Joel Goldsmith | The Foundation of Mysticism | Higher Self | Satsang with Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We're here for another videocast, another opportunity that Master Gualberto gives us to be here to answer our questions, to comment on some excerpts from Joel’s books that we read. Gratitude, Master, once again, for your presence. For those who don't know who Master Gualberto is, I'll quickly talk about how I met him.

I've been on a spiritual quest for many years, the last few years focused on Joel Goldsmith’s studies, and, in mid-June of last year, something very strong, internal, pushed me to enter a period of stillness, of silence. I left the channel here; I left the study groups. I didn't know why, but I soon found out: because, by Grace, YouTube suggested a video from Master Gualberto’s channel, whose objective is exactly to divulge what this Real Spiritual Enlightenment is, this Awakening of Consciousness, or the Conscious Union with God, as Joel brings us.

And then Master Gualberto’s video caught my attention. I watched another, watched another, and ended up discovering that there were Satsangs, which are intensive weekend meetings, online and also in person. I signed up to take part in an online Satsang intensive to see what had caught my attention because it was something that wasn't just in words. During this intensive weekend, I was able to “understand” – in fact it was comprehension – what called my attention.

It caught my attention that Master Gualberto’s look is not just the look of a “person,” it’s not a look like Gilson looks at, like the vast majority of humanity looks at, which is a look with the mind, with judgment; it’s not that look. It’s a look of purity, it’s a look that doesn't judge, that doesn't condemn, that doesn't classify. It’s a pure look. Why does the Master have this pure look? Because after twenty-one years of intense self-inquiry, through the Grace of his Master Ramana, the “explosion of that bomb,” also called Spiritual Enlightenment or Awakening of Consciousness, happened.

And it’s been more than fifteen years since this happened, and it’s been more than ten years since Master Gualberto has shared this State, which he calls the Natural State, shared this Grace, through these Satsang meetings. And it’s a grace to be able to be here with you, Master. It’s beyond words, it’s indescribable to be in your presence and gain and receive that State of True Meditation, where there is a Stillness, where the mind paralyzes... It’s beyond words! So, I just have to say thank you.

And starting the videocast today... let me get the excerpt from the book I'm going to read from Joel. It’s from the book “ The Foundation of Mysticism.” The excerpt is as follows, Joel says: “This is the secret: I am Me. I'm not on these feet, I'm not in this body. I'm Me. I can't be wrapped around a piece of meat. I cannot be encompassed by space, because the true meaning of “I” is God. That is why it is written with a capital letter: I am the Spirit of Me, the Truth of Me, my Self, and That is not in the body. This is infinite. This is eternal.”

Master, could you make some remarks about this part of the book? The word is with you, Master.

MG: Okay. There’s something there that I'd like you to approach very carefully. The first thing here is that we have to understand that the use of words – and this is what we've been doing, we use words all the time – is something that… words are symbols of things. So, when we use expressions, we have to be careful not to confuse these expressions with the thing itself. And this is very complicated in the mind. Here, for example, we have the word “I,” Joel uses the expression “I.” After all, what “I” is he referring to?

Some people use the idea of ​​“I” as if we actually have two “I”: a lower “I” and a “Higher I.” You can very well get, from this text by Joel, an idea that, there, he is referring to this “Higher Self.” So, if we have, by principle, by idea, two “selves” in us – an inner “self” and a “Higher Self” –, reading Joel we have the impression that he is referring to this “Higher Self,” to that “Real I” in us, which is not the body or mind, which is something beyond this world. So far so good.

The problem is when we take this expression and turn this expression into more knowledge for us, mere intellectual knowledge. So, the care with the handling of words is because we have a very strong tendency to take an expression and put this expression within an idea, a concept, an image, a belief, and therefore, this starts to make part of our memory. And when that happens, it is not real, we are no longer dealing with the Truth of the thing, but with the image of the thing. So, we have to be careful.

That’s why I prefer to make use, here with you, of a much simpler expression. Let’s start from a principle: every ideation, every belief, every thought, every image, and every concept that you have inside you is still part of the illusion of that false “I,” of that illusory “I”, even if we are talking about God, about the “Higher Self,” about the Divine Consciousness, about Christ… All this becomes an idea for us, and as an idea, it is an illusion! And we can spend a lot of our lives making verbal, intellectual assertions of these images in the belief that we are dealing with the Truth; and the truth is that we are dealing with concepts, with ideas, with beliefs.

So, what I've been saying and what I've been putting for those who approach me is that we need to investigate what we have here and now: this set of beliefs, this set of images, this set of ideas that we have, be it about God, be it about the “I” … So, this notion of “Higher Self” and “lower self” … we discarded that. This notion of God as an image, as an idea, that’s just another concept, it’s just another belief. So, we need to get rid of that too!

So, we have this tendency to stay within that idea, that concept, that image that thought creates, making statements, and far away from Reality. When, however, we discard all that, we can, yes, enter the Silence of That which is beyond these expressions, beyond these words. So, words like the “Higher Self,” “God,” “the Christ,” all of this always carries, for us, a certain meaning, both intellectual and sentimental, and also emotional. And when we cling to that, we are still trapped within the “I,” the ego, that illusory center that separates us from Reality, which is this “me.”

So, what we need, Gilson, is to investigate the illusory nature of the “I” and let the Truth of this Presence, of this Consciousness, of this Divine Truth – or whatever name we want to give to This – reveal Itself by Itself, by Itself, when we discard the illusion.

We cannot deal in a positive way with the image, with the idea, with the theoretical formulation, because we fall into this trap. In fact, our “I,” our ego, our egoic mind, will project this, so we will be trapped in an illusion.

However, to enter the Truth of God, we simply investigate the nature of this false “I” and drop all these statements, all these ideas, all these expressions. We are not psychologically occupied with it. This is a mistake, this is something that disturbs us a lot: keeping ideas, beliefs, verbal affirmations within ourselves... We need, in fact, to empty ourselves of every concept about God, all concepts about Christ, all concepts about Truth, because these concepts are just concepts, they are just images, just imaginations! That’s why it is not in a positive way that we approach This, but by investigating these beliefs and releasing them from us.

This is possible when there is contact with the mind in silence, in stillness, when it is emptied of all that theoretical, verbal, religious content that we end up learning in books, whether in the Bible, in the Bhagavad Gita, or in Joel’s books. We have to discover That which is beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond beliefs, beyond concepts, in Joel’s own words. We have to leave every concept of God, every idea of ​​God. And the idea of ​​this “I” in us, which is not the body, which is not the mind, which is not in the world, or any idea of ​​this “Higher Self” in us, is still an idea.

So, it’s a delicate subject. What we have to approach is discarding this idea, this image, these beliefs. We have to get rid of all beliefs, all concepts, and then it is possible, yes, to contact the Reality of Consciousness, which is the Reality of God. But it’s not someone having this contact. It’s this Reality taking over this space, as I've been saying, this space that is Its. Then, there’s no one inside it.

All right, Gilson? Is this complicated? There can't be anyone there, there can't be anyone there. In the present Reality there is no room for someone called “I,” there is no room. And it’s only possible, Gilson, to go beyond that when, in fact, we let it go.

The problem with religious language – which is the language that we learn in this search, in this quest – is that it is very pleasant, very comforting, that carries a weight of pleasant feeling and also a feeling of comfort and security. But, for whom is this comfort? For whom is this security, if not for the “I” itself, for the illusion of that ego itself?

So, we have to tread slowly on this ground, because we can spend a lifetime trapped in a set of beliefs. And as you just put it, and you can already see: we can replace one belief with another, and then that one with a third, and then that third with a fourth. And beliefs are verbal, they are intellectual, they are mental. It is something that begins to be part of that memory collection. And everything that is part of the memory is still part of the ego, it is still something within that psychological “I” time.

All knowledge, Gilson, is part of the “I.” Reality is not knowledge, Reality is the Truth of what Is. This transcends knowledge – here I am referring to this limited knowledge of words, symbols, and images. These symbols, images, and words are within the known, and that is mental. This begins to be part of that memory, which is the memory of the “I” itself. The Reality of your Being is not in time, so that Reality of your Being is not burdened with memory.

Realize what an interesting thing: all the knowledge we have was learned. If it was learned, it was learned in time. If it was learned in time, it is not part of our Real Nature, because our Real Nature is beyond time, it is the Nature of Being, it is the Nature of God. So, if this was learned in time, it’s part of time, it can't be real!

If you have certain knowledge and you are hit hard on the head and some specific area of ​​the brain, which carries that memory, is hit, that knowledge disappears! It can only disappear because it was never real. It’s part of time, it’s part of the knowledge and part of that brain memory. This cannot be the Truth! So, the word “God,” “love,” or “superior being,” or whatever we have learned in philosophy, psychology, politics, religion, all that is part of time, it is not Reality.

Reality does not appear and disappear. Reality is not what comes and goes. Reality transcends all that thought can formulate, sustain, can create, can imagine, or reproduce. So, the experience of Reality is the Consciousness of God being assumed there. That’s the end of that psychological time, that’s the end of that condition, which is the condition of the mind, with all that weight of memory that I've been calling conditioning.

So, there is not only political, philosophical, psychological conditioning, but we also have religious conditioning, according to the culture where we were born, and none of that can be the Truth. The Indian has a conditioning, the Chinese has another conditioning, the Japanese has another conditioning, and the Brazilian has another conditioning. And these are religious conditionings! However, the Truth of Being, which is the Truth of God, is one and the same! It doesn't matter if you were born in China, Japan, India... And this is outside this matter of culture, outside this matter of theoretical, verbal, theological religiosity. Truth is Consciousness. If we use the expression “Christ,” “God,” we have to tread carefully there.

GC: Master, but the ego clings to these ideas, to these beliefs, and keeps repeating: “There is only God,” for example, as I repeated. And it only goes from one belief to another, as the Master commented here, and I didn’t leave the mind, I didn’t leave the conflict, I didn’t leave that egoic identity. And that’s a big problem, because there’s no reality in it, is there?

MG: It could be even worse, Gilson. The ego uses this to separate, to conflict. If I am against the one who practices Hinduism, because I am a Christian, the one who practices Hinduism can be against the Christian, the Christian can be against the Buddhist... So, these religious concepts, of verbal theology, only separate us, they only place us on a terrain of separateness, conflict, and fight. Religions have been fighting each other for millennia, and all because of verbal theological ideology, because of beliefs! This is the result of illusion, ignorance, psychological conditioning, within religious dogmatic principles. We have to go beyond that, we have to realize the Truth of That which we are, which is outside of all this confusion. Got it? You can go on, let’s go!

GC: But the point, Master, is that what is sold in the world, since creation, is always this growth: growing with learning. And go to school, and go to college, and always learn more and more. In other words, putting more and more concepts into our mind. And that, including, in the spiritual bias. We fill ourselves with concepts and are always wanting to learn more, learn more, learn more, instead of emptying ourselves of everything we think we know. So, it’s a really big challenge.

MG: Gilson, there is a real way of learning, and that real way of learning we don't receive in childhood. We can work on this in other videos. There is a real way to learn, but it is not learning doctrines, learning beliefs, it is not learning what separates and divides us as human beings from one another. We need to learn the Truth of illusion, exactly, of that “I” that is separate from the other by ideologies, beliefs, concepts, and prejudices. We need a new way of learning. And here, learning necessarily starts by unlearning all kinds of things that we acquire within that culture.

The world has taught us to be as we are. And how are we today? Greedy, quarrelsome, envious, possessive, jealous, avid for power, in short… in conflict with each other, basically with ourselves and the world around us. So, we have to unlearn that, we have to discover the Truth about who we are, and that’s a real way to learn.

And it is a learning that is not learned in books, that is not learned with concepts, with new beliefs.

This we learn through self-observation, looking at ourselves, discovering in ourselves all that psychological conditioning that is already a cultural inheritance, which is already an inheritance from our ancestors. And we need to discard this so that there is a new mind, a new heart, really a deeply religious life, without those aspects of theory, concepts, beliefs, dogmatism that separates us, that divides us, that still enslaves us within fear.

All these kinds of illusions have to go. We need to discover the Truth of our Being, and that is the beautiful art of learning. Learning about who we are is discovering who the other is, discovering where God is, discovering the beauty of life.

We didn't receive that in childhood, what we were taught were other things. We were told: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, “What do you want to be?” We were shown a way, which was the way they took. But look at the path they took and the result they got. Is this what is real for you, for your children, for your grandchildren? Is this real? Are we happy despite all that we have achieved within this culture, where we were taught to live within this competition, this envy, this search for acquisitions and material achievements of all kinds, in an attempt to be happy?

We have to look at That which we are, discover the Truth of this present Love, this present Peace, this Intelligence, which is the Presence of God in us, which is Kindness, which is Compassion, which is Freedom, for a Happy, Free Life! Including, free from everything that can separate and divide us ideologically, conceptually, dogmatically, religiously, politically, philosophically, and psychologically.

We have to go beyond this “I,” because this “I” is the center of this whole mess, and we have to discover how to learn to unlearn to live like this. That’s it.

GC: Master, but this idea of ​​learning, of acquiring is very strong in the ego. It is very attached to this idea of ​​filling itself intellectually with new concepts, with new ideas, including within this spiritual bias. And this “unlearning” is nothing for it, it is to remain in nothingness! So, it’s always on that quest. I see this intense desire to learn, to want more. What could the Master say about this?

MG: Gilson, there are some levels of search for fulfillment and satisfaction of this “I,” of this ego. One of them is in the acquisition of objects. Notice that this “I” moves like this. This is just for us to observe in ourselves. It wants to have things; it wants to feel fulfilled in things. Another thing: it wants to fulfill itself in relationships with people too. And another level of search to fulfill this “me,” this “I,” this ego, is in ideas. So, there is a huge hunger and thirst to obtain things, to conquer people, to have people always around this “me,” this “I,” and acquire knowledge.

So, the ego wants to fulfill itself in these three ways. I am quoting three, there are others as well. It wants power, it wants a name, it wants fame… It wants countless things, but none of that can truly fulfill it. It lives in a state of emptiness and dissatisfaction. It never investigated that, it never realized that this emptiness, dissatisfaction... nothing can fill that emptiness. This emptiness, this pain of this emptiness is created by this sense of egocentrism, separateness, self-centeredness of this “me,” this “I.” So, it is restless.

The ego, the “I,” is restless and it is dissatisfied, it is unhappy. So, fulfillment in material things, fulfillment in human relationships and fulfillment in filling yourself with beliefs, with ideas... If it doesn't cling to political ideologies, it clings to religious ideologies, or philosophical ideologies, or psychological ideologies. But this is the dissatisfaction of the ego, within this pain of separation, because this is what is hurting. The ego is unhappy because it is occupying a place that is not its own in this mechanism, in this body-mind. And it is unhappy... Simply, it is unhappy, and there is nothing that can make it happy: no money, no power, no relationship, nothing!

That sense of “I” has to disappear, because as long as it is there, suffering is there. The good news, Gilson, is that you were born, we were born to realize What we are, or as I've said: to find out that we weren't born. What has appeared in this scenario is the sense of an illusion, the result of our parents’ desires and also of this psychological condition of a false “I” present here. This is what appeared in this scenario, and what we call a “human person” or “human being” is living a dream.

This dream does have some moments of joy, pleasure, satisfaction, and fulfillment, but everything is temporary, because the basis of this “I” is suffering, it is confusion. Look at your body and you will see that it is full of problems from birth to grave. And look at the situation we are involved in: we have to fight, we have to win, we have to study, we have to eat our bread in the sweat of our brows, as the Bible says. It’s because it’s hard to live within that sense of separateness and illusion, that egoic state. And we need to wake up from this dream, we have to go beyond this illusion.

So, this is the proposal here: to show you that it is possible to realize This in this life. This is what my Master – here is his picture – showed me: the Truth of a life free of the “I,” free of the ego and, therefore, free of suffering. A life lived intelligently, a life in Peace, a life where Love is present. That is the real meaning of a profoundly religious life. There is no external religiosity, there is no quotation from holy books. We leave all that behind. You live the scriptures, not quote the scriptures. I have already said this to some who approach. The beauty of this Natural State, Gilson, is that you are living Christ and his gospel. You are not trying to live Christ and trying to live the gospel, you are living Christ! You are the expression of Consciousness, you are the expression of Christ, you are the expression of God.

GC: Master, it’s pure Grace, pure Grace! But our time has come, Master, our time has passed. So, I just have to say thank you. Thanks for this meeting! And here is the invitation – for those who felt something beyond what is in the words, what Master says, felt something beyond, looking into his eyes – to participate in intensive weekend meetings, online or in person. And there is also an invitation to watch the complete playlist of these meetings, these videocasts, and please, leave a “like,” make a comment… This helps YouTube to recognize that the channel is relevant and distribute it to more people.

So, thank you very much, Master! Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude to all.

April, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
Further information

Your Real Nature is Bliss | Psychological complexity | The "I" is the illusion of an identity

After all, what are we proposing within these meetings? We are offering you the opportunity of Awakening of Consciousness. Awakening of Consciousness is the Awakening of your Real Identity. Yes, of your Real Identity. You are not who you believe you are. This is a statement that can sound different to you: it can have a philosophical sense, a spiritual sense, it can have a mystical sense; but I want you to look closely at this and make no special sense of what we are saying here. We are just telling you this simply: you are not who you believe you are. If you keep it very simple, as we are putting it, you will soon ask a second question. The first will be: “Then, who am I?” That will be the first basic question – “Then, who am I? Since I'm not me, who am I?” And after that basic question, a second fundamental question will come up, and that question is, “What do you mean?” Maybe that was your first question – “What do you mean?” And the second question was, “Then, who am I?” – no matter the order.

We are here proposing that you investigate this and find out, at this moment in your life. You came across this video, or you already came across this channel and you are already working on it here. This is a moment in your life of self-discovery, of self-discovery, of understanding the Truth about who you are. This vision of oneself, this vision of yourself is something that is fundamental. It is something that each one of us needs greatly and urgently. Until there is this comprehension of the Truth about who we are, there will be no Love, there will be no Peace, there will be no Freedom, there will be no Happiness, there will be no God Consciousness. Belief in God, belief in peace, belief in love, belief in happiness, or the various forms of beliefs, are just beliefs.

Here I want to get down to the facts with you, the fact of Truth about who you are, give you the fact of Truth about who God is, the fact of Truth of what Love, Happiness and Peace is. And only that, only that is Real. No belief, no concept, no theory, none of that can be Real. In life, we deal with what is real; what is real is what turns out to be the facts. We don't live on abstractions. The human being has lived on abstractions, he talks about God as if he knew him, he talks about love as if he knew what love is, happiness as if he knew what happiness is. In thought, happiness is a house, a car, a wedding, the birth of the first child, a professional achievement or training and graduation in some course.

So, at that moment, you do have a moment of fulfillment, of satisfaction. So, for a few seconds or for a few minutes, or it could even last for a few days, that state of euphoria, of circumstantial joy, because of something external that is happening, at that moment, for a while, you are the happiest person in the world, but that lasts for a while and fades away, and disappears. Then, that joy, that euphoria, which you call happiness, due to that accomplishment, diminishes, cools down, reaches a sharp, intense point and then cools down, diminishes and dissolves. The happiness is gone, because, in fact, it was an external situation, circumstantial, of fulfillment, of pleasure for this “me,” for this “I,” for this person with whom you are confused and believe to be

Here the inquiry “Who am I?” or “What do you mean?” that’s what matters to us. Asking “But what do you mean?”, “How is that?” or “Who am I?”, because only that Realization puts you in direct contact with that fact, with the fact of the Reality of your Nature, which is Bliss. Those who have realized This, those who have realized God, who are living This, that fact which is God, that fact which is Reality, that fact which is the end of this illusion of an “I” present in experience, the end of the ego, they tell us, they tell us clearly that the Nature of the Truth about who we are is already Happiness. You don't have to get divorced to be happy and get married again; no need to get married, no need to have children, you don't have to be healthy to be happy. The issue of the body is one thing, the issue of Reality of your Being, your Real Nature, is quite another thing. The realization of your Real Nature is Bliss, independent of the body, independent of the mind, independent of external situations, including achievements, in this or that area.

That’s what we're working on here with you. So, those who have become directly aware of this, who are living this fact of the Reality of God, say that the fact of the Reality of God is the fact of this Reality of Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness. The problem with us is that we live within such a psychological complexity that thought itself, which is the basis of all imagination, never has any interest or ability to know what that represents. It is exactly when thought ends, when it ends, when it ceases, that this Revelation shows itself, that Truth shows itself – this Truth, which is this Consciousness, which is this Reality of Love, of Bliss, of God.

So, the emptying of all this psychological content, what I have just called “cessation of thought,” when it ceases, when there is a cessation of thought, when it finishes, when it ends, when this movement no longer has this continuity, this sense of a present “I,” this imaginary “I,” this imaginary “me,” this ego, this imaginary person, disappears. You are what you Are, that’s a fact, it’s not an abstraction.

The “person” is an abstraction. When you say “I,” you are referring to an abstraction; when you tell a story about that “I,” it is a story, it is an abstraction, it is a set of remembrances, of memories, of concepts about an identity that is an abstraction. The abstraction is a set of concepts, of images, remembrances, and memories; this is all abstraction, it refers to the body as this “I.” So, when you refer to this “I” being the body, this body is always being renewed, cells are dying and cells are arising. “Your” body is being renewed; from one day to the next “your” body is another body; every half hour, every ten minutes, new cells appear, others disappear. This is the process of life in this organism, in this mechanism, in this body. And then you use the expression “I” as if there is an “I,” an identity present, here and now, immutable, being that body, referring to that body, that form.

Notice what we are putting here for you: life is something that is happening, but there isn’t that “I.” That “I” is an abstraction, the “I” is the body, but what body, if that body is something that is changing from moment to moment? The “I,” this mind, but what mind? At every moment a thought arises, a story arises, a memory arises, and that memory gives an identity to “someone,” places “someone” having an identity. It’s just a memory, it’s thoughts, it’s images, it’s memories. Something coming from the past as memory is just memory. There is no identity present in memory. This abstraction, this “I,” this “me”, is projected in time as “someone” coming from the past, living this present moment, being this body, having this mind, and projecting himself into the future. We are dealing with an abstraction, with an idea, with a belief. I want the Truth about who you are. What is This that we are? Note: this is the psychological complexity in us, the illusion of a present identity. There is no such identity. The revelation of the Truth of your Being, the revelation of the Truth of God, of your Essential Nature, is the Truth about who you are.

The good news here is that with this revelation of the Truth about who you are, you are Consciousness itself present, beyond the body, beyond the mind, beyond all this story, beyond all this abstraction. The Reality of your Being, here and now, present in this listening, in this speaking, in this feeling, in this living, in this Love, in this Peace, in this Freedom, in this Consciousness that is God, that is Bliss.

The birth or appearance of this form, this body, the sole purpose of this appearance, which we call birth, is to realize the Reality of That which Is, here and now, which is beyond time, beyond space, beyond name, beyond forms, beyond all change. The Truth of What you Are, is the Truth of all Manifestation. Such a life is a life free from the sense of a separate “I,” demanding, asking, expecting, seeking, wanting something to be happy, for fulfillment. The Reality of this quality of life is that it is Life in Itself, without the sense of separation. That which is present is Love, Truth; That which is present is the only Reality, apart from birth and death. Realizing This or assuming this Realization is all that matters in this life.

This is our work, this is our objective here, this is the only thing we are proposing to you within this channel, in addition to online meetings, face-to-face meetings and also retreats, where we are working with those who approach us.

If this is something that makes sense to you, touches you at some point there, if at some level it touches you, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. I want to invite you to online meetings, face-to-face meetings and also retreats, where we are working on this together. OK?

Thanks for the meeting an see you at the next one!

April, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
Further information

The observer and the thing observed. The mental consciousness. The psychological disorder.

What we are seeing here with you is this complex structure, this complex nature, let’s call it this way, of the “I”, this complex nature of this psychological state that we live in. What is the truth of this “I"? What is this structure? What is the nature of this “I"? That is our business with you. The structure of this “I” is thought, memory, remembrances, and experiences. Memories, remembrances, and experiences are something that concern thoughts and the past, this is the structure of the “I.” It is in this structure of the “I” that our life is taking place, and it is a complex structure that needs to be investigated, because it is this structure that has favored this internal condition of conflict and suffering, and external, of expression of this.

So, all the external confusion in our lives, because of this complexity of the “I”, is occurring first internally and then being reflected externally in our lives of relationship with each other, in our life of relationship with the world, with everything around us. So, this is the subject discussed here with you.

What is this “me”? Who is this “me”? When you use the pronoun “I”, what is it? Who are you? Who is this person? That person is an idea you have about who you are. This idea is supported by thought, which is stored memory, experience and knowledge. And how did that become possible? This became possible due to the non-observation of the very movement of consciousness in us. So that which has arisen is this element, which is the “I” element. This complex element, which some call the ego, the “me”. It is the sense of an “I” present within the experience. Everything that we have learned until today is based on this mechanism, on this process, on the process of memory, remembrance, knowledge, it is something that is based on this principle of thought. And this is what we are investigating with you: how to go beyond this condition, which is the illusory condition of a present identity, which is the “I”.

The presence of this “I” is the presence of suffering, so this suffering in our life is present because we have not investigated this Truth about who we are. Because we are getting confused with this belief, with this idea, with this concept, there is no Freedom, there is no Peace, there is no Love, there is no Truth in our lives, because we have a life that is shown to be separate from the Whole, separate from Existence, a self-centered life, a life centered on the “I.”

If we are willing to realize the Truth about who we are, we need to examine this condition of being that we have become confused with. We have to look with all our minds, with all our hearts, we have to learn to listen, hear this, look at this. The instrument we have at the moment is this mind, even this mind that is still narrow, limited, confused, in this disorder, even this mind is still sustained by this condition of misunderstanding, which is this condition of identification with thoughts, with all this memory, with all this knowledge and experience. This condition I have called the “egoic mind,” but the element we have to investigate it starts from the observation of this mind, this still narrow mind, this still limited mind, this artificial condition of being that we live in. This artificial view of the world, this artificial view of ourselves is the vision of this egoic mind, this mistaken mind. We have to observe this mechanism, how this mind works. So, we have to pay full attention to that, to observing the mind, how it works, how it processes itself, how it has led our lives within that condition.

Note that our life, based on thought, based on knowledge and memory, is a life based on the past. Everything we can say about who we are is based on everything that we store in our brain, we register in our brain, as memory. Thus, we confuse ourselves with this memory, we confuse ourselves with this story that thought has constructed. We need to get closer to the Truth about who we are by investigating this inner movement of this mental consciousness, which is another name I’ve been giving to this egoic mind, to this inner complexity of thinking that we get confused with – we are confusing with this complexity, with this egoic mind, with this egoic consciousness.

I have given different names to this internal psychological prison condition that we are experiencing. Here I want to invite you to look at this, to become aware of this inner movement. So, we need to observe what is going on in ourselves, observe it in a direct way, and you observe when you look, when you simply and only look at it.

I've been talking about the importance of that look without comparing it to anything else. And how do we look at it? Becoming aware of ourselves, of what is happening now, here, within each one of us, without judging it, without condemning it, without being against or in favor of what we observe. So, this is something that is not very simple, at least not at first, because we have a programming, what I have called “conditioning”; it’s a conditioning of looking, it’s a way, it’s a habit, it’s a mechanism of doing. We are generally judging all experiences; we are judging what goes on externally and what goes on internally. Self-observation is the ability to look at this internal movement without judging yourself, without self-condemnation, also without self-justification. You don't condemn or justify, you observe, you look, you become aware of that inner movement, which is an “I” movement.

So, the real way to approach “learning about ourselves” is to observe without judging ourselves, without comparing ourselves with others, and also without self-condemnation. You don't condemn yourself; you don't justify yourself; you don't compare yourself; you just observe each and every movement of the “I” arising here and now. This is the way to learn about ourselves, to become aware of this complex “I” movement. So, I call it psychological complexity, because it’s the complex movement of the “I.” You are getting confused with the movement of thought, feeling, emotion, sensation, and you get confused when you self-justify what you feel or self-condemn what you feel, when you reject it or when you give identity to it.

In general, we reject what doesn't give us pleasure, psychologically, so we condemn it, we reject it from ourselves. On the other hand, what gives us psychological pleasure we confuse with, we identify with and we self-justify this psychological experience; with that we are conserving this complexity of the “I.” It is this “I” that has sustained all kinds of confusion, all kinds of disorder in our lives. So, the outer confusion is a reflection of that illusion, which is the illusion of the “I,” which lives in its complexity, in its inner confusion. And when this is reflected externally, it appears in our world, in our relationships with each other, as a conflicting, problematic, suffering, fearful relationship. And that’s what we know, it’s pleasure and fear, psychologically speaking, and we're mistaking ourselves for that experience, putting ourselves as an identity present in it, reaffirming over and over again the continuity of the “I”.

We need to discover the beauty, the understanding of the Truth about who we are, and that is dying to this sense of “I,” it is the death of this illusion – the illusion of a present identity. We are always giving continuity to the “I,” so we are always continuing the past, all that we have experienced, lived, accumulated, stored, which is part of the memory and this psychological time condition in us. We don't experience dying psychologically, dying to pleasure, dying to pain, dying to experience, so we are always continuing this “I” with this complexity that it represents, with this fear and desire that it represents. So, our lives are confused and disoriented, there is tremendous psychological and physical disorder in our Existence. So, outwardly the disorder is present, and inwardly it is being sustained, because we haven't let go of the past.

Life is something that is present here and now as the One Reality. It is Life as It Is, Life as It shows itself, in It there is no sense of an “I” present, of an ego, of an experiencer. There is no such psychological complexity, no such “me” to deal with what happens, what occurs, what arises in that instant, in that moment. And yet, we are always sustaining this condition. There is always a way of translating what happens, interpreting what happens, rejecting what happens, getting confused with what happens, and trying to make what happens here, in this instant, in life, as something for this “me,” for this “I,” for this person. So, confusion is present, and where there is confusion – which is disorder – there is suffering.

The Truth of your Being... That’s why it’s necessary to look at it, it’s necessary to look at it, that’s what’s fundamental within this work; to look at any and every inner movement, because it’s this unobserved, unreleased inner movement, it’s this unresolved inner movement that shows itself in our lives externally as disorder, as confusion, as suffering. So, self-observation is the beauty of approaching ourselves and looking at ourselves, here and now. Observing the mind, as I said just now: the instrument we have closest to us is this mind itself. The mind becomes silent, quiet, when it is observed; when it is not observed, it is the very element of confusion, the very element of disorder. So, we need a mind capable of observing itself, looking at itself, seeing itself. This is possible when there is a certain space, a certain silence, a certain presence, a certain consciousness, and this becomes possible when there is no judgment, no comparison, no self-rejection, no self-criticism.

So, just to look, to observe oneself is to allow the mind to become silent in a very natural way, and when it becomes silent in a natural way, the mind becomes aware of itself, aware of all this confusion, all this disorder, all this complexity. It becomes aware because there is a space in this stillness, in this silence, in this space. There is this observation of the movement of the egoic mind. Then, a whole new mind is present, and if it is present, this illusion of the “I” – this illusion that is this psychological complexity, that is this mental consciousness – is undone.

So, the secret is to look at what is going on here in this instant. Don't get involved with that gaze; all our difficulty lies in that look without getting involved. Our inclination, our practice, our habit, our conditioning, is always to interfere, always to get involved. Some things we like to see in ourselves, and other things we don't like.

We have been given an idea about the importance of changing our lives, so this intention of psychological change within each of us is still part of an inner conditioning movement that we carry. So, we want self-improvement, we want to improve ourselves, we want to get rid of addictions, to completely abandon that which might tarnish our image to ourselves, to others, and to God. We want to be well with ourselves, with others, and with God, so whatever we are seeing right now, here, doesn’t match the image we believe we should have of ourselves. We want to eliminate, we want to get rid of it. So, we want self-development, we want to improve ourselves, we want to be better people, we want to find the virtues and get rid of the vices; so, looking at oneself is not something so simple, yet I invite you to just look and, yet, I know it’s not something so simple, because our conditioning is to identify with what is presented. We identify in a positive way when what we see we like and identify with, giving identity to this experience, this seeing, this experiencing, this feeling about us; and we identify ourselves, also, when we reject it, when we want to reject it from us, that’s when we want to interfere, to get rid of what we are seeing, because we think it is ugly, we think it is not compatible with what we should be – that is just an image we make about ourselves, or we think it is not what we should be, because it is not compatible with someone who is pleasing to God, or “How will the other see me if I continue like this?” So, this is a way of identifying ourselves, also, when we reject what we look at, what we see present here, at this moment.

So, looking at oneself without interfering means observing, just observing. When you do that, you don't put an observer separating himself in that observation. When you reject, you put an observer wanting to get rid of that, and when you do that, you are reaffirming, again, the sense of an identity present in this experience of seeing, of looking. That is when there is the experiencer and the experience, the observer and what is shown there as being the thing observed. To do that is to miss the opportunity to be aware of the Real sense of Being Consciousness, which is the absence of that separation. Don't separate yourself from that, don't separate yourself from what you observe, don't separate yourself from what you are observing, don't separate. Don't create the illusion of an observer to deal with this experience. There is nothing to do with that experience, there is nothing like this thing of getting rid of that which is shown because it is unpleasant, or holding onto that which is shown because it is pleasant. You simply observe it.

As I am saying to you: at first this is just simple observation, although it is not that simple, but it is something that needs to be done and it is something that starts happening in a very natural way once you start observing. That attention starts to show up, that attention starts to arise, that real intention to look without intervening, without interfering, starts to show up. So, you are approaching self-inquiry, this represents the basis of Self-knowledge, of True Meditation in practice.

So, that’s the secret: looking at what we are, just looking, becoming aware, having an observation free of the observer. If it’s a thought, it’s a thought free of the thinker; if it’s a feeling, it’s a feeling free of the one who is involved in that feeling; if it’s an emotion, it’s becoming aware of the emotion without the one who is involved in the process. Then, you notice a change, because the thinking disappears, the emotion disappears, that which is seen falls away in this Consciousness free of the “I.” Then, something new arises, this new something is the Presence of the Consciousness, it is the Presence of the Real Consciousness. It is now present because the mind has become quiet, silent. The mind has not been silent, the mind has silenced, it has quieted down. It has not been quieted, it has quieted; it has not been silenced, it has become silent.

Then, this Real Consciousness arises and with that, there comes the end of the “I.” So, you are in this instant, in this moment, free of the past. In other words, this death of the past, the death of the illusion of “I,” the death of the illusion of the egoic sense, the sense of separation, is now taking place. What is then revealed is that which has no name, that which is of extraordinary Beauty, the Truth of your Being, which is the Truth of God.

Our work here is to look at that, to realize that, now, here, in this life. 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, face-to-face meetings, and also retreats, where we are working this out with you. Okay?

Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

April, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Practicing the Presence | Encounter with God | Seek forgiveness | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We're here for another videocast! Once again Marcos Gualberto gave us the opportunity to be here with us to answer questions, to comment on excerpts from Joel’s books that we bring here. Gratitude, Marcos, for this opportunity!

For those who don't know Marcos Gualberto, or Master Gualberto, I'll quickly talk about how I met him. I've been on a spiritual quest for many years and for the last few years I've focused on studying Joel Goldsmith, including doing readings for the channel. In the middle of last year, something very strong inside made me move away, both here from the “Luz do Despertar” channel and also from the study groups. I didn't understand why, but soon later I found out.

YouTube suggested a video from Master Gualberto’s channel, which deals with exactly the same theme that Joel brings us in the books – which is this Awakening of Consciousness, Spiritual Enlightenment –, and then I watched a video. Something very strong called me to watch another video and another video… I ended up discovering that there were intensive weekend face-to-face and online meetings. And since I felt something very strong when I looked into Master Gualberto’s eyes, I ended up participating in the intensive meeting – out of curiosity and also to “understand” this, which had called my attention.

And then, during the meeting, I was able to “understand” what I felt when I looked into Master Gualberto’s eyes. Because, when being in his presence, there is something that is beyond words, beyond thoughts, which is a sharing of Consciousness, where we end up receiving this State of Meditation, this Stillness, this Silence, and it is true Grace.

Master Gualberto shares on his channel this Natural State of Being that he “reached” after a long process of self-investigation, guided by his Master Ramana. And today, he shares with us and is willing to let this infinite Grace flow. And it’s pure Grace, it’s a lot of gratitude, Master, for this beautiful work that “you do,” because there is no longer a “you,” there is no longer this “illusory identity,” this “I.”

And this is the content that you bring us, which is content that is to remove all the contents, so that we can really go beyond beliefs, beyond thoughts.

And starting with today’s videocast, I want to bring an excerpt from Joel’s book “Practicing the Presence,” where Joel brings us the following sentence: “He who turns inward in search of the inner light, of grace, understanding and forgiveness never fails in his prayers.”

Added to this, Master, I would like to read a comment by Maria do Socorro da Silva, in which she suggests that Master Gualberto talk about forgiveness. She comments that forgiveness brings a lot of suffering, as it is something very difficult, and she is grateful. So, I give you the word, Master!

MG: Okay. So, let’s go! There are two subjects here: one is the subject of the search, of this inner search, of turning inward in this search; and the other is the question of forgiveness. Let’s approach it this way… The question I want to ask you is this: are you a seeker? If you are a seeker, who in you is the one in the search process? The answer is very simple. The answer is: “me.” It is this “I” that is within this search or this quest.

This may seem quite reasonable, because this restlessness, this internal contradiction, this format of suffering, of life, where there is always a lack of something, places us within this so-called “search” or “quest.”

And, here, Joel refers to this quest and this “turning inward.” But I keep asking: who is this that is on this quest?

It is the one who is afflicted, the one who is in pain, the one who is feeling restless, dissatisfied. So, he’s on a search, he’s on a quest.

Let’s get closer to that. This “I,” in its restlessness, in its search, projects something that will be the end of this restlessness, the end of this conflict, the end of this suffering, in this encounter with God. But this “God” that it idealizes is still within its search, within its concept of who God is and what God will represent when this search comes to fruition.

Here, we must have a different way of looking at this question of search.

This search is an idea, it is a projection, it is our ideation. We are in search of something and, in this search for something, we present a discipline and a path format to follow, so that, at the end of this path, at the end of this discipline, we can accomplish the end of this search, which here, in this case, is this encounter with God.

Here, I have news for you: the Reality of God, the Divine Truth, is something that is already present, and this quest is a quest that we idealize within our parameters, within our own model of what God would be and what that encounter would be like.

Those who have realized the Truth of their own Being are always telling us that this Truth is a present thing. If it is something present, this whole search format, this whole path engendered by ourselves within this search, is something completely useless. This ends up putting us in a constant movement, in fact; not of approach but of distancing, since the Truth of God is something that is already present. So, what do we really need to carry out this search?

What I am going to say is quite paradoxical, but what we need to achieve the end of this search is to leave the search and enter the investigation of the Truth that is already present. So, I would say that the real quest begins when the illusory quest ends. This illusory search is the search of this “I” for something that it idealizes, that it projects and that it considers to be God. Note: this is part of our ideas, it is part of our beliefs! Looking into the Truth of Your Being… Here, Joel uses the expression “going within” – this is clearly figurative language. Within what we have been placing in these encounters is to become aware of yourself here and now. That’s getting closer to yourself, that’s looking inside.

The Truth of God, the Truth of your Being, is already present. All you really need is to drop the illusion of this “I” in this search, in this quest. If we want to have an encounter with God, we first need to be aware that the Truth is That which is already here, and we can be aware of that through a direct approach within that self-observation. When we observe the movement of the “I,” we become aware of the conflict, the contradiction, the problems it creates. And that “I” is not the Truth about your Being. It is what passes as You here and now, in this moment, occupying that Place, which is the Place of God.

So, the Truth of God is something present. All you need is to become aware of the illusion of this “I” that you are confused with.

So, the true search for God is the end of any search idealized by thought. I have always spoken of the importance of this Realization of the Reality of God. It is not a question of a search, it is not a question of a quest, it is not a question of projecting yourself in time to accomplish That at some point, but of becoming aware of That which is already here and now. Through a work of True Self-awareness and through the investigation of this illusory “I,” this True Self-awareness becomes possible. It is when mind and heart become still and illusion can be seen; and the illusion is this false “I.”

When this false “I,” which passes for You, for your Divine Reality, is discarded, the Reality of God is present.

Another interesting thing connected to this issue of this encounter – in fact, of this God Realization; not this encounter at the end of a search, but this realization of God here and now, in this discarding of the “I” – is this issue of forgiveness. We have a very wrong notion about who we are, about who the other is and about who God is. So, the sense of a present “I” has the psychological need to forgive the other who offended him.

First, he is offended and then he forgives. He forgives to feel good about himself. Even because, if he has a foundation of religious life, he discovered that he needs to forgive.

We just never ask ourselves: who is this that forgives whom? It is the sense of a present “I” that is hurt, offended, injured, that has had its self-image affected by verbal insults or by some type of violent action on the part of the other; it is this “me,” this “I,” this ego, which proposes to forgive in order to feel good about itself and to have a recovered image of itself.

So, it is always the sense of an “I” present in this idea of ​​forgiveness. An offended “I,” a wounded “I,” a hurt “I.” That’s because we don't know who we are, nor do we know who the other is, nor do we know the Reality of God.

The truth is that when the sense of an “I” is not present, there is no “other” to be offended or to offend us; “another” to be our enemy or to be our friend.

What is present is the Reality of God, which is our own Being, which was verified in that encounter; not in this search of many years, but in this encounter, through self-observation, in Self-awareness, in the real contact with True Meditation.

This Reality of God verified here is the Reality of the other, it is the Reality of God. So, who is left to forgive whom? Who stays to be offended, to be hurt? So, I want to invite you to discover the Truth of God here and now, in That which is You. This is possible when there is no longer the seeker, the sense of “someone” in time looking for something called “God.” The end of this sense of “I” is this encounter. In this encounter, there is no longer “someone” now present to be offended by the “other” and to suffer with the “other,” because there is no longer the “other.”

The truth, Gilson, is that there is, yes, this very real possibility of living the Reality of Consciousness. In that Reality of Consciousness, which is the Truth of Christ, neither friends nor enemies remain; there is no forgiveness seven times nor seventy times. What remains present is the Truth of “I and the Father are one.” When there is this Reality of “I and the Father are one,” which is the Truth of that Consciousness, which is the Father – because if the Father is there, there is no “I,” and if the Father is there, there is no one to forgive –, That is the presence of Love.

People use the expression “love” without understanding what that expression means. They use the expression “forgiveness” without understanding that, in that expression, there is “someone” to forgive. When there is Love, there is no other for you to give yourself to, for you to give yourself to. There is only one present Reality, which is the Reality of God. This Reality of God does not have an image to be hurt, offended, injured, to suffer harm, to keep images, memories, to feel anguished, sad, angry at the other. So, that which is present when Love is present, is Love.

Love, the only thing it does is give Itself. So, in that sense, Real Forgiveness is the end of someone’s illusion to forgive someone else.

So, let’s replace the word “forgiveness” with the word “Love,” and that word “love” with the word “Presence,” “Awareness.” So, we are facing the Reality of God, which has no enemies, has no friends, has no one who can hurt Him, offend Him, injure Him. This is typical of this “me,” this “ego.” It is the one who lives within this model of being hurt, injured, being angry, keeping it all and then trying to get rid of it all to feel good about itself. Especially if it is based on religious teachings, principles within religion.

True Religion, or true Union with the Divine, is the end of the ego. This is Love, This is Real Forgiveness, without “someone.” This is Real Compassion, without “someone.” This is Real Goodness, without “someone.” This sounds very strange to some of us, but in fact, without the ego, problems disappear, the sufferer disappears, friend and enemy disappear, the offended one and the offender also disappear. What is present is God and God is the only Reality of Love. That’s it!

GC: Look, Master… these speeches by the Master are indescribable, this State of Presence is without words, they are revolutionary. I've been following Master for many months now and, in the beginning, I didn't even realize how much your speeches are completely out of time, out of any idea of ​​duality. And the closer I get and I am with you, I see how this is much more than a concept, this concept of non-duality, or this concept of “just Consciousness.” And then I see how extraordinary, how revolutionary all these speeches are.

Of course, for this present identity, for this human “I” Gilson, this ego, in search of… That is, it has nothing to seek, it has nothing to achieve. This one who wants to achieve, this one who wants to attain – even “attaining” God Realization or Spiritual Enlightenment – is a fraud! As Master rightly said: it is someone in time, an identity wanting to become something, and this is not the path. It’s just seeing this falsehood, isn't it, Master?

MG: Yes! There is nothing like someone to become anything, least of all God! That “someone” is an idea, a concept, a belief, it is an illusion. It is this “someone” that is grounded in self-image – this image produced by thought, sustained by thought – and everything that involves this self-image built in time, in history, for this supposed identity.

This “I” is a supposedly present identity! What is this “I” looking for? God. What is this “I” looking for? Forgiveness. It wants to forgive, it wants to love, it wants... but it’s not real! Here, we have to start from a real principle, and the real principle is: there is only God!

In that Reality of which there is only God, there is no “I” that separates itself as friend, enemy, that separates itself as offender and offended, that separates itself as the holy and the profane, the one in God and the one outside of God.… There is nothing, absolutely nothing like this.

This present sense of the “I” is a fraud, it is an illusion, it is a concept with which the “I,” which is this set of images, has established itself over time. So, this “I,” which is this set of images that we believe ourselves to be, that uses this pronoun “I,” is the one that is coming from the past, is here in the present and moving towards the future. And in that movement, it wants to become, it wants to achieve, it wants to reach somewhere, and the supreme place for the “I” is still Spiritual Enlightenment.

The truth is that the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment or God Realization is the Truth when the “I” is not. And when That is present, which is the “not me,” this psychological time, this “becoming someone,” this “forgiving someone” or this “seek forgiveness” does not remain. All this disappears when the Reality of your Being flourishes! That Reality is Non-Separation, Non-Duality. It’s not a concept, it’s not an idea, it’s a fact! It is a fact; we are dealing with a fact: the truth that everything is within this Divine Reality.

And all aspects apparently outside of It are within a dream, which is the dream that this very illusory identity is producing, being the dreamer of it all: someone to love, someone to forgive, someone as a friend, someone as an enemy, someone good, someone bad, someone being born, someone growing old, someone dying... All of this is within that aspect of that illusory mind, within that dream – I have called it the “world dream” –, for that dreamer who, in fact, does not exist. That’s it! I know it’s pretty weird...

GC: Master, we even commented in some previous videocasts about the issue of belief. Because these concepts “there is only God,” “I am an illusion” … the ego itself, as the Master said in that videocast, the ego takes possession of these concepts, for example: “there is only God,” “I know that everything is God,” and it keeps repeating this concept… and, again, it gets into this prank, holding on to the concept, instead of investigating who is repeating this, who is saying this, or mentalizing this. And this false “I,” this false identity, ends up perpetuating itself, clinging to beliefs. For example, a belief – which is not a fact, because one does not experience it, but one has the belief – “there is only God, Non-Duality,” “what exists is Oneness”… and one does not investigate.

MG: Now you've touched on an important point. You lack direct experience of It. It is necessary to directly experience the Truth that Reality is God. Then, this is a fact! Experiencing the Reality that there is no “me” is enough! Because if you become aware of the movement of the “I,” totally aware of it, here and now – and this has to be done here and now – that is experiential, that is experiential! This is directly experiencing that there is no “I.” That’s when you can become aware that there is only God. Because if the sense of the “I” disappears, the “other” also disappears, the world as it is seen disappears.

So, that look that remains there is the gaze of God for God. This hearing that remains is the hearing of God for God. That sounds really weird, but it’s literal! There is only God present, even in this body-mind, in this dream of the world! Because now – God present – ​​this is His dream! It is not the dream of the illusion of “me” seeing things out of place and trying to fix things, and trying to love, and trying to serve, and trying to forgive, and trying this, and trying that, and also trying to find God.

All of that disappears when God is the only Reality here and now, in that listening, in that speaking, in that look, in that feeling.

And He certainly doesn't carry that weight of an “I” with an image produced by thought to be offended, hurt and to be still in the process of looking for something outside of himself.

That´s it!

GC: Master, the end of our time is coming. Thanks again for your willingness to be here with us. For those of you who have been following the meetings, we have a playlist with the other meetings. We also ask you to help the channel by giving a “like.” For those who are not yet subscribed to both the Luz Despertar channel and Master Gualberto’s channel, sign up to receive notifications of the videos that are posted daily. And also make comments. The comment helps YouTube’s own algorithm to recognize that the content is relevant.

And also ask questions, and then we'll bring them here for the next videocasts.

Gratitude, Master!

Gratitude!

MG: Okay, Gilson. Thanks for the meeting! Bye guys! See you next.

April, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Non-Duality: the Truth of Advaita | The psychological time | Truth of Self-awareness

What are we doing together whenever we meet here? We are studying ourselves, working on this discovery about who we are.

And today I’d like to work with you on a very interesting aspect about this person, this me, this “I.” Notice what an interesting thing our inclination is, our interest more in the past or the future than in the present moment, in what is here at this moment. We reject what is here: life – life as it is showing, presenting itself to each one of us – for something that is the future or the past. Both the past and the future are ideas and ideals within us. So, we intend to accomplish something tomorrow or a few years from now. We idealize a change in our lives because we are not happy with what life is showing or presenting to us here and now. So, the intention is in the idea and not in what is here. The idea is that future. Either we want to achieve something in the future or we want to get rid of something, here and now, that we are carrying from our past.

So, our interest is always either in the future or the past, and not in what is here and now. What is here and now proves to be unsatisfactory concerning the lack of something that hasn’t yet arrived, which we transport to the future, something that hasn’t happened, that hasn’t been accomplished, that we want to be accomplished, or the present moment is unsatisfactory because we have something that we want to get rid of.

The fact is that, basically, we are not living in facts, we are living in ideas. The truth of what our egoic mind is – the condition of the “I” – is always the idea of fulfilling ourselves with something tomorrow, or in a little while getting rid of something that we are carrying from the past. The result of this is that we are trading the reality of what is here for the illusion of what thought is introducing as what we must achieve or get rid of. Notice how subtle this movement of the mind is within each one of us. It represents a deep dissatisfaction with life as it appears, as it is for each one of us, here and now, at this moment.

So, there is always this intention, this quest, this search for fulfillment – either the positive fulfillment in the accomplishment of what will come or in the liberation of what we consider negative, which is also showing itself here and now. But our vision is always this: the particular vision of the search for fulfillment. And why do we basically live this way? Because the sense of a present “I” doesn’t support remaining aimless, with no goal, purposeless.

Our life in the ego consists of the movement of the past and future; the present is just a door through which we pass from the past to the future. Then, the movement of the ego is always a search for continuity. It’s a typical characteristic of this movement of thought in us, this search for continuity of the “I.” And this search for continuity of the “I” is the search for this psychological time, this sense of existing, psychologically speaking, that is, in memory. We are trapped in this matter of time within this sense of “I.”

I want to invite you to look at what you are now and perceive this movement of thought in its dissatisfaction, wanting continuity; and to sustain this continuity what it does is to create the future within a project, desire, dream, goal, or creating the past with a certain frustration, disappointment, something that wasn’t complete or not finished and now it needs to finish this and to do this, once again, it needs the movement of the future. It’s always the continuity of the “I.” That “I” is the thought in us, just a movement of thought, of remembrances, of memories, memories projecting themselves, putting the illusion of identity present in it. That entity is the “I,” the “me.”

That feeling in you that you have to be “someone” who is still not happy because something is missing, still not at peace because you haven’t gotten free from something, is an illusion. And we are replacing that illusion with the fact of what is here and now, with this moment that is here and now. This is the fact, the fact is this moment, the Truth reveals itself as a fact at this moment. The Truth of what we are is the understanding of this, which can really break this frustration, pain, and dissatisfaction of the “I” that is always projecting itself.

The truth is that we have been under this illusion for a long time and we’ve never freed ourselves from this “I.” It maintains its continuity by doing just that. The moment you find out how to look at what you have here: the fact, the truth – the fact is what is here… If there is dissatisfaction, it is present here and now; if there is disappointment, it has to do with this moment here; if there is desire, it has to be seen at this moment, here and now. The desire is creating that frustration, dissatisfaction, disappointment, or frustration about something that happened in the past is proving unsatisfactory here and now, at this moment.

The question is: is it possible to learn to deal with this moment without projecting the future, without idealizing liberation of the past? Here, the truth of Self-awareness has you observing this movement of dissatisfaction present, which is the movement of the “I.” We don't look at that movement of the “I.” This movement of the “I” is a thought, a feeling, a sensation, something that shows itself here and now. By getting in touch with this without separating yourself from this experience, this experience comes to be seen as in fact it is showing itself. And what is basically this experience? It is what separates itself as the experience of “someone,” of this “I,” it separates itself as “the experience of this ‘I’.” The illustration of this is very simple: your state, whatever it is here and now, of frustration, fear, or sadness, if there is an existential pain, a pain of loneliness, guilt, or a desire, observe, in this experience there comes the separation between the one who desires and the desired object, there is the separateness, in this experience, from the experience of frustration and from the one who thus feels frustrated. If it’s an emotional disorder causing some state of unhappiness, there’s the state that is the experience and the one who is involved in that state. Then, what do we have in that experience of the two elements of the experience? These two elements of the experience are sustaining this frame, this situation, here and now, at this moment, this is the fact. Thus, we are no longer going into the future, idealizing something different, no longer projecting something new to arrive, or no longer projecting liberation from something that we are bringing from the past. We are now in direct contact with this duality, with this “I” and this frame, this “I” and this “fear,” this “I” and this “sadness,” this “I” and this “frustration,” this “I” and the “existential void.” So, notice, right now you are in direct contact with the sense of the “I” present. That “I” is the one that is separating itself from the experience, wanting to alter, to change, to get rid of, to fulfill itself in some way.

So, looking at this movement of separateness, of duality, not separating yourself from it, but simply and directly observing it, without an ideal, but rather staying with the fact, the truth of the fact of what is here; then, you abandon the illusion of the idea that it is the future to accomplish something or to get rid of something from the past, to achieve something or to get rid of something. You stay with the fact and in that fact the “I” reveals itself as being the thinker, the experiencer, the one who is here separating itself. This separateness is an illusion. When sadness is present, there is no sad “someone” to get rid of the sadness, to create that goal, to achieve liberation from sadness. This is the continuity that the “I” seeks when it wants to get rid of sadness; it separates itself as the sad element. No, there is not this sad element, this “I.” There is only this sadness, this fear, this frustration, or this pain, and when it doesn’t find this separateness, this division, it is seen here and now, without the sense of an “I” present. This becomes possible when you don't impose on this experience – which is this fact present here and now – an experiencer, when you don't impose on the sadness present here “someone” to get rid of it, when you don't impose on this model of anxious, worried thinking, afflictive, when you don't impose on the thinker, then you stay with this here and now. You are left with the fact without the future, the past, and without making this present moment seen as a door with a goal to reach something. So, there is no past, present and future – psychologically speaking. All you have is this moment to deal with what is shown, and what is shown here is the “I,” the “I” seeking continuity, change, and wanting to achieve or to get rid of. To look at it this way is to come closer to Self-awareness, to discover the movement of the “I,” to discover how the mind works, how your emotions, feelings, your perception of reality is always altered by this movement of thought, introducing, putting here, at this moment, an ideal, an objective, a time proposal.

This is how we have created psychological time and the continuity of this “I.” So, for many, many years our life consists of this movement. Dissatisfaction, frustration, desire, fear, sadness, anguish, anxiety, the negative frames of imagination, and all the negativity present in us create states of depression. All these types of things have received continuity in our lives, because that sense of “I” is always projecting something into tomorrow, into the future.

We never look at it here and now, we never observe this “I,” this me, this ego in its movement. Having this look to observe this is possible when you eliminate this duality, this sense of separateness, so you approach what I consider the most important thing for the Realization of God, for the Awakening of Consciousness, for Spiritual Enlightenment, which is to eliminate that illusory separateness between that “I” and its experience, that experiencer and its experience, that thought and the thinker, between the one who feels and the feeling. When you eliminate that separateness, when there is an emptying of it, when that space disappears, when thought is seen without the thinker, when feelings, whether good or bad, are seen without “someone” in them, when in an emotion there is only the emotion, in a thought there is only the thought, in a feeling there is only the feeling, when that sense of duality disappears, this “I,” this “me” who experiences this, this thinker who is thinking about it, the one who feels feeling it, when this separateness dissolves, when this space disappears and what is shown is the Reality of what is, as the fact of this moment, what is here and now when this duality is broken – that sense of separateness is duality.

Our meeting here is to work on Non-duality, the direct Truth of Advaita. The expression “Advaita” means “the one without the second.” There is only one Reality present here and now, as a fact, and this Reality is not the “I.” The “I” is a psychological conditioning, an unconscious movement of the egoic mind. This movement is what has upheld this division, this separateness, and has created in you the sense of present, past and future, psychologically speaking, of “someone” perpetuating itself in time, wanting to maintain itself, to achieve or get rid of. It is this element of thought that is impermanent, forging this identity, this “I” in the form of a thinker, an observer, the one who feels, the sad one, the angry one, the one who is afraid. This “I,” this “me,” is seen within this Self-awareness.

So, looking at what we are, studying ourselves, and observing this movement of the ego is to get rid of this illusion. Then, this puts you in direct contact with the Reality of God, which is your Being, Consciousness, Love, or Happiness, because that sense of “I” – the thinker, the experiencer, the one who feels, fears, who has always separated itself from its experiences to maintain its continuity – is no longer present, when it is seen it disappears, and when it disappears, the experience itself also disappears. So, you are in direct contact with life as it is, here and now.

I’ve called this “the Real experiencing,” experiencing what is; without the element “I” there is no experience, nor the experiencer, there is only experiencing. Then, out of that experiencing comes a free action, a free vision, a free feeling, a free thinking, the sense of “I” is no longer present. All psychological conditioning disappears, because this now is the contact with the Divine Reality, with the Reality of your Being that is here and now. So, all dissatisfaction, all this search for fulfillment and accomplishment is no longer present, because your Natural State of Pure Consciousness is Happiness, Intelligence, it is this action free of the “I,” this speaking, the natural movement of thought, which here I’ve just called “thinking,” the Real thinking, without the element “I.”

So, notice what we are saying to you: here you find yourself with the possibility at this moment to realize the Truth you Are. We were all born to realize this, to assume this Truth, that means being beyond time and thought, beyond the sense of “I,” living this life in absolute reality, in absolute truth.

Ok? This is the subject here within the channel that we’ve been discussing with those who approach. 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, face-to-face meetings and also retreats where we are working on this with those who approach.

If this is something that makes sense, thanks for the meeting and see you.

April, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The egoic mind | Self-awareness is the foundation | Egocentrism | The psychological pains

OK! The subject is: problems, “our human problems.” Who are these problems for? I want to invite you to verify this, that there are no problems in life. Every problem is present for the one who has the problem. Who is this that has the problem?

When you were born, you had contact with the world, you already faced a challenge: breathing outside the womb. So far everything was fine or seemed to be fine, until the moment of breathing outside the womb became a problem. So, what we in fact call as problems are changes that occur in this “private life of ours.” Life does not carry problems, but “our particular life,” from birth, from the moment we leave the womb until the end of our days, will be constituted by problems. Now let’s replace the word “problem” here with “challenge.” So, from birth to the end of our days, we will face new challenges.

Life is something happening right now. Life, as it turns out, has no problems, it presents challenges. It is always the particular idea of ​​“someone” present in life who has problems. When we are faced with unexpected situations – unusual, not usual –, some of these situations are pleasant and others are painful, some are simple and others are complicated; the painful and complicated we call problems, but it’s always a challenge that life has to show us. Show to whom? To “me,” this “I,” this “myself.” Do you understand it?

It is the sense of a present “I,” this “I” is located or is placing itself in life as the center of its own experiences or challenges. And when this center, which is the “I,” is faced with experiences or challenges, it he sees itself apart from it. And when it sees itself apart from it, what is painful, complicated or difficult is the problem, and what is pleasant, satisfying and fulfilling is not a problem. But in one way or another, always this sense of an “I” – of this “me,” of this “myself” – present within these diverse experiences will be separating itself into pleasure and pain. Here I mean psychological pleasure and pain – psychological pain, psychological pleasure – because physically the body has this neurophysiological structure for pleasure and pain, but it is not the body we are dealing with

Here. We are dealing with this sense of “I,” of this “me,” of the idea of ​​“someone” present being the center of its own experiences.

So, here we have an approach to this ego issue, this sense of “I”: “I love you, but I don't like her, I don't like him.” So, this sense of an “I” present separate and living in this “pleasure” and “pain,” psychologically, in this “like” and “dislike,” psychologically. When there is that “like,” that “I” says: “I love you”; when there is not the “liking,” but the displeasure of the presence of the other – it is not the pleasure of the presence of the other, it is not the liking of the presence of the other, it is the displeasure of the other, it is the non-pleasure with the presence of the other – , this “I” says: “I don't like you,” “I don't love you.”

So, what we call “love” in our relationships is an illusion that is based on satisfaction, on pleasure, on fulfillment on some level. When that “I,” that “ego,” that “me” is attended to, fulfilled intellectually, emotionally, physically, sexually, affectively, he calls it “love.” But when that is denied, that is no longer love, something else is present, it is no longer the “I like it,” the “I love you,” it is: “I don't want to know about him,” “I don't want to know about her,” “ Not a good person for ‘me'” – that becomes a problem. So, apparently there was no problem in this “love,” and now we have the problem in this “love.” Where is the difference?

So, our life is made up of innumerable problems. There are many problems in our life, so there are many problems in human life for the human being, because the human mind, this sense of a present “I,” this whole background of experiences, remembrances, memories, recollections, experiences since leaving the womb until today, you are fifteen, twenty-five, thirty, sixty, eighty years old: many problems.

Psychologically, internally, the “I” is made up of problems – this “me” –, because even what gives him pleasure, satisfaction and fulfillment, which he says he likes, carries the opposite and we have just seen that now. So, pleasure for the “I” has displeasure, joy [has] sadness, love [has] hate, or the aggressive forms of hate in its various forms, which we also still call love. Spite is something like that. Indifference is something like that. Jealousy has that quality, envy has that quality, and we say: “I love it.” In fact, “I envy it.” “I love it,” actually: “I feel like I own it,” possessor of this thing, which is possession. What produces envy, jealousy: that cannot be love.

So, our life, from cradle to grave, is full of problems. Life does not carry problems, there is not a single problem in life. Life is what it is, and it is made up of challenges, but the “I,” the “me,” “our life,” which is the life of the “me,” which is the mind, is full of problems. So, in life there are no problems, but in the mind, there is no shortage of problems. There is not a single problem in life; in the mind, there is not a single problem-free space – what we call the “egoic mind,” the sense of a present “I” separating itself from the experience and seeking in that experience to be filled, to be reciprocated, to be attended to, that is the real sense of the word egocentric.

In this egocentrism, our life goes on, so there is all this weight, there is all this fear, and this fear has different expressions, these different fears present in this so-called “fear.” Look at yourself and you will find the different forms of fear present: fear of not being loved, fear of not being accepted, fear of rejection, fear of things going wrong, fear of not succeeding, fear of getting sick, fear of growing old, fear of accidents, fear of not winning, fear of losing, fear of being deceived, fear of betrayal.

There are innumerable fears, countless forms of psychological fears, and to get rid of them we resort to old and ancient escape strategies. We have a tangled mechanism, an arsenal of mechanisms, an arsenal of ideas, beliefs, resources, we have an enormous number of resources to escape this pain, they are the escape mechanisms for problems. So, we are running away from problems – some of this occurs unconsciously.

This is how the mind has been living. It interprets some of these escapes as a solution to that problem, which is not true.

Therefore, what appears to be a solution, appears in the short and medium term as a new problem. So, you get out of a problem because you believe you did, but in fact, you're already in a new problem. No, it’s not a new problem. That running away is still part of the ancient and old problem, only now it’s in a different format: a new relationship, for example.

This happens every day, you leave one situation and enter another situation, you change the number six for half a dozen. So, we are constantly running away from problems and some of these escapes seem to be temporary solutions, but in the short, medium and long term we realize that we are still in the problem. That exchange of love has not yet ended with the jealousy of this so-called “new love;” jealousy is still there, possession is still there, control is still there, anger, the desire to dominate, to control.

Then life is full of problems. Looking at what we are, here and now, observing this movement of the mind weaving theories, beliefs, objectives and projects for a happy life, according to its own ideal, according to its own project or imagination, looking at this and seeing what mind is producing, become conscious, conscious of it.

As you look at this, you realize that everything you have in that instant is just a challenge to this “me,” this “I,” this ego, this mind, and as you look at this, it falls apart. So, it becomes clear that no problem remains for that clear and silent mind, lucid, aware of what it is. When this is possible – and this is possible when the mind does not want to run away, does not want to escape, does not want to get rid of these psychological pains, which are the problems built by this “I,” these psychological pains – then there is no longer the desire to run away from it, to find alternatives to it, to seek an answer to it within this escape mechanism.

When you stay with what shows up, which is a challenge, and look at that sense of a present “I” that wants to interpret that, translate that, get rid of that, control that, that’s what constitutes a problem, but when you look and you don't do anything at all, you just observe the sense of a present “me” that is not separating itself from this situation, from this moment, but just looking at the problem.

To look at the problem is to perceive the sense of an “I” present wanting to intervene, interfere, do something, get rid of, replace, adjust; to realize this sense of a present “I” is to see that, in fact, the problem is only present for that “me.”

So, Self-awareness is the foundation for getting rid of that sense of an “I” present. When that sense of an “I” is no longer present, what remains is this Clarity, this Silence, this Intelligence. This new mind has no problem, it is not the ancient, old egoic mind, it is something entirely new, unknown, present here. Attending to that challenge, to that moment, to that instant without the sense of an “I” being present, in that lucidity, in that clarity, in that silence, in the egoic mind-free state, then your brain is able to respond to that moment without the sense of an “I,” then there is no problem.

The problem has not been resolved. Here, in the moment, the end of the illusion of the problem is happening, because now we have the end of the illusion of the “I.” The “I,” the ego, the “me,” the egoic mind is no longer there. So, the sense of separateness, the sense of duality, the sense of a “me” that likes, that doesn't like, that wants to do something, that wants to resolve, wants to control, wants to change, is no longer present.

Notice what we are saying: it is always the ego that is the only problem. The root of all the problems in your life is the presence of “someone” owning this life, it is the “ego,” the “me,” the “I.” Our work together is to show here that a Life in Itself is possible, without the sense of a present “I.” Life in Itself is Love, Peace, and Freedom. So, whatever appears as a challenge or apparent problem is immediately taken care of without the sense of a present “I,” a present “ego,” of an identity full of desires and fears, projects, perspectives, ambitions, envy, without that sense of a present “I.”

When that is not there, each situation, each moment, each challenge or each “problem” that arises is no longer a problem, because it finds the Truth of Consciousness, Intelligence, Peace, Happiness, Love to deal with that situation.

Does that make any sense to you, or are we talking about something that when you hear it, you say, “No, that’s impossible”? I'm not saying it’s possible. I'm saying there is a possibility. What is the difference? If I say to you: “That’s possible,” you will believe it or you will say: “No, he’s saying something that doesn't make the slightest sense, that’s nonsense.” So, if I say: “This is possible, this is possible,” you will agree or disagree, but if I put it to you as a possibility, you will look, observe, investigate it in yourself and see the real possibility of it – although, in general, I have been saying: “This is possible,” but it is not enough for you to believe in it, or simply disagree with it, it is necessary for you to work on it.

So, in this channel, as in online meetings, face-to-face meetings and also retreats, we are working directly with those who approach us. It is necessary for you to work on this, to become aware of this Intelligence, this Consciousness, this Presence, for a Real Life, which is the Life where there are no problems, because this is the Real Life, where the sense of “I” is not, the ego is not, that “me” is not there. This is the Real Life, the Life of Consciousness, the Life of God, the Life of Truth about your Being. This is the Truth about your Essential Nature.

So, that’s our work together here. If this makes sense to you, leave your like there, subscribe to the channel and we will work on this in online meetings, face-to-face meetings and also retreats. OK?

Here’s the invitation and we'll see you in the next one!

March, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The nature of the egoic mind | Psychological time | The perfect peace | The movement of unhappiness

It’s not out there What you're looking for and you don't know what you're looking for; it’s inside you! I want to say a few things here to you about this quest issue.

We are faced with a very, very basic problem here. The problem is that everything we are looking for, on a conscious level, is actually part of an imagination that we have. We can only be looking, in fact, for what we imagine, and what we imagine we already know. So, it is part of the known; and if it is part of the known, because we imagine it, it cannot be real. This explains why happiness is not found in objects, in experiences, or in sensations – and here the objects can be inanimate, like a car, a house, or animate, like the husband and then the children.

So, it doesn't matter whether the objects are animate or inanimate, it doesn't matter what ideal is present in you, in that search the illusion of your search is implicit, because what you seek is part of what you know, and what you know and are looking for can give you satisfaction, and together with satisfaction, at some point, that satisfaction will become unsatisfactory, because that is the nature of objects and sensations with these objects: it wears out, ages, gets boring, tires, loses excitement, loses beauty, loses joy. Everything is like this, and why is everything like this? Just because of the ephemeral nature of experiences, sensations, and animate and inanimate objects? No! It is because the nature of the one who is in touch with it – which is none other than the egoic mind – is by nature dissatisfied. In other words: you will never be happy! Nothing will give you satisfaction, nothing will satisfy you. Nothing! Because the nature of the mind is to remain dissatisfied. We have to understand what the mind is, once you are confusing yourself with it, without understanding what it is, you will never find in any form of search a real fulfillment!

So, what is the nature of the mind? The nature of the mind is a collection of memories, of remembrances, of beliefs, of imaginations, always accumulating, gathering, always looking for a sensation there. The illusion is that there is “someone” present in it, because there is a sensation in the mind, so you carry the illusion of “somebody” who will fill yourself in a sensation. That “someone” is the egoic mind and it is by nature unhappy, poor, needy, craving for more, greedy, envious, imaginative: that is the nature of the egoic mind – egoic mind is the “I,” the “me,” this sense of humanity present in the human being. That sense of being “somebody” will never be fulfilled with anything. All this movement takes place within this non-awareness of Being, within this non-real perception of Being, within this unconsciousness, as I have called it.

So, this sense of individuality, which is the sense of “I,” which is the presence of the egoic mind in its projections, idealizing what it actually already knows, labeling it as “happiness,” “real love,” “eternal love” – these are expressions we use –, “true happiness,” “the perfect peace,” these labels with which we label our imagination, our self-projections.

Some other labels exist as well: “the truth of God” and “the encounter with God” are others that we use.

And then, at that moment, we join into this search. This self-projection is an illusion. It’s an illusion. What you are looking for is not there and what you idealize in the search is not what you are actually looking for. What you are looking for is You, what you are searching is You, but you are going outside, that “outside” is the movement inside the mind – it is the movement inside the mind, that “outside.” You when you are confused with that internal movement of the egoic mind, which is, basically, memory, remembrances, imaginations, beliefs, “happiness,” “love,” God, “Truth” … everything labeled, full of labels. This movement of unconsciousness is actually a departure from the Simple, Real Nature of Being What You Are.

So, we can't keep going outside, we have to stop. But the mind cannot stop. Look at yourself, it doesn't stop, the mind inside you is a restless, agitated movement, which is projected at every moment into the future, or into the past. You need that to be “someone,” to keep mulling over little stories, remembrances, memories – which is, basically, the past –, and you need to project yourself into an ideal of more, which is ambition. The future is nothing but this: the ambition to be more, to do more, to achieve more, to get rid of something else, or many other things.

So, there’s always this movement inside you, the past being memories of the old husband, the children, what was, what is no longer here, what you lost. You need that feeling of being “someone,” even if it represents the pain of loss, but it gives me the sense of identity, which is, basically, being “someone,” one person, one person in time; and you need the future, because with the future you will be better, there will be a better moment than this one for “me,” for that “I,” for that “you” that thought says is you, with which you are confused. So, either you are in the past or you are in the future.

So, there is always this movement of unhappiness, which is the movement of time produced, sustained and supported by thought. So, psychological time has been the basis of this structure of life that we are living. So, we have the element “thought” as the basis of this structure. So, you see, “thought” element is the basis and structure of that psychological time that allows us to be “someone” and to use so arrogantly statements such as: “my house,” “my children,” “my husband,” “my business,” “my money.” This is nonsense! You don't have the money, the Central Bank has the money, the money passes through your hands; you don't have children, children pass, children are of Life, they are of God; that little child, that little two-year-old boy, where is he?

He’s already married and left, he was never yours, another girl, also grown up, from other parents, stole his little heart and he left, he was never yours! Where is your husband? He’s gone. You try to put another one in place, but it will never be the first husband. Nothing is repeated! “He wasn't good,” but I'm not saying he was good, I'm saying he’s not the same.

Nothing is repeated because nothing is the same and nothing is yours, but arrogantly we say: “mine,” “my memories.”

No! They are memories engraved in that brain, you take a hard hit on the head and the memories disappear, they are not yours.

You have no memories; memories arise as children arise.

“My thoughts”. No! Thoughts pass through you. Everything passes. You say “my body”. No! The body is an experience that is passing, the nose you have is not the same nose you had when you were twelve years old, not even six months old. It’s a different nose. Every seven years the body is a new body, because a lot of change has already happened in that body and everything is already new. Life, Existence, arrives and changes your hand, your eyes, the cells of the epidermis, everything changes, you have absolutely nothing. Life has everything.

The words “my” and “I” have no truth in it, no truth in it. “Mine” and “I,” examine this, investigate this, approach this, look at this. If this isn't real – the “I” and “mine” aren't real – what about dreams? What about happiness? What about peace? And freedom? And God?

People say: “my God.” How arrogant we are, even because we say: “My God is greater than your God.” When we go to watch our teams play, they start to play and we pray, each one prays to God, but they are opposing teams. They are opposite teams, but each is praying to the same God but it is “their God” so their team will win, but the other is doing the same thing. Look at the rain, you don't like your neighbor, but when the rain comes down, and he has a garden, the rain also falls on your neighbor’s garden – within your particular view of self-image, you see him as a bad person –, but it’s no use praying to “your God” for the rain to be “yours” and fall only in your garden, because it will fall in the garden of your neighbor, your enemy, too.

So, we live in this illusion, in the illusion of “someone” to accomplish, to achieve, to be happy, to have peace, to accomplish something out there. And here I am saying to you: what you are looking for is not what you are really looking for. And what you have no idea of, which you don't even need to look for, you are not aware, which is what will make you happy, which is the Peace you need, the Love you need, the Freedom you need, God, the Real – here I mean the Reality of God.

So, our work, our meeting, proposes to show you That: the Truth that Is you in your Being. The realization of That, which is the realization of this Truth that is present here and now, is not a case of seeking, it is not a case of searching, it is not a case of projecting, it is not a case of something for tomorrow. It is the Truth revealing itself here and now, in That Which Is you. To look at everything that thought produces and just get rid of it, no moment will be greater than that moment, no happiness will be greater than the Happiness of this moment, no freedom will be greater than the Freedom of this moment, and no God will exist outside of that moment.

If you suspect that in God is everything, you are right; and if you suspect that in God there is nothing at all, you are also right. The realization of This is Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment. That is, yes, without label, without naming, the perfect Peace, perfect Bliss, perfect Love, the Reality of your Being in this moment, and That is the end of all searching, That is the end of all searching.

That´s it.

March, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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