The True Spirituality | The psychological conditioning | Vedas, Advaita Vedanta | Duality

We will address today, here and now, in this meeting, in a few minutes, this subject of Spirituality, the True Spirituality. Generally, people use the word “spirituality” in connection with all kinds of religious practices and beliefs. So, for many people, religion is mistaken for rituals, ceremonies, dogmas, and beliefs. They believe they are living the Truth by being under these so-called “religions.” It is organized religions with their practices, ceremonies, rituals, and dogmas, and each person believes he or she is living the Truth and each one has his or her religion. They are within a context of doctrine, of dogma.

I want to work with you today on this True Spirituality. It is not about the various organized religions existing with their beliefs, rituals, dogmas, doctrines, and practices. Here we will work with you on the Truth of Spirituality. I could call it True Spirituality, which is, from the viewpoint we put here, like Real Religion. We are not, I repeat, interested in rituals, dogmas, or ceremonies. Absolutely. We are working on the Truth of the Revelation of your Being. This Truth is the Truth of God. So, this is where we find True Spirituality. The Truth of your Being reveals the Truth of Religion. That which is you in your Being is the Divine Truth.

Human beings come throughout the history of humanity in search of something outside of this ordinary life, where there is despair, suffering, sadness, and anguish. So, they've been wondering for millennia if there is something beyond all that, beyond this mess that is human life, and this search of man has found an external way to develop. This external way is organized religion. In this man’s quest or search for the Divine Truth, he is externally lost in rituals, beliefs, and dogmas. And there are several paths or religions; then we live discussing our dogmas in these religious practices or following these organized religions; We are discussing our beliefs and doctrines with each other.

Here, I want to work with you on this; we are putting an end to all of this. We want to discover the Divine Truth, the Truth of God. Yes, there is Something beyond this human condition of sadness, suffering, despair, and conflict. There is Something. That Reality is indeed the Divine Reality, but It cannot be found externally, in rituals, ceremonies, doctrines, beliefs, or attending the so-called “holy” places. We spend some time there, go to one of those places, and when we go home, we are still the same person. While we are there, we can sing, listen to the Scriptures, discuss the Scriptures, and listen to lectures on the Scriptures, but in our practical, experiential life, in our living, in our day-to-day life, this is just a theory, it’s just a belief, an intellectual thing. Yes, I want to tell you: there is a Divine Reality here and now and that Reality reveals itself when Your Being reveals itself. A life in Happiness, Love, and Freedom, in this Intelligence, in this absence of the ego, and, therefore, in this absence of all this egocentric behavior, where we are constantly producing suffering for ourselves and the world around us.

Our relationships are troubled, desperate, sad, problematic, and unhappy because we don't realize the Truth of What we are and don't assume the Truth of our own Being. This Real approach to Spirituality has not yet happened. When there is True Spirituality, your Being reveals itself as the Truth of God, and if that Truth is present, our relationships with each other are relationships of Love, of Divine Complicity. That is a life in Happiness, in awareness of the Truth that the only Reality present, which is the Reality of everybody and everything, is the Reality of Being, of God. So, this life is possible for each of us, but we need to discover the presence of Truth, and it is not outside. It is Something present when you start looking inside yourself, when you learn to look inside this movement of inner restlessness.

Our brains are conditioned and programmed; they constantly react to every external life experience and every representation of images, memories, and remembrances. Our brain continually reacts in a conflicting way because it reacts from a false center, the “I,” the ego. Thus, the ego separates itself from external experience. All these experiences that our senses have contact with, sight, hearing, all this contact we have with people, objects, and places, there is always the sense of an “I” separating itself from this experience and clashing with it, or internally clashing with images, memories, thoughts, and the feelings that arise. There is always an “I” to argue with this experience, which is an experience of memory, recollection, and remembrance. As we go through experiences, we store those experiences and they are now part of a memory; and when they come up, just as a reaction of the brain, there is this element that separates itself, which is the “I,” to come into conflict. So, internally and externally, we are in conflict, in an internal state of contradiction in ourselves and the world, in conflict with ourselves, the others, and life.

So, what is this Truth of Spirituality? It is the awareness of the Truth that the only Reality present is not this idea, the idea of “I,” but rather the Truth of God. This state that the human being has been searching for millennia or has been trying to discover externally, is Something already present as the Truth of our own Being, our Divine Truth. Then, True Spirituality is the awareness of that Natural State free of “I.” This “I” has been separating itself from this external world, thus creating this duality. That feeling you have of existing as a person is what we are talking about: there is no such person. This idea of being “someone” in this contact with others occurs because thought has created an image of who you are. You mistake yourself for this body, for this internal movement of thought that occurs, which are very particular memories of this particular brain; you see yourself as a particular, individual entity.

This core idea of “I” gives you this sense of individuality, the illusion of this individuality. So, you see yourself as “somebody,” as a person separate from the other, from objects, from the world, that is because you see yourself in the body and the mind. You see yourself as “someone” living a personal, private story, and now, in this search of something beyond this boring, complicated, difficult, and suffering life. You are in this search of something beyond all that and, externally, in some practice, in a ritual, in a ceremony to follow, following or submitting to a system of religious doctrine so that you could have this encounter with God, having this Truth of God as Something outside, too. So, there is this illusion of the “I” in this particular idea of God. Here, we are showing you that the Truth of What you are is the Divine Truth, and It is already here and now as the Truth of your Being. Happiness, Love, Freedom, this life in Completeness, this life free of confusion, disorder, and all this suffering that, psychologically, we have, we are living, and this is possible when you realize the Truth of your Being, the Divine Truth that you are.

That is our subject here within this channel; the approach to this is the approach to Meditation. Learning, discovering, and realizing what it is to look at this inner movement, a movement of this “I” that sees itself as a separate entity. Perceiving that this idea of individuality consists of illusion, investigating the Nature of your Being, discarding the illusion of this egoic pattern, the egoic mind, this mental conditioning, this psychological conditioning; this is possible when there is this approach to yourself. Looking at what you are, this Truth of Self-awareness about yourself shows you that you are not this set of memories, remembrances, and ideas. You are not this centralized image called “I” separating itself all the time from the external world, external experiences, and from everything that, internally, also appears as memories, thoughts, and feelings. So, there comes the end to the sense of separateness of this “I” and the “world,” this “I” and what goes on inside in these registers of remembrances, memories, and recollections; that is the end of this duality.

In India, they know duality as Dvaita. Non-Duality, the end of this illusory sense of separateness – this separation between you and the world, between you and the other, between you and God, between you and a thought, a feeling, a sensation, an emotion – the end of this duality – the idea of being present as the one who is the author or experiencer of these experiences – is called Advaita. So, this is the principle of the Truth of your Being, straight from the Vedas, from Advaita Vedanta. The awareness of the Reality of What you are, the Direct acknowledgment of it, this Truth reveals itself to be the simplicity of the Divine, the simplicity of God, and this is True Spirituality, the Truth of Religion. This is here and now showing itself as life in Compassion and Kindness, where there is Love, where there is Beauty, where Happiness is the Nature of That which is you, the Nature of your Being. The beauty of it is that at this instant, all sense of seeking or searching for external accomplishments disappears because Happiness is that Completeness. All the pursuit and searching for something outside, in these practices, rituals, ceremonies, in what has been called “religion,” which is this organized religion or this spirituality linked to the esoteric, mystical side and all kinds of things, they all disappear. The Truth of your Being is Divine Truth.

Here, I am telling you that you were born to realize It, you were born to realize God, so it is about your own Being, your Real Nature, your True Nature. Human beings live outside themselves, identified with the psychological condition of contradiction, conflict, suffering, and internal psychological conditioning, psychological conditioning; they live far from this Truth that, paradoxically, is Something already present here and now. However, they are far away because they live in their subjective world, their psychological world. In this world of the “I,” this entire notion of time is very important. Look at yourself and you will notice that the movement of thought in you is constantly revolving around thoughts about the past or about the future, “I am not happy, but I will be happy,” that is the idea, “I have no peace, but I will have peace.” Then, we always have this psychological notion of time, of living in time, of a present identity, which is this “I” that I am in time: “I was, I am, and I will be.” Psychologically, there is no Truth, Freedom, Peace, no knowledge of God; there is only this belief, hope, and this idea about God. We always live within this fear – the fear of the ego-identity – so we get involved with all kinds of things in search of that Peace, Completeness, Freedom, that Happiness. Despite all we accomplish external things, everything internally remains the same; we remain unaware of that Beauty, that Grace, that Truth that is experientially understood when we realize What we are – this is what some people call the “Awakening of Consciousness.”

Here, I am telling you that Enlightenment, Awakening is Something for your life in this lifetime; so Reality reveals itself, and when It reveals itself, everything is fine. That is our purpose here within the channel, to work with you on this, the end of that “I,” the end of the ego, of that sense of duality, of separateness between you and the Truth, you and God, you and life; the end of it is the Revelation of the Simplicity of the Truth of Spirituality. Thus, True Spirituality is naturally, simply Being, without any idea of past, present, and future, without any need for a future, without that sense of a fearful “I” here in the present because of the past, that “I” scared by what one lived, fearing in the future to see the repetition of those same old things. When the sense of “I,” which is the ego, is no longer present, What is here and now is the Reality of God; This is the Nature of Being, the Divine Truth, Bliss, and Love.

That is our subject here inside the channel. We are working with you on online, face-to-face meetings and also retreats in addition to these videos. If this is something that makes sense to you, so leave your “like,” and subscribe to the channel. Here in the video description, there is our WhatsApp group, ok? If this is something that makes sense to you, come to our meeting, also online, ok?

Thanks for the meeting, and see you!

June, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The True Meditation. The True Self-awareness. Mental Consciousness. The psychological suffering

Human beings have always been searching or looking for something beyond this “ordinary life” of routine, of repetition, of boredom, of annoyance, and also conflict, contradiction, confusion, and suffering. So, the history of humanity, the history of man has always been in this quest or this search for something beyond all this. Here I want to deal with this discovery, what the human being has discovered beyond all this in his search or quest.

Some have become aware of a Truth that we are going to work on in this meeting. I refer to the Truth of Meditation. Meditation is this contact with Mystery, with Something beyond the common model, the common pattern, what man knows. Meditation is that which reveals to you the Truth of your Being, because this has been man’s search over these thousands and thousands of years. Man’s search for Peace, Love, Freedom and Happiness is, in fact, man’s search for himself. As a matter of fact, it is the search or the impulse of the Divine Reality in him. It is only this Divine Reality in you that urges you to look for something outside this “I,” this condition of boredom, routine, annoyance, upsetment, suffering, and fear. Only This Real Presence, this Truth of Divine Consciousness is That which impels you in this search, this quest. Therefore, the human being discovered Something beyond the mind, Something beyond the known, Something beyond this old and ancient condition, which, by the way, it is important to say, is the condition of the great majority of humanity. This condition that we have just described is the condition of the egoic mind; I have called it the egoic mind, and I have also called it psychological conditioning, because it is a pattern, it is a pattern of behavior where there is the presence of the mind acquiring knowledge, experience, memory, and through this thought has sustained a present identity here, in living. That present identity is this “I,” which is an illusion. A set of memories and remembrances has placed us as human beings within this condition, but some have discovered Something beyond this “I.”

And here in this channel, we are working with you on the end of this thing called “I,” the end of this illusion of this model behavior pattern in which this feeling and thinking about ourselves is within separation. This sense of “I” moves within a personal, private, self-centered vicious circle. There is Something beyond this. This Something beyond is discovered when you realize What you were born to realize: the Realization of your Being, God Realization; and the direct path to this is in the art of Meditation. Meditation is this encounter with Divine Reality, this encounter with the Reality of your Being. And we are going to work on this with you, in the next few minutes

What is Meditation? What is True Meditation? Why do we call it the True Meditation? Because what is known as “meditation” is not what we will be dealing with here. People usually treat “meditation” as a therapeutic resource for psychological relaxation, controlling anxiety, stress, and nervousness. We use the word Meditation here in the sense of this encounter with the Reality of your Being, and modern “meditation” has not been that way. There are several techniques and practices that show you a path to relaxation, to de-stress, to mental tranquility, to a certain emotional rest. Here we are talking about the end of suffering, that is the end of egoic identity, in the realization that the only Reality present is the Reality of your Being, which is the Divine Reality, that is the Reality of God.

So, what is Meditation? How did it become possible? This search of the human being for something beyond caused some to begin to look not outside, but inside themselves, so they began to observe what was happening inside themselves. It is important to say here: this encounter with Divine Reality is not the result of an external search, it is not Something to be found within a projection that we idealize on the outside. So, the human being has found that by looking at what he is, by investigating the Truth about himself – this is a discovery of Wise Men, and has been so for millennia – this art of looking at oneself is what enables you to get closer to the Truth of your Being. This closeness comes about because of the dropping of the illusion about who you are. So here, when we refer to the art of Meditation, we are talking about this approach to a direct experience of the Reality of God. When we use the word “God,” in us is a predisposition of feeling, emotion, and some kind of sensation with that word, however, all this is at the level of the body, at the level of the mind itself. The word is not the Reality of God itself, the word “God” is not the Reality of God, just as the word “car” is not that four-wheeled vehicle that you drive on the road; that vehicle is the car, the word “car” is not the car. The word “table” is not the table, the word “God” is not that Divine Reality. So, man, in this search for a direct contact beyond the word, beyond his intellect and beyond emotion, sensation, and feeling, was able to see a Reality outside of time. The Grace, the wonder, the Beauty, the great Reality of Meditation for you is that it reveals to you the Truth of your Being, which is the Truth of God. This is the great revelation, the great wonder of the art of Meditation, and of course, this Meditation is not the result of a practice, of a technique, of a system.

Throughout the centuries, religions, in this search, have introduced techniques, systems, and practices for this Realization. Here we are offering you that which is simpler for this direct contact, dispensing with techniques, practices, and systems for a direct contact through the self-observation of this inner movement, of the mental consciousness. This is the Real way to approach ourselves, the Truth of this great revelation that is Meditation. By looking at the whole internal movement of this “I” consciousness, which is mental consciousness, which I also call ego-consciousness, by observing this, you can see this conditioning; and when you become aware of this conditioning, this program of feeling and thinking, something that is a continuity always of the past – thought is actually a continuity of the past, all memory, all remembrance, all thought in you, as well as sensations and feelings are something that is present reverberating now, here, but their real cause, real basis are grounded in the past – when you learn to look at this movement of the “I” consciousness, which is the consciousness of the ego, there is a breaking of this continuity of this past, which is when the past, which is the “I,” the ego, does not assert itself here present.

In these talks I have talked to you about the importance of looking at oneself, that self-observation, because self-observation is the beginning of that learning about ourselves, it is when we become aware of what we are, what we show ourselves to be or appear to be, now, here, in our relations with others, with life, and within ourselves, when we become aware of thoughts and feelings arising being the result of this past, this memory, this remembrance. The point here is that we, once living as we are living in this “I,” this life of “I” living as we are living right now, stuck in this idea of “being somebody” – and this “somebody” is just a collection of memories, remembrances, recollections, images, and thoughts coming from the past – when we are giving identity to this by not understanding the Truth of our own Being, we are in a state of sleep, of unconsciousness. The whole point is that this sleep and unconsciousness is an internal state of insanity. The confirmation of this is seen by all kinds of behavior and reactions that we have in front of life, in our relationship with others and our own body. We are living under a sleep situation, which is unconsciousness, and this puts us in an internal state of unhappiness, restlessness, in fact, insanity. This is what has produced in our lives all this confusion, all this suffering, all this disorder, all this boredom and weariness. We are not living the Happiness of Truth that we are because we are being what the social, cultural conditioning – what we have learned within this culture, within this world – has taught us. We fall short of the Reality of our own Being, which is God. The only Reality present in life, in all Existence, is the Divine Reality. The only Reality present in life, in all Existence, is the Divine Reality. The beauty of the revelation of this contact with Meditation is that when it settles down as being your Natural State, in that body-mind, That which is now present is that Oneness, that Non-Separation, that State which is no longer of unconsciousness but of Full Consciousness, no longer of sleep but Awakening State, which some call the “Awakened State” or the “Awakening.” Then the condition of life present when there is this Reality is life with all its Grace and Beauty.

We were born to realize the Truth that we are, to assume the Reality of our Being. We were born for this understanding, which is the understanding of God, which is the understanding of Truth. So, the approach to True Meditation puts us before this Revelation, which is the Revelation of What We Are. Here we have the most important thing in life, we need to learn the art of learning this Real Life. Taking on the Divine Reality is possible when we learn to learn. What is interesting here is that this “learning how to learn” requires unlearning this old, ancient psychological condition of being, this psychological being which is the “I,” the ego, which lives in a very specific time, which I have called “I” time or psychological time. So, this approach to learning about ourselves is to observe, here and now, a learning that is free from psychological time. By self-observation we are discovering, and in this discovery, we are discarding the illusion of envy, fear, these predispositions of conflicting desires, this very peculiar way of feeling and thinking of the ego. This learning is something here and now, you don't learn it and then put it into practice. You are becoming aware here and now. In this awareness, there is learning, and in that learning, of course, illusion is undone and Something new arises; and that Something new is this Intelligence, this Presence, this Awareness. This approach requires self-observation. Notice that this learning about ourselves, which is Self-Awareness, which is this approach to Self-Awareness, is simultaneously unlearning the illusion of “I,” the illusion of this ego-identity laden with its dilemmas, conflicts, problems, sufferings, fears, ambition, and everything else. And then, by self-observation, we approach ourselves by looking at this inner movement, this looking at what is happening here and now. We have to learn this art of learning to look.

To learn is simply to discover what it is to look without the “I.” When there is this look, this observing without the “I,” we have an observing without this element that separates itself as being the observer. This “I,” this observer is the one who judges, who compares, who evaluates, who accepts some things, who rejects other things, who chooses, who says “Yes,” who says “No,” who says “I like this” or “I don't like that.” So notice: we have a format of life, of egoic consciousness, which is this unconsciousness, which is this sleep, which is this dream, so that when thoughts arise we are captured by the states they bring, and so this body-mind feels sometimes euphoric. This euphoria that we call “joy” is something purely egoic. Or sometimes we feel depressed, anguished, and this “we” is this mechanism, this body-mind with which we identify, because we confuse ourselves, we identify ourselves with the presence of this element that is the “I.” When a thought arises, we either agree or disagree. If we agree with a thought, we have the belief that we are producing that thought, and so we give continuity to that thought as something that we are producing. We don't have that art of looking at a thought without being confused with it, just looking at it, observing it without that observer, without that “I” that accepts or rejects, that judges or compares.

So, what is Meditation? It is the art of remaining free from all movement of thought, feeling, from all the images that arise here and now, since those images, thoughts, and feelings are actually the result of the past – always the past. To look at this without getting confused is to remain free from this observer and thinker. Attention to what we are saying, experience this. Before a thought, a feeling, just observe its presence, just as you observe a bird, just as you observe a cloud when you look at the sky, and you want nothing, seek nothing, wish nothing, expect nothing; you are not against this cloud, you are not for it, you just look at the sky and see a cloud. You don't put it into a personal pattern, you don't make it personal to you, it’s just a cloud. Try to deal with thoughts, with feelings without that “I” element, without this observer, without this thinker, without this one who interferes with the experience of this looking, of this seeing. Try this. As you experience this, you will discover a non-identification, the complete breaking of a pattern that has been repeating itself for millennia in humanity, and in you for some decades. I refer to this illusion that you are the author of these thoughts, you are the author of these feelings. Absolutely, this is just a memory, a remembrance, a recollection. This is something recorded in brain cells, the brain is storing these memories. Over time, when this emerges, you always follow through by placing an identity in this experience. The result of that is this state of internal chatter, this state of a great volume of thoughts within you and, notice, there is no control over it. They come in with feelings, at that moment there is identification with the body, the mind identifies with that body, in that state emotionally and sentimentally, egoically, the illusion of an identity in time separating itself from life, separating itself from existence, is present. Notice that the sense of “I” in us is something that is always in the past or in the future. In this state, that present moment completely loses its space, because it has been taken by the illusion of a psychological identity, which is the “I,” the ego. So, you are either in the past or you are in the future, and that is the absence of your Natural State of Pure Being, of Pure Consciousness. Because of this state of egoic identification, you are in anguish, in depression, in guilt, in remorse, in some psychological quality of pain, in some psychological suffering, within the illusion of a present identity, which is the “I,” the ego, and so we have been conducting our lives.

We are not aware of the Truth of Being, we are not aware of the Truth of God, we are not aware of the Truth of this “who am I,” because this “I” that I assume to be is an illusion, it is an illusory identity occupied with its little world, where there is boredom, envy, loneliness, fear, desires, in short, various forms of psychological conflicts and, thus, you do not experience the Divine Reality, the Reality of Peace, Love, Happiness, Intelligence, Sanity, Real Intelligence and Consciousness. This Natural State of Being Consciousness, Love, and Happiness is what some have called the “Awakening of Consciousness,” the “Awakened State,” the “State Free of I.” In this way, Meditation is that approach.

Here on the channel, we have been talking about the importance of this approach to Self-Awareness, about true Self-Awareness – we have a playlist here on the channel about this and also another one about True Meditation in practice. So, the True Meditation in practice is not a technique, it’s not a system, it’s not a meditation practice. It is Meditation in living, it’s in this practical living, it’s in this day to day, moment to moment living that you are becoming aware of this movement of the “I,” learning the Truth about yourself and discarding the illusion of what you have been confusing yourself with, which is this cultural, social, millennial conditioning.

The Reality of your Being is the Reality of Love, Happiness, Real Consciousness, so Meditation reveals this now, here, in a very direct way. You don't have to sit for a few minutes, put on some music, cross your legs, breathe in a certain way, you relax in that moment, and when you come out of there, everything goes on in the same way, here it takes the art of learning to Being-Consciousness-Happiness, which is this Real Meditation in living, the True Meditation in the practice of living. While you are working, talking to someone, walking, doing some tasks, dedicated to some activity, you are becoming aware of yourself, aware of what is going on inside; just aware without getting confused, without identifying with it, so there is a breaking of this illusion, of this sense of “I,” of the ego. This is the contact with the Reality of your Being.

This is the subject here in our channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” on the video, subscribe to the channel, and here’s an invitation for you: we have online meetings, face-to-face meetings, and also retreats, where we are working on this with those who come to us.

June, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is Life? | Joel Goldsmith: Consciousness is what I Am | Master Gualberto | Satsang

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is willing to be here with us to answer our questions, answer the comments you make here in our videos and also to bring a deepening and experience of what this Natural State is, this State of Spiritual Enlightenment, and what is the life that Master lives today. Gratitude, Master, for the opportunity to be here again.

Master, I'm going to read an excerpt from the book “Consciousness is what I Am,” by Joel Goldsmith. In an excerpt, Joel Goldsmith says: “The only problem anyone has is ‘I’, and if there were no ‘I’, there would be no problem. The cause of all problems is the personal sense of ‘I’. There is only one mistake in all the world, and that is to maintain a false sense of ‘I’.” So, I would like that Master to make some comments about it.

MG: Very good. The only problem is the illusion of that identity, which is the identity of the “I.” Gilson, the only thing that really matters in this life is this investigation. We have to investigate the nature and structure of this “I,” this “person I am,” this “entity” that I see here, called “I,” this “me,” this “person I believe I am.”

This sense of a present “I,” this sense of identity, is the whole problem of humans. In fact, that’s what makes them have the idea of ​​being someone, someone so-called “human.” The only Reality is the Reality of your Being, and It is definitely not human, not animal, not vegetable, not mineral. It is the Reality of God!

The only problem with us, so-called “human creatures,” as we call ourselves, is that we see ourselves as an entity separate from Reality, which is the Reality of God. That is the basis of all the complication, of all the suffering, all that lack, shortage, egoism, and that sense of duality.

What is this sense of duality? It is the idea that there is this “I” present and the other out there, “the world and I,” “God and I.” This duality is what is holding us within this suffering condition. If there is not this sense of duality, which is this sense of separation between God and “I,” life and “I,” the other and “I,” existence and “I,” there will be no fear.

The problems we have, a good part is based on fear. The human being lives in this condition of fear. It is a subject that we have been exploring and investigating with you within the channel. The condition of humans, in fear, is the condition of this sense of being a human being in this duality. If there’s you and God, if there’s you and the world, if there’s you and life, there’s also you and death, there’s you and disease, there’s you and old age, there’s you and fear. There´s the “me” and what we call the situation, which we see as the cause of fear; and in reality, it is just the illusion of the “I.”

Everything is in the illusion of the “I.” The “I” is fear. The “I” is the illusion of separation, of duality. The “I” is the illusion of life and death, health and illness, new and old. Basically, all the problems of the human being are this idea that we live as a separate entity, and that’s what has to be investigated, and that’s what we do within this work called Satsang. To see the nature and structure of the “I” is to get rid of this illusion, to break with this illusion. This is what we can call Real Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment.

GC: Master, I want to read a question from a subscriber here on the channel. Maria do Socorro da Silva asked the following: “Dear Master, I would like you to make a video of how we stop rejecting negative emotions and experiences. I think this is the greatest difficulty of all. Please, I'm very thankful.”

MG: Her statement is interesting. She wants a video so that we can explore with her this question about rejecting negative experiences and emotions. And the positives? What do we call rejecting experience? What we have to investigate is the nature of the experiencer, the nature of the one who is in the emotion.

In general, Gilson, we want to get rid of what is harmful to this “me,” to this “I,” to this “person” with which I identify. So, if it’s something good, nice, happy, I want it. If it’s unpleasant, I don't want it. So, I need to get rid of what’s bad for me, but what’s good for me I don't need to get rid of. And here the point is not about what is good or what is bad, here it is not about a pleasant or unpleasant experience, a positive or negative emotion. Here we are dealing with the investigation of the nature of this “me,” this “I.”

The sense of “I,” which is the ego... This is the problem! Gilson, there is no problem other than the presence of this “I” seeing itself in this separation of experience. One sees oneself within the experience as the one who is experiencing, that is, as the experiencer. So, in one’s particular view, there is experience and him. Here lies separation.

A classic example of this and a very strong one, very interesting, is investigating the nature of fear. When you feel fear, the idea is that you are in that feeling. In fact, fear is not separate from this “you.” You see: fear is always in relation to something, and there is, within this model of fear, an identity to feel this experience called “fear.” When there is fear, there is always the experiencer and the experience.

You, for example, are afraid of your wife, you are afraid of employees, you are afraid of the boss, you are afraid of the dark, you are afraid of the past, you are afraid of the future, you are afraid of getting sick... The fears in us are innumerable, and this fear is only present because of an identity in this duality. It is the experiencer of that experience, which it calls fear, and the cause of fear. In fact, this fear is present because of this “I,” and this experience of fear establishes itself as being real for this experiencer precisely because it is present.

We have to investigate the truth about fear and realize the illusion we put into the experience of fear, which is the experiencer’s illusion. This is what gives continuity to the experience of fear. So, we don't have to get rid of or learn to deal with negative emotions without rejecting them, we have to find out who is inside that emotion that we call “negative.” Who is this “I”? We need to understand the nature of experience and see that in that experience there is always an experiencer. When we get closer to the experience and we don't place the experiencer, who is the “I,” that experience is undone.

So, fear is not possible without the fearful, sadness is not possible without the sad one, this negative feeling or experience is not possible without the entity, or the “I,” present, experiencing it, being an experiencer. The Truth of your Being, the Reality of what is shown, apprehends everything, understands everything, without separation. So, there is no room for the experiencer in experience, there is no space for someone in fear, for someone in sadness, for someone in frustration, for someone in violence, and so on.

Here, the point is to get rid of the illusion of the experiencer, the observer, that thinker, the one who is always judging experience and wanting to get rid of it, or wanting to cling to it. That “I” always wants to cling to the good and positive experiences and wants to get rid of the hard, bitter and difficult experiences, and that just continues the illusion of the sense of separation, and, therefore, suffering remains, illusion remains, because the belief of this identity present in experience remains.

What I have been saying, Gilson, about the Truth of Meditation, is that Meditation requires an approach to experience without the experiencer, an approach to thought without the thinker. So, you start to become aware of what is present without placing yourself as an identity present in that doing, in that thinking, in that feeling, in that emotion, in that sensation, in that feeling. That dissolves duality and therefore the sense of separation. That ends conflict, because that’s exactly where conflict is. If there is this presence of experience and we don't call it “fear,” and we don't reject it, and we don't try to escape or run away from the experience, who is left for “fear"? And what happens to this so-called “fear” when there is not the experiencer separating itself, trying to escape, trying to run away, trying to reject?

Gilson, we do not come into contact with experience. We are always trying to escape, to run away, to reject, to fight against, and that sustains the sense of separation, of duality, and that is the present sense of “I.” The annulment of the illusion is in the understanding that this “I” is the one deluded. Without this self-deceiving “I,” there is no illusion, everything is as it is; and without the sense of “I,” there is only this Divine Truth. It assumes forms, It assumes representations, It appears as an experience that arises and vanishes. The sense of “I” is sustaining and creating experiences to live those experiences and sustain its identity in them. If that disappears, many of these so-called “experiences” don't show up, they don't even show up because there’s no one being the basis to sustain them. I don't know if what we're putting is making sense, but that’s it!

GC: Master, this is the True Meditation that you refer to, it is simply “experiencing” without the experiencer. Now, bringing a little of what I've been living, it takes a lot of energy to be in the experience without allowing the automatic process of the mind liking and separating itself in this liking, or rejecting and wanting to run away from the experience, because it is so strong, within that false sense of an “I”, to judge and like something, to separate from it by liking, or wanting to escape when it is bad, so it takes tremendous energy to be in the experience without that experiencer, that is, just experience.

And it’s funny, because in some moments – which are from the past, they don't matter anymore, but when that happens, it’s very funny – when everything simply happens, whatever it is, it’s something that brings lightness. A very different thing from when that “I” is there struggling to escape or struggling to grab, to keep. Could Master talk a little more about it?

MG: So, the point here is always the illusion that you are in the experience. There are things here, Gilson, that we need to approach, investigate, and discover very clearly. One of the things that I think is very important to be mentioned is this question of the relationship we have, for example, with thought. We don't realize that the thought in us is just a memory. Being just a memory, it’s just a memory coming from the past. Right now, here, there is no one producing that thought. That thought is an apparition that is arising here and now, but it is just a past experience that was lived, being remembered here and now. This does not mean the presence of someone producing this thought, this is a functioning of the brain itself. The brain stores images, recollections, and memories, and when faced with a challenge, with something it is faced with, that memory appears by itself.

I'll give you an example: you're walking down the street and you see a dog. At that moment, the one who saw the dog was the brain itself. The very mechanism, the very brain structure became aware of the dog. And in an automatic way, there is a memory association in that brain, so the memory of when you were a child will come up, that you had a dog and that... It will happen automatically. It is a work of reaction of the brain itself, it is it that produces the memory. There is not you in that experience, bringing the story of the past in front of that dog scene, at that moment. It is a mechanical response of the brain structure itself.

So, the thoughts in us, Gilson, are all memory reactions. There is no you being the thinker, producing that thought. But what happens? At that moment, along with that, the belief arises – which is the belief common to everyone, which is the state of hypnotic condition in which we live, of sleep, of unconsciousness about who we are – that we are now having a memory. When that memory arises, it naturally arises with some feelings, some emotions, and, at that moment, you fall into identification, into the illusion of an identity now present in the experience of missing that little dog you had in childhood, and you begin to live this drama internally, which is the drama of the “I.”

So, our life consists of this situation of complete identification with memories, with remembrances, with thoughts, and when this is happening now, there is nothing but the ego in expression. This is total unconsciousness! This is the state of psychological conditioning in which we live. So, we are always reacting to the present moment based on a background of remembrance, of memory, of recollection, and that is absence of Presence, of Consciousness.

This Consciousness, this Presence requires attention to this instant. It is here that this Energy of Presence, of Consciousness, is necessary for a change in that very brain structure, so that this conditioning is undone. I just gave an example here, you can extend this to our life. It’s full of it! We carry guilt, remorse, fear, regret, longing, hatred, anger, lack of love, jealousy, the desire to possess, and the conflict that desires cause, all because of this inattention to this movement, which is simply a movement of memory, of brain habit, of psychological conditioning.

So, Meditation will stop it, break with it, undo it, which is when there comes an end to this illusion of a present identity. When this identity does not enter into this thought experience, which is memory, remembrance, this remembrance does not establish itself as an identity present in it.

So, with that, you are working on yourself, breaking the psychological conditioning. It is when you are facilitating the brain to enter into an entirely new Energy, which is the Energy of Silence, of Stillness, which is Meditation. Only that Stillness, Silence, which is Meditation, reveals something outside of that, which is the model of ego-identity, which is the model of the known.

We cannot access Divine Reality from the “I.” We can observe this movement of the “I,” and when it quiets down, in this Attention that we give ourselves in these moments, when there is this Real Attention to ourselves, this Full Attention, then this Reality that is already present shows itself.

We don't reach God, we don't go to God, we don't realize God, in the sense of someone reaching there. This takes place here and now when the sense of “I” is not. So, your work with Meditation is to discover the Truth that, when there is Meditation, there is no one, there is no meditator, there is no one in effort, doing something. So, This naturally takes over the space that is Its. This Grace, this Presence, this Consciousness, whatever we want to call... It assumes. So, there is a change in the very structure of the brain, in the very brain cells, in the body itself.

Gilson, the truth is that, in this psychological conditioning we live in, the body is addicted to this process of thinking and feeling in a completely mechanical and unconscious way. Meditation, which comes from that observation of the movement of the “I,” which is Self-Awareness – because the only real way for Meditation is in that, is exactly when that happens... When there is this observation of the movement of the “I,” Attention is revealed; and in that Attention, there is a change. So, there is a space for the silence of the mind itself, for the stillness of the mind itself, for the revelation of this Presence, this Consciousness.

Otherwise, we will always continue in this automatism, in this identification, in this somnambulistic state, in this dream state, in this ego identity, living these experiences of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions, always within this principle of present ego-identity, without any awareness of the reality that there is only God. It is quite like that... It’s important to awaken.

GC: The way the Master brings this is incredible, because, in my example, and I see that this is very common, it is always the ego wanting to seek God and wanting to become spiritual. And the Master brings the exact opposite bias: instead of wanting to look at God, look at yourself, look at the falsehood that you are, at the falsehood of this present “I.” And looking at what is false, as the Master puts, seeing the falsehood, seeing the activity of this “I” at all times, these thoughts, and we, identified with thought, becoming now aware of this, Reality, which is already present, as the Master has just said, reveals itself. But this focus that Master speaks of – we look at the false and know: “This is false” – makes all the difference, because, within the search for God, the ego, with its naughtiness, creates and imagines infinite things. Now, looking inside, looking at envy, looking at fear, looking at desires and seeing the falsehood of it, is an incredible thing; and challenging too.

MG: The point, Gilson, is that we cannot bring the Reality of God, because who is going to bring the Reality of God? Is it the “I”? We cannot deal with the Reality of God from this “I.” That “I” is a fallacy, it is a confusion, it is a turmoil, it is a mess, a disorder. All we can do is become aware of this turmoil, this confusion, and disorder. When we become aware of this, we learn this art of learning to unlearn it all. I've been calling it that. We have to learn to unlearn this model, this pattern of cultural, social, human conditioning, and this is possible in the art of being Consciousness, which is, basically, Meditation.

So, here, it is about seeing the false, just seeing the false. And we have the energy for that, if we stop wasting it in this psychological condition of ego identity. We have energy for it. It is the energy of this Presence in the very structure of the machine. Sages called it Kundalini. It is the energy of that Consciousness, which is already present, but it is asleep, because we are not giving it the space it deserves for it to emerge, for it to awaken. And it awakens when we can look at ourselves and see this illusion of this false “I” and this movement, which is the movement of the conditioned mind. The direct observation, the direct gaze, is enough. Seeing the false already reveals the Truth.

So, it’s not a question of, positively, Gilson, going to God, because you don't go to God, you go to an imagination. People are in search, in an imaginary search, of an idea they have of what they believe to be God. God cannot be an idea and cannot be within an imagination of the “I” itself. God is, of course, a Reality, but He is outside the “I,” and we have no access to Him. It is He who reveals Himself when the “I” is not. So, this is the difference, Gilson: looking at what is happening here and now, becoming aware that there isn't someone, that it’s just a representation of psychological conditioning, brain mechanism, culture pattern, and all that kind of stuff. Becoming aware of this, is enough. Now, does it require energy? Yes, but the energy is already there, we just have to stop the various forms of escape. And we have several means to escape this pain, this envy, this fear, this anger, this desire, and this conflict that desire causes.

We need to work on ourselves, which is what we have in Satsang. In Satsang, there is no space for you to run away, because you are put in front of it every instant, moment by moment. There’s no way you can't see what’s in front of your eyes if it’s shown to you. This is Satsang: facing the direct investigation, unable to escape from yourself. This is a stupendous thing, it is a wonderful thing, because there is an extraordinary presence of Love, of Compassion, in Satsang, which makes you see that pain and go beyond it without running away, without escaping. That’s what happens.

GC: Master, it’s funny how the ego romanticizes this spiritual journey, because, for example, in Joel Goldsmith’s studies, and in the biblical quote “to die daily,” the ego, in its naughtiness, says: “Wow, beautiful thing! I do have to die to that ego in ‘me’, which is to see that illusion.” Now, in Satsang, the Master brings it to life! So, as Master just said, it is a mirror where, inevitably, being in Satsang, remaining in Satsang, we end up being shown. Master puts it right in our face: “Look at the illusion of being someone!” And it’s a tremendous challenge to the ego. The ego does not want real death. It wants to pretend, it wants to evolve, it wants to be the good guy. Now, it doesn't want to die.

And this meeting with Truth, which is Satsang, the meeting with the Master, is something extraordinary, because, in the videocasts, the Master brings a little of the words and everything... Now, in the [meeting] live, online, and even more in the intensive meetings when it is face to face, it is something that is really unique… because it is the Presence, it is the Presence of that Grace, for that Realization that Master… your Master gave you, right, Master? Because there is no longer this “Gualberto.” But it’s something that’s really meant to “be burned,” it’s meant to “die” daily to all that falsehood that is being someone. So, it’s really a Grace.

MG: Gilson, another thing about this is that we have a lot of fantasy about this issue of Awakening. We think it’s something really from another world. It’s not something from another world, it’s just something out of time. That’s it! It’s not out of this world, it’s outside this world. There is no other world! It is a contact with the Divine Reality, which is You in your Being, once you have stripped yourself of all the illusion of this idea of ​​being someone within this experience. And this thing, Gilson, is a work of Presence itself, of Grace itself, but you have to become aware of the illusion about yourself.

Especially because, Gilson, you were born to realize This. Then you have all the potential, you have all the Presence, all the Grace, all the energy that is needed for that Realization. It’s just that the human being flees! He is occupying his days, which are not so many days, his years, which are not so many, in external accomplishments. The only thing you're here to do is discover that you're not here for anything, let alone doing something. You are only here to realize the Reality of your Being, to live that Truth, and to go beyond this condition of time, to go beyond this condition of separation, where there is God and you.

So, Gilson, we were born to realize God, but human beings have other things ahead of that. He has a list, and he has to complete each point on the list. He still has a lot to do before the only thing that is needed, which is to realize God. So, he puts the Kingdom of God as the last thing. According to Christ, the first thing would be to put the Kingdom of God first and everything else would take care of itself. But the human being is not doing it that way, he does it differently. He wants to get married; he wants to have a child, he wants to set up a company, he wants to be successful, he wants to be famous... He wants everything except what matters, which is to be happy. People are naturally unhappy. The only Happiness lies in being What You are, which is outside the world, which is outside time, which is outside the known. That is God Realization, That is Real Enlightenment.

GC: Master, gratitude! Our time is over, so gratitude for this meeting. Guys, for those who are watching, leave a “like,” make comments. For those who are not subscribed, subscribe to the channel. And here is the invitation for anyone who feels something beyond what is being said and has a desire that burns in the heart to really realize This: come to Satsang, get closer to this work with Master Gualberto, because, in fact, Satsang is, in practice, this “dying” daily. So, Master, thank you very, very much. Gratitude for all!

June, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Psychological disorder | Anxiety and depression | The psychological suffering | Personal development

The purpose of these meetings is to show you, work with you and introduce you to a quality of life that is perfectly possible for each of us, perfectly possible for you. However, this quality of life is unknown to most people, so the vast majority, the major part of humanity, is completely alienated from the possibility of a life with a completely different quality. Here I am referring to Life in Itself, the Uniqueness, the Beauty, the Truth that Life, in Itself, contains when the sense of an “I,” of an egoic identity, when the sense of a person, which is this “me,” is no longer present.

Throughout the history of mankind, men and women had this intention of finding something beyond this world, beyond this condition, beyond this existence, in other words, beyond this life with that standard of quality known to the vast majority. In other words, there has always been amongst humans a search or quest for something beyond this so-called “happiness” that most find, the “peace” that most find, the so-called “love” that most find. Looking this way, in a very close way, we perceive that this “peace,” this “happiness” of the great majority soon cools down, diminishes, and what is called “joy” is no longer, what is called “pleasure” is no longer, “satisfaction,” it is no longer in that so-called “happiness,” “peace,” “freedom,” or “love” that the great majority know or have lived.

Here I want to share with you the Truth that there is Something beyond this world of ours, and here I am referring to this life, I have called it “a life of survival.” Yes, it is the survival of the “I,” the condition of that identity which is the “I” in us, which is known as the ego. It is the illusion of a present identity experiencing life in a narrow and limited format of training, programming, of received teachings, of repetition and copy of this context of culture, society, and world, which I have called psychological conditioning. So, our measure of life, of existence, is very, very limited. We live thirty, forty, seventy, eighty years, some reach ninety years, but all we know in this life is confusion, and sooner or later what we call “happiness,” “peace,” and “love” ” is shown, soon enough, as a part of this whole mess.

Here we are sharing with you the Truth of this revelation about who we are. It is a discovery that you become aware of and when you become aware of it, you assume it; and when this is assumed, this whole context that I mentioned just now, which I called psychological conditioning, disappears. That’s when, in fact, Something beyond that so-called “world,” “history,” “life,” this something common to all, dissolves. The Reality of God, the Reality of Life, the Mysterious Reality is revealed when something outside that context so-called “world,” “life,” and “existence” are no longer there. So, this aspiration that has accompanied human beings throughout all the human history, which some have discovered and realized, I have just revealed here with the word God, the Mystery – I have also called It the Unknown Reality, the Unspeakable – is none of that which thought produces, idealizes, or believes.

Everything that thought can form, idealize, and imagine is still within its own context, and everything that thought knows is part of what it can place, explain, translate, and recognize, all of which is still within the known, still within that limitation, that known life. Here we are pointing or signaling Something outside of all that. The Reality of your Being is the Divine Reality of the Nameless, of the Unknown; this is the Truth of God. It has nothing to do with rituals, ceremonies, beliefs, religious practices, or attending so-called “sacred” places and then returning home still being the same person, loaded with all that weight of anxiety, ambition, envy, fear, trapped and attached to places, people, experiences, beliefs and, thus, still laden with jealousy.

We are here proposing a life free of the ego, that “me.” This “me” is this ego, this ego is this psychological conditioning condition, this psychological conditioning condition, it is this “I” that has placed us in a condition within this illusion of separation between “us” and life, between “us” and Reality, between “us” and this Unknown, Mysterious, Divine Reality, which we call God. It is life in the ego that has placed us in this condition of limited existence and life, where there is no love, where there is no peace, where there is no happiness. We have moments of pleasure, fulfillment, satisfaction, and achievement; what we enjoy temporarily, we call happiness, peace, love within our relationships. This is not Real Happiness, this is not Real Love, this is not Real Peace. These are just moments where the sense of “I” temporarily goes to sleep or is temporarily withdrawn, and then you enjoy a certain state of stillness, silence, and fulfillment, but then the mind takes possession of it and turns it into a memory, and then you go in search of it. You are always in this constant search for what the mind is projecting as love, as peace or happiness; something you've lived through and remember, but gave just a moment of satisfaction, fulfillment, and achievement, something temporary. Do you understand?

We are here dealing with Happiness, with That which is Real, which is not in time, therefore, it is not part of an experience of something that you lived, that the mind can remember and want to seek again. This is not happiness. This is desire, the desire for a new satisfaction, for a new fulfillment, for a new pleasure, which also constitutes a prison, the prison of desire; this is also loaded with fear, with anxiety, with this expectation that it will happen again, and there is this search, and it is the search of the mind, it is the search of the “I,” it is the search of the ego.

Here we are talking to you about Real Happiness, Real Love, Real Peace, That which is present when the sense of “I” is no more. This is done through self-investigation. You approach and observe this movement of eagerness for more, of desire for more, of fixation on memories and remembrances of pleasure that soon turn into desire and, therefore, into more anxiety, into more suffering. To look at this psychological condition of the mind, to investigate this illusory nature of the “I” with its perspectives, with its yearnings, with the particular vision it has, look at it and let go, get rid of this illusion. Our approach to ourselves is the observation of all the contradiction that has become our lives and has had this continuity due to this unconsciousness, looking at all of this, approaching and seeing all of this, realizing how much we are living in an unconscious way, clinging to experiences, to this constant search for new sensations based on memories, based on pleasures that are remembered, on experiences that are being remembered.

This psychological restlessness, this internal movement within us has trapped us in situations of unhappiness: anxiety is unhappiness, depression is unhappiness, anguish, desire, fear [are unhappiness]. We can find that out, find a life free of anxiety and depression, a life free of fear, a life free of this longing and seeking for more fulfillment and achievements in sensations, in objects. Here we are telling you that it is possible, yes, a life free from the “I,” from the ego, a life in this Consciousness of Reality, which is the Reality of God. This is something that comes out of this approach to self-investigation, so you have awareness of the truth of all this psychological conditioning. What makes this possible is the Truth of Self-Awareness. And when you become aware of all this messy, chaotic movement, all this psychological disorder within you, you can really go beyond the psychological suffering, this condition which is the condition of this ego, the ego-identity. Then, you discover in this life, or find in this life, Something beyond this so-called “I” life, the egoic life; it is when you can be freed from this egoic mind, this separatist consciousness – which is the “I” consciousness – into a vision of the Reality of your Being, of this Truth, which is Happiness, which is Love, which is Peace.

The question is: how does this become possible? As I'm already putting it to you: an approach to looking at yourself, and this is not something you do in what is known out there as introspection. No! This is not introspection, nor this self-analysis. It’s not about looking at yourself with the intention of analyzing yourself or having some perception of that “me,” that “I” and helping you to change, to transform, to improve. Here I am not dealing with self-improvement or personal development. Here I am signaling to you a contact with a Reality outside psychological time, outside this time, this world, this “me,” this ego, this common condition.

We are signaling to you the contact with a Reality that transcends this body, this mind, this world, even this clock time – this time that we follow by the clock, this time between sunrise and sunset, beyond this time – beyond, also, the psychological time. I've been talking a lot here on the channel about this psychological time, which is the time that thought built inside you. Realize that you always have a notion of an imagined future and a remembered past. Your memories come from the past, the future has no reality, except as a projection of thought in a time that thought itself has constructed. So, you have the idea, for example, “I was, now I am and tomorrow I will be”; from a psychological point of view this is completely false. There is no possibility of a significant change, psychologically speaking, within that content, which is the content of the “I.” If there is envy now, there will always be envy, so the so-called “future” will be now and that envy will be present now. You don't get rid of envy by organizing yourself for it, making a schedule for it, creating a study of how to get rid of envy in the future. All the mind can achieve is temporary improvement. It can temporarily get relief from all this psychological pressure for various reasons. We can, temporarily, get rid of certain frames of anguish, anxiety, depression, and fear, but as long as the sense of a present “I” remains – which is the ego, this sense of separate identity –, this has no cure, we will always be living here and now the same way we will be living two years from now. Psychologically, the sense of the ego is there. We can have improvements, we can even create this sense of improvement, of self-improvement for the “I,” but as everything changes, it is also something dynamic, it will also change, some things will come, other things will disappear and it will be living in different states as well. So, all this will be happening in that “I,” it lives exactly in that time where the changes inside the mind are happening, but they are still changes within the ego-identity, in that psychological time that the thought itself is building.

Here we are signaling the end of the ego, the end of the “I,” something new, different from everything that this psychological time – which is this notion of past, present and future produced by thought – has built. We are talking about Something Real, of a New, Unknown State, that State of Being-Consciousness-Bliss, when That which is present is the Reality of the Unknown, of the Nameless, which is the Reality of God. That is the Nature of your Being. That is outside the psychological time, outside these improvements, these superficial changes in the ego itself. That’s what we're talking about here with you, pointing out as a possibility for you.

Here on the channel, we have several playlists working on this, showing you the possibility of this Realization. So, investigating yourself is the basis for ending this illusion, this superficiality of life, this so-called life trapped within this context of egoic identity. This is our subject here on the channel, if this is something that makes sense to you, I want to invite you to leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. Here in this video, we have our WhatsApp group in the description. We have online meetings, face-to-face meetings, and also retreats. OK? You can be a part of it. If this is something that makes sense to you, here’s the invitation. OK?

See you soon! Thanks for the meeting, see you!

June, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Where to find Love? Consciousness Awakening, Enlightenment. Vision of God. Psychological suffering

How many of us are really looking for Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness? Here in this meeting, for a few minutes, we will work with you on this. After all, where to find this Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness? Well, here, I want to tell you: this is not something far, far away. Indeed, it is something present; it is the Nature of your Being. To put it straight to you right now: here is this Truth to be acknowledged.

Here on the channel, we work with those who approach – and you have just approached the channel or you are already following these videos – we are investigating here the Nature of the Divine Reality. Now, we need to discover the Truth about who we are if we want to know who God is. So, let’s put something here for you. When we speak of Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness, we are speaking of the Reality of God. The good news is that This is already present as your Being, the Truth of your Essential Nature. Also good news is that it is possible, directly – not theoretically, conceptually, intellectually – to have an approach to This and experientially verify the Reality of what we are saying here for such a life. There are human beings living in this way right now. A beatific life, a life in completeness, with that vision of the Reality of God; some people call it Consciousness Awakening, others call it Spiritual Enlightenment. It is, actually, the Truth of your Being in life, in living. Here on the channel, I want to invite you to a life like that, without suffering, a life in the Reality of God.

Our human mind is constituted in such a way that we very quickly get used to any psychological condition of life in which we are placed. The human being may be experiencing great pain, great suffering, and when you look at it, it makes you uncomfortable, but, in reality, our psychological condition is such, we are, psychologically, constituted in such a way within a model of cultural conditioning, that human beings adapt to everything. So, it ends up that we accommodate ourselves to a condition of suffering and think that this is the most natural thing in life, in existence. The truth is that the psychological condition of suffering is a purely artificial one; there is nothing natural about this psychological condition of suffering in which we human beings live and find ourselves. This is not the Truth about who you are, not the Truth about your Being; it is just an artificial condition of life, of psychological conditioning of culture. Socially, culturally and humanistically, we are within a pattern of psychological prison where what is present is the torture of suffering, so human beings have lived for millennia within this format and have become accustomed to it; that is the condition.

It is arising within you now, by an act of this Mysterious Divine Presence... At the same time, we feel that suffering is not natural, the majority of humanity is used to, accustomed, and conditioned to suffer, and here I refer to the psychological suffering, suffering due to a whole notion of psychological time. What is this psychological time? It is the time thought produces within us, placing us as an entity within that time. For example, when you use the pronoun “I,” you say “I am,” you also say “I was,” and you also say “I will be,” and what you have for this “I” is an image: the image of who you were in the past, present and in the future. This psychological condition is an image thought created in what I have called psychological time, in this idea “I am unhappy today, but tomorrow I will be happy,” and, in fact, I am resigned to this condition. “I” maintain myself in this illusion of a psychological time, in this idealization that “tomorrow I will be happy” and “tomorrow” never comes. It’s a “tomorrow” when something external happens, when a material achievement arrives, when an idealized dream happens, when something external, like a wedding, a new relationship, or meeting something, always “tomorrow,” “this will make me happy.” So, we live within the psychological time. Here, I want to investigate this with you. Reality is something here and now, and the Presence of what Is here and now is the Truth that needs to be seen.

Here, you need to understand that the Truth of Love, Peace, Happiness, and Freedom is Something present when the psychological time disappears. So, this whole idea of becoming, accomplishing, achieving, conquering tomorrow, of something reaching you, this entire notion presupposes this psychological time and, in this condition of illusion, of hypnosis, the mind, in this psychological time, is living. I want you to observe what is here and now; if this is seen, it can dissolve; however, as long as this remains as the model, the pattern of your life – and I repeat, the psychological condition of time – as long as you, in a romantic way, are psychologically, imaginatively projecting happiness, love, peace, and freedom tomorrow, without looking at what is going on here and now with you, it will never happen.

We are trapped in a state of hypnosis in this ego-identity. This ego-identity is this prison condition in psychological time. Notice that this psychological time is an imagination that thought is sustaining within each of us. We are not getting an approach, not looking at what is happening here and now with us. Thought itself is idealizing for tomorrow something different from what we have here and now. What we actually have here and now is a condition of hypnosis in this ego-identity, making us unable to perceive it, giving us the inability to look at it and get rid of it, this psychological condition in which we find ourselves. That is the condition of the ego; it is in a dream state identified with a construct in this mental state of conditioning, of culture, of humanity, trapped in this model and imagining in that time it has built, the idea of a perfect moment where there will be Happiness, Love, Peace, and Freedom.

Here, I invite you to get rid of this ego, this “I,” to leave this condition of dreaming, sleeping, hypnosis, psychological conditioning, or psychological time for Something entirely new, which is the Presence of the Reality of your Being. The point is that to really approach This, we need to approach what is. We have to be willing to look at what appears as being what I am here and now, what I present to be here and now. What is the human being here and now? What is this “I"? When we look at ourselves – and we never do that, or we rarely have a look at ourselves – when we do something like that, at most, we do this thing called introspection. Here, I am not talking about introspection; it is not about looking at yourself this way in an attempt to change, improve, modify something, improve yourself. People talk a lot about this issue of the importance of personal development, and that is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about this observation of this “me,” this “I,” this psychological condition of living within this frame, this model, this format of psychological restlessness, internal chatter, and self-image where what is present in this “I” is fear, envy, jealousy, frustration, and some moments of joy, hope, emotional comfort, belief in God, but all of this is only at an intellectual, mental level. It is still something within the ego itself, it is still part of this conditioning project.

Everything we acquire during psychological training is part of this illusory identity, which is the “I” and, therefore, something part of this psychological time and this condition of dream and sleep. Here, I want to invite you to look at what is present, to discover a new way of looking at this “me,” at this illusory identity. How can we look without the “I” in this illusory identity? Becoming aware. How can we look at the movement of this ego identity? How can we look at this movement of psychological time, the psychological condition of being “someone”? How can we become aware of this “me,” this “I,” this ego? Looking at. Looking at ourselves, becoming aware of all that internal movement within each one of us, becoming aware of that psychological time, that “I am, I was and I will be”; becoming aware of it, looking at what is here, at the thought, the feeling that arises, the emotion that appears, the sensation that presents itself, just becoming aware, having that willingness to look at what appears. If it is envy, fear, anxiety, concern, or this projection of the past, present, and future, that is what to look at, this verification free from the “I.” That “I” is the one that watches to reject it, do something about it, get rid of it, identify, or put more identity confirmation into it.

What I'm talking about may sound a little strange, and I want to invite you on this channel to take a look at the playlist about the approach to Self-Awareness and True Meditation in a practical way. When we approach ourselves and look at this movement of the “I” without this observer, this thinker, this one who condemns, criticizes, judges, evaluates, rejects, identifies, and accepts, when we learn this art of looking at everything that goes on inside each one of us, we approach the art of True Meditation in practice. So, to verify the Truth – which is the Truth of God present, without theory, belief, or concepts, but in a direct way, the experience of this Happiness, Freedom, Love, and Peace – we need to go beyond the “I,” the ego, this false identity, this dream condition, beyond this psychological memory condition, this psychological time condition.

When you approach Self-Awareness, learn this art of looking at yourself, at the whole movement of the “I,” Something entirely new begins to happen in this structure, this body-mind, then the brain becomes quiet and a total new Silence is now present. The mind enters a Natural Silence, the brain becomes quiet, and this Natural State of Meditation begins to take over this body-mind, which is when Something new awakens and blossoms. I have called it the Flowering of Intelligence; some call it the “Consciousness Awakening,” “Spiritual Enlightenment.” A life free from the sense of a present “I,” the ego, is free from suffering, anxiety, fear, despair, confusion, psychological disorder, and insanity, because now what is present is that Silence. This Real Presence is the Truth of Intelligence, the Truth of Love.

Our work together here on the channel is to show you that the Realization of God – Consciousness Awakening, Spiritual Enlightenment, or whatever name you want to give it – is possible here and now. This is the end of this illusory, personal, particular condition of being “someone” in life in conflict, in the ancient and old way of feeling and thinking. The Realization of the Truth of your Being, Something that comes from the vision of this approach to Self-Awareness and True Meditation in Practice – our playlist here on the channel deals with this subject; we have several playlists here on the channel going deeper into this – if This is present, we have a new life, the Divine Reality, the Truth of your Being.

So, this is our subject here with you on the channel; we are showing you the possibility of realizing the Truth that IS you here and now. OK? If this is something that makes sense to you, put it in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense” or “No, it doesn't make sense,” leave your “like,” and subscribe to the channel. I want to remind you we have online, face-to-face meetings and retreats, too, where we work on this with you. If that’s something that makes sense, see you then. OK?

Thanks for the meeting, and see you soon!

June, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Satsang | Identified with thoughts | Your world is mental | Master Gualberto

The mind has created a world in which you see yourself quite real. This world that the mind has produced does not match reality. All you are living in this world – this particular world – is not real, yet it continues to be sustained, continues to persist, continues to be the only thing that is, in fact, real to you. These encounters appear within this world of yours to doubt the reality of it. You need to investigate the validity of speech like this, the significance of a speech like this. What meaning does it have? What is it pointing to? What, in fact, is it saying to you?

Your tears, your pain, your sorrows, your worries, all that causes you suffering and conflict, are in this world that the mind has created. The reality of life, the world as it is, the reality present in all this is that it is all one big illusion. Your world is an illusion, your life is an illusion, all the suffering present within this existential conflict that you live and experience is an illusion. It is not an illusion because you don't feel it, it is an illusion because you, as a “somebody”, are not real.

This story for this character that you believe yourself to be, in this world that you believe exists, is just a fantasy. What makes you suffer is what makes you personal, and what makes you personal is to be busy with thoughts, with stories with an ending that you don't want. So, it’s a circle, a vicious circle. The mind creates the world, story takes place in that world created by thought, and you feel existentially frustrated. You are nothing but an idea within this imaginary world. You are identifying with the body, you are identifying with thoughts arising, you wish a reality outside of what is real: life as it is, as it presents itself. That is your world, that is the mental world, that is the world that the mind has produced.

What makes it all complicated is that you believe you can get out of this situation, and this situation for you is just the conflicting situation of living, that’s what you want to escape from. But this “you” that wants to escape from this conflicting existence is the illusion producing even more conflict. You can't go beyond your world. Your world is a production of yours, of this “you” that you believe yourself to be. What, in fact, you can do is to stop building it. Do you understand that? You can stop building; you can stop shaping this world of yours.

The question is, “Who are you?” It is the question you always ask in the face of that which causes you adversity, causes you annoyance, nuisance, and conflict – “I want to know who you are so I can get rid of you.” But that is the wrong question. Wanting to get rid of the world by knowing what’s going on with it, that’s all a big game of the mind itself. You want to get rid of people, you want to get rid of situations, you want to get rid of what makes you suffer, but you never investigate who is this “I” that suffers. So, the correct question, the real question is, “Who am I?” This answers what this world that the mind has produced is. That is the real way we stop building.

Your interest is in changing the world, in changing the circumstances and situations. You want to change relationships, you want to change cars, you want to change houses, you want to change cities, you want to change internal states, you want to sustain a joy that doesn't disappear with the pain of the loss of someone, of the removal of something you value so much, but you never question: “Who am I? What is the reality of this world in which this ‘I’ is living?” You never question whether that world is real. And I'm telling you: your world is mental. Your ‘I’ is mental within that world, and your life is based on that. None of this is real.

So, my proposal to you is: stop building the world! If you stop immediately, if you become quiet – being quiet means Meditation –, no more trusting, no more giving credence, no more sustaining any idea grounded in this basic idea “I am here, I am somebody, I am this person, I am in this body and the world is outside.” If that ends, the world ends, the illusion of being somebody ends. Then, Reality – which is what happens, which is what shows itself, which is life without you, without this illusion, without this construct – reveals itself as Love, Freedom, and Wisdom. Being is this Consciousness. It is in this Awareness that life as it is shows itself as pure Bliss, as pure Freedom, as pure Happiness. Your task is to stop, to be still, to relax into your Being, to build nothing more, to desire nothing more, to do nothing more. That’s it.

December, 2015
Campos do Jordão-SP, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | The Infinite Way | Wisdom of the Infinite Way | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again Marcos Gualberto was willing to be here with us to continue this series of videos. Also, for those who haven't seen it yet, we have a playlist with all these meetings, where I raise questions that you ask here on the channel and Master Gualberto answers, and I also always bring an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith for Master to make some comments.

Today, I want to read an excerpt from Joel’s main book “The Infinite Way,” and in that excerpt from the chapter “Wisdom of the Infinite Way,” Joel, in a short sentence, says the following: “Do not seek contact with God so that He adjusts, changes or cures the dream. The awareness or understanding of God undoes the dream.” Can you tell us a little about that, Master?

MG: This question of the dream is very interesting. Hardly, the human being will really know what that means until, in fact, he perceives, directly, his psychological condition. The human being, Gilson, is in a dream condition, and in that, he is seeing inside himself and outside himself a completely chaotic condition of life. In reality, all this chaos outside, all this turmoil, all this confusion, all this disorder in the world, all this suffering in the world is really a reflection of your own inner state of consciousness. I've been calling consciousness... I use a different language than Joel’s. This egoic, humanistic, mental state of consciousness is the state of consciousness of those who are sleeping. What the human being, in himself, calls consciousness is his mental state, which is the egoic mental state; actually, conditioned mind.

The conditioned mind or egoic consciousness is the state of the human being. This state of the human being is a dream state. So, everything he sees in himself and in the world, everything he sees present in the world, being also a reflection of his mental or egoic state of consciousness, is within that dream. So, this is the state of the human being. Unless one wakes up, one will keep trying to fix the world, straight the world, and fix oneself.

The human being’s search for self-improvement, for improvement, for self-development is interesting. As a result, he has turned to various techniques that he himself has created, has engendered. This way, this format of search for perfection and improvement that human beings have, in this search for something different, does not work. One is, in fact, in that psychological condition of a dream, unhappy in oneself, unhappy with oneself and with the world, in search of self-development, improvement, and change, whereas, in reality, all we need is to become aware of the Reality of That which we are.

What we are is not within that dream condition, it is not subject to improvement nor self-improvement. What we are is complete, it is something unique, it is the Reality of God! And this is what Joel says: all we need here is to become aware of this Divine Reality; and I have been saying: the awareness of That is the end of this dream condition. It is in this dream condition that lies all this confusion, all this turmoil, all this suffering, all that we have experienced as people or as separate entities. In an illusory way, this is how we see ourselves: separate from each other, separate from life, separate from God. That dream condition ends when that God-Realization is present, and that is, yes, all correction; that is, yes, the end of all this confusion.

So, the dream is just a dream, but there is no longer the illusion of someone present within that experience, seeing the dream as your reality. The beauty of it is that the Realization of It is the end of suffering, because it is the end of someone present seeing oneself as separate – separate from life, separate from existence, separate from the other, separate from God. So, this is Realization in this lifetime, this is the vision of Divine Reality, this is the vision of God’s Reality, this is your Natural State of Being, this is What You Are, which some call the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment.

GC: I would like Master to speak a little about, within this process... It is not a process, but this Natural State of Master, this Awakening, this Enlightenment. The ego creates, within these concepts of the mind, a projection of That, where it wants to Enlighten itself. And then, in all this confusion and, as I say, in this “naughtiness of the ego,” it keeps perpetuating itself in this search for Enlightenment, in this search for a peace that transcends understanding. It is full of concepts about what that is, and it turns out that now, in this proximity to the Master, I see that there really isn't this story of something in the future, it’s this now, and it’s undoing the dream, it’s undoing this “ me” that I think I am. And there is a word, there is a phrase that Master occasionally uses, within what you have just said, Master, which is “the ego has no cure.” The ego has no cure, it really has to die! It has only to be seen as the illusion that is this ego.

MG: This sense of “I” is perpetuated, it has its continuity, in the very movement that it sustains. This movement which it sustains is the movement of the mind itself. What we call the “egoic mind,” or “the ‘I’ mind,” or this “I consciousness,” as I have called it, is the movement in which the ego is perpetuated, has its continuity, always based on projections. The ego is the one that is present because of everything it has preserved and kept from past experiences, showing itself here and now and projecting itself into the future. This movement of continuity and time – past, present and future – is the very movement of the “I,” of the egoic consciousness. And the “I” has projects. Indeed, without them, it does not live.

The ego in us, Gilson, is present because of the past or because of the future. We have no thoughts here and now as to what is now happening here. Look within yourself and you will see what I am putting here. Every thought of yours is just talking about the past or the future. And why is this? Why does it happen? Because this thought is the way for this thinker, which is the “I,” the “ego,” to stay alive. So, it settles itself into projects. The ego is always in this project of the future; and, in the future, it also wants to get rid of the condition it lives now, blaming the past.

The movement of the ego is very curious. The ego, for example, will say: “I need to get rid of envy” – because, if it is religious, it says that – or “I need to get rid of jealousy,” “I need to get rid of anger,” “from violence” or “from sin,” and it keeps saying: “I need to get rid of it, I need to get rid of it…” And it never gets rid of it! It is always projecting an ideal, a goal, into the future. As it is a project and a goal of its own perpetuating itself in time, and its intention is continuity, everything remains the same!

So, the ego is basically this search for the future. And the greater future of the ego – now you've touched here – is Enlightenment. First, it tried through materialism to be happy, to be fulfilled as an entrepreneur, as a businessman, in short... It tried to attain happiness and peace through the world’s path, through material fulfillment. It failed. Then it tried the path of spirituality. It didn't work either. It discovers this thing called “Enlightenment” and now it’s projecting something into the future called “Enlightenment.” Here, I want you to understand that all the work that is required for the Awakening of the Reality of your Being is now, and there is no past and no future.

That is why I have been emphasizing, Gilson, the importance of studying yourself. And you can only study yourself here and now, looking at that movement, which is the movement of the “I.” This movement of the “I,” as it is always dealing with the past, bringing guilt, remorse, regrets, pain, states of unhappiness such as depression, anguish, boredom, regret… Looking at this movement here and now is what I have called to study oneself, and observe what the mind is also doing, this egoic mind projecting the future through hope, through political, philosophical, and mainly religious beliefs: “Tomorrow I will have this communion with God,” “Tomorrow I will have this Peace of God,” “Tomorrow I will have that Happiness,” “I will soon have a profound experience with the Spirit of God”… And it lives in this projection and in this idea, in this ideology. So, it is always within these projects looking for an improvement for itself, a self-improvement, only now in the name of a religious life, in the name of a so-called “spiritual” or “spiritualist” life. But it is always the ego, it is always a movement of the ego projecting itself.

This vision of the Truth about who You are is the end of this illusion of this “I,” this “me.” Observing yourself, becoming aware of it, is all that is needed for this sense of “I” to disappear. And that Reality, which is already present now, does not come from the past nor is it in the future; it is here and now as the Reality of your own Being, That which I have called Real Consciousness, no longer the egoic consciousness, this mental consciousness. It is in this egoic consciousness, Gilson, in this mental consciousness, that is the whole background of experience, remembrances, memories, and programs running, that I have called “conditioning,” “conditioned mind,” or “conditioned consciousness.” All this ends when there is the contact with True Meditation in a practical way, here and now. And this is our work, this is what we are proposing to those who are approaching this study of yourselves, this investigation of yourselves.

GC: Master, I have already said it several times, but I have to repeat it: these lines by Master, this direct pointing by Master is very revolutionary, because it really is to destroy that false sense of someone. And, when the Master spoke, I laughed, because I remember that I had “The Secret.” Master has already made some videos talking about “The Secret,” visualizing dreams... There is a lot of this in self-awareness. And I remember that I had my dream wall, by profession and such… and then, a few years ago, changed that goal to the “glorious goal of Spiritual Enlightenment.” The ego is very naughty, it’s very naughty!

MG: You see? That’s what I said: if you're not successful in the world, you turn to God sometimes, because God must have something that you, as someone in the world, haven't got yet. Maybe God has something for you that the world didn't give you and you didn't get it because you didn't get it. And if you are a businessman or someone who is successful, someone who already has a certain material and external achievement, you look at yourself and say, “What is missing?” Then you [say] too: “God is missing!” What does it become? A project. But it’s just a project! And you continue in a search, still materialistic, but with this veneer of spiritualism or spirituality, or this so-called “search for God.”

GC: It’s just that... now it’s laughable, but that varnish... how pretty the ego paints that varnish, that spiritual garb! And if you compare it with the world, it thinks it’s doing very well, because it’s in search of God. But, now with this proximity to the Master and this immersion in investigations in Satsang, it becomes very clear how naughty the ego, this seeker’s outfit is. And how much the ego likes it... because now it seems that the Master has already taken away all the pleasure I had in reading, etc. Completely gone! That work of being with the Master, of being attentive to what is going on, remains. But I see how interesting this thought movement of wanting to practice meditation is, to sit and meditate – which is nothing more than escape – or the practice of reading. Or rather, exactly thought-time as well: “When I become Enlightened.” And seeing this now is funny, but, if you “blink your eye,” the thought is in this idea of ​​the future, of becoming, of coming to be, and it is only with the Grace of the Master for us to see all this fantasy and all this clothing with this varnish that the ego puts on.

MG: All this movement, Gilson, all this movement of the “I” is a movement of time that thought creates. We have a time that only exists for thought. For example, we say “tomorrow.” Okay, tomorrow is a date on the calendar. So, we can't deny that tomorrow we have an appointment, but that’s chronological time. Within this dream of the world, this chronological time is something that is present. Now, psychological tomorrow does not exist! Let me make this very clear here for you. If you're jealous and say “tomorrow I'll be free” or “five years from now... I'm going to do a project here so that in five years from now I won't be jealous of anything, anyone, anything” ... Do you know someone who has already managed to carry out a project like this?

We manage to free ourselves, in time, in this time that thought creates, which is the psychological time, in this psychological tomorrow, in this psychological future... Do you know anyone who has already freed themselves from envy in this way? Jealousy, fear, anguish, sadness? “Tomorrow or five years from now, I will no longer have any form of sadness, I will be living that Joy that Christ promises in the scriptures.” “Behold, I give you my peace. Behold, I give you my Joy so that it may remain in you. May your Joy be perfect!” – it’s right there in the Bible! Do you know someone who has already made a project for five years from now to have this perfect Joy, which is the Christ’s Joy, which is the Joy of Freedom from pain, suffering, never to be sad again?

So, we have an ideal of what is not real. Psychological time, which is the time of the “I,” of the ego, is a fallacy along with it! And we are, within the psychological time, always in a project to realize God tomorrow, to have this communion with God tomorrow.

That’s why we continue studying, reading, learning, listening to lectures, always with an ideal of the future to accomplish this. Let’s stop with it! Let’s look at what’s going on here and now. Let’s study ourselves! And to study yourself is to observe this movement of the “I” by putting yourself in that condition, and this is now! And if you see that this is now – this sense of “I” is bringing this memory, this remembrance, this pain from the past – if you become aware of this presence of the “I” doing this game, you can get rid of this “I.” So, looking at yourself, self-observing, is becoming aware of the illusion of this “I” creating all this psychological complexity, all this psychological confusion, all the psychological time.

The “I” is the one in us that lives, I repeat... It lives now because of memories and remembrances. Right here and now, there is no room for that suffering of guilt. Only the ego finds a space for this suffering of guilt. Guilt is a memory, a remembrance, something you lived, which your “I,” your ego, is very sorry and, as it needs to be someone within the experience of the present moment, it presents itself with that pain called guilt. There’s no room for that pain right here and now, because it’s not being real anymore. It’s only real in the psychological time, this supposed identity passing as you here and now, in this experience.

So, to study yourself is to discard the “I” element, the “ego” element, from experience. If it is not there, which is the thinker, which is the observer, and the experience itself is seen without it, that experience disappears, that pain disappears, that guilt disappears, that dead past disappears. Otherwise, the “I” will live on. And the “I” is the life of this illusion of a past, which is not real but is still alive. The whole experience of the ego is the experience of an identity that is not real and assumes a time that it produces, to live in it being someone.

So, these internal states in us of psychological suffering, of psychological pain – and it’s only psychological really – are an independent production of an illusory identity, an illusory identity that sees itself as independent, which sees itself as free, which sees itself as aware of, autonomous, responsible and present within the experience, and maintainer of these internal states, which is a mere projection of the “I” itself within this psychological time that it idealizes, that it idealized, that it has been idealizing throughout all this time, in this so-called “my life,” “our life,” which is not real. There is only this Divine Reality, which is the Life of God, the Reality of Being, of Presence, of Consciousness, which is beyond this past, present, and future.

GC: Master, we have a question from Gustavo Henrique. He asks: “Master, when you have suffering and ask yourself ‘who is it that perceives this suffering?’, what does this question want to point out? I have difficulty at this point.”

MG: If you ask the question “who perceives this suffering?”, where is this question coming from? We can ask these kinds of questions. Humans have been doing that. We've been asking these kinds of questions. This kind of question is the question of those who are just doing an analysis of themselves, who are analyzing themselves. When I use the expression “study yourself” here, I am not talking about analyzing yourself. If you ask yourself such a question, who will be in that question? Who is the one who suffers, who cares about this suffering to the point of asking who is suffering? Is this suffering separate from that one who suffers? If there were no suffering, would there be this question? Would there be that “someone” to ask that question?

The truth is that the sufferer is the one who asks the question about the suffering he feels. We have the same phenomenon here: the sufferer is the suffering. And it is the suffering that formulates, in the name of that sufferer, the question itself. Here, our interest, Gilson, is in discovering the reality of what experience is – what suffering is – without the sufferer. Here the point is to discover the experience of suffering without the sufferer. Looking at that suffering without placing that identity of the sufferer within that experience of suffering is the key to the end of suffering, because that is the end of the sufferer.

So, this contact with experience, be it suffering, pleasure, satisfaction, pride, desire, fear... whatever it is, experience presupposes someone within it to become aware of it as something separate. This division, this separation, is always the support of a present psychological identity. This presupposes duality. That duality is that experience and the experiencer, it’s that fear and the fearful, proud and the proudful one, sadness and the sad one, asking questions, trying to do something with the experience. And that something, basically, is getting rid of. If it’s from sadness, it’s to get rid of; if it’s from fear, it’s to get rid of; if it’s for pleasure, it’s for holding; if it’s good memories, it’s to sustain. So, when we do that, we are inside that duality: that “I” within the experience itself, sustaining the experiencer itself within that experience.

So, there is this experiencer and experience; that thought, which is the experience itself, and the thinker, which is the one thought says is responsible for that thought. So, we want to get rid of thoughts that disturb us, but disturb whom? We want to ask who is the one who suffers, but who is asking this question? It’s always the “I"! Here, I have shown you, on the channel, how to work the end of this illusion, which is the end of this duality, because it is when this duality disappears that the whole vision of life, the whole way of feeling, thinking, living life passes for a profound and significant change. Life goes on, but it is Life as it is, without the projection of an “I,” an ego, an identity present in the psychological time, trying to get rid of it.

Notice: getting rid is future, winning is future. And it’s always a relationship between the past and the future: getting rid of something you don't like, which is coming from the past, and achieving something you don't have, which thought says is not here and now and will be tomorrow. And we stay within the model of psychological time and duality. The work on oneself is the realization of the end of the “I,” the end of the “ego” and, therefore, the end of time, because it is this thinker that creates time when it sees thought and wants to do something with it. It is sustaining time! Now try observing without the observer, feeling without the feeler, looking without the looker. Maybe you say, “What do you mean by that?” Something very simple! In front of an experience, when thought arrives and says something about the experience, the separation has already taken place. But in the face of experience, when there is only experience, there is nothing to say, there is nothing to think about, there is nothing to conclude, there is nothing to accept or reject about it. This way we eliminate the “I”, “ego” element from the experience.

When we look at a person, Gilson, we look and draw conclusions about him, ideas about him, concepts about him. When we do that, we are, in fact, facing this duality, because there is this “I” and this image that I have of that person. Try looking at a person and just look. In that look, without idea, without belief, without accepting or rejecting what you see there, without thinking about it, there is no “I,” there is no separation, there is no duality. We manage to do this when we look at a tree, when we look at a bird, but the moment you look at a bird and say “what a beautiful bird!”, that’s it! When you just look, you get the color of its feathers, the shape, listening to its song and just being in the experience without the separation. It is when thought arrives, it is when the thinker arrives, it is when the experiencer arrives, it is when the observer arrives that confusion happens, that duality arises.

So, we are talking about something very simple, which we have been experiencing day by day but cannot see the importance of it and of bringing it into our lives in a Conscious, Real way, here and now. This is an approach to Real Self-Awareness, as I have been calling it. This is an approach to the moment-to-moment experience of Meditation.

GC: Perfect, Master! Thank you for this videocast. Our time is over now, so I just [want to] thank you for this Satsang, this meeting with the Truth, this meeting with the Master, with Grace. For those who are watching, if it makes sense – as Master usually says in the videos on the channel “Master Gualberto” –, leave a “like,” make a comment, leave a question... And, also, those who feel something beyond what it is being said in words, in the first comment there is the WhatsApp group, there is the contact of Leo Ortega, who organizes the meetings, the Satsangs with Master. So, here’s the invitation. In addition to online meetings, there are also face-to-face meetings, including retreats, which are several days of immersion in self-investigation. So, Master, gratitude once again, thank you very much.

MG: Okay, everyone! See you soon.

June, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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