Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast, with Master Gualberto once again with us. Thank you, Master, for being here. Master, today I am going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Beyond Words and Thoughts." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Relax and rest, and be an observer of what is the will of God." Master, in this excerpt, Joel talks about observing. Within this subject, can the Master share his vision on how to observe thoughts?
MG: Gilson, to observe thoughts, as well as each and every reaction present within you; to become aware of what is happening, of what is happening within you - not only thoughts, but also feelings, emotions ; to become aware of your tone of voice, your gestures, of what is behind that look you have, that listening that you have; becoming aware of oneself, becoming aware of oneself, in this moment: this is the basis for a vision of the truth about the "I," about this "me," about how the person functions, this person that you are - how he or she responds to this present moment, to this instant.
We are faced here with a basis for the revelation of Divine Awareness, the Awareness of God, which is Meditation. Meditation is not about sitting in a certain place, breathing in a certain way, excluding some thoughts and focusing on a thought, listening to music and relaxing - here we are faced with a technique or a meditation practice, but the truth of Meditation requires the Awareness of this Being. Divine Reality reveals itself when the "I" is not there. Therefore, it is not about someone meditating. The truth of Meditation is Meditation without someone meditating. Meditation is the presence of Divine Truth, of Life present, without the sense of someone present; of the experiencing of this moment, without someone being the experiencer of this moment. This is Real Meditation!
We have been talking a lot about Meditation, because Meditation is the most important thing in life; the art of Meditation. It is not someone in Meditation, it is the presence of Meditation without someone. Thus, the observation of thought requires the presence of a look without someone looking. So, it is about this listening without someone listening, this perceiving without someone perceiving.
We spend our entire lives involved in this process of thinking, without knowing what thinking is. Thinking is an element present in us. Thinking is a mechanism present in us, it is a psychic mechanism present in each one of us. When you face a challenge, when you receive a sensory stimulus, auditory, be it visual or of some kind at that level, a sensory stimulus in hearing, in vision - I ask you your name, this is an auditory stimulus; you see a scene, this is a visual stimulus. So, the senses are involved, at that moment, with a given experience. When this happens, at that moment, the brain reacts. The brain's reaction to this stimulus that it receives, at that moment, represents the presence of the experience, of this experience of thinking, because the brain recognizes this moment, it recognizes this sound, it recognizes this vision. When it recognizes, it recognizes based on experiences that it has had in the past, which are these thoughts.
So, this psychological mechanism in us of thinking is the brain responding based on an experience that it has from the past. So, there is this stimulus and the response; this response comes from thought. We spend our entire lives receiving stimuli and responses. This stimulus comes from the external or internal - it can come from within you or from the outside - and the brain reacts through symbols, images, mental representations, which are thoughts. So, we are constantly dealing with thoughts without knowing how to deal with them. We do not know how they are processed, we do not look at this. So, we do not know why our mind works the way it does, why there is this internal restlessness, this chatter, this movement of negative, possessive, obsessive thoughts... We do not know why this model of thought is processed within us.
We have a conditioned brain. Thoughts in us are restless, chatty, repetitive, negative, and compulsive. We are constantly involved in identifying with these thoughts, giving continuity to a present identity, which is the "I," the ego, which establishes itself as something alive because of thought, this element that comes from the past. We do not know the truth about ourselves because we do not know how the mind works within us, how it happens within us. Becoming aware of this requires learning about ourselves. Hence, the basis for all this is approaching the truth about what thinking is. This requires looking at how the mind works, observing thought in this moment, being aware of the thought as it happens in this moment, without putting someone present in this thought to get involved with it.
When a thought arises in you, you quickly identify yourself with thought, in this liking or disliking thought. So, at that moment, you place an identity present, which is this thinker, this experiencer. The thinker of this thought, the experiencer of this thought: this is the presence of the "I." Here lies the presence of the ego, of this "person." However, when you learn to look at thought without placing this thinker, this experiencer, at that moment there is a break in identity, in identification. So, this sense of "I" does not arise, this identification with the thought does not appear. And, at that moment, it is complete, it dissolves itself, because you are faced with this attention, this look at this moment without the past. We are, therefore, ending with the past, ending thought, ending the thinker. This is the true way of approaching Meditation, it is the true way of approaching the Truth about who we are, which is Self-awareness.
GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. Marlon asked the following question: "What is the first step for beginners in Meditation?"
MG: Gilson, the idea of ??steps for Meditation, or the idea of ??steps to learn something is very common. Here, when we raise the issue of the Awakening of Consciousness or Spiritual Enlightenment, whatever we want to call it, we are not dealing with something that is found in the old form of a learning technique. Here, we have a new learning, which is learning about ourselves. In this new learning, there are no steps. Meditation, as well as this attention on this moment, as well as this Revelation of the Truth of this Being, of this Divine Reality, of That which is indescribable, of That which is beyond names and forms, this does not require steps. Step is something that is taken in time to perform a task. Here, it is not about a task, it is not about the need for time. You do not realize the Truth of God in time. This Reality of God presents itself, at this moment, as being the Reality of this Being, when the illusion of the "I," which is based on a life of memory, of recollection, of thought, is not there.
This thought, memory and remembrance, is the result of time, of chronological time. When you went through experiences in the past, you recorded these experiences - they were transformed into remembrances, into memories, into thoughts. Thus, these thoughts in us are the result of time, but something very interesting happens here: this very thought is not only the result of time, but it also constructs time. It constructs psychological time, which is the psychological tomorrow, the psychological future, speaking to us of a psychological past. See, we are faced with a construct of thought: this time that it constructs, which is the time idealized by it, to accomplish things in a future that it imagines, or to get rid of things that it does not want. We are faced with imagination, the projection of thought in this so-called "past" or "future."
Here, contact with the Reality of this Being, of this Divine Truth, is the end, not only of thought, but it is the end of time. So, we do not need steps; we need awareness, consciousness, presence, perception, in this instant, of Reality. The truth of the flourishing of Meditation is not in time, not in step by step, it is in the attention to this instant. When you learn to look without the thinker, without the observer, without the experiencer, in that instant you eliminate time. Time is exactly this separation between the thinker and his thoughts, between the experiencer and his experiences, between this "I" and the "not I." Time is the presence of tomorrow to accomplish. This requires technique, this requires practice, this requires step by step.
When we deal with the awareness of Meditation, we are dealing with the Revelation of your Being. This cannot be learned! No one can teach you Meditation; it reveals itself in this attention. All you really need is to pay attention to your reactions at this moment, and then Meditation happens naturally. The presence of Meditation is the absence of someone meditating, of someone practicing, of someone using a technique. It is the absence of a step-by-step process, because it is the absence of time. Notice that when you give full attention to something in this moment, your mind stops. When you are in front of a scene and your heart, your whole being, your whole mind is there, in that look, in that perception, in that feeling, the feeling of this moment puts an end to the movement of thought, puts an end to the movement of the mind.
It is like this, for example, when you are facing a sunset, or looking from a mountain at everything that is around you. In this immensity, in this gaze, there is no observer. It is just the gaze, it is just perception, it is just observation. Notice that, in this instant, there is something present that is not the "person," it is not the "me," it is not the movement of thought. So, since we were children, we know, yes, what Meditation is. And no one had to teach us; it was already there, as it continues here. So, it is not something that you learn with a technique, with a practice. It is something that you discover when, in this moment, there is this new learning, which is learning to look at thoughts, feelings, at all the reactions present here, in this instant. Not when you are on top of a mountain or facing a sunset, but driving your car, talking to someone, watching TV... Becoming aware of thought, or of a feeling, or of an emotion, without placing an identity present in that instant, is just looking. This gaze is a look without accepting, without rejecting, without agreeing, without disagreeing. Learning to look at our reactions without this element that comes from the past to choose, to judge, to compare, to make decisions, is to get closer to Meditation.
So, this is the only step - it is the first and last. The first and last step to Meditation is the awareness of this attention on each and every thought, feeling, emotion, sensation... It is the awareness of paying attention to gestures, to the tone of voice, to what the other person says... When we do not put someone present in this experience, there is only listening, there is only looking, there is only perceiving. This is the first step to Meditation; this is the last step to Meditation. It is here that we find the revelation of this discovery, of the Reality that is outside the "I," outside the ego, outside the mind.
GC: Master, we have another question, from another subscriber here on the channel. Eliana asked the following question: "Master, by practicing Real Meditation, is it possible to live the Intelligence of the Being in everyday life?"
MG: The Awareness of your Being is Intelligence. Bringing awareness to this moment, being aware of your reactions: how thought happens, how feeling arises, how emotion, in this instant, shows itself... Being aware of these gestures, of this tone of voice present when you speak, of listening to what the other says, without anyone present to agree or disagree, just listening, is bringing, to this instant, the Truth of the revelation of this Presence, of this Real Consciousness. The flourishing of this State free from the past, free from the thinker, the experiencer, of the one who listens to agree or disagree, of the one who looks to evaluate, to name, to classify; free from this observer, free from this thinker, free from this experiencer, we are before Intelligence. This is the real contact with the Truth of Wisdom. The basis for Wisdom requires the presence of Self-awareness. The truth of Self-awareness requires the presence of this attention on our reactions. This brings out, in this instant, the beauty of Meditation, the truth of Meditation, of Real Meditation, in this instant.
Then, yes, there comes the Awakening of this Divine Intelligence, which is Wisdom. So, the Truth of Meditation is that Meditation is something that is present when the "I" is not. So, when people talk about the practice of meditation or what it is to practice meditation. Here, we address the awareness of this vision, of this look without the "I," without the ego, without the past, which is this thinker, this experiencer, this observer. Looking at this moment is the real approach to Meditation in practice. You are not going to practice Meditation; you become aware of the presence of Meditation in a practical way, when the thinker does not interfere, when the experiencer does not get involved, when the observer does not name, does not classify. When you approach this moment, to deal with life as it happens, in this moment, externally or internally, without any involvement from this identity, which accepts, rejects, likes, dislikes; from this "person" who names, who classifies, who accepts, who rejects. in this moment, in this instant, we are facing this encounter with Life.
It is not someone having an encounter with life, it is Life revealing itself, in this instant, as the only Reality present. This Reality is the Reality of your Being, it is the Reality of God, it is the Reality of Life. Thus, we have, in this instant, the Revelation of Beauty, of Stillness, of Serenity. The Truth of Love, of Bliss and Peace is present. This is the Nature of Your Being, it is the Nature of God, it is the Nature of Truth. There is something in life, here, that thought cannot reach, that no opinion, belief, concept, idea comes even close to.
However, we are trying to do this through thought. When we have the nullification of this movement, which is the movement of thought, when thought. this psychological thought format dissolves, we have this Reality showing itself. It is indescribable. It is beyond names and forms. It is the Reality of God. It is the Reality about You. This is what we are together here, deepening, becoming aware of, for this Realization in this life. Okay?
GC: Thank you, Master, our time has ended. Thank you for this videocast. And, for those of you who are watching the video until the end, here is an invitation, which is to participate in the intensive meetings that Master Gualberto provides. In these meetings, Master Gualberto answers our questions directly, live, and much more than that: because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares a field of Presence, an Energy field of pure Power and Grace. And, in this Energy field, in these meetings, we end up taking a ride by Master's Energy and, on this ride, in a natural and spontaneous way, we enter the meditative state, silence our minds and can have a comprehension of what is beyond intellectual understanding. So, here is the invitation.
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