Joel Goldsmith. Consciousness is what I Am. Beyond words. Self-Awareness. Master Gualberto.

GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast. Again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you very much, Master!

Master, today I am going to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called: “Consciousness is what I Am.” He says the following: “The only problem anyone has ever had is the ‘I’, and if there was no ‘I,’ there would be no problem. The troublemaker is the personal sense of ‘I’.”

Master, what is your vision about this “I,” about the ego? How to free oneself from this personal sense of “I”?

MG: It is necessary here, Gilson, that we once again be careful not to confuse the experience of the moment with a person present within the experience. The sense of a present “I” has as its principle the thought of an entity in time, moving in space, within an action in experience. So, what basically is the “I”? It is the sense of an experiencer experiencing. Thought in us has created the illusion of the continuity of an identity that is, at all times, doing things, thinking things, feeling things.

So, there is in us a feeling, thought and sensation of being “someone” within the experience, because thought is continuing this plot, this story. If you didn't have a memory, Gilson, you wouldn't know your name. If you didn't have memory, you wouldn't know your story, you wouldn't have any idea of ​​being born and walking towards death with the end of your body. If you had no memory, you would have neither the past, nor the idea of ​​a present, nor a concept or an imagination of a future.

So, see: everything is basically thought. It is thought that sustains the continuity of the “I.” So, what is the “I”? Thought. And what is thought? Memory. So, it's everything that this body-mind, which we call “Gilson,” went through, recorded. And when this body-mind called “Gilson” expresses himself, he uses the pronoun “I” to tell the memory of this supposed “person” who is there. This is the “I”! The “I” is a fallacy, the “I” is a fraud, the “I” is an imagination of thought, which is sustained because memory is sustained. Was this clear? The name, the story, the experiences... it's all within thought, which are recollections and memories. This is the existence of the “I,” this is the existence of the “person.”

The point here, Gilson, is that this “person” is in trouble, because it sees itself separate from Existence, seeking to survive within all experiences. It feels like someone who is alive, having things, experiencing things, knowing things, accumulating things that it doesn't want to lose. Who is it? The “person.” But what is a “person”? It's thought.

So, naturally, all the problems we have are the problems that the “person” represents, that the “I,” the ego, represents. The beauty of your Natural State of Being is that there is no “person” in that State of Being, and in that State of Being, which is not personal, there is something present that is not in the known, that is not in thought, that is not in time, which is not in memory. So, the Awareness of Being is the Realization of Truth, or whatever we want to call it: God Realization, or Enlightenment, or Awakening… But basically, it is the end of the illusion of the sense of a “person” within the experience of life.

So, see, Gilson, life keeps happening. The body is present speaking, feeling, eating, talking, and living as, apparently, everyone is living, but without the illusion of an identity present in the experience of life. So, there is Life, and Life does not have a particular, egocentric center, which is the “me,” the “I,” living from its experiences, its memories, its remembrances, and trying, naturally, to hold all that, controlling all that, keeping all this for itself – which is basically suffering.

A typical example of “person’s” suffering is fear. It is a very broad, very vast subject, the different forms of fear that “people” have. But how could it be otherwise, since fear is sustained precisely by the thought of possessing, of controlling? Something that the “person” cannot do, because there is no control in life.

Life is something extraordinary, it is an extraordinary mystery! It is not under the control of the “I,” the ego, but it wants to control. This “person,” this “I,” this ego wants to control based on what? Based on thoughts! So, thoughts generate fear, different forms of fear. So, the basic fear is this: Losing your power, your control generates all other forms of fear, including fear, for example, of death, which is the fear of this “I” ceasing to exist, losing what is most precious to it, which is the body, the mind, all accumulated pieces of knowledge.

So, it is something that needs to be investigated, we need to go beyond, Gilson, this condition of identity, which is the identity of the “I,” which is the identity of the “person.” This is the end of this psychological model of being “someone.” It's not the inability to remember, it's not the inability to remember your name, the house you live in, your family. This is something that is in the brain, it is just a function of the brain, but it is no longer at the service of an egoic identity. In your Natural State, you are free from this weight, which is the weight of the ego, of the “I,” which is the weight of a psychological identity in memory.

So, the end of this illusion, this memory, which I have called “psychological memory” – which is what sustains the illusion of this false identity, which is the ego, the “I,” the “person” –, the end for this is the beginning of something entirely unknown to thought, which is your Natural State of Being – I will repeat –, where memory works perfectly, where memory has a perfect place in this dream of life, in this dream of the world, but there is no more suffering, because there are no more problems, because there are no longer fear and conflicts linked to the issue of fear, like desire and everything else. That's it.

GC: This speech from the Master is always revolutionary! And while the Master was talking about how much this “I,” this ego, is just a thought, a memory came that, during an online Satsang with the Master, in the first online meeting I participated in… as the Master was sharing, bringing these revolutionary speeches and sharing this Presence, That which is beyond words… then something came up that became very clear, very clear, how the “I,” this ego that… wow, it’s just a thought! It is a thought in which the thinker comes and there is all this entanglement, all this suffering, which is the human being, which is humanity.

Now, in Satsang with the Master, in the sharing of this Presence of the Master, it is very easy... it is “very easy,” in quotes, but, in this sharing, I realize that I enter into this atmosphere of the Master and it is very clear to realize that the ego is just this thought.

Sometimes, outside of Satsang, it gets a little more difficult, in the rush of everyday life. Then, within this theme, Master, I wanted the Master to share the importance of participating in online and in-person meetings to be able to be in this Master's atmosphere and delve deeper into this self-investigation.

MG: Contact with the Reality of your Being is contact with Silence. It is not contact with speech, but it is contact with Silence. Unless this speech is full of Presence and Silence, bringing Silence to you as you listen to this speech, for that true listening – and this listening to the speech is to have a comprehension of what is being said – there is no purpose in the speech. The beauty of an online meeting, of a face-to-face meeting, is that we have it much more fluidly than, naturally, in a video. So, I have been inviting people to come to a meeting where they can give themselves the opportunity to have contact with this Silence. So, nothing better than online meetings and, especially, face-to-face meetings.

In a video... you sometimes watch a video and there are people around you, and you get distracted. Within an online meeting, where you are entirely focused on that, and you are asked to focus on that, it is something completely different from watching a video. I realize that this, Gilson, is like approaching a book. When you read a book, you cannot talk to the author of the book, nor ask questions, nor have him draw your attention to some point he mentioned there, in the book. When you are reading the book, there isn't the presence of the author drawing your attention and giving you answers if you have questions about that subject. In an online Satsang, in an in-person Satsang, it is totally different. You are not only called to have this attention, but you also receive answers to questions you have, which are very private. Furthermore, there is something present within these encounters that we generally don't get in a video. In a much more direct way, we have this within online meetings. So, there is something that happens within these meetings that only by participating in that one can discover. So, here's an invitation.

GC: Master, we have another question here, related to the subject. Julio César… he asks the following: “Master, if I am not my thoughts and emotions, what am I?”

MG: It's a good question. The point is that we can ask good questions; what is difficult, or perhaps impossible, is to have all the answers coming from the other person. This is one of them. You cannot have an answer to that question, an answer given by another. This answer is only real when it is a discovery you make. The interesting thing about this question is that the answer to this question is the real realization that this “asker” is not there and that this question is just a question that thought is formulating. When that thinker is not there, there is no longer that thought, therefore, there is no longer that question. Then, the answer reveals itself.

The awareness of the Truth of this Being that You are, is a revelation that only this Reality of Being can demonstrate to Itself there, when this sense of an “I,” of this “me,” of this “you,” is no longer present. That's like asking where God is. The Reality about this is that Divine Truth is never absent, but the awareness of that Truth does not show itself as long as the illusion of an identity overriding that Reality is present.

So, what is the Truth about God? It is That which is present when the “I” is not. What is the Truth about you? It is the Truth that the Reality of your Being is the absence of that “sense of the person” that the thought, in your head, says to be you. So, the Revelation, Gilson, of the Truth about who we are is a direct, incommunicable, non-transferable verification, and that nothing, not anything outside of ourselves, can bring us, can give us. It is the Awareness of Truth, of the only Truth present, when illusion is no longer there. Becoming aware of this requires Self-Awareness. Studying yourself is discarding yourself.

See what an interesting thing: studying yourself is not becoming aware of the truth that your thoughts say about who you are. Studying yourself is becoming aware of the Truth that everything thought says about who you are is completely false. So, the Truth of Self-Awareness is the end of this “I” to know oneself. So, we have the Revelation of the Truth of Being. That's why we use this expression here, Gilson, in a different way than psychology, philosophy, religions. We are using the expression “Self-Awareness” in the sense of realizing what is. The realization of what is, of what is – which is what we appear to be – is the end of it.

Then, there is no “someone” left to know oneself; Truth remains revealing Itself in Itself, by Itself. This is the Presence of God's Truth. When This is present, there is Love, there is Wisdom, there is Freedom, there is Happiness, but there isn't “someone”: someone loving, someone happy, someone free, someone aware of God… There is no such thing! The Awareness of Truth is the end of illusion. Your Natural State of Being is Intelligence, it is Love, it is Truth, it is God, it is Wisdom, and it is beyond everything that thought can idealize, can believe, including about That. The discarding of thought, with all the knowledge it brings, is the Revelation of That which is beyond the known, which is beyond thought.

So, when we use expressions like: “Love,” “Truth,” “Freedom,” “Happiness,” none of these can be linked to what thought knows within the known model. We are talking about something else. We are talking about something that is outside of what thought prescribes, what thought believes, what thought idealizes; of That which is real when the thinker is not there, when thought is not there, when the “I” is not there.

So, who am “I,” since I am none of those things? You are That which is nameless, indescribable, and, therefore, who can answer? Who is left to respond? This is the point! The one who knows, Gilson, the one who knows has nothing to say. Those who don't know have a lot to say.

Generally, we are making statements, and we are making statements because of the state of psychological ignorance in which the ego lives. When there is no longer this ego life or these psychological states of this identity, there is nothing left to say. Life is indescribable, nameless.

Our work here, Gilson, consists not of describing Reality, but of becoming aware of illusion. The awareness of illusion is the end to illusion, and when there is no more illusion, Reality is Present. But Reality is not describable, it is not nameable, it is not within explanation; it is a discovery, it is the discovery of Reality, in Itself, for Itself.

I know this language sounds strange, but it is very difficult to talk about this subject without speech, and it is very difficult, or even more difficult, to use speech and say anything here about this Reality, because This is beyond speech. That's it.

GC: Master, as you said a while ago, that's why the meetings, the weekend intensives, both online and in person, the Satsangs, that’s why they are so profound, because, in addition to being a whole weekend, Saturday and Sunday, there is this dynamic, where, yes, the Master uses speech, but there is the dynamic and, in many moments, the Master is in this complete State of Silence, because as the Master tells us and we go experiencing, it is not possible to understand what the Master says on an intellectual level. On an intellectual level, it’s useless, it’s just more intellectual blah-blah-blah. In Satsang, in the sharing of this Presence that the Master provides, alternating between speech and silence, at some point something different happens. So, it's Grace.

Master, regarding this topic of Full Attention, we have a question here from Odilon. He asks the following: “Does this mean I have to keep a neutral mind during the present moment of experience?”

MG: It is not about the neutral mind, but the mind aware of itself. When the mind is aware of itself, it becomes silent. So, when there is this silence, because the mind is aware of itself… When it becomes aware of its entire movement, it becomes still, it becomes silent. And, in that silence, we have the presence of this revelation of something outside the known.

So, note: having Attention is not giving attention. It's not about you paying attention. You paying attention is effort, it is still a movement of a restless identity trying to do something. So, it's not about paying attention, it's about Attention. Attention, Gilson, arises naturally when there is a simple and natural interest in being attentive. Notice that, when you want to listen to someone and there is real interest, you don't make an effort. You only make an effort to listen to him when you want to do something else too. You have another intention, you want to do something else, so your energy is divided. Your attention, which is now “your attention,” is divided between listening to that and doing the other thing or listening to the other thing, so, at that moment, effort is born. But when you simply have the natural interest in following a speech, notice: your brain quiets down; it calms down because your attention is effortless. So, in this interest of listening, there is an absence of effort. In this absence of effort, in this real interest in following, the brain quiets down, the mind quiets down, and something reveals itself.

So, Attention is not a matter of paying attention and, through effort, doing something, much less trying to keep the mind neutral. How would you be making the mind neutral? In a natural way, Attention quiets the brain, silences the mind, and something new emerges. I repeat: there is no effort and it is not about neutrality. It is simply an internal movement of natural interest to listen, to look, to perceive the experience in this Stillness, in this Silence. So, we have the presence of Attention. It is at this moment that this Full Attention reveals itself. This Mindfulness is the Presence of Silence. In this Silence, something unknown arises and this something unknown is outside the egoic mind, it is outside the movement of thought.

Gilson, this is like looking at a child's face, at a baby's eyes. Notice, you do this so naturally and without any effort that, in the moment, for a few seconds, your brain quiets down and your mind becomes silent. When you look at that baby, at the baby's eyes, there is so much softness, beauty, and silence in that encounter that your brain does not agitate, there is no internal agitation in your brain; it quiets down. At that moment, for a few seconds, you are in Mindfulness, without any effort!

Note, this is not a practice, it is not a technique. That's why I've been saying: it's not about technique, practice, nor seeking Mindfulness, absolutely! Do you know what we lack, Gilson? It is a deep, real interest in Truth. When this is present, this Being that we are flourishes, because there is this internal disposition towards Stillness. We are human creatures, in the ego, very focused on different interests and the only real interest, which is the interest in Truth, we have none. We have several other interests, so there is no way to reconcile these different other interests with the interest in Freedom, with the interest in Truth, with the interest in the Awareness of Self-Knowledge.

So, fortunate is the one, blessed is the one who has a deep, very honest, sincere inclination and who is truly “burning” for Liberation in this life. When we are at that point, that is the point where Grace finds us. This is why it is said: “When the disciple is ready, the Master appears.” It's real! This is when we are ready for this Revelation! You don't go to That. That comes to you, and That comes to you because there is this deep, real interest in this Real Awakening, of Grace Itself, bringing this deep interest in Itself. Then, something happens. You asked a question and I delved a little deeper into this question. I hope that is clarified.

GC: Perfect, perfect, Master.

Master, gratitude. We have already come to an end. And here's the invitation for you who are watching the video, who have this real interest in Truth, this fire in your heart for God, here's the invitation... In the first pinned comment, there will be the link to the information group about Satsang meetings, which are both online and in person, where over an entire weekend, in this sharing of Presence that Master Gualberto brings us, we can have comprehensions beyond understanding, beyond time, beyond this egoic identity, this madness of being someone. And it is pure Grace, it is something that frees us from this prison, from this crazy mind that humans have. So, gratitude, Master.

Leave a comment, give a “like” too, and we’ll see you in the next Satsangs. Gratitude Master!

MG: Okay, until next time.

March, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Psychological suffering. Advaita: Non-Duality. The Truth about who we are. Psychological time.

Our purpose here, on this channel, with you is to study ourselves, to become aware of the Truth about who we are and, thus, clearly become aware of the illusion of our representation in this, so-called “life.” How do we represent life? What is this life we ​​have? What does it mean? What is the truth of this “me,” this “I”?

So, we are faced with something here that is fascinating. It is about discovering the illusion of this life as we live. This life we ​​live, what does it represent? So, we have several questions here. Why is there so much confusion in the world? Observe this closely and you will realize: the confusion in the world is not the confusion that is out there, it is the confusion that is here in this life, in this particular person's life.

So, understanding the person – it's not the other [person], it's the person we are –, becoming aware of how you work in this relationship with the other, with situations, with events, with everything that appears. All of this is life. So, the way we represent it… Notice, we have the term “my life,” the phrase “my life.” What is this “my life?” Who am I? What is this “person”?

Not understanding how you work psychologically, since the structure of our existence – of our human existence – is based on this psychological model of being someone, this non-understanding of this psychological model of human existence is ignorance. Thus, we ignore who we are, because we are alienated from understanding this psychological model of being someone. Thus, studying ourselves is the most important thing in life.

As human beings, we have evolved in different areas, in different aspects of this so-called “human history,” “history of humanity.” We have evolved technologically, scientifically, we have fast means of transport and communication. Today, in the area of ​​medicine and technology, we are making a lot of progress, however, psychologically we continue to be in disarray, in suffering, unhappy, problematic, full of fears. So, psychologically there is no evolution.

The reality is that this psychological model of being someone, of moving like someone in the world is what has created confusion. So, our psychological confusion is overshadowing our technological and scientific evolution. Thus, we do not have Happiness, because we are not aware of the Truth of That which is beyond this internal movement, which is the psychological movement of being someone, we are unaware of this. This is ignorance, this is our alienation.

This confusing psychological condition is the condition of the ego, it is the condition of the “I,” of this identity that we assume ourselves to be. We live within a sense of separation where there is this life – this representative life of the “I,” of the ego – opposing this Totality of Existence, of Real Life. We don't know Real Life. Alienated from the illusion we bring about who we are, because we lack the Truth of Self-awareness, we are unaware of the Totality of Life, living this particular life within this illusory center.

Here we are together with you seeing the possibility of a life free from this model, the egocentric model of being, the illusory model of living in this particular representation of egocentric life. Becoming aware of the Reality of the Totality of Life, of the Beauty of Life free from this self-centeredness, this self-interest, this movement of internal confusion where there is all this psychological suffering, where our life is guided by a basic illusion, the illusion of coming to be, of becoming, and achieving.

So, this psychological movement of being someone carries an existential void, and it seeks to fill this void in this imagination, in this illusion, in the illusion of becoming someone different from who it is, of achieving a place, a position, a result different from what it is. It has to find a different place from where it is at that moment.

So, there is this movement of time that thought, in imagination, has been constructed to reach a future, to become someone different. So, there is a whole internal movement of psychological thought of time, which is just psychological time engendered by thought, constructed by thought, where there is this illusion, the illusion of a particular, self-centered life, separate from this Totality of Life, and this particular life self-centered will achieve something more excellent, outside of Life itself as It, in its Totality, represents.

So, we are unaware of this Totality of Life. The awareness of this Totality of Life is the Truth of God's Revelation. But in this personal center, which is the “I,” the ego, in this sense of being someone, in this psychological movement of egocentric identity, of egoic identity, there is this sense of separation, there is this illusion of duality, the idea of ​​being someone to become someone else, someone else better, broader, happier, more complete, someone who will find love, find peace, happiness, freedom, someone who will find everything they long for, everything they want, and will feel complete on that day, then they will have this existential void filled.

So, we are faced with this pain of loneliness, and we have addressed that to you. There is great beauty in being alone; but this alone, in this sense of the “I,” is an egocentric isolationism and in it there is great pain. We don't know the beauty of being alone. And this being alone is free from exactly this egocentric model of isolationism where the “I” sees itself separate from the whole, sees itself separate from Life. This being alone is the very expression of the Intelligence of Life, which is this Real Consciousness that is here and now. If it is present, there is no isolationism.

So, true being alone does not carry pain. This being alone means being free from this model of collective consciousness, where your way of thinking, feeling, acting, and moving in the world is completely egocentric; that is, from a center that separates itself from the other, separates itself in relationships with everything around it and finds itself, naturally, burdened with this pain of loneliness, with this pain of this existential void, naturally, within its isolationism. Are we together?

Becoming aware of Divine Truth is finding this being alone, it is the awareness of Real Consciousness. So, the Truth about true individuality is in this Real Consciousness of Being Pure Intelligence. It is not an individuality that separates itself, it is not a single individual that separates itself. We are facing Something entirely new, unknown, outside of everything that the ego, in its known movement, knows. This is something possible when you learn to look at this whole movement of life centered on the “I,” of life centered on this “me.” To become aware of this, learn to look, Look, Perceive, to have the clarity of this Seeing without this center that is the “I.”

When the “I” sees something, it compares, it evaluates, it judges, it accepts, it rejects. This Seeing, this Looking, this Perceiving is without the presence of this “I.” So, new eyes are present when there is this Attention given to yourself in that moment. How to realize This? We have online meetings here on weekends to delve deeper into this with you in a very direct way, through questions and answers: how can we work on this issue of seeing without the observer, of perceiving without this perceiver? How to become really aware of this?

So, it is necessary to Awaken in this life, to leave this condition of unconsciousness, of egocentric movement, of representative life in the “I,” in the ego, where there is every form of confusion, disorder, and suffering, to a beatific life, to a blessed life, happy, free, awake. Some call this the Awakening, because, naturally, it refers to Awaken to a new Consciousness, to a new Life, to Something that thought has no way of approaching with its ideas, with its beliefs, with its formulas of imagination.

So, this is the work we do together, especially in online meetings that take place here on weekends. You can find our Whatsapp link here in the video description to participate in these meetings. We have in-person meetings and we have retreats. The purpose of these meetings is to enter into this Truth of Being, which is Consciousness, which is Real Life; a Life free from all this psychological disorder, from all this psychological confusion, from all this psychological suffering, free from the movement, which is this illusory movement of psychological time, towards a Real Life, towards a Divine Life.

The Truth about this is that you were born for Life, Life in its Totality, Life in its Truth, Life as It Is. Not this particular life representative of this egoic identity, this illusory identity that separates itself from Existence and lives in this principle of duality. There is an Indian expression for the end of this condition of unconsciousness, of sleep. The expression is Advaita, Non-duality, the awareness of Truth.

Truth is Non-separation, Non-duality. Here is the Life where there is this “one without the second.” The word Advaita means “the one without the second,” where there is no longer this illusion, the illusion of being someone with this intention of becoming, because we are before the Beauty of Life, where the center, which is the “I,” the ego is no longer there. This is the Real encounter with God or the Real Consciousness of God's Truth.

That's our matter here with you. So, if this makes sense to you, join our WhatsApp group and participate. Come and participate in these online meetings, ok? Leave your “like” here, subscribe to the channel, and put it here in the video comment: “Yes, it makes sense.” Until next time! And we'll see you! Thanks for the meeting.

March, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Complicated life | The Truth about who we are | Egoic identity, egocentric interest

It seems that there is this need in us to find something. Something that connects us to a new condition of life, a new condition of existence. So, there is this so-called “search,” “search for God.” Some people call this “encountering God” or “the yearning to reach God.” See how curious our approach to all of this is. People have the question: “How to know God? How to find God? How can we carry out this search for God?” Notice, human beings are really looking for something beyond themselves. There is dissatisfaction in us. We do not investigate the nature of this dissatisfaction; we formulate the idea of an encounter. It's like the idea of a finished cake missing the icing: it seems like the cake is perfect, just the icing is missing. In our idea we only need to add the presence of God to our lives, but we do not investigate what it is that we call “our lives.”

So, the idea of finding God, of knowing God without first knowing who we are, of finding ourselves, of becoming aware of the Truth about who we are: this is where all our confusion lies. Having an approach to the Truth of God requires us to be Aware of the Truth of the “I,” of this “me,” therefore we are faced with something impossible. We can, at most, have the report of the saints, of the Sages who realized the Truth. Then, we go to the scriptures and we start repeating what they said, but what we actually need, each one of us, is a direct experience. We can spend a lifetime theorizing about what they did, who they were, what they lived, what they experienced, and we will only be reporting concepts, ideas, and beliefs. What we need is our own experience of this Reality, the Reality of God, the Reality of this Being.

So, becoming aware of this is something that only becomes possible when, first, we are aware of the truth about who we are. Thus, Self-Awareness is the basis for the Awakening of Truth, for the Awakening of Wisdom, for the Awakening of God. Thus, what is this Realization of God? What is this Real knowing God? What is this Real discovering God? It is the acknowledgement of Reality, the only Reality present, when the sense of the “I,” this “me,” this ego, this person as we believe ourselves to be, is no longer present. So, notice: the Reality of God is only possible when the “I” is not present. Thus, it is impossible to have this “marriage,” it is impossible to have this cake – which is what we present ourselves to be, what we demonstrate to be – with this topping, which is the Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God. What we present ourselves to be is disorder, confusion, suffering, ambition, envy, desire, fear, egocentrism, jealousy, possession, attachment... This sense of an “I” present is confusion, this icing cannot cover this cake.

The Presence of Truth is the only Reality; it is What is present when there is no longer this “I,” when there is no longer this old and ancient condition of egocentric identity, of egoic identity. That is why without Self-Awareness, we do not have the basis for the Revelation of this Divine Truth. Self-awareness brings you closer to this art of Being Consciousness, which is the Revelation of what Meditation is. Meditation is What is present when there is an emptying of all that content that gives this formation, that gives this basis for this cake. A complete emptying of all this egoic content is needed. We are conditioned to feel, think, and act within the same model as our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and all those who came before us. We are today what humanity is.

For millennia, human beings have been living in this dissatisfaction, in this non-completeness, in this condition of internal restlessness. So, the idea is to be taken out of ourselves into something great, extraordinary, into an experience. That's the imagination, that's the idea: being taken out of ourselves into something much richer, deeper... However, that doesn't happen. Then, this yearning of man, of human beings, is not really the yearning for God. Life is tedious, suffering, distressing, violent, scared, poor, and unhappy. We have moments of pleasure, of fulfillment, of temporary satisfaction in achievements – like a new marriage, a house, a job, the birth of the first child, all these kinds of things we know – which are temporary, transitory, passing moments of satisfactions we have, of achievements that do not fulfill us. We have that, but, in general, our life is a complicated life, full of problems.

So, human beings long for something beyond that, for something outside of that, for something that can bring them a completeness that they do not find, or have not found until today, in these things. Then, they talk about this encounter with God, about knowing God, but note: this knowing God is the Revelation that God is the only Reality present, when this model of existence, of separate identity, of ego-identity, is no longer present. Thus, all we need is the Revelation of Self-Awareness, this Awareness of Being Pure Consciousness, which is Meditation. Here, I refer to the Truth of Real Meditation, something we are unaware of. Real Meditation is not what people out there call “meditation,” to achieve targets, to achieve objectives. It is nothing like that! It is exactly the emptying of all this content of egoic identity, with its diverse egocentric interest, with its ambitious searches for external achievements to fulfill itself in that.

So, Something new arises, Something new reveals itself, when the Truth of this Being, which is the Divine Nature of each of us, has this freedom to arise. Then, becoming aware of the movement of the ego, of the “I,” discovering what it is to be aware of it without resisting, without fighting, without doing something… Then, the mind goes through a process of change, this brain goes through a process of change, this body, this mechanism, goes through a process of transformation. Thus, this Truth of the Revelation of God shows itself. That is Realizing God in this life, it is Realizing the Truth of your Being in this life. Observing how thought works – this model of thinking is something very revealing – becoming aware that a thought arises due to a stimulus, whether external or internal. To be aware that this thought arises due to a memory, a remembrance, something that is coming at this moment, showing itself at this moment; and when that shows itself, there is a conditioning present in each one of us, which is the conditioning of the presence of that thinker, which is something that arises with that thought, to control thought.

Here, we already have a way of getting closer to this Self-Awareness: becoming aware of how thought works within you. A thought arises, it is something that comes from the past. You don't have one single thought going on that isn't a reaction, a memory response, something from the past. When this appears, already included, along with this, there comes the illusion of an identity that is the thinker, the experiencer, the one who has kept this experience, and at that moment you are captured again by this personal center that is the “I,” the ego. Perceiving this movement of duality “thought and thinker” is becoming aware of the sense of the ego, of this identity present. You need to discover what it is to look at this identity. Notice: it is something that requires attention right now. This energy of attention makes you immediately aware of this movement of thought and the presence of this “I,” who likes or doesn't like thought, who wants to do something with that thought, wants to get rid of that thought, or wants to get attached to that thought. By doing this, again, we are giving identity to the sense of a present person, which is the identity of the “I,” the ego. And doing so, we are separating ourselves from life, separating ourselves from the whole of Existence.

So, we are continually reaffirming the sense of an identity present, which is the ego when a thought arises, when a feeling arises, when an emotion arises, when a specific way of perceiving an experience arises. At this moment, we always bring the illusion of an identity, which is the identity of the “I,” of the ego. Thus, our psychological life constitutes a life centered on the past, we are always moving through life in a reactive way. Then, our speech, our actions, the expression of feelings and emotions are present at this moment due to this condition of the past, something that is present at this moment, which we mistake ourselves for due to the unconsciousness of this entire process. So, when a thought, a feeling, an emotion, something coming from the past arises, we are constantly reacting. Our action at that moment is an action that comes from the past, our response to this present moment is a response that comes from the past; it finds an identity here, which is the identity of the “I,” of the ego, and this is how we are responding. When this happens, and it happens to all of us, we are always in the illusion of this center, this “I,” this ego.

That is being alienated from the totality of life; it is the non-awareness of the truth of the movement of the “I” when it arises. Notice that, in your head, you are always in the past or the future, in what you did or what you want to do. And this present moment, in it you are always expressing these thoughts, feelings, and emotions that are coming from the past, without ever being aware of the entire process. The awareness of this requires attention to this moment. This attention on this movement, which is the movement of the “I,” is Self-Awareness. Perceiving a thought, a feeling, an emotion, perceiving the way of feeling, speaking, responding within an action, bringing awareness of Consciousness at this moment, is breaking this condition of unconsciousness, of mechanical and unconscious repetition of the egoic movement. So, Self-Awareness is the basis for the Truth of Meditation here and now. This is the end of this past, it is the end of the continuity of this thinker, the one who feels, this emotional one, this agent, this “I,” this ego.

We go deeper into this here; we have a playlist here on the channel about the Truth of Self-Awareness and Real Meditation. Becoming aware of what Self-Awareness is, what Real Meditation is, bringing this to your life here and now, is going beyond this condition of egoic life, to the Truth of the acknowledgement that God is the Reality present when this “I,” this ego is not present. Thus, this is our work here with you within this channel. It's not about finding God. It's about verifying the Reality of the Truth that is God, here and now. We are working on this with you here, in online meetings on the weekends. You can find our WhatsApp link here to participate in these meetings that take place on weekends. We have face-to-face meetings, we have retreats… So, I want to leave here an invitation for you to deepen this, work on this, become aware of this. OK? If this is something that makes sense to you, go ahead and leave it here in the comment: “Yes, it makes sense!” Please, leave your “like” and subscribe to the channel. OK? Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

March, 2024
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Psychological suffering | Psychological condition, big confusion | How to deal with thoughts?

Here we have a question. The question is: “How to deal with thoughts?” First, we have to ask what thoughts are. What are thoughts? What are they? First, we want to deal with something we don't know.

It's quite curious to say that we are unaware of thoughts. There is nothing more intimate, closer to each of us than the presence of thought. From a very young age, we are in contact with thought, and we spend a lifetime unaware of what thought is, and the greatest proof of this is that we don't know how to deal with thoughts.

We don't know how to deal with thoughts because we don't know them. We don't know what thought is, just as we don't know what thinking is, we don't know what feeling is either. So, another question is: “How do we deal with feelings?” We don't know what feelings are, just as we don't know what thoughts are, and yet we want to learn how to deal with them.

And why are we so interested in learning how to deal with them? Because we want to get rid of the feelings that make us suffer, as well as the thoughts that make us suffer. No one is bothered by thoughts of pleasure until they discover that this thought of pleasure, in the short, medium and long term, turns into a thought that brings pain, and then you want to deal with it.

This “dealing with thought” is the intention to get rid of thinking. The real intention is not to find out what thinking is, which is what we need – to know what thinking is. Understanding what thinking is, is the comprehension of what thinking is and how, naturally, to deal with it. What we want is to get rid of thoughts; thoughts that make us suffer, not thoughts that give us pleasure. So, let's explore that a little bit here with you. Just as we want to keep with us the feelings that give us pleasure, but we want to get rid of the feelings that give us pain.

So, how to deal with feelings? The intention behind the question is how to get rid of bad feelings, how to get rid of bad thoughts. But what is the truth of thinking? What is thinking? What is feeling? That's what we're interested in here because it's narrow, it's very close this relationship between thought, feeling, and consciousness.

This consciousness as we know, this consciousness in us, this consciousness present in the human being is the egoic consciousness. This egoic consciousness is the consciousness of this “I,” of this person. The consciousness of this person is the consciousness that has as its principle a psychological movement of thought and feelings. We also have perception, sensation, emotions, all of which are part of this so-called “human consciousness,” which is the consciousness of the “I.” I have also called it egoic consciousness.

Not knowing how thought works is not knowing what thinking is. Not knowing how feeling works is not knowing what feeling is. You see, we have several things to explore here, we have to discover several things here together. Observe that our life is guided – this particular life of ours, this representation of life that we know – it is shaped, psychologically, by thinking, by thinking and feeling.

So, our life – this life that is based on this person, on this “I,” on this egoic consciousness – is a life centered on thought and feeling. That's how our actions are, we don't know what actions are, what thoughts are, what feelings are. Here we've been studying with you, working with you on this issue of Real Life, beyond this representation of life in the “I,” in the ego, that we have.

We are discovering what Life means in its totality, Life free of this ego, this “I,” and, therefore, the Divine Life of this Being that we are, but which we don't know because “our life” is this particular life that has this ego, this “I” as its representation, and we want to get rid of what makes us suffer.

This is what these present thoughts are like, we want to learn how to deal with thoughts because of the restlessness that thought causes, this uncontrolled movement of thought, accelerated thought, this movement of negative thought, loaded, of course, with feelings, producing suffering in our lives, in this so-called “private life” of this “me.”

Thought has a movement in you, it's the movement of memory. Learning to deal with thought is discovering the end to the model of distressing, conflicting thought that causes us pain, which is psychological thought. We have two levels of memory. We have the memory of facts, the memory of objective, technical, functional memories, which we need to make use of. In fact, practical, objective life requires the presence of this memory, the memory of facts.

Now, speaking is part of this practical, objective memory. Remembering your name, your home address, you need this memory. So, when your brain works perfectly, it carries functional, practical, objective memory. Remembering someone's name, remembering someone's face, being objective and practical, functionally in life, requires the presence of this memory.

But we have another level of memory, which is psychological memory. All the suffering present in you, the bitterness, the anguish, the sadness, the frustration, the pain created by the conflict that antagonistic desires provoke, all this is within this psychological memory. This condition of psychological memory is the memory that gives formation to this center, which is the “I.” Thus, the person is living in this center. The person is this center, and this center is this psychological memory.

The condition of psychological thinking, psychological remembrance, psychological memory, is not only unnecessary, it is dysfunctional. All human insanity, all the confusion in our lives lies within this quality of memory. Follow this, observe this in yourself. All the memory in you, psychological, at this level, is producing nothing but conflict, nothing but suffering.

So, you remember your address, you remember your name, you remember how to change a device on the equipment because you're a mechanic, you're a technician. If you're a doctor, you know how to prescribe, write a prescription, you know what type of medicine is for that clinical condition, so you have technical, functional, perfect knowledge, quite applicable at that level, but psychologically your relationship with the other based on this psychological memory is conflict.

The relationship I have with you, you see, is not a technical relationship, it's a psychological relationship. I have your name, but that's very simple; I have the memory of your face, but that's very simple; the memory of the person you are, that's very simple, but the memory of the image of this whole set of experiences stored in this psychological memory, in this psychological memory that I have of you, that I have of you, that's not technical. This is the memory of that center, which is the “I,” the ego. So, I have an image of who you are and you have an image of who I am.

Relationships between people are like that. Your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with the employees at your company, the relationship you have with your boss, the relationship you have with your friends at work, with the world around you, these relationships are based on this psychological memory. This explains all the confusion we're seeing in the world, in our relationships with people.

“I like you, but I don't like him”: this like and dislike is based on this psychological memory, this set of images and memories that I have of you. The unpleasant moments, the bad moments, the moments when you didn't appreciate me, didn't accept my ideas, disagreed with my opinions and beliefs, these have given “me” an image of who you are.

See how delicate all this is, because the image I make of you is also based on the image I have of who I am. There are aspects of “me” that I like, there are aspects of “me” that I don't like, this is also based on this set of memories, of psychological memories, this is based on this self-image, on the image I have of who I am. So, you have a relationship with me based on an image of who you are, and I have a relationship with you on the same level.

Countries and their governments also have images of each other, so countries like countries and don't like other countries. On a personal level, we have this encounter, on a global level, we also have this encounter. So, we live in a psychological condition where there is a big confusion, because there are differences of personal opinion and this causes us to distance ourselves or we can use violence in the relationship – this also happens between countries, this also happens between religions.

So, the condition of the world, the psychological condition of the human being, which is the condition in which we have placed this world, is one of psychological disorder, confusion, and psychological suffering. All of this is present because of this psychological condition of being “someone.” This “being someone” is an image.

Look at what we're working on here with you. We're working with you on the end of this image, the image I make of who I am and the image I make of who you are. When this image ends, my relationship with you is of a different order. We don't know this. We use the expressions “love,” “peace,” but what we have in a relationship is not Real Peace, not Real Love.

When there is no conflict of ideas and opinions, we have a moment where there is no disturbance. This absence of disturbance, because we are not at odds with each other, we call peace. This mutual agreement on the basis of common opinions puts us in a psychological state of non-disturbance, of non-conflict, and all of this is apparent, because once divergence of opinions, of ideas arises, it becomes very clear that we don't know Peace, that we weren't at Peace, it was just a temporary absence of disturbance, of conflict.

And so is with love. We are unaware of the presence of Love. If we are in agreement, because we exchange affection, because we have a mutual interest in each other, because of this agreement between images, you “love” me and I “love” you. But I “love” you while you “love” me, I accept you while you accept me. So, notice the condition of this center, which is the “I,” the ego.

Our work here together consists of putting an end to this psychological condition, and all of this occurs when we discover how to make this model of thinking cease. So, the Real way to deal with thinking is to become aware of this thinker. What is this “I”? What is this thinker? Here on the channel, we have various playlists exploring with you how to deal with thought, how to work on it.

In this speech, it became very clear to you how important it is to put an end to this model of psychological thinking that causes this psychological suffering, that sustains this image, which is the image of this illusory center, which is the “I,” the ego. The end for this ego is the end for this model of the thinker that situates itself in relation to the world, to Life, based on this self-image, creating images in this conditioned model of thought. So, the end to all this is the Awakening of your Being, the Awakening of your Real Divine Nature, the Awakening of Truth, Love, Peace, and Happiness within relationships.

So, that's what we're talking about here with you on this channel. In addition, we have online meetings where we are working, going deeper into these issues with you, working on this Awakening of the Truth of What we are. You can find our WhatsApp link to take part in these meetings here in the video description. Okay? We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, please leave your like here and subscribe to our channel. And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

March, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Spiritual Awakening. Spiritual Enlightenment. Psychological conditioning. Advaita: Non-duality.

Throughout human history, human beings have been searching for something beyond themselves; something sacred, Divine, something beyond this condition of life as we know it. So, the question people ask is: “How do we know God? How to find God?” Here we need to have some clarification on this. We need to be very clear about what this “knowing” or “finding” actually means.

What we have said here is that this “finding” as we idealize is impossible, and that this “knowing” as we also idealize is impossible. That’s because we can only know what can be recognized by us, and we can only find what can be found by us. But what is the truth of this “we”? Who am I? What is the truth about me? What is this “me”? Notice, we don't know the Truth about who we are, but we want to know the Truth about who God IS. Here we have to take a new approach to this.

In this search or seek as human beings have been doing, they have been looking for examples of those who have found or known God, so we go to the Holy Books and see what they have to tell us about this encounter. That's our reference. But notice, we stop there. Then, when the organized religions tell us about God, they tell us what the Sages, the Mystics, the Saints experienced about this Truth, which is the Divine Truth, and we remain in the realm of ideas, concepts, theories, verbal formulations, we remain in beliefs.

Is there anything beyond that? Beyond this theoretical, conceptual, bookish testimony. Is it really possible to get closer to the Reality of God? Not to remain within that old and well-known condition of repeating what the Saints, the Sages have said, but to have a direct experience with that Reality. Is it possible to have an awareness of God?

So, let’s go a little deeper here with you. We don't have a vast amount of time in a talk like this, to explore it further we have several videos here on the channel working on this with you. Our main subject here on the channel is this Spiritual Awakening or Spiritual Enlightenment, which is nothing other than the Realization of God's Truth.

So, what is this approach? How does it become possible? First we have to investigate the Truth about who we are if we discard the illusion of what we are, what we manifest ourselves to be, what we present ourselves to be. When I refer to this illusion of what we are, it's this model of existence centered on the “I,” on the ego, in this sense of an identity present separating itself from Life, separating itself from Existence, separating itself from God. Here is the illusion.

You see, the Truth of what we are is the illusion, this illusion is the Truth of what we are. We have to understand what we are here and now, these aspects of this ego-identity. That's why without understanding who we are, without the Truth of Self-Awareness, we don't have the Truth of approaching the Reality of God, because the Truth of Self-Awareness is the discarding of this illusion, the illusion of the ego, the illusion of the “I.”

The “person,” this sense of egoic identity, of self-centeredness present in this “I” is, in fact, the result of all the conditioning of the history of humanity, of human history. The Realization of Truth is the end of this “I,” the end of this illusory center, which is the ego, the end of this sense of separation. So, yes, we have the Realization of God, the Truth of God, the Reality of God here, right now.

Then, when we deal with this “knowing God,” this “finding God,” we are dealing with this acknowledgement that the only Reality present is the Reality of God. There is a beautiful Indian expression for this. The expression is Advaita. Advaita means Non-duality, Non-separation, it means “the one without a second.”

So, the Truth is the Truth of Non-duality. The only Reality always invariably present is the Reality of God. There is only Him, everything else is outside, within this model of dream of separate identity, of egoic identity, which is the illusion of this “I,” the illusion of what we manifest ourselves to be, which is not the Divine Real Reality we truly are. To discard this illusion is to become aware of this Truth.

So, what does it mean to know God? What does it mean to find God? It is to acknowledge the Reality of what is present when the “I,” this ego, this model of psychological conditioning, of egoic programming, of actions that are therefore egocentric, centered on this illusory “I” are no longer present. Then, we have the Reality of the Truth of God. Thus, what is this “knowing God”? What is this “acknowledging God”? It is something Revealed when there is an emptying of all this psychological content of egoic identity.

What does this egoic identity consist of? All the programming acquired over thousands and thousands of years, throughout the history of humanity. This sense of egoic identity is what the human being manifests as conditioning. So, all this human conditioning we manifest at this moment in this belief that the person, this “me,” this “I,” is a reality, is a present truth, carries an identity that separates itself from life, that separates itself from the other, that separates itself from God. Note that this is exactly what keeps us in this condition of dissatisfaction, suffering, confusion, psychological disorder and emotional disorder.

So, when human beings talk about “finding God,” what they really want is to discover something beyond this condition, which is the condition of this separate identity, in contradiction, in conflict, living through these various aspects of fear, anguish, violence and suffering. Becoming aware of the Truth of what we are is something that is revealing itself when this Truth of Self-Awareness comes closer.

What is this Self-Awareness? It's an approach to this movement. As you become aware of the movement of the “I,” of the ego, you perceive this sense of separateness; you perceive it to be what it really is: the illusion of an identity present when thoughts, feelings, emotions, perceptions, and sensations are happening. Perceiving the illusion of an identity present in this experience. When there is this Self-Awareness, the illusion of this present identity becomes clear.

Notice what an interesting thing happens to us. If a thought is present, the idea in us is that we are thinking that thought. Note that thoughts are appearances, they just appear. This idea in us that we are producing these thoughts is not true, they are just appearing. We don't produce thoughts, we don't control thoughts, we don't dispose of or get rid of thoughts, we don't put them here, we don't take them away either, they just appear. There is no such thing as a thinker producing these thoughts, controlling these thoughts, getting rid of them when wants to and bringing them in when wants to.

Observe that thoughts are memory reactions. There is a visual or auditory stimulus. Whether externally or internally, a stimulus arises and a thought arises, but there is no thinker behind that thought and yet we have the belief that we are thinking that thought. Notice this in yourself. When thoughts arise and you want to get rid of them, you can't. In fact, the more effort you put into getting rid of a particular thought, the more you strengthen it.

You want to get rid of a thought, you can shout at it, you can fight with it and it's still there. Thoughts are reactions of memory. It's something that appears without any control on your part, because you as the thinker aren't real. The idea of the thinker is present because of the thought present. When there is a thought, there is the idea of a thinker thinking that thought, wanting to do something with it, liking it or disliking it, wanting more of it or wanting to get rid of it.

So, here we come across the illusion of the duality of thinker and thought. The same thing happens with feeling: it's a reaction to a stimulus. Then, this reaction, which is actually the result of an experience that appears now due to a stimulus that is occurring at this moment, is a reaction of feeling that comes from the past; this reaction of emotion comes from the past, from thought, comes from the past, and we place in this thought the idea of a thinker; in this feeling, the idea of someone feeling, of an emotion, someone emotional. Thus, we have this principle of duality, of separateness.

Then, the idea of an identity present, which is this “me,” this “I,” is a concept, a belief, a psychological conditioning, a model of thinking, feeling and acting within a principle of conditioning. The end to this is the Revelation of Divine Reality, the Revelation of the Reality of God.

So, what is the awareness of the Realization of God? It is the awareness of the Truth that God is the only Reality present. This is revealed when the sense of this ego-identity disappears. Becoming aware of yourself, looking at this movement of the “I,” this studying of yourself, this looking at the whole process that goes on inside you – thought, feeling, emotion, sensation, perception – looking at this without intervening, without interfering, then the Truth of the Revelation of this Being shows itself because we have Meditation, this Art of Being Pure Consciousness.

Then, there is a break with this principle of duality, of separation. So, we break with this movement, which is the movement of the experiencer, the thinker, the one who is sustaining thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions from a center. Investigating this, approaching this, is the most efficient thing we have for the Realization of the Truth of knowing God, which, in reality, is to verify the Reality, the Reality of this Being, the Reality of God.

We are working on this with you, more than in these videos here, in online meetings on the weekends. I'd like to invite you to take part in these weekend meetings, you have our WhatsApp link here in the description of the video, so that you can take part in these meetings and investigate this closely. There is something present in these meetings that is much bigger than these videos. Through questions and answers, through contact with Meditation, with the awareness of Being Consciousness, which is Real Meditation in practice, we can get closer to this work. Then, I'd like to invite you here. You can join our WhatsApp group here in the video description. Go ahead and leave a comment here: “Yes, that makes sense,” and subscribe to the channel. And see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

March, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Practicing the Presence | The Christ Consciousness | Master Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast. Again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Gratitude, Master, for this meeting. Master, today I am going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called “Practicing the Presence.” In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel says the following: “Christ is the True Identity, and recognizing another identity besides Christ is moving us away from the Christ Consciousness.” Master, how to recognize our True Identity, how to get closer to the Divine Consciousness?

MG: It's a good question, Gilson. How to get closer to the Divine Consciousness? How can we recognize our True Identity? Here, the first thing is to abandon the idea that we can do this through effort, intention, will, wanting. The real way we can approach this is through the awareness of observing the movement of the “I” itself. It takes no effort, it takes no skill, it takes no practice. This requires attention to the movement of this “person,” this “me,” this “I”!

So, our notion is mistaken, it is erroneous. It is wrong from the very foundation, because we believe that, being someone, we can have an encounter with this Truth, which is the Truth of this Being or of the Christ. So, thought imagines Being, thought imagines Christ, thought imagines this “Higher Self” as being this Real Identity. And all of this, Gilson, is within imagination! Imagination is just thought. The awareness of the Truth of Being is not within this intellectual knowledge, this intellectual approach.

Therefore, we need to look, observe, become aware of this movement that we demonstrate to be, that we are in this mistaken identification with this thinker, with this experiencer, with this “I,” with this “person.” This whole model of thinking inside our head, this whole model of thinking that we have, this whole model of feeling that we have, all of this is part of this “I,” this “me,” this “person.”

We can only have access to the Truth of Being when this entire content – ​​which is the content that forms this identity, which is the identity of the “I” – disappears.

The work, Gilson, is to become aware, to have an approach by observing this entire movement of the “I.” Observing the movement of the “I” shows you how this “I” moves. This “I” is fear, envy, ambition, conflicting desires, the search for fulfillment, for achievements in projects, in dreams, in all kinds of things that make this “I” remain within this egoic continuity. So, becoming aware of the movement of the “I” here, in this moment, is the real way to get closer to the end for this “I”; it is the true way to have an emptying of this content, which is the content of the “I.” And when there is this emptying, That which is beyond the “I,” beyond the ego, beyond imagination, beyond thought, reveals itself.

So, what is the way to get closer to the vision of Truth? By having, first, an understanding of this illusion that we believe to be, that we demonstrate to be, that we appear to be, and this requires studying ourselves. And this “studying yourself” is observing all this movement of the ego. This approach is the approach to Meditation. So, the awareness of Meditation, which is Real Consciousness, is the emptying of this psychological content, which is the “I,” which is this egoic consciousness, which is this consciousness of the person.

So, it is not about studying sacred books, esoteric practices, mystical practices, all kinds of things done within this so-called “spirituality.” Here, it is about the awareness of observing the movement of the mind itself; becoming aware of how you work, how the mind works; becoming aware of that thought with that thinker behind it, that feeling with the one who is involved in that feeling; becoming aware of this emotion and this emotional “I” behind this emotion; perceiving this model of identity that separates itself from experience and sustains itself as a present identity. To investigate the nature of this “I” is to know the nature of the illusion of this egoic identity. Be aware of this! In this “becoming aware” there is, naturally, an emptying of this content, an emptying of this illusion, of this entire model of psychological conditioning.

So, everything that culture, civilization, religion, politics... everything that society has given us, which has given this formation to this center, which is the “I,” the ego, all of this needs to disappear. So, there is a Divine Reality when that is no longer present. This Reality reveals itself due to work on ourselves. Becoming aware of this very movement of the “I,” of the ego, due to the Power of this Grace, the Power of this Silence, this Presence… A work occurs in this structure, in this mechanism, then something reveals itself, and this something is nameless, indescribable.

It seems to me, Gilson, that here it is very important that we, first, completely abandon any idea of ​​what This represents. And this is very difficult, because all the ego does is project This, imagine This. That is why it uses expressions such as “I Am that I Am,” “the inner Christ,” “Higher Self”, “the Truth of this Conscious Communion with God”… These are expressions that thought constructs, and this is part of memory, still within that thought, in that structure, which is the structure that is still the structure of the ego, which is still the structure of the thinker.

So, the formulation of these thoughts is still part of the imagination of this illusory “I,” this ego, this “me.” We first need to abandon all this, abandon all these formulations, all these ready-made formulas, all these clichés, all these beliefs. We need to have a closer look at what is happening here, right now. What is shown here? Is it fear, is it jealousy, is it envy, is it attachment, is it some level of suffering, is it anguish? What is shown here, now? Is it this pain of loneliness? What do we have here? Without running away from it, without imagining something else, without making statements in words, because all of this remains only on a verbal level, on a sentimental level, on an emotional level, but it does not constitute real work.

The real work is just to become aware of what is happening here and observe, free from this center, which is the “I,” the ego; to learn the art of Self-Awareness, the art of getting closer to yourself without placing the “I” element, ego, within it. This is what we have been dealing with, Gilson, on the channel and also in face-to-face meetings and online meetings: how to work on this within yourself, how to become aware of what is here, without any imagination, without any belief, without any concept about it.

So, contact with this is the end of this condition, but we need to come into intimate contact with these internal states of the “I,” the “me,” the ego, learn to look at it, learn to come into direct contact with it, without this sense of separation, without this sense of duality, without the desire to impose, without imposing on what is being seen here, in this moment, anything else. Just look, become aware, get closer to this “me,” this “I,” this state that is present here; to look, observe, without separating yourself as being the experiencer of that experience, as being the thinker of that thought, as being the one who is moved within that emotion.

So, it doesn't matter what is emerging here, right now. When we come closer to look, in this attention, in this gaze free from this sense of “someone” to intervene, to interfere, to do something with it, something happens. So, having this approach is the basis of Self-Awareness, which is the basis for the Truth of Meditation to reveal itself. This is the real way to have an approach to the Divine Reality, the Reality of God, the Reality of Being.

GC: Master, within this point, within this investigation, it is very common – and I learned within this path of studies –, for example, studying something at an intellectual level “Ah, it has no value, it is only at an intellectual level.” Now, it is often discussed in spirituality that when there is a feeling or emotion attached, that this would be a reality. And, with the Master, it became clear this is one more game of the ego, because it is looking for a good sensation, a good feeling, reading good things, and when it has a bad feeling, a bad emotion, it wants to escape from this emotion. So, it is always separating itself from experience, always in conflict and division.

MG: This is very simple, Gilson, because our conditioning is always a conditioning from an experiencer. This experiencer is the “I,” so the “I” lives on experiences, the experiencer lives on experiences. And, since we were children, we cultivate pleasant experiences, keep them with us, and the bad ones we reject, we want away from us.

When we enter this path, this so-called “search” for this Realization or this search for God, we continue within the same criterion, the mistaken criterion that we are an experiencer to have experiences. Before, we had common experiences of everyday life, now we are having experiences within spirituality. If they are good, they are adding something to “me,” “I” am growing spiritually, “I” am evolving spiritually, “I” have rich and profound experiences, and if I am not having them, I need to have them and I am in search of them. So, we are taught within spirituality that we need these experiences, because the idea we have is of someone to reach, to obtain, to accomplish, and, therefore, to evolve. And nothing better than experiences that are increasingly rich and profound! However, this is a mistake, because we are dealing with the same ego.

Then, the ego can become spiritualized, which is what has happened. It becomes a spiritual, spiritualized ego. It goes through increasingly rich and profound experiences and it has revelations and becomes increasingly spiritual. But what is behind this? The sense of an experiencer, who still sees itself as separate from experience and always seeking new experiences, because those that already were, are already gone, we need new ones, and others, and others, and others...

So, this search or this so-called “growth” … the inclination of the ego is to always be searching for more. There is an incompleteness present, there is a dissatisfaction present, there is a model of desire present, so the “I,” this “me,” this so-called “spiritual being” never feels full, because it is always searching for more, and more, and more... and, naturally, still having its conflicts, its internal contradictions, its suffering, its problems... and always in this yearning and in this search for more, and more, and more, and it doesn't end! So, we are always within the ego, Gilson!

In fact, this is a circle that you create. You are just going in circles when you are on this so-called “quest.” This search is the experiencer's search for new experiences. These new experiences become old and it has to keep looking for others, and others, and others. So, there is always the sense of separation, there is always the sense of duality: the experiencer and his experience, the seeker and God, yet to be found; and He is never found! You just go through experiences and have new experiences, with the illusory feeling that you are going somewhere and, in fact, you are still stuck in this movement of search continuity.

The Reality of your Being is the end of time, it is the end of the continuity of the search, it is the end of the experiencer with experience. So, there is something that is unknown to the experiencer, which reveals itself when the experiencer is not there; there is something unknown to the experience when the experiencer is no longer there. That something is the Reality that transcends time, that transcends the search, that transcends this so-called “spirituality” or this so-called “spiritual being.” So, this Reality is not within the known, and this is not a feeling, it is not an emotion, it is not a sensation, and it is not an experience. This is something outside the model of this body-mind and therefore of the mind, thoughts, images, imaginations, feeling, sensations, emotions, emotional perceptions, experiences… It is beyond that! It is something that is not within the known!

When this is present, there is no more seeking, no more seeker, no more experiencer, no more experience. It is the end of the illusion of time, it is the end of the illusion of “I.” It is something possible to be verified without the ego, but it is not something, here, possible to be described, put into words. This is revealed when there is the Truth of Real Meditation, which is the end of psychological time, which is the end of the seeker, which is the end of the experiencer, which is the end of all experiences, where we have the Reality of That which is timeless, of That which is outside the nameable, the describable. That's it.

GC: Master, I remember that before I started, before I met the Master, before the Master found me, I was a collector of experiences. And I was even taught to, when I had an experience, write down the experience, detail it, to keep it vivid in my memory! And also, as soon as I got closer to working with the Master, I found it very strange, because the Master never talks about experiences that the Master had, and all the teachers I had along the way repeated experiences: “I had experience, last night I had this intuition, etc.” And the Master didn't have that! And the people who accompanied the Master, who accompanied him, also did not share experiences.

And I found it very strange at first, because I had a very strong conditioning to collect experiences that will take me somewhere. And then, obviously, being in Satsang with the Master, I see: the Master is always something new, he is never the same! Although words may repeat themselves, something new is always emerging from this Void, and what happened yesterday, an experience from yesterday or twenty years ago, is of no relevance whatsoever, because it is just memory! So, it's something very incredible, a complete freedom from everything that has happened, because it's time, right, Master?

MG: Life doesn't repeat itself, Gilson. Everything that is repeated, in reality, can only be repeating itself in time, it can only be repeating itself because it has not been completed; It can only be repeating itself because it hasn't died, it hasn't ended. Life is something that happens with death. Death is the end of continuity; it is the end of repetition. Death is the end of what was – that is life! So, there is no separation between life and death. There is great beauty in the realization of being, at all times, dying to the past. It is the only way for life to be present at this moment. The ego, Gilson, is addicted to living in time, and time is nothing other than the past that has not died.

So, what is ego? It's the past that hasn't died! So, what are experiences? That which is the experiencer – which is just an unfinished experience – still appearing! This is the ego. The Truth is in, in this instant, understanding the beauty of dying for this instant, for this moment. Watch the ego, Gilson: we don't die to pleasure, so pleasure is always coming back as a memory, seeking to repeat itself again. What is that? It is the request of the ego, which is the experiencer seeking its continuity in memory, which is the past that should have already died, but did not! Do you realize it?

So, we don't let the ego die, because we are always giving continuity to thought. You go through a pleasant experience and you don't let it die, you keep it in your memory! So we are, in the ego, addicted to cultivating the memory of pleasure. We want to forget the memory of pain, but we want to keep the memory of pleasure. But we can't have one without the other. So, the addiction to keeping memories is the addiction to giving continuity to pleasure and pain. This is typical of the ego and we need to get rid of it. And getting rid of it, is getting rid of the experiencer! And, therefore, no experience is important, because every experience is in the past!

In the world of this so-called “spirituality,” we are educated, encouraged to seek experiences, because this strengthens this sense of the seeker. This is typical of the ego! The ego, having experience, feels special; Having no experience, it doesn't feel special. And, in spirituality, nothing is better than having increasingly powerful, more memorable and important experiences, because this makes you, when you remember them, see yourself still alive in time – in imagination, of course, because that had already gone! But this is how the ego lives, and when it shares this with others, it becomes even better, more special. All of this is the ego's specialism, it has no value! Life is now, when the death of the past occurs. If the death of the past does not occur, there is no life now, there is only one continuity: it is the continuity of the ego! We need, Gilson, to discover what it is to live in this moment, and it is only in this moment… dying every second to what was. This way no burden remains!

So, there are always new eyes for this moment, new ears for this moment, a present heart to live it, to experience it, without the past, without the “me,” without the “I,” without the ego. So, at this moment, it is possible to have this awareness of the Truth of Being. This is the Reality of God, of Christ. Not the image of Christ, the imagination of Christ, the idea of ​​Christ, but the Reality of Real, True, Full, Complete, Abundant Life. The “I” is not there, the experiencer is not there, the past is not there! This is Life, this is Real Life!

Every movement, Gilson, of thought, is the movement of the past, and this thinker only lives in the past. Look at two people talking: they don't talk about the now, they only talk about the past. Note this! There's no talking now, there's nothing to say about now. There is only a thing to say about what happened. This is how the movement of thought is processed within each of us. And why? Because the thinker is just the past! The thinker is only thinking in the past. The thinker has no space in this present moment. At the present moment, the thinker has no value, no validity, it is ignored! So, for it to exist, it will look for the past to look for its stories.

So, two people talking, or five, or ten, each is telling one’s past; the past of a minute ago, an hour ago or ten years ago. No one is dealing with the instant, with the present moment, because there is nothing to say about the now, there is nothing to say. Thought does not work at this moment, it is the resuscitation of the past, that is, it is the continuity of the experiencer, the thinker. It's fascinating to discover that life now doesn't need thinking. You don't need to think now! You respond to the present moment without thought. What need do you have for thought? Except for technical thinking, to solve a practical issue, and you use it and let it go.

In the ego we give continuity to time, this psychological time, because we need to continue being an identity stuck in this movement of the past. This present is just a door to the future, so we are between the past and the future, between the past and the future… All this is confusion, all this is suffering, is within this illusion of the “I.”

GC: Master, it is impressive how, in this contact with the Master, this strong conditioning dissipates. I remember that my story was very important – the story in which I did this, in which I went through that… Wow, how I could not see that it was just a memory that I kept reliving now! Now, that is the only Reality. I brought back a memory! And it was very important, a story, this and that... Wow, what slavery!

MG: But that's how the ego lives. The ego loves this. Without this, it does not exist! It needs the past.

GC: Master, gratitude for this videocast, our time has ended. And for those of you watching: leave a “like,” leave a comment. And, in the first comment, pinned, there will be the link to the information group about Satsang meetings with the Master, where there is a much greater depth of this self-investigation, of this shared Presence of the Master, than the videos. The videos are just an appetizer, the meal is a complete weekend Satsang and, most importantly, the face-to-face ones too. So, here is the invitation: if it makes sense, if there is something inside you that yearns for Freedom, for a Peace that truly surpasses understanding, the invitation is made, and this Grace is being revealed in front of us. Master, gratitude. Until next time!

March, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Spiritual Awakening | Thought and memory | The Truth of Meditation | Real Meditation

The question here is: what do we want? What do most of us want? In a confusing world, in disorder, in this restlessness that our mind has been dealing with the experiences of life, with the experiences in this world, having to face these challenges of this chaotic and confusing world in which we find ourselves, what does most of us really want? We desire peace, we desire happiness, and we desire love, but it is a kind of peace, happiness, and love.

This video, these speeches, this channel, here we are with you in all these meetings – in this, in all the other meetings we have had here, and that we will have from now on –, exploring this question: the question of this encounter with the Truth about ourselves. There is no awareness about this, and for the vast majority, there is no interest in discovering the Truth about it; and, however, the vast majority are yearning for a peace, for a happiness, for a love that they idealize, that they believe exists.

Here we are working on this, presenting to you the Truth of the possibility of Love, not this “love” that people, we human beings, idealize. The Truth of Happiness, not the idealism of “happiness” as people believe they can find, as well as the Truth of Peace.

For us, peace – within this idealism that people have about the need for peace and what they believe to be peace – is simply a moment where there is no conflict, where there is no disturbance within a relationship. At that moment, there is the presence of this idealized “peace.” This is not peace we are talking about here.

The presence of “love” is when there is affection, care, exchange of satisfaction, pleasure, in the relationship we call this “love.” So, in this mutual encounter of pleasurable, satisfying satisfaction, linked to sentimental, emotional, affective pleasure, we are naming this “love.” So, the idealization of the encounter with love is the encounter with that. Note that this represents mere sensation, an emotional sensation, a physical sensation.

When we talk about the Truth of Love here with you, we are talking about something else; just like the Truth of Peace, we are talking about something else.

And as for “happiness,” for most people, it consists of achieving projects, dreams, and desires. So, achievement gives you a temporary completeness, a momentary satisfaction. Happiness, in general, is confused with satisfaction. So, the truth about the pursuit of happiness, for most people, is just a pursuit of satisfaction. As for love, it is the search for satisfaction, and the search for peace, a search for satisfaction.

Here we always address to you, in this meeting and in the other meetings we have here, that once we are aware of the Truth of this Being, this Divine Reality that we carry, we are faced with the awareness of Love, Peace, and Bliss. However, this does not represent anything that thought has constructed around this subject. In fact, thought can never approach the Truth of Love, because thought does not reach something outside itself.

Thought is circumscribed by its own model of life, its own model of existence, its own model of appearance. Everything we know is within this model, which is the model constructed by thought. Thus, our ideas about Truth, about God, as well as our ideas about Freedom, about Love, about Happiness, about Peace, all of these are ideas within this context, which is the context of thought.

The Reality that we deal here with you is Something that is beyond thought, that Divine Reality of this Being that we are when we are no longer tied to this movement, which is the movement of thought. Thus, when thought ceases, there is Something present that is not within that context of what thought formulates, is not part of what thought knows.

Thus, when we deal with Love, Happiness, Peace, when we deal with the Reality of God, the Truth of this Being, we are touching Something that is possible to be verified by each one of us, but it is not possible to be described by the brain, by the thinker, by thought, by the experiencer with his experience, by the one who feels with his feeling.

Note that, in general, our idea and feeling are linked to the presence of a thinker, an experiencer, and someone present in that feeling. So, it is always personal – invariably it is like this – the proposal we receive given by thought for the realization of that which, in truth, is beyond thought, is always personal.

How to find Happiness? How to find Peace? How to realize the Truth of God? These questions cannot be answered by thought. It is not within thought that you find the solution to the problem, which is the person's problem. The person's problem, which is the problem of the “I,” this “me,” this ego, is exactly the absence of the Truth of Peace, Happiness, Love, Freedom.

So, this matter here is our subject. We are working on this, pointing out, signaling, showing you. The Truth of What We Are entails a quality of life, an entirely new condition of existence, where acting, feeling, thinking, a new way of moving in life is present. It is present because of the Revelation of That which is Indescribable, of That which is Nameless, of That which is beyond thought.

Therefore, we need to investigate the nature of the Truth about ourselves, the nature of this “I,” this “me,” this feeling, this thinking, this acting within different purposes, within different intentions to, in this life, achieve something. We first need to understand the nature of the “I,” that which seeks, then we will understand that this search is just a movement of self-projection of itself, of that same model of identity that is looking for something, but which is the “I” itself in projection, is the ego itself in its self-projection. And everything it projects is within thought.

Look at yourself and you will see this very clearly. Your entire life model is based on thought. Everything you know about yourself, everything you know about others, everything you know about life, everything you know is part of what thought has established within you as memory. Thus, all knowledge in us is memory, and all experience that we can report, describe, explain, everything we go through and can describe as our known life is something that is part of thought, experience, and memory.

So, what constitutes this “I”? This “I” is a memory. Your name is a memory, your story is a memory; So are your projects, your goals, dreams, ideals, your beliefs, your disbeliefs, the good experiences and the bad experiences, all of this is within this memory, this known model, which is the model of thought.

We cannot find what is present here, outside of the known, therefore, outside of thought. What is this that is present outside of thought, outside of the known? It is the Reality that is beyond time. The thought in us, which is memory, is history. The experience in us, which is memory, is history. Goals, projects, dreams in us are part of thought, which is memory, which is history. All of this is within time.

Thus, the ideal of happiness is within time, of love is within time, of peace is within time, of freedom is within time. And what is this that is found here, that is outside of time, that cannot, therefore, be found, because it is already present? The present Reality, which is outside of time, which cannot be found, is the Reality of Being.

You can describe who you are. The entire description of who you are refers to this memory that thought formulates based on the thinker you believe you are. So, this “I” is made up of memory, which is thought, which is this thinker, which is this history, and all of this is within time. But this is not the Truth about You, it is what you manifest yourself to be, what you appear to be, what you demonstrate to be.

So, first of all, you demonstrate that you are this and you idealize yourself to be that. So, observe, that which you were is a thought, that which you are is a thought, that which you want to be is a thought. So, what do most people want? What they want is within the model of thought formulation. So, all of this is part of this model, which is the “I” model, which is the ego model, which is the time model. Why is all this within time? Because this can only exist as thought. So thought is time. It's very simple.

There is no thought present in you at this moment that is not coming from the past. So, this past is time, therefore thought is time. This is what we have called psychological time here. It is in psychological time that the identity of the “I” resides. The “I,” the ego, this center, this “me,” this sense of being “someone” resides in time, and it is in time that one projects what one wants to achieve. It is in time that one projects what one also wants to get rid of. From fear, the ego wants to get rid of; of pleasure, the ego wants to achieve; from suffering, the “I,” the ego wants to get rid of, but from satisfaction, which it calls “happiness,” it wants to achieve.

So, it's always within time that this whole project resides. This movement in time is a psychological movement in this psychological time. “I am not, but I will be,” “I do not have, but I will have,” all of this resides in time, moves in time, while Reality is outside of time.

Our approach here is for the Truth about Self-Awareness and a direct vision of what Meditation is, because when there is this vision of the Truth of what we are here, in that instant, we have the awareness of Self-Knowledge. And when there is this awareness of Self-knowledge, we have the end to this psychological condition of time, this “reaching,” this “getting rid of.” Then, time ends, and when time ends, the awareness of Being Pure Consciousness is Revealed; then, we have the Truth of Meditation, the Revelation of Meditation.

So, we are interested here in looking at this, looking at the end of this psychological condition of being “someone” who resides in time, who lives in time. Your name, your story, your identity, your desires, your dreams, your projects, as well as your anguish, your frustrations, your conflicts, contradictions, your fears, all of this is part of this “someone,” this sense of being “someone,” of this model of being “someone” within living, within this experience. This is all within this time.

In this chronological time, your body has aged; and in this psychological time, your thoughts have projected an identity. So, the body, in this chronological time, is moving towards the end, and this psychological sense of an identity that is supported by thought – I refer to this “I” – is what seeks continuity. It's something that is always searching for something, so there is this dissatisfaction, this incompleteness, there is this whole sense of existential void. This is what explains all our bonds of attachment, because the sense of “I,” of the ego, seeks its continuity in what it acquires psychologically.

So, we also have this fantasy, the fantasy of the continuity of a present identity; present in what you own, in what you have, in what you have achieved, in what you control, in what is yours. This is all part of the illusion of “I.” The end to all this is in the vision of the Truth of your Being, in the Realization of Divine Truth. Becoming aware of this is Realizing This right now. The Truth of your Being is already Love, Peace, and Bliss. That which You are is not in time, it is not in the body, it is not in the mind and it is not in the world. The Revelation of this is the Truth of the Awakening of Consciousness – some call it Spiritual Awakening.

So, this is our subject discussed here with you, within these meetings. We have online meetings on the weekends – you can find our WhatsApp link in the video description to participate in these meetings. We have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. Here is an invitation for you. And if this is something that makes sense to you, leave it here in the comments: “It makes sense!” Ok? And leave your like, subscribe to the channel and we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

March, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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