Awakening of Consciousness | Spiritual Enlightenment | Psychological Time | Finding God | Advaita

We are here, investigating with you, the end of this issue, this notion, which is the notion of time.When we speak of the Reality of God, we are not talking about something-just as when we speak of the Truth of this Liberation or the Awakening of Consciousness, we may have various names for this, various expressions for this-we are not talking about something that occurs within time. Quite the opposite, we are talking about something that happens in this instant, outside of time. It is here, in this instant, where time does not exist, that this Realization reveals itself. It is not something to be achieved, something to be obtained, something to be conquered.

This is where we encounter the great difficulty that most people have when they come into contact with this subject. Because they have the idea that Spiritual Enlightenment, the Awakening of Consciousness, is something that will occur over time. However, the Truth of what we are is not in time.

Here, when we are dealing with the Truth of what we are, we are dealing with that which is free from birth and death. The body was born, life is happening for this body, or this body is in life, in time. At least, this is the notion we have when we look at it in a superficial way, when we look from an observer's perspective-this "I" that separates itself. It separates itself as being the "center" of the experience of life, of living.

So, we look at the body, we look at the world, we look at life from this "center." Thus, our approach is a mental approach, it is naturally a mistaken approach-because it is an approach within a dream.

Life, as we know it in the mind, is just a dream. A dream that begins at birth and ends at death. So, here we come across an illusion. The illusion of this life which, in fact, consists only of a dream: a dream of being alive, moving towards death.

At night, we have dreams when we lay down to sleep. Notice that we are never aware of the beginning of the dream, of when the dream starts. We are only aware of the end of the dream because there is an awakening. Now, take note: an awakening to a new dream. So, we move from one level of dream consciousness to a level of waking consciousness; in truth, we move from one dream to another dream. This is what we call life, and in this life, we believe in this "center" that separates itself, that sees the dream from itself.

Thus, there is this awareness of the dreamer, of the experiencer of the dream, which is the "I," which is the "person."

So, everything we call life consists only of the experience of this dream for a dreamer. It happens in the waking state, in this state in which we find ourselves, and it happens at night when we sleep and dream.

The question is: what is the reality of this Being? This Being that we are? For us, it has no beginning; for us, it has no end. To this particular, conditioned view that we have, this Being seems to have started existing at the birth of the body. And it seems that it, in some way, will no longer exist-or at least not in this human form-at the death of the body. However, we can observe this closely and realize that this entire notion we have, which is the notion of time, is a notion that thought produces.

Observe that there is no time without the notion of thought: it is thought that gives us the notion of a future.

We have chronological time, but we do not have psychological time, the created future, except through thought. This psychological future is the future that thought creates. There is no future other than what thought produces. So, we have the time on the clock, but we do not have a psychological future-unless thought creates this future. And all our conditioning, within this notion of progress, growth, and evolution, is within this "future model." A future where the image that thought has, that thought forms, creates it.

So, "tomorrow I will realize love"; "tomorrow I will realize Peace, Happiness, Freedom, God!" Notice that it is a future that thought creates. In this notion: "I do not have, but I will have"; "I am not, but I will be." This idea of becoming, of achieving, of obtaining, of coming to be; "I am not, but I will become that"; "I will achieve that"; "I will realize that." This notion within us is the notion of time.

What we are seeing here with you is that this entire notion, which is the notion that thought produces, has no reality. Since thought is something that comes from the past-it only deals with experiences that have ended, that are over, that are gone. It brings these experiences to this moment, and it seeks the continuity of these experiences, creating the affirmation of a present identity: which is the experiencer, which is the thinker. This thinker, which is the experiencer, is the one that, due to thought, has the idea of continuity in the future.

There is no such thinker. It is just thought projecting itself into the future, into the future that it idealizes.

So, what do we have when we deal with thought? The only thing present in thought is past impressions. These impressions are memories, they are recollections; nothing more than that. These recollections, memories, are imaginations; they are moving images, images from the past, memory in motion. That is, this future does not exist-there is only the past, as memory, as imagination.

So, when we idealize God in the future, we are idealizing, through thought, from this thinker, an imagination. The Divine Reality is not in time, in this psychological time. This Divine Reality is in this instant, outside of this time.

Therefore, it is not something to be achieved, to be realized. This "coming to be" is an imagination of this "center."

What is this "center"? It is this set of memories, of recollections. This "center" is this set of images moving, in this instant, as if there were a "tomorrow to go to," as if there were a "past that was lived."

Notice what an interesting thing we have here: this movement-which is the movement of this "center," which is the "I," which is this "experiencer," which is this "ego"-this movement is the movement of memory, it is the movement of recollection. But it is the movement happening now.

The point is that we are bringing life to that which has no life.

The point is that we are bringing life to that which has no life. When we get involved, we are giving identity to this thinker who is projecting itself, wanting to do something with this movement, which is the movement of images. So, we are animating that which has no life, which is memory, which is the past, which is thought.

Thus, the truth about time-this so-called past-is thought; this notion of the present-you have the notion of the present in relation to a reference to the past-is still thought, which is the past. And this notion of the future is part of this thought, which is the past, and this has no life. Unless thought itself projects into this idea of "coming to be."

That is why we have this notion of realizing truth tomorrow; realizing peace tomorrow; happiness tomorrow; freedom tomorrow; love tomorrow. For us, there is always this notion of "coming to be." "I am not, but I am moving toward being, I am heading toward this goal, this objective."

We have not learned, within our society, our world, our culture, to deal with what is here. In fact, we receive from our culture techniques, methods, formulas-precisely to escape from what is here, when what is here is painful, when what is here is unpleasant. Guilt is a painful thing; regret is a painful thing; fear is a painful thing; anguish is a painful thing. This is present because of thought: thought is guilt, thought is remorse, thought is fear, thought is anguish.

We are dealing with thought at this moment, but with the ideal of getting rid of it because it is painful. We create the "coming to be." "Tomorrow I will be free from this, I will be free from this." Or, "in this moment, I must escape from this." So, we are always creating ways to escape the pain that presents itself here, in this instant; or an ideal of getting rid of this pain later, tomorrow-this tomorrow that thought is creating, this future that thought is idealizing.

So, we have this movement, which is the movement of time, either to achieve or to escape.

We have various ways of escaping from this moment when this moment appears unpleasant. It appears unpleasant because the experiencer, who is the thinker, emerges loaded with a feeling, with a sensation, with an emotion. If it is painful due to a painful memory, this pain is here now, but we do not look at this pain; we escape from this pain.

So, people go smoke, drink, they seek this or that form of distraction. There is always an inclination to escape from what is painful. We always flee from what is painful to something that is pleasurable.

So, our conditioning is always to escape from pain and seek pleasure. If what appears here is painful, we want to escape: we go to the theater, we go drinking, we go dating, we go traveling, because this temporarily distracts us from this pain. It does not put an end to this pain; it does not eliminate this pain. But we manage to escape-there are thousands of ways to escape, and each person has their particular way of escaping the pain that arises.

If what arises at this moment is pleasurable, we enjoy it, we want more of it. So, we live cultivating pleasure when we seek more of what gives us pleasure; we cultivate pain when we flee from what causes us pain.

Thus, we are always living within this movement, which is the psychological movement of time.

This psychological movement of time constitutes itself as the "center" of this identity. This "I" has as its center this movement. The movement in time-this movement in time-is filled with images, memories, recollections.

So, our psychological movement of "being someone" is a movement that occurs in time-which is basically thought. This set of recollections, painful recollections, and pleasurable recollections.

So, we are living within this condition. This is the condition of the "I"; it is the condition of the "ego."

When we grow tired of this, of this purely materialistic model of life, we turn to this so-called "spiritual life" or the "life of spirituality." That is when we begin to have aspirations for higher things, greater things, greater achievements, greater realizations.

These so-called higher, greater realizations and achievements-notice-they are still within a search for fulfillment, for realization, for satisfaction at a different level than what we previously achieved.

So, when we grow tired of materialism, we turn to spirituality. But we are always within this movement that is still the movement of the "I" involved with this notion of time, of achieving, of realizing, of "coming to be."

That is when we also speak of finding the Realization of Truth, the Divine Realization. We speak of having an "encounter with God."

Notice: the notion of God, in time; the notion of the realization of truth, in time; the realization of happiness, in time.

So, we are always, within our culture, within our conditioning, within what we have been taught, maintaining the continuity of this entity, which is the "I," the "me," seeking something for itself.

Observe that this movement is the movement of duality because there is this "I," the "me," the "center," seeking something. So, there is this separation.

Then, we have the notion of time, of the future, to achieve or to realize; and the identity that will achieve, that will realize.

So, it is always from this frustration of identity, which is "egoic," that sees itself as separate from the experience, feeling frustrated for lacking something-either it is the desire to get rid of pain, or it is the desire to achieve pleasure, or it is the desire to realize something beyond this pleasure and pain, within the known-thus having a richer, deeper experience, the so-called "spiritual experience."

But it is always this model of separation, of duality, and, therefore, of frustration.

Can we approach all this by letting go of time?

This is what we are investigating with you here on the channel and in these online meetings we have on weekends.

You have the WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these weekend meetings.

What we are working on together here is the end of time-this time that is time created by thought, that is time that is thought.

The way to approach the Truth is to approach what we are, in this instant.

To become aware of this frustration, which exists within this sense of separation, where there is this duality-this "I" and the "other thing"; this "I" and the "pain"; this "I" and the "pleasure"; or this "I" and this "experience," so-called "experience with God."

To become aware of the movement of the "I," to become aware of this "center," of this set of memories, recollections.

To perceive the sense of duality present and the illusion of it.

This awareness is the end of this condition, which is the condition of duality.

We have a notion-and this is the notion given to us in this old model-to achieve, to get rid of, to realize, or to get rid of what we do not want for ourselves.

We are within this model.

To become aware of this separation is to realize that there is no such thing-there is no "I" and "this pain"; this "I" and "this pleasure"; this "I" and "this experience," so-called spiritual.

It is a single movement: from this "center," the other thing is present.

Can we have an approach-this is the question-here, where there is no separation between this "I" and "this pain"; or this "I" and "this pleasure"; or this "I" and "this so-called spiritual, mystical, or religious experience"?

Can we perceive, for ourselves, with clarity, that this separation does not exist?

We are dealing with the same experience, centered within a process of illusion.

So, it is possible to free ourselves from this duality. To have an approach to oneself, becoming aware of what we are in this instant-this is the end of this duality, and therefore, it is the end of this separation.

Then, yes, there is a Realization, but it is not in time. Yes, there is Love, Freedom, Happiness, a Divine Reality, but it is not part of what thought projects, of what thought idealizes; it is not part of this movement, which is the movement of psychological time.

So, this is what we are showing here, working on here, investigating here with you.

The vision of the Reality of this Being is present when duality is no longer there.

When we go through painful experiences, when they return, they return in the form of pain, as memory, as recollection.

So, when we are internally, psychologically, here, in this instant, in suffering, we are involved with the past, with memory, with the recollection of pain, of a painful experience.

So, anxiety, fear, anguish, guilt-they are painful recollections. They come from the past, bringing a painful feeling, a painful sensation to an entity that is this "me," this "I," this "thinker," this "experiencer," living this again, here, now.

What it does is try to get rid of it, escaping to some level of distraction, to avoid living this pain.

So, this duality is present.

When it is pleasure, after going through pleasant experiences, when the recollection comes, the pleasure comes along with that recollection. This sensation, this feeling, is something that is also coming from the past.

For this pleasure, we want continuity. So, we seek more of it.

Then, we have desire.

So, on one side, we have desire, which is the search for the continuity of pleasure-something also coming from memory, from the past, from recollection.

On the other side, we have pain-fear is part of this-which we want to get rid of, something also coming from the past.

See, it is always at this moment that all this arises, but we never come into direct contact with the experience: whether of pain, of pleasure, or of imagination-of a so-called "spiritual realization."

We do not realize that it is thought that is producing all three of these things.

This thought, or feeling, or sensation, is the experience; and there is this "me," this "I," this "experiencer," engaging with this experience and giving continuity to it.

Continuity to the imagination of this so-called "spiritual realization," this idealization of this encounter with truth, this encounter with love, this encounter with God, or the idealization, or this search to rid oneself of this pain, of this fear, or this pursuit of continuity in pleasure.

To come into direct contact with this, simply to become aware that all this comes from the past, that it is just a movement created by this "center," which is the "I," the "ego," which are these recollections, these memories, just to become aware of this.

When there is no psychological involvement of wanting to do something with this-whether with pain, with pleasure, or with this so-called search (which is still a projection from the past, still from thought)-when we simply become aware of this, duality comes to an end.

Notice that this, in this instant, is the end of time!

Now, there is no time-it is when psychological time ends, that thought ends.

And when thought ends, when this movement of experience loses its value, this "experiencer," this "center," loses its importance.

When this occurs, this duality disappears.

To have direct contact with what is here, in this moment, without fleeing, without seeking, or without imagining; to become aware of this, is the end of duality.

This is the end of the "I"; it is the end of the "ego"; it is the end of this sense of duality.

In India, they call this Advaita: non-duality, non-separation.

Advaita is non-duality.

The only reality present is that which is beyond time, beyond this model of separation.

It is when you are in direct contact with the Truth of what you are.

Then, this sense of the "I," which is the "thinker," which is the "experiencer," which is this "center," dissolves.

When this is no longer present, the experience also disappears.

So, this pleasure, or this pain, or this search for spirituality-all of this dissolves.

Because now, you have the Awareness of the only thing that is present: that which is present when the sense of the "I" is not.

So, we are facing something indescribable, nameless, which is Divine Reality.

Then, this contact with the Truth of your Being is now, here, when there is no movement of separation, when there is no movement of duality.

Something possible, present, when there is Real Awareness of Being, Pure Consciousness.

Here, we have online meetings, as mentioned, on weekends.

As we have mentioned here for you, we have these online meetings, where we can explore all this more deeply.

We work with questions and answers, and we experience a moment of stillness, of silence, of meditation.

These online meetings take place on weekends.

You have the WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these meetings.

Besides that, we have in-person meetings and also retreats.

I want to leave an invitation for you here, okay?

If this is something that makes sense to you, take this moment now-leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and we will see each other, okay?

Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time.

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is Spiritual Life? | Escape from Reality, Psychology | Self-Awareness, Mindfulness

Here on this channel, you have already noticed that we are dealing with subjects that people seek to know about. All of them are tied to this question of human life. They are, in fact, fundamental questions, as some call them, because they involve a profound internal change that is possible for each one of us. And so, we are faced with a possibility of going beyond the condition in which we find ourselves. And that is what we are investigating here with you, verifying, deepening, clarifying.

We have various topics being addressed here on the channel. You can find all these topics in playlists.

There are dozens of playlists. And every day, we are adding new videos, deepening each of these subjects. We need to have a direct understanding of life.

But it is also important to say here that this understanding does not arise from a mere intellectual, theoretical, or verbal approach. Something much greater than that is necessary for each one of us. And that something is having an approach to these subjects by learning to listen, learning to look, learning to perceive, to become aware of them.

In theory, in concept, in idea, we remain only in the intellectual, verbal realm. Notice that our way of approaching life is very theoretical.

We do not have a true approach. And without this true approach-what do I call a true approach here? It is the approach where you move from theory to direct experience, to direct experimentation. Unless this happens, we will always remain in ideas, in the realm of ideas, in the terrain of abstraction, in this mere intention or vision motivated by desire, by the search for something for this self-improvement or self-betterment, which, in fact, is a mistake.

These subjects here do not have this purpose. This is not about the idea of improving the person. Here, we are investigating the nature of the person, the structure and nature of the "I," of this ego, of this "me," of this person.

Unless this is understood, we will always continue living without a real vision of life. Notice that when people have questions or would like certain subjects to be addressed, in general, the way we approach all this is by seeking to confirm our beliefs, our theories, and concepts.

So, we do not truly have a real approach. We do this because we are thinking about improving as people. Here, I have something to say to you.

The purpose of this channel is to bring you a vision of yourself, the truth about yourself. And this truth will reveal to you something beyond the person, beyond the "I," beyond the "me," beyond the ego. Therefore, this is not about this person improving.

It is about a clear vision that this person is an illusion. Here, we are working with you on the Awakening of Consciousness, on Spiritual Awakening. Some call it Spiritual Enlightenment.

It is an approach to life, to the real life possible for each one of us. So, when people ask: what is spiritual life? It is divine life, it is the life of your Being, it is the life of God. This is the real life. Questions like "what is life?" are frequent. People want a meaning for life, but they do not understand that there is no other meaning for life except life itself.

Unless we understand what life is, we will continue within these values, these motives, intentions, and appreciations of behavioral patterns that are totally alienated from the beauty of life. There is no separation between what life is and spiritual life.

The life we know is the life of the "I," the life of the ego. And in this life, we are living in conflicts of all kinds. Conflicts exist because of the lack of understanding of the relational life we have with ourselves, with others, with situations, events, and the world itself.

So, a lack of vision of life places us in a relationship with others, with the world, with what arises, with what happens, in a completely mistaken way. And because of this, suffering is present. The human being lives in conflict, lives in contradiction.

He lives expecting something from life, but at the same time, he is seeking something else. This contradictory behavior, in relation to people, situations, events, plans, and projects, places us in a state of suffering because of the conflict that arises between the ideal of doing something and the execution of something different from that.

So, there is a contradiction, and in this contradiction, suffering is present. There is something very common, something that has already been noticed by those who observe the movement of the mind, even if only superficially. We have already approached this, and this is the view that many have from a psychological perspective-that we are indeed within a movement, because of all this suffering, of escape, of psychological escape.

We are facing this escape from reality, which is known in psychology. This reality is the reality we have built. When I say "we," I mean the reasons of thought present in us, the motives, the values of thought.

We are establishing in our lives a psychological condition of existence where we are constantly trying to escape all this pain, all this suffering, all the results of this contradiction within which we behave. So, this produces suffering, and then we seek relief, a distancing.

We never approach life to understand it. We are living precisely as everyone else has lived before us, as all these other people have lived for millennia.

This has been our fate. Our way of behaving is a way of behaving where our patterns are repeating. We are repeating the patterns of our parents, our grandparents, of those who arrived here before us.

And we are living exactly as they did. Unless this is interrupted, unless we have a clear vision of life, free from the condition in which we find ourselves-which is the condition of this egoic mind, this mind of the person, this mind of the "I"-we will always continue living a life of suffering and will always be in this search or this escape from reality, from this pain, from this complication.

Here with you, we are working on the end of this psychological condition of life, the end of this psychological condition of existence, for a truly free life, a life where love is present, where freedom is present, where happiness is here, in this instant. This is something possible when we discover something beyond this person, this "me," beyond this "I."

That is why we need a real approach to life here. So, to the question: what is life? The answer to this question lies in understanding how the mind functions within us. Because when we ask what life is, the idea is to look outside.

But notice, there is no life out there without the idea of someone being present in here. When we look outside, it is because we believe we are inside, being someone. It is when this illusion ends-this idea of being someone, of being this "I," of being this person-that this illusion of life out there disappears, because we have the end of this separation between you and life. There is no you and life. There is only one presence, and that presence is the presence of life.

This idea we have, this thought we carry, this image we hold within us, in this model of the mind and how it has functioned, is a mistake. There is no such "I," this "me," this ego, this person. This is the truth about life. So, the answer to the question "what is life?" is the same answer to "what is spiritual life?" There is only one reality present, and that reality is the divine, it is God, it is the truth.

It is only in this sense that we use the term "spiritual" here. Generally, this term is used by linking it to rituals, ceremonies, mystical practices, or esoteric things. This so-called spirituality is something that thought has produced, something that thought has created.

And we are trapped in these ideas. So, when people use the expression "spiritual life," they connect it to these practices. The truth about life, about what life is, is that life is divine. It is in this sense that life is spiritual.

However, this has nothing to do with all this apparatus, all this paraphernalia that thought has built around this expression. And this is what we are examining with you here when we address the question of the Awakening of Consciousness, which, in fact, represents the end of the "I," the end of the ego, the end of this person.

Naturally, it is the end of everything that the mind has produced. Therefore, this is something that requires the presence of a clear, lucid, real vision of life. And here, as it has been stated, there is no you and life.

An approach to life is an approach to oneself. A self-understanding is the real vision of the understanding of life. You are life.

Life, you, and this divine reality are what is present and have never ceased to be present. We are not aware of this because we live within this framework of ignorance, illusion, and lack of vision regarding the reality of who we are. Therefore, what have we emphasized here? We have emphasized here what it means to have an approach to the truth about yourself.

It is this approach that allows you to have a direct look at life as it is. Notice, life as it is, not as the thought within us constantly tries to interpret it, to create ideas about it. And it is precisely because of this creation of ideas about life that this sense of the "I," the ego, the person, as we recognize ourselves to be, is in conflict with life because it sees itself as separate from life.

And because of this, I repeat, all kinds of confusion, all kinds of disorder, all kinds of suffering are present. This makes human beings constantly seek to escape from this pain. This is psychological escape, it is an escape from reality.

Because as human beings, we suffer, and we do not know how to deal with suffering, we do not know how to become aware of it. We do not move intelligently through the challenges of life. Because it is natural that this sense of ego is unaware of what life is since it sees itself as separate from it. And due to suffering, we try to ease this pain. And we do this by getting involved in addictions, by seeking fulfillment and pleasure in material achievements, in physical sensations, in forms of emotional satisfaction.

So, the human being seeks to escape from pain through the pleasure of food, sex, alcohol, and all kinds of behaviors that can temporarily distance them from this existential pain. Since we do not have the real presence of life, which is the presence of the divine, which is the presence of God, we are not aware of the beauty of our own Being.

And therefore, by confusing ourselves with the egoic mind and identifying with the body, there is this constant search for sensory satisfaction, which throws us into an egocentric model of life. In this self-interest, everything the human being has done is to seek for themselves, for their own "I," something that fills them, that brings them satisfaction, something that can remove them from this pain, from this misery of the egoic mind.

This condition of the egoic mind's misery has trapped us as human beings in ambition, in the pursuit of material, emotional, and physical acquisitions. This generates attachment, this produces fear. So, this is the psychological condition of neurosis. Anxiety, depression, various forms of worries, different fears-all of which we experience in this egoic mind-are part of this condition of the misery of the "I," of the misery of the mind. The good news is that there is a present reality. And this reality is not the mind, it is not the ego.

This reality is bliss. It is not misery. It is happiness. It is not pain, suffering, as we know it in this sense of the ego, in this sense of the "I." Here with you, we are working on how to break free from this, how to go beyond this condition of unhappiness. This requires the presence of this attention to our reactions. We do not know how to deal with ourselves.

Naturally, we do not know how to deal with others within our relationships because this is the condition in which the mind finds itself in this self-centeredness. Everything we do is to obtain something for this "me." And this entire egocentric movement involves behavioral patterns of envy, ambition, control.

So, this causes us suffering. And we do not know how to deal with it. We do not know how to deal with ourselves.

And in these relationships with those closest to us. Notice how important this is to say to you. We do not live isolated. We are all part of a family.

Our relationship with others in the family-with children, with the husband, with the wife, our relationship with closer and even more distant relatives-are relationships where we are constantly reflecting this internal condition of emotional, psychological disorder and confusion due to this self-centeredness. And we are communicating this within relationships, causing suffering, creating more confusion. There is no intelligence, no wisdom, no real vision of ourselves, no real vision of the other.

Thus, our behavior is isolationist, fostering confusion because we are living in the "I," living in the ego, living this psychological unhappiness. There is no love in our lives. There is no peace in our lives. There is no freedom in our minds, in our hearts.

Thus, bringing attention to our reactions, learning to look-just to look-is not about trying to change what you see but about looking.

Looking at what is happening within you. If there is a thought, you become aware of the thought. You become conscious of the thought. If there is an emotion, a feeling...

When we learn to look at our reactions, we begin to have the truth of approach within our relationships with those closest to us, the truth of this "I" that I am. As I approach to look, I perceive the confusion, I perceive the suffering, I perceive the disorder present in this "me." By perceiving this, we do indeed have the possibility of breaking free from this internal condition within ourselves, for a relationship with them without these patterns.

So, here we have already touched on this issue of Self-Awareness and this real attention with you.

When there is Self-Awareness and this complete attention, when there is Self-Awareness and this full attention, when we become aware of how we function, this very awareness breaks this model, breaks this pattern, which is the pattern of the "I." So, we have a closeness to the awareness of Self-Awareness. It is only in this sense that we use the expression "Self-Awareness" here.

It is not a tool for improving as a person; it is the vision of the very "I." And this vision of the very "I," when it is real, does not involve an element to alter it, to change it.

This element would still be part of the "I" itself. That is why what people call "Self-Awareness" out there is just an adjustment of the "I" within the "I" itself. It is a change of the "I" within the "I" itself.

This is not the vision of the truth of the end of the "I." It is the continuity of the "I," improved, expanded, perfected. This is not the sense in which we use this expression here.

Here, Self-Awareness is the awareness of the movement of the "I." Just the awareness, without that element that separates itself to observe.

So, only the looking remains, the observing, the perceiving. This awareness is the awareness of non-separation because there is no longer an observer seeing who they are, because the observer who sees who they are is still part of them, trying to adjust, correct-it is not that. Here with you, we are showing you what it is to have an approach to meditation. And approaching meditation requires an approach without the "I," without the meditator, without the observer.

It is looking at our reactions-just looking. When there is true looking, we have a new quality of energy present that breaks the pattern of the "I," that dissolves this pattern of the ego. Then, something new arises, which is no longer the person, the "me," the "I," the ego. We have the presence of reality.

Therefore, life in love, in freedom, in happiness, is spiritual life. But it is not the life of someone-it is the life of this Being, in the absence of the "I," in the absence of the ego.

So, this is our purpose here with you. On weekends, we have online meetings.

They are two days together, Saturday and Sunday, where we are deepening this with you. You have the link to our WhatsApp group in the video description to participate in these online meetings, where we are deepening and exploring this.

Besides these online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats.

If this is something that makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, this makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time.

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | The Foundation of Mysticism | What is thought? | Marcos Gualberto

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 am going to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called "The Foundation of Mysticism." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "The mind is the instrument you use for the purposes of thought, reasoning, or any other goal of knowledge." In this excerpt, Joel comments on thought. Can the Master share his vision on what thought is?

MG: Gilson, the question "What is thought?" is a very important question, in fact, of great relevance to all of us, because our life is a life that occurs within relations: relations with people, places, things, situations, events. And thought is always present, but we do not know the truth about thought. So, let us investigate with you, here, what this represents.

We have a playlist here on the channel about this subject, "What is thought," as well as "what is thinking." There is a close relationship between the process of thinking in us and the truth of thought. So, let's start with thought.

Thought in you is memory. Right now, we are here using speech - you recognize language, you recognize the language. You recognize the language because there is, within you, this memory, this recollection, this thought. So, there is the thought of language. Spoken language is thought being expressed, it is memory being shared; this is thought. If I ask you something, you give me the answer. This answer will be coming, will be emerging, due to memory, due to remembrance, due to recollection, due to thought. So, thought gives us the answer - and thought is memory, is remembrance - and this answer that you give me is only present because, from my question, an internal movement occurred in you. This internal, cerebral movement of searching for information, this movement of seeking information, this mechanics, is thinking.

So, there is thinking as the mechanics that makes the answer possible. It is all brain work that occurs in you. This is thinking! So, thinking gives us thought, brings us thought; thinking elaborates thought. This is where ideas, beliefs, opinions, judgments, and evaluations emerge. From a technical point of view, reasoning is necessary, logic is necessary, deduction, conclusion... All of this is necessary from a technical point of view. This is when thought comes in to fulfill a very basic, specific function, but here we come across another situation: we come across thought to make evaluations, judgments, comparisons, deductions, to draw conclusions from the point of view of the totality of life, of relationships... Notice where the problem arises!

In this contact that I have with you, I do not need conclusions, evaluations, judgments, and comparisons. I only need the comprehension of this relationship, and the comprehension of this relationship requires the presence of something beyond thought. However, we are placing thought within our relationships. This is where this feeling of "I" arises, this thought of "I" and all the confusion established in human life, in the life of the human being, because there is the presence of an isolationist, partisan, personal, egocentric movement.

So, notice this, there are two levels here: the first level is functional thought, which is technical. Knowledge, experience, specialization, for a profession, for dealing with people's names, for telling stories, which are remembrances and memories, all of this has a certain place within a functional technical context. You need technical knowledge, for example, to fix a car. This is knowledge, experience, memory, thought. But when thought enters human relationships, it creates problems, and the problem is because we place, within human relationships, the sense of ego, the sense of "I." So, there is this movement, in "me," of liking and disliking, of loving and hating, of being offended and forgiving, of being upset and upsetting, of being sad and making the other sad; and all of this is happening because of the presence of thought as well.

So, you see, we don't know how to deal with thought. We use technical thought, but in this context of life, of human relationships, of relationships with people, with situations, in the very relationship "with myself," the sense of "I," of the ego, is exactly this movement of thought that compares, evaluates, judges, accepts, rejects, likes, dislikes. This is the "I," this is the ego. Can we get rid of this? In other words, can we use thought only at a technical level, and not at a psychological level? All human suffering occurs at a psychological level. Yes, we go through physical pain, health problems, but this is something physical, it is something specific to the body. When we speak about psychic suffering, there is another element present here, which is not this physical element, but this mental element - ??this is where the sense of ego is. And our deepest and most powerful sufferings, disorders and problems are occurring at this level, at the psychological level, at the level of psychological suffering.

Here, together, we are investigating the truth about thought. We need to discover what it means living free from thought. In other words, at the functional, practical, and objective level in life, in this dream of existence, thought is necessary, but at the psychological level, it is not only unnecessary but dysfunctional, because it is something that is producing internal states of neurosis in the human being, so conflict is present, suffering is present. Fear is something like this, anxiety is something like this, depression is this, anguish is this, so is boredom, the pain of loneliness and everything else.

So, what is the truth about thought? To realize this, to become aware of this, is to go beyond thought, for a life free from thought. So, when functional thinking becomes necessary, it will be there, only at that level. A life with a quiet brain, with a silent mind, where there is this readiness to respond to the present moment, without the "I," without the ego, without this internal neurosis; a response to life, perfectly adequate, real, where there is no more conflict in relationships, where there are no more problems in this contact with him or her, and "with myself," and with life, because there is no longer this illusion of the "I," this illusion of a present entity, which is this "me," creating this separation of this "I" and the "non-I." That is what we are proposing here, working here with you.

A vision of life requires the end of thought as we know it. And it has already become clear: I am referring to this psychological thought, which is this thinking that is based on this idea, which is the idea of ??the "I," of this "me."

GC: Master, there is a question from a subscriber here on the channel. She makes the following comment and asks, Maria: "Master, how can we differentiate an action that is aligned with the present from an action in response to thought? I don't know how to distinguish them."

MG: So, presence of action free from thought - here, the question is how to discern this. Who is this element that will discern this action free from thought, from this background of psychological conditioning, and this free action? Who is this element that will discern between action conditioned by thought and action not conditioned by thought? Who is this element?

So, notice, it is not about an element capable of making this distinction, because this element will still be an element that will be evaluating, comparing, judging, agreeing, or disagreeing, seeing right and wrong. And this element is only present from this background, which is this background of experience, this background of judgment, of evaluation, of acceptance or rejection, of seeing right from wrong. This element is still the "I." So, we cannot count on an element, within us, capable of making this discernment.

Here, the first thing is this: we cannot approach Truth based on criteria of the "I" itself, the own background, the very own thought. Here, we are showing you how to become aware of your reactions; that's all. Once you become aware of your reactions, this awareness will be enough. It is not awareness in order to evaluate, to judge, to compare, to try to get it right, to try to discern. It is verifying! There is a new action when there is this awareness: it is awareness without the background, without thought.

So, this new way of being in contact with the present moment, no matter what this present moment represents, it could be a thought that arises at this moment, an emotion, a sensation, a specific way of feeling about something or someone... Can we approach this moment without this background? That is what we are proposing here for you. This is the real way of perceiving without the perceiver, of being aware without someone being aware, of becoming aware without someone acquiring this awareness, knowing something about it. So, at that moment, a new quality of action emerges; This action does not arise from thought.

Here is the answer to your question: it is not about discerning to know what is and what is not, it is about becoming aware of oneself, in this moment. Then, in this moment, the understanding of that which is not real arises, but without the idea of ??it. This looking, this noticing, shows us illusion. Becoming aware of illusion is already becoming aware of the Truth. You see, it is not about something to do with illusion. The very awareness of illusion is the rejection of it, the very awareness of the false is the rejection of the false, because we have the Truth present. So, how can we approach this quality of action free from thought - from this thought of the "I," which is this conditioned-background thought, always programmed to judge, compare, evaluate, to interfere with the present moment? How can we become aware of this? Observation, perception, looking, perceiving... It does not mean someone looking, it does not mean someone perceiving, it means bringing this Attention to this moment, then there will be clarity and, naturally, a new action will happen, it will happen.

Real action is not premeditated by thought, it is not born from an impulse that comes from the past. Real action is that which responds to this present moment without the past, and that is what we are addressing here with you. A speech like this points to something outside of thought. This something outside of thought is the awareness of Intelligence itself, it is the awareness of your Being. So, there is a quality of action that is born from this new space; it is not born from someone, it is not born from the background.

So, here it is about getting closer to yourself through observation. This is part of Self- awareness; this is part of approaching Meditation. We have here, on the channel, a playlist about the Truth of Meditation, "What is Real Meditation in Practice" and "The Truth about Self- awareness," this is another playlist. Another one is "Learning about Self-Awareness." We need to learn about Self-Awareness. Later, you can take a look. Here in the video description, there are these playlists. You click and take a look at these three playlists.

Getting closer to yourself means becoming aware of the Truth about yourself in this new action, in this free action.

GC: Master, there is another question from another subscriber here on the channel. Dilma makes the following comment and asks: "How did you manage to have new ideas that are not from the mind?"

MG: "How did you manage to have ideas that are free from the mind?" Free yourself from the mind! See, free yourself from the mind! What we know as "mind" is this movement that comes from the past, that is constantly inside our heads, always repeating the same old mental loops, beliefs, opinions, conclusions, and ideas about ourselves, about others, about life.

The Truth of your Being is pure Intelligence, and this Intelligence expresses itself when there is space, and this space arises when there is Self- Awareness. We need to discover what Truth is, we need to become aware of Truth, and we can only become aware of Truth when we learn about ourselves. What gives you the Vision of Life, what brings you Real Intelligence for a Life of Love, Freedom and Happiness is the Comprehension of the Truth about yourself. Self-Awareness is the basis of Intelligence; this Divine Intelligence is the basis of Wisdom.

So, contact with life at this moment, free from the movement of thought, shows you Life as It is. For a long time, our model of life has always been a model of life centered on thought, ideas, opinions, conclusions, beliefs... So, our minds are full of all this. Here, freeing yourself from the mind is realizing the Reality of a New Mind, of a quality of feeling and thinking that is totally new and different. This requires the presence of Self-Awareness; this requires the presence of Meditation.

In this learning about Self-Awareness, there is this learning about us. So, there is something present that reveals itself beyond the "I," beyond this old, old thinker that we believe we are, that we believe to exist, and that is ourselves. There is no such thing as someone being the thinker, producing thoughts. All thoughts are responses that come from the past. All thoughts are memories, are remembrances. The Reality of your Being does not carry thoughts; the Reality of your Being is pure Bliss, Happiness, Love, Wisdom.

That is what we are here for, with you, in online meetings on the weekends, working; and in face-to-face meetings and also retreats. Getting closer to the Truth about yourself is breaking with the illusion of someone present in control of life, taking charge of life, understanding life, or trying to understand life, fighting for life. That which is the Reality of your Being is Life itself, it is Wisdom itself, it is Intelligence itself, it is Freedom itself. That is the Truth of God, that is the Truth of your Being.

GC: Thank you, Master, our time has ended now. Thank you for this videocast.

And for those of you who are watching the video until the end and really want to deepen your knowledge and experience it, I invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers, which are online weekend meetings or in-person meetings, as well as retreats. These meetings are much deeper than these videos here on YouTube. First, because we can ask the Master our questions directly, and second - and most importantly - because in these meetings the Master shares this State of Presence in which he lives, and in this sharing, we end up taking a ride on the Master's energy. And this is an incredible facilitator for us to be able to investigate ourselves, for us to be able to enter Meditation, which is this Silence, naturally and spontaneously. So, here is the invitation.

In the first comment, pinned, there is the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Also, give a "like" in the video and leave your questions in the comments so we can include them in future videocasts.

And once again, Master, thank you for the videocast.

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Human relations | Self-image psychology | Learning about Self-awareness | What is Mindfulness?

There are a very large number of mistaken views about life. One of them is this issue of learning, in relation to learning how we function. For example, we have the case of this search or this quest to discover how to deal with oneself, in this issue of self-image, something known in psychology.

So, people want, theoretically, through lectures - listening to lectures - or books - reading books - to have an approach to this self-image according to psychology or to any psychological aspect of the "I," having a theoretical, conceptual - in words -, verbal approach to this. Here we are with you investigating in a direct way, by ourselves, in an experiential way how we function.

See, we need to abandon this mistake, this great mental confusion that we have, which is this belief that we can learn psychology outside of ourselves. These internal aspects of thought, feeling, emotion, sensation, perception are something to be studied here, within us. No psychologist, no philosopher, no book, no specialist will give you the vision of who you are.

We need to have a vision of life; this vision of life requires a vision of who we are, and this vision of who we are cannot be given to us by another person. You cannot learn about yourself according to this or that expert, from this or that book, or from this or that technique.

Here we are with you discovering what this new learning is, this learning about Self-awareness, this learning about ourselves. This requires the presence of this direct look at how we function, in this contact with relationships. Note, our relations with people we have called relationships. But these relationships are not only with people, our entire relation with life is of relationships. We are always in relationships with situations, with events, happenings.

When we are in an environment, we are in a relationship with that environment, with everything that is present there; it is a matter of relation, yes, and relationship too. But we especially use the expression "relationship" in this contact with people, so here we are dealing with this matter of human relations.

We need to become aware of what these human relations are, of how we function in these relationships, because my contact with my husband, my wife, my son, my boss, my employees, my workers, the people around me, you see, these are contacts that will always be present, but they are contacts in which there is not the presence of what is necessary for a relation - and I will clarify this to you here.

Our relations are mistaken relations, they are relations without real and direct contact, therefore there isn't the presence of the main element in this relation, which is the presence of communion, of sharing with him or her. Thus, there isn't the presence of Truth, which is the presence of Love, within the communion, in the relation. So, what is present in these relations, in these relationships is, in fact, separation.

Contradiction, conflict, suffering, and problems arise within relationships due to the absence of this communion, this sharing, this intelligent vision within the relation, and it is not present due to this self-image, the image I have of who I am and the image I have of who the other person is within this relationship. This self-image creates separation. Notice how basic this is here.

What, in fact, is this self-image? When I look closely at my reaction, I realize that it is based on the thought I have about him or her; this thought I have about him or her is not real. We are not dealing with the reality of the moment when our response to this moment is a reaction that comes from the past - it comes from the past because it is born out of thought.

So, this contact I have with him or her based on thought, based on self-image, is a relationship of separation, of division. If there is division, if there is separation, if there is this distance, there is no communion, there is the presence of divergence, of difference, of misunderstanding, there is the presence of illusion. This is what has fueled conflict and suffering in our relationships.

The husband does not know his wife, but he has an idea of ??who she is. In a fifteen-year contact, you have been keeping from her or him, you have been recording from her or him experiences there, in your thoughts, in memory; it is this thought, this memory, these experiences that react. You are never in real contact with him or her when this contact is based on thought, on this record of memories from fifteen or twenty years ago.

So, we have a false sensation, a false perception, a false vision of the present moment in this encounter with him or her, because we believe that we know the person, while, in fact, what there is present of him or her are images, some unpleasant and others pleasant, and that is all I have of him or her. Therefore, we are not dealing with truth when we are dealing with images. This is separation, this is the division between me and her.

Note that this division is not only established in family relationships, between husband and wife, between wife and husband, between children and parents, it is established between cities, between nations. So, we are living a conflicting, distressing, suffering life, due to the presence of this self-image, and psychology does not solve it, reading books does not solve it, listening to lectures does not solve it.

It is the approach to oneself, this direct look at this that is present here, when you learn what it means looking at this in a direct way, without using this element that comes from the past, which is the very thought, to agree or disagree with an image that thought itself is producing. See, at this moment, we are able to break with this separation, which is the separation between thought and the thinker. This separation is what thought has been using to maintain its continuity, which is the continuity of self-image.

So, what does it mean looking in a new way? It is to look without the observer, without the thinker, it is to look without this "I," it is to become aware of this image when it appears in this contact with him or her; when you simply become aware, at that moment you are bringing attention to this instant, a complete attention that eliminates the continuity of this "I," of this self-image. See, at that moment we are approaching not only the Truth of Self-awareness, we are approaching the awareness of Meditation.

What is the Truth about Meditation? It is to get closer to yourself at that instant, without placing this "me", this "I", in this look, in this observing, in this realizing, in this perceiving. Yes, that is exactly it: perceiving without the perceiver, looking without this element that looks, observing without the observer, it is thought without the thinker.

So, at that moment, there is contact with that which brings the presence of this Silence, because at that moment the brain becomes quiet, all that movement of reaction, of egocentric response, centered on the "I," is undone. At that moment, there is a new space; this space is the space of Silence. So, Silence is present, because the mind becomes quiet, and when it becomes quiet, there is contact with the present moment without the past, without the "I," without the "ego." So, at that moment, something happens, and that something is the end of this self-image.

Therefore, is it possible to look without the past, to perceive without the past? Try it. The next time you have contact with someone you know, notice this movement of the past emerging. Just notice it, look at it. When you look at it, you get rid of the past, so you are looking at the other person for the first time. See, it is a look without the past, it is a look without this background of memory. At that moment, there is only the recognition of the face, the timbre of his or her voice, but you do not have any psychological content of image, of mental representation, that comes from the past, in this liking or disliking him or her. So, it is a look free of the "I," free of the ego, it is a look that is Meditation, it is a perception that is Meditation.

We need this state of Presence of Attention, of Real Attention, for this moment, to break this pattern of mental conditioning, of mental programming, this is the end of self-image, this is the end of the "I." So, what is the truth of this Mindfulness? What is Mindfulness? There is a playlist here on the channel: it is learning to have this approach to this moment without the past.

So, the truth of this look without the background of memory, of recognition, of knowledge, which comes from the past, is Attention. Note that this is very simple, for example, in contact with nature. When you are in a new space or in contact with nature, your look is without the past. You just look, observe, note, but there is no you in this observing, in this look, in this noticing.

Can we eliminate the past from our lives to be in contact with the present moment here, in this instant? This is the contact with Life, this is the contact with Freedom, which is the end of the "I," which is the end of the ego. So, Something shows itself in this instant. This Something is not in time. This Something is not in the mind. This Something is not in the past. This Something is not part of thought. This is when we can have the awareness of Being, the awareness of God, the awareness of Truth. Then, your contact with him or her is the contact with Life, because there is no separation, there is no division. There is the Presence of a real contact, of a true communion, this is the Presence of Love.

So, see, we are saying here, in a clear way, that in this life, yes, it is possible to have a life free from the ego, free from the "I" in this contact with him or her, without the idea that thought creates and establishes, producing confusion, producing disorder, based on this structure of self-image; it is a contact, a look, or a vision without the past.

Here, we are delving deeper into this subject; this subject is the Awakening of Consciousness, it is Spiritual Enlightenment, it is the vision of God, it is the vision of your Being. A contact with life in this moment without the past is Advaita, it is the vision of non-duality, it is the vision of non-separation, it is the vision of God.

The word Advaita means "the One without the second," which is what we have emphasized here in these meetings. There is a present Reality, and this present Reality is not the person, this present Reality is the Divine Reality. This sense of person is something that thought, like a curtain, is bringing, creating this illusory separation, this illusory division between this "I" and the "non-I." Reality is the Reality of your Being; this Reality is the Reality of God.

This is what we are working on here with you on this channel. We would like to invite you to our online meetings on the weekends, where we will be together on Saturday and Sunday to delve deeper into this with you. You can find our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings in the video description. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard makes sense to you, here is an invitation. Leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel and leave a comment here, "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And see you soon. Thanks for the meeting and until next time!

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is thinking? What is thought? Wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. Dealing with fear.

We will present to you here, in more detail, this question of what thought is and what thinking is. See, one thing is directly tied to the other, but we are unaware of the truth about this and underestimate the importance of understanding this. So, notice here, we have the question of the intellectual approach, and we have the truth of the approach to understanding these two subjects, which, in reality, are directly connected, but we understand nothing about them and underestimate the importance, I repeat, of this understanding.

So, let's go. First of all, why is it important for us to have an understanding of the truth about thought and thinking? Because this gives you a foundation to have an approach to Self-Awareness.

And with the presence of Self-Awareness, we have an opportunity for a great portal open to the truth of wisdom. Here on the channel, we have a playlist on wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge. I recommend you take a look at this playlist later.

Life requires the presence of wisdom. Without wisdom, life is the life we know. And the life we know is not the life of intelligence; it is the life of problems.

The beauty of an encounter with intelligence, and here I refer to spiritual intelligence-this is another playlist on the channel-all these subjects that we address here, you can find here on the channel in the format of playlists. We have several videos dealing with each of these topics here, so you can find them in the playlists. The presence of this spiritual intelligence is the presence of the truth of wisdom.

Because it is divine awareness, it is the awareness of God. This is based on Self-Awareness. And the presence of Self-Awareness requires that you understand how you function.

So, we cannot eliminate any of these elements. One important thing is to understand that everything in life is interconnected. We cannot have the solution to a problem, for example, without understanding its totality.

And we cannot have this vision of totality if we do not approach it. For example, in general, people try to solve problems the way they imagine they can solve them, the way they think they will be able to solve them.

And, in fact, that is not how it works. Solving a problem requires a direct approach to the problem and not distancing oneself from it, as people generally do. So, notice, going back to the question, everything is interconnected.

Everything is interconnected. So, what is thought? Let's start here. What is thought? See, speaking of problems, this is a problem.

We have not solved this problem. This is one of the human problems we have. We have various problems as human beings in this psychological structure of human existence; we are creatures loaded with problems.

And one of the problems is this: what is thought? We do not know what it is. But look at yourself, and you will realize that we are facing something that has a very simple foundation but, in reality, is something very, very complex due to the psychological complexity we carry.

This is a subject, among others, that has become very complex for each of us. So, this subject-what thought is-has become complex because we live within a very great psychological complexity, but thought itself has a very simple foundation. You have your name, you have your address, you know the name of your spouse, your children. This knowing is knowledge. This knowledge is memory. This memory is thought. So, what is thought? Memory, recollection, knowledge, remembrance. Every present thought is just recollection, knowledge, memory, remembrance. So, basically, that is it.

This is thought. So, we already have the answer to what thought is. From a theoretical, intellectual point of view, the foundation is this.

And what is thinking? Thinking is what makes the presence of thought possible. In what way? I ask for your name, and you tell me your name. But you can only tell me your name because there is a thinking process.

This thinking process is what brings the presence of thought. When the brain reacts, it responds with a memory. The reaction of the brain is thinking, and the memory is thought.

So, what is thinking? It is the response that the brain gives based on the past, which is memory, which is thought. This response arises. This response is thinking.

Now, notice how important it is to have a direct understanding of this, but an experiential one, truly comprehending the subject and not just intellectually. The difference between intellectually understanding something and truly understanding something is totally different. One understanding is a real vision of what is there, of the fact, of what presents itself.

Whereas intellectual comprehension is just an intellectual, theoretical understanding. It is an idea. Here, we are inviting you to understand what thinking is and what thought is.

And in this understanding, it becomes clear that all the problems you have in relation to people, life, and the world around you-all these problems, all kinds of confusion and suffering-are present because of thought. Let's see how simple this is. You have people you like and people you do not like.

Where is this liking and disliking based? Look at yourself, and you will notice. This disliking is based on memories of bad, unpleasant things you experienced with him or her. So, you do not like him or her. But what you have of him or her are memories of someone.

Someone bad, someone ungrateful, someone who wronged you. This memory is thought. So, when someone mentions this person's name near you, it stirs within you-it provokes within you-a state of unpleasant emotion or feeling. So, notice the importance of thought. Thought is sustaining in you people you do not like. Thought is also sustaining in you people you do like. But what are these people? They are just thoughts. And what is the truth of thought? Absolutely none. The only truth about thought is that you are imagining things because that is all thought knows how to do.

It is to imagine things, imagine people, imagine unpleasant or pleasant states in yourself. As long as your life-this person's life-remains sustained by thought, by images, then all our problems are sustained by thoughts, images, and imaginations we maintain. This is thought.

This is the way of thinking that we know. Perceive this-the importance of freeing ourselves from thought, from this thinking, and therefore from this feeling, emotion, sensation, and thus from this imagination, this problem, this suffering.

All our psychic life, all our psychological life, all this consciousness as we know it in us, is nothing but thought-this form of thinking, this feeling, emotion, sensation, and imagination. So, this is what is sustaining this person.

Therefore, the person that you are is a set of thoughts, images, and imaginations about the world, about others, about situations, about appearances, and about yourself. Life in this condition is a life where the illusion of an identity is present. This identity, being illusory, as your life is sustained by this pattern of thought, sees itself as a separate entity from life itself, separate from others, in conflict with itself.

Here, this condition of existence is the condition of the sense of a separate identity. Life, in this context, is life in suffering. In the absence of this awareness of divine reality, there is a reality present, but we live alienated from this reality because we are living in the reality of the "I," the truth of the person, the truth of thought, the truth of imagination.

That is why we have emphasized here with you the truth that we have real life as it is, and we have the particular life of this sense of the "I" as it is. Life as it is, in this sense of the "I," is a life of confusion, separation, duality. Envy, jealousy, possession, various forms of fear, and the contradiction present in these conflicts and desires of the human being are all present. All of this is present because of thought and thinking.

That is why we mentioned earlier that we cannot underestimate this mistaken, illusory way of thinking that we have, which is the way that sustains this thought pattern as we know it, where the illusion of a thinker behind all of this is present. Can we discover life without this thinker? Can we truly discover life without caring anymore about this psychological condition of thought, in such a way that thinking in us undergoes a radical change? Can we break away from this pattern of thinking, where the continuity of this thinking is the continuity of imagination, where the illusion of this thinker-the "I," the person-behind all of this is present?

This discovery, this realization, is possible when we become aware of this entire movement without confusing ourselves with it-when we discover what it is to look at thought. Just look at thought, without placing an element within thought as the thinker when thinking happens.

So, let's see how this becomes possible. Someone appears before you, and you recognize them. At that moment, an image you have of them arises within you.

This image is thought, in this thinking, and naturally, imagination: I like them, or I don't like them. Is it possible for you to simply become aware of this movement when it arises and just look at it without maintaining the continuity of this image you have of them, without maintaining the continuity of thought from this imagination, but just looking? If you discover what it is to look without interfering, without getting involved, without giving credibility to it, without giving it imagination-if there is only looking-try it and see what happens.

Next time you meet someone you know, observe what happens in that moment-how quickly the brain processes this image, which is thinking, and brings up thought about them, and how quickly imagination arises: I don't like them, or I like them.

Observe this. So, next time you meet someone, I invite you to simply become aware of this mechanism. Just become aware, just look, but do not interfere, do not get involved with it.

This is the real way of looking without the observer, of looking without the thinker, of looking without this experiencer, who is the element that has already experienced other contacts with them. At that moment, you eliminate the experiencer, you eliminate the thinker, you eliminate the observer. By doing this, you are, for the first time, entering into direct contact with the moment, without someone present in this contact-this "me," this "I," this ego. This requires the presence of looking, of perceiving, of becoming aware without the "I," without this element in you that always comes from the past to get involved with the present moment.

This is the real way of understanding the fact of thought, the awareness of thought. See, it is no longer a theory, an idea, or something you heard being presented here. You are, at this moment, becoming aware of your reactions, of the fact of your reactions before him or her. If, when meeting someone, they praise you, do the same-just become aware of what the other person says, but do not get involved.

Notice, we are not dealing with something so simple. Not getting involved with a compliment, not allowing yourself to be taken over by a feeling of euphoria, pleasure, or egoic fulfillment-this requires the presence of this attention, of just listening to what the other person says. This applies to a compliment, but it also applies to criticism.

Just listen, noticing that element that comes from the past to receive the criticism with anger or to receive the flattery with pleasure and gratification, and do not confuse yourself with this.

Just become aware of it. At that moment, you are in the presence of this attention, this way of looking at your relationships. This is the foundation for Self-Awareness.

This is what gives you the foundation for the awakening of this spiritual intelligence, for the blossoming of this divine wisdom. So, on a certain level, knowledge, thought, and experience are necessary-professionally, technically, in recognizing your name, or in simply recalling an event, an occurrence, or to speak a language, thought, knowledge, and memory are necessary. But notice, here we are addressing a separate identity-the "I," the ego-being involved in this.

Here we are telling you that at the level of this real consciousness, this divine consciousness, the sense of the "I," of the ego, has no place. We have spent an entire lifetime confusing ourselves with the sense of someone always present in our relationships-with the world around us, with others, with ourselves. So, we are always continuing this thought, this imagination of someone present. Can we eliminate this imagination, this sense of the "I"? Can we place only attention on this moment, on these reactions that arise when something happens internally or when an external challenge arises?

So, notice, here with you, we are working with you, for example, on the end of fear. Observe that fear is nothing other than the presence of thought creating situations of an unpleasant future to come. Can we eliminate thought? If you eliminate thought of this future, you eliminate imagination, and this is the end of fear. We are dealing with life as it happens, but when we sustain our psychological life, based on thought and thus on imagination, the sense of ego is present, confusion is present, suffering is present.

There is no life in thought. In thought, there is only imagination. So, when people ask how to deal with fear, the question for you is this: what is fear? Without the presence of thought, where is fear? If I ask you what you are afraid of, you need thought to tell me what you fear.

If you feel fear, you need imagination-which is the presence of thought-to feel fear. Becoming aware of the reality of your Self is becoming aware of the movement of thought, of the movement of this thinker.

It is this thinker, this thought, that sustains internal states of conflict, disorder, and suffering, such as the issue of fear. How to deal with fear? Here, the question is: how to deal with thought? Because thought is the foundation of fear. Your fear is always of something, but it is always of something that thought communicates to you.

Without the presence of thought, there is no fear. An interesting thing about fear is that fear is always related to the future-to what might happen or what happened and might happen again. Thought is always present in this matter of fear.

So, we need to deeply investigate this truth about thought. Here, with you, we are working on this in these meetings. We have a playlist here on wisdom, intelligence, and knowledge.

The awareness of the truth of your Self is the blossoming of your real nature, your divine nature-a life free from thought, a life free from this element that is the thinker. It is the freedom of your Self; it is the freedom of God.

Here we have meetings on weekends to deepen this with you. So, on Saturday and Sunday, we are together. You have our WhatsApp link in the video description to get closer to these meetings.

In addition, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and comment here: yes, this makes sense. Ok? See you soon.

Thank you for the meeting, and see you next time.

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Wisdom, intelligence, knowledge | Learning about Self-Awareness | What is thought?

I want to start this talk by asking you a question: Have you ever played Monopoly? In it, you can become a great, powerful multi-multimillionaire businessman. You know that in this game, the winner is the one who buys the most houses, farms, neighborhoods-the one who acquires the greatest number of properties. That's the one who wins, or the one who does not go bankrupt. So, if you don't go bankrupt and if you manage to buy a lot, you end up winning the game.

When you look at life, notice that we don't take playing very seriously. After all, a game is not meant to be taken seriously. We have fun playing. We don't take a game seriously. A game is meant to be fun. Although, even in this, in the "ego," we complicate things too much. There are those who don't want to lose.

Guys, it's a game! It's just a game. Do you see? You are in front of a game. You can win, and you can lose. So, in general, a game is not taken seriously. Not normally. Some do; okay, they are the exceptions! Maybe these exceptions are even a large number of those who play but don't know how to play because they take it too seriously.

Now, in general, look at human life. What is this life, as you know it? Notice: here, you believe that you also own, acquire, buy, accumulate assets. You fulfill purposes, objectives, dreams, goals. This is typical of this mind model that we know as human beings, in this condition, which is the condition we investigate here with you in these meetings-the condition of the "I," the condition of the "ego."

The idea we have is that we are someone who can have, who needs to have, and who seeks to have. The truth about this is that we are taking this too seriously. First, the idea of "being someone" in order to "have things," to "hold onto these things" so that they don't disappear from our hands. So, we don't want to go bankrupt. We want to keep acquiring, accumulating, possessing, to win the game. For us, this is life.

Here, with you, we are investigating this, becoming aware of this so-called life as we know it. Here, we are investigating with you the truth of the illusion of this life we know. To us, this is very real, very true. "We have" properties, "we have" businesses, "we have" hotels, farms, enterprises, companies, "we have" family; "we" acquire, sell, buy, lose, win. All of this is very real.

Here, we are investigating with you the Truth that we are facing a great Divine Game. We received this game. It was given to us. Now, we are playing the game, but we do not realize that we are in front of a game. We are taking it too seriously and going through all these pains of losses because of the attachments to these things.

Notice, this is the problem of the "I" with this "mine." What is the Truth about this? The simple and direct Truth is that this game is just a game. The Truth about this is that it was given to you as a gift, just as a game. Therefore, do not take it seriously; do not argue, do not get upset, do not cry, do not attack, do not become violent, aggressive when you lose; and do not get too excited when you win-because this winning is not a winning, and this losing is not a losing.

Here, with you, we are investigating the Real Understanding of Life. This Real Understanding places you in a state of Awareness, Wisdom, Divine and Real Intelligence, to deal with what is within the known, that is, to deal with all these appearances as appearances within a game.

The understanding of this sets you free from the weight of this psychological condition, where you see yourself as this "I" who truly has what it believes to have and calls "mine" when you say "my" house, "my" car, "my" family, "my" businesses, "my" farm, "my" city, "my" neighborhood, "my" world, "my" history. This sense of "mine" and this sense of "I" go together in this context, where the illusion is present that what you are living within the known is Real Life.

Here, with you, we are exploring this question of Wisdom, of Divine Life, of Life in Spiritual Intelligence, free from the weight of knowledge. So, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Knowledge. Real Intelligence is the Intelligence of God. Wisdom is the vision of Real Life as it happens. And this Knowledge is what has guided the thought model present in each of us, giving us the illusion that we are facing Reality.

No, we are not facing Reality. We are facing a great Divine Dream, a great Divine Game, a great Divine Play. But, as long as we do not understand this question of the known, this question of knowledge-which is what we have of the known-which has thought as its principle, we will be living within this illusion.

And this is what we are inviting you here to break, to undo, to rid yourself of, to assume the Awareness of the Reality of God-which is the Reality of your Self, which is your Divine Life-in order to deal with Life as it truly is: a great Divine Game, where everything here is happening, but as an appearance that is here now and soon will disappear.

Here, with you, we need to investigate a basic element that underlies all of this and that we underestimate. Here on this channel, we have a playlist to investigate this with you. It is within this context, in this playlist that we just mentioned here for you: Wisdom, Intelligence, and Knowledge. This is a playlist here on the channel. Later, take a look. And we have another playlist here, within the context of this vision, of this Spiritual Awakening, of this Spiritual Enlightenment. These various topics are also in playlists on the channel.

I want to address with you a subject that we truly underestimate, and we underestimate it a lot. That is why we are seeing this whole game, everything that life is, happening from this mistaken, confused, disoriented, illusory perspective of the "ego," the illusory "I," which carries this illusion of "mine." Notice, this is present due to ignorance. This is present due to an illusory vision.

Here, we are working on the Awakening of the Truth about ourselves. Becoming aware of the Reality of God is being able to witness this life happening as it truly is. Not from this illusion of an identity that sees itself as separate and possessing things, winning things and losing things; acquiring and losing. Being a master, owner, possessor, achiever of all this. We are facing something completely illusory.

We are simply in Life, within this apparition of existence, in this dream of existence, looking at all of this from a space that is unknown. Becoming aware of this unknown space, to look at life from this place, this new space, is what we are proposing here to you. That is what we are working on here with you. And this requires an understanding of this subject. Now I will tell you what this subject is.

The subject is something we underestimate. The subject is the question of thought. So, what is thought? It is a fundamental playlist here on the channel. We are always adding new videos to this playlist. What is the truth about thought?

What we do not know, what we are not yet aware of, is that this "bank," in quotes, this "Monopoly game," is a construction of thought. The remembrance of something, the recollection of something-and that is how we function psychologically-is the presence of memory. This remembrance, this recollection, is knowledge. This knowledge is thought.

So, what is thought? Thought is that, within you, which says things. Right now, if I ask you your name, thought expresses itself as words. If I now ask you if you have a car, an image appears within you. That image arises because of the presence of thought. That thought is the car. That car is a remembrance, it is a memory.

Thus, that car is one of "your" possessions, but the house too. You close your eyes, and you visualize "your" house. Visualizing is remembering it. If I ask you, are you married? You close your eyes and see the face of your spouse.

All of this is within thought! So, where is this world? It is within thought. So, what is this "Monopoly game," where, in it, you are this successful businessman? Where is all of this?

See, the life of the "I," which carries this "mine," is nothing but the presence of thought. So, what is thought? An image that memory constructs, that recollection makes us return to again and again, and again. That is thought.

So, we return to "our" things. We have "our" things. These "our" things, to which we constantly return, are within thought.

What is the truth about you? You do not know! Because you are confusing yourself with this "I," which is just a thought. A story about you is a memory. That memory gives us the illusion of the "I," of this "I" that has things. These things are thoughts that are also memories of what this "I" possesses, of what this "I" has.

Do you see? We are facing a dream. Can we break free from this into the reality of what is beyond thought?

Since we have just seen this here, all of this is within this set, which is thought. So, what is the Truth of Wisdom? The Truth of Wisdom makes you see life without the "I"! The presence of this Spiritual Intelligence, this Divine Intelligence, allows you to see life without this illusory "center," which is this "me," that sees itself as the "center" of this entire experience.

This experience is the dream, and this "center" is this "I," the dreamer. The end of this dreamer, of this "I," of this "center," is the end of the illusion of this dream, which is the dream of "mine," "my" things.

So, the vision of Wisdom is the vision of the reality of your Self. The point is that this Self is not within this "I," it is not part of this "mine." This Self is the Divine Reality. This is not something personal, it is not something that thought constructs.

The vision from this "space," this new "space," is the vision of life as it is truly happening. This Freedom of not confusing oneself with the experience of the present moment, seeing oneself as the experiencer of this experience, is the vision of Wisdom. The Freedom to deal with the game while recognizing the game. And, in this play, not confusing oneself with any of it, is to become Aware of the Reality of Life as it happens, as it happens free from the "I," free from this "me," from this "ego."

So, what is the Truth of Wisdom? It is the Truth of the vision of God. It is the vision of this Self. It is this gaze from this new "space." And how can we approach this? How can we, in fact, deal with experience without the illusion of "someone" present, in this Flow, this Freedom, this Happiness, this Peace, this Awareness of the Presence of Joy?

Notice: a game is a play. Within the game, we have this playful aspect. This playfulness of the game requires the presence of this innocence, the beauty of this child, aware of the Joy of playing. Life in God is Joy! It is Love, Peace, Freedom, Happiness! We do not know this because we are living without an understanding of what thought is.

The understanding of what thought is requires the freedom not to live any longer in the belief in the presence of this thinker. This thinker is the one who believes he is producing thoughts and identifying with them. See, the awareness that a thought is just a thought allows you to disidentify from this illusion, from the idea that there is "someone" in this thinking, that there is "someone" in this thought.

Thus, we eliminate the illusion of this "I." Can we discover life and deal with it in this New, Indescribable state, where this Innocence, this Joy, this Freedom, this absence of the "I" is present? And, therefore, this absence of possessing, of needing to acquire, in order to be happy, to be fulfilled, to achieve.

Can we assume the truth that it is impossible-and it is something completely unnecessary-to continue carrying this illusion, the illusion that everything is "mine" for this "I"? A free life is a life in Peace! If there is this Freedom, we have the presence of Love! Your contact with the experience of the present moment is a contact from this new and unknown place.

Your contact with this life, with this world, with this experience, with this entire apparition from this Indescribable, Unnameable "space," which is the "space" of Divine Reality, becomes possible when there is the abandonment of this "I."

That is why we are here emphasizing with you how to learn to assume this, to realize this in this life. How to learn about Self-Awareness. This learning about Self-Awareness brings you closer to this "gaze" free from thought, free from the idea of a "thinker" behind the thought. Therefore, it brings you closer to the Truth of meditation. It brings you closer to this Awareness of your own Self, which is the Awareness of God. It is when, in fact, at this moment, this Liberation occurs in this life.

This Liberation is what some have called Spiritual Enlightenment or Spiritual Awakening. It is when, in this new, indescribable state of Being, we have the presence of this Divine Consciousness, this Real Consciousness, which is the Consciousness of God. It no longer makes a difference whether the game is happening or if we close the game. There is something that transcends the game happening and that is also beyond the closed game.

This is the nature of God! It is the nature of your Self! What you are, in your Self, is beyond the known. And you can deal with all of this in a free way, where we have the presence of this Real Intelligence and True Wisdom, which is Divine Wisdom.

Here, in these meetings, we are exploring this subject with you, deepening this. For this purpose, we have online meetings on weekends, where on Saturday and Sunday we are together. Two days together, deepening, becoming aware of this, approaching the Truth about Self-Awareness. How to work on this in this life, within this Divine game, within this Divine dream, and realize this!

That is what we are doing together, so it's two days. You have the WhatsApp link here in the video description to participate in these weekend online meetings. Besides these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats.

If this is something that makes sense to you, here is an invitation-go ahead and leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and comment here: "Yes, this makes sense."

Okay? And we'll see each other! Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time.

January, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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