GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master, for being here.
Today, I will read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called “Awakening Mystical Consciousness.” In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel Goldsmith makes the following comment: “When the mind is silent, there is integrity, fulfillment, and awareness of spiritual identity.” On this subject of silencing the mind… Can the Master share his vision of how to silence the mind?
MG: Gilson, here, we are faced with the fundamental question: how to silence the mind? Note, we do need this Silence, but here we are faced with a great difficulty, and the difficulty lies in the idea that we can do this. That is why most people get involved with all forms of meditation techniques, systems, or practices with the purpose – note – of silencing the mind. Yes, the truth of the silence of the mind reveals something beyond the mind, but the problem lies in the fact that we cannot attain this without a real work in this direction, and this work is not through a technique, a system or a meditation practice.
What we can have, through a meditation technique, or system, or practice, is a silence that we can temporarily impose on the mind, through effort. So, we are dealing with something, in a mechanical way, to deal with a situation, which is this mechanism of the mind. We apply a technique, a method to, through this method or technique, silence this mechanism of the mind, temporarily. So, the mind becomes quiet, but it is, in fact, quieted; and when it is quieted, it returns to its restlessness again.
See, we need the truth of silence of the mind, of a quiet mind, but not a quieted mind, but not a calmed mind, but a mind that silences and that quiets itself; and the basis for this, the true basis for this real stillness, for this real silence of the mind, is Attention on its movement. Once you put Attention on this movement, there is an approach to how it works, to the truth of how it processes, how it manifests, how it presents itself. So, we are facing an approach to the truth of Self-awareness.
If we do not have a real basis – and the basis is Self-awareness – for this silencing of the mind, everything that is achieved in meditation, as this expression is generally used for these techniques, does not solve anything, because we are not dealing with the Truth of Meditation, but rather with a meditative technique. The basis for Meditation is Self-awareness. It is Self-awareness that reveals the movement of the mind, the real movement of the mind. So, we have the vision of this thinker with thought, of this one who is moved by his emotion, of this one who looks from the past at what he is seeing at each moment.
So, we have an verification of the movement of the ego, of the movement of the “I,” and we realize that this movement is just this movement of psychological agitation, which is the movement of thought. Once we approach this attention to this movement, we have a new perspective on this study of ourselves, which is Self-awareness. So, in a natural way, thought is discarded, because this thinker stops being valued within this movement of thought. Only when this thinker is discarded… You see, this thinker always assumes roles, and one of the roles it assumes, generally, for those who engage in a process of so-called “spiritual” search, is the role of the meditator. So, this thinker assumes the role of the meditator for a meditation practice. You see, it is still the ego, it is still the “I,” it is still thought. That is why it does not work.
A true approach to the silence of the mind requires the absence of the thinker, the absence of this element that observes from the past, that feels from the past, that desires, that hopes from the past. The mind, in a natural way, once aware of its own movement, when there is this Attention, the mind becomes aware of its own movement. This is all it can do because of the presence of this Attention. So, this Attention is the presence of a new energy that allows the mind to become aware of its own movement, and this is enough for this natural stillness, for this natural silence. Then, something beyond the mind is revealed, something beyond this movement of thought, of experiences, knowledge, memories, remembrances… So, we are faced with the Truth of Meditation, and this Meditation reveals God, reveals the Truth.
In these meetings here, we are with you proposing this new perspective, which requires the presence of this Attention. It is a state of complete Attention to our reactions. This Attention is Mindfulness, it is True Attention, it is Real Attention to our reactions, here and now, in this moment. Therefore, an approach to the Truth of That which is You requires this new look at this movement. We are not, Gilson, facing something so simple, because our model of life is the model of dispersion, it is the model of inattention, of this not looking. We are constantly trapped in a pattern of mental confusion, of emotional disorder, where we are present in this movement of the “I,” of the ego, constantly confusing ourselves with these emotions and with these thoughts.
So, discovering what it is to look without this element that gets involved with what it sees, discovering what it is to become aware of thought without being confused by what thought proposes in this like or dislike that it has: this is the real way to bring, to this moment, the Truth of Meditation, possible through Attention, possible through Self-awareness. Work, Gilson, is necessary in this direction. In these meetings, we are showing you how this becomes possible, and there is an element present that makes this work real: it is the element of Divine Grace. It is not about someone doing it. It is not about the “I” doing it, the ego doing it; it is about the power of this Presence, this Intelligence, this Divine Love doing this work.
GC: Master, we have a question here, from a subscriber on the channel. Eder makes the following comment and asks: “John said that a time would come when there would be a new earth and a new heaven. What is your understanding of this?”
MG: Yes, there will be a time for this new heaven and for this new earth. That is what we are proposing here for you: the awareness of this new time. See, it is time outside of time. We need to discover, Gilson, that our notion of time and space is within the error of the thought model. So, our vision of the world – and here we have heaven and earth – is the vision of the dream. So, there will be a time… This time is now. This is where time ends.
See, in this instant there is no time. Time presupposes the future or the past, or some notion of the present. In this instant, we do not have this notion of the present, we do not have the past and we do not have the future. So, this time is now, but in this now, in this instant, there is no time. This is where the Vision of Reality, the Vision of Life outside the dream, is revealed. Outside the dream – you in your Natural Divine State, in your Natural State of Being, which is the Reality of God – there is no time. This is the Nature of God's Truth, That which is timeless, That which is indescribable, unnamable, and this is the Truth about you, when we no longer have this old heaven and this old earth. That is, when we no longer have this old time and space.
This time and space, and this old heaven and earth, are part of the old movement of time, of this model of time that thought has constructed, where the sense of “I,” where the sense of ego is present. Here, the Flourishing, the Awakening, the Waking Up, is the end of the dream, it is the end of this old time, where this time and space, this heaven and earth are present. So, we are facing something new, but it is the indescribable new, it is the new without a name. The point, Gilson, is that we were born to realize This, to assume the Truth of a new heaven, of a new earth. That is what we are together, here, working with you.
We have all that is needed to get closer to this, we have the whole possibility of attaining this in this life. However, this requires that we get closer to ourselves in a way we have never done before. The human being lives involved in his search or search in the external world, in this world of appearances, in this dream, in this old psychological condition of continuity, where the “I,” the ego, is present. So, we do have the old heaven, the old earth, and it is here that the human being is searching for truth, love, peace, happiness.
Thus, within a dream condition where, in the ego, the human being finds himself, everything he can find, within the dream, is part of the dream for a dreamer. In this condition of existence, ignorance, non-Truth, illusion, and sleep are present. Awakening in this life is assuming the Truth, the Truth of your Divine Nature, the Truth that the Reality of Life is Love, is Bliss, is Freedom, something possible within this Divine Awareness, within this Awareness of God.
GC: Master, we have another question here, from another subscriber to the channel. The question is the following: “And what is the Truth? I thought that Truth was Christ from beginning to end, that the Son was the key to all Truth.”
MG: Yes, she makes a good point. First, asking the question: “And what is the Truth?”, then she says: “I thought that the Truth was Christ.” Notice, Truth is Christ, but it is not part of thought. So, when you say “I thought that the Truth was Christ” ... Every thought that we have about Christ is not Christ, it is just a thought, and, as a thought, it cannot be the Truth.
Understand what we are saying: there is a Truth present, this Truth is Christ, but a thought about Christ is an image, an idea, this is just an imagination, because the word “Christ” is not Christ. It is a name! And the image we may have about Christ is just an image that thought projects, draws, idealizes. This image is not Christ. Gilson, we need to know the Truth of Christ, to become aware of the Truth of God. We become aware of the Reality of God when we assume the Reality of That which we really are, when the “I” is not there, when the person, the ego, is no longer present.
Otherwise, whatever we have to say, that we are talking about Christ, we are only speaking from an imagination, from a projection of our own thought. See, this is how we were taught. This is quite understandable. We received from our culture a particular mental vision, of course; intellectual, of course; based on word studies, of course, about Christ, but they did not give us a Real Vision of Reality. A True Vision of Reality is revealed when we are beyond thought, beyond words, beyond concepts, beyond ideas, images and beliefs. Then, the Truth of God, which is Christ, is the only Truth. Allowing this only Reality to completely take over this body and mind, this is the end of the ego, it is the end of illusion, it is the end of suffering.
See, Gilson, when we are born, we receive from the culture, we receive from the country where we were born, a vision of God. So, if you are born in India, in Japan, or anywhere in the world where religion is professed, you receive within the organized religion there, from that culture, within that country, when you are born, a vision of belief or non-belief. Because there are countries where people do not believe in God, so you receive non-belief, and if you are in a country, if you are born in a country where you are taught concepts about God, you have an idea about Him and a name for Him.
If you are born in India, there are hundreds of gods there. If you are born in a culture like ours, Judeo-Christian, you are taught monotheism – the idea, the belief, the concept of a single God. So, we all have ideas, beliefs, that are taught to us from childhood, according to the culture, according to the place where we were born, but all of these are beliefs. Divine Reality, the Reality of God, is not a belief. To become aware of this Reality is not to believe in God. It is to become aware of your True Nature, your Real Nature.
So, the expression “Christ” or any other expression for God, is an expression, it is a word. What is the Truth of That which we are? What is the Truth of your Being? To assume this Reality is to assume the Truth. We need to go beyond speech, beyond verbal expressions, beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond beliefs. Beliefs are cultural, something intellectual that we receive from society, from the world, from culture, while Truth is beyond the intellect, beyond words, beyond thought. To assume the Truth is to assume your Divine Nature, which is Love, which is Wisdom, which is Comprehension. Then, there is the Truth of God present.
It is also important to say here, Gilson, that this has nothing to do with organized religions. The Reality of God is beyond all of this, it is outside this movement of religious culture, of cultural religiosity. It is in this sense that true religious life is the awareness of God, and not the science of doctrines, beliefs, concepts, ideas, words. The Awakening of your Divine Nature is the Revelation that God is the only Reality, that Christ is the only Truth, that the only Truth is the Divine Truth.
GC: Thank you, Master. Our time is over. Thank you for this videocast.
And for those of you who are watching the videocast and have a sincere yearning to get closer to oneself and comprehend this truth, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers. Here, in the first comment, pinned, is the WhatsApp link, so you can join the group and participate in these meetings. The meetings are online, on weekends, and there are also in-person meetings, including multi-day retreats. And these meetings are much more profound than these videos, because we can ask the Master our questions directly. Furthermore, what is most important is that the Master, because he already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, shares this State of Presence in which he lives. He shares a Presence, a Power, a Silence, and we end up being able to get a lift along on this Silence of the Master, and by getting a lift along, it becomes much easier for us to investigate ourselves, to have a vision of what is beyond understanding. So, here is the invitation!
In the first comment, pinned, there is the link. In addition, please give a “like” to the video and leave questions for us to bring to the next videocasts here in the comments.
And, once again, Master, thank you for the videocast.
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