How to Meditate the Right Way? Fundamental Life Questions. Awakening. Spiritual Intelligence.

It sounds strange to hear this, but that's exactly how it is. You have everything in life, but you don't have this. So, you have nothing.

Here, I refer to this science of God, to this science of truth. Your life, the way you live, where you find yourself as a separate element, apart from everything that it is, from everything it represents, is a condition of ignorance, of psychological ignorance, where you are merely within a personal dream, of the world, of achievements, of conquests, having already achieved much, achieved everything, if that's even possible. Achieving everything. See, all of this is part of your imagination, the imagination that you have everything, that you have achieved everything, or that one day you will achieve everything you wish to achieve, without the science of truth about yourself.

Here the expression is the science of Self-awareness. Here, the expression Self-awareness does not mean merely recognizing what you are. The recognition of what you are is a model of thought you have about who you are.

That's exactly how most people out there use this expression. That's exactly the sense. It's in this way.

The word Self-awareness, for them, is the knowledge of who they are. If you can know who you are, this knowledge you have about yourself is merely a mental, intellectual recognition, an image you now have constructed regarding what you believe yourself to be, based on a description of this, an analysis of this, evaluations and comparisons about this. Therefore, this is just another image that thought has established as being you.

Here, when we use the expression Self-awareness, we are talking about this science of understanding this "me," this "I." This understanding of this "me," this "I," is its dismissal.

So, the great truth of Self-awareness is the truth that this "me," this "I," this someone to know, does not exist. When you delve deeply into this self-understanding, you discover that this self is made up of images, of ideas.

What are these ideas? A set of thoughts forming a model, a concept, an idea. The truth about you being seen, the science of this truth, is the understanding that this you is not real. There is a present reality in this seeing.

But this reality of seeing is not the vision of someone seeing themselves, of someone understanding themselves, of someone self-knowing. The presence of this seeing is the science of truth. This science is the revelation of the only thing that matters in life, which is the very science of life, where the reality of God is present.

Thus, the only real thing in life is life's reality itself, within itself. This is the science of your Self, of your true nature, of this real consciousness. Note, not this consciousness which is the consciousness of the person. This person who achieves everything, or has achieved everything, or is always achieving what they desire, what they seek, what they want to accomplish.

Here we are with you discovering the science of truth, of what is truly present beyond this dream, this imagination, this thought we have about life. The thought we have about life is part of this ignorance we have regarding who we are.

The view you have of the world is the view from the idea of being someone in the world. Which is a fraud. Which is an illusion, a mistake, a deception. Here with you, we are investigating these countless issues. Notice, now, at the beginning of the speech, I said you might achieve everything in life.

See, this is part of an imagination. While the sense of the "I," of the ego, of this "me," while this ignorance prevails, which is the lack of understanding of the truth about who you are, you will always have issues, problems. So, these various unresolved issues, here we are with you exploring these issues, and these issues, they will always be present as long as ignorance prevails, as long as the illusion prevails.

And the illusion is this feeling of being someone. Observe, look, approach, and you will notice that you carry a sense of separation. You may believe in God, but you see yourself as a separate element from Him. This belief is just something that thought is also producing.

Our life, in this pattern of ignorance, of illusion about who we are, is made up of thoughts. So, you have a thought about God, a thought about others, a thought about yourself. And this present element, which is the "I," this "me," this you, carries countless problems. And here we are with you investigating these various fundamental issues of life.

One of these basic issues, among the countless issues we have, is precisely this: who am I? What is the truth about me? Because if I don't understand the truth about me, I don't understand the truth about life. Until I understand the truth about who I am, I will not have the truth about who the other is, about what life is, about what living is. If this is present exactly this way, confusion is established. These life issues remain unresolved.

So, life consists of problems. There is a level of dissatisfaction, of incompleteness, of internal, psychological unhappiness within each of us, expressing itself externally in our world of relationships with the various situations of life and naturally in the relationship with others. So we have countless unresolved issues. These various life issues have not been solved. Internal states are present, and most of us do not even suspect the possibility of a free life, truly in peace, full of love, of happiness, where a profound understanding of what life is, what it represents, what it means, is present.

Because we are involved in a subjective world, in a psychological world of thoughts about life. The thought that has been given to us by human history, by human culture, by human society, by the world, is that we are human creatures, living a human life and having to, in this life, achieve things, accomplish goals, purposes, dreams, various achievements, to find happiness, peace, and love in life as human beings. All of this is completely illusory.

So, based on this principle, we are living a life filled with envy, ambition, desires, worries, fears, in direct contact with others, within this internal level of dissatisfaction, creating in this relationship with him or her all sorts of confusion, all sorts of complications. We do not understand the truth about who we are, we do not know the truth about others, we do not know the truth about God. Here we are dealing with you about the awakening of this spiritual intelligence, of this new way-I say new, but this unprecedented way-of approaching life, without this element within us that makes use of its conclusions, deductions, speculations, beliefs. I refer to this element, which is the element in us of thought. To evaluate life, to position oneself with others in this relationship, to situate oneself in oneself. So, what is this element that makes possible this truth of awakening intelligence? For this reality, which is this divine science, which is the science of God, to reveal itself? Well, we've already touched on the matter of the importance of Self-awareness.

Within this Self-awareness is a fundamental element, which is the science of God, revealing itself through meditation. There is nothing more precious than the art of meditation. So, when some people ask: how to meditate in the right way? The real way of approaching meditation is by discovering how to go beyond the model of thought, this model we have of thought.

That's why we need to investigate here what thought is, how it happens, how it operates within each of us. Do you know why you have worries? Why do you carry conflicts present within desires that conflict? Why do these conflicting desires exist? Observe that you have a desire, and you have another desire against the first. One desire is for something; you desire something, but within you, there is also another desire that contradicts, that fights against the first desire.

So, we carry the conflict of desires. Our desires are conflicting. And why is this present? Why is fear present in its various forms? When you have a present fear, that fear is fear of something.

It is always fear relative to something. But that fear is present, observe, always when a thought is present about that thing. You cannot feel fear without the memory or the recollection of something that causes, that provokes that fear.

So, fear is present also due to thought, just as desires that generate and produce conflicts and internal contradictions, emotional disorder, where there is an internal contradiction between the thought about what you desire and another thought about something else contrary to it. It is always thought producing this, just as worries. And why is all this present? Because you do not know how thought works.

And without this foundation of understanding how thought establishes itself in you, as an element driving you to actions, to words, to behaviors, without the understanding of this element in you, which is thought, we do not have a real foundation for meditation. Therefore, what is thought? Thought is an element in you that arises because of memories, of recollections. When going through a certain situation, the brain records it.

This then becomes a memory, a recollection. This recollection, when it returns, comes back in this format, which is the format of thought. And our life is centered on the model of thought.

We are constantly being directed, led, moved, driven by thought. So what is it to look at thought when it arises and not confuse yourself with it when it appears? Usually, when it appears, it already leads us to action, to expression in speech, or to a certain behavior.

So, we are always acting from thought. The movement of thought determines our speech, our actions, our behaviors, guided by thought, since thought is this element that comes from the past, which is memory. This contact with life here, at this moment, what we are having is a new moment.

But this way of approaching this new moment based on this past, which is this memory, puts us in a condition where we establish some level of conflict, of problem. So, we need to have an approach to the presence of meditation. Once meditation is the emptying of this old content of memory. When we have the presence of the truth of meditation, we have the presence of intelligence, which is this ability to deal with the moment without the past, without the interference of this model that comes from the past, which is thought. So, we need to know what it is to meditate correctly. And meditation, in a correct way, is that which is here and now, when you can become aware of thought without engaging with it as the thinker of that thought. Discovering what it is to look at thought without engaging with it is to be present without the presence of the "I." See, we are facing something that is not so simple because we have been involved for a long time with the model of thought, being led by thought to speak, to act, to behave, within our relationships. Because, notice, it is always in relationships that everything happens. Life happens at this moment in relationships.

In these relationships with objects, with people, with situations. In the very relationship or these internal relationships we have with ourselves, where we have to deal with feelings, with emotions, that generate internal states, producing in us commotions, emotions, feelings, sensations. Looking at thought when it arises, with all the impression it brings from the past, which is from memory, without engaging with it.

This requires the presence of a new gaze, disidentified, where there is no choice, no liking, no disliking, this wanting or not wanting, this trusting or distrusting of thought. It appears, and there is this gaze, this attention is present. See, this is something now here, at this moment, in contact with the other, in contact with this or that situation, event, or occurrence, in this contact with yourself. So, we have an approach to the truth about meditation. The truth about meditation brings you closer to a new energy. In this energy, this new brain is present, which quiets, which silences, because there is only the gaze, without interference, without intervention, without this wanting or not wanting, liking or disliking.

So, a new quality of action happens, also of speech, of behavior happens. Then, the true approach to the awakening of this spiritual intelligence makes these various fundamental issues we have in life, in a very natural way, disappear. As issues, they are problems. But due to the presence of this intelligence, this silence, this stillness, this new gaze, where something that does not belong to the mind as we know it is present.

So, in these meetings here, we are discovering with you how this process unfolds. We need to learn how to deal with thoughts, emotions, sensations, and perceptions. And learning to deal with this requires the presence of this silence, of this energy, of this awareness of our reactions.

The presence of true meditation-note that at no point are we recommending you go to a separate place to meditate-the beauty of the encounter with meditation is that meditation reveals itself in this moment. This does not require the presence of wanting, of will, of volition, which is this movement of the "I," still of the meditator, to find a reserved place for this.

Meditation is real at this moment, in this instant. It is present precisely when the meditator is not, when the "I," which is this element carrying this liking and disliking, this wanting and not wanting, is no longer present. Then, we find ourselves, notice, with life happening here and now. In this contact with the husband, with the wife, with the family, with the world, in this contact with yourself, you discover what it is to deal with life, with this totality of life, without this element from the past. This element is the experiencer. It is the one who carries all these past experiences.

And when thoughts arise at this moment, it interprets, evaluates, lingers in this wanting, not wanting, liking, not liking. So, we are eliminating this element from this moment. This is the true foundation for the science that reveals what lies beyond the known, which is the truth of God.

Once this is present, once you have a profound approach to this encounter with yourself, at that moment, the revelation is present that this element is not only dispensable but also dysfunctional in this moment. When you look at someone, in this gaze, we can have the presence of meditation in the gaze, of this silence, of this stillness, of this absence of the "I," of the ego, in this gaze. Or we can have the old and ancient movement of unconsciousness, of reaction, something that comes from the past and constantly interferes within relationships and creates problems. Bringing into this moment, into this instant, the vision of life, without the particular vision of the "I," is essential. Then, an approach to true meditation is an approach to yourself in this instant.

Observe that in life, everything we dedicate ourselves to, commit to, engage in, in a way, mastery happens. When you, again and again and again, engage in some activity-see, a technical or professional activity-everything improves, becomes increasingly simple, more natural. This happens due to motor memory, muscular memory. This skill develops and deepens in that type of activity.

Here we are inviting you to something much, much more precious. However, notice, we are not dealing with something technical, and yet we are inviting you to this disposition of alertness, of attention to your reactions. Then, naturally, this sense of real awareness, of real presence, begins to take this space due to this presence, of attention, of awareness of these reactions. Here we need to have a real approach to all of this-applied, dedicated, involved.

See, we are facing the only thing that matters in life, which is the realization of God. So, you can truly accomplish or believe you have accomplished everything out there. Without this realization, this completeness of being, of this silence, of this life in love, in wisdom, the condition will always be that old condition of sleep, of dreaming, of unconsciousness.

So, here we are together showing you how this becomes possible in this life. We have here, on Saturdays and Sundays, these meetings.

These are online meetings where we are deepening this with you, showing you how this becomes possible in this life, naturally having this contact with silence in these meetings. You have here in the video description our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends. Additionally, we have in-person meetings and also retreats.

If this is something that makes any sense to you, here's an invitation: already leave your like, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment here: yes, this makes sense. Okay? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time.

December, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is thinking? What is thought? Learning about Self-Awareness. What is fear?

Here, in these meetings, we are having a contact - notice this - where we are communicating something to you. Now, this act of communicating, or this communication, naturally requires attention to it, attention to listening, this is what makes it possible in this meeting for us to have together a comprehehnsion of what we are discussing here with you.

These subjects we address here with you on the channel are not so simple subjects, this is something that requires a very careful look from each one of us, for a direct, experiential comprehension of this, that is when real comprehension occurs.

You cannot comprehend something when you only partially approach it. If we approach something to comprehend it, it is different from when we approach it to understand it. We can only superficially have an approximation of understanding or we can have a direct comprehension. Here is laid out for you the beauty of comprehending, the understanding is not enough.

In life, we are dealing with very complex issues. You see, the issues themselves have the complexity of our mind, of our consciousness, of this consciousness that we have, of this mind we bring. So, what we intend here together is to participate actively. This active participation brings us closer to comprehension.

If I have something to teach you, I need you to naturally make yourself available to actively participate in that situation. Note that when you work with a professional in some area, they actively participate with you in the learning that you have. It is natural that you interact with them in a very active way; otherwise, you will not learn what they want to teach you, to communicate to you.

Here we are together to discover, to make observations, to become aware of some matters of great relevance to each one of us. Unless you are internally predisposed to this vision, it will not happen. It is necessary that you internally have a predisposition to comprehend what we are discussing here with you, to learn from this.

Here, learning is not about acquiring information, knowledge, or even experience, because we are not dealing with a subject that is merely technical, such as, for example, a profession that is learned. Here we are actually learning how to learn. I cannot tell you what I am, but I can tell you how to approach yourself to comprehend who you are.

So, this is what we are dealing with here with you when we deal with this learning about Self-Awareness. Someone cannot give you Self-Awareness, someone cannot show you Self-Awareness; a book cannot teach you this, a lecture will not show you what Self-Awareness is. Self-Awareness is the awareness of self-revelation. You become aware of yourself in this learning about yourself. Here our work together is to show you how to access this learning.

Note, in life we learn everything. So, technically, we know how to do things because we have learned. You know how to drive a car, you know how to ride a bike, the most basic things in life have been learned, but we do not know the most basic thing in life, which is the awareness of the Truth about who we are. A small child already suffers from anxiety, anguish, already suffers from fear, and we do not teach a child how to deal with this. We do not teach because we do not know, because we are also suffering like this child suffers.

When you were in high school, when you were studying, when your eraser disappeared, or your pen disappeared, or your pencil disappeared, you would feel irritated, annoyed, enraged, angry because it had disappeared. This would generate states in you, from a slight apprehension, concern, to even anger. So, we are always in contact with internal emotional states, of feelings, that communicate conflicts, disorder, suffering to us from a young age, and we don't know how to deal with it. We, in fact, don't know how we function, how our mind works.

Why does losing a pen or pencil make us angry, make us furious? What is this feeling? What is this fury, this rage? What is this state within us? Maybe it is not exactly that, maybe it is the state of fear, because now we have to justify to our parents why we lost the pen, the pencil or the eraser, and they are also scared little creatures, also filled with rage, so maybe we are afraid of their rage, and we don't even have room for our own rage. But what is rage? What is fear? What is this feeling of pain when we lose things?

We lose material things, but we also lose people in life, and we don't know the truth about fear, for example. What is fear? We don't know what fear is. We don't know ourselves, we don't know how we function, why we feel what we feel, why we think exactly what we think and do exactly what we do, and we don't know why we do things thinking about other things. We do something driven by thought, but it is a thought in contradiction with another thought of not doing it, and yet we do it anyway.

Note that our internal states are conflicting from a young age. These internal states are the states of the "I," of the ego, of this feeling of consciousness, which is the consciousness of the person, of the person that "I am." Then you grow up and this is present in your closest relationships. Now this is present in your relationship with your husband, with your wife, with your children, with your work colleagues. You are an employee of a company and there you are stressed, worried, with problems.

We have all kinds of problems. Whether they are internal, emotional problems, because you are having some kind of relationship problem with your wife and are now stressed at work, or external problems, such as financial hardship, not having enough money to buy something you need. So, human life is full of problems and this issue of fear is present in it: the fear of being fired because you are stressed; stress because you are having problems in your relationship with your wife; stress because you need money to pay for something and you don't have that money, and the money you earn is not much. In short, there are countless problems of all kinds.

This sense of being someone present in life, in experience, something that we have since childhood, is something from the beginning to the end of our days in this way. Thus, we have a tedious, boring, annoying, worried, stressed, anxious, depressed life, with problems. Breaking away from this is something possible in this life when we discover what Real Life is to live.

The life we are living is the life we were given culturally to live, socially to live, politically to live, historically to live, traditionally to live, because our parents lived that way too, and their parents as well. What will be the truth of life when this life as we know is no longer present? Is it possible here and now to become aware of what life is without suffering, without problems, without stress, anger, anguish, depression, anxiety, fear?

We have to investigate the nature of fear. Notice that fear is something that is present in all these states we've just described, so it seems to run through all these states, as if it were the thread of the necklace, the string of the necklace, the string of beads on a necklace. Fear is something that is always present in life.

Human beings live within this pattern of fear. Fear is in everything: the fear of losing, the fear of having lost, the fear of not achieving, the fear of explaining, the fear of not having, the fear of not being able to. We are afraid of the future, we are afraid of the past. We are afraid of being discovered for something we did yesterday: it is the fear of the past. We are afraid of not being met tomorrow in a need that we have at the moment. So, fear is present all the time.

And notice that fear is a companion of memory, of thought. There is no possible fear for you without thought saying something about it. It is when thought is present that fear is present. Now, here, at this moment, without thought you have lost nothing, without thought you have no past, without thought you have no future. Without thought you cannot get sick, that's the future. Without thought you have never gotten sick, that's the past.

Note that thought is always the reference to the presence of fear. If there is thought, there is fear. And fear is always related to something or someone, some event, some object or some experience for that element, which is this "me," this "I," this feeling of a person that you have.

Is it possible to live a life free from fear? Is it possible to live a life free from this "I?" This requires the presence of Self-Awareness, it requires the awareness of the truth about yourself, in addition to this culture of personhood that you have received within this context of humanity. This is our proposal here for you, a life free from the ego, a life free from the "I" and, therefore, a life of thought free from fear. At some levels, thought is needed, at others it is not only unnecessary, but it is the basis for this confusion in which we are living this life that we know.

Here we are together making discoveries that require this communication and this encounter of comprehension, which requires this state of listening to what is being said here. This real state of listening occurs when there is Silence, when there is space in you to follow a speech like this and see what we are discussing here, putting it here for you. Now, it is important that you, here at this moment, comprehend: this act of listening to life as it happens, of noticing your reactions when they arise is something that, at this moment, is the great lesson that life grants you, that life gives you.

Observing your reactions, observing your thoughts, your feelings, observing what happens to you in your relationship with objects, with people, with situations, observing how your thoughts work within you, simply observing, becoming aware of this is being able to break this pattern, which is the pattern of fear. That is why it is essential here, as I said a moment ago, this active participation.

It is necessary to place yourself in this situation of listening, observing, perceiving yourself when a thought, feeling, or emotion arises, when something is lost, or when something unpleasant happens. Bringing this perspective to this moment means going beyond this psychological condition of existence where this way of repeating oneself all the time, of always being the same person, is present - what I have called psychological conditioning.

We are always reacting in the same way to the same old situations, so the sense of "I," the sense of ego repeats itself. That is why we have shown you here the beauty of this encounter with the model of thinking that is present in each one of us. We need to discover what this thinking is, how you process thoughts or how they are processed in you.

So, the truth about what thinking is, is the Liberation of this model, which is the model of thought in this common form of life. That is why we have been emphasizing here the importance of learning about ourselves, because it is this learning how you function, how the mind works, how thought works.

Notice, the question is: what's thought? We don't know. But comprehending how thought works, how this thinking happens. What is thinking? We don't know. So, we are constantly being taken to internal states that we are unaware of, which are sustaining within us situations of emotional disorder, of psychological suffering. Thus, we are, in life, in this particular life of the "I," full of problems, with unresolved situations.

Here, with you, our proposal is a new life, a Real Life, a True Life, which is this Divine Life, which is the Life of your Being, of That which is You in your Essential Nature, which we do not know, because we are living a life based on this model of the "I," on this model of the ego, which is the model of thought.

Observe, thought has a place. Notice, thought has a space, but it is only its space, and yet it is taking up an irregular space in our lives. Life is happening here and now, and in it there is this Beauty, this Grace, this Freedom when the sense of the ego, which is this movement of thought in this restlessness, in this format of ego-identity, is no longer present. So, we need to know what thought is and what space, what real place it has in our lives, as well as what thinking is.

Note that thinking is a process of memory recognition for a stimulus that arises here and now, at this moment. You see, we only have this process and it is something mechanical. We do not have someone in this process, and the belief is that you are the one who thinks. The truth about it, is that thinking is something that happens to us because of a stimulus and a response, but there is no element present processing it - I mean this element that is the "I." So, this feeling of "I," of a person present in life, in experience, is disorder, it is confusion.

Here we are, with you, investigating the awareness of Being, the awareness of life free from the "I," free from the ego and, therefore, free from thought and, naturally, free from everything that thought has created and sustained in our lives. That is what we are here with you working on in these meetings. We can, indeed, Realize, in this life, the Truth about ourselves, the awareness of God.

These meetings that we have here on the weekends, Saturday and Sunday, are online meetings to investigate this together. Here in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link to get involved in these online meetings on the weekends. In addition, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here is an invitation. Please give your "like," subscribe to the channel and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

December, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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What is thought? Learning about Self-Awareness. Self-Awareness Mindfulness. What is life?

Here, our meetings are about discovering how to be attentive, how to pay attention to this moment, without placing this element that separates itself from the moment in order to make choices. And why is this fundamental? Because this is what provides the answer to the question: "What is life?"

Life is what happens, not what thought says it is; it is not what thought tries to say about it, to talk about it. This moment now, here, is a unique moment. There is no room in this moment for something like thought present making an interpretation of this instant.

So, placing yourself, at this moment, just to follow what is happening here is to position yourself in this attention to the moment. In this attention to the moment, we have the Revelation of life as it is.

Notice that it is when thought arises that ideas about how life should be happen, not when you look at experience and discover what it is to deal with experience. It is when this moment becomes a particular experience for you that your contact with the moment is this particular contact of thought about what should be. In this moment, we are not faced with an experience as a pure experiencing, we are faced with an experience for someone. Let's delve deeper into this here, with you, at this moment.

This sort of investigation is important here. This investigation is the one that brings you closer to the truth about yourself. So, it is very important, in life, to learn. We do not know how to learn. We can learn some things in life; in fact, we can learn many things in life, but to be very honest in this statement - and don't be upset with what I am going to say - we learn many things, but many of these things we learn poorly and inadequately. And why? Because our heart was not inclined to this learning.

Here it is important for you to realize the beauty, the importance of this extraordinary thing, which is learning about yourself, which is learning about Self-Awareness, because this is the basis for a life in Love, in Freedom, in Happiness, in this Divine awareness, in this awareness of God.

Here we are with you in this learning about Self-Awareness, and this requires a new approach. In general, we have a lot of difficulty in learning, especially a subject like this, which involves the end of this psychological condition of conditioning, in which we have already been established throughout our lives. After all, this learning here requires unlearning this confusion, this disorder, these conflicting and distressing psychological habits that have been part of our lives and to which we are already very accustomed.

Notice the difficulty we have, for example, in listening to something. We listen with opinions, with inclinations to like or dislike, to accept or reject, saying internally "yes, I agree" or saying "no, I don't agree with any of that." Notice, this is how we function psychologically, and it is something like a conditioning, like a mechanical process of functioning. We are not aware of any of this, and all of this happens because we have not learned that this moment is a moment of listening, of paying attention, of observing, precisely to these internal reactions within each one of us.

So, this is the science of approaching Self-Awareness. There is a basic element here for this approach, and this basic element is this looking, this listening, this perceiving, without these conclusions, opinions, evaluations, beliefs, without this liking or disliking. The importance of this approach in this attention, in this Mindfulness, which is just listening, perceiving, being aware of, for example, here, the speech, this requires a quiet brain, a silent mind, and the beauty of this is that when this is present, we are accessing something fundamental in life, which is the presence of Intelligence.

You see, there is a presence within you of extraordinary Intelligence. We do not access it because we do not approach this study of ourselves, this vision of the truth of how we function, which requires the presence of this attention. So, here, the subject is the Truth of this Mindfulness and Self-Awareness. Here, the subject is the approach of this learning about how we function.

All of us, in life, have problems. There is no problem in life, there is a problem in us. We are the basis, the reference for life with problems. It is not life with problems, it is the particular life of this sense of someone present. This someone is present when there is this lack of attention to life as it happens, because we are always, based on memory, on the past, reacting to the present moment, responding to the present moment based on a reaction that comes from the past. See how delicate this is.

Life is happening now, here, bringing us challenges. They are present challenges, and these challenges find us, but these challenges are challenges when they meet this element in you that reacts to life as it happens. So, life as it happens is a challenge to this sense of the present "I" that separates itself from life to react to the present moment, in this thought, feeling of liking, disliking. This is the absence of this looking, of this observing, of this "realizing" life as it happens.

This self-discovery, this self-revelation of your Essential Nature, of your Divine Nature, which occurs with the Awakening of this Intelligence, which is Spiritual Intelligence, which is the Intelligence of God in you, is something present when you discover what it is, in that moment, just approaching it without this experiencer, without this thinker, without this observer. This observer, experiencer, thinker is the element in you that you feel to be you and that, in reality, is a reaction of memory, it is an element that comes from the past and that evaluates, judges, compares, accepts and rejects everything based on thought.

There is a Reality present, but this Reality is not in this thinker, in this experiencer, in this observer. And this present Reality is the one that reveals itself beyond this "me," this "I," this person. This is what we are working on here, with you, for this realization. The realization of this is the Truth of the Presence of Real Meditation. So, the Truth about Meditation is the presence of Reality without this element that comes from the past.

So, there is a new way of approaching the present moment, no longer considering this present moment as an experience for the "I," for this "me." Because the great truth is that this moment is a unique moment, it has never happened and it will never happen again. Therefore, we cannot take an experience from it, and that is what thought has done in this old model of egoic consciousness, of consciousness of the "I."

We are passing through moments and transforming these moments into experiences for this experiencer, into perceptions for this perceiver. This way, you have memories, images of the world around you; you have people you like and you have people you don't like; you have friends, you have enemies. As long as the sense of this experiencer, thinker, observer, as long as this movement, which is the movement of the "I," of the ego, of this "me," is present, all this contact with the moment will be the contact of an experiencer acquiring experiences, it will be the contact of an observer seeing things separate from itself, things it likes and dislikes, people it likes and people it doesn't like.

So, our relationship with life, in this self-centeredness, in this sense of someone present in the experience, is a condition of existence in isolation, in this separation. So, we are constantly giving continuity to this element that comes from the past. And what is this element that comes from the past? It is the imagination of an entity that has friends, that has enemies. Notice the implications of this.

Our relationship - and life consists of relationships - with the world around us is a relationship that has as its principle a present element that has things, that is afraid of losing things, that does not have things and desires to gain those things. You see, we cannot have anything, nor can we lose anything, because the great truth is that this feeling-thought "I" is only a fiction, an imagination of a present identity that possesses, that gains and that loses, and yet it is here that this life of the "I" is present, this life of the person as we see ourselves in life: in suffering - suffering for things that are being lost, suffering for things that have not been gained.

So, in this sense of the ego, of the "I," in this illusion, in this fiction of existence, of identity separate from life, the human being is possessive, jealous, envious, attached, full of jealousy, envy, and has many fears. This is the life of the "I," this is the life of the ego. Can we break with this and go beyond this psychological condition of illusory identity present in life to the Real Life, free from this "me"?

Here we are telling you that life is what happens. There is no one present in life as it happens. But we are creating life as it should happen, could happen, as we, in the ego, in this "I," in this self-image, in this image that thought has built about who we are, are seeing life happening. Here, with you, we are working on the Awakening of your Divine Nature, the Awakening of the Truth about you.

So, the presence of this look at the moment, of listening to the moment, of perceiving the moment, without the interference of the model of the past, which is this fictitious "I," which is this illusory "I," is the presence of attention. In this attention, the Truth about Self-Awareness is revealed, which is nothing other than the discarding of this illusion, of all this illusion that has been human life. This is how human beings are living, this is how we were educated to live: an illusory life, separate from the Reality of Real Life, from this Divine Life.

See the implications of all this: all this mess, confusion, suffering, conflicts, contradictions, the countless problems and difficulties that we have in life are all centered on this illusory identity that sees itself separate from life, that sees itself separate from others, that sees itself separate from God. To have an approach to life in this moment, as it really is, as it really happens, without this sense of someone present, who carries this illusion of being able to do, choose, decide, control, reject, accept, is to have contact with this moment without any separation. When there is no separation, there is no disorder, there is no confusion, there is no suffering, there is no conflict, there is no problem.

A Life in Bliss, a Life in Love, a Life in Peace, a Life in Freedom, a Life in the awareness of Life itself is the Real Life in its purpose, it is the Real Divine Life, it is the Real Life of God. This requires the Presence of that Silence, that Space that opens up when you, in your Divine State, in your Natural State, is the very Presence of Meditation. So, this is what we are investigating here with you. What is life at this moment? It is the Truth of this awareness of God, which is You in your Real State, which is Meditation, in that absence of the "I," in this absence of the ego.

That's why we're together in these meetings, deepening and exploring this with you. We have meetings here on the weekends, where we're working on this, on Saturday and Sunday. Here in the video description, you can find our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on the weekends. In addition to these meetings, we have our in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation. Please give a like, subscribe to the channel and leave a comment here: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

December, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to attain happiness? How to deal with judgments? How to attain Spiritual Enlightenment?

We have a mistaken notion of life, of how it works. When people want to discover the path to Happiness, Freedom, Peace, Love, they have this notion of the path as a journey. The idea in us is always of a walk, and that's why we need a road, a journey.

The idea for us always consists of this notion of direction, of reaching out. So, we go from one point to another. All our life experience, over all these years of life, has shown us that everything we accomplish, we need time for it to come true.

Everything in life, for example, we learn. We are constantly learning; we learn about everything and, despite this, we still know nothing , we are always learning. So, we reserve within ourselves a clear notion of the need to learn, and that requires time. Then, we need time to learn and time to realize.

Here I want to investigate with you this issue of Spiritual Awakening, of Spiritual Enlightenment, and see if it's the same here, if it's true that we need time. Note, we do need the art of learning, but not learning as we know it. For us, learning is something that happens, that occurs, that happens when we go through experiences and store them away, record them. Thus, there is an accumulation of knowledge and experience. This is how we generally deal with "learning" something.

We've been talking to you here on this channel about the value of learning. Yes, we need this art of learning for the Awakening of Consciousness, for Spiritual Enlightenment, but we have to take a new approach to this here, as we have always said. It's not about the question of how to attain Spiritual Enlightenment, as people generally treat this issue. Notice that they put forward the notion of time and this journey, this walk towards this purpose, towards this goal.

So, the notion is exactly that, that we need time to achieve something, so we need time to attain Spiritual Enlightenment too. Here we are talking to you about this Awakening, yes, this Spiritual Enlightenment and this learning, but a new learning.

Here, this learning consists, at that moment, of directly seeing that given thing, and within that very vision, in that "seeing," an action takes place, an action is processed.

So, the truth of this learning here consists in our being aware, moment by moment, of what is happening in this instant, here and now, in this moment. So notice, in this way, we eliminate this notion of time to achieve and of this learning by accumulating information, knowledge and experience.

So, there's a new way of learning, and that's what we're dealing with here. Only in this learning does Spiritual Awakening take place, and it doesn't take place over time, it takes place at this moment. It's not about an experience to be had or knowledge to be acquired, it's about discovering, at that instant, the end to this psychological condition of being an experiencer, of being a thinker, of being an observer, of being someone moving through time.

Notice that the notion of being someone that you have - as has already been said - is the notion of being someone on a journey, on a walk. "How to attain happiness?" Questions that always involve the expression 'how' are very common, because we are conditioned to believe that we need time, that we need the walk, that we need the journey, that we need to learn by accumulating, that we need to have experiences and grow and evolve with them.

We need to review this, take a closer look and perceive the illusion of this conditioning we have received. We don't need time. In fact, what we call time is just a creation of thought. It is thought that has constructed this notion of time for each of us.

All the problems we have are problems of disorder, which exist precisely because of the presence of time. We want to resolve the issues we have; they are issues that we have created on the basis of thought. These issues are problems. Thought has built up these problems, created these issues, and we want to resolve them on the basis of time. But thought is time.

We have emphasized this and we have to see it, look at it, listen to it, become aware of it in a very direct way in order to have a true approach to what we are putting here for you. The thought in us tells us about the past, it tells us about the future, it tells us that we haven't achieved what we wanted to, what we tried to achieve and haven't succeeded.

The thought generates in us, and that thought is the memory reserved, kept in the brain, inside each one of us... That memory, that remembrance, that thought is the element that sustains time by telling us about the past, about what we didn't achieve yesterday. This element is the thought telling us what we need to achieve tomorrow, and that generates a feeling of guilt and also worry. This guilt and worry is the presence of fear and anxiety.

Therefore, the various internal states of psychological suffering that we know are present because of the presence of thought, and this thought is linked to this time. Observe it: without this thought, there is no time. Without thought, there is no time, and without time, there is no such issue, no such problem.

A life free, psychologically, from time, is the Real Life here, at this instant, of your Being. It's because we're living in this psychological life of the "I," which is life in thought, which is life in time, that we're having issues, that we're having problems, that we're seeing a journey, a path, something to get in the future, also something to get rid of, that we carry from the past.

We need to investigate this issue of thought, of how it is processed within each of us, and we will soon realize that it is processed on the basis of memory; a memory that we don't know how to deal with right now, and therefore it is sustained in this format of the "I," of "me" of the thinker. The person, you see yourself as, is nothing other than a set of remembrances, memories, recollections, thoughts that don't end, don't come to an end.

When you look at yourself, you see inside your head all the restlessness, all the restless, chatty, repetitive, uncontrolled thought patterns, the famous intrusive thinking, the forms of anxiety present because of the thought patterns, the anguish, the depression. When we look inside, we perceive that we are confused human beings, in psychological disorder, there is no serenity, no stillness, no silence. The brain is always in this accelerated movement.

The psychological condition of the existence of the "I," this "me," this "person," is one of anxiety and worry. The various problems we have are present in this model of unfinished, not finished thought, in this memory format. Thought is always projecting the future. So there's fear, because there's this future that thought is projecting, based on the past, on memory, on projecting; it doesn't want this or that which it remembers.

You see, the thought has the memory, the recollection; that memory, that recollection is something that happens in the brain. Thought projects itself into the future, based on this memory, and there is fear. So, based on the past, we have fear of the future. Then, our psychological condition of being someone, in this model of unfinished thought, is one of suffering.

We are studying this here, investigating the nature of the "I," of this "me." We have put here for you the value of this approach, of this direct look at this model of thought, which is the model of conditioning, as our brain is functioning, as our intellect is stuck to it within this conditioning.

Can we free the brain from this condition, the intellect from this prison of memory? To become aware of the movement of the "I" is to go beyond this "I," this ego. The various problems we have are present because of this notion of time that thought within us represents.

Here we are telling you that it is possible to put an end to this model of thought, that is, this psychological death of this sense of "I," of the ego. If this sense of "I," which is this "me," which lives within this psychological model of unfinished memory, continuing this notion of psychological time, if it ends, we have this psychological death, the end to this psychological condition of being someone, to the Reality of your Being, to the Truth of That which is beyond this sense of person, of ego-identity. So here, yes, is the answer to Happiness.

It's not about, in the future, as an answer to the question "how to attain happiness." It's not about happiness in the future, but the awareness of the Reality of this instant, of what is present here when this "ego," this psychological "I," has disappeared. When this pattern of behavior, of thinking in which the brain is conditioned to live, and this intellect stuck to sustain, to hold on, if there is an end to this condition, we have a new brain, a quiet mind, a silent brain, the presence of this awareness of this instant, the Reality that is here and now.

This is the Truth of your Being, the Truth of non-duality, of non-separation, where the Presence of Divine Reality, which is You in your Being, is free from this sense of the "I," of the ego, and therefore free from this psychological time, this psychological thinking, this egocentric, personal behavior pattern.

There's another question - look, all these questions based on this "how," which are sustained over time, resolve themselves - "How to deal with the judgment from others? How to deal with judgments?" The end of the illusion of the "I" is the end of this self-image, this image that carries the fear of rejection, of comparison, of non-acceptance, of judgment from others.

Here we are working with you towards the end of psychic suffering, the end of this emotional disorder, the end of this illusion of someone who sustains themselves in this illusory life, always looking for something in a future that thought idealizes. Divine Reality is the Reality of God, and that is Love, Peace, Freedom, and Happiness. That is the Nature of God, that is the Nature of your Being.

This is what we talk about with you here on the channel and also on our other channel, called "Marcos Gualberto" - take a look at it later, here in the video description you'll find the link to our other channel. We also have online meetings that take place on weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, we're together, through questions and answers, going deeper into these subjects with you.

So, a contact with Meditation, with Self-Awareness is to get closer to the Truth of God's Revelation, the Revelation of your Being. Here in the description of the video you have our WhatsApp link for these online meetings on weekends. We also have face-to-face meetings and retreats. If it makes sense to you, here's the invitation. Please, leave your "like" here, go ahead and subscribe to the channel, and say in the comments: "Yes, it makes sense". OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

November, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Practicing the Presence | What is Self-Awareness? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone, we're here for another videocast. Master Gualberto is here with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here. Master, today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Practicing the Presence." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Do not seek harmony or health; not even God. They cannot be found, they already are. Be still." In this excerpt, Joel speaks of the futility of seeking what already is. On this subject, can you share your perspective on what Self-awareness is?

MG: Gilson, Self-awareness is the comprehension of oneself. We don't have any comprehension of who we are, of what we are here, at this moment. We are constantly expressing ourselves, expressing who we are, but we are not aware of it. Thought within you, for example, is something that is processed unconsciously, just like feelings and emotions. We are not aware of how thought is processed within us. We have thoughts, but we don't know what thought is.

We also have feelings connected to thoughts. Therefore, feelings arise due to the presence of thoughts and sensations that have arisen. This process also triggers emotions, and we are unaware of this. The fact is, we don't know the truth about who we are, about what we appear to be, what we show ourselves to be. We lack a vision of ourselves. The absence of this vision places us in a movement of separation in life. The presence of the mind within us separates itself from the present moment. The experiencer and experience separate themselves. Thought and the thinker separate themselves. The truth about this is that, in this context, we are living in ignorance.

Self-awareness is clarity, the truth about this. And when there is this foundation, something emerges; something beyond this unconsciousness. This entire process within us is the presence of unconsciousness. The presence of the mind, as it occurs, as it happens, is in unconsciousness. We have divided the mind into conscious and unconscious. The most contact we have with here on the surface is the conscious layer, and what we have least contact with are the deeper, hidden ones of memory... The presence of memory is the presence of this mind, this consciousness. Both the superficial layer, which we call "conscious," and the deeper layers of memory, which we call the "unconscious" mind within us, all of this occurs unconsciously.

We are unaware of the truth about the mind, about the consciousness we recognize as present within us. Therefore, learning about ourselves, exploring, investigating, deepening this vision of the truth of how we function, opens up the door to liberation from confusion, suffering, disorder, and problems that are present in our lives. We need clarity. All our relations with people, before we have clarity about who we are, show to be confusion. We cannot comprehend others without first comprehending ourselves. We cannot comprehend life as it unfolds without first comprehending who we are. We see ourselves as a separate element from life, due to ignorance, a lack of comprehension of the truth about ourselves. We see ourselves as separate from each other. This is within ignorance, the illusion of this particular vision. This is how we live our days: in ignorance, in the illusion of the person.

What is the truth about the "I"? What is the truth about this "me," the person that "I" am? The descriptions I have of who "I" am are the memories and remembrances of what "I" know about myself. But what "I" know about myself is only the presence of knowledge being reported, put into words. Knowledge is the presence of ideas, of thoughts present in this brain, in this mind. But what are thoughts? What are these memories? What are these remembrances? They do not portray the reality of who "I am." They present an idea of ??what "I believe I am," "I imagine I am."

The importance of knowing oneself, the importance of Self-awareness, is to have a vision of yourself so that the Real Truth can reveal itself. Because the truth we have is not real; it is the truth constructed by thought, established by a set of beliefs. This is what we demonstrate, this is what we appear to be, this is what we live, being someone. But there is no such thing as "someone." This "someone" is an illusion.

Why are we concerned with this study here? Because without this study, there is no Truth in our relations. And life occurs constantly within relations: our relations with people, our relations with situations, with events, with happenings, our relations with ourselves... We don't know the truth about relations. We lack the awareness of Divine Truth. See the importance of this: what is most important in life is the Awareness of God. We have beliefs, concepts, theories. We have what religion has given us about God, but there is no Truth about Divine Reality, about That which is eternal, about That which is present here, beyond this dream of human existence, of personal existence.

Self-awareness gives us this foundation for the flourishing of this Divine Vision, this Intelligence, this True Perception of Life, of Reality; of the Reality of this Being, of the Reality of That which We Are. The Truth of your Natural, Real State of Being-not this common state of being someone, which is an illusion-is what we are delving into here with you, based on the presence of Self-awareness and true contact with the Awareness of Meditation, which is part of Self-awareness.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. Vanessa made the following comment: "Master, I spend my life seeking to be a better, more spiritual, calmer person. Is this constant search a way of not accepting who I am now? How does Self-awareness fit into this?"

MG: Yes, that's the point. Gilson, our conditioning here is to reject what is present here, because we live in the realm of ideas. We disregard the reality of the moment because of the value we place on ideas. Thus, for us, what should be is more important than what is. We don't investigate the truth of what is present here. We have the ideal of what should be here, in this place. That's why we want to improve as people.

Because, yes, we are aware of the pain present, but we are not aware of the element present in that pain, which is the presence of the "I," which is the presence of the ego. So, the idea is to change as a person, to transform ourselves as a person, to become a different person, to become a better person. We have to rid ourselves of anger, fear, jealousy, and envy, but with the ideal as our starting point-the ideal of what we should be: "I can't continue to be envious, jealous, afraid, angry. I have to change as a person." You ask, "Where does Self-awareness fit into this?" Self-awareness comes in by showing that it's not about what should be, but rather the investigation of what is, here and now, in this moment. This is where the possibility of real transformation, of real change lies. It's not about changing to what should be, but rather about changing to something completely different from the idea, the imagination of what should be.

In general, the way we deal with what is shown here is by coming into conflict with it, because we project what should be, we idealize what should be, we imagine what should be: "I can't continue feeling anger, fear, and envy. I can't continue being depressed, distressed, sad. I have an idea of ??what I should be." The presence of this self-study puts us in direct contact with what is here. So, yes, we can investigate it. The investigation, the study, the observation, the perception, is what ends this model, this pattern. It is not the idea of ??being free that liberates us. It is the investigation of the truth of what is present here that brings this Freedom, this Liberation.

Self-awareness is what allows us to become aware of who we are, without any idea of ??what we should be. This requires the presence of attention to our reactions. This attention shows us the pattern of the "I," the pattern of the ego, the way it separates itself from thought to reject the thought it has, or to adopt the thought it has, being the "I," this thinker. Pure observation-looking without interfering with what is-shows us something beyond what we demonstrate ourselves to be, what we appear to be. It shows us something beyond what we are, without any idea or imagination of what should be. Thus, we eliminate the conflict between what we are and what we wish to be. And when this is eliminated, the present "I," the ego present in this separation, dissolves. Then, something reveals itself beyond the "I," beyond the ego.

This whole pattern of wanting to change, of striving to change, of an idea to change, is a complete waste of energy. It's still the movement of the "I," it's still the movement of the ego, projecting itself into the future to get rid of something. Here, I repeat: it is the vision of the moment, the attention on reactions that breaks the pattern of repetition, of the continuity of the movement of thought, and also of feeling and emotion, where the condition is the condition of the duality of this "I"-"I" and "non-I"-of this emotion of "someone," of this feeling of "someone, "of this thought of "someone."

The truth of contact with the present moment, without the separation between what is here and what should be here, is the presence of the truth of comprehending ourselves. Since there is no longer this waste of energy, it becomes available for the end of duality. Then, the habit, the pattern, the addiction to duality, here, in the moment, is undone. Then, a new state becomes present. This state is a state free of "I" and "non-I," free of this angry "someone," this jealous "someone," this fearful "someone." It is the presence of Meditation that makes this possible, because of the vision present in this "perceiving oneself" without the past. It is in this sense that we use the expression Self-awareness here, the basis for Meditation.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. Rony asked the following question: "What is the difference between awakening to life and having awakened moments?"

MG: Notice that you speak of "awakened moments" and "awakening to life." When you have what you call awakened moments, are you awake or still sleepy?

See, when you wake up... Note this, Gilson, see the question. When we wake up at night and are not fully awake, we are sleepy. When you are awake, you are awake. But when you are sleepy, you are not yet awake. We have moments at night when we are sleepy, but not awake. We are between waking and sleeping. Thus, we have drowsy moments. However, awake is awake. That which is Truth reveals itself when there is Awakening. If there is not Awakening, that which reveals itself, reveals itself in drowsiness. Living in the sense of "I," of the ego, we have some moments of drowsiness where we have brief glimpses of something beyond sleep, but this does not mean Awakening.

Awakening is something definitive, while drowsiness allows you to do some things, but always between being asleep and being awake. Soon, you return to sleep, because sleep is what predominates when you are sleepy. Whereas the Awakened State, That which is Real, is no longer sleep, no longer drowsiness. This is your Natural State, this is your Real State. So, you ask what is the difference ... The difference is very basic: we are either asleep or awake. Drowsiness is within sleep, and the Awakened State is the Awakened State. That is the difference.

What is most meaningful in life is the beauty of the encounter with Awakening, with the State free from sleep, from this unconsciousness that is the life of the "I." The person lives in a state of sleep. The life of a person is a life in drowsiness. Yes, you may have glimpses of something beyond the world, beyond the mind, beyond the body, beyond thought, but you are back again and again to the pattern of sleep and, therefore, of unconsciousness. What enables Real Awakening, Real Waking-Up, the Truth of Awakening, is the awareness of how the mind works, how consciousness is present within you. There is the end of consciousness to something new, indescribable, in Awakening, in Waking-Up. Therefore, there is a huge difference. In reality, a great, unbridgeable abyss between the state of sleep and the Natural State of Being. This is what we are seeing here with you, delving deeper here with you.

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master, our time is now over. Gratitude for this videocast.

And for those of you who are watching the video to the end and truly wish to experience these truths, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings that Master Gualberto offers.

These meetings are much more profound and transformative than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions directly, live.

And second, and more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares a Field of Presence around him, and this Field is of Pure Strength, Grace, and Power. And in these meetings, we end up being carried by Master's Field of Presence, this Energy Field. And being carried by the Master, spontaneously, without any effort, we enter the meditative state, silence our minds, and can gain true insight into ourselves and the topics discussed here on the channel.

So, here's the invitation. In the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings.

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

September, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture | How to Overcome Fear? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone, we're here for another videocast. Master Gualberto is here with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here. Master, today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "He who has found God no longer fears man or circumstances." Regarding this subject that Joel Goldsmith discusses in this excerpt, the issue of fear, can you share your perspective on how to overcome fear?

MG: Here, Gilson, the big question is this: How to overcome fear? But note one fundamental thing here: before we ask about overcoming something, about conquering anything, what is the truth about it? If you have an enemy and want to win, you need to defeat that enemy, you have to be aware of how he acts, what his capability is, how he functions. You have to study your adversary if you want to defeat them.

Here, we come across some very curious things. From a psychological point of view, our adversaries need to be studied, not to be defeated, but to be comprehended. We need to comprehend these adversaries. Comprehending these adversaries gives us victory over them. Not because we will defeat them, but because these adversaries, from a psychological point of view, are adversaries that have established themselves in our lives, in our experiences, due to ignorance.

Therefore, our greatest adversary is not the psychological adversaries we have, such as envy, jealousy, fear, anger, rage, sadness, depression, anxiety. You see, our "psychological adversaries" are countless. These adversaries, which cause us psychological suffering and emotional disorders, are not the adversaries we must overcome. Here, the real adversary is the presence of ignorance: not knowing the truth about yourself, about how the mind works.

Memory has become established. Feelings arise because of these memories. How are these memories sustained? Sustaining internal, conflicting, suffering states, which we call adversaries and which we believe we must overcome. We need to investigate this, become aware of it. So, our greatest adversary here is the presence of ignorance. We are living in ignorance about ourselves. We are unaware of how the mind works, how it happens within each of us.

So, we have to investigate the structure, the nature, the basis, the foundation, the basis of this psychological condition present within us, which is the condition of ignorance. What we lack is not victory over our psychological adversaries, over what causes us problems, conflicts, and internal suffering. What we lack is the presence of vision about ourselves.

So, the foundation is knowing yourself, studying yourself. Learning about yourself. Learning why the hurt, the resentment, the anger, the pain of loneliness are within "me." Why is the presence of fear in "me"... What is the truth of this "me," what is the truth about fear and about what "I" am when I am here in feeling-in feeling fear, in feeling anger, in feeling worry, the pain of loneliness... So, we need to become aware of the truth about the "I," about this "me."

So, the end of ignorance is the real victory over problems. But it's not someone having a victory over problems. It's the fact that problems exist because of the presence of ignorance. Free from ignorance, we are free from problems, which includes the presence of all these "inner adversaries." Otherwise, we will always continue to have to overcome, and again, and again, and again.

See that you have already had, during your lifetime, twenty years, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. Or are you eighty? How many times have you overcome internal states of suffering? But, in fact, have you overcome them? Or were they there for a while and disappeared, and then others arose?

So, we are in life, throughout our lives, struggling with problems, trying to overcome difficulties, problems, disorders, various sufferings, conflicts, countless internal contradictions. These states of pain... fear is just one. In fact, there are countless fears. So, we have "fear," but countless fears. The names are different, but we are dealing with only fear.

And we are dealing with fear from a mistaken perspective, where the presence of the "I" is present, separating itself from fear, to triumph over it, to overcome fear. This is the situation in which, psychologically, we find ourselves: one of ignorance, of illusion. Breaking with this, going beyond ignorance, is going beyond fear.

Not only fear, but every form of suffering. Since all suffering has its basis, its foundation in this illusion of the "I," which is the presence of the ego within us. This is the root of ignorance. The root of ignorance consists in the sense of someone present separating themselves from the present moment, from what it is arising, what it is showing itself, what it is presenting.

So, what it shows itself, with what it is presenting, we separate ourselves from. This sense of separation is the "I," the ego, the root of ignorance. Investigating the nature of the thinker, the experiencer, the person, this me, is going beyond fear.

See, it's not about overcoming fear. It's not about getting over fear. It's about discovering the Truth that is Life here and now, when there is no longer this sense of "I," there is no longer ignorance. If there is no longer the presence of ignorance, there is a vision of Life as It truly is. And in It is present the Divine Reality, the Reality of God. Life is, in truth, You in your Essential Nature. And in It, there is no conflict, no disorder, no suffering.

The egoic mind is the presence of the "I," and this "I" is the root of suffering, because it is the basis of illusion. The present ignorance is this sense of separation between you and life, between you and others, between you and God. This is what establishes within us an internal condition of suffering, of fear.

This is what puts us in a mistaken disposition: in the illusion of defeating an adversary that is not there, of overcoming an adversary that is not outside. This adversary is the presence of thought, the presence of the "I," the presence of the ego, the presence of ignorance.

When this ends, there is feeling, thinking, and acting here, in this moment, free from illusion. Since we no longer have the sense of separation, there is no longer conflict, no longer fear, no longer suffering. This requires the presence of Self-awareness. This requires the Awareness of True Meditation. Not what people out there call meditation, but Real Meditation in an experiential way, in a practical way of living.

The awareness of your reactions is the liberation of this sense of "I," of all this movement that is the movement of the ego. Then, Divine Reality reveals itself beyond the mind, beyond conflicts, beyond the sense of separation between you and life, between you and others, between you and God.

Therefore, it is not about overcoming fear. It is about discovering the Truth of Life without the "I," the end of suffering, the end of illusion, the end of ignorance. Okay?

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel who left the following comment: "Master, I live in constant fear of the future, of lack of money, of getting sick. How can I find God to dissolve these fears?"

MG: Notice this. There is, once again, the idea. This is the thing present within us, the confusion we find ourselves in: the idea of ??overcoming fears. It comes back again and again. And here your proposal is to find God to overcome fears.

See, there is a Reality present here and now. It is not negligent. It is not absent. It is not missing. It is here and now. This Reality is Life. This Life is Divine Truth. It is already present.

So, here, the first point to be investigated is that you cannot find God. He is a present Reality, but He does not show Himself present to the "I," to the ego, to the person. Therefore, freeing oneself from fear requires investigating the structure and nature of fear itself.

When we get to the root of fear, we realize that the structure of fear, the root of fear, is ignorance about who we are, about the truth of this "me," of this "I." When there is awareness of this, clarity, when there is a precision of vision, when Reality reveals itself, this ignorance ends.

This is the end of the root of ignorance, which is the basis of fear. Therefore, you do not have an encounter with God. You have a revelation of God's Truth here and now, when this sense of "I" is gone, when this "person" is no longer present.

Then, we no longer have the sense of separation. The person sees themselves as a separate element of life, separate from others, separate from God. This separation produces and sustains the various forms of fear. Fear is, in fact, the presence of ignorance.

When thought is present, projecting itself into the future, based on the illusion of someone here, to experience a bad, unpleasant, unhappy, or complicated future, it produces this internal state of suffering that we call fear.

However, this state is present because of the presence of thought projecting itself from the idea of ??this "I," which is also the presence of a thought. As long as you see yourself as someone, as a person, you are sustaining your psychological existence in the movement of thought.

This psychological existence, which is the movement of thought, projecting itself into the future in a bad, negative, unpleasant way, is the presence of fear. Therefore, this fear is present because of ignorance.

The awareness of the truth about this game of thought, creating this thinker and their future, this experiencer with their experience of the psychological tomorrow; seeing this game is freeing oneself from ignorance. When there is no ignorance, Reality reveals itself. Reality is the Truth of God.

Thus, you do not have an encounter with God. God reveals Himself when the "I" is gone, when the thinker, the experiencer, when the thought model, which is the psychological conditioning model we carry, is no longer present.

Therefore, the Truth about That which is You is the Truth of Life when illusion is not, when ignorance is not. Then, there is no more fear, no more various fears. In reality, any and all forms of suffering dissolve.

The presence of suffering is the presence of the sufferer, just as the presence of thought is the presence of the thinker, of the experiencer's experience.

There is a Reality here and now, present, revealing itself. It is the Reality of this Being, it is the Reality about You. Clearly, this requires work, work on oneself, a deep engagement with this self-discovery, with this clarity, with this vision, with this perception.

It is not someone having this perception, vision, or clarity. It is the clarity here, due to the presence of this vision about oneself, that ends the "I," that ends the illusion of separation. So, Truth is present, Truth reveals itself, and It is here and now as Supreme Bliss, Love, Freedom. Okay?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, who makes the following comment: "Master, how can we be aware of thoughts without becoming confused with them?"

MG: Notice your question. Your question is how to avoid becoming confused with thoughts. Look, Gilson, there's only one real way to do this: by becoming aware of thought. It's necessary to bring to this moment a gaze, a perception, an attention that's completely different from what we usually have.

In general, when you perceive, you perceive to like or dislike, to accept or reject, to appreciate or set aside. So, we are always taking a position in the moment of perception. It's, in fact, the perceiver present. It's a perception from a perceiver.

Here, perception is the gaze, it's becoming aware, it's becoming aware without interfering. This is the quality of perception that makes you aware of the play of thought.

For a long time, in fact, throughout your entire life, when a thought arises within you, what it has done is give you an identity behind it. That's what thought has done. And it's been going on like this for a long time.

So, we're addicted to the model of being someone. "Someone" thinking. When a thought arises in your head, behind thought there's already the sensation of the thinker. This comes with the package. It's automatic, it's something mechanical, unconscious.

So, we're constantly identifying with thought, confusing ourselves with thought, when we like it or dislike it, when we want more of thought or don't want it with us. Therefore, the addiction, the force of habit, is to always continue affirming the presence of the thinker, the perceiver.

Here, the invitation is to bring into this moment the gaze without the observer, the perception without the perceiver. It's to bring the awareness of thinking without the thinker. Then, the game of habit, of addiction, of the continuity of the "I," of the continuity of the "person" becomes clear.

And, immediately, something happens. Because, once again, the game is shown, but there's no one else to engage in the game. There's no one else to engage with the game. So, a shift occurs in this structure.

The model of thought in us, of feeling, of sensation, is always, constantly placing someone in the process, someone getting involved. This someone is the "me," the person.

So, what is this looking, perceiving, becoming aware of? It's the "realization." That's the way! It gives you a clear vision of how the movement of feelings, emotions, and sensations takes place, when you're with him or her, talking to your husband, your wife, your coworker, or anyone else.

It gives you insight into your reactions, here and now: the feeling, what's behind the look, what's behind the tone of voice you're using. It shows you internal states that you're becoming aware of here and now, for the first time-like anxiety, or worry, or fear.

And this gaze is enough. It's not meant to interfere with it, this observation is enough. Then, a new energy emerges: an energy of attention, of awareness, of presence. This transforms this moment into a moment of Meditation.

It is no longer that old moment of unconsciousness, of mechanicity, of automatic response, of memory, of reaction, where the sense of "I" is present, where the ego is involved, there, without any awareness of how it is happening, of how it is processed.

At that moment, this pattern is broken. There is a break with the model of desire, of fear, of choice, of worry, of the intention to obtain something from him or her, or of fearing him or her. Then, Something is now present; this Something reveals itself as the presence of Meditation.

There is, indeed, in that instant, the end to this identity, which is the thinker. There is, then, the presence of this Freedom, this Awareness of Being, this Vision of Life, free from the sense of "I," the sense of ego, the sense of the thinker.

Thus, there is a break with the model of thought, as well as of feeling, emotion, and sensation, in this freedom to flow with the moment, to flow with the present moment, without "someone" here, in this moment.

So, the foundation is Self-awareness, and the result is the presence of Meditation. Okay?

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master. Our time is over now. Gratitude for this videocast.

And for those of you who are watching the video to the end and truly wish to experience these truths, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings that Master Gualberto offers.

In these meetings, in addition to the Master answering our questions directly, something much more powerful, much more transformative, happens: because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares a State of Presence, an Energy Field around him.

And, in these meetings, we end up being carried by this Field of Presence of Master. And, by spontaneously and effortlessly being carried, we enter a meditative state. We can gain a real insight into the topics discussed here on the channel.

So, here's the invitation. In the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to join these meetings. Also, leave comments here, asking questions for us to bring to future videocasts.

Like the video and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

September, 2025
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Joel Goldsmith | The Heart of Mysticism | What is the art of meditation? Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We're here for another videocast. Master Gualberto is here with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here.

Master, I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "The Heart of Mysticism." In an excerpt from that book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Silence is the language of God. Everything else is a bad translation." On this subject, can you share your vision about what the art of meditation is?

MG: Gilson, the presence of Meditation in our lives is the most important thing in life. Because, without the presence of comprehension of the Truth about yourself, whatever you do, think, or feel will be within a model, a mistaken pattern of the egoic mind, of a mind in duality, in separation.

Let's clarify this for you: thought within us is a background of memory, of remembrance, of knowledge, and we are always acting in life from this background. But the model of thought within us is based on a misunderstanding. Here, the mistake is the idea of ??someone controlling thought. Thus, there is the presence of thought and someone in control. There is the presence of an action occurring, and actions within us are also driven by thoughts, as well as by feelings and emotions. And we place, in this quality of action, the illusion of someone in action, as well as in sensation or perception.

Here, we find ourselves, in this position, within an illusory, mistaken view, because there is no one present here, in this moment, in life, as if life were happening for "me." See, there is no such thing as "someone and life." There is only the presence of Life. It is thought within us that suggests this, that creates and sustains the idea within us of this thing, that we are now thinking, as we are now speaking, or hearing, or feeling, or doing.

Here, there is the presence of a movement: it is the movement of Life itself, and the illusion of the idea of ??someone moving and responding to life. This is false! It is only Life pulsating, happening. You don't make the heart beat, you don't make a thought arise, you don't make an emotion surface or a feeling occur. All of this is Life in expression.

Just as when you look at the sky and there is no rain, and suddenly the weather changes and the rain arrives-and you did exactly nothing. that is exactly how Life is. You did nothing to make that rain happen, and now it is there, emerging, happening, for as long as it decides to happen. Then, it decides to stop, and there is no one in that decision. It is a natural event, something Divine, that you have no control over. But we have the illusion of someone present here, having control over life, having thoughts, feelings, emotions, having certainties and doubts. It is the suggestion of thought within you, creating the illusion of someone, making the rain, this particular rain of yours, which you call "my life."

So, what is the art of Meditation? It's the awareness of looking, the comprehension of looking, the perception without the perceiver, the free gaze that allows you to see Life as it happens, without the illusion of someone present. This "someone" is creating problems. This "someone" is supporting evaluations, comparisons, beliefs, conclusions about life, about how it happens. And that's why the person suffers.

Every problem in your life is solely in your particular life, in the idea of ??someone who particularized the experience of living. There is living, but there is no one living. There is Life, but there is not "someone" in Life. So, the art of Meditation brings you closer to what is most important and fundamental: the presence of a true gaze at Life. It's the gaze that allows you to witness the rain, with the clear certainty that you didn't make it. It's not you who makes the rain happen, not for the duration it lasts, nor do you make it stop when you wish. It is just there.

The beauty of encountering Meditation requires a deep comprehension of how, in illusion, thought within us establishes beliefs, establishes ideas, draws conclusions, and gives us suggestions. Direct vision of this is Clarity, Lucidity, the presence of Intelligence, which frees us from the illusion of someone, which allows Life to be what It is, without someone present. Thus, in the presence of this direct vision of Life, there is the revelation of Divine Awareness. This is Meditation. Either we continue living our days as we do, or we embrace the Reality of the days, without someone present in this experience. Thus, experiencing is Life flowing, happening here and now, moment by moment.

The presence of the art of Meditation requires Self-awareness, it requires the investigation of the nature of the "I," the structure and nature of the thinker, the experiencer, the observer, for the discarding of that illusion. When it is discarded, because there is now a new space, due to an emptying of this old content-which is the content of memory, knowledge, experiences, records, this entire history of the "I," the ego, which is, basically, thought- when we empty this history, we have a new space, and in this new space, That which is indescribable is revealed, That which is beyond the thinker, beyond thought, beyond the "I."

Therefore, the art of Meditation is the art of living. This "living life" is not someone living, it is Life in expression. Dealing with thoughts, feelings, or emotions is like dealing with rain. You don't directly engage with what happens when it rains. You stay with what is reasonable, simple, and practical so as not to get wet. You protect yourself from the rain. Dealing with thoughts requires the presence of an Intelligence to not be confused with thoughts, and to not create an identity behind thought. This identity is the "I," the ego. This is what we have been doing. This is our mistake, our mental confusion, our suffering. The reason behind fear, anxiety, depression, anguish, worries, and all human suffering lies in the illusion of someone behind thought, behind feeling or emotion, making choices, making resolutions, believing in the power to act, to interact with the present moment. This someone separates himself from Life itself and believes they can control: control thoughts, feelings, emotions, and everything else.

So, we are living in ignorance because we lack the art of Meditation, we lack the presence of Self-awareness, of a vision in Wisdom, of a perception in Lucidity, of feeling in Truth the present moment. Attending Life is not something for someone. Attending Life is something for Intelligence. Something that is present, being You, in your Essential Nature, when the ego is not, when the mind, in its confusion, is no longer present. Therefore, we need to discover what Life is without the "I," Life without the mind, Life without the ego, Life without the past. Then, there is Clarity in looking, feeling, acting, perceiving, interacting with him or her, because the ego is not there.

Thus, the art of Meditation reveals God, reveals That which is Real, that which is Eternal.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, I try to meditate, but my mind doesn't stop for a second. I get frustrated and end up giving up. Am I doing something wrong?"

MG: Notice, you say: "I try to meditate." In the presence of Meditation, there is no one-as we just stated here, in the first part, in the first answer. The Truth of Meditation is the moment revealing itself as it is. So, what we've been learning about meditation out there is mistaken, because they tell us we have to meditate, and meditation is about pushing away thoughts and focusing on a single thought, or visualizing a blue globe, or visualizing a blue ball, or breathing in a certain way, sitting in a certain way, in a quiet place. Therefore, what we're taught as meditation technique or practice is mechanical, something someone does.

We don't need to do what's already here. You don't get involved in doing it. If someone presents you with a cake, a chocolate cake, it's ready. It's placed before you; you have nothing to do but eat the cake. The presence of meditation is the Awareness of God. This Awareness of God is already here. The only thing you can do is enjoy this Divine Presence by embracing the Truth of your Being, which is the Awareness of God itself. That's eating the cake. But people dedicate themselves to techniques and practices, and then become frustrated, because they haven't grasped the truth that Meditation, like rain, happens. Meditation is also happening here, moment by moment. It's not happening for someone. That's the problem. You can't be in Meditation. In True Meditation, there is no one meditating, as people try to do. The presence of Meditation requires no effort, because it's not something-I repeat-it's not something you do, it's something that happens when the space is present.

So, what do we need for the Awareness of God, which is the Awareness of Meditation, which is already here, to reveal itself? What we need for this to reveal itself is the foundation, and the foundation is looking, perceiving, becoming aware of our reactions. Therefore, Self-awareness is what gives us the foundation for the revelation of Meditation. Therefore, what gives us the foundation to eat the cake that is already here-which is Divine Awareness, which is the Awareness of God-is Self-awareness. Paying attention, becoming aware of our reactions, at every instant, at every moment. Be aware of the thought. A thought arises, become aware of it. A feeling arises, become aware of the feeling. When an emotion arises, be aware of the emotion. Don't neglect it. Follow it, look at it. Don't get involved, don't commit, don't fall into a pattern of liking or disliking. Just look, observe, be aware. So, with the foundation of Self-awareness, the Awareness of God is revealed, this cake here is revealed, what is present here is revealed as Love, Silence, Freedom, the Bliss of this Being, which is You in your True Nature.

When you speak of an effort, when you speak of the difficulty that ultimately leads you to give up, both this effort, the difficulty and this giving up, there is the sense of someone doing the thing or trying to do the thing, and even giving it up. Here is someone there. We have countless videos here showing you. We have a playlist here on the channel showing you that the Truth of Meditation is the absence of the meditator, the observer, the experiencer. This is not something that requires effort, concentration, or technique. All involvement with technique, effort, or practice is to obtain something. Here, it is not about obtaining, it is not about achieving. Here, it is about noticing, this "becoming aware" of That which is present here, revealing itself as Divine Truth. This is the Presence of Meditation, this is the Presence of God.

So, forget absolutely everything you've learned, throw it all away. If you truly want to get closer to Real Meditation, come closer to Satsang. The word "Satsang" means association with Truth. We have online meetings taking place on weekends. Log on to Zoom and participate. We have in-person meetings, we have retreats. This requires a deep commitment to this surrender to the Truth of Self-awareness. And that's what we're working on here with you. Okay?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel who made the following comment: "I feel like I'm living on autopilot. Can you talk more about conditioning?"

MG: Gilson, the movement of the mind is automatic. And why is it automatic? Because it's a learned movement, and it repeats itself over and over again. Such are the internal processes within each of us. What we call the mind is nothing more than a movement of repetition, of continuity, of self-maintenance of the past. The presence of thought is memory. It's the past. Look at your head! You're constantly having thoughts. Where are these thoughts coming from? From memory. And what is this memory? It's the reinforcement of the past. But notice, the past isn't here. It has no importance; and yet, thought is constantly valuing the past, inside your head. And why does thought do this? Thought does this to sustain the continuity of a supposed identity, which makes you believe it is you. And why does thought do this? Thought does this because it's sustaining the idea, within you, of someone present thinking. This someone present thinking is the "I," the person you believe you are.

So, notice the game, notice the trick, the great trick of thought. All it does is maintain itself in this automatism, this mechanicality. Therefore, what we call consciousness is the presence of thought telling us something. Notice, that's what we call consciousness. When are you conscious? Isn't it when you remember? When there is the memory, you are conscious. This is what we call consciousness. Now, this consciousness, which is memory, is actually just a movement of thought. And this movement of thought is automatic. This automatism shows us that what we call consciousness is, in reality, complete unconsciousness. Mechanicity. Automatism.

We do need awareness of our reactions. This awareness of our reactions is Real Consciousness. We don't have real consciousness; we're just responding reactively, that is, from memory, from the past, within automatism. You ask: "How can we break...?" Your investigation is to break this automatism. Become aware of automatism. This awareness requires the presence of complete, deep, real, true attention, here and now, on every thought, feeling, emotion, sensation. Discover how to follow with real accuracy, with real precision, with depth, each occurrence, each event, internal or external: to look, listen, perceive this reaction. This is bringing awareness to the present moment. It's not about doing something against it, but simply about acknowledging it. When you begin to become aware of your reactions, you notice the play of thought. You notice the movement of unconsciousness. You realize that your reactions are mechanical and automatic. Then, there is a break from this old condition. This is because, in this moment, the mind becomes silent, the brain quiets, and there is a direct perception of the reality of the moment. And, at this moment, there is no longer this "I." So, in this instant, all automatism dissolves, because it is based on the pattern of unconsciousness, repetition, non-observation, non-attention.

Therefore, all the automatism present in this model of the "I," of the ego, is, in fact, inattention. This is the unconsciousness of this egoic consciousness. What ends this condition is looking, perceiving. It is what brings this Mindfulness to the moment. Then, we break with the sense of "I," with the sense of ego. We thus have an approach in this Self-awareness of the Truth of Meditation, the Awareness of Meditation, which reveals that which is beyond the mind, beyond the "I," beyond the ego, and therefore, beyond the unconsciousness and automatism of the mind, this egoic mind. Okay?

GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master. Our time is over now. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are watching to the end and truly desire to experience these truths, I invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings that Master Gualberto offers. In these meetings, which are much more profound than these videos here on YouTube, something very powerful happens: because the Master already lives in this Awakened state of Consciousness, He shares a field of presence around you. And, in these meetings, we end up being carried by this field of Master's presence, which is pure Power and Grace. And, by being carried by the Master, spontaneously, effortlessly, we quiet our minds, enter the meditative state, and can truly glimpse what these Truths are. So, the invitation remains. In the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Also, please like the video and subscribe to the channel. And, once again, Master, thank you for the videocast.

August, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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