Why meditate? | The Meaning of Meditation | Mental consciousness | Kundalini Awakening

What is the meaning of Meditation? What is this “why” of Meditation? I wouldn't say why meditating, but rather the why of Meditation.

The idea is you in meditation. You all here know the meaning of the word “meditation.” Some employ this term to meditate on something or for a purpose, to receive something, gain or get rid of something, and there is meditation in the sense, still, of gaining, reaching, or getting there to obtain peace, silence, and quietness. So we all, in general, already know the meaning of the word “meditate” – at least we have a sense for it.

I want to work with you on what I consider to be the Real Meaning of Meditation. It is not you meditating to achieve something, but rather the understanding that True Meditation, Real Meditation, the meaning of Meditation – I refer to the Truth about Meditation – is not you meditating; it is Meditation without you. Let us work on that a bit here.

What is Meditation? What is the real meaning? What is the “why” of Meditation? Where does the entire problem arise for us? We see Meditation as a mechanism or a tool to get something and, in a positive way, accomplish something, and in a negative way, get rid of something. So, people live their meditation practices to have experiences. What are these experiences? You never say: “I'm going to experience being here,” you always say: “I lived this, I went through this, I felt this, this happened” when referring to experience. Thus, where are all experiences always? In the past. Okay?

So, for us, the search for experience is to undergo something, and once that has taken place, it is in the past. We always talk about it as an experience. Then, I would like to draw your attention to one point here. Whatever you experience is part of an experience for “someone” who can report it here and now. Every experience, at whatever level it occurs in your life, however profound, expressive, meaningful, mystical, esoteric, spiritual, or religious, every experience was, and what you have here and now is the memory.

What is Meditation? What is the real meaning of Meditation? First of all, it does not occur to you, which would represent an experience you could then relate to. Now, understand where we want to get to – human beings live boring, distressed, afflicted, frightened, fearful lives; their actions are driven by desire, envy, and fear, and, tired of that, they want new experiences to see if they can find meaning to their lives, and so go in search of this so-called “experience” because for them the purpose of the experience is fulfillment, satisfaction, the achievement of something new since they are tired of this ancient, old condition of theirs. Now, would that be the purpose of Meditation?

So, people meditate to fulfill desires, de-stress, sleep better, and find silence; they even meditate to find God. What human beings are looking for is a new experience. That experience is what they go through and then report back. It is very curious the expressions we hear within spirituality, “My Kundalini has awakened,” and then comes the report: “I meditated, and Christ appeared to me.” All these expressions and formulations only reflect an experience that happened to “someone” who is now reporting it here.

Notice, what is Meditation? What is the meaning behind Meditation? I have already said something here: that when there is Real Meditation, no “someone” is left to report what they saw, felt, and perceived. We are together to discover something that when This arrives, you disappear. So, it is a discovery that is beyond your own understanding, and you cannot claim it as your own. Therefore, it cannot be considered an experience. This constant search or quest for experience on some level – on the spiritual, religious, mystical, or esoteric level – is just an experience. That experience is “someone” appropriating it to talk about it, report on it, write about it, tell about it, but it has gone. Every experience, at any level in your life, whether a positive experience, like a great insight or a great revelation, has no reality here and now. An experience will always occur to “someone” within it. You have to be there to be able to live the experience and then report on it.

When we talk about Meditation here, and Meditation is this encounter with Reality, free from the “I,” not “someone” meditating, experiencing, trying out; it is the Reality of the Truth of Being in this contact with the Totality of life, without the “I.” People use expressions like “trauma.” Trauma is an experience. Trauma is a painful experience we seek treatment for to get rid of this so-called “trauma,” but we don't consider it a mystical experience of being a trauma. We don't want to get rid of an esoteric occurrence. But who is this one who wants to sustain a mystical experience and get rid of trauma as an unpleasant and painful experience? It is always the sense of “I.”

So, our emphasis here is to show you that the Freedom present is the absence of this “me,” this “I,” this ego. It represents the end of the positive and the negative, of the spiritual “I” or the “I” in conflicts, suffering, dilemmas, and traumas, all based on the unfinished experience. If an experience ends, no “someone” is left there; then we do not have the experience. Notice where we want to go with you in this speech: Life is what happens now; there is no experience. We do not allow ourselves to live free from the experience because we always put “someone” inside it to deal with what happens here and now. Are you with me?

That is our only problem. It is not how to get rid of the trauma because everyone wants to get rid of traumas and some aspect of suffering, of psychological unhappiness. Everyone wants to get rid of psychological suffering and various forms of internal unhappiness; however, people do not want to get rid of a constant search or quest for fulfillment in new experiences, especially if these are to spiritualize them, make them better people, special people, and all of this is a game of the ego itself, of the very sense of an “I,” in its dissatisfaction, looking for something to be. To be is not to become. You cannot understand the Reality of Being by wanting, seeking, searching, and wanting to be. You can only understand the Reality of Being by being. And you are what you ARE when experience is no longer relevant. Thus, this search or quest for new experiences is always about sustaining “someone” in a constant search for new sensations. Get that.

Your ego, this “me,” is strengthened by experiences. When you cling to a thought model and achieve that, or believe you have accomplished it as you expected, you feel fulfilled again; psychologically, your ego is reinforced since it is a false idea that you have done it. It wasn't life happening; it was you making it happen. So, what is the Real meaning of Meditation? It is Being. It is not being, becoming, getting rid of “someone;” it is Being, and there is no “someone.” If I want to free myself from trauma, I want to free myself from “someone” who has been traumatized. If I want to find happiness, I have to falsify, to form “someone” to be happy in what I project as happiness. Then, it is neither getting rid of “someone” nor is it bringing “someone” to achieve, accomplish something, or become fulfilled in something. We are looking to get rid of that “someone,” that “me” that makes us suffer, but never that “someone” that makes us enjoy pleasure, living in this constant search for more and more fulfillment. To see this is to go beyond experience. Being beyond it is not “someone” outside and beyond it, but it is life showing itself as it is, in its Beauty, Grace, Silence, and Truth, remaining outside of time, and it is outside of time that you, as Absolute, Divine, Real Consciousness, are Life, and not the particular life of “someone,” it is the Life of God.

In these meetings, within this work, we are discovering the Divine Truth of our Essential Nature, which is not “someone” present living experiences, but moment-by-moment experiencing of what resides outside the “I,” outside the “me,” the ego. In our meetings, we are working on this with you. This Reality of Being is Kundalini. It is not the Kundalini of “someone” who has Awakened; it is the Presence of Consciousness. The word Kundalini is Consciousness, and not “someone” who awakens. Kundalini Awakening is the Awakening to the end of that “someone” who lives, seeks, and needs experiences. As the illusion of “someone” remains, there is no Truth of Absolute Consciousness. What you call “consciousness” as we know it, is being conscious. And you are only conscious of the experience. You are always conscious of an experience. A simple example: when you see a chair, you are conscious; this is an experience. And as the experience, psychologically in this consciousness, which I call mental consciousness, is only memory. That is what we call consciousness. If I ask you: Are you conscious? You say: “Yes.” But you are always conscious of something in which you are the subject, and that something is your experience. So, the experience always takes place in this being conscious.

You wake up in the morning and tell me about a dream; in that you are conscious, there is you and the world, you and your experiences, like here and now, there is the “I” and its experiences. So, where there are thoughts, memory, recollection, and an “I” that isolates itself from what it observes, what is present is this consciousness – I call it mental consciousness, the consciousness of the “I” or egoic consciousness. All our experiences occur at this level. That is the level of inattention. When there is Real Attention – and here I mean full attention of such absolute quality that the sense of “I” does not come in to appropriate an experience and turn it into a memory, into something from the past – this is that Real Consciousness, as I have been calling it, or the Truth of Being here and now. Without memory, without this “I” in the experience, the psychological time loses its relevance, and then there is the experiencing without the “I” experiencing.

Understanding the Truth of your Being, which is pure Consciousness, for living life moment by moment in experiencing. Then spiritual, esoteric, mystical, and religious experiences lose their importance when there is Real Meditation, which is Being Consciousness, Real Consciousness, which is your True Nature. So, neither getting rid of, achieving, or searching for something to have a fulfillment that supplants all these pains, sorrows, afflictions, and boredom that are our routine life. There is no more of that because life is happening now without the sense of “someone” who then has to get rid of something or who always wants to achieve something. Meditation is not about having peace, silence, or an unusual experience to relieve you of the stress, anxiety, routine, monotony, and confusion that your life is. Meditation has no such purpose. The real meaning of Meditation is the end of this “someone,” the recognition, the verification of the end of this mental consciousness, which is constantly transforming any experience into something personal and private and then remembering it.

Life is what is happening now and not for you. Life is an experiment without the “I” because only the experiment without the “I” is free from an experiencer. When there is no experiencer, experiencing is present. When there is no thinker, thought is free to be present very naturally without producing suffering, afflictions, desires, fears, and complications. What is the secret of thinking free from this “I” that is the thinker? Thinking is an existential phenomenon, like breathing. Living is a phenomenon; when the sense of an “I” is not present, it is just a phenomenon, an appearance. In life, there is living as a phenomenon; in life, thinking is a phenomenon, feeling is a phenomenon, dealing with work, or whatever is arising in your experience is no longer your experience; it is the experiencing of life because you are life as Pure Consciousness, as Real Consciousness. That’s the real meaning of why meditate, not the reason for meditating.

August, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | The Infinite Way | How to deal with human suffering? | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again Master Gualberto was willing to be here with us making a videocast, answering your questions and bringing comments about some of the readings from Joel Goldsmith that we do here.

Master, I'm going to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith’s main book, which is the book “The Infinite Way” and then I'm going to ask you a question. The excerpt is: “Spiritual Enlightenment enables us to discern Spiritual Truth when a merely human concept is presented to us. Spiritual Consciousness recognizes Truth in what appears as a concept.” Master, how to deal with these human concepts? How to deal with human suffering?

MG: The whole issue here is centered on a very basic point, Gilson: the illusory approach we have to what appears here, at this moment, as an experience we call suffering. What we have in life here and now, showing itself, is life as it presents itself to each of us. As it shows itself, it is naturally challenging. We don't understand this issue of suffering, because we don't approach this experience of life with a direct understanding of what it is, what it means. Thus, we are very personal in contact with the experience.

Human suffering is something very common to all of us, but despite being something common to all of us, there are different forms of suffering, and we go through all of them from birth to the end of our days.

In spite of all this, we are dealing with something so common to everyone which presents itself in life as part of this challenge – in this “life of ours” –, despite this, we do not understand the meaning of suffering, what suffering is, in reality. We don't have an understanding of it. At most, we have ideas to justify suffering, to try to escape suffering, or to condemn suffering. In fact, we condemn suffering, justify suffering, bringing explanations, precisely to escape suffering.

We don't have a direct understanding of what suffering is, we don't realize the meaning of this thing in our lives, of this challenge that is shown. So, what we interpret in life as suffering, on a personal level, is present because we don't understand the Truth about who we are.

So, our entire relationship with experience... if it displeases us or if it causes us some form of harm, our inclination is to suffer – to suffer this experience, to suffer with this experience. It is always the sense of an “I” present not liking, not wanting, rejecting and therefore condemning this situation that arises, or justifying this situation that arises. And we do that basically to escape suffering or to run away from suffering, and within all that, we don't understand what suffering is. The non-understanding of what suffering is maintains its continuity in our lives.

Here, in this work, which is a work for the Awakening of your Real Nature, of your Divine Nature, we are faced with the opportunity of the Awakening of the Divine Truth that we bring, of our Reality, which is the Reality of our own Being.

In this Being, in this Divine Truth that we are, there is no suffering, there is no contradiction, there are not these different types of suffering that we know, these different afflictions that we know in life, because there is no longer this sense of an “I” separating itself in this experience, this challenge, to confront, to fight, to reject , to justify, nor to seek to escape it. It is this sense of an “I” present within this experience – which implies not understanding what is happening here at this moment – ​​which means suffering, which represents suffering, which places us in this condition of someone present in this experience that we call suffering.

So, our attachment, for example, to ideas, beliefs, opinions, particular judgments, all of this shows up in our life as forms of suffering. The rejection of what is being shown here puts us in a condition of suffering. The non-acceptance, the non-understanding of what this is, what this is showing itself to be, this sense of someone to evaluate this, to judge this, to reject this, to fight against this, is the sense of the ego, it is the sense of a present “I,” and this is what sustains suffering.

So, not understanding what we are in that experience keeps us in that condition of a sufferer, and if that sufferer is present, that experience will be the experience of suffering.

It is always the sense of an “I” present in the experience, separating itself from the experience and clashing with it, that sustains this “I,” this sufferer and therefore the suffering. To investigate this is to approach and verify the illusion of this “I,” and to let go of this “I” is, in reality, to let go of suffering.

Suffering ends. It ends when that sense of an “I” is not present within that experience, which is desire, the clinging, the fear, the search for some form of recognition, of gratification. This experience with this present “I” means suffering. When that sense of “I” is not there, that experience dissolves, that illusion is gone. This is how we have an end to the illusion of suffering: by having an end to the illusion of this “I,” this ego, this sufferer.

So, we have to inquire into the nature of this “I,” this ego. This is what sustains suffering, because it maintains the illusion of separation and the lack of a clear vision that life is as it is. And it’s always this sense of “I” behind it, wanting to do something against it, causing conflict; therefore, causing suffering. That’s it.

GC: Master, it’s interesting, as you just said – and I also remember in a Satsang where you had commented –, how this naughtiness of the ego... it disguises a great pain with pleasure. Master, I recently realized this in myself: something that gave me a lot of pleasure... now it’s very clear how, behind that pleasure, there is an enormous pain, a dependency. It’s incredible how this naughtiness, as I say, this naughtiness of the ego, camouflages itself in joy or pleasure, camouflaging a pain. Could you talk a little more about that?

MG: The point, Gilson, is that we don't have a real approach to the experience. We do not allow ourselves a direct approach of what is shown here. Because we don't have an approach, because we don't have a simple mind to deal with the situation, we are always interpreting the experience, this situation, in a very particular, very personal way. This gives us a complex mind. This complex mind does not allow us to approach the experience in a direct way. We need a simple mind to approach experience and discern, in that experience, what it represents to this “I.”

The presence of this complex mind, which is exactly this “I,” this ego, does not allow us to perceive that, behind this or that experience, which we consider a harmless experience, what is present is the sense of an “I” cultivating some form of pain, that it is only a matter of time for it to reveal itself as suffering, even if at that moment it appears as a source of pleasure, as a source satisfaction or fulfillment.

Note: this search for pleasure, this search for fulfillment, this search for satisfaction of the “I,” is always, in this complex mind, a search for suffering. That’s what we don't realize, Gilson, in life: that all the movement of the “I,” of the ego, in us, in this contact with life as it shows itself, this movement of the “I” is always looking for some way of gratification, of satisfaction, of fulfillment, of pleasure – which is basically an unconscious search for some form of pain.

This is the other side of pleasure. Pleasure carries, on the other side, pain. Here, I refer to this psychological pleasure. This search for fulfillment of the “I” is a search for psychological pleasure. This search hides a pain behind it. This pain is suffering. This pain hides this suffering. It is curious to say this: this search for pleasure is, in fact, a search for suffering in an unconscious way. That pleasure-seeking is present because there is fear.

Look what we have here, which is quite curious: due to fear, the human being is looking for some kind of satisfaction, fulfillment, pleasure, and does not realize that, behind this search, what he is in fact looking for is the continuity of this “I.” And nothing works better to give continuity to this “I” than the hidden pain behind this search of an “I” that is always looking for something.

Putting it in a simpler way, Gilson: our ambition, our avidity, our search for achievement and success – to have, in that sense of an “I,” an importance and a social, cultural value, public recognition –, this whole pursuit is present, this whole search is present in us because of fear, and this is pushing us towards a search that, over time, will show itself to us as a form of suffering, as one or another form of suffering.

What I mean is that there is nothing out there that can really give you what you're looking for, because you don't know what you are really looking for. The human being, Gilson, is looking for Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness. But, in the egoic mind, he confuses It with fulfillment, with satisfaction, with pleasure and fulfillment on the outside, with worldly accomplishments. So, he is actually looking for suffering and not for Love, Truth, Peace, and Freedom, because This is something you realize here and now, exactly when you get rid of fear.

So, Gilson, we have to investigate this whole movement of the “I” in us, which is a movement that starts from fear towards pain, towards suffering. But we didn't investigate that. We spend our whole life, this life of the “I,” this life of the ego... in it, we are always following the model of culture, society and the world. Our worldly values, our human values, our values ​​that are common to all, are values ​​that we learn within this humanity.

So, we live within patterns of conditioning, behavior, because of all this propaganda, all this culture we receive, all this teaching we receive, this whole model, which is a common model for everyone. Having fame, having prestige, having money, having power, being accepted, being loved...all of this, in our egoic mind, is seen as the encounter with Happiness, the encounter with Freedom, with Peace, with Love. However, this is not true; it is exactly the encounter with suffering, with pain; it’s just a search for filling that end of fear present within that “I.”

So, that’s what we're working on here with you, working together on the vision of the Truth about What We Are, stripping ourselves of the illusion of that identity, which is the identity of the “I,” which is always in this condition of separation from life and therefore in that condition of fear and in that movement that we have just described. That’s it.

GC: Master, we have a question here from Maria Aparecida, which is within this theme of suffering. She made a comment on Master’s video, where she says: “This is amazing! As you said, this identification with the ‘I’ is to continue in suffering.” And then she asks the question: “What is the first step to stay always present here and now?”

MG: Our questions are very interesting. We want the first step. For us there is a second, a third and a fourth. Here, we are pointing you to something to be verified as something definitive. It’s not about taking a first step, a second step, a third step. Here, the definitive thing is to become aware of what suffering represents.

Notice that in her question it is implied that, in order to get rid of suffering, one has to be, one has to “be in the here and now.” So, the idea is to get rid of suffering.

In general, this is a very interesting aspect in our mind. Because of suffering, we want to get rid of it. This even seems plausible, reasonable. But wanting to get rid of suffering because suffering is present, that’s not enough, that doesn't work. And when we are looking for a method, a system – and, here, the system is “what is the first step to ’stay in the here and now'?” … Why that first step? In order to get rid of suffering.

When we don't see the nature of suffering, the structure of suffering, when we don't approach it, we don't understand what it represents, what it means. But even so, we want a method, a technique, a formula for getting rid of suffering, and that formula here is “staying in the here and now.”

What we have here and now is suffering. We can become aware of what suffering is, see that suffering is there because there is the illusion of an “I” in this confrontation with experience, fighting against it, rejecting it, judging it, wanting to get rid of it. This is what sustains suffering. This is present because of this “I” that suffers, this sufferer.

So, the Truth of the Presence of this Now reveals the end of suffering, but it is not this “I” here and now; it is the awareness of the illusion of this “I” showing itself here and now, separate from the experience that makes you suffer.

Notice how subtle all this is, Gilson, our model of escape (from this sense of an “I” present within this experience), for example, from fear, anguish, anxiety, depression, it doesn't matter. It is always the sense of a present “I” that, faced with the experience, which is painful, wants to do something exactly to get rid of it. When we do this, we are giving the illusion of that “I” a present identity, right now.

So, what is the beauty of an approach to the Truth about who we are? The beauty is that there comes the realization that there is an illusion of an “I” within this experience now, separating itself from what arises. When this is done, when this occurs, we put the element “time” present here and now, because if the “I” is present and the suffering is present, because of this separation between this “I” and the given experience, which is this experiencer and his experience – this experiencer wants to get rid of this experience by rejecting, justifying, explaining – we are already introducing the element of time. So, there is no awareness of the truth of what is shown here and now, because we are not aware of this separation between the experience and this “I.”

So, this way, the ego, that particular identity, which is the thinker, which is the experiencer, which is exactly the sufferer, is sustaining the illusion of a time, a psychological time, in the desire to get rid of, to get rid of this situation, of finding the “here and now.” This all takes time.

What we are saying here is that the Truth of That which is here, in this instant, shows itself when there is no such separation. When there is not this separation between the experience and this “I,” whatever it may be, the “time” element does not show itself, the “time” element does not present itself, then, in fact, we are in this Reality, which is the Now. In this Reality, which is the Now, there is not this “I” and the other thing, there is not this sufferer and suffering, there is not this one who is thinking with his thought.

There comes the end of duality, the end of separation, when there is the end of this time, which is the time that the “I” itself, which is the thinker, creates. I want to repeat that again: it creates that in its attempt to make something out of the experience. It takes time, it takes effort, it takes separation. Here is conflict, here is suffering, here is the illusion of “I,” here is the illusion of time.

So, the psychological time, which is the time of the “I,” is maintained when there is no understanding of what is shown. Here and now, without the sense of a present “I,” there is no anxiety, no fear, no depression, no suffering. The only Reality present is the Reality of your own Being now, which is the Reality of God. There is no suffering in any form, because there is no psychological sense of time. Then, illusion dissolves or illusion is seen as an illusion, and that is no longer present.

So, it’s not a first step or a second step. Here, we are facing the definitive, definitive vision of the end of the “I,” which is the end of the sufferer. This is the end of suffering; this is the end of illusion.

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master! Our time is already over. Thank you very much for once again being with us here on the videocast. For the people who are watching: leave the comment, leave the “like,” leave the questions for us to bring to the next videocasts. And, for those who feel something beyond the words when looking into the Master’s eyes, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings, online and also face to face.

Here, in the first comment, pinned, there is the WhatsApp link for the information group about the meetings and, also, our playlist of all the videocasts that the Master has already made with us. Once more, thank you very much. Gratitude, Master.

August, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to make your dreams come true? How to attain self– love? Existential void, suffering.

What are we actually dealing with you here? We are dealing with the Realization of your own Self. The Realization of That which you are is the Realization of God and that represents the end of suffering. The real meaning of this is the Truth about Happiness.

Now, realize an interesting thing about human beings, they are looking for dreams, so it is common for people to ask these questions; the question is: “How to make all your dreams come true?” There are even speeches and lectures proposing people to do this. “How to make all your dreams come true?” Notice the question, it’s like the question, “How to attain self-love?” Why are people in search of making dreams come true? Why is there this search for self-love? Simply because they are not happy. They're not happy with themselves, with what they have, that’s why they want to make their dreams come true, and those dreams are always external achievements, things to be achieved; and they are not happy with themselves. They're not happy with what they have – or the lack of what they believe will bring them happiness – and they're not happy with who they are, so they're talking about that lack of self-love. In fact, what does this refer to? Self-love or attaining dreams refers to the sense of an “I,” of an ego, of an unhappy present identity. So, actually, the pursuit of dreams is for happiness and the pursuit of self-love is for happiness, however the mind projects this externally into achievement and internally into achievement.

Self-esteem or the search for self-appreciation, self-valorization, feeling good about oneself, with oneself, all of this concerns the “I,” the ego. The human being has lived for millennia in this format, in this program, in this model of “being someone,” in this search for external accomplishments and internal accomplishments. These external accomplishments include people, objects and situations. These internal accomplishments also include sensations, feelings, emotions, an image of oneself where the “I” feels happy, and these external accomplishments are also included there. So, notice the internal condition of the human being. What is, in fact, missing? All we lack is the understanding of the Truth about who we are. The direct, objective, clear, simple Truth of Being is Love. It is not self-love. It is Love. The sense of an “I” present in love is still the illusion of an identity that has these ups and downs, that at one moment feels good about oneself and at another moment feels bad about oneself. All of this is within this structure of the ego, the egocentrism, the sense of “someone” present. So, it’s not enough to make dreams come true, not even all dreams.

All dreams are projections of the mind, the dissatisfied mind, the unhappy mind. The state of mind is incompleteness, the state of mind is unhappiness. It’s not about objects or accomplishments for it to be happy, for it to be complete, for it to be satisfied, this will never happen. Ask all the people who made their dreams come true. There are people on the planet who can, yes, fulfill all their dreams, but with the achievement of these dreams, the only thing that will give them is the egoic fulfillment, is the feeling of having won, of having conquered, which soon wears out, because there is something within each one of us – including those people we know who are the most accomplished, the most successful people we know – there is a dissatisfaction, and that dissatisfaction is the very state of mind that is never satisfied. There is a void that is never filled; it never fulfills in external accomplishments, like dreams or in these so-called “internal achievements” of self-esteem, of self-image, of that image of the “I” in this so-called “love,” which is mere self-appreciation, which is mere self-satisfaction with the image, which when touched in some way, at that very moment, feels hurt, feels wounded, feels offended.

The human being carries this weight of being “someone.” It is this weight of being “someone” in this condition of a dissatisfied mind, in this existential void where suffering lies, this is where unhappiness is present. Here, we are telling you that Happiness is not possible without the Realization of God. Only Divine Truth, which is the Truth of your Being, is that completeness. So, the answer to all human problems, to all suffering and the absence of happiness and love, is present when your Being flourishes – this is what some call the Awakening of Consciousness, the Awakening of your Divine Nature. The point here is that to get a Real approach to this we need to study ourselves. So, it’s not about fulfilling dreams, it’s not about attaining self-love. It is about discovering the Truth of your own Being. The Reality of your own Being is the Truth of That which man has never imagined for himself, That which the mind has never envisioned, never imagined, never attained, can never achieve in terms of fulfillment and happiness, and That is present in the Realization of your Being. This is Something greater than all achievements, than all dreams fulfilled, than all your dreams achieved. This is Something greater than the human mind has ever conceived, imagined or idealized about the presence of Love.

The human being has idealized the achievement of dreams to be happy, the realization of this self-love to be happy. That Happiness lies in what you are. That Happiness consists of the Truth of your own Being, and the mind has never been able to reach, to idealize, to imagine, to objectify that. These dreams are projects of the “I” itself in its dissatisfaction, because, deep down, you believe that when you have this, you will be happy or when you get rid of that, you will be happy, so it’s about accomplishing things and getting rid of things, these are the dreams. The dream is to achieve something that you have not yet achieved and to get rid of something that you once achieved, but it is now unsatisfactory for you, unsatisfactory for this “me,” for this “I.” All these are projections of the ego are projections of the egoic mind. We need to discover the Truth about who we are, discovering thus that Happiness resides exactly in the absence of these conflicts, which are the conflicts created by desires, in this search for more, or in this desire to get rid of what in the ego you believe is too much, excessive.

Our work here is to discover the Truth about it, to discover the Truth about who we are. So, to study yourself is to see this inner movement producing all kinds of illusions and beliefs. In this imaginary world of the “I,” this has been our life. Most of us live in these dreams, these imaginations, these projections, these idealizations. Discovering the Truth about yourself requires you to study yourself and watch this element here, which is the “I,” the ego, projecting itself, envisioning a world that exists only in its own imagination. This is how most of us live. Our life is just a chimerical dream, it’s just an imagination, a fantasy. There is a present Reality and that Reality is Divine Truth. The Realization of It is far beyond anything the ego, anything the egoic mind has ever been able to imagine. Here I am referring to Real Happiness, Real Love. We don't know what Love is, just as we don't know what Happiness is. For us, love, self-love is liking oneself. Examine this closely and observe.

Do you really believe that loaded with this sense of an “I” that is always in direct, internal conflict, because of a basic contradiction of this egoic consciousness, which is the “I” consciousness, that is the mind in contradiction with itself, in this internal chatter, in this objectification of external accomplishments, is it true that this mind can one day, in this state of conflict, of contradiction, where it thinks one thing, feels another thing, does another and then feels unhappy... No matter how much apparently fulfilled it feels at that moment, soon after that comes frustration, comes unhappiness, comes incompleteness. Notice that this incompleteness, this unhappiness, and this dissatisfaction always comes with an achievement. Does this mind, despite accomplishing something, always feel itself in this contradiction? Is it always feeling this contradiction? There is an inner contradiction in this egoic mind condition. This egoic mind comes from this conditioning of culture, of society, of the world, so we have a mind stuck in a pattern of repetition, of continuity – I have called this psychological conditioning.

Can this mind, in this pattern of psychological conditioning, ever feel good about itself? Absolutely not! What we need, yes, is a new mind, a new feeling, a new thinking, a new action, and this is not possible within this condition of ego-identity. Thus, studying ourselves, understanding the process of the “I” within us – that element that separates itself from life, from existence and that feels itself in this dissatisfaction due to this conditioning of the mind itself, in this posture of egocentric actions –, to study that element which is the “I” is to go beyond it.

Here, it is about recognizing the Truth of your Being, which is the Divine Truth, which is not this “I,” this ego, this person; that is not this movement of psychological conditioning that makes us idealize happiness in dreams or idealize a love in oneself, for oneself. We are talking about Something totally different from our beliefs and the ideas we bring, the ideas we have about what Love is, about what Happiness is, about what Life is. So, our work here consists of that discovery, the discovery of the Truth about who we are, that Realization of your own Being.

Dropping the sense of “I,” the ego, is the Realization of Truth. When this occurs, Something new arises, Something beyond all human understanding and beyond all ego expectations. This is Real Happiness. This is Real Love. It’s not self-love. It’s not love for the other. It’s not love for life. It’s Love. Happiness does not reside in achieving goals, dreams. Happiness resides in what we are, in the Truth of your own Being. When there is Love, there is Happiness; when there is Happiness, Love is present. Then, Something new arises: that Something new is the presence of Truth. We were born for this.

Thus, our meeting here has the purpose of showing you this door that opens to that Realization, which is the Realization of God, which is the Realization of your Being. So, our work here consists of this approach, studying ourselves, discovering the Truth about who we are through Self-Awareness, becoming aware of the Divine Truth that we bring. What opens that door is the Truth about Meditation. True Meditation brings you closer to Something outside the known, Something outside this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” which is the movement of the ego. Then we have the Realization of Truth, God Realization.

This is our work here within this channel. We have weekend meetings – online meetings. Here in the video description there is our WhatsApp group. Join our group and participate in these meetings. I want to leave this invitation for you here. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and retreats, where we are working on this, so here’s the invitation. I want to remind you: if this is something that touches you, that makes sense to you, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. And we'll see each other, okay? Thanks for the meeting and until next time!

August, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to get rid of depression? Psychological suffering. What is Consciousness? Awakening

There are many questions frequently asked. These questions keep coming back and are really important. One of the questions people ask because of this issue of suffering is: “How to get rid of depression?” That is a question. The other is, “How to get rid of anxiety and fear?”

Now, notice what we will work with you today during this meeting. I want to work with you on another question here in this meeting. We need to have an answer to it. The question is: what is Consciousness? I consider that understanding this answer – I mean a direct comprehension, not merely intellectual words or conceptual understanding of this matter of Consciousness – will be the end of depression, anxiety, and fear.

Indeed, it may sound strange to you, but understanding what consciousness is, is the end of human suffering. We are creatures laden with suffering: physical, emotional, sentimental, and psychological suffering. One aspect of physical suffering is the pain itself. One of the aspects of physical suffering is the pain itself. When you are sick, the body feels weak and in pain. That is one aspect of physical suffering. But this “suffering” element only enters into this weakness and pain when psychologically we identify ourselves with the experience of weakness or pain in this body.

Thus, the very identification with the body in this pain and weakness represents this type of suffering, which is physical. But notice: this suffering has little relevance. The real one is what we know as psychological. Depression is something like that. Anxiety is something like that. Fear is something like that. Anguish, sadness, melancholy, and guilt, all of that is within that fear. All this is within this psychological suffering.

The question here is: what is consciousness? Because all this is part of that consciousness. Not understanding what consciousness is, not knowing how to deal directly with what we call consciousness, is what keeps us within this psychological condition of suffering. Depression, anguish, anxiety, fear, the pain of loneliness, all this is present as long as the sense of consciousness of a present “I” is not understood. The non-understanding of this “I,” this consciousness, this “me,” this person, this identity.

Here we are working with you on the understanding of this consciousness. The understanding of the consciousness of the “I,” “me,” this ego, this person, here lies the suffering, the psychological suffering that we all know. We can use some strategies, techniques, and expedients. We can approach some system of therapy or practice that temporarily relieves us from this psychological pain, this psychological suffering, this anguish, this anxiety, this depression. But none of this is a definitive end to this psychological suffering, which is to be someone, which is to keep as a separate entity.

So, our job here is to go down to deeper waters; it is not about getting closer to the beach, stepping on the sand. Here the invitation is to enter the sea, step on the waters and go towards deeper waters. Here we are working on the end of the illusion of this consciousness of the “I.” That is the end of psychological suffering.

That is exactly what you are listening to: we are talking about the definitive end to an “I” that suffers, to an ego that is anguished, to a person who is depressed, to a present entity living in fear. That is the Realization of God, the Realization of your Being. Your Being, the Truth of God, is free from this psychological world of the “I,” of the ego, of this consciousness of the “I.”

So, we have put it here in the channel – we are studying it here, we have a few hundred videos – we study with you the illusion of this consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I.” It is in this consciousness that we are living our lives. That explains very easily, in a very simple way, why we suffer and live in this condition. All of this happens because we are within an egoic consciousness.

This consciousness of the “I” represents a set of memories, remembrances, ideas, and beliefs about who we are, who the other is, and what life is all about. So, the present idea, what prevails in this consciousness of the “I” is a particular idea that comes from a background of memory, from memories, from stories the mind has been building about who you are, who the other is, and about what life is. Our entire psychophysical response to this experience of living is very private, limited to this condition of egoic consciousness, of particular consciousness, which is this consciousness of the “I.”

So, what is consciousness? Consciousness is this set of images, memories, and remembrances. Some of these memories or recollections are superficial and appear in our relationships with the other, day-by-day, in our lives. And some of those memories are more hidden, kept deep within ourselves. Then, some divide this so-called consciousness, the consciousness of the “I,” into conscious and unconscious. There are these deeper layers of memory, but they are just memories as well. And there are these more superficial, more on-the-surface memories, so to speak.

So, that is the conscious part of this consciousness of the “I.” So, this consciousness of the “I” consists of what some people call the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious shows itself most easily – we can put it that way – which is on the surface. And what is most hidden is the unconscious. But it is present within us, forming this body of memories and remembrances. Then, all of our education, all of our formation, everything that we received from culture, from humanity, which today is part of us, in this consciousness of the “I,” of psychological, emotional, and also physical conditioning, that is what we express in living.

So, this is consciousness: what we feel, think, say, do, how we react, our reactions, our responses, responses in action, in speech, in thought, in ideas. All this is part of that consciousness of the “I.” The question is: Is it possible to become aware of a Reality beyond this limitation, this consciousness of the “I,” which represents this whole set of cultural, existential conditioning, both physical and psychological?

As long as we are living within this condition, without the awareness of what this consciousness represents, we will be within this situation, this condition of suffering. We are here talking to you about Freedom, the end of suffering, the end of the illusion of the “I,” and therefore, of that limited and circumscribed egoic consciousness. Then, something new emerges, something outside of all we know in that mind, in that brain, in that feeling, thinking, doing, acting… Something entirely new arises, something unknown to all of that, with the Awakening of Consciousness.

However, we refer to a new Consciousness here, not to that consciousness of the “I.” The condition of this consciousness is of insanity, psychological, emotional, and sentimental disorder. It is the condition of confusion in actions, behaviors, and experiences. Here, we talk about the end of this disorder with the Awakening of Consciousness. But we refer to Real Consciousness, True Consciousness.

So, when you have the question: “How to get rid of anxiety and fear? How can I get rid of depression or how can I get rid of this or that?”, the central idea internally is the illusion of the search for Freedom, based on this consciousness of the “I.” All you can do within this consciousness of the “I,” aspiring for this Freedom, in this search, in this eagerness for Freedom, is merely perpetuating this condition. The end of all suffering is not in this eagerness or desire to get rid, but in understanding the Truth about suffering. It is here that the end to this suffering lies and therefore the Real Freedom from suffering.

So, we cannot get rid of suffering within suffering. In this very movement of getting rid of suffering, we are just continuing this movement of suffering because it is a reactive movement of suffering itself to get rid of it. This very movement sustains fear, anguish, and anxiety itself, therefore, sustains suffering itself. For Liberation from suffering, we must have an end to suffering. And the end of suffering consists of investigating the nature of that consciousness of the “I.” That is where suffering resides.

So, we come across the sense of ego, of an entity that separates itself based on these mistaken principles of evaluating, judging, comparing, rejecting, and identifying with everything that arises from this background of conditioning. We do need to free ourselves from the illusion of this consciousness of the “I.” But this Liberation consists of studying this movement and understanding this psychological as well as emotional and physical condition of conditioning in which we find ourselves.

Are you all with me? That is why we need to get closer to Self-Awareness, to understand the nature of the “I,” of this egoic, of this human consciousness, of this heritage of humanity we have. Then, it is possible to Realize the Truth of your Being, which is the Awakening of Real Consciousness. Real Consciousness is your Being, the Truth of God. A new mind, a new brain, an approach to yourself, in this investigation, this inquiry, this observation of the movement of the mind itself, how it works, how it has worked – this puts you in direct contact with the Divine Truth, with the discarding of the “I,” of the ego, of that old human consciousness, that old egoic consciousness. That is the end of this insanity and, naturally, of unhappiness.

So, everything that presents itself in human life as unhappiness is present because we do not know ourselves. Because we do not know ourselves, we have not had direct contact with What is present here and now. We do not have contact with life as it is, as it shows itself since we are always grounded in this illusion of the “I,” in this background of egoic conditioning, from this consciousness that is a human heritage, translating, interpreting, judging, evaluating, having a limited, particular, narrow life, which is not real, but, paradoxically, constitutes the only real life we are presenting, living, that we are having now.

Can we go beyond that? Can we become aware of that movement, which is the movement of the “I,” of the ego? Can we discard this particular egoic consciousness, this sense of separateness, the end to this “I” that separates itself from life, that separates itself from the other, that separates itself from God?

That is what we are working on here, on this channel. So, these are deeper waters; then, we are not talking about therapy, treatment, or adjustment. We are not talking to you about resignification, personal development, or improvement. We are talking about the Realization of God. We are talking to you here about Spiritual Enlightenment. We offer you the opportunity to understand the Truth about who you are. Here, on the channel, we are dealing with this matter; all the videos presented here point in this direction.

We also have online meetings on weekends, in addition to these videos here on the channel. We have our WhatsApp link in the video description for these weekend meetings. It’s a full online weekend. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and retreats. We are working with you on the end of suffering. And it is the end of the illusion of an identity, which is the “I,” the ego. The end for that sufferer is the end of that suffering.

So, this is the subject we are working on here with you within this channel. We have several playlists here, delving deeper into this issue of the Realization of the Truth of your Being, which is the Realization of God. Check out these playlists! We have a playlist here about Self-Awareness, another about the True Meditation, and several other playlists. Go deeper into this, and investigate this further. And if in fact this makes sense to you, join our WhatsApp group, subscribe to the channel, leave your “like,” and we'll see you. OK? Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time.

August, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is the mind? Psychological states of suffering | The Awakening of True Consciousness

The subject here is: what is the mind? How does it work? Here, we are facing something that is not so complicated – at least the theoretical basis of it. Maybe, the difficulty here lies in becoming aware of it in an evidential, experiential, and practical way. The awareness of the truth of the mind cannot be theoretical, so it is not enough to hear about it here and achieve an intellectual approach to the subject. We need an approach where you look at this movement and become aware of it; it’s about perceiving it. Here, I want to tell you that we cannot have a theoretical basis and, based on that theory, have the truth about it. A theory is just an idea, and a set of ideas forms a concept, a narrative; you can have an idea about it and at the same time a set of ideas, theoretical knowledge about it, and continue to be trapped, victimized by that condition, which is the condition of that egoic mind.

What is this egoic mind? It is a model of unconsciousness. We have lived in this model for millennia; this is the condition of the human being. The egoic mind is a set of memories, remembrances, and recollections. Everything you really have of the truth about who you are, you can put into words, and in those words, all you can express are images of the past, memories, recollections. In other words, we are not dealing with the Reality of what we are but expressing a memory we carry from an idea about who we are. The understanding of your Being, of the Truth, requires that you go beyond this “I,” this mind, which is the mind of the “I,” the human mind, which, in fact, consists of a set of images, ideas, recollections, and memories. So, what is the human mind? A collection of images, remembrances, and memories.

Your response to life now, here, at this moment, if it is a response that comes from that background of remembrances, memories, is it a response from that human mind, which represents a response from that “I,” that ego, that person you believe you are. And that way of functioning in life is basically conditioning, suffering. So, there is this illusion of an “I” present, acting, saying, thinking, feeling, and doing. That is how the human mind works. That is the condition of the illusory identity of this false center, which is the ego.

Here, the work consists in becoming aware of the Truth of our Being, and it requires that we approach this movement of the mind recognizing the illusion present within it, becoming aware, what I have called here recognizing; it is becoming aware of this duality present. This duality is the sense of “someone” within the experience, “someone” thinking, speaking, acting, and feeling. That is how the egoic mind, the human mind, works. To become aware of this, to become aware of this movement, is to go beyond this limitation.

The condition of the “I,” of the ego, of the experiencer, is the one who is present – what is an illusion – present speaking, acting, functioning. This illusory condition where this “I” separates itself from the action of speaking, from thought and therefore from thinking, from the feeling and therefore from feeling, from emotion. This whole psychological condition of being “someone” within experience is the very movement of this “I” of this ego; it is a movement of conditioning. So, all the confusion in our lives is something present because of this self-centeredness, this illusory identity, which is the mind of the “I,” the egoic mind. To become aware of this movement is to go beyond this condition. This awareness brings about the Awakening of True Consciousness because all this consciousness as we know it – the consciousness of the mind – is the consciousness of the “I,” part of this false psychological condition of being “someone.” When the Awakening of Real Consciousness occurs, there is the end of that condition of this egoic mind, this illusory mind of the ego, of the person, this human mind. That is the consequence of cultural, religious, social, political, and philosophical conditioning. Our beliefs, conclusions, certainties, doubts, uncertainties, all of this are born from this condition of the “I,” which is where suffering lies.

The work here consists in having an approach to ourselves. When we look at this movement of the “I,” of the mind, we perceive this condition of duality, of a false identity present within this experience. The awareness about it, the Revelation of the Truth about this is the Awakening, then the sense of an “I” disappears, the illusion of that experiencer, that thinker, that observer, that chooser, solver, decider, disappears; and when it does it, Something new arises, the Unknown, the Unamenable arises, it is the Presence of Divine Intelligence, of the Awareness of the Truth of your Being. Some people call this the Awakening of Consciousness; then the Awakening of Consciousness is the end of this egoic mind, which is the mind of the “I.” Others call it Spiritual Enlightenment, Something entirely new, Unknown because there is no longer a sense of separateness. That sense of an “I” present, thinking, feeling, acting, doing, disappears. Notice the beauty of that.

The confusion, the disorder, and the unhappiness in our lives lie in the life of the “I.” Only in that particular life of the ‘'I'’ is all these present. That private life of the “I” disappears when the Real Divine Life blossoms; it is the Awakening of Consciousness, the Realization of God. No technique, method, or system can lead you to this, give you this Revelation, or make you realize this Reality, the awareness of yourself, here and now. The observation of the movement itself, of every thought, feeling, emotion, and perception, to perceive that this sense of an “I” appears to judge thought, condemn it, reject it, or identify with it; to realize that this sense of an “I” appears to judge an emotion, to like or dislike that emotion and thus to identify with it in a positive way when you like it, or to identify with it when you reject it. So, there is this constant struggle in us, this conflict, created by this sense of an “I “ separating itself. We have online meetings where we are working on this, investigating this, and going deeper into these issues. These meetings take place on weekends. There is our WhatsApp group here in the description of the video, you can join the group and get to know it closely.

Here, we work with you the end of the “I,” the ego, the Awakening of God, the Awakening of your Divine Nature. So, when we come closer and look at all this inner movement, we put light on it and realize, for the first time, this duality, this separation. It is because we always separate ourselves that we are in conflict. When there is this separation, there is conflict, naturally. When a thought is present, a feeling or an emotion, and is seen simply as an appearance, and we do not put that element which is the “I” into it, the duality ends. The problem here is that this has been our practice for too long. Since we left the cradle, we are continually putting the illusion of this “I” within the experience; that’s how this egoic mind works. We are always giving credence to that experience because there is “someone” to do something against or for that experience. When we like something, we identify ourselves; when we reject that, we do the same. We create an identity when we accept or reject a thought, for example, a feeling or emotion, and this naturally upholds this separate identity model, the ego. See this: here is the principle of illusion, of human suffering.

Here on the channel, we show you that it is possible to have a life free from all forms of suffering indeed. Our psychological, emotional, and much of physical suffering is in the illusion of present identity, which is the “I,” always mistaking itself for the experience. If, for example, there is an illness in the body, there may be pain or weakness, but if you give an identity to that illness in the body, there will be suffering, then it is not just a sickness in the body. In physical pain, the element that is the “I,” the ego identified with the body, and suffering is present. We always live in this condition of identification with the body and the mind, so these internal states of unhappiness, such as anxiety, depression, anguish, and the pain of loneliness, all this is part of the “I,” the ego, this sense of “someone” present within this experience. When we look closely at the experience, what is present is a set of images, recollections, memories, or even a physical weakness, a pain in the body. Physically or psychologically, we put an identity that is fighting with the experience of the memory, the recollection, the image, and this strengthens the illusion of an ego, an “I,” a separate identity, an egoic mind, so suffering is present, and the presence of unhappiness. All this is present due to these inner psychological states of suffering we cultivate. We do this in a completely unconscious, mechanical way, a habit, in fact, an addiction. This pattern of repetitive, negative, obsessive thinking, of inner chatter, this addiction to thinking, requires the illusion of a present identity always cultivating this pattern, this model, this conditioning. So, it is an egoic, mental conditioning, the conditioning of the mind.

Our work here is the end of the “I,” the ego, of this illusion, which is the one of a present identity here and now in this experience – whether unpleasant or pleasant experience. In the ego, this egoic mind, this human mind, we always seek pleasure and try to get rid of pain. What is pleasurable we want, and what is painful we reject. What have not been told is that we always give identity to this “I” when we do it because we foster this false idea of separation, of duality. The Truth about your Being is Non-dual. Your Being, your Real Nature does not carry conflict or suffering, and they are something present in this duality, in this idea of “the other thing and I.” To look at this movement of the “I,” of the ego, of this “me” without putting the other thing is the end of this “I,” this ego, this “me.” So, our emphasis here is on approaching Self-awareness, the Truth of Self-awareness. That puts you in direct contact with the Truth of the correct Meditation, of Real Meditation, in an experiential way here and now. That is our work here with you. We are showing you that it is indeed possible to have the end of this illusion, of this suffering, to have the Realization of your Being, which is the Realization of God, the Awakening of Consciousness – what some people call Spiritual Enlightenment.

The beauty of it is to go beyond these boundaries, which are the boundaries of space and time. In the ego, we live on that basis within those boundaries, in that notion of space and time, what is a creation of thought. So, in this thing of always being in this experience, experiencing, we are always within the limitation of this sense of being “someone” who has the illusion of one day achieving something to be complete, realized, and happy. There is always the idea of a realization in the material or the so-called “spiritual” realm in time. Then, we have to leave here and go somewhere, go to the future to realize love, peace, and happiness. We are always in this illusion of achieving, in this world or the other world, this freedom, this happiness, this Truth; thus, we are always within this notion of space and time.

The beauty of these encounters is that we are working with you to end the illusion of “I,” and this is the end of the illusion of time, of space. I have been calling this space-time the timeline. This timeline occurs within this movement, which is the very movement of the “I” in this illusion that thought has produced, which I have called psychological time; so “I am not this, but one day I will be,” “I do not have this, but one day I will” this is all within the illusion of the ego, all this to be happy, to complete yourself, to feel full. The Truth of your Being is this Happiness here and now, is this Completeness here and now. So, we are beyond this boundary of space and time when we realize the Truth of what we are.

So, the work is to become aware of the innate Happiness of your Being. It represents a new mind, a new Consciousness. I have called this new Consciousness as Real Consciousness. This new mind is the free mind, no longer this egoic mind, no longer this human mind; a quality of life free from the illusion of this so-called “life of the ego,” this “life of the I.” In general, we call “my life” for this limited condition of life on this timeline, where there is this space, and there is this time for this “me,” for this “I” to achieve things somewhere or at some future time. All that disappears when your Being shows itself as Full Consciousness. In the Awakening of the Truth of your Being, in the Blossoming of your Divine Nature, of your Essential Nature, What is present is Happiness, Completeness, and Real Realization, which is the Realization of God.

That is our subject here with you within the channel. We also have online meetings where we are working on this with you. In the video description is our WhatsApp group; you can join our group and get closer to these online meetings. There is something different in these meetings that we naturally do not have in a video like this, so here is the invitation. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, take the opportunity and leave it here in the comment: “It makes sense.” Leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel, ok? See you.

Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!

August, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Truth of God revealing itself. End of illusion and conditioned mind. The awakening of Consciousness

If we intend to approach the Truth, if we intend to have this Truth unfolding – I mean the Divine Truth, the Truth of God – if there is this longing within each of us, this longing within each of us, if it is true that we are internally burning for this, if there is a search for God, if this is authentic, genuine, true, then I want, in these minutes that we are going to have together here, to work with you on this.

After all, how does this become possible? How this Truth – not belief – becomes possible. We're even going to start talking about it here, about this belief issue. We have a belief in God, a belief given to us. We have been taught since childhood in our culture to believe in God. Unless you were born in a country where you were not shown this idea, which is the idea of ​​God (as in communist countries), but if you were born in a country where you were shown – here, for example, in Brazil and in several other countries, this has been presented to us since childhood – so, we have a belief, the belief in God. But, along with this belief in God, we have several other beliefs from the culture that we received, from society, from the world that we received.

Can we free our minds from beliefs? That’s the question. Is the mind free, the mind entirely free of all forms of belief, possible? The education we received, the upbringing we received, everything that has been shown to us throughout this entire period of life, of all these years of life that we have had, this has made us people who believe in some things and do not believe in others.

But what are beliefs? Belief is an intellectual thing; it is the result of propaganda. We need to find out for ourselves if we can get our minds free of this propaganda, this merely intellectual formulation, these images that culture has given us. An approach to Divine Truth, which is the Truth of your Being, which is the Reality of God, is not something within belief. Within belief, we have religion with its dogmas, its rituals, its ceremonies, the various practices, and we submit ourselves to all of this for the sake of propaganda, for the sake of belief.

The Truth of God, the Truth of your Being, the Divine Truth, that Supreme Reality, It is independent, It is free. So, it’s not about not believing in God, as in communist countries, or believing in God, as in non-communist countries; it is not a matter of believing or disbelieving, it is a present, experiential Reality, a direct understanding. This direct understanding becomes possible when the mind finds this freedom to no longer hold this or that form of belief, this or that form of idea or concept. Everything that the egoic mind in us has done – and the egoic mind, that mind as we know, within each of us, is the result of culture, of society, of a world – all the mind has done is to produce illusions and to hold onto beliefs and disbeliefs as well. Here, we are working with you to end the illusion of that mind, which is the conditioned mind, which is the credulous mind – it believes in disbelief or it believes in belief.

The conditioned mind is attached to a pattern of behavior, a model of existence, a model of life, within a centering that is the “I,” the ego. So, the person as you see yourself, the person you believe yourself to be, the person you consider yourself to be, carries that conditioned mind. Our minds are trapped in this system, this pattern, this social, cultural, humanist conditioning. So, we carry in our minds every form of conditioning. We have the conditioning of the human race, we have the conditioning of the culture, the conditioning of politics, the conditioning of religion, the conditioning of philosophy, the conditioning of spirituality, and all of this has caused our intellects to be as they are today: trapped, conditioned, already programmed.

Thus, we are always producing and sustaining illusions of all kinds, so there is no such Freedom, we do not have a free mind, a clear, lucid, new mind, a quiet, silent intellect. Our intellect is conditioned, our mind is conditioned, as people we are programmed to speak in a certain way, to feel in a certain way. So, there is nothing new present here and now, because this mind is old, it is the result of thousands and thousands of years of conditioning. This is the “I” pattern, the ego pattern.

It doesn't matter what you've already achieved in this life, when you look at yourself, you realize that all we have in this life is a life full of fear. We are even afraid to lose those achievements. So, fear is something present. No matter what kind of life you have at the moment, what kind of comfortable situation you are living, there is always fear within us, the fear of losing what we have achieved, the fear of growing old, the fear of dying, the fear of being deceived, the fear of being betrayed, the fear of being abandoned; we have the fear of the past, therefore we have different forms of fear, the fear of the future. Fear, for example, is something constant in our lives, so we always have goals to reach to feel more secure, but in that very movement of achieving there is a constant fear of not getting it, of not achieving it, so we feel like insecure creatures, terrified.

We do have moments of satisfaction, fulfillment, peace, joy, and happiness, but we use these expressions “joy,” “peace,” “happiness” in a way that everyone uses. Our “peace” comes and goes, our “joy” is something that comes and goes, our “happiness” is a thing of the moment, at the moment we are happy, the next moment we can be sad. So, within that “I,” that ego, we are always in this inconstancy, in this variation of internal states. We feel good now, but the next moment we are not so good. Things happen and our internal states are varying, they are changing. This is the condition of the “I,” of the ego.

Looking at the truth of what we are, verifying the Truth of our Being, becoming aware of a Reality outside the “I,” outside the ego: this is to realize God, true Happiness, true Peace, true Love, true Freedom, in this life. This is not Something known within the world.

Look at the people around you, they are still full of fears, conflicts, and contradictions. We are in a very complicated, very delicate situation, we live in contradiction. For example, we want something and at the same time we don't want that; we want, but we know that what we want can harm us and even so the desire is still present. So, there is a wanting and a not wanting; intellectually I realize the danger of doing that, of getting that, of achieving that, and yet there is this inner urge of desire. This is conflict, this is contradiction.

Internally, we live as creatures in contradiction. We think one thing and want another; or we want something and we are thinking about the harm that this could cause us. So, we say something, feel something else and do something else. In the ego we live in these states of contradiction, and it doesn't matter how much we've studied, the culture, the living standard we have or the quality of life we've already achieved, we know that all of this can collapse, all of this can disappear. So, fear is present and we cannot deny it. We know that with death, for example, everything disappears. And we are getting old, so we are afraid of old age, we are afraid of illness. This condition of life, if it is clear to each of us that there must be something else outside of this, outside of this life, outside of this pattern common to all, if this is already clear, a speech like this makes a lot of sense to you. We need to realize the Truth of God, we need to realize the Truth of our Being, our Real Happiness. So, this meeting has that purpose.

By discovering the Truth of what goes on inside each one of us, we can go beyond that. By finding out what happens to us, how we've been functioning, what that mind is, what it’s been projecting, how it’s been moving, we can go beyond all that. Is contact with the Divine Reality possible, with the Reality of God, with the Truth of your Being, with What we truly are? This is something possible and present when this society, when this world, when this culture, when all of this is psychologically expurgated from each one of us, then the work of Self-Awareness – and here the work of Self-Awareness is the recognition of the illusion of that movement which this conditioned mind has produced.

Therefore, this contact with the truth of Self-Awareness, this approach to Self-Awareness is what reveals the truth about all of this to you. The truth about that conditioning of the mind shows you the nature and structure of that conditioned mind that is within that program, within that model. The direct understanding of this, the direct revelation of this, the direct realization of this, is this psychological deconditioning, this deprogramming of the ego, of the “I,” of this false identity. That’s the end of that mind that is always producing all kinds of illusions, clinging to all kinds of illusions, all formulations that are merely intellectual, as beliefs are, always giving us an illusory sense of identity here and now, present, separate from life, separate from the other, separate from existence, and separate from God.

Then, only when the mind is purged from all this conditioning content, when all this conditioning dissolves, when all this disappears due to an approach to Self-Awareness, when this sense of “I” is seen creating the illusion of separation, when we become aware that a present thought, a present feeling, an image that arises, the language we use, the way we express ourselves, act, gesture, when we become aware of all this movement, we can become aware of that sense of an “I” that is conditioned, programmed, that is mechanically proceeding in this or that way.

This approach is Self-Awareness. In this approach, the illusion of this “I” is revealed and, therefore, the sense of separation. So, that’s when the mind can go through a transformation, through a change. There is a deconditioning of the mind itself. Something new arises, a new mind, a free mind, an unconditioned mind. We become aware of a Reality outside the mind, outside the “I,” outside the ego, outside this so-called “human culture.” Then, there is a Reality showing itself. It is no longer a belief, a concept. It is no longer a movement of dogmas, rituals, ceremonies, esoteric, so-called “mystical or religious” practices. Now we have the presence of a Religious Life, not a religious “I,” a religious ego, a religious person. Here I refer to a Religious Life, to the presence of Being, which is this Real Consciousness, to the Divine Truth of each one of us, which is the Truth of God. It is no longer a concept, a theory. It is the Reality of God.

So, if you are the one who is working on this in this life, in this existence, if you have already realized that everything we call “life” does not make the slightest sense without this Realization of God, without the Awakening of Consciousness, without this Spiritual Enlightenment, that is our subject here. If you have already realized that a life without the Truth of your Being makes no sense at all, this is our meeting here, this is our purpose here, this is our aim here, we are looking at this.

This meeting has this aim, to investigate ourselves, to look at ourselves, to become aware of the Divine Truth, the Truth of Being and, therefore, Happiness. That requires an end to that conditioned mind, an end to that mind that is constantly creating illusions, sustaining illusions, for example, the illusion of happiness, of happiness in personal achievement. When the wedding happens, when the children are born, when that dream house happens, when something that thought itself imagines in the future comes true, all this is part of that program of a conditioned mind creating illusions. All this needs to end. If this is still very much alive within you, this doesn't make the slightest sense, a talk like that.

This psychological conditioning, this cerebral, mental conditioning – not only cerebral but also mental –, which is the human conditioning, of this sense of “I,” has made us such creatures occupied only in this quest or pursuit of these so-called “external achievements”; or at most, in an idea of ​​an internal achievement that thought itself still projects, too, when we connect to this or that organized religion with its dogmas, rituals, beliefs, and there we settle down and spend thirty, forty, fifty years with those beliefs, then we have an “I,” a religious ego. In fact, what is present is a conditioned ego, still trapped in a mind pattern within this illusion programming, projecting illusions: self-improvement, spiritualization or the Truth of God being found, the direct revelation after a long process of a so-called evolution “spiritual.” So, there are all kinds of beliefs about that, “how I should behave,” “what I should do here in life so that after death I can be in a better place.” There are all kinds of concepts, beliefs, ideas, and imaginations, and all of this is still part of the projection of the “I,” of the very ego, the own ego-identity.

Here we are addressing the end of the ego, the end of the “I,” the end of ego-identity and therefore the end of this illusion. The Reality of your Being, which is the Reality of God, is here and now. A life in Love is here and now, in Freedom is here and now, in this Intelligence is now and here, in this Compassion is here and now. A life free of suffering, free of that sense of egoism, of egocentrism, is here and now. So, the Truth of God no longer shows itself as a set of concepts, ideals, futuristic purposes, it is now revealing itself, the Divine Truth.

That’s our work here with you. Through the Truth of the revelation of Self-Awareness, an approach to the Truth of True Meditation here and now in a practical, experiential way, a State of Being is revealed to you, which is the Being of God. This is the end of the separation between “you and the other,” between “you and life.” That is the true Realization of Happiness, of Love, of Truth, it is the Revelation of the Truth of your Being, it is the Revelation of the Truth of God. OK?

This is the subject here in the channel. If this is something that makes sense to you, please, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. I want to remind you: we have our WhatsApp link here in the first comment. We have weekend online meetings, you can join the WhatsApp group and get to know about these online meetings. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, here’s the invitation and we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and until next time!

August, 2023
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Fulfillment in desires | Awakening of Consciousness | Mind of ego | End the illusion of the ego

The issue is the fulfillment of desires. There is in the human being this search for fulfillment in desires. Here, the question is: if there was Completeness, Real Satisfaction, in us, would there be some form of seeking? Would there be this walk towards a goal to achieve, as occurs in this search for desires? What do we want to attain in the fulfillment of desires? We are going to work this with you here in the next few minutes: what is really missing that makes us feel internally incomplete and dissatisfied? In fact, here we have the presence of unhappiness. When there is Happiness, when there is Completeness, when there is this totality of being full, there is no unhappiness. And when there is no unhappiness, what place does desire have? Here, I refer to that desire to fulfill yourself internally, psychologically.

So here, we have some things we can look at together. The first is, what is this sense of dissatisfaction, of present unhappiness? – so that we can go forward and beyond it, investigating this thing we actually seek within desires. What is that? What is inside each of us that makes us feel incomplete and therefore unhappy? That is what we have revealed here for you in these meetings. We are working with you on the end of this sufferer, this element in us that carries this weight of incompleteness and unhappiness.

We have an inner dissatisfaction, and no matter how great our achievements or accomplishments are, it is here that we face the frustration of desires. Even when we achieve this or that desire, we are still unhappy, incomplete, and dissatisfied. So, what is it that we need to find out here? We need to discover together how to go beyond this unhappiness, this dissatisfaction, and this incompleteness. Where does this incompleteness reside?

Here we have been telling you, within this channel, that incompleteness is the nature of the mind. This mind is the mind of the “I,” of this sense of someone present, of this person. So, the mind of the “I,” of the person is, by nature and its structure, unhappy. What is this unhappy mind that carries this incompleteness? This mind is a conditioning of culture, the world, and society. Then, here when we refer to that mind, we are referring to that personal mind, which is the mind of the “I,” of the ego. That mind is the one that lives in a projection of achieving something outside of the present moment, and in achieving that goal, that desire, it finds fulfillment.

The truth is that the nature and structure of this mind is one of dissatisfaction and unhappiness. So, nothing can satisfy you, and nothing can make you happy. And here, I am referring to this “I,” this “me,” this “person.” Our work here is to unravel that in terms of revealing the truth of this “I”; in facing what we really are outside of this “I” we identify with, we mistake ourselves. So here, we need to say this to you: you are not looking for a desire for the sake of a desire. You are looking for it so that, in this fulfillment, in this desire, in the fulfilled desire, you may find the happiness you seek. However, as that search is a projection of the mind itself into that incompleteness, that dissatisfaction, whatever that mind in this state projects, is still part of its dissatisfaction, its incompleteness. And whatever it finds may temporarily bring a certain fulfillment, a certain completeness, and satisfaction. But just until the next wish arises. Because the nature – I repeat – and the structure of the own mind is one of dissatisfaction.

So, the mind is never satisfied. It has temporary moments of fulfillment, satisfaction, and achievements. That’s why people say that happiness is something here and now, which you are living, and after a while, it disappears, and you have to keep looking for it. Happiness is not a perfect state. According to them, it is something you need to find at every step you take, expanding that happiness. That is, we are dealing with happiness as we idealize it, as we, in the “I,” the ego, have experienced it as something that comes and goes.

People say: “We do not have happiness; we have happy moments.” That is, outside of these happy moments, we have unhappy moments. That is what we know by happiness. So, our search through desire, in desire, is for that happiness. Contentment we experience for a few moments, until a problem, difficulty, and suffering arise, until a new dissatisfaction appears. And we keep at it.

So, our life is in this pursuit of desire, satisfaction, fulfillment, and achievement. What is it that is in this movement? It is the presence of the “I,” of the ego, of the mind. That is what is in this movement. We make this movement because of cultural conditioning. We have emotional conditioning, psychological conditioning, and physical behavior conditioning, in this search for this or that achievement.

I invite you to a vision of the Truth about your Being. Then, you will discover the Real Nature of the Truth of your Being. The Truth, the Reality of your Being, is essentially Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness. That Happiness is the Completeness of Being. We do not know that. We can theorize about it; however, we never come into direct contact with this Reality. We can experience this directly when we are out of that old condition, which is the condition of the egoic mind, the mind of this “I,” in this incompleteness, this dissatisfaction.

So, here we have a completely different relationship with desire. We are not accusing desire, not picturing desire as something wrong that becomes, for us, the cause of more conflict and suffering. Desire indeed has a particular place, but how we have been dealing with it, in this search for it, in this search for external fulfillment in objects, in professional, emotional, intellectual achievements, at different levels of our lives, in this search for desire, in this format that we are dealing with it, there is always one or another form of conflict within it. Within it there is always one form of suffering or another. Then, this search for desire also becomes an element of internal contradiction, fomenting psychological pain and suffering at some level in our lives.

So, we need to inquire into the nature of the “I,” the ego, the mind, of this egoic mind. Thus, we come into direct contact with the illusion of that fulfillment of desires for happiness, for completeness. Here on this channel, we are working with you to end the illusion of the “I,” the illusion of the ego. That is the end of incompleteness and dissatisfaction. And therefore, the end of this conflict created by desires. It is not accomplishing or achieving something externally, outside, but rather, becoming aware of the Truth of your Being. That is not something for the future, 20 minutes, 2 years, or 20 years from now. The fulfillment of desires is something that takes place in time. We need to envision, program, visualize, and work in this or that direction, which requires time.

Here, the work on yourself is the acknowledgment of the Nature of Being, which is this Plenitude, this Happiness. That is something present now, does not require time, does not require this attempt to leave this place and go towards another. So, in our meeting here, our proposal is for you to investigate the Truth about who we are, this movement, this thing that moves in time. What is in motion in time is the movement of thought itself. This movement conditioned, programmed to idealize completeness in the fulfillment of desires, is the movement of the ego, of that ego-identity.

To become aware of the truth of what is here showing itself as this movement; aware of the movement of thought, of the truth of what is happening here. The entire game that thought, in its move, has created within each one of us, creating the illusion of someone present, who is this “me,” this “I,” this thinker, with this or that other objective, in this or that search – which represents a movement of psychological time, the time created by thought itself, where thought says that when accomplished, you will be happy. Who is this “you”? This “you” is the thinker itself. The thinker who is separating from that thought and creating that ideal, that objective, that aim, that purpose. There is no separation between the thinker and the thought, between the desire and the “I.”

So, here is where we have the whole problem. The sense of an “I” present, a thinker, lies in this conflict, this contradiction, this separateness. It has not, but it desires to have; it has not achieved it, but it wants to, and that takes time, effort, hard work, and commitment. And in that involvement, application, and struggle, the conflict is naturally present. There is, of course, dissatisfaction itself. So, this dissatisfaction, this incompleteness, is not due to the absence of desire, the desired object, but the incompleteness, the dissatisfaction, is the presence of the conflict itself, the desire itself, the projection of an “I” present in this image, in that thought, in that imagination.

So, we now have a conflict of desire. Notice that when you want something, you are already suffering for it. The own desire is a form of suffering, and it is now clear why it is like that – because that is a sign of restlessness, conflict, and separation between that “I” and the desired object. In this quest for fulfillment, completeness, for satisfaction in desire, what is present is the dissatisfaction and incompleteness itself creating this condition. It is a projection of the own restlessness and incompleteness; it is a projection of the “I” itself, which is unhappiness.

The Truth of your Being, the Divine Truth, is here and now as this Completeness. It is present precisely in the absence of the desire. Without desire, there is no “I” element, thinker, ego, or desire; therefore, no conflict, incompleteness, or dissatisfaction. So, notice the importance and beauty of this real contact with desire. See the importance of understanding the Truth of this absence of the “I,” of the thinker, of that movement towards the future that thought creates and provokes within each of us.

The Truth of your Being is Happiness, Love, Freedom, and Wholeness now. There is no dissatisfaction in It, in this Happiness, in this Being you are. Approaching this is possible when you observe the movement of the “I,” when you become aware of this mechanism that thought engenders and creates. Over millennia, it built this mechanism of search, achievement, fulfillment, satisfaction, and completeness called “desire.” And it lives in this quest for millennia. So, that has been our behavior because that has been our conditioning. From a young age, we are educated in this direction, in the idea that something will fulfill us, complete us, and make us happy. The truth about the ego is that it lives in this dissatisfaction, this incompleteness, and it will never be happy because that is the nature of the egoic mind.

So, the work of Self-Awareness puts you in contact with the recognition of that element that is the “I,” which is always projecting itself to be happy in some target, in some objective, in some purpose, and always implicit within that purpose is this movement in time. Then, psychologically, we always live in time: “I am not happy, but I will be.” Or: “I do not have complete happiness, but one day I will.” Thought in us always moves in that time. Thus, we have an idea of this “I” present now, which is an “I” that came from the past, went through everything it went through, and now is moving towards a better future. No matter how good this future is for this “I,” this incompleteness, this dissatisfaction will still be there. Because it is the structure – I repeat – and the nature of the ego itself to live in that sense of separateness and, therefore, of conflict.

So, nothing can make you happy as long as the sense of “I” is present, as long as the projection of happiness in a desire, in fulfillment, in something to achieve is present. Then, our job is to look at what we are here and now and thereby there can be an end to this psychological conditioning, to this movement of “I am, but I'm not whole; I will be whole tomorrow.” This movement of becoming, coming to be, reaching, achieving to be complete, full, happy, all that disappears when there is an end to this conditioning. Because it is a conditioning of feeling or emotion, it is a psychological conditioning present. That is the structure and nature of the ego, the “I.” Self-Awareness puts you in a perception of this movement. Thus, this duality that is this “I” and desire, this “I” and this fulfillment, this “I” and this future; that’s duality.

Duality is the element that sustains this condition of separateness, conflict, contradiction, and desire. A crucial aspect in this matter is the element of “fear” present. The search for satisfaction, achievement, and fulfillment because of this dissatisfaction is present because there is fear. Within an approach to yourself, looking at this very movement which is the movement of the ego, projecting itself into this perception, there is Consciousness. In this Consciousness, the end for that “I,” that ego, takes place. That is the end of suffering, conflict, and contradiction.

Thus, something needs to be clearly understood here by you: an approach to the Truth about your own Being is the end of the conflict created by desires. That is the end of this search for satisfaction, fullness, and plenitude, externally, from the outside. That is possible when you approach and learn to look at this present duality, at this thinker projecting thoughts, at this desirer projecting its desires, at this “I” seeking completeness in the “no I.” That is the end of duality. Naturally, that is the end of the conflict.

Notice that this conflict, this duality, implies a very classic form of fear: there is the fear of not achieving, of not conquering, there is the fear of not obtaining. All this sustains suffering in us. In this quest for desire, we also carry this side. The other side of desire is, of course, fear. And when we look at it, observe it in ourselves, investigate it, approach ourselves through Self-Awareness – and here we touch on the essential issue of Meditation. Meditation is this contact with the Truth of your Being through Self-awareness. When True Meditation takes place, when it blossoms, when this Divine Truth of your Being reveals itself – that is the end of this psychological condition of contradiction, conflict, suffering, fear, and desire.

The Truth of your Being is Unspeakable, Indescribable. This is the contact with Happiness, Completeness, Satisfaction, Realization, and the Truth of God. Some people call it “the Awakening of Consciousness.” It is Spiritual Enlightenment, the Vision of God, the Realization of God. There are many names for this Natural State of Being, where Truth flourishes, expresses Itself, and is present here and now. That is our subject here with you, within this channel.

If this makes sense to you, so go ahead and write it in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense.” Leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel, and I want to remind you that we have online meetings. In the video description, we have our WhatsApp link for these meetings, which happen on the weekends. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and retreats. Ok? Here is the invitation and see you. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!

August, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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