GC: Hello everyone, we're here for another videocast. Again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you very much, Master, for your presence.
Today, I'm going to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called “The Foundation of Mysticism.” In this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: “All of our work is to achieve freedom, all of Christ’s mission is to liberate us.” On this subject of freedom: what is the Master's view of what freedom is?
MG: Gilson, our idea of freedom is just an idea. People have ideas about what it means to be free. Human beings, in general, use the expression “freedom” in a very “free” way, because they use the expression freedom as financial freedom, economic freedom, political freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of opinions… So, we use the expression “freedom” in this way. The expression “Freedom,” in the sense that we use it here, within this context of this Flourishing, this Awakening, is the Awareness of the Revelation of That which is Real, of That which is the Truth. Without the Awareness of That which is Real, without Truth, we do not know Freedom.
The basis for Freedom is the Comprehension of That which is Real, of That which is True. When you ask me “What is your view of this?”, my view is this: without the Vision of the Truth about who we are and all that this sense of “I,” this “me,” this ego, represents, without a direct Understanding of this, without the Truth about it, Freedom is impossible. Now, the expression “Freedom” itself is indescribable. We can access the Truth about who we are and who we believe we are.
So, notice, we have two things here: the idea about who we are, everything that this sense of “I” has about who he is, this way he sees himself, what I have called self-image... So, this is the truth of this “I,” about himself, which represents a state of psychological condition of disorder, confusion, problem, suffering. This is the condition of the “I,” of that identity that sees itself separate from God, that sees itself separate from life, that sees itself separate from the other; It’s this self-image.
So, to have a vision of the truth about this “I” is to open a door to the end of this condition, to end this old condition of egoic identity, to the beginning, to something new approaching. So, we open this door when we become aware of everything that the ego, the “I,” represents. Having a direct look at this entire egoic movement is to discard this psychological condition of “being someone.” So, here, at the moment, we are faced with the Truth of That which is beyond everything that thought can describe. So, yes, there is the Truth of What we are in our True Nature. In our True Nature, we are Freedom!
There is only Freedom in your Being. This Freedom is Love, Peace, Happiness; It is That for which we can, here, use expressions, but we are always faced with the Mystery, That which is unspeakable, which is Divine Reality. So, the Truth of Freedom is indescribable, but we can have the truth of what is not that Freedom being investigated, being understood and bringing it to an end – which is this condition of the ego.
Thus, Gilson, we cannot approach in a positive way, in the sense of describing What is the Truth about Freedom, but we can discard what is not this Freedom, discarding the illusion of this false center, which is the “I,” the “me,” the ego, this sense of person, how we see ourselves, how we position ourselves in life, this model of thinking, how we have functioned, this restlessness, this internal chatter, this pattern of conditioned, political thinking, philosophical, social, religious... The end for all this is the appearance of something that is present, although it cannot be seen or recognized due to this condition of dream, of sleep, in which this consciousness of the “I,” which is the egoic consciousness, is found.
So, the Truth about Freedom is in the awareness of this truth of the end of this psychological condition, of this conditioned pattern of egoic mind, the end of this mind, which is the mind of the “I.” This is Freedom! It is possible to live This; describe this, no. Those who have realized This do not describe what Freedom is. They investigate what Freedom is not, they investigate the nature, the structure, the basis of ignorance, that which sustains ignorance. The investigation of this, a direct approach, puts an end to this ignorance, this illusion. This is the truth about illusion revealing itself, and when this reveals itself and illusion ends, ignorance ends, the sense of ego falls away, there comes the presence of That which we truly are, which is Freedom.
GC: Perfect, Master. We have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, from Joel. He asks the following: “One question: how to die for the observer?”
MG: There is a mistake there, Gilson, in this question. Here, the work consists, exactly, at the end of this observer. That which is Real is present when this observer ends, because this observer is the element that sees itself separate from what it is observing. For example: we have thought and the idea we have is that we are the thinker of thought. This is the observer. For us, the thinker arrives first, then the thought.
So, the idea is that this thinker is responsible and the creator of thought. This is the sense of the “I,” which is the observer. This is what needs to disappear. When this disappears, Reality shows itself. The end for this thinker is the end for this condition of thought present. I refer to this conditioned thinking, this model of egoic thinking, which has a center. It is a center around which thinking takes place. It has an observer, who is the thinker, watching it. This thought needs to disappear, and it disappears when the observer disappears. So here it comes to the end of the observer.
As for the observer's end, this requires attention to the movement of duality. Once you pay attention to this movement of separation between the observer and the observed thing, which is the thinker with his thought, there is the end of this condition of separation, of duality. This duality, Gilson, is an invention, an imagination of thought itself, it is thought itself that creates the idea of a thinker. So, thought itself creates a separation and speaks of a thinker, but it is a game of thought itself.
It's like when we have an experience; memory, the remembrance of an experience. In this memory, in this remembrance of the experience, thought creates the illusion of an experiencer who lived that thing in the past. What we are having now, here, is a memory, a remembrance, an experience, and yet thought creates an experiencer for that experience, which is an illusion! Here, becoming aware of Truth is putting an end to this duality, and the end of this duality is the end of the ego, it is the end of the “I,” it is the end of the observer; and if it ends, this experience ends, this thought ends, whether that experience is a fear or some form of suffering. All of this falls apart when the sense of the ego, of the “I,” which is the experiencer, which is the thinker, is no longer supporting this.
We have a mistaken view of suffering, for example. For us, there is someone in suffering, and, here, we are saying that suffering is that “someone.” It is thought that creates the idea of someone suffering when suffering is present. So, it creates the idea of the sufferer, but the sufferer is suffering itself. See how important it is to understand this, Gilson. We spend a lifetime entangled, trapped, in psychological conditions of suffering, because we do not understand the nature and structure of the ego, the nature and structure of the “I.” To become aware of this is to finish this condition. To look at this is to finish it.
GC: Master, it's really incredible to be able to have this perception of how problems, suffering, are a thought that keeps repeating itself, and there is this separation, but it's something so... this conditioning is so old, that it's just an “entanglement” within suffering. Now, with this approach, in working with the Master, with this sharing of Presence with the Master, it is often possible to perceive this thought that arrives telling a story and, in that way, to not get confused by that story. And this look, this Vision that the Master brings and shares is something indescribable, because there really is only suffering supporting the sufferer and vice versa.
MG: The inclination, due to all this millennial conditioning movement that we have, is the inclination in favor of this illusion. We will always lean toward supporting this conclusive idea that we are here, being this person in this suffering condition. We have not been given eyes to look at it, we have not been shown how to look at it. We need to discover what it is to learn about ourselves, because only when you begin to learn about yourself do you begin to discover how you function.
The interesting thing here is that, knowing how you work, from this perspective, makes it easier for you to have a deep understanding of other human beings. Understanding oneself is understanding others, it means understanding yourself in the context of relations, of relationships. In this sense, the other also works as a wonderful mirror for you to see yourself, for you to study yourself. It's always about this, Gilson: studying yourself, learning how you work, becoming aware of your own internal movement that is taking place – the thought in you, the feeling in you, the emotion in you; when you receive pleasant news, to become aware of how this “pleasant” is seen, is received, here, in this “me,” in this self-image. When you receive unpleasant news, how does this “me,” this “I,” this “person,” receive the news?
That's why, Gilson, you don't learn by reading books, by doing so-called “spiritual” studies. You learn by living, moment by moment. When a person compliments you, you observe at what level this is touched within, how this “me,” this “I,” feels in the face of flattery or in the face of an offense. See, no book can give you this, no intellectual study can give you the awareness of understanding yourself, the perception of your reactions in this instant, in this moment.
Since we were children, we have been living life as our parents lived. We are just following the model like the rest of them, reacting to the present moment, to all kinds of challenges and external stimuli, as they also reacted. We need to bring Consciousness to this moment, observing our reactions in this moment, moment by moment. Having that look, just the look. It's not about trying to change that or change that. It's just to look at.
Here, the most unique thing of all that we bring to these speeches is the singularity of knowing that it is not about doing something with what we observe; just look. In that look, in that pure and direct look, without reacting, without trying to protect, defend or do anything, in that instant, the identity of the “I” is annulled, which has always reacted, which has always moved in favor of or against what it, being the observer, was observing. Now, we are eliminating this observer, remaining only with observation; and in this observation, a mysterious action happens, which is the breaking of this perpetuation, this continuity, this movement, which is the egocentric movement.
So, this is having an approach to Meditation and, simultaneously, to Self-awareness. This, Gilson, is what this work consists of: becoming aware of the movement of the “I.” Just that! A direct look at this movement is the end of what sustains this movement, this continuity, this perpetuation. Having an approach to yourself like this... No one can do it in your place! No expert, no analyst, no spiritual teacher, absolutely no one can, only you, becoming aware of your reactions, here and now, moment by moment, then something new reveals itself. You are approaching the art of being Intelligence, Consciousness, Presence, then this portal of Meditation opens up.
See, it's Meditation at this moment: walking, talking to someone, working, taking the kids to school, as I always say, driving your car, washing dishes... At that moment, you are aware of your reactions. A thought appears and, with it, a feeling, an emotion... and you just observe, you don't react, you don't get confused, you don't identify, you just become aware of it. So, as this begins to happen, there is an emptying of this psychological content of repetition, of continuity, of restlessness. Something starts to emerge; something starts to appear.
In fact, something that is already present is now beginning to reveal itself: it is the Truth of Silence. This is because the mind is becoming aware of its own movement, and this sense of egoic consciousness, involved, as it is, in its own private world of imagination, memories, recollections, projection of the future, all of this is being discarded, because this moment is being seen and this psychological time, which is the time of the “I,” of the ego, is being eliminated. This is the presence of Meditation, this is the presence of Attention on oneself, in this instant, here and now. All right?
GC: This vision that the Master brings about this Self-awareness is very revolutionary, as I usually say, because I already had an understanding of what is widely spread in spirituality about self-awareness, about knowing oneself, but mostly in the idea of analyzing oneself, of investigating by analyzing oneself, and the Master brings this vision, exactly, of just becoming aware of everything that is happening, what the Master calls Real Self-awareness. Can the Master talk a little more about this difference of what is understood as self-awareness for what the Master addresses?
MG: Gilson, the difference is that the one who analyzes is still the element that comes from the past. He can only analyze based on the criteria he has, and these criteria are the criteria of thought. Therefore, thinking is still part of the analyst, and what they can analyze are also thoughts. So, the thing analyzed and the analyst are one thing. There is no analyst without thought. The analyst is thought, just as the thinker is thought. So, you won't be able to dry up this ice with a piece of cloth. The analyst analyzes based on thought. Thought is the thing itself that is being analyzed. So, you see, the thing analyzed is thought, but the analyst is still thought! You cannot discard the analyst from thought, because thought is the analyst, the analyst is thought. Thus, what it analyzes is thought being analyzed.
See, all of this is within the movement of the ego itself, which is the movement of the thinker. “Analyst” is another word for “thinker,” for “experiencer,” for the “I,” for self-image. These words are different words, but they are talking about the same phenomenon, which is the movement of thought. Here, Gilson, it’s about just staying in the look. In this look, there is no analyst, because there is no attempt to do anything, understand anything, accept or reject, or explain, or draw conclusions, or think about it, or analyze it. It's just looking! When there is this gaze, the mind is aware of its own movement. Just that! It is the mind aware of itself. It doesn't do anything; it just becomes aware of itself.
In this look, there is only the look. There's no one looking, there's no one thinking, there's no one analyzing, there's no one studying it. It's just the look! So, we are faced with something that is outside of thought when there is only looking; and That which is outside of thought is something outside of the known, outside of the model of the past, which is thought, outside of the model of the thinker, which is thought, of the analyst, which comes from the past, which is thought. See how simple this is and of extraordinary importance! The Art of Consciousness is to remain as Consciousness. As Consciousness, there is no time, there is no model of the past, nor the present, nor the future, nor the thinker, nor thought, nor the observer, nor the observed thing.
The presence of this Attention, this gaze, makes this observer disappear in the observed thing and this thing observed disappears in the observer. So, there is something present now, but no longer part of the known. This, Gilson, is the real access to your Being, to your Divine Nature, to your Natural State, which is timeless, which is beyond the body, the mind and the world. This is the State of non-duality, of non-separation, and this State is not the state of someone, it is not the state of a person, it is not the state of a thinker, of an analyst. It is the Natural Divine State! Notice that, here, at this moment, in this State, there is no meditator meditating, but Meditation is present. Realize the beauty of this: the presence of Meditation is the absence of the meditator. What is also interesting here, Gilson, is that, in this Meditation, the mind is meditative, but the mind is no longer the mind of someone meditating, it is not the person's mind. It is this simple and direct sense of Being, without present, past or future.
MG: Okay, Master. Gratitude! Our time has already ended. Thank you for this videocast.
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Master, gratitude and see you soon!
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