable thoughts, so you are continually in search of objects. You consider a state as an object to be achieved, and when you reach it, it is not real. Thus, you attain “happiness” and “peace,” but they are not real. You need to notice when you are away from your Real Being, you need to be aware of it, and you are always away from That when you are in a state you have aimed, searched for and found. That is why Meditation is very important – it is the presence of your Being free of states and objectifications.
Notice you are biased to think in order to accomplish something, and thinking really wards you off from your Natural Being, your Natural State. That’s why I say this Natural State is Meditation, is Consciousness!
Then, what secret could I share with you today, in this encounter here, about Happiness? What is the secret of Happiness? Happiness is to be here, without pursuing objects and results, that is, not focusing on the thoughts to find states. The thought creates these states of “peace,” “joy,” “freedom,” “happiness” – and even the state of “divine realization” – and then strives to reach that. So, when a single thought occurs inside your head, you are prone to create an object, and therefore it turns out to be the search for a state.
So, Meditation is a very simple thing to put into words but a very complex thing to be recognized, once the thought does not allow for it. Meditation is the absence of this movement of objectification, the absence of thought in the search of something externally. When you are in your Being, there is no search! It is simple to verify when you are absent from your Being: you are under some state.
Then, I am sharing you a secret here. What is the secret of Realized Beings, of the Sages? They do not engage themselves in pursuing objects. That is why desire, which is the motivation of a state, disappears. The mind is addicted to searching for states. Since you have not discovered the beauty of being in your Self, what do you do? You listen to music, watch a movie, go for a ride, you eat and so on, since there are countless ways for the mind to find these states. The mind will even meditate, since the practice of meditation, taught and prescribed, leads the practitioner to reach states of relaxation and well-being.
Meditation is not a state! Whenever you say “I am happy,” you are not in Happiness, or when you say “I am very glad,” it means that you do not know the Real Joy since It is not a state. “I am very happy” means you are objectifying an emotional experience; you are present in the objectification of that experience. It is the same as saying “I am in a meditation moment” or “I am in a consciousness moment,” since Meditation is not a passing state. Thus, Meditation, Consciousness cannot be pursued as an object!
Every time you enjoy something, it is not Happiness. “Ah… this song is so beautiful!” “That movie is so good!” It is an experience of a state; it is still an objectification; that is, the ego is present there, so there is no Consciousness, Meditation, Being. Can you see that? “I enjoy music,” “I enjoy cinema,” “I enjoy dating” is the same as saying: “I enjoy meditating, since in meditation I am in peace” – that is a peace turned into an object. When someone says: “I like meditation because it brings me silence,” but this is a silence you have achieved, you have reached.
Your Being is not a silence you achieve! Meditation, Happiness and Consciousness are not states you reach, since when This is present, “you,” the “person,” are not present. Can you see the trick? People become spiritual; in other words, they find states to live in. It means these people are spiritualized egos. Meditation is Consciousness, Consciousness is Being, Being is God, and one should not objectify This; one should not experience such objectification. To objectify is to separate yourself – “the experience and you,” “the state and you.”
These states are changeable, so they cannot be Meditation. I do not use the word “meditation” with the same meaning people use, as a practice, because to me Meditation is Consciousness, Samadhi, that is, it has nothing to do with a state, since you cannot objectify that. God cannot be objectified!
The “person” uses to look for states to live in. Be aware of when you are away from your Being, when you are in a state. People sometimes write to me: “I am very happy, Master. I woke up in deep silence,” “I am very well,” and I say: “it will pass.” You say, "I feel the silence," but you are objectifying the experience; there "you" are! “I feel such joy when I listen to this song” – this is an egoic, pleasant, romantic experience, such a deep feeling that can even provide you full inspiration, but you are in the ego. That has nothing to do with your Being, for your Being is not touched.
Another one wrote: “When I am with a boyfriend, I feel such a deep peace! It is the same as Tantra's contact with the Divine when I have sex. I have a cosmic experience of ecstasy in Tantra.” That is an objectification involving the senses, emotion and sensation, with the “experiencer” present. It has nothing to do with Consciousness, with the absence of the sense of "me," but rather just an ecstasy experience. Someone has the same or similar experience in a concert hall or listening to classical music.
For example, when your team wins a championship, you almost disappear in joy, and this is an experience, a state. When your child is born, you are in ecstasy, the world ends, the joy is so deep, the feeling is so fulfilling, but it is an objectified state and you need to be alert, aware of it. The moment you are aware, you know there is no "someone" to know. When there is Real Happiness, you do not say: "I am in joy," "I am happy," and you do not think: "I am at peace, in joy." When there is Real Joy, there is no thought, no objectification of the experience.
If "you" go through the experience, it is not real. What is Real is not an experience "you" go through, so That cannot be objectified. You cannot go in and out of Real Meditation; of consciousness, of Peace or of Happiness.
Be aware of what is happening to you. When you say: "I like this so much," it is a pleading, a request for more, that is, this is already going or has already gone away. That is how the egoic mind shows itself. So, stay tuned and see that within yourself. See how much the mind is objectifying the experience, constantly searching for sensations. That wards you completely off from your Self, from your Being.
The egoic mind is like a little monkey, jumping from branch to branch in the pursuit of a new sensation, a new experience. Now on a higher branch, then on a lower one but it does not calm down on a branch. It stops for a little while, enjoys the landscape and then jumps to another branch, then to another one, then it goes down to later jump up again. The egoic mind is like this little restless monkey jumping from branch to branch, never resting, and this wards you off from your Being. Your Being does not need branches, new landscapes, distractions, having fun; Your Being does not have to fulfill Itself with any distraction, does not need to find something called as "happiness," "peace," "pleasure," "satisfaction."
It is easy to see if you are in or away from your Being. When away from your Being, you are restless, very “hungry”: hunger for drinking, for drugs, for food, for sex, for spiritual knowledge... Your Being needs nothing! Your Being is not concerned with family, children, dog, cat. So, when you say: "Bless my children," "Bless my pet and my business," it is your ego asking. Your ego will feel blessed if good things happen to your business, to your cat, to your children... That is the ego's old trick.
You have uncountable thoughts, so you are continually in search of objects. You consider a state as an object to be achieved, and when you reach it, it is not real. Thus, you attain “happiness” and “peace,” but they are not real. You need to notice when you are away from your Real Being, you need to be aware of it, and you are always away from That when you are in a state you have aimed, searched for and found. That is why Meditation is very important – it is the presence of your Being free of states and objectifications.
Notice you are biased to think in order to accomplish something, and thinking really wards you off from your Natural Being, your Natural State. That’s why I say this Natural State is Meditation, is Consciousness!
Then, what secret could I share with you today, in this encounter here, about Happiness? What is the secret of Happiness? Happiness is to be here, without pursuing objects and results, that is, not focusing on the thoughts to find states. The thought creates these states of “peace,” “joy,” “freedom,” “happiness” – and even the state of “divine realization” – and then strives to reach that. So, when a single thought occurs inside your head, you are prone to create an object, and therefore it turns out to be the search for a state.
So, Meditation is a very simple thing to put into words but a very complex thing to be recognized, once the thought does not allow for it. Meditation is the absence of this movement of objectification, the absence of thought in the search of something externally. When you are in your Being, there is no search! It is simple to verify when you are absent from your Being: you are under some state.
Then, I am sharing you a secret here. What is the secret of Realized Beings, of the Sages? They do not engage themselves in pursuing objects. That is why desire, which is the motivation of a state, disappears. The mind is addicted to searching for states. Since you have not discovered the beauty of being in your Self, what do you do? You listen to music, watch a movie, go for a ride, you eat and so on, since there are countless ways for the mind to find these states. The mind will even meditate, since the practice of meditation, taught and prescribed, leads the practitioner to reach states of relaxation and well-being.
Meditation is not a state! Whenever you say “I am happy,” you are not in Happiness, or when you say “I am very glad,” it means that you do not know the Real Joy since It is not a state. “I am very happy” means you are objectifying an emotional experience; you are present in the objectification of that experience. It is the same as saying “I am in a meditation moment” or “I am in a consciousness moment,” since Meditation is not a passing state. Thus, Meditation, Consciousness cannot be pursued as an object!
Every time you enjoy something, it is not Happiness. “Ah… this song is so beautiful!” “That movie is so good!” It is an experience of a state; it is still an objectification; that is, the ego is present there, so there is no Consciousness, Meditation, Being. Can you see that? “I enjoy music,” “I enjoy cinema,” “I enjoy dating” is the same as saying: “I enjoy meditating, since in meditation I am in peace” – that is a peace turned into an object. When someone says: “I like meditation because it brings me silence,” but this is a silence you have achieved, you have reached.
Your Being is not a silence you achieve! Meditation, Happiness and Consciousness are not states you reach, since when This is present, “you,” the “person,” are not present. Can you see the trick? People become spiritual; in other words, they find states to live in. It means these people are spiritualized egos. Meditation is Consciousness, Consciousness is Being, Being is God, and one should not objectify This; one should not experience such objectification. To objectify is to separate yourself – “the experience and you,” “the state and you.”
These states are changeable, so they cannot be Meditation. I do not use the word “meditation” with the same meaning people use, as a practice, because to me Meditation is Consciousness, Samadhi, that is, it has nothing to do with a state, since you cannot objectify that. God cannot be objectified!
The “person” uses to look for states to live in. Be aware of when you are away from your Being, when you are in a state. People sometimes write to me: “I am very happy, Master. I woke up in deep silence,” “I am very well,” and I say: “it will pass.” You say, "I feel the silence," but you are objectifying the experience; there "you" are! “I feel such joy when I listen to this song” – this is an egoic, pleasant, romantic experience, such a deep feeling that can even provide you full inspiration, but you are in the ego. That has nothing to do with your Being, for your Being is not touched.
Another one wrote: “When I am with a boyfriend, I feel such a deep peace! It is the same as Tantra's contact with the Divine when I have sex. I have a cosmic experience of ecstasy in Tantra.” That is an objectification involving the senses, emotion and sensation, with the “experiencer” present. It has nothing to do with Consciousness, with the absence of the sense of "me," but rather just an ecstasy experience. Someone has the same or similar experience in a concert hall or listening to classical music.
For example, when your team wins a championship, you almost disappear in joy, and this is an experience, a state. When your child is born, you are in ecstasy, the world ends, the joy is so deep, the feeling is so fulfilling, but it is an objectified state and you need to be alert, aware of it. The moment you are aware, you know there is no "someone" to know. When there is Real Happiness, you do not say: "I am in joy," "I am happy," and you do not think: "I am at peace, in joy." When there is Real Joy, there is no thought, no objectification of the experience.
If "you" go through the experience, it is not real. What is Real is not an experience "you" go through, so That cannot be objectified. You cannot go in and out of Real Meditation; of consciousness, of Peace or of Happiness.
Be aware of what is happening to you. When you say: "I like this so much," it is a pleading, a request for more, that is, this is already going or has already gone away. That is how the egoic mind shows itself. So, stay tuned and see that within yourself. See how much the mind is objectifying the experience, constantly searching for sensations. That wards you completely off from your Self, from your Being.
The egoic mind is like a little monkey, jumping from branch to branch in the pursuit of a new sensation, a new experience. Now on a higher branch, then on a lower one but it does not calm down on a branch. It stops for a little while, enjoys the landscape and then jumps to another branch, then to another one, then it goes down to later jump up again. The egoic mind is like this little restless monkey jumping from branch to branch, never resting, and this wards you off from your Being. Your Being does not need branches, new landscapes, distractions, having fun; Your Being does not have to fulfill Itself with any distraction, does not need to find something called as "happiness," "peace," "pleasure," "satisfaction."
It is easy to see if you are in or away from your Being. When away from your Being, you are restless, very “hungry”: hunger for drinking, for drugs, for food, for sex, for spiritual knowledge... Your Being needs nothing! Your Being is not concerned with family, children, dog, cat. So, when you say: "Bless my children," "Bless my pet and my business," it is your ego asking. Your ego will feel blessed if good things happen to your business, to your cat, to your children... That is the ego's old trick.
*Online meeting transcription originally held on June 7th, 2020 – on Zoom app – First published in Portuguese on November 10th, 2020. To access our agenda, pleaseclick here.
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