What did Buddha discover?

What did Buddha discover? Buddha discovered the Truth! The direct, natural, and simple Truth of Your own Being! This was what Buddha discovered! You are also here for this Discovery.

So, the adventure of Buddha, this Self-Discovery adventure, is your own adventure. Thus, abandon your interest in Buddha and focus, put your real interest in Yourself. You cannot find anything other than what Buddha found when you find Yourself.

So, you need to focus on this. Focus on this Truth, on the Truth of your Self-encounter. This Self-encounter is the Realization of what You are. Therefore, it's not something you will accomplish by studying Buddha's life or studying Ramana's life or Jesus' life. Here, it's about you "studying yourself."

This "studying yourself" is to investigate the Truth of what is going on here and now within yourself. And when you look inwardly, you will at first be able to see what Buddha first saw in himself: a movement of restlessness, an inner movement of psychological disturbance. Mind lives in this condition. This is the egoic mind's condition.

Then, when you look inside yourself, what you notice is this psychological disorder, this psychological confusion, this restless movement, this movement of thoughts. Under this movement, you mistake yourself, you identify with it and get disturbed. Then, first you need to look and see this inside yourself, what's going on here and now. As long as there is no inner silence, inner stillness, there will be no Truth! And mind's movement is restlessness. It is conflict. This is the nature of the egoic mind.

Our emphasis on the importance of Meditation – and that was Buddha's path – is essential! You need to find out what Meditation is.

Meditation carries an extraordinary beauty in itself! Meditation gives you a Real Vision of Yourself. This Real Vision of Yourself, of Yourself, is Buddha's Vision. It is Christ's Vision. It is Ramana's Vision. So, to this question "what did Buddha discover?", the only answer is the answer of this Self-discovery. If you discover the Truth within Yourself, you know what Christ revealed, what Ramana revealed, and what Buddha revealed.

So, your work is towards the Realization of this Stillness, this Silence, the absence of this false center. Notice, Buddha didn't mention the word "God," which was different from Ramana and Christ. But they all referred, pointed to the same direction, the direction of Truth. The word itself is not the Truth. The word "Truth," the word itself, is not the Truth. The word "God" is not God. So, the answer to this lies in the Revelation of your own Being, In What your own Being reveals. So, this Revelation is Ramana's Revelation, Buddha's Revelation, Christ's Revelation, and it is your own Revelation.

So, our emphasis in these meetings is to show you that Happiness is possible in this Self-Realization, only in this Self-Realization, in the Realization of the Truth, the Truth that You are, the Truth that You bring here, now.

So, this is an association with Yourself. Then, the Guru's figure is just a figure. The Reality of your Being is the Divine Reality. It is God's Reality. It is Truth's Reality, or whatever name you want to give This.

The point is: find out what Ramana found, what Buddha found, and what Christ found. Then, you have the Revelation of Truth, and this Truth is the end of confusion and suffering. This is the only Truth. This Truth is the Divine Truth.

December, 2021
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The cause of all problems

We talk about problems, don't we?

Someone comes and asks, "What is the cause of all problems?" But then, I ask, "What problems are you talking about?"

First, see, we create an identity. In fiction, in imagination, in thought, we formulate this idea: the idea of a present identity. And this identity carries problems. Problems such as anxiety, fear, worries, every form of internal, psychological disorder... It is inherent to this "identity." Putting this word in quotation marks: "identity" since this "identity" is not real.

So, when you come and ask: "What is the cause of the problems?" I would answer you in a very simple way: the cause of all problems is the illusion of an identity. The illusion of this separate identity is the basis of all forms of problems, which, by the way, is part of this illusion.

So, when we talk about fear, when we talk about anxiety, when we talk about worry, about the conflict of desires, we are talking about an identity present in this experience of a problem. Without the illusion of this identity, there are no problems.

So, what you call a problem, your problem, is the problem of this supposed "me," this supposed entity you believe you to be. If you go deep into this "Who am I?" question, investigating or observing that identity, you will find out, if you go deep into it, that it doesn't exist.

And once you see there is no such identity, through observation, you will unfailingly realize there are no problems. Problems are for the problematic one, but the problematic one does not exist. The problematic one is a construction of thought. This false center, this false "me," is a construction of thought.

So, what is the real cause of all problems? Illusion! The illusion of an identity present to have problems.

So, if you have a fear problem, it's in a relationship between a supposed "I," a supposed present identity, and something. Fear is always present in a relationship of duality.

Then, there is this "me" and the object, or a reason for the fear. But actually, both appear together. So, this duality between subject and object, between this "me" and the other thing is the basis of this problem, for example, called fear.

If you take that element out of that experience, sensation remains, but the problem doesn't. You cannot confuse the experience itself with the problem. The problem presupposes a present identity, resisting, fighting, wanting to get rid of, trying to protect itself, or attacking in some way. That's when we have a problem.

Life doesn't carry problems. The mind never stops having problems. It is inherent, it is in the nature of the dualistic mind, the separatist mind, the egoic mind, to carry problems!

So, the recommendation is: get rid of this false center, recognize your own Being, live in your Essential Nature! That's the end of the sense of separation. That's the end of duality. That's the end of conflict. That's the end of problems.

There is no problem without this false center, there is no problem without this "me," this "sense of person," this ego-identity, with its innumerable images, with its searches, escapes, desires, resistances... Without this movement, there is no conflict, there is no problem.

Then, there is no problem! Your Divine State is your Natural State, and that Natural State has no problems. So, the cause of problems is the illusion of a separate identity, a false identity in resistance to Life, in resistance to this movement of What Is, of That which is present, here and now! It's always like that, always like that.

December, 2021
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to get out of suffering?

Some people have asked the question "how to get out of suffering?", "how to go beyond suffering?", "how to stop suffering?"

See, suffering has many, many aspects. So, there are many ways of suffering, and basically suffering is conflict. Every form of conflict… it presents itself as suffering.

Now, there is a difference between pain, a pain that is physical, and suffering, between suffering itself and the physical pain. We cannot confuse pain with suffering. That psychological pain, yes, is suffering, but this physical pain, linked to the body, is not necessarily suffering. It's just pain.

If we are talking here about suffering, we are talking about this psychological characteristic that involves this separate identity, that involves this personal sense of an identity present, this "me." So, when we talk about suffering, we are talking about the suffering of the "I," the suffering of this "me," this "person."

So here, the question is "who are you?", "what is this person basically?". If we want to find the end of suffering, we need to find out what truth exists in the "person," what the reality of the "person" is, what basically is a "person."

In fact, "person" is a set of memories, a set of remembrances. A huge amount of imagination and there it is the so called "person."

This "sense of person" is an illusion. So, the basis of suffering is the illusion of the "person." If we are working towards the end of suffering in ourselves, we need to find out the Truth about who we are, who we are, who "I" am. Once I realize that this "me" is a set of images, a set of memories, something based on a self-image, an image engendered by thought... once this is seen, a work of deconstruction of this false self-image is possible, this thought-based self-image.

This happens through a work of self-investigation, a work of surrendering and giving up this illusion. This is where the work of self-inquiry, meditation and surrender takes place.

So, the work of the Realization of the Truth about who You are, which represents the end of this psychological complexity, this illusion of self-image, with memories, recollections… The end of that, is the end of suffering.

So, how to go beyond suffering? Just letting go of the illusion of that false identity, letting it fall, letting it go. For this to be possible, for this to happen, this Consciousness needs to be present, this Attention needs to be present. So, the work of self-knowledge – and, here, the word "self-knowledge" is not in the sense of knowing the "I", but in the sense of becoming aware of what this "I" represents – is something fundamental.

Your work of Self-Realization is the work of discarding this illusion, the illusion of this sense of a separate identity solving, making choices, deciding, attached to, mixed up with experiences of thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions... The abandonment of this false identity is the abandonment of suffering. It is the abandonment of this "I," this "me," this illusion, the illusion of separateness. This is the end of suffering. This is the way to solve this issue, definitively and completely.

December, 2021
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The Acknowledgment of the Truth

A quite common question... this is a question people ask: "Who is God?"

See, the acknowledgment of your own Being is the acknowledgment of God's Truth! There is no separation between You and Reality. Your Being is the Divine Reality. Your Being is this Reality of God.

But for a long time, you've been identifying with an image you have of yourself. An image that grew with you. So, since childhood, you have been carrying this image. You have been cultivating this image. It's the image of the person you believe you are.

So, you have an idea of who you are. You have an idea of what the world is, what life is, and you also have an idea of who God is.

It's not possible the acknowledgment of the Truth, this Truth of God, without the clear acknowledgment of the Truth of who You are. So, the point is "who am I?" and not "who is God?"

The question "where is God?" is answered when you find yourself. If you recognize the Truth about Yourself, you find the truth of where God is. Therefore, you need to work towards this direction. This is the work of Self-Knowledge, Self-Realization. Only this work gives you this Vision: the Vision of God, which is the vision of Yourself!

When you're entirely free from that presumption – because it's a presumption indeed – the presumption of a separate identity, of being someone in this whole manifestation, someone separate, unique, exclusive, someone particular.

Life is the Whole. It's a Totality. And, in this Totality, what prevails is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God. This is the Reality of your Being!

Your suffering, all your misery, all the complications in your life, all of them are based on this arrogance, this mistaken identification with this false center, with this false "me," with this image you have of yourself. This is not real. This is not You! This is not the Divine Reality!

So, the answer to the question "who is God?" is found in the answer to the question "who am I?"

So, Ramana Maharshi presented this question to the world by showing us that this is the answer we can have about where God is. So, God is in where we are what we are. That's where God can be found. This is the Truth about Me. This is the Truth about God. This is the Truth about You. This is the Truth about Ramana Maharshi. This is the Truth about Life!

December, 2021
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Everything is impermanent

What we intend to propose to you, in Satsang, is the experience of your Divine State, the experience of your Real State. This Real State I have called the Natural State.

See, everything you experience is impermanent. There is no permanence anywhere. There is nothing permanent! Everything is impermanent! See, the states you experience are impermanent. So, they cannot be part of your True and Real Nature.

Everything you live in your experience, as a separate entity, turns out to be impermanent. Naturally, because none of these experiences are part of who you are.

Your Real Nature is immutable! The states you experience are changeable. The sensations, perceptions and experiences are all changeable, while your Being remains untouched by changes.

So, the work of Self-realization is the work of Realizing the immutable Truth of your Being, this untouched Reality of your Being. So, when we deal with That which we are, we are dealing with What is immutable. When we are dealing with experiences, sensations, states and perceptions, we are dealing with what is changeable, impermanent and has no permanence

So, this invitation to this inner work is the invitation for the verification of your Divine Nature, your Real and Immutable Nature. Only this Divine Nature, which You are, remains when everything disappears. So, stay in What You are. Stay in What cannot be touched by changes.

Thought is touched by changes. Feeling is touched by changes. States – sadness, joy, pleasure, pain – all of them are touched by changes. Now, That which You are does not change. What You are remains immutable. That's your True Nature. That's your Divine Nature.

To remain in this Space is to remain in the Silence of your Being. That is God's Truth about who You are.

In India, they call this Sat-Chit-Ananda. Being, Consciousness and Bliss. That is your Divine Nature! To remain there, is to remain in What doesn't change. So, everything else is impermanent, only that Being remains unchanged.

December, 2021
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Ramana Maharshi’s Presence

Here, we come across an issue I would like to address with you. The issue is: who is God? For me, this had always been an issue, a question. There has always been inside me a very deep interest in this.

So, Ramana Maharshi's Presence was a determining factor for the answer to this question.

One thing we all experience is this internal movement of thoughts going on. They happen and you don't have any control over them.

A thing you don't realize, due to the lack of attention to yourself, is that question "Who is God?" or "where is He?" is answered directly, objectively, when this very movement of thought is nullified, when that very frequency of thoughts running internally is verified.

In general, we live based on thoughts. Our entire personality is centered on thoughts. There is no room for the Acknowledgement of the Truth. There is no room for the answer to "who is God?"

If for a few moments we abandon this movement, we have this direct answer, because the Truth of who God is the Truth of who we are.

So, Ramana, Ramana Maharshi has always posed the question "who am I?" So, when you come to Ramana or those who came to him by that time and brought up issues, dilemmas, conflicts, problems, the question He always asked was this: "Who are you? Investigate, ask 'who am I?'"

That's because, in the answer to "Who am I?", in this answer, you find the Truth of God.

God is your Being. God is your Divine Nature.

Identified with thought's movement, mistaken for the movement of thought, entangled with this thought's movement, you do not become aware of Yourself, the Truth You are. This Truth You are is the impersonal Truth. It is the timeless Truth. It is the untranslatable, indescribable Truth. It is the Truth of God.

So, the answer to the question "who am I?" is the same answer to the question "who is God?" This represents the end of all conflict, suffering, all the illusion of this imaginary "me," this "me" as a separate identity.

So, Ramana Maharshi's Presence was essential and That has been essential for those who seek the Truth about themselves.

So, the Master is the one who represents the end of your search. In India, they call Guru: the One who lives completely in His Being, different from this egoic life, of this life identified with thoughts. A life where you are totally occupied with expectations about future events that, actually, may or may not happen;preoccupied and occupied with recollections and memories of what apparently happened, apparently happened to a particular and personal identity, this "me," this "I," which is not real.

There is no identity present in this experience, in life's experience. These are beliefs, in which we were brought up, we were taught. And to be stuck to this is to be apparently far away – apparently, I say – apparently far from the Truth of God, the Truth of Yourself.

What Ramana's Presence, what the Guru's Presence shows you, makes you realize, is that You are one with Life, You are one with Reality, You are one with God.

So, this vision is completely changed. This old model is completely destroyed. So, speaking particularly of what occurred and what happened here, the moment you realize the illusion of an identity is no longer present, this very impression of a "me" disappears. So, there is no longer this "me." There is no longer this experiencer. There is no longer this thinker. And this represents a unicity with everything, I'd say unity with everything. This is something overwhelming. This is something that completely transforms this whole viewpoint. This particular view disappears and the Vision of Reality comes up.

Then, a full comprehension that everything is one Reality takes place; and this Reality is God's Reality. This Reality is the Reality of your own Being!

So, in this sense, there is no difference between You and the Master's Presence, You and Ramana's Presence, you and God's Presence.

We are facing something revolutionary! The understanding that sitting on the grass is part of everything around you, and that sitting on the grass is Life, the whole Life, the whole manifestation of Life, this whole Presence of Life, Presence of God, this is something untranslatable. It is something words cannot communicate.

So, the answer to the question "who am I?", or the answer to the question "who is God?" or "where is He?", is found at this moment, at the moment that sitting on the grass is taking place.

Then something entirely new opens up, something, in fact, untranslatable.

That's the end of the illusion of someone present who was born and will die. That's the end of this internal movement of projections towards the future or the idea of getting rid of a past. That's when we face What we could call Love, Truth, Freedom, Peace. That's when, we are before the Divine, God, Life!

Dezembro de 2021
Gravatá-PE
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Become aware of yourself

There is something that I find interesting, very important to all of us here. If you pay a little more attention to yourself, you will notice this: the mind is always occupied. In fact, mind lives totally occupied, full of expectations.

Expectations regarding future events. In fact, events that may or may not happen. And it is always occupied with the old movement of memory. This is very, very common.

The point is we don't realize that. We don't get in direct contact with ourselves because we are not aware. There is no such self-observation, of this movement. So, we are always prisoners of these projections: the projections regarding this imaginary future and past, which is also imaginary. So, the movement of the mind is always this, busy, busy.

In this work of Self-realization, it is essential to recognize the Truth that You are. This is something that is outside of that old movement of the mind, projecting the future and imagining the past. So, it's important that you become aware of yourself, aware of yourself, about yourself. That is the goal!

The mind is always creating situations. It is and will always be creating its projections. This is something very, very common. Every movement of the mind is the movement between this unknown, imaginary future and this apparently known past, which is just a weight of memory, remembrance and something imaginary.

The only Truth, the only Reality, is your own Being, your own Being here and now. But you are not aware of It, because you are completely absorbed by these images, which are images that thought is producing, all the time, inside you.

This is the condition of identification, of this ego-identification. What we're trying to show you in these meetings is actually something beyond all descriptions, beyond all words. So, it's something beyond all this movement of the mind.

We are pointing to you the Truth of your Being, the Truth of your Divine Nature. As long as this identification with this movement of thought remains, you cannot be aware of It, you cannot be aware of the Truth of your Being.

So, this image you make of yourself, in this relationship with the world around you, with others… as this is all based on this movement, which is the movement of thought, which is the egoic movement, you cannot discover the Truth of your Being, the Happiness of your Being. This is because you are identified, or identifying yourself, constantly with a false identity, with a false character that thought is producing, that thought is saying is you.

Therefore, the question is "Who are you?" It's actually the same question: "Who am I?"

We are not talking about a character. We are talking about our Essential Nature. We are talking about the Truth that we are.

Each person has his or her characteristics, each person carries a personality, but this personality is part of that memory, part of these images, part of these imaginations, part of these projections. So, past and future are projections of that character. This is not your Divine and Real Nature, nor your Real Identity.

That's what we're always dealing with in Satsang. We are pointing out the importance of discovering the Truth that You are. This is beyond a thinker, an experiencer, beyond the very idea of an observer or a doer.

Perhaps your question is, "How is this possible? How is it possible for us to become aware of This, aware of this Truth that we are, this Truth that we bring?"

The element you have here is this attention. You cannot control what comes up, but you can become aware of this movement. This attention dismantles all this movement. This attention to yourself shows you your True Nature, disidentified with that movement. And when that happens, you are free. Free from the idea you have of yourself. Free of those images you have about yourself. Once you are free of that, you are free of this whole conflicting relationship with this world that thought has produced.

See, the problem is not in the world. It is not in the relationships you have with life. The problem is in the illusion of someone present in this, in the idea of this "me," this "I," since the relationship with life is about life with itself. There is no "me,", this "I." So, this movement, all based on thoughts, is completely illusory. It's something that always puts you under a condition of illusion of time. Past or future.

So, there are always these ideas, there are always these beliefs. There is always this prevailing fear, this anxiety, this desire, this affliction of becoming someone, of becoming something different, of doing something, of building something, of getting rid of something. These are all ideas, beliefs, projections of thought. It is thought projecting itself. It is ideas within this movement, creating this whole artificial condition.

This is the cause of misery. This is the cause of all internal conflict, of all suffering.

You are here to discover the Truth of who You are, the Truth of your own Being, the Divine Reality that You bring. And that is something possible when that movement is completely deconstructed, when that psychological dependence is undone. When this is undone, Truth manifests. So, your Freedom is the Freedom of the realization of that movement. The realization of this movement is the end of it.

December, 2021
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Guilt is just one more thought

Participant: Master, I'm 27 years old, and until I was 17 I attended church. There's a deep belief of search, but I feel guilty, I don't know... a feeling that I'm hurting my family since they're all protestant. I'm afraid they'll know about my search. The internal work has been helping me since it alleviates this guilt.

Marcos Gualberto: We are easily influenced by what others think, say, believe… In a short time, we also start believing that. It's so fast, how we are induced to believe in others and how easy it is for us to believe them! We not only believe what we imagine but also in what people are imagining about themselves, about us, about others, about the world. And it's just thoughts.

I'm not telling you that it's simple to put an end to this pattern of believing and trusting in thoughts. Since the world began, all you have are thoughts. The mind has this strong movement. It takes you into the past and the future. The mind does this all the time!

There is no Consciousness, no Presence. You are not aware of this moment here, now. You're not aware of what it's like to be free from thoughts. There's this whole model, this fast-paced mechanism of thoughts being produced all the time in your head.

You spend the whole day with thoughts in your head and guilt is also just another thought. When you believe you can do good or cause harm, there is always the illusory idea of "someone" present thinking, feeling, doing, talking, feeling sad or happy. Someone successful or not. Someone with or without responsibility.

They're constant thoughts, and this is quite heavy. It's too heavy to internally believe what others believe about who you are, about what you feel. But that's how it is. It's a psychological conditioning. Breaking with that means breaking that self-image. People are just images, and you are an image to yourself.

How many good people are there in this room? And how many bad people? Are you a good person or a bad person? A person who does everything right or everything wrong? Do you see what I mean? That's an idea you have about who you are, and you protect that. Guilt is to protect that image. Fear is to protect that image. This is the psychological condition of human beings.

Participant: Master, I sometimes feel very intense anxiety. There are times when I get distressed! I don't know if it's due to something I'm doing wrong… It seems like an exaggerated body reaction. I don't know how to deal with it.

Marcos Gualberto: It's always the mind producing it. I don't know if it helps you, but it's very important you learn to trust me. If you observe closely, you always trust yourself and people.

When I came across my Master, I learned to trust His eyes, to trust what He felt… Either I would trust my thoughts, or I would start looking more at Him. Either I would continue to trust what people said to me and what they made me feel, or I would look at Him and trust Him.

He wasn't telling me this. Deep down, it wasn't Him causing this, so I don't know if this helps you. In some meetings, I have spoken about the importance of trusting the Guru. Either you trust the Guru, or you trust what thoughts say, what people say, what the world says. Either you trust this "internal thing" that makes you prone to the Divine Presence in the Guru's form, or you keep believing what thought says inside your head or through people's mouths.

Trusting in Grace, trusting in the Guru... this is an important thing. When that's broken, you're lost. So, since you always trust thoughts, and that means trusting people, I'd like you to start listening to what I'm saying and trust that a little bit.

What people say, what you think, what you feel are just thoughts. All of this is just this false "me" having feelings, this false entity having experiences.

Remain steadfast! May your eyes not stray from your purpose. Remember: your purpose is to Realize the Truth. If that's your purpose, you won't let anything hold you back. Nothing will take you down.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 24th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 23rd, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

The problem isn’t in objects

Everything you do "as a person" is the result of ignorance, mediocrity, stupidity and restriction. Everything the "person" acquires is to bring more problems, not peace. You have children and face difficulties in raising and educating them. You find a husband or boyfriend to suffer the pain of separation, the pain of betrayal, the pain of rejection. Everything you do in the ego is to be miserable!

If you write in pages of a notebook, all the joys and complications the objects you own have brought you, you'd see what I am saying. Objects bring more problems than joy. They bring more worry than comfort.

However, this is misinterpreted since in your mind, you believe you have to get rid of the world. I want to make it very clear to you that the problem is not in objects, but rather in the subject, in this false sense of "me" present in the experience.

For example, it seems like a very simple thing to be sitting on the couch at home. You don't realize how scared you are that someone else takes that seat, that someone literally takes your seat. You arrive home, open the door and find another girl sitting on your couch. Or another boy or even a neighbor's son sitting on your couch. It's not your child sitting there. It's your neighbor's child! Do you have a problem with the couch? No, but you find a woman sitting on the couch at your house… "Who is this woman? Where did she come from? Hey, this is my couch!"

The problem is not with the sofa. It is not with that woman. You didn't know, but that woman was your husband's sister, who you didn't know. But a million things went through your mind until you understood it was just your husband's sister who has just arrived for a visit. Until you understand this, enormous suffering has already occurred internally!

Just getting the news that someone very close and dear has died, you immediately begin to suffer. But ten minutes later, the real news arrives: they changed the names. It wasn't that person who died, it was someone else! It was ten minutes of suffering for someone you believed to have died, but who, in fact, is still very much alive!

Do you see how the mind works? So, the problem is not objects. It's not the world around you. It's not that girl who sat on your sofa. It's not the sofa you have at home. It's not the house, the dog, or the son… These are just unimportant objects! It's your ego that gives importance to them.

Personality lives under restrictions and gives identity to experiences. So, you live in a bad mood, stressed, angry, upset, anguished, because there is a psychological demand. "Person" demands his world to be the way he wishes. This is living "as a person." Do you see? How are you going to find Beauty this way? If you want to find Beauty, Truth, Love, and Real Peace, you have to abandon the "person." Then, life becomes a celebration, a divine holy feast. Otherwise, you can't live that.

You need to find in your Being a real relationship with what is around you. You don't have this when your mind is attached to objects. When you don't see the fear of losing. When you don't accept the freedom of letting go. When you hold to control. When, for example, you want to first understand to trust – "I need to understand what the master says to trust him." This is the same as saying "I need to understand what Life represents to accept It as It is." This is not possible, but it's the "person's" demand.

Then, I ask you: how will it be possible for Happiness to arrive? When will this happen? How will the real relationship with Love take place if Love is attached to objects? Love is something internal. Love cannot be linked to objects. If there is something attached to objects, this is not Love. It's desire. It's attachment.

When I came across my Master, I realized that the main thing was to trust. It wasn't questioning. It was trusting Him. It wasn't doubting. It was trusting Him. It wasn't arguing with Him. It was trusting Him. He had a look I didn't have. He had a Silence I didn't have and a Peace I didn't have. I only had This when I was close to Him, with my heart turned to Him. So, I soon realized I didn't need to understand Him. Listen to this carefully. Yesterday, I heard someone saying here: "Sometimes I trust, sometimes I don't." This is something you have to look at internally. It has nothing to do with the external world. It has to do with this false center of "person," of "personality," in which you believe.

This is what you have to doubt, not Life, not the Guru since Life came before you. You're just dust! When dust rises, where does it go? Dust rises and disappears! You're dust in the wind... Dust rises and disappears, and the wind is still there. Existence is the wind, you are the dust. You want to distrust things, being dust in the wind you can't control. Being the dust you are, you go by so fast and want to be suspicious of the wind that's out there doing everything the way it wants.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 28th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on May 1st, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

Everything is false from this false center: “me”

If you are looking for the Truth, for Freedom, if what you want to find out is True Love, Real Peace, you need to abandon living in the personality. Pay attention to this now!

You need to have a passion for This, for the Truth, Freedom, Love and peace. The "person" doesn't know This. You need to reformulate everything internally. You are something beyond, greater, outside the "person." "Person" lives in restrictions, so, as a "person," you are always restricted. Stuck to this "person's image," to this "sense of person," you carry a personality. Then, everything you see around you is from the private viewpoint of this false "me." Nobody has ever told you this in society.

The whole world lives like this! Everything around you, every relationship you have around you, from this false center, is falsified by this. Everything is false from this false center. You will not find love in "people." You have a boyfriend, a husband, a family, but this is not love. This is the result of your conquest, of your desire. You are the Sun and these planets are revolving around you. None of this is love! Actually, as it is a projection of your desire, it is a prison. Nobody has ever told you that.

Everything you acquire is the result of your desire. It is your prison. The whole world around you is created by this false center. As it is the result of your desire, your ego is alive in it. You may not have a child, but you have a dog or a house, your whole relationship is based on that "sense of person."

You cannot die like this. This would mean dying in prison, and if you die like this, you will remain in prison. Real death is when all this ends.

So, if you are serious about the pursuit of Happiness, abandon this false center. This false center is keeping you under restrictions. You won't be happy being "someone." There is Happiness only in Being! People have mistaken this for thousands and thousands of years. In this search for Truth, they found out they are stuck in this material world, so what do they do? They try to get rid of the material world since they think the prison is in this world.

Actually, your puppy, your family, and your house are inside your head. Your world is only yours. It's something inside your head. So, it's no use getting rid of the material world if you're not free from this false center, this false "me."

So, you don't have to get rid of the world around you. You don't have to get rid of your puppy or your house. You must have the freedom of living without the house and the puppy. Living in your Being is being Happy. And being Happy is to not depend on what the mind is holding around you.

You are living under restrictions. All relationships with people around you based on your "person" bring conflict. There is internal tension. Don't you see it?

When you wake up in the morning, the "person" wakes up soon after. That's exactly what you heard! First, you wake up, then the "person" comes up. There is no "person" when you wake up. But when the "person" wakes up and is "in front of you," you identify with the "person" and then there is just this false identity in that experience.

So, you need to step back and remain without the "person" waking up. If you step back and the "person" doesn't wake up, you are Awakened. I don't think I ever put it that way! So, what is it to be Enlightened? It's remaining without the "person" waking up.

The beauty of the Sage is that there is no "person" present there. The Sage, in the morning, wakes up, but the "person" doesn't appear, so restriction doesn't appear, confusion doesn't appear, attachment to the puppy doesn't appear, fear of leaving it behind, fear of losing the child, of losing this or that object doesn't appear.

Your Being isn't attached to your boyfriend, husband, grandson, child, to that beautiful house you have, to that new car you bought. Your Being isn't attached to the car you didn't buy, the husband you don't have, the child that hasn't arrived, the dog you want which is "your little friendly pet" but you still haven't been able to find it. Your Being isn't attached to this, but the "person" is. It is not your Being that distrusts the Guru, God, the Grace. It is not your Being that is afraid of being deceived, but rather the "person." Person is already deceived! If person wasn't deceived, it wouldn't be afraid of being deceived. This is "person's" mistake.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 28th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 27th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

You are not here to suffer

I was 24 years old when I came across my Master. Today I can put This into words for you, but I did not receive it from His words. I received it only from His look.

Everything I can share with you here is more in Silence than in words. It is more in my eyes than in my mouth since that was how This was shared with me.

Since I was a child I was prone to this search. All my upbringing and childhood were at church. So, I didn't really appreciate this messy life a lot of kids my age had. I got married when I was 19. I got married early since I didn't want to live up to a messy life. I felt if I become a family man, I would have the chance to have an encounter with the Divine, with God.

There was a search here for something beyond this world. I prayed, I spoke to God, then my Master appeared. What I'm telling you here is what I'm living today because, by his Divine Grace, everything is different. Why am I telling you this? Because you are not here to suffer. Nobody is! People don't know this, but you are being warned and advised: you don't need to live like this.

Everything you are looking for is what any human being is also looking for. I was still a child and I realized that. Everything we do or try to do is basically to feel good, to be happy. But we have a very stupid inclination – human being carries a stupid naivety. It is not that innocence of the one who is curious to discover and discern. We have a stupid naivety. We try it once and it doesn't work, then we try again. That's why people get married again and again! They are stubborn since they believe it will be different the second, third or fourth time around.

So, it seems that we have this conditioning. We are educated and raised like that. This needs to be broken! This pattern, this conditioning, needs to be broken! You need to Awaken, and This is something that happens naturally when there is an inclination towards an intelligent life, which is a life without conflict, without fear, beliefs, without being led, induced by others to live as they live, to do what they do, to want what they want, to seek what they seek, to give up, too, because they give up.

So, welcome to this place, to this space. In India, it is called "Satsang," an association with the Real, with Reality, with the Truth of who You are. You are so involved in thoughts, feelings, emotions, seeking sensations... When you arrive in Satsang, I work on that with you, so that you discredit what thought says, what feeling says, what emotion says.

You need to trust something internally, bigger than the mind, bigger than these stories thought creates and feelings produce about this "little person" you believe you are, about this story you believe you are living, about this world you believe is real.

So, my emphasis is that you discover the deep meaning of a mind-free life. Mind is total conflict! Every problem is inside your head. Your whole world is inside your head. You produce this all the time, all day long, every day! Then you don't rest. You take medicine and you can sleep, but at night you dream, and there problems appear again. There is no Joy, there is no Beauty, there is no Silence, there is no Meditation, there is no Consciousness!

This is my specialty! Some people are great football players, others are average players, but they are also players, and some are real phenomena. This goes for any sport. I wasn't born to play soccer, but I know how to look at you and say "see, being Happy is possible. Realizing God in this life is possible."

Whether we like it or not, this approach to the Divine is a kind of flirtation, a kind of courtship of God. It's just like that. Actually, we are kind of conquered by His Grace, by His Beauty, by His Truth. Isn't it so? We are kind of touched by something out of this world. We don't know what it is, but we know It's there.

That's why I say this is not a meeting for you to learn things. It's like taking a walk out of the world, of this mind's world, of this world of the head. You've been listening to me, for example, for a few minutes, but during this time, you haven't had any sense that there's an incentive for you to go out and be a better person, a successful person, a fulfilled person, a powerful person… No! You listen to me and the feeling you get is that you don't know, but you feel, somehow, that I'm pointing out something outside of this world's condition people are living in the mind.

So, see this: if you're willing to realize This now, you can't give This up, you can't swap This, you can't let anything ward you off from This, you can't let anything be greater than This, because This is your purpose, your unique purpose. You were born to realize God. You were born to realize the Truth.

So, stop listening to what the mind says. Stop believing what people say to you, good and bad, since it doesn't matter if it's your mind talking inside your head or if it's people's minds talking through their mouths. Do you see?

Human beings have this stupid naivety, as I've just said, of believing in what thought says. Not only in thought inside their head but especially in what is verbalized in others' head. The world of the mind is chaos. There is a lot of conflicts, a lot of disorder, and a lot of suffering, because there is no Truth.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 24th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 16th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.