Your world, which is your story, which is you as an entity present in the experience, whatever it is, is only mental content. I will give you an example of what this mental content is. Do you know your middle name?
Participant: Yes!
Master Gualberto: What is the middle name of that one?
Participant: I do not know!
Master Gualberto: This "I know" is content, and that content is your world, which is only real to you. This "I do not know" is real for everyone. It is the absence of content. The Sage has no content. The Sage has the "do not know." When there is this "do not know," there is this huge Space. When I asked you the middle name of him and you said "I do not know," it was possible to see that a huge Space opened. When I asked for your middle name, then you left the Indefinable Space and entered into a definable space and time. That is the ego!
Your Natural State is this Indefinable and Indescribable Space of "do not know." This is Wisdom, the absence of stories. You do not know your middle name. You begin to know it only when I ask you. So, you see this is not real, because it is something that appears with memory. After the question is made, you search for the answer in memory. Before that, you did not know what I was going to ask, so you were in that "do not know." In this "do not know" there is a deep relaxation, but in the "I know" there is tension. Want to see it? Are you a boy or a girl? A woman or a man? There is not a tension?
Participant: Yes! I had difficulty when you asked my name. I had trouble getting it. I thought: "Wow, what is this for?"
Master Gualberto: Beautiful! Exactly! You need to search it in memory, which means that you have no name. So, when I ask you whether you are woman or man... What a petty thing! You need to look up and say: "I am a woman!" But, when you are in the "do not know," you are in a boundless Space of deep Silence. A world comes up, opens up, and that Instant, that Moment, that Space, which is where this Happiness reveals itself in Being, (which is not being something, nor being someone) is lost.
The "hearing," the "feeling," the thinking appearing, they must be treated in the same way, in this Space. You cannot grab the wind. You feel and listen to it, but you are not interested in grabbing it. But when a thought comes into your head, you "hold" it and bring it to the "person." When you do that, the "person" appears and then problems arise. This is what I call as "contraction."
When the present entity arises in the experience of thought, the thinker comes up. The thinker has a story to tell – first to himself and then to the world. The thinker has to keep confirming this story all the time, otherwise the thinker ceases to be someone.
This is too painful, isn't it? For me, this is releasing – not being the thinker and not having a story to tell, neither for yourself nor for anyone. This is Enlightenment!
The expression "Enlightenment" is not a space full of light, but the absence of the illusion of space and time. This is Love. This is Happiness!
Right now, in this Unlimited and Indescribable Space, there is no lack, but as soon as a desire arises, a "flight of fancy" comes up: "Oh, I would like to travel now to ..." Your intention in being on this "flight" is to relax in your Being, but you can only relax in your Being here and now. Then, you go to the desired place and say: "Wow! What a beautiful, wonderful place!" But it takes just a few seconds of relaxation for you to say: "What am I doing here? I had to be at... "
The mind continues in this trick, placing you in time and space, in an attempt to make you feel the completeness of being What You already Are, here and now. However, this never happens, because you are always "traveling" with it. You go from one pleasure to another, and another... The mind always has to be seeking this to feel complete, which never happens. It gets excited searching for sensations. It needs that, because without it, it disappears... Then, only You remain in your Real Nature.
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