GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master, for being here. Today I am going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "The Foundation of Mysticism." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Then we discover that we have attained greater knowledge of spiritual consciousness, a greater reach of consciousness itself." In this excerpt, Joel talks about attaining greater knowledge of spiritual consciousness. Regarding this issue, can the Master share with us his vision of Self-awareness, of what Self-awareness is?
MG: Gilson, the most profound and significant discovery in life - one of them, not to say the greatest of all discoveries - consists in comprehending the truth about who we are. This comprehension requires the presence of an entirely new look at oneself. This is how we get closer to the truth about who we are. The approach to this truth about who we are gives us a clear vision of the reality that we bring, of the reality that is present. Therefore, the presence of Self-awareness is something fundamental. Your question is: "What is Self-awareness?" Self-awareness is the awareness of the truth of what we are at this moment, in this moment. There are two aspects here, Gilson. The first is the truth that is present in what we express at this moment, within this context of life. Life consists of relations that occur: relations with objects, with ideas, with people, with situations, things that arise, happen. Thus, there is a direct relation between ourselves and all of this. We are unaware of the truth of these relations, of what is actually occurring, happening, because we are unaware of who we are in this context.
The first aspect of the comprehension of Truth, of Reality, is the truth about who we are in this context, and the second is Reality, which is also present, but remains unknown to most of us. This Reality reveals itself in the Awakening of Consciousness, in this real vision of life, but we cannot have this real vision of life while living in ignorance. The absence of comprehension of the Truth about ourselves is the presence of ignorance; we need to free ourselves from ignorance. Thus, we basically need to learn about ourselves, to become aware of who you are. There is a difference between becoming aware of who you are, in what you express yourself to be, in what you demonstrate yourself to be, in what you seem to be, and having an idea of ??what you would like to be, having an ideal of how you should be or need to be. What is present here, at this moment, within our relations? Who are you? Here the question is: Who am I? We are in a model of life where we have a conditioned mind, already programmed by thought to maintain a form of expression that continues. We are not aware of life at this moment, because we are looking at life from this model, from this conditioned mind, from this conditioned brain.
Our answers are answers to life - answers that come from the past, from the way we feel we are, believe we are, seem to be. You feel like someone in your relation with the other. This someone, due to this conditioning that we bring, carries fear, envy, jealousy, ambition... carries sadness, worries, anxiety, depression... We have several problems linked to this psychological condition of a conditioned mind. This is the truth about who we are in this context with life, in this relation with it, in this relation with others, in this relation with the ideas we have, with ourselves and with situations that happen. Thus, we have this present aspect that needs to be comprehended, investigated, clarified. Hence the need to comprehend ourselves, which requires the presence of Self-awareness. Because, based on this vision of who we are, of who expresses themselves here, at this moment, within life, in experiences, we can go beyond this psychological condition of a conditioned mind, of a conditioned brain, of a consciousness already programmed to act in life in this way.
Therefore, the truth of the revelation of Self-awareness is the end of this psychological condition of what you are, as you see yourself, for this Reality of That which is you in your Divine Nature, in your Essential Nature. This is the Truth about you when the illusion of this "I," this "me," this person, is undone. You are assuming a truth about yourself, based on what thought is dictating, based on the conditioning you have received, within a mistaken view of yourself.
So, we are faced with something fundamental here, which is the presence of the comprehension of the Truth about ourselves. This new way of learning about ourselves is different from anything you have ever learned out there about other things.
You learn to drive a car by practicing driving. You learn a language by studying grammar and practicing conversations. You learn science by researching, by looking through a microscope at the movement of cells in a laboratory. This way of learning that we have, technically, about any other subject out there, is completely different from this way of learning about ourselves. It requires a different way of looking at this experiment, at this experimentation - here the laboratory is you. Observation is the observation of all this internal movement, which is the movement of consciousness. This requires a very clear instrument to look at, to become aware of how we function. That is why we discard, from the beginning, this idea of ??what we should be, what we need to be, what we can be, how it is generally done.
For most people, self-knowledge is a practice, it is a technique, it is an exercise, it is something that is learned to change the person, to transform the person into a better person. Here, when we use the expression "Self-awareness," we are using it as the basis for the Awakening of Divine Intelligence, the Wisdom of God, the Truth about this Divine Reality, beyond the mind. Thus, Self-awareness here requires a look without any ideal, target, purpose or objective. It is simply looking directly at what is happening here and now, within you, at your reactions. When you get closer to yourself, you look, and clearly perceive the presence of envy, jealousy, fear, ambition, anger, all this internal movement of thought generating worries, conflicting desires and all kinds of disorder. Learning to look at yourself without any intention to change, modify, resolve things, choose. in this idea of ??what you need to do or need to change.
We are faced with a new way of looking at our reactions. It is looking without this element that, when looking, disagrees, does not like, wants to change, makes choices. This requires the presence of attention on our reactions. Here, when we touch on the beauty of attention with you, we are talking about a look without the observer. This is the real way of learning about ourselves. This is what we are exploring here, with you, delving deeper here, with you. So, something beyond this condition emerges, something beyond this "I" - this is the self-discovery of this new learning. We have several videos here on the channel, delving deeper into this subject.
GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. He asks the following question: "The more experiences with Reality, the more enlightened the person is?"
MG: No, Gilson, it is not about an experience, it is not an experience! An experience requires the presence of a present element, having experiences. Awakening is exactly the discarding of this experiencer. The vision that one has is to accumulate knowledge and experience, because the belief is that this will shape someone to attain Awakening. The Reality of Awakening is the Awareness of Truth of this moment, without someone. Therefore, it is not about experiences. Another important point here is to know that these experiences that the person acquires are now part of the structure of this person, of this experiencer. And these experiences are only recognized because they are part of the prior knowledge that he already has, that he already brings. This recognizer is the experiencer, and these experiences are still part of a condition linked to the past. You have awareness recognizing what you already hold as prior knowledge, as information already acquired.
The element present in this entire process is the ego, it is the 'I', whereas the Reality of this Flourishing is the end of the experiencer and, therefore, the end of experience. We are faced with something completely different from what thought idealizes, seeks, pursues, or may experience and naturally store as part of its collection, of what it has, what it knows, and what it will later recognize. Here is precisely about the discarding of that quality of thought, of that quality of experience. This is the end of the 'I', the end of the ego, the end of that experiencer.
What we need, at this moment, is awareness of the truth about Self-knowledge, and not experiences. It is not about experiences, it is about a new learning about ourselves, here and now.
GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. Durval makes the following comment, asking: "Great point. Does time exist without thought?"
MG: Gilson, time is thought. The idea of ??time is an idea that thought has been constructed. There is no such thing as a psychological tomorrow, as a psychological past. The memories that you have are memories that are happening here, at this moment. They are memories of episodes that occurred in chronological time. At some point, in the chronological past, you went through some experience. This experience has been stored in the brain, it is now part of the information that thought has, of something that happened in the past. But it is in the chronological past, at some point, two days ago, two months ago, two years ago, or twenty years ago! That is chronological time. So, when you go through an experience, the brain has recorded that experience. Now, that experience is a memory, it is a recollection, it is therefore a thought. When you remember this here, at this moment, the memory is of something that happened in the past, but in the chronological past.
There is no such thing as a psychological past or a psychological future, or a present for that "me," for this "I," which would be a present, a present psychological moment. There is no such thing; we are only faced with thought. It is thought that speaks to us of the future or the past, but what thought is telling us concerns itself; and not the future, this future is not real; and not about the past, because this past is not real. Here we are faced with something fundamental to be comprehended, because the various forms of problems that we have are situated in the condition in which thought finds itself. It is thought that is producing in you anxiety, worry, fear, desires. And all of this implies the presence of time. Your fear is of something that could happen to you tomorrow.
See, at this moment thought has projected itself into the future. It is imagining a tomorrow where something bad could happen to you. This suffering is psychic suffering, it is mental suffering, it is suffering that has, as its principle, thought. Thought brought time, projected the future; thought is sustaining fear. There is no such thing as fear without thought. So, we are faced with something fundamental to be seen. The presence of fear, this is just one example, but all these pictures of psychic suffering that we know: anxiety, anguish, depression, guilt, anger at someone. All of this, when you look closely, clearly, this is present because of the presence of time, which is constructed by thought. It is the presence of thought, the presence of time.The presence of time, which is thought, is the presence of someone's anger, of someone's fear, of fear of the future, of fear of the past, of fear of losing things. It is fundamental for the end of suffering - of this psychic suffering - the end of this psychological condition, which is the condition created by thought, sustaining time.
This encounter with the Reality of this Being, this encounter with the Reality of the Divine, is the revelation of That which is present outside the mind, outside of thought and, therefore, outside of time. The awareness of God, the awareness of Awakening, is the vision of life, which is timeless, which is not placed in memory, which is not placed in the idea of ??past, present or future.
Therefore, in fact, there is no time without thought, except chronological time.
You have an appointment tomorrow afternoon; tomorrow will be another day. So, there is calendar time, there is clock time, because the appointment is going to be at a certain time.There is clock time, there is calendar time, we have time being marked on the chronometer. Between sunrise and sunset, we have time, but there is no such thing as this psychological time. This psychological time, in us, is being monitored, recorded by a mistaken movement of thought. This thought that monitors, controls, manages this time, which is psychological time, is psychological thought. It is this element present there, in you, that sustains the idea of ??an "I," of a person, of this "me." Look at your head and you will realize that during the day, much of the chronological time - which is between sunrise and sunset - psychologically you are occupied with mental time, with the time of the mind, going to the past or going to the future. Thus, the mind is constantly in this movement of thought, in this internal chatter. This is the movement of psychological time, where the "I" lives, where the ego lives.
Here, the real approach of life in this instant, is the beauty of the awareness of this encounter with this instant, where there is no time, where there is no longer this movement of psychological thought, sustaining the illusion of a present entity that is the person, who is always going to the past or to the future, living in thought. This is what we are here, working on with you, becoming aware of. We need to discover the Truth of Life, of the real Divine Life, of the real Life free from time, free from thought.
GC: Thank you, Master, our time is now over. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are watching the videocast until the end and really want to live these truths, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers.
These are intensive weekend meetings. They are available online, in person and also as retreats lasting several days. In these meetings, in addition to the Master answering our questions directly, something much deeper and more powerful happens. Because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares an energy field around him. And in these meetings, we end up entering this energy field with the Master; we end up being carried by this energy of Master's Presence. And carried by it, spontaneously and naturally, we quiet our minds, we enter the state of Meditation, and we can have a vision of what is beyond all the limitations of our intellectual knowledge.
So, here's the invitation. In the first comment, pinned, there's the WhatsApp link, so you can participate in these meetings. Also, give a like to the video and subscribe to the channel. And, once again, Master: thank you for the videocast.
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