Joel Goldsmith | Living by Grace | How to go beyond the fear of death? | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto has agreed to be here with us to bring the experience of what this Natural State is, this Awakened State. Gratitude, Master, for another videocast. Master, today I want to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith’s book called “Living by Grace.” In this excerpt, Joel says the following: “The last enemy to overcome is death, which may just be the fear of the unknown. At some point or another, we must overcome the fear of death by realizing that it is not really death.” Master, could you tell us how to get rid of fear, how to go beyond the fear of death?

MG: The question here, Gilson, is the issue of fear. It doesn't matter if it's fear of the past, if it's fear of the future, if it's fear of getting sick, if it's fear of getting old, if it's fear of death. The whole point is the issue of fear. Human beings live in fear. Fear is a shadow that accompanies us from birth to death. This is because of the nature of the mind, this particular mind that we know, which is the mind of the person, this person as we see ourselves… This mind is shaped in fear. Our condition of existence, our condition of psychological life, centered on this imaginary “I,” on this person that we believe we are, this psychological condition of present identity is a scared identity, it is an identity in fear.

So, fear needs to be investigated. We need to clearly deepen, within ourselves, this perception of the reality of this so-called “fear” present, in this model of human consciousness. This human consciousness in us is the consciousness of the “I,” of the ego, it is the consciousness of fear. And what is fear? Fear is the presence of the meaning of an identity that separates itself from what is shown here, at this moment, and that identity does not want the experience, it does not want to experience it again.

Let's understand this: every fear present in us, in fact, is the reflection of a memory, a remembrance, an image we have of something painful, difficult, complicated, that we experienced. When we go through unpleasant experiences, we record those experiences and when we come across new experiences similar to that past experience, we come into conflict with it, with that given experience, based on that past experience.

So, fear, basically, is something that comes from the past, it is something that comes from memory, it is something that comes from remembrance. We project fear! It is the mind moving at this moment, coming across a new experience that it does not want to go through, because it has already felt the pain, in the past, of experiences similar to these, which it rejects, it fights, it comes into conflict with. So, basically, fear is suffering, and this suffering is rooted and settled in the past, and therefore, Gilson, it is based on what has already been known, on what has already been experienced. So, fear is basically the known repeating itself and being rejected – the known being an unpleasant experience.

Human beings always seek pleasurable experiences. They run away from experiences of pain. These experiences of pain are what we call “fear.” They are painful experiences because we have experienced this before. Because we have experienced this before, we want to get rid of it this time. This is fear! So, remember: it is not about fear of the unknown, because you cannot be afraid of what you have no experience of. Fear has a reference, and the reference is the reference of memory. You cannot fear what you don't know. You fear, in reality, what you know, or what, in imagination, you know. It is not exactly what, in fact, is the unknown, simply because we have no reference to the unknown to be able to be afraid of it.

So, the issue of death, as it is said there, we have to review that. We have to see this very clearly. It's not unknown, let's review it here. The fear of death is the fear of moving away or no longer enjoying known pleasure. What we are afraid of is losing what we are attached to, what we know and what gives us pleasure, what gives us satisfaction and some form of fulfillment. Our fear is not of the unknown, our fear – I will repeat – is that we will no longer have the pleasure of the known: the presence of our loved ones, the presence of our home, our possessions, the presence of our lifestyle, of the quality of life that we know... We know all of this will disappear, will disappear in death, because we have seen many people die before us, and our fear is not of being faced with the unknown, but of being left without what we know.

Observe this carefully: you are not afraid of what you don't know, you are afraid of losing what you know, if that's what you know... if that's what your life consists of. So, our whole life, which is the life of the “I,” which is the life of the person, consists of the known. One fears precisely that one will no longer be or that one will no longer have it – that one will no longer be this known life, that one will no longer have this known life. Our fear is based on our attachments, our fixations, our references to a purely egoic life, a life centered on that “I,” on that person. So, this is the fear of death, and the fear of some situation has as its reference the memory of the pain that we project now to live, due to a past that was experienced.

An interesting thing about this “now to live,” another very curious aspect here, is that, Gilson, there is never fear now. Fear requires the presence of memory, the presence of remembrance, the presence of thought. We only need a second or two for the thought to project itself at this moment, to appear in this present moment and compare what is here with the reference it has. So, we are always faced with life as it happens and, at this moment, at this very moment, there is no time, that time that thought formulates, that time that thought needs, a second or two, to, before this event, be afraid.

When you are faced with a situation, for example, a car coming towards you, the body immediately jumps. It has an action, and it is an action of intelligence, of self-preservation. After the thing happened, you might even say: “Ah, I was scared!” In fact, you were in action at that given moment. There was no fear, there was just a movement of self-protection, but if you look down from a high place and you are really completely safe, but if just “looking down” shows you an internal state of fear, notice, now in one or two seconds, a projection of the mind occurred to create a psychological fear, because looking down from a height – you in a high place looking down – this, necessarily, will not produce any fear. But if thought arises, it arises and only needs a second or two to formulate a psychological fear, and in that fear there is no action, it is just fear.

So, notice how interesting it is: when there is a movement of self-protection of the body, in the face of this so-called “fear” – which is not a fear, it is a brain response to that moment, which is a dangerous moment for the body –, at that moment there is no fear, there is this action. Fear, Gilson, is a psychological matter. There is no fear now. Fear requires this movement of thought, which is remembrance, which is memory projecting itself.

So, our fears are like this. We are afraid of the future... We don't know the future! So, in truth, it is not the future that we are afraid of, what we are afraid of is that in the future we will not have this appearance, this body as it is, that we will no longer have this physical shape. We are afraid of the future because we'll be old with a cane or become ill. So, the projection is always of the past, because the future is unknown, and it is not the future that we are afraid of. We are afraid of losing this youthfulness, of seeing the wrinkles appearing on the face, of seeing the disease appearing, the suffering happening, and this suffering has memory as its reference. All of this is based on thought, it is based on this sense of “I,” which is basically the past.

So, our fear of our child, our fear of our wife, our fear of unemployment, our fear of aging, of getting sick, of dying, it is all a fear that is based on the ego, and the ego, basically, is memory, it is a condition of self-centered identity, which does not want to go through painful experiences, does not want to repeat these experiences, does not want to live them again. This is fear, and it comes from the past. The point here is that whatever you overcome once, you have to overcome again, and again, and again...

So, people spend their entire lives overcoming this so-called “fear.” In fact, they are in a game of duality. They replace that moment, which is the moment of projection of the mind, which is a moment of fear, with a projection of courage. What we call overcoming fear is projecting the opposite of fear at that given moment. So, everything you overcome, you have to keep overcoming, and overcoming, and overcoming... That's why people say: “Look, when I go to give a public talk, I still feel sick to my stomach in front of the audience.” What's happening with them is that they are always overcoming the fear of the audience, always overcoming the fear of the public. And then she says: “Look, I’ve been giving lectures for thirty years and I still feel this thing in my stomach, I still have this reaction in front of the audience.” What she has been doing for thirty years is overcoming fear, because she is in a psychological projection in front of that situation.

So, this so-called “fear,” we can only overcome it through courage, and that is not the point here. We need to discover the nature of fear. This is the end of fear, and when fear ends, it does not come back, because what is coming back only comes back from the past, and if it is coming back from the past, it is because it has not been completed, it has not finished... it has not disappeared. So, here, Gilson, it is not about overcoming fear, but about understanding the nature of the one who is in this movement of this so-called “fear,” which is the “I,” which is this set of memories and remembrances that comes from the past, which, when the new experience arises, when faced with this experience based on this past, one comes into conflict with this experience, and this sustains fear.

So, here it is about freeing ourselves from this “I,” this particular center, this experiencer, this fearful person. So, the end of the fearful one is the end of fear. The end of the experiencer, which is basically this past, is the end of fear in this moment. So, at this moment, there is no fear, because there is no projection. I don't know if this is clear to you. This requires work on yourself, deep, clear, very direct and objective: understanding the Truth about who You are. This is the end of that person as you see yourself and therefore this is the end of fear. It is not about overcoming fear, but about discovering the Truth of That which is You. You in your Being are, here and now, free from fear.

Only in the egoic mind, in this movement of ego projection, is fear present. For this to happen, you need to get closer to the Truth of Meditation, to what is this “understanding yourself,” “to know yourself,” and to get closer to the Truth this way, to what I have called True Meditation, the correct Meditation. So, this is the end of fear, and with the end of fear, everything dissolves, everything disappears, including this idea of ​​someone losing their things in death. So, this subject of death is a very extensive subject. We can go deeper into this here on other occasions with you.

GC: Master, it's interesting: the Master brings the speech and, normally, we have this impulse to understand, and, in the intellect, we cannot understand what the Master is saying. I remembered here, Master... In a Satsang – which are these intensive weekend meetings –, the Master was giving a talk about fear too, and then an understanding came in which something became very clear, because I had an experience of fear, and then something became very clear: as it only exists, this fearful thought only exists as long as I remain in the thought. Then, in a little while, being on the ride, in this sharing of the Master's Presence, I was paying attention to the sensation – because it generates a sensation in the body, fear –, and then, staying in this attention, in the sensation, the fear was already disappearing. Later, the fearful thought would return and the fear would emerge again. And then it became very clear what the Master says: that fear is just this thought, thought, thought, because, by remaining in the experience, which was a sensation in the body that fear was generating, it was already dissolving.

MG: Fear, Gilson, requires the presence of the experiencer, the presence of this center, which is the “I,” which is the one who has kept in memory the remembrance of the pain that it rejects, that it does not want to have, that it does not want to live. So, when we are faced with situations, they are situations where the present Truth is revealing itself, but the sense of a present identity, which is the “I,” which is something from the past, when it arises in front of what is here, as an event, which is an experience – an experience that, by the way, needs to go away, and that doesn't go away as long as this sense of an “I,” which is the experiencer, is appearing to clash with it. So, what feeds the condition of this so-called “fear” is the presence of this “I,” which is the fearful one.

What there is here and now is an experience. It is physical, it appears in the body, it is an impression. We call it “fear” when we place the experiencer, which is the “I,” based on the past, who has already gone through experiences that we previously also called “fear.” This experience here, pure, without the experiencer, does not need to be called “fear.” It is called “fear” because there is a sense of an “I” that comes from the past and confronts it. In this recognition, there is an identification. So, there is the sense of a separation, which is this “I,” to say: “I don’t want this anymore.” This is the presence of that energy that thought calls “fear.” When this is present, fear is present.

But if you bring, right now, to this experience, the awareness of observing the presence of this energy, the presence of the experience, without naming it, without putting an identity to reject it, observe what happens. You will discover that without this experiencer, without this “I,” without this desire to free yourself, to do something, to try to end the experience… because it all comes from this experiencer, which is the “I”: This is the one who tries to free itself, it is the one who judges what happens, it is the one who compares what happens, it is the one who tries to end it, and all this based on this past. When we do this, we are again reaffirming the existence of an egoic identity within the experience, and herein lies fear. So, this continues!

The real way to deal with experience is without the experiencer. This is an approach to Self-awareness; this is an approach to the Truth about Meditation. It is approaching this moment and looking at all this psychological movement that arises in the face of experience, and just becoming aware of this movement, without accepting, without rejecting, without saying “yes,” without saying “no.” In this way, Gilson, you eliminate the thinking element, the experiencer element, the “I” element, which is the fearful element, which is the one that clashes, which is the one that wants to fight against what is here.

What is valid here to deal with this so-called “fear” – because now we have just said it to you: this only goes by the name “fear” when there is this background of memory – this also applies to intrusive thoughts, any emotional disorder, any suffering appearing at this moment. This originates from this unobserved, ununderstood psychological movement. This is present in the “I,” in the ego.

There is no suffering in Life, there is only suffering in the mind, and here “mind” is this movement of the “I,” the “ego.” I refer to this egoic mind. Why is there no suffering in Life? Because Life is as It is! It is when this element, which is the “I,” the ego, which comes from the past and is faced with Life as It is, and wants to fight against It, rejecting or trying to get rid of it, or choosing what suits it at that moment, that’s when conflict arises, problem arises, suffering arises.

The invitation in this work, Gilson, is to discover the Truth of Who We Are. This is present when the sense of ego is not. Discovering the Truth of Who We Are requires that we now understand what we appear to be or what we demonstrate to be, or what we project ourselves to be. Becoming aware of this requires this Attention, an Attention free of choice, judgment, comparison, liking or disliking, of what is shown here. This approach is the approach of the annulment of the ego, of the annulment of this false center. This is a legitimate approach to correct Meditation, to the Truth of Self-awareness.

So, everything that people today do in the name of self-awareness, or in the name of meditation, outside of this Real Understanding of this duality, is just something that can calm them down, give them something, add psychological states to them. Everything will still be within the known, that is, it is not the end to this sense of an “I,” of an ego, of a separate identity. The Truth of the end of fear, or the Truth of the end of suffering, requires something new, the presence of something totally unknown to the ego.

So, the Truth of the Unknown is the Beauty of That Which is Nameless, Indescribable. This is where this State Free from the ego resides, it is exactly at the end of this so-called “known,” which is this movement of the “I.” This requires work, this requires deepening, this requires a very true approach to that Natural State within us, which is the Presence of the Divine, which is the Presence of God, which is the Presence of the Nameless, of That which cannot be captured by this movement of thought and, therefore, yes, it is something outside the known, it is the Presence of Being – we can give different names to this Reality that is beyond all names. This is the end of fear. It's fascinating to investigate all this!

GC: It's interesting, the Master commented on the so-called “self-awareness” ... What is sold is that we have to put, if there is fear, we put courage. So, there is a fear, but not… “I can,” “I do.” And, in reality, it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other, right?

MG: Gilson, on one side of the coin, another side is always hidden. We can't see both sides simultaneously, but the other side is also there. So, what we know as “the end of fear” is the other side of fear. That which is having a form, has another form hidden behind it. So, this duality is something present in these psychological aspects of the ego. We replace fear with courage, pleasure with pain, joy with sadness, so-called “good” with evil. These are all aspects of the ego itself.

So, egoic identity carries this duality. For example: what we call love has the opposite. On the opposite, what there still is, is just a single coin, which is hate. The end of the ego is the end of duality, it is the end of this so-called “love,” it is the end of this so-called “fear,” this so-called “pleasure,” it is the end of this whole “I” centered position, what life is like in the ego, a life within the known. Life within the known is a life within duality and therefore a life settled in that coin, and we need to discover something beyond duality and therefore beyond that coin. That’s it!

GC: Master, gratitude! Our time has come to an end. Thank you for this videocast. For those who are watching the video, leave a “like,” comments with questions for us to bring to the next videocasts, and whoever feels what is beyond what Master Gualberto is saying, is invited to come to Satsang, to be able to embark on this “sharing of Presence,” to be able to deepen this investigation of what fear is, of everything that Master shared with us in this videocast. Gratitude, Master! See you soon.

October, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Real Consciousness | Awakening of Consciousness | Egoic identity, fear | How does the mind work?

There is something here that we need to understand. No matter how hard we try to organize our lives from an external point of view to have balance, peace, freedom in our relationships, some level of security and stability, a perfect level of harmony, however we are trying this, we need to understand a few things here. All this internal activity will always – here I am referring to this activity within each of us –, no matter how hard we are trying externally to organize our life, this internal activity within you will, infallibly, overcome this external condition.

The truth about our life in this context of living, in this context of existence, is that, no matter how happy we appear to be externally, no matter how much security, stability and tranquility we appear to have to people, the truth about this is that within each one of us, we know that what determines our life, our real life, our real quality of life is also what happens inside each one of us.

As long as there is no understanding of the truth of these internal activities within us, no matter how much we create regulations or patterns of behavior or attempt to adjust to an external model of life, to this encounter with Happiness, this encounter with Freedom, this encounter with Love, this will not be possible. And this is not possible simply because we do not understand something very basic here, which is the truth of this consciousness, of the consciousness present in us, of this mind that is within this context of consciousness present in each one of us.

What is the truth about this consciousness? What is this human consciousness? We do not know. How does the mind work? We do not know. What is the mind? We have no idea what this actually is. We can find descriptions in books, just as we can have a description in a dictionary, but all we have there, are words. We have not had contact with the truth of the mind itself here, of this human consciousness here. We don't need to find it in books, we are this human consciousness and we bring this human mind as part of this consciousness that we are, that we express. So, everything we need is already present at this moment.

The possibility of studying ourselves is something that is present here, and it is only when we study ourselves that we become aware of this internal movement, this internal activity that will infallibly and always override any external order that we intend to achieve in our lives.

The most successful people in the world may have an externally very well-ordered life, very well organized, in order, but the truth is that internally their life still consists of disorder, because the totality of life consists of who we are here, at that moment, within ourselves, and not just what is externally around us.

The Truth of your Being is the truth of the totality of your life. If we still carry the weight of envy, jealousy, fear, worry, insecurity, restlessness, the absence of peace, the absence of love, the absence of freedom, no matter how our external life is already ordered, this internal present disorder will always overwhelm this external apparent order.

Here we are showing you that a free life is possible, a Real life, a truly wise life. This is a question that people also ask: “How to be Wise?” Very few people ask this question, but it also happens. There is, indeed, a need in our lives for the presence of Wisdom, and the presence of Wisdom is the Truth of Real Intelligence in action.

Let me explore a bit with you on this issue of human consciousness and Real Intelligence. What we call “consciousness,” notice, in you – your way of thinking, your way of feeling, your way of behaving in the world – is born from this background, born from this internal condition. It is this internal, psychological activity that is the basis of your external behavior in life, and these internal psychological activities are the result of what you have learned, they are the result of what you have gone through. By going through experiences in the past, since childhood... since you were a child, you have been obtaining a psychological formation, not only from this time itself, from this body, from this mind, from this living mechanism, from this biological mechanism that you call body and mind, biological and psychological that you call body and mind, but also as the result of a culture where you were raised.

We are, as human consciousness, the result of human civilization, of human culture. So, this consciousness present here, in general, we call “my consciousness.” The truth about consciousness, about this human consciousness, is that there is no such thing as “individual consciousness.” What is the truth about this individuality of consciousness? The truth is that there is no such individual consciousness.

This consciousness in us is human consciousness. Everything that is present in you – in this thinking, in this feeling and in this acting – is present in every human being. Every impulse, every feeling, every emotion, every sense of perception of reality, of existence, of life is something present in this background, in this program, in this model. This is the result of culture, civilization, and the history of human beings. So, our consciousness is the consciousness of humanity.

The envy present in you is present in everyone, jealousy is present in everyone, fear is present in everyone, ambition, greed, every form of worry that happens to you, happens to everyone. Objects can change, but concern is one in every human being, fear is one. Objects can change, but jealousy is one, envy is one, we all share, in this human consciousness, this same condition.

Internally, psychologically, our internal activities will always override any order, any form of balance, discipline, idea, planning that we have to externally order in our lives. So, the idea of ​​this individual consciousness is an illusion. Here we are dealing with the consciousness of the human being. Studying oneself is studying humanity, studying man himself, studying the human creature himself.

This “studying yourself” is what opens the door to the Awakening of your Being, of the Truth about the Real Consciousness – not of this consciousness that we know, but of the Real Consciousness, which is Something entirely unknown to this sense, to this “I,” to this common consciousness, this human consciousness. The Awakening of the Truth of your Being is the Awakening of Intelligence, the Awakening of Wisdom. It is the answer to the question “how to be wise?” It is to move in this world free from this sense of egoic identity, this “I” that separates itself, and because you separate yourself, you are always in conflict with life, and because you separate yourself, you are always afraid of what life represents.

Note how important this approach we are having here is. We are investigating the nature of the “I,” the nature of the mind. Here is the answer to the question “What is the mind?”, “How does the mind work?”, “What is consciousness?” Notice, there are several answers here in this comprehension of this Awakening, this Real Being, this Real Consciousness. The approach to this is through Self-awareness, the basis for Wisdom is Self-awareness.

Without the understanding of the movement of the “I,” without the vision of this movement, which is the movement of the mind which, basically, is a movement of thoughts – thoughts which, in turn, are remembrances, memories, and recollections stored in this so-called collection that we call “mind.” So, the movement of this thought is the movement of the mind, the understanding of this movement of the mind is the perception of the movement of this consciousness, which is the result of a program of culture, society, civilization, human history present in this mechanism, in this body-mind.

The expression of this conditioning is the expression of this “I,” this conditioned mind, this is what is overcoming, this is what is prevailing in this life that we call “my life,” in these relationships, these so-called “my relationships,” “our relationships.” The sense of a present “I,” of an egoic identity that behaves within greed, envy, jealousy, fear, violence, suffering, the expression of this conditioning in our relationships with others, with life, is the model for this “I,” for this center that is the ego. This is what is overcoming, this is what is prevailing in human relationships. All the chaos in the world, all the disorder in the world, in the wider world, between nations, between countries, between cities, between neighborhoods, between families, between people, there is always another form of conflict, of aggression, and violence.

So, the sense of “I” is always appearing, present, creating these separations between cities, nations, neighborhoods, families, between “me and you,” between “us and that other group.” To examine this, to investigate this, is to go beyond this sense of a present “I” to a Real life in your own true Being. Not this psychosomatic being trapped in this condition of psychological conditioning, egoic conditioning, mental conditioning, of a life in the “I,” a life in the ego. I speak of this Real Being, this Real Consciousness, the Revelation of this Harmony, this Beauty, this looking at the other without this background, without this aspect of this egoic identity that separates itself to judge, compare, reject, always looking from a distortion of reality, which is this background of concept, prejudice, opinion, and evaluation based on judgments. Having the awareness of a look free of the “I,” of the ego, having a speech free of this sense of an “I,” of an ego, having this feeling, this living, this life in Completeness, in Fullness, a Divine life, a life where the Presence of Love is. Will this be possible?

A life free from suffering, where there is this Presence of Joy. Not a motivated joy, like the joy you have when you receive a gift or when a good thing happens for this “me,” for this “I,” for this ego, we are not talking about this model of joy. We are talking about a Joy of simply Being, of remaining free from this sense of person, in this Beauty of awareness, of Totality, of the absence of the “I,” of the ego.

We have moments of this quality of Joy when, for example, we are in front of a beach looking at the sea, seeing the waves crashing against the rocks, sitting on the sand. There is no thought, there is no imagination, there is no idea. The eyes are open, the ears are listening to the sound of that environment, of the waters crashing against the rocks. At this moment, there is the sound of the sea, there is the brightness of the sky, there is all this light spread across that environment, the light shining on the waters, on that sand; at that moment, there is no sense of an “I” present, there is a complete emptying of all this content of an egoic identity, of a personal identity, we have the end of this whole culture, of all this so-called “humanity”. There is, in this moment, the absence of fear, of envy, of ambition, of those so-called “dreams to be happy,” because in that moment, there is this indescribable Thing, the Presence of that Silence, the Presence of that Truth, the Presence of that Real Joy. So, at this moment, we have the Presence of this unknown Reality, this Divine Truth, which is the Presence of this Being, this Real Consciousness.

The work of the Awakening of this Consciousness, this Realization, is the Awakening of Wisdom, it is the Awakening of this Real Joy, which is the Truth about who You are. Some call this the Awakening of Consciousness and Spiritual Awakening, it is the end of the illusion of this “I,” of this ego within living, within experience.

So, this is our topic here on the channel. We have online meetings where we are working on this, investigating this, delving deeper into this subject. There is our WhatsApp group link here in the video description so you can get closer to these meetings and investigate this with us. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, please, go ahead and leave a “like,” subscribe to the channel and we'll see you, ok? Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

October, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The conditioned mind. The art of listening. Approach to Self-Awareness. Awakening of Consciousness

I want to invite you, at this point, to have a different approach. In general, when we set ourselves to listen to someone, we often do it to determine whether the subject is of interest from the perspective of our intellectual agreement. If we agree with it, it's in our interest to keep listening, and if we disagree, we lose complete interest – that's when, in general, we stop listening.

I want to invite you to take a different approach to these meetings. Maybe you are on this channel for the first time or have already been following these videos. Either way, we need to learn something fundamental here in these meetings: to learn the art of listening.

When we put our heart and not our intellect into listening to everything we hear – because now we are not just hearing, but listening – it has an extraordinary meaning. And I want to invite you to go deeper into this issue with me, the importance of observing, looking, and hearing in this clear sense of listening. This listening is the Real look, the Real seeing, the Real listening to some subject, and when it happens, it is not – I repeat – the brain involved anymore; it is the heart.

Here we are dealing with you about the Reality of life, getting closer to the Truth about who we are. We are dealing with this issue of the Awakening of Consciousness and, therefore, the Blossoming of Intelligence and Wisdom. That requires a different mindset and a whole new approach; that is what we will be doing here for the next few minutes.

Here, the first thing I want to emphasize is this: put your heart into this listening. Do not engage your intellect in agreeing or disagreeing, all of a sudden, with something you may be hearing because sometimes we agree or disagree with the words we hear, but those words are the least important thing we have here. What matters is that we come to a comprehension. This comprehension is the emergence of something within each of us able to perceive not only what we articulate but something far beyond those very words we expose here.

There is something we need to approach from a different angle. In this meeting, we will talk to you about Self-Awareness. Here, we are dealing with the Awakening of your Being, which is the Awakening of Consciousness, the Awakening of God. That requires a new brain and mind, and then this listening here becomes fundamental.

First of all, here, we will perceive a few things now. The first of these things is that our mind is within a process of conditioning, programming, conclusions, and intellectual formulations. So, the mind becomes a new mind when we start to become aware of its own movement. Notice how important this is for each one of us; otherwise, we cannot have an approach to the Truth of our own Being, the Truth of What we are beyond this conditioned mind, this already programmed mind. Here, we are talking about the art of learning about oneself, of understanding the Truth we bring, but which is not in the field of this mind.

What is this mind? That's the question people often ask: “But what is the mind?” What is this mind that we have? After all, what is the human mind? This human mind is the result of conditioning from humanity, human history, human culture, human education, and teachings within our humanity – political, philosophical, and religious teachings; all of this has provided intellectual shaping for each of us. So, this brain is already predisposed within a conditioning it has received over millennia, to a very personal, particular perspective, the one tightly bound to a process of conditioning, a human history – the history of humanity. And when we look at the history of humanity, the history of the human being, we find conflict, suffering, jealousy, envy, violence, confusion, and disorder, so our brains are conditioned to operate in this world with this framework, this design.

Our psychological, brain, and mind condition is one of conditioning. That pushes us away from simplicity, from the naturalness of What we carry within us beyond the mind. So, what is this approach we have here today? We are approaching the observation of the movement of the mind, of this conditioned intellect, so it requires a new learning about ourselves by looking at all this movement. That is why listening to what is happening here and now is essential. It is not just listening to this talking that is going on, but also to any thoughts arising within you while listening to this talking. Then, listening is not agreeing, not disagreeing; it is not evaluating, not judging, and not comparing that talking or that thought with anything else. It is just listening.

Let us put it here in a simple way. We need to understand this because this is the Real way we have of approaching the Revelation of What is beyond the mind, the intellect, beyond this conditioning, this programming. Listening is hearing with all that attention; attention that neither agrees nor disagrees does not compare, judge, or evaluate but only accompanies.

It's like when you look at the sky and see a cloud, you have nothing to say about that and will not agree or disagree with it; you will solely look at it, and if there is an interest in following it, you will only do it. The wind will be blowing, and you will notice the cloud is moving and naturally follow it with your eyes. You do not agree, disagree, evaluate, condemn, or reject; you merely follow. When you look at the sea, at the waves approaching, you neither agree nor disagree, neither evaluate nor judge; you only observe the movement of the waves. This observing the movement of the waves, this looking and watching, is that listening – only following what is actually there.

So, here I want to talk to you about how to decondition the mind. What is this process of deconditioning the mind? How does it become possible? What is this deconditioned mind? What is the mind free from this conditioning? It is the one that has emptied all that psychological, humanistic, political, and religious content. We have a mind trapped in this conditioning, and when we learn to look, observe, and accompany this movement of the mind, we get closer to this deconditioning. Then, getting closer to that listening, looking, and seeing means putting your heart entirely into it because now there is no longer the element of the conditioned intellect to say anything about it.

Notice that we are here at this moment, in this talk, pointing and emphasizing the importance of observing the movement of the mind. That is to become aware of the understanding of this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” the ego, that is Self-Awareness. So, we have here a Real approach to Meditation. Meditation is this contact with this gaze, this observing, this listening without this element that judges, evaluates, rejects, and compares, which is the element of the “I,” the ego. Then, there is the complete emptying of all this content when the brain and the mind quiet down, and What is present beyond the mind begins to reveal itself, to show itself, there is a contact with Something outside this world of the “I,” the ego. That is the contact with Real Meditation. Thus, we come closer to ourselves, to this Being we are, when the illusion of this “I,” this ego, this “person” we believe to be is no longer present.

Our work consists of observing the movement of the mind. It is much more common for people to ask: “How do I observe the mind?” It is not possible to have an approach to observing the mind without this art of looking, seeing, and listening because observing the mind is becoming aware of the entire movement of this consciousness. What is this consciousness? It is all the movement of the mind which, when it looks, evaluates, accepts, rejects, compares, and judges.

Then, we have a moment of approaching the Truth about who we are when there is an emptying of all this content of the mind, which is the content of this consciousness, the consciousness of the “I,” the ego. Thus, there is a Revelation of Something outside this well-known movement of thought.

Notice that thought is the common element in all of us, so we function based on it. Thoughts bring ideas and beliefs, formulating concepts and opinions, evaluating, measuring, and comparing. It is always the thought that is involved in this process of the so-called “consciousness in us,” and when the mind starts to become aware of this very movement because it pays attention to observing it, in this attention lies this new learning about ourselves since now you are in this listening, watching, seeing, without trying to do something with what appears. If a thought arises, a feeling, an emotion, an idea, or an opinion, it is just observed.

Just as you observe that cloud or those waves, you are now becoming aware of all that movement, the movement of the mind, the movement of that personal entity, which is the “I.” That looking without doing anything with it, this direct looking without getting involved with it, is the approach to Self-Awareness, to Real Meditation, and this happens in a very natural way when you put your attention to following, observing, looking at this. Right now, at this moment, we are in a Meditation meeting; if it is possible to follow it without creating or holding any content about it, but simply being in this listening, then there is only the art of following, without the movement of the intellect to acquire, possess, or accumulate.

The difference is that this state of attention at this moment of real listening, seeing, and hearing without the sense of an “I” is that, at this moment, there is this approach to learning – not the old learning where you were constantly accumulating ideas, beliefs, and knowledge. In fact, there is an emptying of this content so that Something new outside the egoic mind can emerge and be present.

That is our subject here on the channel with you. Thus, approaching Self-Awareness requires approaching this Real Meditation as it happens here and now. Following without accumulating, acquiring, just this moment of stillness, of silence. So, the mind becomes still, and there is a Revelation beyond words.

This is our subject here on the channel, the Awakening of Something beyond the mind, outside the “I,” the ego. We have weekend meetings where we work on this with you. You'll find our WhatsApp link in the video description so you can join our group and get closer to these online meetings. We have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, take the opportunity and leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and write in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense,” OK?

Thanks for meeting me, and see you next time. See you!

October, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Practicing the Presence | Have faith in God | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, we would like to thank Master Gualberto for his presence, who are here for the videocast so that we can bring some excerpts from Joel's books and the Master can provide a deepening. We also read the questions that you ask on the channel and the Master can provide the answers. Much gratitude, Master, for this videocast.

Master, today I'm going to read an excerpt from Joel's book called: “Practicing the Presence,” and, in an excerpt from the book, Joel says the following: “Only I am God. Not the concept you have of me, only I, the invisible one, am God. I alone am God. We have to stop creating mental images, stop imagining what God is like, and trust the formless invisible One that penetrates and permeates all beings.” Master, can you give us some comments on this excerpt?

MG: Here, it is what is very common on our part, which is creating an image, formatting God within an idea, creating a mental formulation of this Reality that is beyond the mind. I have called that the Nameless, the Indescribable, because the word “God,” we use that word… we are talking about something that is outside of the intellect, outside of our intellectual reason, outside of these measures of reasoning, of understanding. Divine Truth is outside the mind, it is outside any formula, any formulation, any imagination, any idea, any concept. So, this is something that we, really, Gilson, need to get rid of.

It sounds a little strange, for some of you, when we say here that the belief in God, the idea, the formulation of the belief in God, is just a mental concept that we form, and we form this belief, this concept, this image, due to the cultural conditioning where we were raised. If you are raised where you hear the word “God” since you were a child, you end up creating an image of what it represents and you carry that image until the end of your days. And it is just an image, a belief, it does not alter in any way the Awareness of the Truth of what God is and the Revelation of What You actually are.

We do not need to believe. What we actually need is to become aware of the Reality of God, but we cannot become aware of the Reality of God by studying this idea called “God.” In the holy books, we have the idea, and the intellect forms an image and studies it, and that is not the Reality of God.

The Reality of God needs to be verified, and It is only verified when we discover It in ourselves, when we become aware of the Reality of That which we essentially are, because our nature is the Nature of God. Not the God that we imagine, the God that we believe in and the God that, intellectually, we can study about, but, rather, the God that we can see present here and now when this sense of “I,” of the ego, of this person that we believe to be is no longer present. So, we indeed have the Awareness of the Reality of God.

In this sense, Gilson, we don't need to trust this, because who would have this trust, if not this molded intellect? This shaped intellect, in this principle of belief, image, and imagination, is still part of illusion. So, it's not about trusting, it's about being internally “burning” for the Realization of this Truth, and that requires an understanding of this illusion, which is this false identity that we bring, that we express in our relationship with others, with life.

This sense of an “I” in us is what needs to be investigated, and it is enough to have this deep interest in It, to be “burning” for It – and this, in fact, is already an action of the Presence itself of this Real Consciousness, which is God, in us… It is about the Consciousness of this surrender to the Truth, going beyond this limitation of this “I,” this false consciousness, which is the ego present.

So, this happens in a very natural way when Grace itself takes charge of carrying out this work, of making this work possible here for this organism, for this mechanism. The Truth of God is revealed by God himself!

So, here it is really about unlearning everything we have ever heard and believed about God, about studying ourselves and understanding this movement of the “I.” This will occur through an action, of course, of the Divine Presence itself here, which is already taking care of this, so the Truth of God reveals itself. It's not about believing, trusting, it's about learning the art of self-observation, which brings you closer to that Self-awareness, which naturally carries out this surrender, the surrender of illusion. Through True Meditation, this happens.

So, Gilson, this is our emphasis here in these meetings: learning the art of self-observation and discovering this false center, this false “I.” This very realization is the end of this illusion. This naturally brings about this Revelation that God is the present Reality. Not the idea, the concept, the image, the belief, but this nameless Reality, indescribable and unreachable by thought. This is the Divine Reality; it is the Reality of God.

GC: Within this context that Master is talking about, on how useless it is having a belief in God, and about the word that is used a lot within spirituality as well, which is “faith,” “have faith in God”.. Master, could you talk a little about it?

MG: Yeah... We don't know what Faith in God is. We know what it is to have faith in God, and this “belief in God” is something that we were taught, and it is an act of goodwill of the intellect itself to accept this as being real, as God being a Truth, but this is just an action and a movement of the intellect itself creating an image and trusting it. This is what we call “faith.” We do not know what Faith is. Faith is the Awareness of the Reality of God. Faith shows itself when the Truth of That which is unknown reveals itself. It is not a belief.

This movement of surrender to the Truth, of working on oneself so that this sense of “I” dissolves, so that this sense of “I” disappears, this movement is a movement of Divine Intelligence itself, of Divine Grace itself, of Faith, of the very Reality of God in us. This Faith is a Gift from God. It is not this “I” that accomplishes This, it is not this “I” in its will, in its belief, that exercises Faith. The “I” would never do that; the ego would never do that. The Truth about Faith is that Faith is an action of the Presence of Grace itself, therefore Faith is a Divine Gift. The sacred scriptures say that Faith is a Gift from God. The Bible says: “Faith is a gift from God. This does not come from you; it is a gift from God. It does not come from work, so that the man, so that no one can boast.”

Therefore, Gilson, we don't know what Faith is. Faith is an action that comes from God to God. It is not from man to God. It is something that comes from Grace itself. Divine Grace is the presence of Faith. In our speeches, I don't use the expression “Faith” so much, precisely because there is this confusion. We would have to clarify that “Faith” is not someone who can have it. The person cannot have, the human being cannot exercise Faith. It is the very Presence of Divine Consciousness in him carrying out this process.

In general, in religious life, people use this expression “faith” in the sense of an exercise of will, of volition, of wanting of the own “I,” the own person, which is false, which is completely illusory, because it is the Divine Presence itself that places this impulse towards God in the heart of man. It is God in search of Himself, it is God becoming aware of Himself here, in this instant.

This sense of ego, Gilson, is not real, and this entire movement around this false identity revolves around the known, the movement of thought, which is part of this illusory dream. So, it is very simple to understand that human beings cannot exercise Faith, because the psychological condition of conditioning in us, in this false center, in this “I,” in this ego, is exactly the absence of Truth, the absence of Grace, of absence of Faith.

It's a delicate subject, because, in general, we say we have Faith, but who has that? The “I,” the ego? It cannot have that, but we use religious expressions, taken from the scriptures, that we are unaware of their real, deep meaning. We use the expression “God,” “love,” “faith” … We do not know the meaning of these expressions, but we use them in this religious sense, within this aspect of Theology, which we intellectually approach and believe we have understood, but this is only at the verbal level, at the level of words, and we don't get out of that.

The Truth of That which we are, which is the Truth of your Being, which is the Truth of God, brings, within Itself, this Truth, What is the Reality of Consciousness, of Being, of God Himself. So, Love is This, Faith is This, Truth is This, Happiness is This. Not the happiness we know, the love we know, the faith we know, the God we believe we also know, nor the God we know. Reality is beyond the mind, beyond the “I,” beyond the ego.

GC: Master, there is a question from Wilson Barducci. He asks the following: “Master Gualberto, are you enlightened?”

MG: What we call Enlightenment… Everyone gives a meaning to It. Lately, I've even been using this expression, because it's an expression that people, in general, use, but they don't know what the real meaning of this expression is. The expression “Enlightenment,” as a synonym for the Awakening of Consciousness, you see, is not something that one can achieve. This Awakening of Consciousness is the very Reality of this Real Consciousness taking Its place in this body-mind. So, Enlightenment is the Truth of this Light itself taking Its place in this body-mind. It is not someone becoming enlightened. It is the end of this illusion of someone present in this experience of living, of life, carrying this sense of separation, of duality, and, therefore, of fear, suffering, and all the confusion that thought can create.

People live in an internal state of confusion, suffering, fear, anxiety, unhappiness, and absence of Real Love, the Real Truth of Faith, the Real Truth of God. The Truth of What Grace does is to bring this Awakening of Consciousness, which is the end of this “me,” this “I,” this ego. So, the Truth of Enlightenment, the Truth of Awakening, is that the sense of an “I” that separates itself – and therefore carries all this weight of an identity separate from life and therefore in suffering… The end to all that, yes, is the Awakening of Consciousness.

In this sense, everything that we are sharing here, that Gualberto is sharing, is based on what he is living. We are sharing the Reality of this Being that we are, this Real Consciousness that we bring. So, we are sharing this from an experience, not from an idea, a belief, a concept.

When this Natural State settles, your living is no longer the living of a person in the sense that we have given to that word. One lives in confusion, one lives in this sense of separation, one lives in this ignorance about one's Divine Nature, and the Awakening of Consciousness is the end of that. To put it very simply: this Truth of Being of this Consciousness, of this Enlightenment, is the Truth of everyone. The difference is that some have already assumed this and others have not. Some are already aware of this Reality and living this Reality, and others are still identifying with the illusion of a sense of an “I” that separates itself from experience in living, from the present moment and therefore suffer.

Here, our proposal is for you to assume This. This “you assuming” is the end of this “me,” this “I,” this “you” as you see yourself. This is Awakening, This is Spiritual Awakening, This is God Realization, whatever name we want to give It. The name does not matter, the Natural State free from confusion, disorder, suffering, fear, and this sense of ignorance about life, about oneself, in this context of living – that is what matters.

Enlightenment, Gilson, is the Awakening of the Sage, it is the Awakening of that Natural State of Pure Wisdom, of Pure Intelligence, something beyond everything that the mind knows, even beyond all mystical experience and all mystical life, like the mystic also knows. That’s it!

GC: Master, it is impressive how, in this idea of ​​being someone – I am talking about myself – it is completely unknown what “someone enlightened” would be, because, really, as I have this feeling of being someone, looking at the Master only with this human vision: “Ah! It’s someone: Marcos Gualberto.” And then, living with the Master in recent times, a vision opens up of what the life that the Master has today is, this life without this sense of being someone, but it is something that is completely unknown, popularly unknown, especially because it is rare Realized, Enlightened Beings working like the Master does.

And then, the idea we have, very common in spirituality – I'm talking about myself – is exactly of someone, a being of light, someone enlightened, or someone with many powers... and, knowing the Master, by Grace, and being in the atmosphere of the Master, I can perceive what the Master… yes, there is this body-mind, but he no longer has this whole idea of being someone, which perpetuates suffering. And it is really a complete Freedom, right, Master?

MG: Still talking about this Enlightenment or this Awakening, because there is a lot of curiosity about It, Realization, Awakening, or Enlightenment, whatever name we have for This... The name never represents the thing itself. This State, which is the State of Being-Consciousness-Bliss, which is described in the Indian scriptures in this way, in the Vedas, as Being-Consciousness-Bliss, is simply the State of the Sage, of one who is free from the confusion of the egoic mind, this egoic consciousness, this sense of an “I” that separates itself from this present moment. It is the State free from the illusion of this “me,” this identity that comes from the past, is here in the present and heading towards the future.

Notice, Gilson, that, in this sense of ego-identity, the notion we have is of “someone” today, here, who came from the past and is going to the future. This disappears into that Natural State of Being, which is your Natural State, which is your State free from the illusion of this sense of separation, then there is nothing more to achieve, nor is there anything to get rid of. So, it is, in truth, your Natural Divine State, where That which is present is beyond birth and death, is beyond this past, this present, and this future that thought idealizes, that self-image, which is the image that the ego makes, has of itself. This disappears in this Natural State.

So, the Natural State of Awakening, which is the Awakening of this Consciousness or Enlightenment, is not an imaginary state, it is not a state that the mind can reach, imagine, speculate about, as the mind generally does about everything. The mind has ideas about everything and it also projects, within what it knows, this State, which is completely unknown to it. It is possible, Gilson, to live in this Natural State, but never explain or clarify what it is, in terms of language, speech, expressions. It is outside of language; It is outside of the mind; It is outside of the known.

So, here, we investigate the nature of illusion, and not the Truth about Reality. The Truth about Reality or Reality reveals itself in its Truth when illusion ends, and that is what we are interested in investigating here: not having that imagination, not forming that image, not sustaining that image, because we are going to be dealing with an illusion too.

Reality is present. We need to investigate the nature of illusion and thus it ends and this Reality shows itself. And, when It shows itself, we don't talk about It, there is nothing to say about It. You live It, you are aware of what It is in living, but you don't have this “me,” this “I,” to say anything about It. This is Realization.

GC: Master, the word “Sage” that the Master commented on: “become a Sage” ... It is very common, within the known or spirituality, the wise as someone who knows a lot, someone who has studied a lot, someone who has an intellect who knows a lot. Can the Master clarify a little about what this true Sage is?

MG: The Wise is the one who does not suffer. You can meet people who have a lot of knowledge. People, in some specific areas, acquire knowledge, but all knowledge, Gilson, is limited. No matter how much you learn something and become an expert in it, no matter how much you know something, you will always have more to know about it. This shows us that all knowledge is limited. So, knowledge does not give you Wisdom, because, no matter how much you know about things, you still have a lot to know about that, because knowledge is limited.

The truth is that no knowledge gives you Wisdom. Knowledge, in fact, is an element of research, it is something that is researchable, and, because it is limited, it can always be added. So, Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. With knowledge, you become an expert in a given area, but no matter how expert you are in that area, you still have a lot to discover and learn, because this knowledge is limited, while Wisdom is the end of knowledge. It's the opposite! The Sage is not the one who knows everything, the Sage is the one who does not suffer, because he is not within the limitation of the known and therefore is not bound by the limitation of knowledge.

So, the Sage lives in his Natural State of Being-Consciousness-Bliss. This State is the State of Wisdom, it is not the state of limited knowledge, of that “knowing” to know more, and know more, and know more. Note that you can be a scientist and, at the same time, be afraid of your wife, afraid of death, afraid of spiders, afraid of the past, afraid of getting sick, and afraid of old age.

So, if you are a man of great knowledge, cultured, illustrated, and who is always learning more and more about your area, about your expertise, but you still carry this sense of an identity present in experience, separating yourself from this moment, this present moment, and still seeing yourself as a person who was born and who can die, and carries some form of fear, because of this sense of separation between you and life, between you and Reality, between you and God – because it is like that things occur… as long as there is this sense of separation, there will be some form of fear, there will be this primordial ignorance, which is ignorance about your own Being.

The Sage is one who knows the Truth of his own Being. He is beyond the illusion of an identity present in experience. This is the Sage! He is free from suffering, he is free from desire, he is free from fear, he is free from primordial ignorance, he is free from this illusion, this sense of separation between God and him. This is the Sage!

So, let's not confuse this anymore. The educated person, the illustrated person, the person who has knowledge, can be intelligent, but within a specific area. This intelligence is not what we are dealing with here. The Intelligence we are dealing with here is the Intelligence of the Sage.

I will repeat: the Sage is not the one who knows, he is the one who is aware of his own Nature, his Real Nature, his Divine Nature and the Essential Nature of everything. He doesn't live in the research field. He is free from this movement of searching for the known. It's the Sage! I would say that the Sage is the scientist who discovered the Truth about Himself and kept quiet. Everything is here and now revealing itself as Your Real Nature. So, it is the One who is within a dimension outside of the known, outside of knowledge, outside of time, outside of this sense of a “I,” outside of limitation, who is simply in his Natural State, which is something unspeakable, indescribable, and unnamable.

The Truth about You is God's Truth, and That is outside of time, That is Wisdom. This is the Natural State, it is not about someone wise, it is just the Natural State of the Sage.

GC: Master, gratitude, gratitude. Our time is already over, so gratitude for this Satsang, this encounter with this Truth that is beyond all knowledge. And, for those who are watching, leave a “like” and leave a comment. By bringing the questions here in the comments, we can bring them to the next videocasts. And remember: whoever feels something different, beyond the words of Master Gualberto, and who feel a yearning to go deeper into this, there is the link in the first comment, the link of the WhatsApp group with information about these intensive meetings on weekends, which are Satsangs, online and face-to-face. So, here's the invitation. Gratitude, Master, for this videocast.

MG: Okay, guys! Thanks for the meeting! See you!

October, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Investigation of the mind. What is consciousness? Chatty mind. Restless mind. Spiritual Awakening.

Very good! Here we are talking to you about what consciousness is, what the mind is and what thinking is. These three subjects are topics discussed here on the channel, as well as several other subjects that we are investigating with you. And why do we do this? Because these subjects are very important issues within this proposal here on the channel.

What are we working on with you here on the channel? We are working to end the illusion of this present “I,” this ego, this sense of “someone” in life, here, in this present moment. This is the end to suffering, to anxiety, to depression, to anguish, to all these situations of psychological unhappiness that we know. Your encounter with the Divine Truth, your encounter with the Truth of Being, with the Truth of God is the end for conclusions of the type “my consciousness,” “my mind,” “my I.” So, this is what we are dealing with here with you – also “my thoughts.” See, this is all something significant here.

So, let's work with you now on this issue of consciousness, let's take a closer look at this. People have been talking about this, about what consciousness is, because that's the question: what is consciousness? And then comes the description. There are many books talking about what consciousness is and we have divided consciousness into unconscious, conscious, subconscious, and so on; we speak of “my consciousness”. And here we are addressing the question of simple human consciousness.

What is human consciousness? Let's not get stuck in more technical words and terms because we leave that to the experts. What is this human mind, this “my mind?” Is there such a thing? What is this human consciousness? Is there such a thing as “my consciousness”? See, we are dealing here with human consciousness, this, yes, is this consciousness in me, it is the consciousness in you, it is the consciousness in everyone. We are dealing with the human mind; it is the mind common to everyone.

How does the mind work? How does consciousness work? Consciousness is basically a movement of thoughts within each of us. This is what we call consciousness. Being aware of the experience of the moment, seeing yourself as someone who identifies with that experience, this is something possible when there is this movement of thought that recognizes. The recognition of this experience from thought is what we call consciousness, this is the sense of being conscious, of being aware, and this is human consciousness; a consciousness trapped in a pattern, a model of existence, where we know very well what is present in this model of human consciousness: anxiety, anguish, fear, depression, envy, jealousy, possession, control, and suffering. We also recognize within this consciousness some so-called “positive” aspects of this human life, of this life in all of us: pleasure, joy, fulfillment, and satisfaction.

We carry these aspects, the positive ones – in short: pleasure – and the negative ones – in short: pain –, so on one side we have suffering in this human consciousness and on the other side we have pleasure, and all of these are aspects of this consciousness in us, this is human consciousness. The question is: can we go beyond this condition of human consciousness to something unknown, this pattern of pleasure and pain, beyond this pattern of positive and negative aspects within this “my consciousness,” this “my thought,” this “my mind,” this of this “my I”? Can we discover something beyond that? This is what we are working with you here within this channel; we are signaling to you the Liberation of this “I” and, therefore, the Liberation of this human consciousness.

What is beyond this human consciousness? What is the Reality when this so-called “human consciousness” – or this mind as we know – is no longer present? We have to first investigate what this mind is, how we have been working, what this consciousness is, how we are working within it. Notice, it is always within a principle of separation, of duality, it is always in an idea of ​​a present “I” feeling these positive and negative aspects and claiming to be conscious of them – of these aspects –, it is always the sense of a present “I” in this movement of thought saying that you are conscious of these thoughts.

What are these thoughts? Notice, what is thought? Thought is basically memory. All the experiences you went through you recorded at some point, this became memories, remembrances, and memories within you. Is a life free from this condition possible, where we are free from this model of identity, which is the “I” living these aspects of consciousness – the positive and the negative – and these aspects of this mind loaded with this memory, with this model of memory? Is there anything else besides that? That's what we're investigating here with you.

The Reality of your Being, the Divine Reality, the Reality of God is not within this pattern, this model. All these aspects that are known of this so-called “mind” and this so-called “consciousness in us” are aspects of egoic identity, of the movement of an existence that sees itself as separate from life, separate from the other, separate from Divine Reality, separate from God.

Here we are not dealing with a belief about God, we are talking about a Reality that reveals itself when this “I,” this ego, is no longer present, when this sense of egoic consciousness, which is the consciousness that carries these two aspects – the positive and negative – is no longer present, when this dualistic mind, which is the mind that sees itself separate, in control or believing itself to be in control, is no longer present. Then we have the Truth of the Revelation of Being, which is Consciousness.

The question is: how does this become possible? This is made possible by a study. Not going to books or going to experts to hear about it, but by looking at yourself. A self-awareness expert cannot give you the Truth of Self-awareness. Understanding the Truth of your Being is something that reveals itself here, in this instant. There is no expert in self-awareness, just as there is no book capable of giving you the Truth of Revelation about who You are. Unless you get closer to yourself, you will never have this vision, this understanding.

So, here it is about studying yourself and understanding the truth of the mind, the truth about consciousness. Thus, this condition of human consciousness, which is the result of an entire programming of culture, society, the world, a specific and conditioned way of sustaining ourselves within each one of us, all of this falls apart within this Real Understanding of the Truth about who we are, the realization of this true Presence of Being, which is Real Consciousness. Then, a new quality of mind arises.

Having an approach for the investigation of the movement of the mind. When the mind becomes still and begins to become aware of its own movement, this is the way we have to get closer to the true Revelation of this Being that we are, this true Consciousness, this Real Consciousness that we are. This is what is Real, beyond this psychosomatic condition that we assume to be in this illusion of the ego, in this illusion of the “I.”

This may seem very, very strange to you at first. Having an approach to yourself to look, to study yourself and observe the movement of the mind, then there is an understanding of what is outside this restless, chatty mind, with its different patterns of obsessive thoughts, negative thoughts, acquisitive thoughts. All models of thought patterns present within this egoic memory, this memory of the “I” are understood when the mind becomes quiet, silent. So, looking at this very movement of the “I,” that is self-observation.

People ask: “How to observe the mind?” How to observe the mind? The answer to this is by becoming aware of each and every movement that arises without reacting. Non-reaction to each and every movement of thought, feeling, sensation is the secret. Non-reaction is the secret, this is the way to truly get closer to observing the mind.

How to observe the mind? By becoming aware. How not to react? By becoming aware of yourself here and now. Then, a new space opens up, which is the space of the Truth of Self-awareness. Note that this is possible when we place our attention, this Full Attention on the entire movement of consciousness, this consciousness common to everyone. When you pay attention to this movement of consciousness and see this whole game, in this Attention there is not this element that is the “I” trying to do something, there is only this observation, this observing the mind, this observing the movement of this consciousness in this Mindfulness. Then, we have the Revelation of Self-awareness. All of this is part of an approach to the Realization of your Being, the Realization of God, because now the Truth of Real Meditation is present, which I have talked about a lot here on the channel.

Discovering the art of Being this Presence, of Being this Consciousness is discovering what it means to Be. It is something possible when there is this approach to True Meditation. The work consists of looking at this entire movement of the “I,” so we discard this illusory consciousness, this condition of consciousness, of pattern, of conditioning of consciousness that is this so-called “human consciousness,” for Something new, for Something unusual, for Something unnamable, which is the presence of Real Consciousness.

This is the way to get closer to the Truth of our own Being, what some call the Spiritual Awakening or the Awakening of Consciousness. All of this requires an approach to oneself that, in general, we have not given ourselves, because we are always within this continuity of egoic life, within this pattern of repetition, model, and continuity. An approach to this moment is necessary, it is necessary to study oneself, to learn to look at oneself, to bring this Mindfulness here and now to this observation, to this discovery. So, we have this proposal here for you within this channel.

So, this is the way to get closer to ourselves, to get closer to the Truth about the Realization of God, to this Silence, to this Beauty, to this Grace, to this free life, to this completeness of Being Pure Consciousness, of Being Pure Presence. Divine Truth is Something that is here and now, all that is necessary is the end of this illusion, this sense of separation created, sustained by this movement of the egoic mind, by this movement of human consciousness, which is the mental consciousness, which is the consciousness of the “I.” For this purpose, we have meetings here, within this channel, and we have online meetings on weekends. You can find our WhatsApp link here in the video description. If this is something that makes sense to you, join the group now. Go ahead and leave your like on the video and subscribe to the channel. I want to remind you: we also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

October, 2023
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What is the Truth about Consciousness? Being-Consciousness-Bliss. Life free from ego. Restless mind.

Alright! One of the things we see here, together with you, is that, as much as we try to organize, program, and regularize our lives externally to be successful, to have fulfillment, to be successful, all this external action we have programmed, organized ourselves to attain, notice that we are always internally, in these internal activities, overriding these actions, these plans, these projects.

What we are saying here, in other words, is that no matter how much we organize our lives externally, as long as there is, internally, this model of activity, which is the activity of the “I,” of the ego, the truth of these achievements, of these goals we have in life, we may even have something accomplished, but none of that will give us Real Happiness, Real Love, Real Peace in our lives. Because our internal activities, that is, all this activity of thought, feeling, emotion, and way of perceiving life, will always override our goals, objectives, and external purposes.

Here, we are inviting you to an intelligent life. An intelligent life is free from this sense of “I,” the ego. People have some goals in life like: “How to be happy?”

Purposes in life, on how to achieve happiness, for example. All to achieve success. “How to achieve success?” “How to win at life?” They are targets, purposes people determine to reach, get, and obtain. But they do not understand that internally, psychologically, they will continue to be the same people. And what we call success or winning at life does not represent Real Happiness, Real Love, Real Peace.

So, people are successful. They are successful and have fulfillment in life but internally remain unhappy, with various internal problems. That is the condition of human beings. They are basically unhappy in this consciousness common to all, this consciousness of humanity, which is the consciousness of everybody. They can have comfort, power, fame, notoriety, prestige, and public acceptance; they can appear successful and fulfilled and yet internally remain who they have always been: just a person filled with fear, ambition, and envy, carrying this weight of anxiety and depression.

So, there is this dissatisfaction and incompleteness. This frame of psychological unhappiness is something that is present despite all the comfort, all the so-called physical “security” or apparent security, and despite all this so-called “stability,” internally, we may continue to be the same people. So, what is the Truth about who we are? What is the Truth about Consciousness? Without a clear understanding of the Truth about who we are internally and psychologically, no external achievement will make you happy, give you Love, Peace, or Real Happiness.

Here, we work with you to end this idea of someone present to achieve, obtain, or accomplish. Because all this movement of that someone is illusory; the more it moves, the greater the insecurity, anxiety, and fear. It is this sense of “I” that is always present, not understanding the movement of consciousness, of how we function. Internally and psychologically, we are programmed to be the person we are, and what we are psychologically continually overrides any external conditions in our lives.

So, all our external achievements we manage to accomplish, obtain, and conquer become as if bathed in this psychological condition, still of grief, conflict, suffering, insecurity, and fear. The non-understanding of the Truth of Consciousness – and what is this Consciousness? We believe we have an individual consciousness, of individuality, of the “I,” the person. This consciousness is human consciousness, and all the training of humanity is present in this so-called “human” consciousness within us.

If we were raised and born in a culture, our conditioning, programming, way of thinking, and feeling would derive or come from this culture. If we were born in a Christian, Judeo-Christian culture, our way of thinking, feeling, and behaving is that way. If we were born in a culture with other religious or philosophical principles, our way of thinking and feeling is different. So, in communist countries or where the religion is different, our conditioning background is also like this. As human beings, we psychologically, emotionally, intellectually, culturally, and religiously are conditioned, and behave based on that conditioning.

That is the human consciousness, the one in each of us. It is not individual, so this is not individual consciousness. Then, this is not individual consciousness; it is human, the consciousness of all humanity. Thus, we function like everyone else around us: we carry fear, anxiety, envy, ambition, jealousy, the weight of insecurity, the pain of loneliness, and the search for love, peace, and happiness. So, our internal psychological condition, the condition of this human consciousness, which is the one of this mind, of the “I,” lives in this way. We do not understand the Truth about who we are because we do not understand the Truth about this Consciousness.

Here, we are communicating something about the Truth of your Real Nature, your Real Divine Essence, the Nature of God. This Divine Nature is Being, Real Being, Real Consciousness, and, by nature, Happiness, Completeness, Love, and Peace. But this is not within this so-called “human consciousness,” which is the result of culture in the history of humanity. We carry within each of us this sense of identity, within the illusion of will, desire, power, and control. We talk about free action, we talk a lot about free thought, about free feeling, about this personal and individual capacity to achieve, to accomplish. All of this is illusory.

We carry this sense of someone present, which is not real. All we have is this movement of consciousness and this programmed format of thinking and feeling. We do not like to hear that, but the truth is that we think as everyone thinks, we feel what everyone feels, and we live as everyone is living. These internal frames of conflict and contradictions that we know in ourselves: violence, desire, and suffering are common to all. That, for example, is something common to all of us. We all know what it is like to live a life still trapped in this pattern within this model of existence.

So, there is a Real understanding of this consciousness. The way to get closer and investigate this model of consciousness of the “I,” the ego, which is the human consciousness, is through Self-awareness – learning to look, to observe this movement within each of us. When we become aware of this movement, we can go beyond it. Then, it becomes possible to understand the Truth of this Being, Consciousness, and this Happiness that we are, which is our True Nature.

That is when there is order in these internal activities now. So, if there is order in these internal activities of thinking and feeling, this external life can be seen in another way. So, this illusion of external movement of life and internal movement within us ends. It is when this Presence of Being-Consciousness-Bliss encompasses this totality of life. It is when this sense of “my particular life,” “my particular ‘I,’” “my particular things” falls apart, this all disappears due to an approach to the Truth about who you are, here and now.

So, there is an emptying of all this content, which is the content of this so-called “consciousness,” which is the result of this programming of culture, society, and the world where we were raised. It is the end of this consciousness I have called egoic consciousness, which is the consciousness of this “I.” This mind that is part of this model of consciousness disappears. This restless, chattering, disordered, confused mind, stuck in this model of restlessness, dissolves and disappears. It ends.

The Truth of your Being shows itself here and now. An approach to Divine Truth is an approach to this study of ourselves. To look at this movement of the mind, this consciousness, and become aware of it. Then, something real arises outside this condition, this pattern, this model. It is the Reality of this Being, the Reality of God.

That is our subject here with you, within this channel. So, approaching this becomes possible when you discover the art of observing the very movement of the mind, of that consciousness. In this emptying something new arises; something entirely unknown is present. That is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God.

Here, we are working on this with you in this channel, and also in online meetings on weekends. I invite you to get to know these meetings and participate in them. On weekends, we have online meetings. You can find our WhatsApp link in the video description to participate in the meetings. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. So, here is the invitation for you. If this is something that makes sense to you, so go ahead and leave your “like,” subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: “Yes, it makes sense.” OK? And see you next time. Thanks for the meeting.

September, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to overcome suffering? What is suffering? What is thought? Conditioned mind. Duality.

The question is: “How to get rid of suffering or how to overcome suffering?” Here, we are before a very intriguing question or two questions. We need to understand the truth of suffering. What is its structure? What is its nature? What is the real basis of suffering? This attempt on our desire to get rid of, to situate ourselves free from suffering is interesting. It is interesting because we want to be free of it; we want to be free of suffering without first understanding what suffering is.

The point here is that we cannot have an approach to what suffering is, what is its structure, nature, and basis without first approaching an understanding of the truth of the one who suffers. Who is this one who suffers? We do not ask ourselves. We ask how can “I” get rid of this suffering? I do not ask what this “I” is. I have no interest in investigating the nature of the “I,” that is, of the one who suffers. Not understanding the truth about this “I” who suffers makes it impossible to understand the truth about suffering.

We live, for example, as separate from each other, with ideas, concepts, opinions, and particular visions on this or that other subject. That is something very private in each of us that separates one from another. We are separate as human creatures. As human creatures, we live apart from each other, from life and ourselves.

We do not know what this present thought is for this “I” that is separated from it – or at least it sees itself as an entity separated from it. For example, we have the idea “I'm thinking,” so there is this “I,” the thinker, separate from that thought, this “I” separate from him or her and life. This separation, this division, the presence of this “I” that sees itself separate from itself, from what arises as thoughts, emotions, feelings, this “I” that says “I feel, I think,” “I see,” ” You and me,” “Me and him,” “life and I,” this “I” this “me” is the sense of a present identity that is separating itself.

Here, we have the central element of the structure, nature, and basis of all human suffering: the “I.” “I ” have my religion, and you have your religion. I have my idea, and you have your idea. We are separate: in this separation, there is, of course, conflict. “I am a Christian, you are a Buddhist, he is a Muslim,” “I am a Catholic, you are an Evangelical, he is a Spiritist,” “I believe this, you believe that, and they believe something else,” we are thus separated, divided; and in this separation there is naturally conflict, divergence, friction, suffering.

We do not know how to deal with thought because we have this “I” who does not know what thought is, and thoughts oppress us. Notice that we have a restless, chatty mind, and there is a movement of thought that we do not know how it works in us. From the viewpoint of feelings, we feel, but we do not know what feelings are; we do not know how to deal with feelings, thoughts, emotions, and others. We do not perceive that this “other” separate from this “me,” this “I” is something that is sustaining, in this division, this or that other form of conflict and, therefore, of suffering.

So, what is the nature of suffering? The non-understanding of the truth of this “I” who separates itself from life and the other, politically, religiously, philosophically, psychologically, and existentially. This “I” in “me,” this “me” that is the self-centered “I” in an egocentric position in life, in living, is anguish, anxiety, depression, mental confusion, psychological, emotional, religious, philosophical, and political disorder. All of this is the suffering of the human being; it is human suffering, and “my suffering.”

So, what is the structure, the basis, the nature of the suffering? It is the sufferer, the sense of “someone” present, who, when faced with life as it is, is faced with life based on ideas, ideological, psychological, and religious formulations. Then, our concepts and prejudices make us separatist creatures, living a self-centered private life and, therefore, suffering. Psychologically, internally, we are overloaded with these thoughts in the restlessness of a brain that is programmed to move automatically, unconsciously, in a movement of insanity, dealing with thoughts, emotions, and feelings chaotically.

So, we live in the future psychologically speaking, and this living in the future represents this weight of anxiety. We live in the past, and this life, in the past, is the illusion of “someone” here and now, present at this moment with a story they want to get rid of. This suffering is the depression. This present moment is not understood as it is because there is this weight, all this restlessness about what to do, what not to do, how to deal with the “other,” how to deal with this “me,” how to deal with myself, with this sense of an “I.” The condition at the moment is one of stress. Then, we have anxiety, depression, stress, this or that form of suffering due to the presence of the one who suffers, which is the “I.” Do you get that? Do you follow that? Can we see this together here? Are you with me?

This sense of a present identity, which is this “I,” the ego, is the root, the fundamental issue, the structure, and the nature of suffering. To have an approach, a new look at this movement of life requires a free mind, an unconditioned mind because this is how we live our lives: we have a conditioned mind. The brain is part of this conditioned mind, our intellect trained, and our way of evaluating, judging, comparing, accepting, or rejecting occurs in us in a very restricted, limited, conditioned way due to this set of ideas, preconceived evaluations, concepts acquired within this culture, this society, this world.

So, our brain is trained to move within this conditioning pattern; a conditioned brain and mind, a completely wrong way of approaching the “other” and life's challenges. Adverse, arduous, complicated situations are, in reality, challenging situations. They are arduous, adverse, and complicated because of this conditioned brain. This inability to deal with the experience of the present moment is a challenge for a conditioned mind and brain. Then, meeting this challenge within this limitation, in this absence of Real Intelligence, of Real Consciousness, is configured as suffering, as a condition of life and existence that is conflictual and afflictive.

So, you see, the answer to the question “How to get rid of suffering or how to overcome the suffering?” lies in understanding the nature of the “I,” the ego. Without the Real basis, which is Self-Awareness, without the singular and unique Truth of Real Meditation in an experiential way, here and now, it is impossible. As long as the sense of an “I” that sees itself as separate from life, separate from Existence, as long as the sense of an “I” present continues to see itself as separate, as long as the sense of an “I” continues to see itself as an entity separate from itself, as that “I,” the thinker, is separated from thoughts, the one that feels separate from its own feelings, from its emotions, the one that sees itself as the “I” separate from the other, as long as this “I” is present, there will be suffering.

As long as there is no understanding of this element, which is the separatist element that sustains this sense of duality, duality will be present. In this psychological duality, in this sense of an identity separate from the “other,” from life, from these internal representations of thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, and perceptions, as long as this is present, suffering will be present; then, our life, from beginning to end, will always be a life of problems and therefore, of suffering.

Here, I want to invite you to a life free from this “I,” the ego, and therefore free from suffering. The Reality of your Being, the Reality of God, does not carry suffering. It is not about overcoming or getting rid of suffering; it is about understanding the illusion of this “I.” That is the end for the sufferer and, therefore, the truth about the end of suffering. The truth about overcoming suffering, the truth about getting rid of the suffering is the truth of going beyond this “I,” of abandoning this illusion of this sense of a separated identity, which means the end of the ego, which is constituted here as the end of the “I.” Some call this the Spiritual Awakening, the Realization of God.

So, here with you, we are working on that, showing you the Truth of the Revelation of your own Being. At the end of this illusion, becoming aware of this “I,” there is an end to this illusion, and the end of this illusion of this sense of an “I” that suffers is where the Freedom of not suffering lies, the Freedom from this issue of suffering.

We are working on this with you in online meetings on weekends, investigating and deepening this with you. Our WhatsApp link is here in the description of the video, so you can join in, get closer to these meetings, and work with us on weekends. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. Okay?

If this is something that makes sense to you, please leave a comment in the video description: “Yes, it makes sense,” leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. See you, okay? Thanks for meeting us, see you next time!

September, 2023
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Joel Goldsmith. The Conscious Union with God. Understand the nature of illusion. Master Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Gratitude once again, Master Gualberto, for being here with us, for being able to come here in the videocasts and bring to us what this experience in this Natural State is like, what it is like to live free from all conditioning, from all imprisonment, and free from suffering, which is what everyone longs for. And then we'll talk more about this, Master. And, Master, I'm going to read an excerpt today from Joel Goldsmith's book, the book called “The Conscious Union with God.” In this excerpt, Master, Joel says the following: “Always remember that the basis of our work is: ‘But seek first the Kingdom of God’. One of the ways to first seek the Kingdom of God is this understanding of union, because when you demonstrate your consciousness of union with God, all things are given to you in addition.” Can you talk more about it, Master?

MG: The idea you get, listening to what he says, is that you're going to do this, you're going to allow yourself this, you're going to achieve this, you're going to somehow get closer to this. Our positions here are a little different. This awareness of the Reality of God is assumed due to realization of the present illusion being seen. So, here it is – let's put what he said in another way, with a slightly different language, and I want you to be patient with this –, here it is about the perception of illusion. The sight of this illusion is the end of this illusion. So, here it is about becoming aware of this illusion. The awareness of this illusion is the end of this illusion. The end of this illusion is the end of this ignorance, of ignorance of the Truth about You.

You are not aware of the Truth about Yourself, so you live in ignorance because you are not aware of this illusion. You become aware of this illusion, you realize the Truth about Yourself, and that is the end of this ignorance about who you are. So, we have the Reality of God present here and now being verified. It is not about being achieved, about being attained, or demonstrated, but about simply being acknowledged. You verify this Reality, which is the Reality of God. And, in fact, when you realize this Reality, which is the Reality of God, once this sense of “I” is no longer present, there can no longer be problems.

All problems are only problems for the “I.” It is always in a relationship with something that the problem arises. For example: fear. Fear is the relationship of the “I” with something, with a memory, with a situation, with a difficulty, which it does not want to meet, which it wants to get rid of, which it cannot bear. This is fear, that is, it is always something in a dual relationship. There has to be this “I” and the other thing. In this duality lies the problem.

So, always, all human problems are present while this “human” is present. Fear is present for the fearful one, jealousy for the jealous “I,” desire for the desiring “I,” fear for that fearful “I,” anger is a problem when there is that angry “I.” We never investigate the nature of anger, of fear, of jealousy, of envy, of the problem. We never approach the problem to look closely at what it represents. To look closely at this, is to see this duality. That is the end for this “I” and, of course, the end for this so-called “problem.” So, this problem, be it fear, envy, anger, or jealousy, disappears when this “I” is not there. This is God's Truth. There is only this Reality.

The problem with us is imagining this Reality. So, when we use the expression “God,” the conditioned thought in us, in this conditioned brain, already creates an image, already sees a being there, or something separate from this “me,” this “I.” So, there is this “I” and God. Here we are faced with an illusion. In fact, with one more problem, because now we want to find God, and we also place Him inside the mind, as something else separate from this “me.” So, there is “I and God.” Just like there was “I and fear,” “I and envy,” now there is also “God and I.” So, everything remains the same. “Fear and I” is there, “envy and I” is there, “jealousy and I,” “anger and I,” “God and I” ... That’s the problem!

The end of problem is the end of the “I.” So, it is true that, as he says, when there is awareness that the Only Reality is God – and here it is, I repeat, a realization, and not a posture or a position of someone to demonstrate this, but a realization... This realization is not the realization for someone, it is God's realization for God, it is God revealing Himself, being the Only Truth present in this Life. So, this “life,” which you call “my life,” is no longer “my life.” In this Life, which is now no longer “my particular life,” in this Life, there is no problem.

There is no problem, Gilson, in Life, there is only problem in the mind, and the problem in the mind is the problem of duality, it is the sense of someone present within experience – and here I refer, naturally, to this mind of the “I,” to the egoic mind. So, a New Presence, with a New Mind, with a New Heart, with a New Life, is present when there is only God, in the non-existence of the “I,” in the non-existence of the ego. So, it's not about you demonstrating God so that there are no more problems, but it's about you becoming aware of the illusion of this “me,” this “I.” It is the awareness of Truth from God to God. This requires work in this direction.

GC: Master, I want to read a question from a subscriber here from both Luz do Despertar and Master Gualberto's channels. Joel Graf asks the following question: “Hello, Gilson! Here’s one more question for the Master: because the ego is a cunning and subtle mechanism, can we say that it is an artificial intelligence, since it is not rooted in the Being?” Then, he makes another comment, adding: “Furthermore… are we at risk of being dominated by an intelligence of this magnitude?”

MG: That’s a very interesting question. He talks about artificial intelligence. Gilson, we have divided everything. All we know to do well are divisions. We divide everything! For example, love is already divided: love for family, love for country, love for children, love for oneself, love for God. So, we take the word “love” and create these subdivisions; this is what we do with the word “love.” We do this because we don't know what Love actually is. We don't know what Love is! As we do not know what Love is, and all this affective, pleasant, satisfying, fulfilling approach, internally, psychologically, for the human being, at this or that level, we call it “love,” so we divide the word “love.”

We did the same with the word “intelligence.” Until then we had different intelligences: emotional intelligence, spatial intelligence, mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence... Notice: we made a huge division with the word “intelligence.” This was done exactly because we don't know what Intelligence is! Now artificial intelligence has emerged. So, there was no artificial intelligence. For us, emotional intelligence was natural, mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, musical intelligence... A huge group of love, a huge group of intelligence, and now there is also artificial intelligence.

This is very curious, because there is no such thing as intelligence; neither this so-called “natural” nor artificial. In the field of the mind, in the field of the “I,” in the field of that identity which is separate from living, which is the sense of someone present, which is the ego, there is no such thing as Intelligence and there is no such thing as Love. The presence of Love is something beyond everything that is known and beyond all the divisions that thought can create. The same applies to the Truth of Intelligence.

People use the expression “intelligence” in the sense of skill, technique, and knowledge. Some, yes, have a greater ability for music, mathematics, others for some specific branch of science or art, and we use the expression “intelligence” in that sense. But here, the real word is not intelligence, it is technique, it is skill, it is knowledge! Every brain or every mechanism, every organism, every so-called “person,” has a certain ability, a certain capacity for this or that type. So, what we call “intelligence” is an ability in which everyone has a certain proficiency. For some it is one way, for others it is another way.

And here we use the expression “artificial intelligence.” His question is whether we are at risk of being guided or driven by artificial intelligence. What I want to say to Joel is that this is already happening! The intelligence that human beings claim to have is completely artificial, it is not Real Intelligence! So let’s use the word “artificial” here in a new way. True Intelligence, like True Love, is something outside the known, it is something outside the egoic mind. In my opinion, Gilson, Real Intelligence is the Intelligence of the Sage, of the one who does not suffer, because he does not see himself as a separate entity in time and space, producing more problems for himself, nor for the world around him, because he is a free being, who lives free from suffering, imagination, beliefs, theories, ideas, free from psychological conditioning, he is free from this culture that is based on envy, fear, and ambition, living in all frames of unhappiness and suffering.

Such a life is a life of Real Intelligence, and this Intelligence is the Real and Natural Intelligence of Being Consciousness. When That is present, when That is the Reality of your Being, we also have the Reality of Love. Not this love that we know, not this love that we divide and subdivide, as we just put it here. We are talking about Love that is beyond what is known, that is beyond this condition of description, of definition, something that is not directed to purposes and objectives in this dream of the world and life as we know it.

In this sense, Gilson, we are already under the control of this so-called “artificial intelligence.” All ego’s intelligence is completely artificial. The scientist may be very intelligent in his laboratory, but he is afraid of his wife at home, he is afraid of dealing with his children, he is afraid of receiving a “no,” he is afraid of rejection. He's a scientist, but he suffers from anxiety and depression. So, we are already living in this artificial intelligence. This artificial intelligence is discovering wonderful things in technology, science, and all areas of human knowledge. All we have is this so-called “intelligence,” which, in fact, is still artificial, because it is something within the known, an intelligence that favors us in terms of comfort, fast transportation, global communication, and all this sort of thing.

Unimaginable things we have in our world today: they are the wonders of science, but of the science of artificial intelligence. We are already under the control of this intelligence, because, despite all these achievements, we remain the same creatures as four thousand years ago, ten thousand years ago. Internally we remain unaware of Real Love, Real Intelligence, Real Happiness, Real Peace, Real Awareness of God. So, we are scientists, we are educated, illustrated people, but we are not Wise, because we do not realize the Truth of God. So, yes, we are already under the control of this artificial intelligence.

GC: That analogy is interesting. We, really, in this sense of being someone, we are slaves to this idea, which is artificial intelligence. And, Master, the question: “How to get rid of this illusion, this artificial intelligence and awaken this Real Intelligence?”

MG: This Real Intelligence is the Flourishing of Consciousness. The direct touch of the Reality of your Being is the Flourishing of Wisdom. So, the Awakening of Wisdom is the Awakening of this Intelligence. Here, when you ask “how?”, it's a very simple basis. The answer to this is: by becoming aware of illusion. The awareness of illusion, Gilson, is the Verification of Truth. As long as we are living within this context of illusion, taking this illusion for Truth, we will be under this aegis, under this domain of this so-called “intelligence,” which is the intelligence common to all: this intelligence of the ego, this intelligence of the “I.” It can be spatial, emotional, it can be technological, it can be mathematical, it can be human relations, but it will always be this intelligence within this sense of an “I,” an artificial intelligence, and, therefore, within the illusion of this sense of an identity that separates itself from Divine Reality. The answer to this “how?” lies in the verification of this illusion. The investigation into the nature of the “I,” the ego, is the end for this “I,” this ego, and, therefore, the end for this limitation of this ego-identity, with this so-called “intelligence” that it has, that this ego has.

So, the work here is about getting closer to the Truth about who we are, discovering the art of perceiving this movement of the “I” producing, sustaining, feeding, creating more and more problems, more and more difficulties, more and more adversities in our lives, in this sense of separation, moving in a purely egocentric activity.

So, no matter how great this so-called “intelligence” we have, if it is intelligence limited to this context of the ego, it is not yet the Truth, it is not yet the Flourishing of Self-awareness, it is not yet the Flowering of Wisdom, and, without Wisdom, there is no Real Love, Real Intelligence, Real Truth, there is no God. That's it!

GC: Master, about this “seeing illusion”: humanly, in a general context, thoughts come and we believe that those thoughts are ours, or a feeling comes and we believe “I am feeling.” This “seeing illusion” is observing this movement of thinking, of thought, knowing that it is just a thought, the illusion of a thought, the illusion of a feeling of someone feeling, right? In reality, there is thought and there is feeling, but there is no one in this experience of feeling, of thinking...

MG: The idea, basically, that we have, due to this training we received from childhood – and this is something that is already ancient in the history of humanity – is that there is someone present. That someone is that sense of “I” in that self-consciousness. In this self-consciousness, in this “I,” you are the one who thinks, you are the one who feels, you are the one who, when you use the pronoun “I,” is speaking the truth about yourself. This is totally false! Everything we do is repeat what we have seen within the context of culture and society, of the world.

This sense of a present “I,” in this so-called “self-consciousness,” has to be investigated. This thinker is not real! This emotional one is not real! The one who feels is not real! There is feeling, there is thinking, there is emotion, but there is no “I” element within the experience. Here is the thing, Gilson, here is the hypnosis, here is the illusion that needs to be verified: the idea of ​​a present “I” that separates itself by being the thinker of that thought, being that “I” in that feeling, this “I” in this emotion, this “I” in this action. This is not real! Action happens, feeling happens, thought happens, sensation happens, but there is no “I.”

Discovering the Truth about yourself will show you that this “me” has no reality within this moment and that this present thought is just a conditioning model emerging, just like this feeling, this emotion, and this action. We are creatures, Gilson, who move in this time, which is a time only idealized by our own thoughts, which is this so-called “today,” which came from the past, came from yesterday, and moves towards tomorrow. This is within this illusory vision of an identity moving. To understand the nature of the “I” is to understand the nature of the illusion of a present identity. Do you know the beauty of that? It is that, through Self-awareness, it is possible to see the end of this “I,” the end of this illusion. So, in True Meditation, a reality outside this time – past, present and future – is revealed, outside this thinker, experiencer, outside of this emotional “I,” this sad “I,” this upset “I,” this bored “I.”

Here we are already touching something outside of words, we are touching Reality outside of the “I.” This is possible to be experienced, but the sense of someone doesn’t remain to report something about This, to tell This, to explain This. This is contact with the Truth of Meditation. We need to become aware of this Reality, this Being-Consciousness-Bliss, which is the indescribable, unspeakable Reality of the Nature of ourselves. This is the encounter with the Awakening of Consciousness, which is the Awakening of Real Intelligence, which is the Awakening of Real Love.

Looking at this movement of thought, feeling, sensation, and perception without placing the “I” element, is something that happens due to the power of Divine Grace itself, bringing you this direct realization of the Reality of Being. So, it is a work of Grace itself, of the Divine Presence itself. All we do here, Gilson, is just observe this movement, is to become aware of this movement. When we become aware of this movement, there is an end to this movement and this Reality reveals itself.

This is our work within these meetings: working on That, the Awakening of Truth, what some call Enlightenment, God Realization. I always called this the “Natural State,” today I'm using all this language because of these countless videos here on the channel going to YouTube, but words don't matter, people give a lot of importance to words. They say nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing about It! That's it.

GC: Gratitude, Master, gratitude. It is pure Grace to be able to be in Satsang, to be able to be with the Master, because, somehow, in this sharing of Consciousness, we get a ride with the Master and can glimpse this Freedom without conditioning, where the illusion of an “I” is present, the illusion of that center, disappears. It's pure Grace, it's pure Grace! Gratitude, Master.

Master, we're done here, our time has passed. People who are watching the video, leave a “like,” a “thumbs up,” because this helps YouTube recognize that the content is relevant and be able to distribute it to more people. Leave a comment, which also helps, and bring questions for future videocasts here in the comments. And here's an invitation for anyone who feels something beyond what is being said in the words of Master Gualberto, for anyone who feels that indescribable something, an invitation to come to Satsang, which are these intensive weekend meetings, both online and face-to-face, in Pernambuco, in the city of Gravatá (Brazil) – but, on any flight, we get there quickly. And there are also retreats, where it is even more intense, because they are retreats lasting several days, a week, ten days, and are really for those who are deeply interested in delving into this Self-Investigation. Master, gratitude, for this videocast.

September, 2023
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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