GC: Hello everyone! We are here for another videocast, once again Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master! Today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Living Between Two Worlds". In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "Let us have no golden calf in our minds, no confidence in any images." In this excerpt, Joel talks about the mind. Master, can you share your vision on how the mind works?
MG: Gilson, what we call "consciousness," "being conscious," "functioning in this world," in this awareness of experience, at this moment, is what we call "mind." What we know as "mind" is the presence of this consciousness, which includes intellect, emotions, perceptions... So, we have this aspect, which for us will remain theoretical, until the moment when we really, truly, in fact, approach this reality, the reality of the mind. We do not really know how the mind works, because we have not learned the art of this approach. We do not have this art of looking directly at how we function. We know nothing about ourselves, and everything we have about who we are is something based on ideas that thought has organized within us.
When we take a large number of thoughts, we can organize those thoughts into ideas. So, what we have about who we are is not the comprehension of the mind, it is not the comprehension of ourselves. We do not have the Truth about ourselves, and we need that. We do not have this Truth because we do not have the comprehension of how we function, how the mind functions. Therefore, this is a good question: How does the mind work? Learning to look at your reactions, learning to observe how you respond with feelings, emotions, thoughts, with sensations, to the experiences of this moment; becoming aware of that, having clarity about that, is having the vision of what the person is, of what this "I" represents in this context of life happening. Unless we have a direct comprehension of that, a clear vision of that, there will be no comprehension of the Truth about ourselves. And it is the Truth about ourselves that frees us from the illusion about who we are, about who we believe we are, about who we seem to be, which is exactly who we are in this context of human relations, the relation with objects, the relation with people, the relation with ourselves, the relation with situations that arise in life, with incidents, with accidents... The relation with life and the relation with death.
None of that can be comprehended without the clarity of the Truth about who we are. Thus, a theory, a concept, an idea about how the mind works, we can acquire this by reading books or listening to lectures by these so-called "experts of the mind." Here, the awareness of the mind is not something that an expert can give us, that a book can bring us. It requires a direct comprehension, not an understanding of words, intellectual, verbal, conceptual. Not the mere comprehension of words that are mere symbols and representations. Note that words are just that: symbols and representations of things, places, thoughts, and feelings. The word itself that is part of the thought is these symbols! The mere intellectual vision of this does not solve it. It is the direct contact with the mind, it is the direct contact with yourself - a contact that is possible when you learn to look. To look at how you function, to perceive how you respond. If this becomes clear, you will perceive that the way you respond, all this response that you have, can only necessarily be a response that comes from the past, that comes from memory, from recollection, from remembrance.
When you have an experience, it is recorded. It now becomes part of this structure that will react when the challenge arises. When you know my name, the memory that you have of the name that I have becomes available. When you deal with me, you will refer to me or speak directly to me by the name that you know. This knowledge is the experience of the name, it is the recording of the name, just as the recording of the face. This is memory, this is remembrance, this is the way the mind works: it works with records and with reactions. It records experiences and responds reactively having as its principle the past, which is memory, which is remembrance. Comprehension of life requires the end of memory, the end of remembrance, the end of knowledge and experience, because life is something that is here at this moment, always revealing itself in a new way. But our responses are from the past, because they are reactive.
So, the mind is happening in a programmed, conditioned way. We need another quality of mind that attends to this moment free from the past. This new quality of mind is not part of this person, of this "me," of this "I." Then, here we have the value, the importance of the revelation of That which is you, the Reality about you. So, we have the Reality of the Truth about you and we have the Truth about you. The truth about you that you know, and the Reality of the Truth about you, which is the Unknown. The Awakening of the Consciousness of the Divine Realization brings you the clarity of this Reality of your Being, of your Divine Nature, of your Real Nature. Contact with Meditation is the awareness of life itself, of the very Reality of your Being.
What we are together looking at here, investigating here, examining here, is how to have in life this approach to the truth about this mind, which is the egoic mind, which is the mind of the "I" - the truth about this person, which is the person that we are. When there is this vision, we have liberation from illusion, from the illusion of this ego-identity. Therefore, our meeting here is a meeting that consists of this discovery, this observation, this clear vision about ourselves.
GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, Eliane asks the following question: "Master, could you explain the difference between 'I am' and 'who am I?' in the process of liberation from the conditioning of the egoic mind?"
MG: So, Gilson, this "who am I?" and this "I am," as we've just stated in the first answer - and this is the second answer - as we stated in the first answer, the difference cannot be comprehended at an intellectual level, at the level of words. There will be a direct vision in the experiential comprehension in this awareness of Meditation. There is a Reality present - this is the Reality of this Being - and, however, we have the truth of this being that we are... The truth of this being that we are, of this psychophysical being that we demonstrate to be, of this person that we present ourselves to be. First we need to have a direct vision of the truth about this. That's the comprehension of the truth about "myself," about the person, about the "I," about this egoic mind. We have no way of putting into words this Divine Reality, of your True Nature. This difference is comprehended experientially. It is always the Truth that liberates, and not theory, or belief.
When people try to engage in some level of search or pursuit and then apply some form of technique to solve this issue of the presence of Meditation, they are mistaken. Because there is no True Meditation as long as the sense of "I," of the ego, remains uninvestigated. It is the investigation of the "I," the investigation of the ego, the comprehension of the truth of what we are, that lays the basis for the flowering of Meditation. So, the only real way to end this conditioned mind, this psychological conditioning, is through self-revelation, through Self-awareness. If we have this as a basis, we have a door that opens up to the presence of this Divine revelation, which is Meditation.
One important thing, too, which can never be neglected, is the clarity that it is the very presence of the Divine Grace; that is the main element in this whole process of Awakening, of this awareness of Divine revelation, of the end of this egoic mind, of this conditioned mind. Therefore, we come closer to ourselves by an action of Grace. And the Truth of this Divine Reality, of this Being, shows itself by an action of the Divine Grace. Then, Meditation flowers. It is Meditation, the real contact with this moment, without the conditioning of the mind, without the conditioned mind, without this old condition of jealousy, envy, fear, suffering, or any form of conflict. Unless we have the end of suffering - of conflict, of this condition of control, fear, fixation on attachments - unless we have the end of all that, we do not have the slightest condition for this awareness of this Divine revelation.
That is why every form of practice or applied meditation technique, when a person sets aside a moment to meditate and sits there, crosses their legs, chants a mantra, tries to push away their thoughts, all of this is practiced by someone. That someone at that moment relaxes and thus experiences some level of silence and stillness, because, in fact, the brain is quieted, the mind is quieted, but it is something that is achieved through a technique, through a practice. Since there is an intention behind this technique or practice, there is always a level of effort and someone executing it. This is not Real Meditation. Contact with Meditation requires the presence of attention on our reactions, which requires no effort. Self-awareness requires no effort, the observation of life at this moment, revealing itself, requires no effort. Being aware of your reactions, whatever they may be here and now, requires no effort. It requires the presence of this look at what is happening here, without getting someone involved in it.
Therefore, we need to comprehend the difference between the one who wants to get involved and the one who has been getting involved all the time with these reactions, being the basis for these reactions. This is the vision of the truth about oneself. This is what makes it possible to discard the "I," the discard of the ego, the discard of these reactions. So, this is the real contact with the presence of Meditation, because at this moment we have the end of the past, we have the death to this "I," to this ego, to this psychological condition of ego-identity. Ok?
GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. He asks the following question: "I don't know how to deal with the truth. Would it be through meditation?"
MG: So, Gilson, once again, the question here is to deal with the Truth. When you ask: "How can I get in touch with this Truth?", and you already have the answer, when you ask: "Is it through meditation to deal with the Truth?", notice your statement. Dealing with the Truth requires awareness of what is present here at this moment. Dealing with the Truth requires the presence of this attention on what is shown here, at this moment. This attention opens up this portal of self-comprehension. You need to know what is happening to you, but you cannot know this from this separation of someone involved in this observation. Every effort we have made is for someone to improve, for someone to transform, for someone to become better. this someone is this "me."
"I want to improve," "I need to know myself," "I need to know the Truth about myself." This is a mistake, because there is a separation between the one who wants to know and that which he wants to know. It is not about knowing yourself. The Truth of this knowing requires the presence of the comprehension of how this "me," this "I," this conditioned mind works. This is the encounter with the Truth that we need. We have to, before anything else, have the comprehension, this is the true knowledge of oneself. This knowledge is not for changing, for improving, for someone to do something with what they are seeing in themselves. Here, the comprehension is becoming aware of your reactions, without getting involved with them. This awareness of these reactions is without the observer, it is without this "I" that observes, it is without this someone who wants to change something.
Therefore, the encounter with Truth requires this look at ourselves, it requires Self-awareness. When we have the presence of Self-awareness, which requires a vision from this perspective that does not react, that does not get involved with this model of the "I," of the ego, this attention to our reactions is the presence of this Self-awareness. So, yes, with the presence of Self-awareness, we have the Truth of Meditation. The Truth of Meditation is a space that arises when there is Self-awareness. Thus, in this space that is Meditation, there is this Freedom that is exactly liberation from the ego, liberation from the "I," liberation from this egoic sense. Truth is this contact with life as it is, at this instant, when we do not interfere with this moment. Thus, the ego does not enter, the past does not take its place again, which is of reaction, of memory response, of remembrance response. Therefore, the presence of Meditation is the absence of this "me," this "I," this ego, this thinker, this experiencer, the illusion of this identity present here, at this moment, in the experience, being the one who experiences this, who is living one's particular life.
There is nothing more significant in life, of greater value and importance than the presence of Meditation, because Meditation is the revelation of life, the revelation of beauty, the revelation of love. You were born for this vision - for the vision without someone in that vision, for this perception without someone in that perception, for this feeling without someone in that feeling. It is here that life shows itself present as Joy, Happiness, and Bliss... In this Intelligence of dealing with the present moment without the "I," which is the past, without the ego, which are the remembrances, which are the reactions of memory, so the presence of Wisdom, the presence of Divine Reality is revealed. OK?
GC: Thank you, Master, our time is up. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who find meaningful what Master Gualberto shares, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings. In these meetings, which are held online, in person, and also as retreats, Master Gualberto answers our questions directly. But something much deeper happens than that: because the Master already lives in an Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares an energy field around him. And in these meetings, we end up carried by Master's energy field. It is a field of Presence, Silence, and Power, and carried by Master's energy, we naturally quiet our minds and enter the state of Meditation... We can comprehend what is beyond intellectual understanding. So, here's the invitation: in the first comment, pinned, there is the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. And go ahead, give a "like" to the video, subscribe to the channel and leave comments here, bringing other questions for us to bring in the next videocasts. And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.
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