What is Spiritual Enlightenment? | How to attain Spiritual Enlightenment? | Advaita Vedanta

What is Spiritual Enlightenment? Together let’s look at what This really represents.

The complexity of the egoic mind, the complexity of the mind can end. This complexity places you in a position of contradiction, of suffering, of conflict. And if the egoic consciousness, that common consciousness of ours, if that disappears, That which is present is the Nature of Being, it is the Nature of Truth about You, about who You truly are!

So, Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, is the Truth about who You are when that consciousness disappears.

Basically, our consciousness is the “I” consciousness, which can disappear. Therefore, it’s not the Nature of your Being, which is Consciousness, but the egoic consciousness, this consciousness of the “I.”

Realizing the Truth of no separateness between you and Life, between you and God – This is Spiritual Enlightenment.

This is our subject here, on this channel. We have a playlist dealing with this, delving into this subject, as we have other playlists here on this channel. We are investigating how This takes place, how This is realized, how This becomes possible.

The Truth that You are is not “you and the world,” it is not “you and life,” it is not “you and the other,” it is not “you and God.” There is only Consciousness; there is no separation, there is no duality. All that feeling and thinking of separateness… For example, you say of yourself “I am a person like this, like this, like this…” This kind of talk, made by you, believed by you, professed by you, this is a concept, this is an image, this is an idea.

We have to look at what we are, we have to get closer to ourselves, we need to study this, we need to understand the Truth about ourselves.

So, for that question “How to attain Spiritual Enlightenment?” or “What is Spiritual Enlightenment?”, the real answer to that lies in Self-awareness, and Self-awareness is what shows you that the idea you have about who you are, like any idea someone else has about who you are, is just an idea.

An idea is a thought, a set of images – this is an idea, this is a belief, this is a concept.

It is important to understand this, because it not only refers to the idea, to the thought, it also refers to the feeling, it also refers to this feeling that you have about yourself.

Thought is not real and feeling is not real. I'm not saying that feeling doesn't have a relative basis in truth when it appears. Feeling appears in the body and it has this relative truth, the truth of feeling. But as for feeling, there is no “someone” present in that feeling, as we believe.

So, there is no identity feeling; there is feeling without a present identity. This duality between feeling and someone present feeling, this is not real. We are conditioned to that belief, patterned on this model.

Since childhood you have been feeling, this “I” has been feeling, this “I” has been thinking, this “I” has been choosing, doing, making. This “I” is a belief of an identity present in the body when thought arises or when feeling arises or when doing happens.

When action happens, doing happens, thinking happens, feeling happens, the central idea is “me” – “me” doing, “me” in action, “me” in feeling, “me” in thought.

This duality “I and this experience of doing, thinking, feeling, acting,” as if there were this “me” and acting, “me” and thinking, “me” and doing, “me” and feeling, as if this were real, this is psychological conditioning.

We believe in an individuality present here, in this experience, in life, in the relationship with the other, with the other person... the relationship with the other, the other being an experience, a thought, a sensation, a perception, an object – that is a belief, it is a psychological conditioning, a pattern of behavior, where there is thinking and “someone” in thinking, where there is feeling and “someone” in the feeling, doing and “someone” in doing, the action occurring and “ someone” performing this.

The approach of Self-awareness will show you that there is no such thing, there is none of that! This is not Reality, this is not a fact, this is fiction, this is imagination.

Action occurs without the “I,” thought occurs without a thinker, feeling occurs without “someone” in this feeling, emotion occurs without “someone” in this emotion. There is no identity present, there is no individuality that is real in this experience. Individuality is illusory. So, there is this illusion of individuality – this is our psychological conditioning.

Here, we are investigating this, in this playlist, with you; we are getting closer to it. Our goal is to discover how to attain Spiritual Enlightenment.

Now, understand: the expression here, “how to attain”... We have to approach it with some care. You can learn a method for a certain practice and that method, in that practice, becomes something mechanical to you.

That becomes mechanical, once again you are stuck in this condition of psychological time, of the mechanical practice of the egoic mind.

So, when we speak of Spiritual Awakening, of Spiritual Enlightenment, this “how” here does not imply method, but learning. It is not a practice, it is not a method, it is not a mechanical thing; it’s actually a “how to look,” a “how to learn about yourself” – that’s what we need for Spiritual Enlightenment.

We need to learn about ourselves, study about ourselves, see how we position ourselves in this relationship with life, with the world, with the other, with ourselves, in this illusion that there is this “I” and we, this “I” and the other, that “I” and the world.

Note how important and very delicate this is. In general, thoughts arise and you see yourself as the thinker of those thoughts, wanting to do something with or against them. So, you accept their presence, you believe that you are the thinker who thought them, who is thinking, who is producing them, who is bringing them into existence… No, you have not thought them, you are not the thinker of these thoughts, but there is this belief. So, you want to do something against them, you reject those thoughts. When it’s negative thoughts, heavy thoughts, when it’s thoughts that provoke within you some level of stress, of anxiety, of sadness, some level of depression, of anguish, you want to get rid of those thoughts, because you believe that you are the thinker who is thinking them.

So, these thoughts are being thought by you – that is the belief – you are thinking these thoughts. And if you're the one thinking, you can discard those thoughts, you can get rid of them.

This is the conditioning that we were brought up in, taught. People say to us since we were little: “Don't think bad thoughts, just think good thoughts.” You go to a self-help talk and there the speaker is showing you the importance of cultivating good thoughts, fulfilling thoughts, thoughts that can develop you as a person.

So, there are a lot of talk about this personal development, and all this is based on thought.

So, the idea is that you are producing thoughts, so you can improve, you can change the quality of your thoughts, and that seems very, very reasonable. The idea of ​​the thinker and the thought, of the one who feels with that feeling… So, we want to do something against negative feelings, against negative thoughts.

So, this “I”... There is this idea of ​​this “I” present in this experience. To look at what we are here now and realize the illusion of duality – that’s straight from Vedanta.

Vedanta… the last part of the Vedas is Advaita Vedanta. And in Vedanta it is very clear that there is no such illusion. The theoretical, verbal aspect is not important, however clear this is in theory, in concept. Here, for example, speaking… maybe this gets a little hazy or maybe even very clear, but that doesn't matter! What matters is that you actualize it in yourself – look, observe, without the observer, observe the thought without the thinker.

So thought is a memory, a remembrance, it’s an image from the past, there is no identity. However, you are addicted to putting an identity on it. But now I invite you to just look at thought which arises without condemning it, without criticizing it, without judging it, without comparing it with another thought, without liking it, without disliking it, just looking at it.

This goes for a present feeling arising here and now, in this instant. That feeling comes with a thought, so it has a story to tell about itself. What usually happens is that you believe what thought says because of the feeling you feel. Identified with the body, you say “I” and do not observe.

So, you get confused, you identify with. And when you do that, you are always, again and again, in this model of egoic identity, of false identity, of illusory individuality.

OK? Are we together?

We are exploring and investigating This with you – the Realization of your Essential Nature, your Divine Nature, which is Consciousness. This Consciousness is non-dual. There is only One, without the second – This is Advaita. The expression is “Advaita,” non-duality. There is only One, without the second – This is Spiritual Enlightenment.

That State settles into that body-mind, the sense of egoic identity is discarded, the illusion of separateness dissolves – this occurs with the Awakening of this Consciousness, which the Sages in India also call Kundalini. The Energy of Consciousness present in that body makes a change in that organism, in that mechanism, then Spiritual Enlightenment occurs.

So, here we have the answer to what Spiritual Enlightenment is: it is the end of the “I,” it is the end of the ego. The work consists of Self-awareness. We also have a very extensive playlist on this subject. We are working on it with you here: what is Self-awareness? How to learn about yourself?

This learning about yourself is being aware of yourself here and now, moment to moment.

So, this is not part of this movement of psychological conditioning, it is not something that the “me,” the “I,” the ego, this movement of memory, this movement of this mental consciousness, is going to acquire, to absorb into itself, it is not a method, not a practice, it’s Awareness here and now, Attention to yourself right now, moment to moment.

In this Attention, there is a breaking of this separateness, this illusory, artificial duality, sustained by this unconsciousness.

So, the work towards Spiritual Enlightenment is to observe yourself, moment by moment, to look at what arises, to look at what is here and now, and not place an identity in it, not place an experiencer in it, a thinker in this, an observer in this.

Try looking without the name for a present experience. Try this! When the feeling arises, don't name it. Stay with the sensation, but don't name it. There is a psychological tendency within you for this thinker to come up saying “I don't want to! I don't like it! I don't want this for myself!” When it verbalizes that, when it names that or when it internalizes that, it has already arisen by separating itself from the experience. And when that happens, the process of duality is there.

Try not to name, try not to put an identity when a thought arises, when a feeling, an emotion, a sensation arises. When you look at a cloud in the sky, you neither like nor dislike, you neither accept nor reject, you just look, you just follow, when you want to follow, or you let it… you are neither against nor in favor, you just look.

It is difficult to deal with what arises here in this mechanism, in this organism, because the inclination of the ego, the inclination in this programming, in this conditioning, is always to hold onto it and put an identity in it, liking it, not liking it, rejecting it, judging it, comparing it…

That’s why this work is a job that requires patience. We have to approach it patiently, but it can be realized, and that’s the purpose. So, the approach of Spiritual Awakening, of Spiritual Enlightenment, is through Self-awareness.

So, if that’s something that makes sense to you, if that’s something that touches you, we have online meetings to look into that, and face-to-face meetings, including retreats. If this makes sense to you, subscribe to the channel… We have the WhatsApp link in the video description and we can work on it together!

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Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Kundalini | Advaita Vedanta | The existential emptiness | Kundalini Meditation | Self-awareness

Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel.

I want to talk to you about Kundalini Awakening and Advaita Vedanta, the relation between Kundalini and Advaita.

What is the relation between Advaita and Kundalini? Advaita is this pointing towards non-duality. The expression Advaita means non-duality. This is straight from Vedas, the last part of the Vedas. We have there the last teachings of Vedas, which is the most important part of the Vedas, and it deals with Advaita Vedanta. Advaita is a word for non-duality, non-separation and Kundalini is an expression for this Energy of Consciousness present in the body. Ramana goes so far as to say that this Energy is inside the body and also outside the body. This Energy is the Energy of Consciousness.

So, there is a very intimate relation between Kundalini and Advaita. Thus, this nearness between Kundalini or Consciousness and Advaita is something we need to investigate here. We've been doing it here on this channel and also in online meetings. You have the opportunity to participate in these meetings and we have face-to-face meetings. So, we have online meetings and also face-to-face meetings, as well as retreats.

Why is it important to address this subject here? Because there is no Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening without a change in this mechanism, this organism, this body-mind. And how does this change take place? This change takes place due to a work of Self-awareness in oneself.

You need to recognize in yourself the presence of this duality, this illusory duality, this illusory sense of separateness created by this psychological conditioning we have received. A part of what we receive comes since childhood, and another part we inherit from our humanity, from our ancestry.

This body-mind carries this duality, so it’s something in this mechanism, in this organism, that needs to be broken. And there is a part of that in this psychological structure that also needs to be broken, and disrupted.

Therefore, the work of Self-awareness is the perception of this psychophysical duality. In this perception, it is possible to break this principle of separateness. What duality is this? It is the separation between you and God.

Humans have been looking or searching for something for millennia, and they don't know what it is. In our mind, we believe this is outside, that what mankind seeks will be found in the material world or the psychological world.

So, there is this search for security in the material world or the psychological world. There is the existential emptiness inside human beings. This has many formats – this fear inside human beings – because of this psychological conditioning, this duality… this has several formats.

Fear takes the form of various psychological frames of suffering. This is how humans have lived for millennia, and they are in search or looking for something outside of that. This is their quest for spirituality. Human beings have known and have been putting it for millennia – that there is really something outside of this condition of mind, this programmed mind, this conditioned mind, this egoic mind. Then, the religions of the world for millennia have been pointing to something outside of all that, to this Reality that some people call God.

This Reality is the Reality of Kundalini, it is the Reality of Consciousness. The words Kundalini, Consciousness, and God are synonyms, they represent the Non-Dual Reality. Thus, Non-Duality is this Non-Dual Reality. Non-Duality, as this Non-Dual Reality, here, refers to Kundalini, to God, to that Consciousness, to the Truth of your Being.

This is the work we are doing together, investigating this with you, approaching it, through direct work. We are working on the possibility for you to going beyond this condition of ego identity to the Awakening of your Being.

What I share is based on my own experience with this Awakening. The work of Realization is something possible for you. All you need is to become aware of yourself. If you perceive this sense of separateness, this sense of duality and you can see the illusion that lies in it – not ideologically, theoretically but experientially – as you perceive this, a break from this model is possible.

So, you need to learn how to Meditate, and here Meditation is not a practice that you, for ten minutes, or fifteen, or thirty minutes, at some time of the day, practice, exercise. I’m not referring to this practice of meditation. This meditation practice doesn't fit in here.

Here, we are talking about Kundalini Awakening, the Awakening of your Divine Nature; we are talking about the Reality of your Being. I’d say that this is the True Kundalini Meditation, not what some people call Kundalini Meditation, but rather I mean the True Kundalini Meditation. I have also called it the True Meditation because it refers to the Meditation of Consciousness, Consciousness in your Natural State, which is Meditation.

And this is not a practice of meditation, it is a Meditation Practice, what happens here and now, what happens when you take a walk, when you walk, when you drive your car, when you deal with your patients in your office – you, a doctor – when you deal with your doctor while you are in his office, when you deal with your children when you are at home playing, when you are in the kitchen washing the dishes… this is the moment of the True Kundalini Meditation, this is the real moment of Consciousness Meditation. This puts you in direct contact with your Being, which is Non-Dual. That’s Advaita.

So, when we refer here to Kundalini Awakening, we are referring to the Awakening of your Essential Nature, of your Divine Nature. When there is Self-awareness, you have this contact with yourself. Then, when you wash dishes, a thought arises – it’s a thought, there’s no thinker… it’s the thought. This thought arises just like one of the dishes. The perspective of thought is internal and the plates are externally being touched by the hands, but at that moment you don't put an identity on it, you don't separate yourself from the experience of a thought that arises, you don't put a thinker on that thought.

Notice what we are saying. The thought is there, the dish is in your hands, the water is going down, and you are washing the dishes. Then, there is the washing of the dishes and the thought being perceived without the illusion of identity in that experience. Then, there is a Silence, a Void, a Void Full of Completeness, of Silence, where there is no separateness, no duality, no experiencer, no thinker, no “you” in the experience.

When the sense of the “I” is not present, you are before Meditation – this is your direct contact with the True Meditation. This brings Kundalini Awakening here and now, as you wash the dishes, as you are being attended to at the doctor’s office, if you are walking, if you are talking to someone...

The question is: is it possible not to judge this experience? Not to compare this experience? Not to condemn this experience? Not wanting to interfere in this experience? Is it possible just, here and now, at this present moment, to be Pure Consciousness? This is Meditation, True Meditation, or the True Kundalini Meditation.

Then, there is the Flourishing of the Power of this Presence. This Energy, which is the Energy of Kundalini, the Energy of Consciousness, which was previously wasted in imagination, in daydreaming, in comparison, in this illusion of being in the past or being in the future, now this Energy becomes available for that full attention for that moment. There is only this moment, there is only this instant!

So, notice what we've included here within our speech. In the relation between Consciousness, Kundalini, and Advaita, non-separation, and non-duality, the presence of Meditation is included. This is Meditation – a work here and now. Not what you can do at a certain moment, at a certain time, but what you have at all moments, at all instants, at all times to realize.

Notice that, in this Realization, the sense of “I” doesn’t come in, so there’s no such “meditator,” as in the usual practice of meditation. As long as you are present in the practice, meditation is present; after you leave, you are out of practice. Here, Meditation is the Practical Meditation. Here and now, there is only Meditation, only Consciousness, only Presence, there is only Being – that’s Advaita.

Then, the Power of Kundalini can take over this body and mind. This full attention, some people call it mindfulness, but here, I put this full attention, perhaps, in a slightly different sense, mindfulness also in a slightly different sense. We are dealing with the True Meditation, showing the importance of simply Being, here and now, moment by moment.

Therefore, our work lies in this Realization, the Realization of the Truth about who You are now – This is Spiritual Enlightenment. So, there is no room for the ego to be hurt, offended, injured, mistreated, slandered… there is no room for the ego to be anxious, depressed, distressed, overwhelmed by thoughts, the obsessive thoughts, repetitive thoughts, and unconscious thoughts, because you are bringing Presence, Consciousness to that instant.

Notice, it requires Energy, a new Energy. Some people say “this is wonderful, but it is very difficult”. See, I'm not saying it’s easy, I'm saying it’s possible.

Now, I ask you: is it easy to continue living in this psychological conditioning? In this inner chatter? In this world of imagination?

Your body is here and you are worried about something that hasn’t happened, but your mind is already anticipating that it will happen and bring you harm, and you are suffering… Is that easy? Is living with anxiety easy? Is it easy to live with depression? Living trapped in the psychological movement of present identity, of the ego, of this “me” ... Is that easy?

OK? If this is something that makes sense to you, I want to remind you: we have online meetings, again, and face-to-face meetings, as well as retreats.

Leave your “like” here, subscribe to the channel, and let’s work it out together. Ok?

Thanks for the meeting. See you next.

October, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Advaita Vedanta | Personal development | Vedanta points to Happiness | Mental health

Hello guys! Welcome to another meeting here on our channel. There is a question people ask: what is Vedanta? Why is Vedanta so relevant?

Well, let me tell you what I actually consider relevant within Vedanta. What I consider relevant is the last part of Vedas, the last part… Vedanta is about Advaita. I want to talk a little bit about Non-Duality… Non-Duality. Advaita Vedanta is about Non-Duality. For me, Non-Duality is the great secret; it is the foremost thing we have within Vedas – The pointing to Non-Duality.

Non-Duality is the awareness of the Truth you are. All you need in life is to see it as It is, and that’s Advaita. The word Advaita means Non-Duality. There are not two things; this is what Advaita means – the first but without the second. There is only the first, and this first is Life, Consciousness, God, your Being, and your Essential Nature.

People have asked, “What is this Freedom you speak of? How to live this Love you talk about in these lines? The answer to that lies in Understanding the Truth about who you are. Self-awareness is pointing to the possibility of the Realization of Truth. Self-awareness is what enables you to approach the Truth of your Being and, therefore, to that Freedom we are discussing with you.

Regarding the issue of Love, I speak of Love without an opposite; Love that doesn't have the other… the world, the sensation, pleasure, hate; it is Love without the second, Love without the opposite, it is non-dual Love. Love is the Nature of Being, Love is the Nature of Existence, it is the Nature of Life, the Nature of Consciousness.

Self-awareness gives you the possibility of having this approach to yourself, to acknowledge the Love that is, essentially, Freedom.

We can’t fully put into words what this represents. That would be impossible! Freedom is the Freedom from psychological suffering – I mean all forms of psychological suffering.

In this world of mental health, when it comes to mental health, we have, today, hundreds of pathologies, internal conditions of psychological disorder, psychological suffering, of unhappiness. And all this is absent, all this disappears, when you, in your Being, reveal yourself as Consciousness, which is Love, which is Freedom.

It is this Freedom we are talking about – the ultimate end to suffering. The suffering of life and the suffering of the expectation of death, of the pain of death.

The sense of duality puts you in fear and all forms of suffering. Our work together is to realize the Reality of who we are, and that’s what Vedanta is all about. So, our subject is the essence of Vedanta. Vedanta points to Happiness.

Our subject here is Self-awareness. Self-awareness points to Truth, the Truth you are here and now. This Acknowledgment is not a theory, concept or belief. We are pointing out something outside psychological time, therefore, something outside the known.

The mind is the known, the mind lives in the known. Your memories, remembrances, recollections, thoughts, knowledge, and experiences, are all linked to the sense of someone present. This lies within the known, this is something of the culture, something of knowing, of psychological conditioning, of time.

And here, when we talk about the Reality of this non-dual Love, this Real Freedom, this Happiness of your Being, we are pointing to something outside the known, something outside psychological time; we are pointing to God!

Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, is the Consciousness of God. So, there is Intelligence today, there is Intelligence now, there is at this instant Intelligence taking over you; no longer the sense of "I." The "I" is this illusion of the presence of "someone" trying to adjust, control, resolve, to meet life's demands.

That is why people, in this quest, in this search, which is a search for Happiness, are researching, studying, seeking to know, trying to understand better, for example, this issue of stoicism. So, there is this question: “What is stoicism?”

Stoicism points to something quite interesting. It says, “It's not what happens to you in life that makes you unhappy, it's how you react. It’s not what appears to you, for you, but rather the quality of thoughts you have regarding this appearance that will determine your happiness or unhappiness.”

So, people are delighted with this philosophical principle, which, of course, is really very beautiful and very logical. However, there is something you need to understand. What you are, in your Being, doesn’t react; only the mind reacts; it’s just the sense of “someone” present who can react, stupidly or intelligently, to adverse situations, to situations that arise, to situations that appear, but it’s always the sense of “I” that can do this.

When there is no longer that sense of “I,” there is no more reaction. Notice the beauty of what we are putting to you. Realization of Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening, Self-Realization – there are many names for this – is the end of the illusion of an identity present to react to situations, to circumstances.

Yet in philosophy, in stoicism, the idea is “someone” learning to deal with it, and here it is to show you that this “someone” is just psychological conditioning, imagination created by thought. It is thought that says “I,” and thought that has alternatives to deal with situations, for that “I” to be happy or have peace.

We are, therefore, pointing to something beyond philosophy, beyond stoicism, beyond what Socrates said, what Plato, the stoics, the Greeks said... We are pointing to the Truth revealed when you acknowledge, in Yourself, this "Self," and realize that this "Self" is the only Reality.

It is not this “Self” and life, this “Self” and the world, this “Self” and God. This “Self” is the only Reality. Or, to put it another way, the absence of this “yourself” … Then, what remains is Advaita, Non-Duality.

Right now, there is no “someone” listening, watching; there is watching this video, listening to this speech, not “someone” listening or “someone” watching. Because the whole conditioning since childhood – this has been corroborated by philosophy, psychology, and religion – is that you carry something within you and that something is separate from Existence; this "I."

So, we have a lot of ideas about this “I.” There is the “higher self” and there is the “lower self”, a “self of shadow” and a “self of light.” We create so many stories about this “I”! An “I” that will evolve, an “I” that will become spiritualized.

We talk, for example, about personal development – it is the idea of this “I,” this “person,” to develop to function better in the world, to achieve fulfillment, peace, and happiness, to improve as a person, to develop and achieve good results professionally.

That's our culture. That's what we were taught. And, here, I want to invite you to look at this, to look inside yourself and see if there is this “self” to be found; look inside yourself and see if there is a difference between this “yourself” and what appears here, at this moment. And to look and see that means abandoning psychological conditioning, because in this conditioning, we believe that there is “me” … there is “I,” this “I” here and you there; there is thought that arises and a thinker thinking. So, the idea of the thinker... There is no thinker! The thinker is just thought! When there is no thought, where is the thinker?

If there was a thinker, you could tell me, right now, at this instant, what's the next thought you're going to have in 5 minutes. Come on, try! What's the next thought 2 minutes from now that you're going to have? Do you know what the next thought will be? No. So, where is the thinker? Because if there is a thinker, he is the one who produces thoughts, and if he produces, he knows, he knows it, he is the owner of the factory, he is the owner of the industry of thoughts, he is the technician in charge, he is the engineer, he is the artist.

However, there is no such thinker, this one who idealizes ideas, who thinks thoughts. There is only thought! The illusion is that there is a thinker present – that is conditioning; the illusion is that there is someone to feel this sadness. We have gone through states of sadness many times, and when going through states of sadness, the feeling-thought... the thought-feeling, the feeling-thought is "someone sad."

This is a conditioning, we have been taught this, that there is "someone" sad, there is "someone" thinking - so there is the thinker and the thought - someone is feeling - so someone is feeling and something is being felt. And when there is this conditioning, there is always this idea of controlling… controlling thought, controlling feeling, controlling emotion.

Thus, I ask you: can you do it? Can you control your thoughts? You just say “I won't think about it” and does it work? When there is a feeling present, you say “I will not feel it.” Is it that simple? Is it a decision? Is there a movement of volition and willingness that can determine being free from a feeling when it is present, free from the thought when it is present? No, this doesn't work!

This confirms what we are saying: there is the feeling, but there is no “someone” in control of it; there is thought, but there is no “someone” in control of it; there is an emotion, but there is no “someone” in that emotion. After a few seconds, thought appears and says “I can't keep feeling these things. Next time, I'll control myself. I can't keep thinking like that! I'm going to learn to control thoughts, I'm going to perform a technique, a practice... There's a course there that teaches us how to deal with thoughts.” So, the idea is the illusion of “someone” to deal with thoughts.

There is no such duality, such separation. This is something completely false! This is psychological conditioning; this is a belief! There is a chaotic movement of thought, feeling, emotions, and misperceptions about life. Thought is this overlap over Reality as It appears at this instant, at this present moment, and you mistake yourself for this thought, creating the illusion that you are in it. And yet, it’s just a movement of thought without control, disordered, since there is no “someone.”

Self-awareness will show you how to break this pattern of thinking, feeling, emotion, and perception… how to go beyond this sense of “someone” present in this experience, and, therefore, how to go beyond this experience.

Notice what we are saying! Is it possible to go beyond thought? Yes! All you need is to be beyond the egoic mind, beyond this conditioning, beyond this condition, beyond this psychological disorder, this psychological suffering. This puts an end to the illusion of the ego, of this "me." Then, this Natural State, which is non-dual, shows itself as your Natural State. And when that Natural State is present, there is no conflict anymore.

Conflict is always established between the idea and “someone” in the idea; the thought and “someone” thinking; the feeling and “someone” feeling; the fear and “someone” in fear; the fears and “someone” feeling those fears, living those fears. When that separation ends, the conflict ends, and the experience ends.

This is because of Meditation, this approach to Meditation – I speak of True Meditation; it's getting closer to that movement of duality and letting go of that movement. And you abandon that when you realize that there is a union between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed thing, the one who feels and what is felt, the one who sees and what is seen, then the end of illusion takes place, the end of this “me,” of this “I,” of this ego. This is Advaita Vedanta, This is the Vision of Non-Duality, This is the Vision of your Being, This is Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Realization, or Self-Realization.

This is the encounter with Happiness! Not according to psychology, to philosophy, according to the teachings of organized religion... This is the encounter of Truth with What you are, here and now, at this instant. This is Self-Realization!

If this makes sense to you – and this is the subject we deal with here on our channel – leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel… Reminding you that we have online meetings and also face-to-face meetings. We can work this out together! Ok?

See you next meeting.

August, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to solve problems? | Awakening of Consciousness | Spiritual Enlightenment | Advaita

The issue is: how to solve problems? That’s the question. I want to change this question. I want to ask you if it’s possible for us to live without problems.

We have a car problem, so we go to a mechanic. We have a health problem, so we see a doctor.

So, these are experts in that area.

Here, I am referring to these internal problems, to these problems that are really problems, because a mechanical problem is a problem that a specialist can solve. A medical problem also has a solution.

To a certain extent, the doctor can assist us, he can do something for you, because he is a specialist in this area, he studied this.

In an engineering problem, an engineer can assist you, he can help you.

But, here, I am referring to these problems of ours. Is a mind free of problems possible? Anxiety, fear, ambition, envy…

I'll give you an example: a very close relative, someone very close to you, dies. And now you are faced with a problem: the problem of loss. You didn't expect to be alone at that moment, without that person, and now you are faced with a problem. So, I am referring to these internal problems within us, to these problems that we face moment by moment in our lives, in our day-to-day lives. If it’s not one way, it’s another. If it’s not one type, it’s another.

A car eventually breaks down. [For] A mathematical problem that we cannot solve, we consult an expert; occasionally we need someone to help us sort this out.

The body itself eventually becomes ill. But, here, I am referring to these internal problems that are,

moment by moment, with you: worry, anxiety, accelerated, repetitive thoughts, the pain of loneliness, the pain of loss – here I mentioned the case of losing someone very intimate, very close.

Is a mind completely free, internally, of problems possible? So, to your question – “how to solve problems?” –, I have this other question: is a problem-free mind possible?

First, we have to investigate what these problems are. The technical problem is the subject of those who study that particular specialty. But what about the internal problem in us? Who is the one who can help us understand and therefore dissolve this problem if not ourselves? Another will not suit you in that sense.

You go to a specialist, a doctor, a therapist, a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, a psychiatrist... In a way, he is an extraordinary help, a wonderful help, but the problem has an element in it, very, very deep, that this specialist cannot answer.

Only we ourselves can attend directly to this very profound element – this element is the “I,” the “ego,” the sense of “someone” present in this feeling, in this contradiction, in this conflict, in this fear, in this anxiety, in this psychological pain, in this suffering. That sense of “I” can only be dealt with by you.

So, the specialist has a very clear limitation. His condition to help us is very, very limited, because when we touch that element, nobody can solve it. This sense of “I,” of “ego,” of “me,” has no cure.

We are here investigating with you, within this channel, the beauty of the Awakening of Consciousness, of Spiritual Enlightenment. That, yes, is the end for that sense of “I,” for that sense of “me,” of “ego.” This is not the cure of the ego, this is the end of the illusion of the “I,” of the sense of the ego, which is the end of the problem. Your problem is you, this “me,” this “I.”

So, when a loved one dies, be it a child, a wife, a husband, someone very close, intimate, an extraordinary pain comes; it is a pain that cuts. We know what that is, we've all lost someone. Where does this pain hit us? This is not a mechanical problem, this is not an engineering problem, this is not a physical problem, it’s a mental health problem, it’s a psychological health issue.

What is this element, the “I” element? What is it made up of? What is the mind? We have to investigate it, approach it, so it’s possible to have the answer, it’s possible to end the problems.

Here, it is not about the end of problems by giving a solution for it. When you lose a loved one, there is no solution. When someone walks away and causes you emotional pain that cuts you in half, there’s no way to fix it. When something suddenly disappears and you didn't foresee it, didn't expect it, didn't wait for it... It’s curious: even knowing that someone is sick... it is predictable that he or she could die, that is predictable, it could happen, and yet we are not ready for these losses, even though we know that this is about to or could happen.

So, nobody is psychologically ready for this problem.

The present sense of “I,” you see, is the problem. We never looked at it that way. For us, the problem is what is happening externally, it is what is outside, that we… that “I” did not expect. So, what’s outside is the problem, or it’s the reason, it’s the cause of the problem.

When you get closer and look inside yourself and see this movement, which is the movement of thought, feeling, emotion, images, remembrances, memories, stored experiences, you realize that this internal element, this core of which these things make part, this center that has all this with it – this center is the “me,” the “I” ... As you approach, you realize that it is in this center, in this core, in this “I,” that the problem is. It is not outside; it is not something external.

So, it’s not something external that causes you the problem. The problem is what you are. Your relationship with the external is being supported by a belief, by a condition of hypnosis, of self-hypnosis. In that condition, what is outside and you are something separate.

There is separation between what is outside and you. There is this “me” and the other who abandoned “me,” who ran away, who disappeared from “my” life or who died. This separateness between this “I” and the other, between this internal, this nucleus, this center, this “me” and the other, which is the event, the person or the experience… In that separation, we have a model of duality, of separateness.

It is this element of duality that sustains this pain. However, the support of this pain is present because there is this “me,” this center, this core, this “I,” which some call the ego.

So, the question is: how to solve problems? The answer to that is: disappearing! As long as there is this sense of “I” present, this apparition is present… Since this apparition is made up of all these elements – remembrances, memories, experiences, attachments, desires, and fears – if that disappears, that core, that center, that “I” disappears. And when that disappears, the external experience, the external element, loses its importance, loses its value.

The appreciation of this external element is because it is giving the sense of a separate existence to this identity, to this center, this “I,” this “me.”

Notice what we are saying to you here. The pain appears now that the other is gone, but, in fact, the pain is already present before the other leaves, because what is present in this relationship of duality is the self-affirmation of this center, of this “I,” what is present is the internal, psychological dependence on this existence of the other. This “other” gives identity to this “me.” This external experience gives identity to this “experiencer.”

Are we in this together?

The pain of attachment is already there, the pain of loneliness is already there. You are surrounded by objects, experiences, people, situations, because you don't pay attention to this self-observation, you don't look at what you are here and now. This does not allow you to realize that this “I” already carries this pain.

People want to solve problems when they feel they have problems. They don't realize that the problem is present even if they don't feel the presence of the problem. They never come into direct contact with this self-observation, this self-enquiry. They don't see the “problem” in themselves, they wait for something to happen to become aware that the problem exists.

Here, I am saying: when you look at what is you, you immediately perceive this present pain. What I am putting here for you is that people go through their lives without the slightest awareness that they are suffering.

That suffering is being hidden or camouflaged by their outer experiences, but the suffering remains within them, and they don't become aware of the presence of that suffering within them. In fact, they don't become aware that they are this suffering itself. The presence of suffering is the sense of “I,” the ego.

Here, we are faced with something quite interesting. The human being has no awareness or consciousness of the suffering he carries. Yet, deep down, there is this suffering. On the surface this is not seen. In the foreground, there is pleasure, satisfaction, fulfillment in a relationship with another, with the loved one, with the world, with external experiences, but in the background, the suffering is already there, but the human being does not perceive the presence of this “me,” this “I,” which is basically suffering.

The egoic mind is, by nature, miserable. It is something in us covered or covered up with sensations, with pleasure, with fulfillment, with joy, with satisfaction, but always carrying in that background, in a contradictory way, a present pain, which is fear, the fear of losing, the fear of not having it anymore, the fear of it getting out of control or running away.

So, this suffering is present in the background. In the foreground, pleasure, joy, satisfaction in this and that achievement, in this experience, in that other experience, and deep down, in the background, there is pain, fear, anguish, apprehension, anxiety. This is something present in this sense of “I.”

The beauty of these meetings that we have here is that, when you ask “how to solve problems?”, here I tell you: there is no problem to be solved. This isn't a situation where your car broke down; this is not a situation where a bridge has to be built – that is, yes, a problem for an expert. Here, I refer to this “me.” There is no real problem other than the illusion of this sense of a present identity. This constitutes a problem.

The good news is that your True Nature is not in that condition of contradiction; it doesn't have that background, that bottom and that front, that foreground. That which is You does not carry this duality, this contradiction. Your Being is the Reality where all this experience – and, here, whatever is happening, including the presence of the other and the possibility of his or her absence due to some situation… This is seen without the sense of an ego, of a “I,” of a present identity, of this “me,” in this illusion of duality, the search for fulfillment, the search for satisfaction, the search for fulfillment in this experience and, also, of this duality.

The Reality of That which is You is pure Consciousness. In that Consciousness, what prevails is Love. This is straight from the Vedas. The Nature of Being is not problem. The Nature of Being, according to the Vedas, is Being, pure Being, Consciousness, Bliss. The Truth about your Essential Nature is Advaita, Non-Separation, the one without the second. The Truth about Who You Are, or the Truth about What You Are, transcends this dream where there is a “thinker” with his thoughts, an “experiencer” with his experiences, an “I” surrounded by objects, places, people – more distant people and closer and more intimate people, this “I” loaded with fear, this “I” that is a set of remembrances, memories, stored experiences, desires… This “I” is not real!

Therefore, the end to the illusion of the problem is at the end of this illusion of “I.” Then, there are no problems. Life does not carry problems. What we have in life are new situations arising moment by moment, they are challenges. Everything is changing! Things are happening and there is no “me,” this “I,” this “ego” in control.

What is here and now can suddenly disappear, and you can't do anything about it. There is nothing that you, in this illusion of seeking psychological security, – this is a problem, this is a very serious suffering, very serious, in all of us – can do.

No matter how much you surround yourself with physical security, there is no psychological security, and even physical security always fails.

You have absolutely no control over anything. But we have this illusion: the illusion of an “I” that makes choices, has control, has the power to sustain, to maintain…

All of this is an illusion.

The fact is that, internally, the illusion is based on all these beliefs, and so are the problem and suffering.

So, if that’s something that makes sense to you, that’s what we're working here on our channel. I want to remind you: we have online meetings, we have face-to-face meetings, and we also have retreats. And if this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” there and subscribe to the channel, and we can work on this together, OK?

See you soon.

December, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Live without conflict and suffering | The True Meditation | Egoic consciousness | Advaita | Vedanta

The problems, the adversities, the difficulties, what we feel in the face of these perplexities, these adverse, contradictory, unexpected, accidental situations that appear in our lives... How to deal with it? How to deal with what appears and takes us by surprise and causes us suffering?

When things present themselves and don't cause us pain, we don't care.

We want to get rid of what troubles us; we want to get rid of what causes us complications, problems; we want to get rid of what causes us suffering.

The fact is that we don't have a real internal readiness to deal with the unexpected. We are going to work with you here today, a little bit, on this issue.

Life has this form, this way of showing itself. It is always surprising! It is not bringing problems; Life is bringing challenges.

All the time, Life is presenting us with challenges. Life is extraordinary in presenting us with challenges.

These challenges, when they find us – because they find a present identity, this “me,” this “I,” this ego, this “person” –, when these challenges arise, these unexpected moments arise, they represent, for this “me,” a challenge, and we haven’t been able to give due attention to this challenge. So, at this point, we have a problem.

In fact, most don't even consider the possibility of a trouble-free life. Well, here, I want to tell you something about that, I want to give you one more challenge, and the challenge is: accept the challenges that Life presents and stay there, free of problems. Is this possible? Is it possible for us to live life without problems? To live without conflict and suffering, attending to every instant, every moment, whatever life shows us, brings us, presents us with? Is it possible for us to have a profoundly silent brain, in great internal stillness, and a mind capable of responding to this moment from that Silence of pure Presence, of pure Consciousness, of pure Intelligence?

If I tell you that this is possible, maybe you'll believe it or not. And it doesn't matter at all, because believing it or not believing it doesn't change anything for you. Now to check this out for yourself, yes it does make a big difference!

So, it’s important that you approach these talks, the talks that we bring here on this channel, without this reactive posture, which already immediately rejects something that is put here because you don't have that understanding or because you don't have that experience; or simply accept and believe because it is something hopeful, or that, in a romantic way, you like to hear, or you find the proposal intellectually interesting, and that, for you, now, is just an ideal, one more belief, and it does not work either.

Here, I think it’s important for you to examine this, get closer to it, find out if it’s possible to live free of suffering, because every problem becomes suffering for you. Is it possible to have a mind free of suffering, free of contradictions, free of conflicts, in order to be able to face this challenge that is Life as It shows itself, moment by moment, for all of us?

The challenges are diverse: it’s a friend’s accident, it’s a relative’s accident – a car accident, a plane accident, an accident at work; it’s the natural unpredictability of losing a loved one to an accident or a situation of illness that presents itself, a heart attack or something like that.

People die, even the people we love, and there is no way we can attend to this challenge without an inner condition already free of conflict, suffering and fear; without despair.

So, we need to be free internally, psychologically free; we need that highly capable, serene, quiet brain; that mind in that high degree of intelligence, acuity, perception and embracement of Reality, to attend to the unpredictability of Life, to that mysterious movement, which is Life.

The beauty of Spiritual Enlightenment is this contact with the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of your Being, which is the Reality of God. This does a job in this body, in this mind, putting you in a condition of psychophysical structure... in a high readiness, with a sensitivity and ability to deal with Life as It happens here and now; as now here, in this moment, It appears, without suffering, without conflict, without contradiction, without fear.

Some call It Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening – a life free of the ego, the “I,” this “me.” At that moment, there is no sense of separateness. You have surprises, you have surprising moments, arising every moment, but internally, psychologically, the sense of ego, of “I,” loaded with fear, desires, loaded... within this dissatisfaction, this search for psychological security, loaded with this anxiety, these internal states of unhappiness, suffering… that is not present!

These are states... It’s exactly this psychological condition of a present identity. Notice what we are putting here for you in this meeting. A free mind, a free heart, a life free of suffering is possible, attending to each moment without that inner contradiction, attending to each moment in this Freedom, in this Peace, in this Serenity, in this Joy, in this Understanding, in this acceptance of Life as It is, as It shows itself.

So, at that moment, you do not transform any experience – however adverse, however strange or unexpected – arising into an element of problem and therefore of suffering. This is possible when you are already psychologically free from problems.

Listen to what I am going to tell you: the internal adversities, the unexpected, apparently negative, external surprises that happen to you, are not the cause of a real problem for you, of real suffering for you, but the fact that you, internally, are already in conflict, already in pain, already carry this contradiction.

When something externally surprises you and suffering appears, it is not because that externally is now the cause.

It may even appear to be so. In fact, the cause is internal. Suffering is already present in this sense of an “I,” which is always separating from Life as It is and is always in this illusion that things need to be under your control, safe.

This search for psychological security, these beliefs, these inner beliefs of how each thing needs to be, each person needs to be, each event needs to happen, each situation in your life needs to happen... that weight, that inner anxiety, that inner fear, this is the real cause; it is not what now, externally, has arisen.

Before appearing externally, apparently there was no problem, apparently there was no suffering, but the truth is that the non-appearance of that externally was a covering, which covered up this pain that was already inside.

When you lose a loved one in death or when you are abandoned, you are not grieving now because you lost them or because you were abandoned. His or her presence was a satisfaction that psychologically fulfilled you and didn't allow you to see the pain of attachment, which was already present; of desire, of inner psychological dependence, which was already present. As it is now gone, as it is now disappeared, that which was already there has shown itself.

A very interesting thing is being able to look at yourself and start to realize, in yourself, and already eliminate, through that self-observation, through that self-enquiry… And that is the proposal in this channel: to show you what Self-awareness is; that, through Self-awareness, it is possible to approach the True Meditation. The True Meditation – I also call it the Real Meditation here on the channel... The True Meditation, that contact with the reality that is you, that pain of being “someone,” that weight of that center, that “I,” that nucleus of memories, remembrances, experiences, all this accumulation that has given us an illusory identity, with which we have identified ourselves…

The human being has been identifying himself with this center, with this “I.” Is it possible to get rid of this identification so that Life is seen as a Whole, without any separateness, without this illusion of this “I” and the challenging, complicated, difficult life, causing problems for “me,” for this “I"?

What I am telling you is that psychologically, internally, the suffering is already there. To become aware of this is to go beyond it. So, there is an emptying of this psychological content, this mental consciousness. It is that which is on the surface, which we call the “conscious,” and it, at the same time, is that which is in the depth, most intimate and hidden in ourselves, which we call the “unconscious mind.” That mind, which separates into conscious and unconscious, is that egoic consciousness. It is a single one mind, an illusory mind, the egoic mind, that egoic consciousness, that mental consciousness.

A direct work on oneself represents an emptying of this content and therefore the end of the illusion of this ego-identity, the Recognition of your Essential Nature, which is Being-Consciousness-Bliss. The Vedas declare this, the Scriptures declare this, the Sages, the Realized Beings declare this about You. You are, according to the Vedas, Being-Consciousness-Bliss. And That is the Truth of Existence, of all Manifestation! This cannot surprise you, because This is You.

So, being surprised by external situations does not steal What You are, because these external situations are apparent situations separate from You, since You are One with Life, One with all Existence; then, there is no more suffering. Now, it is necessary an emptying of this illusion, this sense of ego-identity, this sense of separateness.

This is the work we are proposing here for you, within this channel. The Awakening of your Divine Nature is Advaita, Non-Duality. This is straight from Advaita Vedanta, the last part of the Vedas. That sense of Being-Consciousness-Bliss is Advaita. Some call it the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment.

This is the subject we are bringing you here, within this channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” there, subscribe to the channel... Reminding you: we have online meetings, face-to-face meetings and, also, retreats, to work on this together.

OK?

Here’s the message, and see you.

Until soon.

December, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Conscious Union with God | The psychological Conditioning | Psychological time

Alright… Is it possible for the mind to become entirely and completely free of contradictions, conflicts, dilemmas, suffering, and problems? Is it possible?

The purpose of our meetings here, on this channel, is to address the possibility of your Divine Realization, your Realization of God. This is also called “the Awakening of Consciousness” or “Spiritual Enlightenment,” What we have just put for you – a brain, a mind, a life completely Free, in Love. Is this a real possibility or is it a utopia?

So it is, only you can get that answer inside you. You may even believe the testimony of many saints and sages throughout human history; they are always testifying to that possibility. And maybe you don't believe it. But one thing is certain: you can work on yourself and become aware of it by yourself. Because believing it or not will change absolutely nothing in your life.

Here, we are telling you it’s possible, yes. It’s not a dream, not a nostalgic intention, a utopia, but rather a possibility: the possibility of a life free from problems and suffering, which represents a new way of living this life, this existence.

The human brain, according to experts, to anthropology, has been developing for millions of years. This human brain, this brain in us, is always responding to this life of ours, biologically, with a background of psychological conditioning. So, the way we move in life is a way within a conditioning program, a neurological and psychological program.

Here, I emphasize for you the beauty, the importance, of discovering the Truth about your Being. The Sages have testified to this – those who have realized the Truth.

The good news here is that This can stop being a theory, a belief. You can discover This within yourself, in that self-observation – to get closer to yourself by self-observation, by observing all that inner movement of consciousness in you.

Here, it’s about the free mind, the free heart, the Vision of the Reality of your Being, entirely free from this psychological conditioning.

Yes, we have neurological programming. Our brain responds very similarly to an animal’s brain. In our brain, there’s a functioning of self-protection, self-defense, and response for this organism, for this mechanism of self-preservation. This neurological conditioning is fundamental for the preservation of this organism, this body.

Here, we are dealing with the possibility of breaking this psychological conditioning. It’s in this psychological conditioning that problems are constituted, that these problems are present. This psychological conditioning has, as its content, fear, ambition, avidity, envy, desire, the movement of separateness, and the illusion of an identity present here, in life, in this movement of life. And that’s the movement of ego-identity – that illusory identity that you get confused with.

The breaking of this psychological conditioning is the breaking of this ego-identity structure. This represents the end of this state of mind, heart, and life with problems. Discovering the Truth about who You are and What You are… The Truth about who You are – that Discovery – shows you the illusion of a present identity. This is the Truth about who You are. Realizing this is Understanding the Truth of What You Are, is understanding What You Are. You are Being, Consciousness, Happiness.

So, this aspect of the Reality of your Being is something present when there is an end to this condition of psychological conditioning, of the ego identity pattern.

Thus, this is our job here with you: to show you that the Truth of your Being is Happiness, it is Consciousness.

What you present within this context of culture, of the world, of human history, of society, is the result, the fruit, of psychological conditioning. What is this psychological conditioning? It’s the time factor as we know it. The idea of being, the idea of having been, and the idea of becoming: “I am this, I was that yesterday and I will be something else tomorrow”; “I am this, yesterday I was that, and tomorrow I will be someone else.” This is implicit in this illusion of the egoic identity, the sense of psychological conditioning.

So, throughout all of human history, we've been cultivating this model of inner conditioning, sustaining this egoic identity, this sense of separateness, this sense of “I” present, having a human experience.

Notice, there is within you this sense of existing as someone. This is completely false! That sense of being is real, but that sense of being someone is illusory. This sense of being someone contains the illusion of a story, a name, and a psychological standardization of conditioning, where envy, fear, ambition, and desires are present...

All suffering is the result of this conditioning. There’s no suffering in What You are; there’s suffering in what you believe to be. What You are, is Being, Consciousness, Happiness – this is something straight from the Vedas, your True Nature, Which is the testimony of the sage, the testimony of the sages throughout all of human history.

The Sages are those who discovered something beyond that psychological conditioning that occurred to the human being and to that brain throughout the history of mankind; [they] testify to the Truth of What is You in your Being.

In India, they have the expression “Sat-Chit-Ananda,” or “Being-Consciousness-Bliss.” This is the Nature of Being, this is the Nature of Consciousness, this is the Nature of Happiness, the Nature of the Truth about You, What is You.

We are working together here to end this illusion, this programming, this psychological conditioning, the illusion of the ego-identity. When This is settled in that organism, in that mechanism, in that body-mind, What is present is You in your Divine State, it’s God Realization.

Christ had an expression for it: “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.” He compared this Kingdom to a treasure hidden in a field: “That man went and sold all he had, gathered the money, and bought that field in search of that treasure because he knew there was a treasure in that field.” This is a parable from Christ, from Jesus, about a man who sold everything he had, took the money, and bought a field, where he knew there was a treasure. He said: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like that treasure hidden in the field; a man sold everything he had, took the money, and bought that field.”

The Discovery of the Truth of your Being, the Realization of your True Divine Nature, is God Realization. This is the Truth of your Conscious Union with God, in Joel S. Goldsmith’s language. We, here, are signaling to you your Conscious Union with God, your Conscious Union with the Truth. This is present when there’s an end to this illusion of the sense of “I,” of the ego; when there’s this Revelation that the unique Reality present in this life, in this existence, is the Reality of Being, is the Reality of God.

So, we have an end to the illusion, we have an end to this state egoic of mind – what Joel Goldsmith calls the hypnotic mind, hypnotic mind state – this illusion of the sense of “I,” the end to this sense of separateness.

When This is present, everything is present! There’s nothing to worry about psychologically, nothing to worry about, everything is revealed, is shown and everything is present in this Plenitude, in this Grace, in this Divine Truth, which is the Truth of your Being, the Truth of the expression of this Divine Kingdom, this Kingdom of Heaven. This is Spiritual Enlightenment, the mind in an entirely new state, freed from the illusion of this psychological time.

This psychological time is the one that gives you the idea of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The only Reality is the one that is here and now. Tomorrow is not real, just as yesterday was not and the present is an idea now.

We are here dealing with Consciousness, which is the Consciousness of Reality now. This experience of Life as It shows itself is the vision of the Kingdom of Heaven, with all the Beauty, all the Grace, all the Truth, all the Abundance, with all the Fullness that It represents.

And we are here, today, working with you, pointing out, signaling, in this channel, for you, the possibility of this Divine Realization, which is the Realization of your Being. Ok?

If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel... I want to remind you: we have online meetings and also face-to-face meetings to work on this together. Ok?

If that makes sense to you, see you next meeting!

December, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Conscious Union with God | The psychological conditioning | Psychological disorder

Alright! The question is, “Who am I?” That’s the question: “What is the reason for being here? After all, who am I?”

We are here working with you, showing you, within these meetings, the beauty of that Recognition, what that Recognition represents, the Truth about This, what it means to live a life in this world free from problems.

The life of human beings has been, throughout this history of humanity, a battle, a struggle. We have the issue of biological, physical survival and this psychological survival. And throughout this entire human history, we’ve been acquiring conditionings, ways of performing, moving, acting, of interacting with the environment, with life.

The result is that today we are creatures living within a conditioning program, both biological and psychological, in which there is no Freedom. The lack of this Freedom is shown very clearly in our way of relating to each other – a relationship always based on problems: envy, fear, desire, contradiction, struggle, differences, the various psychological conflicts we have, which manifest in our relationships...

Here, the question is: is it possible to have a life free from this movement, which is this chaotic movement of psychological disorder, of annoyance, nuisance, boredom, and loneliness? We have many moments of joy, pleasure, satisfaction, and fulfillment, but these moments pass quickly! We are here to discover the Truth about who we are. This has been the question, “Who am I?”

The Realization of This is the Vision of the Truth of your Being, the Truth of God, the Silence of Intelligence, of this Presence, a free brain, a mind free from problems.

We need Love. We don't know Love. We know affection, tenderness, sensuality, sexuality, affection, pleasure, satisfaction, fulfillment with the presence of the other… We’ve called this love, but we don’t know what Love is. Note that this is present and, along with it, fear, jealousy, possession, desire, the search for psychological fulfillment in this so-called “love.”

We don't know what Love is, and Love is something imperious. Without Love, there’s no Happiness. The presence of Happiness is the presence of Love. We don't know what Happiness is. We know what satisfaction, fulfillment, conquest, a dream come true are, but that’s not Happiness. There’s no presence of Love, there’s no presence of Happiness, there’s no Truth of Being.

This direct contact, with the Reality of who you are, shows you the inner psychological mess we are in. Being aware of it here and now is based on Self-Awareness. It’s in Self-Awareness that you become aware of what is here and now as this “person,” with which you mistake yourself, you identify; and that conditioning is present, declared, seen, perceived directly.

And when there’s no movement to escape this, to escape this condition, within an idea, a belief, but rather when we just look at, we verify, we become aware of it, through Self-Awareness, we perceive what we are here and now. All this confusion, all this psychological disorder, all this conditioning shows itself, reveals itself, and when it reveals itself, through Self-Awareness, this psychological condition is discarded, and when it is discarded, the Reality of your Being, which is hidden … It’s paradoxical: What is You, which is never absent, never presents itself, because that conditioning, that programming, the sense of an egoic identity is present.

Self-Awareness reveals this. It gives you this revelation of this “I,” this “me.” This is the answer to the question “who am I?” When there’s this revelation and a breakdown of this psychological condition of this “I,” when there’s no such “I,” this illusion dissolves and your Being, yes, now shows itself. That which is present presents itself as the Divine Reality, the Reality of God. Jesus called “the Kingdom of Heaven in you” the Presence of your Divine Nature, your Essential Nature.

This Kingdom of Heaven is the Presence of Grace, the Presence of God, the Reality of God, the Reality of your Being. You are here, in this lifetime, to have this Realization of your True Individuality. This True Individuality is the Individuality of Grace, the Divine Individuality.

We have the illusion of individuality. We believe that we think, feel, speak, act, choose, resolve... This sense, in us, of the “I” is completely false. It gives us this sense of individuality, which is an illusion. There’s no such individuality, with its choices.

We are identifying with the movement of psychological conditioning, having all kinds of beliefs about what we are and what we can and can’t do. And yet, we are always acting based on conditioning, on the psychological conditioning, on this programming, which is the result of the memory and experiences stored over these few decades for that body there.

But, also, in this body here, we carry... in this body here that we have, at this moment, we carry the entire history of humanity, the entire history of human beings, and the movement for this ego-identity is a movement of programming, of conditioning. There’s no Love, no Happiness, and no Freedom. This is the movement of ego-identity in this sense of a present “I.”

God Realization, Spiritual Enlightenment, Spiritual Awakening… You have the approach to This through Self-Awareness; it’s the discarding of this illusion: the illusion of individuality. Then, the True Individuality, which is the Consciousness of God, the Consciousness of Truth, the Consciousness of Being, which is Being, Consciousness and Happiness, shows itself. This is your Divine Nature, the Truth about You, the Truth of this Kingdom of Heaven, this Kingdom of God.

So, the Sages have testified to This. Each one has a language to speak, to approach This. Mystics and Sages have spoken of this Divine Reality, which is the Reality of our Being, as in the case of Joel Goldsmith. He points out, using Christian Science language, the Reality of that Kingdom. It’s a mystical language, a Christian language, but notice what we are saying: this contact with the Reality of your Being surpasses any need for a very accurate, very careful study, be it Christian Science, be it the Vedas, the Indian Scriptures or the Zen, or Taoism. All you need is to approach yourself through the True Meditation. Self-Awareness is the gateway to this True Meditation.

Here, on our channel, we have a playlist working on this, pointing out, signaling you how to do this, moment by moment, how to be in front of this presence of True Meditation. It’s something that happens here and now. It’s not a meditation practice; it is Meditation in practice, here, in living, moment by moment. That’s when you have an approach to what Christ said, what Joel Goldsmith points out in his speeches, in his writings, about the Truth of Christ, the Truth of God in us, this Conscious Union with God. It is the Truth of What is You here and now, revealing itself.

This is our subject here within this channel: to actualize, in practice, the Truth of the Realization of this Kingdom of Heaven, this Divine Truth, the Truth of your Being, with all the Abundance, all the Grace, all the Beauty, all the Happiness, Love, Freedom present. Ok?

If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” there, subscribe to the channel… I want to remind you: we have online and face-to-face meetings and retreats, where we can work on this together. Ok?

If that’s something that makes sense to you, see you next meeting.

December, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is Mindfulness? | How to practice Mindfulness? | The principle of Real Practical Meditation

What is Mindfulness? That’s one question. The other is: how to practice Mindfulness?

Note, we have here a very important subject within the context of our speeches: this issue of Mindfulness. First, let’s lay out what Mindfulness is and how we approach it.

First: what you have as a memory, as a remembrance, as a thought happening, is something that happens automatically in you.

Memory, remembrance, recollection, thought, is something automatic.

In an automatic way, this whole thought process takes place in us. To approach this question of Mindfulness, we must first find out what Mindfulness is not.

All movement within each of us, in this process of thinking and feeling, is something automatic. Thought in us is a reaction of memory to a stimulus, to a challenge.

This challenge can be external – a challenge that presents itself to our senses – or it can be an internal challenge. There is a stimulus and, from that stimulus, from that challenge, a reaction takes place. This memory reaction is how thought works in each of us.

Internally, an impulse can occur from, for example, an internal sensation, some internal stimulus, and this triggers the memory process, the thought process.

We are facing something automatic. Thought is automatic, remembrance, memory, recollection is something happening automatically, as a reaction to a given stimulus.

Externally, the senses come into contact with something – you hear something, you see something… Your contact with an external stimulus, through vision or hearing… This stimulus can trigger a process of memory, recollection, thought, and all this happens automatically. This is how our brain reacts to stimuli; this is how memory in us works; this is how we function in this system of feeling and thinking.

The presence of this is the absence of the Freedom of Mindfulness. The presence of Attention, the full presence of that Attention, that Full Attention, is an internal, psychophysical position, new for each one of us; it is the presence of Freedom. This is the Freedom of Mindfulness, possible for each of us.

When something happens, when something happens, at this moment, there is either a response based on that reactive action of memory, of memories – notice that it is psychological conditioning, that is a pattern of psychological conditioning; this is something physical and also cerebral – or, faced with something present in this moment, you have all the Freedom of that Mindfulness, which is an entirely new response to this situation.

Every movement in us, egoic, every movement of present conditioning, is a movement of reactive conditioning, of memory, of thought, of reactive memories. So, to this present moment, we don't have a real answer, in the sense that this real answer is a full, complete, adequate answer.

That would be an Intelligent response, a response born of this Consciousness – here I mean that Intelligence, that Real Consciousness in each of us, and This is something that is present when there is this Full Attention – a direct response to that moment without the sense of a present “I,” of a present identity, without interference or intervention of the past of that ego-identity.

So, we are facing a free action, an action in Love, an action in Freedom, due to this Full Attention.

So, when someone asks “what is Mindfulness?”, my answer is: Mindfulness is the Freedom of a response to this moment freed from all psychological conditioning, all that background of a present identity, and therefore, an action free from desire and fear. An action like this is an action in Love, it is an action of Intelligence, of Compassion, of Kindness. This is action from the Truth of our own Being, it is the Divine action, it is action free from ego, and therefore, free from suffering, free from that egoic sense, free from the present sense of “I.” This is Mindfulness, an Attention without effort, an Attention without planning, an Attention without a model to happen.

So, when some people ask “how to practice Mindfulness?”, they understand Mindfulness as a state that they need to find through a system, a method, a technique, a practice. In the same way, when they are approaching the issue of Meditation, they also project the very same thing.

People believe that Meditation requires a technique, a system, a model, a practice.

What people practice, what they call meditation, cannot be the True Meditation. When there is True Meditation, there is no presence of the “meditator;” therefore, this cannot be the result of a practice. True Meditation is the presence of Consciousness itself, which implies the absence of the sense of an “I,” of a “thinker,” of an ego, of an identity present in that experience.

Thus, the expression “practicing meditation,” as we put it here, does not fit. Meditation is the Reality of your Being here and now. There is no technique that makes this possible.

There is also no technique that can prevent this. The problem is that the use of a technique is, by nature, mechanical. Imbued with this technique, the sense of an identity will continue to be present. In this sense, there may be silencing, there may be a stillness of the brain, but we are not facing that natural flow that is Meditation.

Meditation is the presence of Consciousness. Consciousness is always present, but while this illusory identity is shown, this presence of Consciousness remains as if asleep, and what prevails, what is shown at the moment, is the ego identity, is the sense of an “I” present in the experience.

So, all these activities born of this “I” are egocentric activities, based on the illusion of a present identity. The practice of meditation requires a method, a system, a path, a formula, a specific way of happening, and therefore the presence of the “meditator,” the presence of the “experiencer,” the presence of the one who will do the work, whereas, when there is True Meditation, what there is, is the discarding of this “thinker,” of this “experiencer,” of the one who can do something.

Here I have called True Meditation – the Meditation that flows, that occurs naturally here and now, when there is this observation of the movement of the mind, the observation without the “observer,” the observation of thought without the “thinker,” the observation of the feeling without the one who feels, the observation of the sensation without this “entity” involved in that feeling. This is present when there is this Full Attention.

Therefore, it is not a technique, it is not a method, it is not a practice, it is a direct verification, at this moment, of whatever is appearing. You don't reserve a specific moment for this, you don't have a specific body posture or breathing technique for this.

This moment here and now is the moment of experiencing whatever is appearing, experiencing without the “experiencer” present; it is the moment of the appearance of a thought or a feeling, an emotion, a sensation.

And right now, there is this Freedom of Mindfulness. This is simply looking at what is here without identifying with it, without getting confused with it.

If you reject experience, present experience, if you fight present experience, or if you identify with present experience, in that moment there is an “I” doing this, an “identity” doing this, and if this is present, there is no Mindfulness.

Note, it is not about a state, it is about Freedom from all states of the egoic mind, from that background of psychological conditioning, from that background of memory reaction, of remembrances.

So, our work together here is to become aware of that. Here, we become aware of the Truth that we are in this moment. Whatever is appearing, showing, you just become aware of it. So, the answer to “how to practice Mindfulness?” is here. At this moment, the only Reality present is Life as It is, and the only thing to do is watch. You don't accept, you don't reject, you don't fight against it, you don't get confused with what comes, you don't get confused with what is leaving. A thought comes and soon it goes away, a feeling comes and soon it goes away, a sensation comes and soon it goes away.

You don't grab it, you don't hold it, you don't identify with it, to react psychologically, to fight against it or to be confused with it, because it is a thought, a feeling, an emotion that gives you pleasure. You don't get confused; you don't place an identity.

In general, we are always wanting – this is the model of egoic unconsciousness, we are always identifying with the pleasurable experiences of this reaction. It’s a pleasant thought, it’s a feeling, it’s an emotion... and we get confused with it, we identify with it. If it’s unpleasant, we want to reject it, we want to get rid of it. This is the model we are constantly giving identity to these experiences, always placing ourselves here as the center of these experiences.

So, our movement in life is the movement of ego-identity. And here, when you approach this Full Attention and ask me what that is… It’s noticing what is arising, whatever is appearing, without giving identity to it. This approach is Self-awareness – looking at what is happening here and now, each and every thought, each and every feeling, each and every sensation. Now we know that this is a reaction from this psychological background, we know that this is a reaction from this egoic conditioning, this “I,” this illusory center… We just pay attention to it, Full Attention.

So, here I prefer to call it Attention in practice, because, you see, it is not a practice of Full Attention, it is Attention in practice! Notice, there is no system, no method, nothing special. Here, it’s just a disidentification with thought, feeling, sensation, perception; To not put a present identity on it. That is Full Attention, that is the principle of Real Meditation.

So, when there is Self-awareness, there is that Freedom for Mindfulness, and in that Freedom for Mindfulness, we have the beginning, the principle, the basis of Real Practical Meditation.

We here, on this channel, have a playlist talking about this Real Practical Meditation and talking about True Self-awareness and also what this Mindfulness represents.

Note that all of this is fundamental for Realizing the Truth of What is You, as Pure Consciousness, as Pure Being. When That is present, Love flourishes, Freedom flourishes, Peace flourishes; there is a breaking of that illusion – the illusion of that “I.”

This “I,” as we have just mentioned to you, is a reaction of thought, it is a reaction in the brain and in the body, from a background of psychological conditioning. The discarding of this psychological conditioning, this mental consciousness, is the appearance of this Real and True Consciousness, where there is no separateness between you and everything, you and God, you and Life, you and the other, because the sense of “I” is not. Then, this nameless Reality, this Reality that words cannot reach or define, which we call God, presents itself. This is Spiritual Enlightenment. This is Spiritual Awakening.

So, our job here is to look at what we are. When there is this look, in the way we are putting it, the end of this ego-identity happens, the discarding of this false center, this false “I,” then Meditation is revealed, Meditation as being your Natural State, which is Consciousness, which is Presence.

So, if it’s clear to you, Mindfulness is not a state and it’s not a practice, it’s not something you do in time in a mechanical way, at specific times of the day and applying some technique, it’s something that’s here and now; it’s always here and now! The opportunity is this instant… this instant of experiencing, this experiencing without the “experiencer,” this instant of observing without the “observer,” of the present thought without the “thinker,” of the present feeling without “someone” in this feeling.

Then, a door opens…This is the door to Reality, it is the door to the Revelation of your own Being, which is Spiritual Enlightenment, which is Spiritual Awakening. OK?

If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” there, subscribe to the channel… Reminder: we have online meetings and also face-to-face meetings, as well as retreats. And it is possible to work together for this purpose. OK?

Here is the invitation and see you soon.

December, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find happiness? | Psychological suffering | Psychological unhappiness | Advaita Vedanta

It’s... Happiness. Where is Happiness? How to find Happiness? Will Happiness be the result of our effort? Could it be by effort that we can obtain Happiness? Actually, does anyone know what Happiness is?

Someone may say: “If you make an effort, you will get Happiness.” But will this be true? Will Happiness be the result of effort and struggle? Will it result when we fight to reach it? Will it solve inner issues? And psychological issues in us… will it be like solving a problem on paper, a mathematical problem?

To solve an engineering problem, an architectural problem, or a problem at some technical level, we do need a certain amount of effort. I’d say focus, discipline, and effort. To obtain a certain result at this level, this is needed.

But here, psychologically, you are living, right now, in anxiety, depression, or in some frame of unhappiness. That unhappiness is psychological, internal. The existential emptiness, the pain of loneliness, the lack of love, of what we call love, anyway... Will we be able to solve a problem like this at this level – at the level of effort, of struggle? Is this the level at which we solve a problem like this?

Have you ever tried, by effort, to get rid of, for example, thoughts? Can we get rid of thoughts by effort?

If you have a volume of thoughts and feelings creating internal states in you, like those we just talked about, will you, by effort, be able to break it? What kind of effort can be used psychologically, and what kind of struggle can be used psychologically to overcome fear or any of those frames that we’ve just presented? How is it possible to get rid of it? Is it through effort, through struggle?

It’s clearly not possible! We want it by effort, but effort actually…and struggle, actually, adds more problems, dilemmas, conflict, contradiction, more suffering.

If you try to get rid of thoughts… Try it! When there’s a thought and you inattentively engage with it, which is what we’ve been doing, that single thought multiplies. As if it “gives birth.” After that, others appear, and more, and more, and they multiply.

Our inner states are here and now to be seen. We approach these states as we approach a problem. Unlike a math problem, in which you use knowledge, experience, discipline, focus, and effort; here, a psychological problem… we have to apply ourselves to it in a new way, in a different way. We need to approach the problem by just looking at it.

A tip for you, exactly where you have failed to deal with frames of psychological suffering: you have failed in the sense of always looking for a way to lessen the intensity of that pain, running away from it, and trying to find a solution. What you can get is, in fact, to find a way or some form of escape. These problems have no solution.

Yes, that’s what you heard! The attempt to go in search of a solution to anxiety, depression, boredom, some form of anguish, guilt, remorse... the very movement of seeking a solution strengthens the state itself, the condition itself.

And here I am saying: it’s possible to discover the illusion of the frame, the end of the frame, not the solution since we are not facing a mathematical problem, we are before a psychological problem. And psychological problems... we don't approach them looking for a solution, in a movement of search, because this search is, in reality, a movement of escape or running away. Neither by this search, by effort, nor fighting...

There are 3 things people do with psychological suffering: the search for a solution; second, the effort, some level of effort to become different from what we are here and now. So, there’s an effort to break away from that – that’s the second one, and the third is the fight.

People ask, “What do I do? How to win? How to overcome fear? How to overcome anxiety? How to overcome depression?” These expressions are even understandable but see this very clearly. As we are not dealing with a problem we can put an end to by trying to solve it, trying to overcome it, or making an effort to do something about it…it’s no use. This is not a mathematical problem, an engineering problem, or an architectural problem, this is not a technical problem; it’s a psychological problem.

The real way to approach this is to understand what the problem is. Where is the problem? And we can only do that when we approach it, not when we try to do something like solving, fighting, or striving to win, to go against it.

Here, we approach… Get closer to it! Look at what’s going on inside you and realize what those thoughts are, those feelings, emotions, whatever is arising here and now. That’s the problem for you to approach. Don't strive or fight… approach it! You approach sadness and loneliness, you approach the state.

It’s important that you also understand this: approaching means looking. When we give it a name and try to fit it into a system, we are already trying to find a solution for it again.

Here, I want to invite you to just approach the state itself. And don't get involved in naming, but rather in observing what is going on: the thought, the feeling, the emotion, the sensation… to look at that! And looking at that is only possible when you don't have an idea, a conclusion, or a concept about it.

This is where we come across the real difficulty because when we approach it, we already want to do something. This “me,” this “I,” because of the pain it’s experiencing, wants to get rid of it, wants to do something. When this occurs, there’s this sense of separateness between you – the one who feels – and what is there showing itself. Between this “I” and this experience, we have the sense of separateness, the sense of duality.

The Vision of the Truth about your Being is that your Being is One with Everything. This is straight from Advaita Vedanta. So, back in the Vedas, we have, in Advaita Vedanta, the clear presentation that your Being is One with Everything. This is your Being.

It’s just the sense of “I” separating itself from the experience, sustaining duality. It sustains a false center, an illusory identity, resisting what is shown here and now. And when that happens, the frame is sustained, the situation is sustained, the fear is sustained, the anxiety is sustained, the depression is sustained, the loneliness is sustained, the pain is sustained, because there is this duality, there is this “me,” this “I,” fighting against what is shown. When that happens, you are not in that closeness, but rather in that resistance.

The resistance that is presented in this format that I just put to you, which is the attempt to get rid of, the attempt to fight, to resist through effort, to do something… when that is present, there is no closeness. Here, it’s to approach and stay with this.

When a thought arises, you watch it, you don't put an identity present; a feeling arises, you don't put it... just stay with it, watch it, and approach it. When you are present, in that direct contact, there’s understanding, there’s that understanding, there’s a perfect understanding of that sense of an “I” present in that feeling, then you see that duality. This “I” sustains the experience, it’s always this “I” that sustains the experience. It’s always the “I” that sustains unhappiness. Every frame of unhappiness present in your life is being sustained by the “me.”

Therefore, where is Happiness? How to find Happiness? This idea of going in search of this “thing” called Happiness... that’s what people have been doing.

Happiness isn’t out there, It isn’t in an external achievement, It isn’t in something that can fill you up and temporarily remove you from a frame of unhappiness. Happiness is present in your Being, as your True Consciousness, as your Real Consciousness, which is the Truth of God.

Here, I don’t refer to this egoic consciousness, this model of consciousness trapped within this cycle of duality, this movement of coming to be, of becoming, achieving, of getting rid of. That’s a cycle.

The sense of “I” seeks and then wants to get rid of, and then searches again; then it wants to get rid of it. This model of achieving, of coming to be, becoming, obtaining, accomplishing, and getting rid of, is within this model of egocentrism, of egocentric activity, of this very egoic consciousness, of this mental consciousness. Your Real Consciousness is the Nature of God. That’s where Happiness is, that’s where your Being is, the Truth of your Divine Nature.

Here on our channel, we have an extensive playlist talking about Self-Awareness and the True Practical Meditation, in addition to another playlist talking about the result of this, which is the Awakening of that Power you carry within yourself, which ends this psychological condition of suffering.

So, it’s not about a solution to unhappiness, it’s about the end of the illusion, the end of the illusion of unhappiness – and, here, I refer to all conditions, to all forms of pathologies, of psychological unhappiness – when that sense of “I,” of “ego,” of “me,” dissolves, disappears. That’s the end of the sense of “I” and therefore the end of this illusion, the end of this illusion that unhappiness is a reality.

Happiness is the Nature of Being, Happiness is the Nature of Consciousness. This is the Truth about who You are, or rather about What You truly are.

This is the subject we deal with. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel... I want to remind you: we have online and also face-to-face meetings, where we are working on this together with those who approach. Ok?

If that makes sense, we can work it out together. Ok?

Thanks for the meeting!

December, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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