Joel Goldsmith | The Art of Meditation | The One Reality | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We're here for a videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is willing to be here with us so that we can chat, bring your questions for Master Gualberto to answer. We also bring a little excerpt here from one of Joel’s books for Master to make some comments.

Today, I'm going to read an excerpt from the book “The Art of Meditation.” In a short passage, Joel speaks: “The Nature of God is ‘I’, this ‘I’ that dwells within us, this ‘I’ that we recognize as being individualized as our own Being.” Therefore, Master, I would like you to answer how we can recognize in ourselves that True Identity, that True Self?

MG: Understanding the Truth, the Truth of God, requires that we have a different approach than we have, in general. At first, Gilson, people want to have an encounter with God, they want to come to God, they want to get closer to God. However, this is a mistaken idea, because it starts from a completely false principle, which is the principle that we exist apart from God, that we have an existence apart from God. So, there is this search for God as if God were an element apart from ourselves. However, Truth reveals itself when you realize that the only present Truth is not “you and God,” it is the One Reality that there is only God.

This thing of recognizing the truth of the “I” is a very delicate thing, because we use this word and this pronoun referring to ourselves as if this “I,” in us, were the reality, while the reality of this “I” is not the personal, particular reality of an entity present here, which, in the idea, we formulate with this expression “I.” In the idea, this is a belief, because this “I” is not particular, individual, here, there, and in everyone. There is only one Reality and this Reality is the Divine Reality. We can call it Being, Consciousness, Truth.

This expression “I” becomes very delicate, because there is “I,” there is “you,” there is “he,” there is “we.” The truth is that God is the only present Reality. So, when Joel says “The ‘I’ is the only truth, which is the truth of God in us,” the idea is still within a principle of separation. When we say “God is a reality in us” ... “In us” who? So, there is “me and the Reality of God,” our belief, our conditioning – and it’s a conditioning within the intellect in us – that there is this sense of separation: “I and not I,” “me and the other,” “me and the world,” “me and God.” The truth, Gilson, is that there is only God.

The idea of ​​an “I,” of a separate entity here and now, in this present moment called “time,” and in this body, this body being a personal and particular entity, and the owner of this body is this “I” – that is a belief! There is no such thing! The only Truth in all manifestations is Divine Reality. How does this Divine Reality express itself? It has many forms and assumes many names, but it is one Reality.

This issue of separation puts us in a very complicated terrain, which is the terrain of search, and search implies time. To find something, we need time. We have to get out of where we are and go somewhere else, and that’s time, and if the Divine Reality, which is God, is out there somewhere, we have to get out of here and find it. Who is this that is going to leave here? Who is this that will be found, if the only reality is the Divine Reality? And one detail: it is a Reality out of time! Out of time also means out of space!

So, here it is about Realizing the Truth present here and now, the one present Reality. Our brain... actually the intellect and mind within us, that particular mind that lives within illusory conditioning, believing to be a separate entity, living in time and space – that needs to be undone. So, the Encounter or Realization of the Truth of God, which, in truth, is the True Encounter, is this Realization. This is when that conditioning, which is cerebral, intellectual, and mental, which is giving us the illusion of an identity, disappears.

So, the real approach of this work is the result of investigation of illusion. We do not approach to discover the Truth, we verify the illusion, we become aware of the illusion, and the Truth reveals itself. Truth reveals itself when illusion is no more. So, our work is a work of becoming aware of what is here and now, passing as the Truth, passing as this Being, this Consciousness, this Reality.

Some call it “I,” Joel uses the expression there: “the I.” I prefer to call it “Being,” “Consciousness,” “Bliss,” “Truth,” because the expression “I” inside our heads is very connected to the idea of ​​this multiplicity. Here, there is an “I” in me, there is an “I” in you, and there is an “I” in him. There is “I,” “you,” and “he.” And when we use the expression “Being,” we are talking about something that is Reality, which is Being, and that Reality is the only Reality present in everything.

Thus, this Encounter with the Truth is present when illusion is no more. This “Encounter” is a Verification of That which is already here. This is the Truth about God! There is only Him! This “I,” this “me,” this “you,” this “he” is illusion, which the intellect has separated and divided due to cultural conditioning, placing, within this “I,” God; within that “he,” God; within that “you,” God too. This is belief, this has no real basis, except within conditioning. Within conditioning, there is a basis, but that basis is not real. It is the basis of belief, it is the basis of fiction, of an idea about something that is outside the mind, outside the intellect, outside belief.

GC: Master, speaking of belief, it is quite common within self-awareness, as it is spread on the internet, mainly, in a general context, the question of limiting beliefs or strengthening beliefs. And the Master explains exactly that every belief is a limitation, it is an illusion. Can you talk a little more about it?

MG: Belief, Gilson, is something intellectual. And if you observe, if we're honest about it, we're going to look at our intellect. It is conditioned, we have a conditioned intellect. Our intellectual conditioning makes us have the good will to believe or the unwillingness not to believe. Belief is belief! Within a culture where there is a common belief in God, we grow up hearing about God: “God, God, God...” and the vast majority starts to believe, and another part, which is a minority, says they do not believe, but, deep down, there is the possibility of believing or not believing, and this “belief” or “not believing” is merely intellectual.

In a culture where the idea of ​​God doesn't exist, people don't grow up with that idea of ​​God. Then there is another belief: the belief that there is no God. This is the strongest belief of the vast majority. But belief, Gilson, is absolutely a volitional act of the intellect itself, of the “willing” of the intellect. If I have a good will to believe, I believe. If I don't have it, I don't believe it. Now who’s believing? Who is not believing? The intellect!

Our intellect, Gilson, has cultural conditioning of tradition, education and learning. We function intellectually within principles of psychological conditioning, and these conditionings are of different types: political conditioning, religious conditioning, philosophical conditioning, psychological conditioning... and they are intellectual conditionings, and it is the intellect that, by the way, is part of the egoic mind. This intellect lives in this principle of conditioning, in this willingness to believe in some things and not to believe in others, but all this is the result of conditioning, of training.

Something that we have been hearing since childhood, due to propaganda, we come to believe, or we reject and do not believe, but that always continues as an act of will, of wanting, of volition of the intellect itself, and the Divine Truth has nothing to do with intellect. These beliefs, whether they are so-called “limiting” or “non-limiting,” are still part of the old ego, the old “I.” In fact, all beliefs are like that. Reality is not a belief, so there is a direct experience of Reality outside of the intellect and therefore outside of belief. And here we don't work with beliefs.

In fact, Gilson, we have to get rid of belief, because belief is belief, it is not experience, it is not direct knowledge outside the intellect. Belief is something directly linked to the intellect, to a format of ideas, thoughts, images, and willingness to accept or not.

Divine Reality has nothing to do with belief, it is a fact. However, it is a fact evidenced by the experience of the absence, precisely, of the intellect with its beliefs. When there is this Truth of Being, Consciousness, there is no egoic mind and no intellect to see It, to believe or disbelieve It. Reality is outside the mind, outside the intellect, outside logic, outside reason, it is something that transcends this very brain, this very intellect and this very mind; it is a Reality beyond all that, beyond all that, that transcends all that.

GC: Master, you used a word, which is “experiencing” It. It was very rooted in me, when Master spoke about that as an “experience,” having an experience, I understood that it was something beyond belief, but, with this closer contact with Master, I see how much this “feeling” I had was really for an experiencer, or an emotion in the body, or a sensation, which ended up masking a belief, as if it were something real.

MG: Yeah, experiencing is not that. To live That is the awareness that This is Reality, there is no “someone” left. There is a difference here, Gilson, between being aware of Reality and seeing yourself as separate, having an experience and talking about it. So, there is a difference between knowing the Truth through Truth itself and understanding the Truth or experiencing the Truth or experiencing the Truth as just an idea, a belief, a concept.

Let me put it in a much simpler way: every experience you live, you lived and can report, talk, explain, and describe. What is real, in the sense that I put it here, experiential, there is no one left as the experiencer who experienced it and, afterwards, can talk about. What you can talk about, you can only talk about because thought, which is just a memory of experience, is now present picturing something that once was. Divine Truth is not something that is experienced like that.

Divine Reality is the end of the experiencer. So, there is experiencing, but experience does not remain. This is what I have just called “experiencing the Truth.” When there is this experience of the Truth, it is the Truth in Itself, by Itself. It is not someone who had an experience, someone who felt something, someone who perceived something, someone who experienced something, because that “someone,” when he appears to report it, all he has to report is a memory; and if he is present to report a memory, that memory is part of a fiction of his own identity that believes that it was a special experience for him, that it was something he went through. If it’s something he experienced, it’s part of time, it’s part of memory, it’s part of the experiencer, it can't be real.

This Divine Truth, when It is experiential, the experiencer does not remain, that “I” does not remain, that background of memory does not remain. What you experience is part of experience, it is not separate from the experiencer, and the experiencer and what is experienced are still within the field of the mind itself. Divine Reality cannot be within the mind, cannot be within an experience, cannot be within a memory, cannot be within a story being told by an “I.”

Reality is the end of the “I,” the Reality of this Experience is the end of the one who lives, the one who experiences, the one who memorizes, and the one who can describe. This is the One Reality, the Only Reality. If It is present, the sense of “I” is undone, the experiencer is undone, and experience is no longer of the quality of something that can be held in memory to be part of the past. I don't know if this is clear, the way we are putting it here.

This requires a free approach from the experiencer, free from the sense of “someone,” so there is Truth showing itself as It is. And when It shows itself, there is an end to the illusion of “I,” to the illusion of the mind, to the illusion of time, that time which is memory, that time which is remembrance, that time which is experience, together with that experiencer.

So, this idea of ​​"someone” there to experience disappears. When there is True Experiencing, one is not experiencing It. This is within the principle of psychological conditioning that we bring: that we are going to have an experience, we are going to have contact, we are going to feel something, we are going to live something. “Going to”... who? The “I,” the ego. If it is real, there is no ego, there is no “I,” there is no experiencer, then that experience does not remain. That’s it basically.

GC: It’s very beautiful to see how the Master is never reporting an experience. Now, I've been following the Satsang with the Master for almost a year, and each Satsang – which are the face-to-face and online meetings – is unique, because the Master is never repeating something he said, he is never talking about a past experience. And, as soon as I started to participate in the meetings, I found it strange, because the ego loves stories, and Master’s followers, who have been there for a long time, also did not report experiences. And I, until then, loved to report experiences! I thought it was kind of strange... And it took a few months for me to comprehend it and see how the experience – I used to speak of an experience from the past – is just a little mental story, it’s just the repetition of this identity, this mind, this little story of someone who experienced it. And it is very beautiful to see the Master, because the Master is never talking about something that he lived in the past. It’s always the present moment, it’s always this experience, it’s always Life happening, and it’s beautiful, because it’s new, always new!

MG: Present Reality is everything! Present Reality is Beauty, It is Truth, It is Love, It is Peace, It is Completeness. In the ego, Gilson, experience is very important. In the ego, it is very important, because it gives meaning, it values ​​the experiencer, who is the ego, who is this “I” itself. The “I” lives on experiences, and it leaves one experience in search of another. So, there’s this relentless thirst for new and stronger and more sensational experiences.

This craving for experience is typical of the ego. It is the ego that seeks. In its dissatisfaction, in its incompleteness, in its state of emptiness, of nullity, it is always looking for something new, something to feel alive, to feel special. So, it lives in a constant thirst for fulfillment in experiences, because that gives it satisfaction and gives it identity. So, there’s this relentless pursuit of new experiences.

When you get tired of material experiences, you go in search of so-called “spiritual experiences,” but it is always this “you,” this “ego,” because it lives in a state of absolute incompleteness, so it is always looking for new sensations, new experiences. It gets tired of routine experiences and goes in search of a more sublime, divine experience, to have an idea that it is going somewhere. And really, it’s just maintaining its continuity. It goes from vices to virtues, as I have been saying, but it is still the same old I, that when something is taken from, it suffers; when something happens to it, it is scared.

So, no matter how many divine, sublime experiences we have, these experiences are still centered within that experiencer and its own world. That’s why one can recognize these experiences. If one can recognize it, as I said a moment ago, this is something that is already coming from the past, it is just coming from a sensation, a memory, and that doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what’s here and now.

The Divine Reality, the Reality of the Joy of Being, the Joy of Love, the Joy of Peace, the Joy of Truth, is something present now. All Beauty, all Grace, all Truth, all Love, all Completeness is here and now, and this is not an experience. Therefore, we have nothing to say about It two minutes from now, or twenty from now, or two years from now. The Truth of your Being is outside of time, and that Truth of your Being is Fullness, that Nameless, Indescribable “Thing” which is Divine Truth.

GC: Master, I have a question from Bruno Nunes regarding meditation. It is the following question: “Master, what about meditation with closed eyes? Does it not need to be done?”

MG: There is a huge lack of understanding, Gilson, regarding this issue of Meditation. We don't know what Meditation is, we don't know what Silence, Truth, the Mind in Meditation is. We confuse Meditation with a practical exercise of sitting down, closing eyes, relaxing, putting on soft music or chanting a mantra. As long as we relax, that’s it! That’s what we believe meditation is. And in a way, the meditation that is taught out there is just that. This is the maximum that the ego can achieve: it is this stillness that it imposes on itself through a technique, a system, a practice. That’s not what we're talking about here.

The True Meditation has nothing to do with the posture of the body or whether the eyes are open or closed. True Meditation is the end of the illusion that you are present. And this idea of ​​being present... You can have this idea of ​​being present even with your eyes closed and in a meditative posture, which is what usually happens. People close their eyes and do meditation. When the time is up, meditation is over! They say to themselves: “Okay, now I can go back,” but, in fact, they never left there.

True Meditation is the absence of meditator, it is the absence of the one who is present, and when that is present, which is True Meditation, it has nothing to do with technique, with posture, with practice, it has nothing to do with eyes open or closed. Becoming aware of the movement of thought here and now, without getting confused with it, as well as feeling, emotion, sensation, and perception, does not require any physical posture. You're driving the car, you're going to work, you're talking to somebody, you're making use of words, like right here and now, making gestures, and at the same time, there’s this whole awareness of this whole movement of words happening, gestures happening, a thought arising, a feeling arising... whatever is here in this instant arising. When you pay Attention to yourself and whatever is happening right now, internally and externally, without resisting that experience, without judging it, without comparing it, without fighting it, in that moment, in that State of Attention about all that movement, which is the movement of the body, the mind, and anything around you, in that Attention, in that moment of Attention, that is Real Meditation.

But in this Real Meditation, when there is this Attention, there is no such element, which is the “I” element, because it is no longer here to judge, compare, reject, accept, condemn what is arising or appearing in that instant. So, True Meditation, as we put it, is being aware of what is here and now, without that element, which is the element in us, which is the sensor, which is the judge, which is the comparer, the one that judges, which is the one that condemns, which is the one that rejects. This goes for thoughts or whatever is going on internally within you or externally.

So, it’s not about body position or intellectual inactivity, it’s about awareness of this moment without that element, which is the element “I,” ego, that comes from that background of conditioning to reject, to judge, to criticize, to condemn, to try to do something, to cling to that experience, because it likes it, or to push it away, reject it, because it doesn’t like that. When we do that, naturally there is no Meditation, there is a sense of an egoic identity in that egocentric movement, and that is the common state of people. So, we need to find out the art of pure Being Consciousness without that element, which is the “I” element within this instant, within this moment, creating all the confusion that this background of conditioning brings.

So, we have to find out what Meditation is. Here on the channel, we talk about what Meditation is, we have discussed with you what Meditation is and, more than that, Meditation is something that happens to us. Satsang is an excellent space, where True Meditation reveals itself, and when It reveals itself, there is no “you,” there is no “you.”

GC: And it’s a Grace, Master, because in Satsang we get, receive from Master, the True Meditation, which is that indescribable “something,” because it’s a zero, it’s a nothing, it’s a freedom... there’s no experience to go to. The ego may even want to go there and record it, take it and say “it’s mine,” but there’s no way. It is something that is this Mystery of Life.

MG: Gilson, people are always fighting with Meditation, because they hear someone say to them: “You have to meditate, you need to meditate, you need to set aside a moment for meditation,” and people, sometimes they try to force themselves to meditate, even out of guilt, because they believe they have to become spiritual. They heard a teacher say to them “look, you have to meditate!” And the person sits down and fights, fighting against one thought, against another, and they believe that this is Meditation. Because when you force yourself, when you force yourself into Meditation, what is happening? That sense of “I” is fighting with itself, and Meditation has nothing to do with it!

Meditation is something very natural and it flows in a very natural way when you discover that what is present in you here and now is not this element that comes from this psychological time, which is the “I.” This element that comes from psychological time, which is the “I,” which is this whole story of an identity that wants to resist, that wants to fight, that wants to fight with what is present at this moment, that is completely illusory.

When you investigate the nature of that “I,” the very investigation, the very observation of the nature of that “I,” brings you, in a very natural way, that State of Meditation. And when you say “ah, we got this Meditation from the Master,” people don't understand. This State of Consciousness present here and now is the Natural State of all of us.

So, when you are in Satsang, you are facing a Realized Being who lives in that State of Consciousness. This facilitates your Natural State of Consciousness – which is the same State of any Realized being – to emerge, to flourish. This is Meditation. And notice, there’s no effort on your part. It just happens, because there is no “you.” You are placed in a position within Satsang where you begin to inquire, to observe, to investigate yourself, and there is this Presence, this Energy of Consciousness, which is the Presence of Grace itself, which creates this facilitation. And you can be in any position: standing, sitting, eyes open, eyes closed, in any way, because this has nothing to do with the body, nor with the mind and the state of mind. It transcends this body and any other state of mind.

The beauty of Meditation is that you are beyond the body, the mind and, curiously, the world. Your eyes can be open and you lose complete notion of time and space, because you are in your Natural State of Pure Consciousness, when there is no sense of this “me,” this “I.” This is Meditation!

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, our time has come to an end. Gratitude for this meeting, this videocast. For those who are watching: leave a “like,” make a comment, and whoever feels something more, when looking into Master’s eyes, here is the invitation: come to Satsang, to “receive” – ​​because it is not a “receiving,” as the Master just said, it is [for] this Natural State, which is the Only Reality, to be, to come true. So, it’s pure Grace, it’s a unique opportunity, one in a million, to be able to be with a Realized Being. I'm speechless! Master, gratitude for this meeting.

July, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Real Consciousness | Consciousness of the I | Kundalini Awakening |#awakeningofconsciousness

What is the truth of Kundalini Awakening? There is a lot of confusion about this, people believe that Kundalini is a mystical experience, a so-called “spiritual” experience that can happen to them; so, there is this energy in the body, and when it “awakens,” the person has an experience called Kundalini. In general, there is much discussion about it, a lot of people talk about Kundalini. What’s the truth? What is the truth about Kundalini?

Kundalini, folks, is the Presence of Consciousness, the Presence of your Being. Kundalini is just another word for this energy present in this organism in this body-mind, and when it emerges, Awakens, when it flows through this body through this mechanism and assumes this psychophysical mechanism, it can be called Kundalini Awakening. However, this is not an experience; it is not something that a person will go through. This Kundalini Awakening is the Awakening of Consciousness. When this Consciousness Awakens, that so-called “person” disappears because that sense of person present in every experience is memory, a memory that expresses itself.

What we call “experience” is a memory recalled, being remembered by a mechanism that keeps that memory, that remembrance, that can report on it, which is the sense of a person present. So, whatever experience you have is something registered and held in the brain as a memory, a remembrance of that person. However, this person is not a reality but a set of memories. So, besides this experience, it registers other experiences, it holds other experiences, it comprises a set of memories and recollections. However, when we refer here to the Awakening of Consciousness, which is synonymous with Kundalini Awakening, we are talking about the end of that memory, which is the person with its memories, remembrances, and experiences.

So, what is Kundalini Awakening? What is the truth about Kundalini Awakening? It is the truth of the Awakening of your Being, which is not a person. And what is this person? As we have just stated, it is a set of memories, remembrances, recollections, and experiences, that’s what the “I” is made of, the sense of “someone” present within the experience, keeping memories, remembrances, and experiences to talk about them later. The Truth of your Being, when that energy that is the Real Consciousness blooms… and here on the channel I have put it to you in a very clear way, we have a consciousness here and now, it is the consciousness of the person, you can only have consciousness because of the presence of thought, and every thought in you is just the recognition, at this present moment, of a reaction that comes from memory. Every object is recognized because of a memory, a reaction recorded in the brain. This memory, this response of a memory reaction is recognition, knowledge, this is what we call “consciousness,” then this consciousness is the person’s consciousness.

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This is the “I” consciousness. Then, the consciousness of the “I” is already here and now.

This consciousness of the “I” is present in this dreamlike condition of a separate identity. Notice that you, as a person, are in relationship with the world from a personal, particular center, which is the “I.” This “I” is the ego and it sees itself separate from what occurs, what happens, what is shown. So, this is the “I” consciousness. This consciousness of the “I” is already here and now, this consciousness of the “I” is the consciousness of duality, of the sense of separateness, where there is “you and the other,” “you and life,” “you and the world.” This is happening because your state of consciousness in the “I” is a sleep state, that is not reality. This is the temporary, transitory reality of the “I,” of that element which is the ego, within that past, present, and future time, this is the dream condition of a separate existence. This is what disappears when the Awakening of Real Consciousness occurs, which is Kundalini Awakening, then there is an end to this condition of memory, of dream, of sleep, of separate identity, of duality. With the Kundalini Awakening, Something new has emerged and taken over this body-mind, this mechanism, this psychosomatic organism. This is Real Kundalini Awakening, and when that happens, there is an end to this “I” in this duality “the other and I,” “life and I,” “the world and I,” “God and I.” Are we together?

So, Kundalini Awakening is the Awakening of Consciousness, not what some people call “awakened consciousness” or “Kundalini has awakened”, here I am talking about something else. I am talking about the Truth of Kundalini Awakening, the Truth of the Awakening of Consciousness, and when this happens there is an end to the sense of ego-identity. That is what the Sages, for millennia, in India, China, and Japan, experienced, and in the world some experience This as the true Spiritual Enlightenment, the Divine Awakening, the Awakening of your Being; this is the end of the ego. Therefore, it is not an experience, not something that “someone” has lived through. You cannot do it; there is no way, not the slightest condition to remain present when Kundalini Awakening occurs, to remain present to report something, to talk about it, to explain to others what it is. Then, the Divine Truth, the Truth of Spiritual Enlightenment, that State of Beauty, of indescribable Love, Peace, and Happiness, takes over this mechanism, and there is now the presence of that Intelligence, that Wisdom, that vision of Reality. But it is not an experience that comes and goes, not something you are experiencing now so you can remember it later and report it to others; you do not remain present; it is the presence of a free mind, a meditative mind, or, as known in Zen, the No-mind, because here it refers to that mind freed from the mind, that brain freed from that so-known brain, that Real Truth of your Being. We can give many names to it.

So, I have been saying here that we should not get attached to words because they don't matter much. What matters is that you have a true approach to the possibility of the Realization of This here and now. That’s why I have indicated here on the channel our playlists, our various playlists on this subject, which is the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment, in addition to these online meetings we also have – you see, in the video description there is our WhatsApp group for you to know more about. Our work lies in becoming aware of the Truth about who we are, and not to acquire intellectual, verbal knowledge. People talk about something because they have heard, read, and listened to it, but it’s just an intellectual approach. The approach when experiential leaves no room for this intellectualism, for a merely verbal approach because you are this, and this is comprehension.

The comprehension of what you are lies in the end of that sense of a present “I,” this is Kundalini Awakening, the flowering of your Being, the Truth of God revealing itself. Thus, you look at this whole movement of the “I” and go beyond it, because within that inquiry, that investigation of the Truth, it becomes possible to perceive the illusion and go beyond it, and that’s what matters. Therefore, it is about the awareness of What the Truth of God is. Ramana Maharshi said: “God, Kundalini, and Being are different names for the same Reality” – these are the words of Ramana Maharshi. Here, Truth reveals itself in this experience, in the absence of the “I.” Thus, our work consists of observing this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” the ego.

Our brain is restless, and our psychological state, which is this state of being “someone” present in this experience, is a state of restlessness. This contact with the Divine Reality, which is the Reality we are, requires us to get closer to ourselves by looking at this internal movement; to look at all this internal movement that arises here and now, at these thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensations, at this way of perceiving life. When we approach this, we realize that this way of feeling, thinking, and moving in the world is already programmed and conditioned. Our reactions or responses to life experiences have as a principle this background of memory, remembrances and therefore of internal conditioning, of psychological conditioning, so our mind is conditioned. What we call “mind” is something in us within programming and conditioning, and we are always, all the time, responding to the experiences of life, of living, having this background of conditioning as a principle. Then, our state of consciousness, due to this conditioning, is a state of sleep, of unconsciousness, and that is where this whole model of the world living within this insanity resides.

The human being is possessive and lives bored, anguished, and depressed, so, internally and psychologically, we are living a life within a pattern of unhappiness, because we carry this illusion, which is the illusion of “someone,” who is that “I,” to achieve something in life, to accomplish something in life, to be “someone” in the world. We are constantly looking outside for some form of satisfaction, fulfillment, gratification, and contentment. Thus, our conditioned actions are within this project of seeking pleasure and escaping from anything that causes us pain and suffering. Our psychological condition of life in the ego, in this unconsciousness, which is the unconsciousness about the Truth, about the awareness of who we are; this is the life of the “I,” so there is this sense of separateness, of duality.

Truth shows us – and the Truth is from those who Realized the Self – that there is predominantly in us, I mean in the human being, this condition of ignorance, illusion, this sense of separateness, duality, and ego-identity. Here, we are sharing with you something from this viewpoint, so we cannot be theoretical, intellectual, or verbal about this. We need to have a new way of approaching this and through the view of True Meditation in a practical way. Here on the channel, we are trying to show you how to perform this Meditation based on the Truth of Self-Awareness. So, when there is this Truth of Self-Awareness, we approach True Meditation in a practical, experiential way; that is when a change in this structure, in this body-mind, becomes possible. Yes, only then do we have Kundalini Awakening; only then can this energy of Consciousness, of Presence, operate a change in that mechanism, in that organism; then that Kundalini energy, that Presence of Consciousness, brings about a change in that mechanism, that body-mind. That’s when this Presence takes over that body-mind and the sense of “I,” of the ego, that sense of separateness, of duality, vanishes. That is the presence of Advaita, Non-duality; the Sages have shared this for millennia.

Here, we are sharing with you the Truth of that possibility; this is Real, this is Real Kundalini Awakening, the Truth about Kundalini Awakening. When that body-mind undergoes a change and all illusion of the egoic sense disappears, it can indeed be called as the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment. So, this is our subject here on this channel with you; we are working on the end of the “I,” of the ego, and of this confusion that is this sense of ego-identity. The flowering of Happiness, Love, Peace, and the Truth of God is present when Reality shows itself, the Divine Reality, the Reality of your Being.

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Life free of the ego | Conscious Union with God, Joel Goldsmith | Psychological suffering | Advaita

Is it possible to end suffering? Everyone would love to have a life without suffering. It is indeed paradoxical, because this is not true. It is not true because the sense of being someone implies “someone” present to live those experiences. In this search for experiences, he will always seek some form of fulfillment, of satisfaction, of achievement in some kind of pleasure. What we do not realize is that this search for fulfillment, for satisfaction in pleasure is actually the search for suffering. So, it seems that we all want to be free from suffering and in fact our movement is towards suffering.

So here we are facing something simple, but at the same time quite – paradoxically – difficult, because to remain free from suffering is simply Being. Our psychological conditioning, this sense of “I” that we have in us – and we are carrying it since childhood, this is a thing of culture, of personal identity, present within all experiences – is what drives us to “become,” to achieve, to accomplish something. So, Being is to remain free from suffering and this “seeking to be,” to become “someone” is to go towards this search for pleasure in this or that form of fulfillment or for some level of achievement.

So, let’s make it clear for you, very simply: the Truth about your Being is Happiness here and now. But it is very strange what I am going to tell you: you are this Truth here and now, this is the Nature of your Being, yet we are not living in this Nature of Being what we really are. We are assuming a being that we believe to be, that we feel that it should be, unsatisfied we are still looking to be greater, to be different from what we believe to be, so there is always this movement of “becoming someone.” Since we were children, we have heard the phrase: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” No one ever showed us that it was enough to Be. In this Being there is Completeness, there is Love, there is Peace, there is Happiness; in this Being there is nothing to be accomplished, to be achieved, to be done, because this Being is the Divine Nature, the Nature of the Singularity of the Non-I. This coming to be, this “being someone,” this “seeking to be,” this “wanting to be” is the search for being “someone.” Are we together in this?

Our sense of egoic identity comes from this formulation. In this sense of “I,” this illusion of “being that I believe myself to be,” that “I” wish to be, we are slaves to this verb, to the verb “to be.” We always refer to ourselves as someone, someone who was, someone who is, and someone who will be – “I was that yesterday, I am that today, but tomorrow I will be ’someone’ different from what I am today, ’someone’ different from who I was yesterday.” This idea of “being someone” is the search for “becoming someone.” This is the model learned within our culture, within our world, within our society, because we have the illusion that security will come when I will become “someone,” because I was born to be “someone.” “I feel insecure, exactly, because I feel like a nothing, a nobody, until I am somebody,” this is all within the imaginary of thought.

When we look at the world, we are always seeing people going somewhere, going towards some goal, some purpose, some achievement, and all this with the intention of finding security in that purpose, in that goal or achievement. They call that security as happiness, peace. They project a sense of peace and seek that peace. They project happiness and go after it. For them, it will be found when they get there, when they achieve this “being” they desire to become.

Here I want to work with you on ending this illusion of “being who I believe I am,” here and now. It is when we free ourselves from this verb “to be,” from the illusion of “I was, I am, and I will be.” Realize that what we are pointing out here, is the real cause of suffering. So, this search for peace and happiness is, in fact, still fomenting this condition of suffering that we are living in this illusion of being, in this idea of becoming or ceasing to be.

What is Spiritual Enlightenment? What is Spiritual Awakening? It is the end of this prison, the prison of this verb “to be.” That is the end of this illusion of “I am, I was, and I will be” to the realization of the Beauty, the Singularity, the Reality of simply Being what you Are. This is the discarding of the ego, because it is this ego, this “I,” this “me,” that is in the idea of “I am, I was, and I will be.” All the suffering of the human being consists in this “I.” This “I” is the one that sustains fear and desire and therefore the illusion that there is no security or the illusion of the search for security. All of this lies within this “I.” It lives in fear, anxiety, depression, anguish, boredom, the feeling of loneliness, existential emptiness, and the various forms of fear, fears that are present in us.

Notice this subject of fear, for example: we are afraid of everything. Our psychological state of “being someone,” of seeing ourselves as “someone,” is always feeling insecure or always creating the illusion of possible security for ourselves, that is fear. And that fear takes many forms in us. The human being is afraid of the boss, he is afraid of the wife, he is afraid of the husband, he is afraid of the children, he is afraid of the employees, he is afraid of his past, which, in fact, is only the fear of something that he – this “me,” this “I” – has screwed up and is afraid that someone will find out, which is actually only an image, a memory, a remembrance. He wants to protect this self-image so it will not be discovered. So, there is this fear in human beings. The fear of being exposed for something they did, that someone might discover about it or it might become public, so there is fear of the past, there is fear of the future, there is fear in relationships. There’s the fear of getting sick, there’s the fear of getting old, there’s the fear of losing what you have, of not getting what you want, there're various forms of fears in us, in that “me,” in that “I,” in the sense of egoic identity.

This ego is that which is stuck in time, in this time “I am, I was, and I will be,” this time that I have called psychological time. The psychological time has its origin in thought, because it is thought that idealizes the future. It is an idea of the future, and this is in thought. It is thought that also idealizes or imagines the past. This past that can appear, this past that has been lived, all this is in the image that the “I” creates, that it has about itself in a time that thought itself is building. It is an image, this “I,” this image moving, it is this imagination, this is psychological time, it is the time of the “I.” The Truth of your Being is outside of time, of this psychological time, of this “I am, I was, and I will be,” That is the Truth about your Being, that is the Truth of Happiness, that is the Truth of Peace.

Notice that it is when you are free from thoughts that you are free from the past, the present, and the future. When there is no thought – we have some brief moments when we feel completely and totally free from thoughts, when you are, for example, in nature, in a contact with the forest, with plants, or in a very big garden and there, in the middle of the plants, looking at the plants, appreciating the flowers, appreciating what is there in that garden, when your attention is not on that sense of “person,” of identity of that “I,” with the various occupations that this “I” has with the office, work, family, business, and the various problems, when you are alone there in that garden in contact with the flowers, the eyes contemplating the flowers, the ears listening to some birds singing, the smell of the earth, in that instant there is a silence, an absence of thought, there is an inner state of stillness. At this moment, there is no such “I” with its past, with the illusion of its present and with the illusion of its future; in this instant, there is no idea of “I am, I was, and I will be,” there is no idea of “achieving happiness,” “achieving “peace,” or “getting rid of something.” It is when thought is not there that there is no such time, in this instant there is a freedom of this “I,” of the psychological time because thought is not there. Notice that it is the presence of thought in you that places you in this time, that places you in this “I am, I was, and I will be,” places you in this “becoming,” in this “becoming something,” and in this instant, when thought is not there, there is simply Being. There is no history there, there is no name there, there is no past there, there is no present there, there is no future of that “I” there, because thought is not there; neither is there this idea of happiness, of peace, because all these are projections of the ego. It is the sense of the ego in you, it is the presence of this “I,” the absence of this Freedom. It is the presence of this ego, of this “me,” the presence of suffering.

Here I am inviting you to a life free from suffering, and this life is possible when the sense of “I” is absent. In this instant there is only Being. This is the Nature of Consciousness, of Real Consciousness, not this consciousness that is in time, this consciousness that is the “I,” this consciousness that is thought, this consciousness of past, present, and future. Our work here is for the Awakening of your Real Consciousness – what someone calls Spiritual Enlightenment – the blossoming of your Divine Nature, the Truth of Non-Separation, Non-Duality – this is called Advaita, it is straight from Advaita Vedanta. The word Advaita means “the one without the second,” it is the Reality that there is only this Presence, and this Presence is Being, for this you were born.

Look at the people around you, they are stressed, anguished, unhappy, scared, frightened, in a constant search of a security idealized by thought, and the more they move, the more insecure, unhappy and frightened they feel, because there is no Love in their lives, there is no Freedom in their lives, there is no Happiness. So, the human being lives in suffering because he lives in that sense of ego, in that sense of “I.” A life free of the ego is a life attended, assisted, accompanied, cared by Life itself, there is no “I,” it is only Life taking care of Itself, attending to Itself, that is a life free of the ego.

In all the history of mankind many men and women have realized What we are talking about here with you. We are dealing with you about Something possible for your life, a state free of the ego and therefore a state free, completely free of psychological suffering. If you assume the Truth for which you were born, if you assume this Reality, which is the Truth of your Being, here and now, there is no more problem in your life, because it is no longer this “my,” this “your” life, it is this Reality of Life as It Is in its Grace, in its Beauty. This is that State of Oneness, of Non-Separation, some call it “Conscious Communion with God,” I have called it the Natural State, the state free of the “I.” The “Conscious Union with God,” in the expression of Joel Goldsmith, it is how he calls this Natural State or it seems to me that this is how he particularizes this Natural State. It is interesting that it is said here that we are quoting this expression, but we have to be careful, because the idea of union means two presences, God and I, and that is not real. So, here, I put this expression quoting Joel Goldsmith, but see it, this statement I am using in a way, maybe, a little bit different, “Conscious Union with God” is the Presence of the Reality of this Consciousness in God, in Himself, by Himself, here and now, without the sense of a present “I.” That is the vision of Non-I, No-Separation, that is Advaita, that is the contact with the Reality that you are here and now, that is your Being. So, you were born to Be, just Be; not to be “someone,” but to Be, to live as Being-Consciousness-Bliss. This is the Nature of God, this is the Nature and the Truth about that “Conscious Union with God,” this is the Truth about life, this is the Truth about Spiritual Enlightenment. Okay?

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Joel Goldsmith | The Contemplative Life | What is fear? | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is willing to be here with us to bring a deepening and profound investigation about the nature of the “I,” the nature of Reality.

Master, I'm going to bring you an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith’s book, the book is “The Contemplative Life,” and, in this excerpt, Joel talks a little bit about fear. I'll read it here: “Whenever fear is gone, the object of fear is gone, because the object of fear is just fear itself externalized. And there can be no fear in the presence of a Realization of Spiritual Law.” I want you, Master, to bring your view on fear.

MG: This question of fear is very interesting. If there is something very relevant to be investigated by us, within this work of Realizing the Truth about who we are, it is the investigation of fear. What is the truth about fear? What is fear? Who is that in fear? I didn't say who is feeling this fear. My question is: who is this in fear?

For fear to be present, there must always be a relationship between two things: someone and the object of fear. If I'm afraid, I'm afraid of something. So, the human being lives in fear, but he didn't understand that the basis and what sustains this structure of fear is not an agent outside of himself, an external agent.

We believe that we are afraid, we feel fear of something. There are always two things involved in this process of fear. The fear of the wife, of the husband, of the children, of the boss, of the employees, of something that happened in the past that could suddenly happen again, there’s the fear of remembering something that made “me” suffer and that could come back to frighten “me” and make “me” suffer here and now, again... Fear is always related to something: fear of people, fear of situations, fear of the past, fear of the future... So, fear is something very present in human beings. There is fear: the fear of losing, the fear of not winning, the fear of not achieving... You see, it’s always like that, we always have two things in fear: the “I” and what causes it, or seems to be the reason for the fear.

This fear, in our view, is something that happens to this “me,” this “I,” this “person” that I believe I am. There is something, Gilson, that we didn't realize about fear: fear is the presence of the one who fears, fear is the presence of the “I.” It is the “I” in fear! There is only this “me” in the experience of fear! And notice: fear is always linked to an internal movement in that “I,” which is the movement of thought. You don't have any psychological fear without thought. The fear of the wife is an internal fear, of thought, of an image you have of someone who is that wife. Fear of the boss, fear of the employee, fear of the children, fear of the past. Note: we always have the thought element in this “me” being, in fact, the reason, the cause of fear.

So, actually, when we talk about two present things – which is this “I” and the cause or reason for the fear – we don't realize that the only present thing that is sustaining that fear is thought; and it is the thought of that “I.” It is this “I” that sees itself in a situation that it does not want for itself. This question of fear is something present while the “I” is present, this “I,” this “me,” and thought regarding that given thing, that person, that situation, that past, or that future. The fear of old age, the fear of illness, the fear of an accident... all of this is within thought! If we eliminate the “thought” element, there comes the elimination of “I” element. And without that “I” element, without thought, there is no fear.

So, the existence of fear in us, Gilson... We are not going to overcome fear, because “we,” this “I,” in this movement of thought, is what sustains fear. People have a desire to get rid of fear without understanding the structure of fear, the truth, the nature of fear, what is thought. It is the presence of thought, always! In every moment of fear in your life, if you observe it, thought is there.

When you are faced with an imminent, real danger – for example, when you are faced with a serpent, a snake, or a car coming towards you –, at that moment there will be a response from the body itself, and this response will be a smart answer to get rid of it right away. We can call it fear too, but it’s not quite the psychological fear we know. This is something objective, simple, natural. The brain reacts quickly to protect the body from that situation and, in that moment, there is no thought, there is only an action taking place. When the car comes, you jump. When a snake appears, you jump. When something comes up, you immediately have an out-of-thought action of self-defense and self-protection.

So, this issue of this so-called “fear” is a reaction of the body to an experience of danger, in which the body, the brain itself, reacts to that experience. At that moment of this experience, it reacts quickly, in the sense of self-protection. This is a very interesting aspect of fear, which is physical fear, but just now I was talking to you about a fear that is the fear that makes us suffer the most, which is psychological fear. People suffer psychologically from fear. Fear is something present when the sense of the “thinker,” which is the “I,” which is the ego, is producing, in thought, imaginations and images that frighten you, that terrify you.

So, the presence of fear is the fearful one! The presence of this fearful person is the presence of fear; it doesn't separate. We cannot separate fear from the fearful one. If there is fear, it is because there is this “I,” this “someone” in fear. And here it is psychologically, because at the moment of physical danger there is no such interval to suffer from fear, there is immediate action. So, we don't talk about this fear, natural, biological, physical, that arises in front of a danger, and that is not the human problem.

The human problem, in terms of anxiety, anguish, depression, guilt, the pain of loneliness, worry, and fear of an illness, is all in thought. It is thought that produces these images of losses in relation to this situation. But when thought is, there is that thinker; when fear is there, there is this fearful one, and that is the existence of fear. Without the sense of an “I,” which is the ego, producing thoughts relating to that given situation, there is no fear.

People ask, “How to deal with fear?” It’s a wrong question. The real question here would be “how to deal with the ‘I’?” because the “I” is the root cause, the root reason for fear. The basic question would be “how to deal with this ‘me’?”, “how to deal with this thought?”, because it is this thought, supported by this “I,” that sustains fear.

So, there is no fear without the fearful one and there is no fear without thought. This thought appears and separates itself from this “thinker,” it is like two things fighting each other, fighting each other. That “I” wanting to win, that “I” wanting to get away, that “I” wanting to do something with that thought. If this is present, what is present is the expansion of this psychological condition of the “I,” which is fear itself, and of fear, which is the “I” itself. So, this movement of resistance, struggle, conflict, in this duality “I and not I” – and here the “not I” is thought: it could be a thought about the wife, about the children, the boss, illness, about old age, a thought... What seems to be the cause of fear, this resistance, this struggle, is the conflict of fear, the suffering of fear, it is what sustains the identity of the “I” in this fear.

Thus, Gilson, the human being spends his entire life, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty years, lives and dies in fear. And they are not “with fear,” they are “in fear,” because they are fear. In the “I,” you are the fear. There is no way you can get rid of fear, because you are the “I,” unless you investigate the nature of that “I” and understand, thereby, the nature of fear and getting rid of both, which is fear and the “I.” Otherwise, everything will continue in the same way.

GC: Master, given the context of this topic, we have a question here from Maria Verônica about the issue of suffering. She asks: “Do I have to get out of suffering alone?” She asks another question: “Do I need to overcome myself through love and patience? Can you tell me something?”

MG: Here, it is to understand the nature and structure of this “I.” When you say: “I have to overcome myself,” who overcomes who? Who is this “I” that can be defeated? And by whom? It’s not about overcoming oneself to get rid of suffering, it’s about understanding what this suffering is, Gilson. The understanding of that suffering is not the understanding of what suffering is. When we understand what makes us suffer, it does not free us from this suffering. Intellectual understanding, logical understanding of this matter of suffering is just an intellectual thing. We can walk the path of analysis, the path of research, the path of this understanding, to see what makes us suffer, and what makes us suffer can be understood intellectually, but we are missing the fundamental point. And the fundamental point is: who is this who suffers?

First and foremost, it is important that we understand suffering. And the understanding of suffering is not the understanding of what makes us suffer, but it is the understanding of this “I” that is located in this suffering, producing this psychological condition. There is no suffering, Gilson, without the sufferer. It is this sufferer who sustains the condition of suffering. This suffering feeds the sufferer. This sufferer feeds on suffering. So, it may seem that we want to get rid of suffering, but without investigating what suffering is, what the sufferer is, actually we are accommodated to this suffering condition, we are conformed to this suffering condition. We are not aware of how much we, psychologically, value a “person” here, which is this “I,” in this experience of suffering.

We need to eradicate all suffering from ourselves. Getting rid of it requires getting rid of that “I.” So, we have to look at the nature of that sufferer. And when we look very closely at the internal movement of thought in us, we discover what is sustaining this sufferer: there are images, recollections, remembrances, it is always this. All the images, remembrances, and recollections, which are thoughts that you have of that “someone” who suffers, that are what sustains that sufferer, what that sustains this suffering, what nourishes this “I”!

So, we have to get rid of the illusion of this movement of thought that comes from the past and place “us” – this “me,” this “I” – within this condition of an image that is suffering, that is being abandoned, rejected, criticized, which is not being accepted. We just have to become aware that this is a thought we have about who we are. This movement of thought requires a thinker for it to have continuity, and if it has continuity, that sufferer will continue to suffer. So, it is not about overcoming, it is about verifying the illusion of this “I” that suffers, and verifying this requires understanding that it is the very thought about some present situation, in this very personal story of the “I,” that is producing suffering.

As with fear, suffering does not exist on its own, it is always “from” something: “I suffer from abandonment,” “I suffer from rejection,” “I suffer from non-recognition,” “I suffer from not being loved,” “I suffer because I was rejected,” “I suffer because I was despised,” “I suffer because I compare myself with someone who has more than this ‘me’, which is envy.”

So, this “me,” this “I,” always suffers in a relationship with something. So, this suffering can have different names, but it is always in this involvement of this “I” with something. Envy is like that, jealousy is like that, sense of rejection is like that, every form of suffering, everything that causes you anxiety... What is this anxiety? It is the sense of an “I” in fear of a future.

So, we live trapped in this psychological condition of “I” and if this is not seen... The path to this is direct observation, which I call Real or True Self-Awareness. Without this True Self-Awareness, we do not have an approach of this look to what this “I” is and what this “I” represents in this condition that makes it suffer.

This is very interesting, how much the ego has invested in this continuity, both fear and suffering, to stay alive. And it will not be possible to get rid of this without an investigation of this structure, this nature, this truth about this “I.” Without the observation of what it represents, there will be no end to this “I,” to this ego, and therefore no end to fear, no end to suffering. However, when you assume that you are living life at that moment and whatever it is presenting to you, without putting a sense of someone present with a self-image to protect, to safeguard, to resist this movement, we have a real approach to True Meditation, the True Self-Awareness, True Recognition that there is something outside of this “I.”

So, this requires work, work on oneself, which, in general, people are not interested in doing. A few are already being called and touched for this important issue of Awakening of the Truth of your Being, which is the end of fear, which is the end of suffering.

GC: Master, talking a little more about suffering, specifically, there is, as Master said, this psychological fear and this suffering. Where does it come in, Master, what is also called suffering when there is a physical pain of this body-structure, which is also called suffering?

MG: Yes. Gilson, physical pain is very punctual and it is connected to the body. The body does not know suffering, the mind knows suffering. The body knows pain and pleasure. Your foot knows no suffering, your arm knows no suffering, your nose knows no suffering, it knows pain. Our body knows pleasure and pain. Now, if your arm is hurting and you're suffering, that’s another thing; if the body is sick and you are suffering, that is something else, because it is the sick body, it is the body enduring fragility, weakness, pain, and you internalize an identity present in that body, in that arm, in that leg, in that pain. That is suffering, but it is the suffering of the “I,” it has nothing to do with the body.

Gilson, the body feels hungry, the body feels thirsty, cold, hot, pleasure, and pain, the rest are all on that “me,” that “I.” This “I” lives in internal frames of unhappiness. This is suffering. It has nothing to do with what the body is going through. If you realize What you are, you disidentify yourself from the body, and disidentifying yourself from the body is not freedom from the pain that the body represents. The body will represent pain as long as it is functioning. It will always represent pain. Pain is a defense, self-protection mechanism and signals that something is wrong with that part of the body. It has nothing to do with suffering, it’s a neurophysiological thing. Body pain is a warning sign of attention and care that it is asking for.

When you feel hungry, it’s not you feeling hungry, it’s the body asking for food, it has nothing to do with you. In deep sleep, you have no body to feel the pain of being sick. A terminally ill person doesn't worry about dying while in deep sleep. When he or she wakes up and sees his or her body connected to devices and the thought of having to leave everything now in death, then it scares him or her. This is suffering. So, fear is psychological. Fear is in the mind, not in the body. The body has a very natural survival reactive response. It reacts, It tries to defend itself, it tries to protect itself, and it even reacts, producing pain and calling attention, saying: “Look, there is something wrong here.” That’s the sign of pain, a toothache, a pain in the foot, a pain in the arm...

Now, look at the human situation: a toothache makes you depressed, a pain in your big toe makes you depressed. This is suffering. It has nothing to do with the pain in the big toe or the toothache, it has to do with your inner psychological state, of the “I,” which is being forbidden to do something that you would like to do and cannot do, as you are unable to do because of toothache; or you are struggling, resisting the experience of pain in your big toe, and that is suffering.

Let’s not confuse this. Here, the proposal is to go beyond suffering, which is to go beyond the “I.” The body issue, no. The body has its beginning, middle, and end. From the very beginning, it’s been in a complicated situation, but you are not the body. Now, if you are identified with the body, a weakness, a disease in the body... if you are identified with the body, the illusion is that you are sick. We have to realize the Truth of That which we are. When there is no body, there is no mind and there is no world. This Realization is your Natural State of Happiness, Being, Consciousness, it is the Truth of What You Are, outside of that dream where everything has an expiration date. Everything appears, remains for a while and disappears. Everything is like that, everything that begins ends. And in this phenomenal world, the world of dreams, which is the world of these so-called “relationships” with the experiences of the senses, all of this is part of, all of this is part of a great game of appearance and disappearance.

So, in this game of appearance and disappearance, we always have duality. The positive/negative duality, being born or dying, health and illness, the new and the old. This duality or this dualism is part of this dream of the world, where everything has an expiration date, has a deadline, has a beginning and will end. Everything here appears in time and disappears in time.

The Reality of your Being is not in time and it is not in that dream of the world, although that dream of the world is an apparition in that Mystery, which is the Mystery of Divine Consciousness, which is the Mystery of the Truth of your Being, which is God. Was it clear there? Suffering is one thing; pain is another thing. This pain is a pain that is part of this apparition. Now, you can actually stop suffering, because it is not the nature of the Truth of your Being to suffer. So, this suffering is optional. Once the illusion of this sufferer is seen, it becomes clear that it is very stupid to have this option of suffering in this life of “I.” Then, that option itself also disappears when that Realization is present.

GC: At this point that Master just touched on, I realize that, within this journey of studies, much is said about illusion: the illusion of this, the illusion of that... and when it is said about suffering or about fear. And the Master also brings this reality that fear is an illusion of that “I” itself. Within True Meditation, the Master says that we have to approach, in the sense of seeing what appears. For example, if there is fear here, in Gilson’s body-mind structure, it’s staying with fear. It’s no use for me to keep repeating “no, this is an illusion, this is an illusion.” This is not the practice, is it, Master? It’s simply not separating yourself from the experience, right?

MG: That separation from experience is the presence of the experiencer. That’s what we've been doing all these years of life and it’s a cultural, psychological conditioning thing, as I've been calling it. Human beings have been trying to overcome fear for millennia and, until today, they haven't won. For millennia he has been trying to overcome jealousy, and he has not won; envy, and he did not overcome. People take self-improvement courses, do different practices to improve themselves, to improve as people, but they cannot get rid of fear, they cannot get rid of envy, jealousy, violence, irritation, or annoyance, nor of concern. And why can't they, Gilson? Because they are always sustaining the experiencer within the experience. If you sustain the fearful one in fear, it continues. And to support the fearful one, you only need to show courage when what is present is fear.

It’s very weird! People say to each other: “Have courage!” People, understand this: if you are afraid, it is only fear that is present. It is not possible for someone in fear to show courage, because courage, based on fear, is fear in disguise. You disguise courage when you're actually trembling with fear. This is not the way of understanding fear. Notice, it’s not getting rid of fear. In the ego, we want to get rid of what we don't like: fear, jealousy, envy, the desire that makes us suffer... everything we don't like, we want to get rid of. That is the idea in the ego. And we want to get rid of it by resisting, fighting, trying to throw it away. What is pleasurable we want to cultivate, we want to hold. This movement, both holding on to what is pleasant and letting go of what is painful, sustains the “I.” So, this “I” is the one in us that sustains, over millennia, fear, envy, and jealousy, because that same “I” is sustaining pleasure, satisfaction, fulfillment, and accomplishment.

So here, what I have been saying is: look without the “I.” Feel – sounds strange and crazy – feel without the feeler. Watch... watch without the watcher, observe without the observer, without the watcher. That thought is there, don't put a thinker in that thought. And how do we do that, Gilson? I'll give you an example with a thought, which is very simple. This goes for feeling, for emotion or for a sensation, which is something that is arising here in this “I.” You see, it has nothing to do with the external. That’s the whole problem too: we believe it’s something outside that is creating it. Abandon it! Watch and you will see that it is coming from your own egoic mind, your own “I,” your own movement of memory. How do we deal with thinking? It is neither accepting nor rejecting. We neither say “yes” nor say “no,” we just look. If it is a feeling, which we are calling fear, this has a representation in the body, it can create something in the body, and you just experience it, approach it, without resisting, without fighting, without attacking that sensation, that emotion, that feeling, without rejecting it, also without getting confused with it, without victimizing yourself, without creating ideas.

So, this requires, Gilson, a work on oneself, a certain amount of attention, which I call Full Attention on oneself, here and now. That is possible, yes, when you stop blaming the external or something as being the cause of it, which is what we have been doing.

So, Gilson, what’s been the problem? The problem is that we always believe that it is something outside that is creating fear, that is creating annoyance, that is bothering us, that is making us sad. It’s always something outside: it’s him, her, that situation, that other situation... And we always have this “little me” here to try to get rid of him, her, that situation, and we believe that, freed from that, we will be free from suffering ... free from suffering, free from fear, free from that situation, while in reality the situation is inside: it is the sense of an “I,” the illusion of an ego-identity sustained by thought itself, with pictures, with images , which, when presented, we reject; with feelings, with emotions, which, when they present themselves, we are always trying to fight against. And that only does one thing, Gilson: to strengthen the sense of ego, giving identity to what has no identity. The “I” has no identity and neither does fear, nor suffering, nor anger, resentment, guilt, regret, loneliness, this present pain, depression, anguish, none of that has an identity, unless that “I” puts identity into it. Then things get complicated, and that’s what we've been doing.

GC: Master, thank you very much! Thanks for this videocast! We've reached the end; our time is over. Here is the invitation: whoever feels something and has an internal desire to delve deeper into this self-investigation, the Satsangs – which are weekend intensive meetings with Master, both online and face-to-face – are a Grace for this self-investigation. And also leave your “like,” leave the comment, that helps the channel. Master, gratitude for this chat. Thank you very much!

MG: Okay, everyone. See you soon!

July, 2023
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Kundalini Awakening is the Awakening. Turiya, the fourth state. Advaita Vedanta | Real Consciousness

What is Kundalini? Folks, Kundalini is the Reality of the Presence of Consciousness in you. We are in a state of unconsciousness, the common state of human beings is the egoic consciousness, mental consciousness. This is not Real Consciousness. Real Consciousness is when the Truth of your Being flourishes. Your Being, this Consciousness, is That which the Sages have called It Kundalini. This has been dealt with for millennia by those who have realized the Truth beyond this condition of egoic consciousness, mental consciousness.

The human being is in a state of sleep. In this state of sleep, he is dreaming. What we call common consciousness, this waking consciousness, is the dream state that we have. Realize how interesting this is: at night you have a dream and while dreaming you never question whether what you are living or experiencing is real. If you stumble upon a stone in a dream, you will fall; the dream stone is like a stone that we know here and now, in the waking state. If you are thirsty in the dream and drink water, the water will quench your thirst; the thirst of the dream, a dream water solves. The contact with the world in the dream is very real for the one who is dreaming, so the dreamer, the one who is in the dream, does not know that he is dreaming, he sees very strange things happening, but he never questions whether that is a dream or rarely doubt that state is just a dream. Thus, in this waking state, we are in contact with the world and seeing the world also from a dream, which is this consciousness that we know, this mental consciousness. So, our common state of sleep, of unconsciousness, is dreamlike.

What is Kundalini Awakening? It is the Awakening of this dream, of this dream of body, mind and world, this is Kundalini Awakening. It’s not a mystical, esoteric experience, so-called “spiritual,” where you have some sensations in the body and a way of perceiving this life a little differently – in fact, this dream. All of this is still just an experience within a dream. I have heard reports about so-called “Kundalini awakening,” so people say: “When my Kundalini awakened,” “When my Kundalini awakening happened, it happened this and that.” Here we are working with you on the Truth of this Revelation of your Being, the Awakening of Consciousness. That Consciousness is really Kundalini, but when It Awakens, you are not left to report something as personal as that.

“When ‘my’ Kundalini awakened,” “Ah, ‘my’ Kundalini awakened, and now?”, these are expressions of people who are having some psychological, physical experiences, these so-called “spiritual” or “mystical” experiences, and all this is still within the dream. The Realization of your Being, the Awakening of Consciousness, which is Kundalini Awakening, is the end of the dream. So, it’s not an experience, it’s the end of the sense of “someone” within some kind of experience. Every experience occurs to an experiencer – follow this – and it is that experiencer who reports that experience, and every experience is always in the past; the illusion is that this experiencer is here and now relating something he has experienced. The truth is that what was lived in the past is a memory here and now. This idea of ​​this experiencer who went through that, this idea that he is here, is still a thought. What we have here, as an experience, is a remembrance, it’s a memory. So, when someone says: “I went through this,” “I lived this,” “I felt this,” what we have in these expressions is a thought being put, loaded with an illusion, an illusion that there is an “I” present that went through that. What we have here is just the memory of an image, a remembrance, a recollection. What we have here is a memory. There is no experiencer here in that experience. As an experience, it’s something from the past, it’s gone, it’s something that was recorded in memory and that, as a thought, as an imagination, as an image, as an idea, as a memory, arose here and now.

We have to investigate the illusory nature of the “I,” only then will we understand the Truth of Awakening of Consciousness, which is Kundalini Awakening. That Kundalini Awakening, which is the Awakening of Consciousness, is the end of that “I” and therefore it is the end of that experiencer. And if there is no experiencer, experience has no reality. Experience is something you've been through and you're always reporting; this “you” is an imagination. Let me repeat this to make it clearer: every memory here and now of a past experience is just a memory here, at this moment; the idea of ​​“someone” here, at that moment, reporting something they went through is an imagination, it is a belief, this is still part of thinking. There is no such sense of present “I.” Life is something that is happening here and now. This present sense of “I” is the one that is imagining its world. That sense of “I” is the one that is here, imagining its past, imagining its experiences, imagining the idea of ​​Spiritual Awakening, Kundalini Awakening or of Kundalini experience.

Reality is life as it happens here and now. How this “I,” the idea of ​​"someone” present, is seeing this, from thought, which is from the past, which is from experience, is within the dream. Realize what we are saying: actually, on the Awakening of your Being, which is the Awakening of Consciousness, which is Kundalini Awakening, this psychological time does not remain. This is something that will become a little clearer for you now – here I am referring to the psychological time.

What is this psychological time? The idea of ​​“someone” present here and now, is an idea, we take it for granted, but what we have about who we are, are just remembrances, memories, recollections, past experiences and, therefore, they are part of this idea of present, past, and future. The idea of ​​“someone” here consists only of memories, something that comes from the past, and that past is nothing but recollections, remembrances, and memories. The experiences people go through and can report are experiences, which are just remembrances, memories, they have no other reality than the reality of psychological time, of their imagination; that is not here and now, that is just in thought, just in imagination, and that is psychological time. There is no truth outside this instant, it is always in relation to something that happened and is being remembered – “when did it happen?”, “when did it occur?” Another point is: “being remembered when?” Everything is happening now. Remembering that memory, that recollection, that so-called “past” can only be possible now. So, we are always inside that psychological prison, that time created by thought, created by memory, created by recollections and imagination. So, when someone says: “I had a Kundalini experience,” “When my Kundalini awakened,” he put it in time, he is talking about a time. And what time is that? It is the psychological time, which is the time of thought, which is the time of this “I,” which is the time of imagination.

There is no reality in Kundalini within time. Kundalini as Consciousness is a Reality present here and now. If That is present, it is not an experience, there is no “I,” there is no “someone.” This body-mind, this mechanism is under a new and unknown energy, outside this element that is this “I,” that lives in this dream, the dream of a separate entity living now, that had experiences yesterday because it was there yesterday and will be somewhere else tomorrow. This idea of ​​"I was,” “I am,” and “I will be” is within this sense of ego-identity. The Awakening of Consciousness, which is the Awakening of your Being – and this is the Truth of Kundalini –, psychological time is seen as just an illusion, because there is no such “I.” When there is no such “I,” there is no longer this past, this present and this future, this “I was,” “I am” and “I will be,” there is no longer this “awakening tomorrow,” there is no such “I woke up yesterday.” The only Reality present is the presence of the Truth of your Being here and now, that is Consciousness.

Our work here consists of this approach to the Truth and this recognition of this illusion, this world of the “I,” this dream of the “I,” this illusion of the “I.” If this disappears, thought is seen only as it is: a memory, a recollection, an image, but you don't have that “I.” This is the Awakening of your Being, Kundalini Awakening, the Awakening of that dream, which is the dream of the “I,” where this world is being experienced, described, and reported.

So, in this dream state that you have at night, as well as in this waking state, you, in this present “I” sense, are sleeping, going through different experiences, remembering these experiences and reporting these experiences as if that was real to this “I.” And one of those experiences can, of course, be a mystical experience, a memory of something you've experienced. But who is this “I” that lived it? This is all within the dream. Do you understand that?

When the Awakening of the Divine Truth, the Reality of God, takes over this body-mind, when this energy, which is the energy of the Presence, of Consciousness, takes over this body, when It awakens here in this organism, in this mechanism, the Kundalini Awakening occurs. This is the end of the dream, of this world, of this “I,” of this experiencer, of this thinker, of this observer, of these experiences, of these images, of these beliefs. It’s the end of it all. It’s life being seen from that new Indescribable space, which is Consciousness, that’s Kundalini Awakening.

A work is processed in this body, in this mechanism and makes This possible. And the work takes place due to an approach to Self-awareness and the direct contact with True Meditation in an experiential, practical way, here and now – here on the channel we have a playlist about this approach to Self-awareness and the True Meditation in practice, experiential. Then, a change occurs in this mechanism, in this body, in this mind, and even and especially in the brain itself, in the brain cells, so that this Awakening of Consciousness takes over this body-mind and the end of this dream or the dreamer’s illusion occurs. That is the end of an identity present in that past experience. Life is something happening now. Without the experiencer’s illusion, there is no experience, what we have present is Something new, and that Something new is experiencing life here and now, without the sense of an “I.”

The expression in India for this Natural State of Awakened Consciousness is Advaita, the state where there is only the “one without the second,” this is straight from Advaita Vedanta. The view of the Sages for millennia is exactly this: there is only one present Reality, the Reality of the one without the second, and that Reality is the Reality of God. God is the only present Reality. When He is present, the dream is there, but it is not the dream of “someone,” it is not this particular dream of this “I,” this separate identity in this mystery that is life, in this thing beyond all description, experienced outside this sense of “I,” of the ego. Everything is one big Divine game, one big Divine dream. But here we are no longer dealing with that dream as the ego knows it, within that sense of separation, a dream laden with fear, desires, anxiety, worries, problems, egocentrism, and all forms of psychological unhappiness, within the illusion of duality.

Here we are before Something new. This energy of Presence, of Consciousness takes over this body-mind, and even this brain when Kundalini Awakening occurs. It is the end of the dream of the body, of the mind, of the world, of a separate “I,” for a full, complete life, for a Real life, beyond birth and death, beyond the waking state, dreaming, and deep sleep. This has also been called by the Sages Turiya, the fourth state. A fourth state possible for human beings is this Natural State of Non-Separation, of Non-Duality called Advaita. That Natural Divine State is the State of Being-Consciousness-Bliss, that is the Real Kundalini Awakening. Everything else that can be reported, described, explained, and put in the format of an experience that “someone” lived or “someone” living, is something outside of Reality, something still within the dream, of this dream of the “I,” of this dream of the ego, still within this illusion.

This is one of the subjects here on our channel. We have a playlist about it, about this Kundalini Awakening, about this approach to true Meditation, Real Meditation and the importance of Self-awareness within this context. OK? If this is something that makes sense to you, I want to invite you to “like” and subscribe to the channel. We have online meetings, face-to-face meetings, and also retreats. Here in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp group. If this is something that makes sense to you, join our group and let’s work on it together. OK?

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July, 2023
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Conditioned mind | The psychological conditioning | Approach True Meditation | Religious life

Alright! When we deal with you about this Truth of God’s Revelation, it is necessary a new approach. We cannot approach This with that ancient, old condition, with that pattern, that model of thinking we have. Here we face the need for an approach through Meditation.

Our brains are within a conditioned working pattern; we have a trained mind. This brain in us works with a model of knowledge and conditioned experience; we lived something in the past, and we are repeating that continuously, constantly; thus, an approach to the Truth of God is impossible since God is Something new, unknown, out of this mental time, this psychological condition in which we live.

It is not possible to have an approach to that Reality which is God – the Real Truth, the Divine Reality, What is beyond all names, all forms, What remains a great mystery naturally unfathomable by thought, once thought is part of all we know – we cannot approach This from that old condition. That requires a new brain, a quiet and silent brain.

So, we will work with you here and now, the next few minutes, on what this approach to that Truth is – the Truth of God. The human being is looking for something beyond this condition, which is the common condition in all of us, where our model of behavior, that is, our thinking, feeling, and acting, consists of mere reactions, something coming from the past, from that background of memory, knowledge, remembrances, and experiences, and that fits very well into this known world. Then, our responses are all within that pattern in the world, in life, responses centered on this “I.” It is the center of knowledge, thought, and experience.

The human being has been looking for something outside this “I,” this known, for millennia, and this encounter with Reality requires this “I” to disappear. This “I” is the sense of identity present here in this experience of life, of living. This “I,” as I have just put it, is the center around which thoughts, feelings, emotions, and actions revolve, and all of them are always based on past experiences, on stored thoughts, which are memories and acquired knowledge.

This “I” is an illusion within the context of living. Thus, our life centered on this “I” is within this egocentrism, this model, this very personal and particular pattern of behavior, which represents a whole internal mental conditioning we have, we bring, and this is part of the egoic mind in us, of the psychological conditioning within each one of us.

An approach to the Truth of What is outside of all this – and this is what human beings have been looking for, for millennia because they are bored, tired, exhausted from a life centered on this “I” and, therefore, suffering – this encounter with Reality requires a new approach, this new approach requires a new brain, a quiet, silent brain, capable of perceiving the Reality of the present moment without reacting with that background, with that “I,” from that center with its remembrances, memories, experiences, and knowledge.

Here we show you that it is possible for a brain capable of responding to this moment in an entirely different way than we have responded so far. Our responses at that moment always base on thoughts, experiences, and knowledge conditioned in that brain.

Life is what is happening now; there is no sense of this “I,” and yet this “I” is all the time interfering, responding from these memory reactions through the brain by thought, so our responses, based on this thinking, are born from these reactions of the brain itself, which are responses of this “I” to that instant, to that present moment.

We do not have contact with the Reality of What we are outside that “I” with which we mistake ourselves for and identify with. So, the brain needs to go through a profound transformation, a profound change; the brain needs to be quiet, silent, not moving into that reaction from the background of conditioning. We need that Meditation. And here, Meditation is an approach that needs to be Real; we come closer to the Truth of Meditation; we approach this moment with the Truth. The Truth of Meditation requires a quiet brain. How can we realize This? How can we become aware of this Divine Truth, having contact with this present moment without this brain reaction pattern from that illusory center, which is the “I,” making use of this thought pattern, and also feeling and emotions reacting to this instant? How does this become possible?

Here we face the challenge of observing the movement of these reactions before they assume this repetition, this continuity. We look at this thought movement, feeling, emotions, and actions. For example, speaking is an action, and listening as well, as we respond to a sensation; this form of response is also an action. When we become aware of this inner movement within each of us – when the mind becomes aware of its own movement, here and now, the words we use, the gestures we make, the thoughts that arise, and the sensations we have. Being aware of this, becoming present here and now, just observing what is going on inside each one of us, and also externally, without reacting, at that moment the brain quiets down, becomes silent, then a new space appears in this brain, it is quiet now, by direct and simple observation of the reactive movement in it.

Your seeking or attempting to respond in a mechanical, automatic, unconscious way is now something you see and, when you see it, the brain quiets down; and when it quiets down, the mind is aware of itself, its own movement, that is an approach to the True Meditation. That key that opens the door to the Revelation of the Truth of God here and now, which is the Truth of your Being, your Real Nature, consists in the True Meditation; this is something practical, as I have been saying, it is here and now.

It is not about meditation practice, but rather True Meditation happening now, that is, in a practical way, at this instant. So, we are aware of Something outside thought, experience, knowledge, memory, and reaction outside this “I,” because the brain is still, there is silence, a natural silence. Within that silence and stillness, Something outside the “I, the ego,” reveals itself. Thus, Truth shows itself. The Truth is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God.

People use expressions like, for example, “spirituality,” and for them, spirituality consists of practices, “religious practices.” These two interesting words people use without the slightest understanding of deep, real meaning for them. We trivialize these two words. One is “spirituality,” the truth of spirituality, and the other is “religion.” For many, religious practice is the practice of rituals, ceremonies, and attending places where people sing and listen to sacred texts explained, uttered. The word “spirituality” is also linked to rituals and ceremonies. There is an adjustment to the standardization of superficial reverence and worship, even in religious principles. Here, the meaning of that word, as we put it, is something a little different.

Real Spirituality is the Truth of your Being that blossoms. When your Being blossoms, which is the Being of God, the Divine Truth, this is True Religion. It is not a mystical, esoteric, ritualistic practice; it is this Real Divine Truth revealing itself, a profoundly religious life. So, the True Religion, the True Spirituality, is in the Revelation of the Divine Truth, the Truth of God, the Truth of your Being. When your Being reveals itself, that is a religious life, real spiritual life, where there is Real Spirituality. But this is something quite Real; it does not have the veneer or appearance of life with religious practices; here, it is about Something very real.

Real spirituality, Real religious life is Being Natural, a life aware of the Reality of the unique, singular, exclusive Truth that there is only God. And when there is only God, there is no fear, no suffering, no envy, no disputes, no conflicts that, in general, occur due to disagreements, as occurs within this so-called “religiosity” or “formal religion,” where people dispute, argue, enter into endless discussions about doctrines, dogmas, where there is this dogmatism, this struggle, all this difference between this idea of God, “my God” and “your God.” None of that is Real when there is that Truth, which is the Truth of your Being, the Truth of God, that unique Reality present; that’s the end of all this confusion.

So, it is not about dogmas, practices, rituals, or ceremonies; it is about the Revelation of your Being when this Meditation blossoms, when Silence, Stillness, and the Beauty of the Divine Truth show themselves. This is present when the sense of “I,” of the ego, of that sense of separateness is no longer present, and not all this confusion that has constituted our lives in this illusory vision, in this sense of separation. This is the Realization of God, the Awakening of Consciousness, and Spiritual Enlightenment. Your Natural Divine State reveals itself when a new brain, a new heart, that touch of Reality, which is the end of egocentrism, of fear, desire, and all the confusion that this background of psychological conditioning we have inherited from society, the world, and culture disappear.

Meditation is the emptying of all that inner psychological content of conditioning. The end of this “I” is the end of this thought, feeling, and action of this brain that reacts within this pattern, so a new brain and a new heart are present. The Divine Truth reveals itself here and now.

Here, on the channel, we are talking to you – and also in face-to-face and online meetings – about the beauty of this approach to True Meditation in a practical, experiential way, here and now, the awareness of the entire movement of conditioning, the emptying of all this conditioning, all this psychological content, then What is Real, which is the Truth of your Being, blossoms, and this is the Divine Truth. The basis for this consists of an approach to yourself, an investigation of what has been this chaotic, conflicted, and suffering movement of this illusory identity that is the ego. Ok?

That is our purpose here within this channel. Ok? If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. I always want to remind you: we have online, face-to-face meetings, and retreats, too. And if this makes sense, we have our WhatsApp group in the video description, and you can approach and work on it. Ok?

Thanks for the meeting, and see you at the next one!

July, 2023
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