Joel Goldsmith | A Parenthesis in Eternity | What is self-image? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We're here for another videocast. Master Gualberto is with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here. Today, I'm going to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book "A Parenthesis in Eternity." In an excerpt from that book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "No image that can be conceived in the mind will ever be God." Regarding this subject of images created in the mind, can you share your perspective on what self-image is?

MG: Gilson, basically, fundamentally, the mind works with images. The thought within us is the basis for these images. When you have a thought, you have a mental picture. The presence of this thought is the presence of an image that thought is establishing within you about that given thing. Here, your question is about the image of God and self-image. Every idea we have about God can be nothing other than an image. This image is not reality, just as no image you have of something is actually that thing, the thing itself.

So, here we are faced with something fundamental to comprehend. In general, we live in the realm of ideas. Ideas are basically abstractions. When you remember your husband, your wife, your children, your family, what you have is a photograph, a mental picture, an image; the presence of this family in this picture is an abstraction. What you see and reproduce is an image. Otherwise, there would be no thought, no idea.

Thus, we are stuck in this old movement of mental abstraction when we are dealing only with thoughts. Your thought about God is the particular thought you have. Now, we need to comprehend, first, before this awareness of the Reality of God, which we are seeing here and now that we do not have, that what we have is an abstraction, it is an image, and this image is not God; this image is a mental concept. Therefore, before having real contact with Reality, with Truth, with this awareness of God, we must first discover who this element is within each of us, the one that forms images, develops thoughts, and deals with mental pictures. This element is the "I."

And what is this "I"? This "I" is also an image. Every thought you have about yourself is an image. Self-image is what thought constructs about itself. The presence of this "I" is the presence of thought in this self-image. You are not this self-image, just as God is not the image that thought has, that this own self-image, which is this "I," has constructed. We need to free ourselves from this self-image, just as we need to free ourselves from this image of God.

The God constructed by thought is the image thought has, the abstraction thought creates. We spend our entire lives immersed in belief in God. Belief in God, like non-belief in God, is something that depends on the "I," which depends on this self-image. If I want to believe, I believe. If I don't want to believe, I don't believe. This wanting or not wanting is a volitional act of the "I" itself: if it has the willingness to believe, it believes; if it doesn't have the willingness, it doesn't believe. In the realm of belief, we are dealing with images. In this realm of beliefs, what is present are abstractions. We are not dealing with Reality; we are merely engaged with thought.

And what is thought? This is a fundamental question. Thought within us is the presence of a memory, a recollection, a remembrance; it is merely a mental representational frame that comes from the past. Any image you have - whether about God, or about yourself, or about others, or about life, or situations, events, incidents, accidents - is something that arises due to the presence of thought, and this thought is merely memory, remembrance, recollection. Therefore, you have the reference of your wife's or husband's face because you have already encountered him or her. The presence of this memory is the presence of this image that comes from the past. But what about the remembrance of God? Who has ever seen the face of God? Is it an image? Is it a mental representation? Is it an idea? Is it a thought? Can all of this show us Reality, the Truth about God? Or are we faced with what thought is imagining, shaping?

There is a present Reality, but this Reality is beyond thought, beyond image. What we have emphasized here is that you, as this self-image, cannot be aware of the Reality of God. Unless you free yourself from your own self-image, you

will never be aware of the Reality of God, which is not an image. The nature of the Truth about You is not an image; the nature of the Truth about God is not a thought. Can we, in this life, assume the Reality of That which we truly are, when there is no such self-image? Can we be fully aware of the Reality of God, without the vision that thought constructs, the imagination it establishes? That is the question.

Contact with life is contact with God, but a self-image, which is the person, this "me," this ego, which is the idea you have of yourself, cannot have this contact. The presence of this contact is communion: there is no separation in it. Your contact with life, your contact with God, is the Reality of God revealing itself. It reveals itself when self-image is gone, when the "I" disappears, when thought ceases, when the past no longer exists.

This is what we are seeing here: the possibility of this Realization of the Truth about God, the end of this image, of this self-image. We have several videos on the channel talking about this self-image, about you and self-image; there is a playlist here on the channel. Okay?

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. Neuza made the following comment and asked: "Master, this idea that I am someone is so strong. How to let go of the image I have of myself?"

MG: Your question is: "How to let go of this image?" This image you form of yourself, that you have of yourself. This image is the presence of thought. Let go of thought! Each and every thought you have. Here, the first point is to clearly comprehend what thought is. We cannot, theoretically, intellectually, have an idea about it; we need to be aware of it, in this moment, of how thought happens, how it occurs. So, what is thought here? The image that thought has created about you, is creating about you, is establishing about you, here and now.

When you are offended, there is an element present that makes you angry, upset, frustrated, disappointed with the other: this element is self-image. You ask, "How can I get rid of self-image?" Be aware! Have, in this moment, the clarity of this experience; don't place the experiencer within the experience.

As you approach this moment, you see the irritation, the anger, the annoyance, the revolt. Be with this, look! Look without self-defense, look without reaction. Look at this state, now, here, present. It's a state!

In this moment, the self-image is being wounded, pricked, touched. Become aware of this reaction. Look at this reaction, without reacting, without getting involved. When this is present, when this is done, we have the end of self-image. It is not by a positive movement of the mind that you free yourself from the mind, but by becoming aware of the movement of the mind itself in this moment.

Truth Liberates. The comprehension of the Truth present here, in this moment, without separation between this "I" that wants to protect oneself, that wants to defend oneself, that wants to safeguard oneself. The presence of this awareness, this perception, without the "I" itself, is the end of self-image. The real comprehension of thought occurs the moment it is seen, and it can only be seen without the observer, without the thinker, without this experiencer, without this "I." But the way we deal with experience, in general, is always from the perspective of the observer, the thinker, the experiencer, this element that is defending and protecting this self-image.

This is why we have emphasized here the importance of attention over our reactions. The presence of attention brings the vision of Self-awareness: this vision of Self-awareness liberates. Becoming aware of these reactions is the end of this movement that is always coming from the past to maintain its continuity in this self-defense. It is the presence of Self-awareness that brings the awareness of Meditation. This is how we approach Wisdom, Liberation, Freedom, the end of the "I," the end of the ego. However, this requires a new look at these reactions when they arise, due to the challenge that is emerging at this moment.

When someone praises you, you love, you appreciate that. Because of this inattention, we are constantly cultivating self-image for pleasure. We want to rid ourselves of this self-image when it produces pain, but we are, in fact, facing the same game. Free yourself from pleasure, free yourself from pain, free yourself from this psychological condition of defending your self-image, or of the pleasure and comfort one feels, the comfort one gets when one is loved, accepted, and praised. Free yourself from the "I," free yourself from the ego. That's what we're exploring together here.

I invite you to participate in online meetings. There's something within online meetings that you don't experience in these videos: the presence of something much greater for this contact with the Truth of this Being, this Divine Reality. So, participate, come closer. Okay?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. João Alberto asks the following question: "Master, how does the ego hide in spirituality?"

MG: The ego hides in spirituality maintaining the continuity of the values of its beliefs, theories, concepts, and conclusions. When we have a set of words, we have a basis for this or that idea. Something this ego does, this self-image does, is protect this idea or set of ideas. It hides behind words, conclusions, and beliefs. Divine Reality, Real Spirituality is not in spirituality as thought imagines spirituality to be, the idea or set of ideas about spirituality. There is nothing truly spiritual about this. We are faced with merely a movement of beliefs.

Divine Reality is not in the realm of beliefs, thoughts, and ideas. Divine Reality, that which is truly spiritual, is outside the known; the mind cannot grasp it. Everything we have been taught about spirituality, we learned because we intellectually stored words, thoughts, beliefs, and ideas about it. We know nothing about what is spiritual. And the point is that the presence of the "I," of the ego, will never reach the Reality of That which is Divine, of That which is Real, of That which is Spiritual.

Most people spend their entire lives involved in religious practices, within organized religions, without the slightest notion of what they are doing. They are merely maintaining the continuity of the "I," the ego itself, in their beliefs, in their studies, in their learning. There is an exaggeration, an excessive valuing of the intellect, in this format of intellect conditioned for studies, and the more you read, the more you study, the more intellectual you become. Behind this intellectuality lies a pride, an unconsciousness: the unconscious pride to know, of understanding. The feeling in the "I," the feeling in the ego, is that you have information. No, no... More than that: you have knowledge. The presence of this knowledge brings you, unconsciously, a pride in knowing what others don't know, or in knowing a little more than others understand very little.

Here we are faced with a game of the "I" itself, of the ego itself in its pride, vanity, and presumption. We have no awareness of this game because there is no separation between this game and ourselves. There is no separation between the one who experiences and what they experience. There is no Real consciousness, no Real vision, no Real presence for the awareness of what is happening. Thus, life in the ego is a life of lies. The mind within us unconsciously carries all this behavior, creating the illusion of a feeling that it is going somewhere, that we are evolving, growing, expanding, deepening. What we are witnessing is the formation of an intellect increasingly conditioned, more imprisoned by its beliefs, evaluations, and conclusions. And the reality of this is intellectual presumption, pride of knowing, vanity.

Looking at our reactions, going beyond this psychological condition of the "I," does not require theoretical study of books. You need to learn to look at what is present, at what is shown here. It is your book that you need to read. It's the vision of the mind, the awareness of how it happens within you, the comprehension of ourselves, the reality of what we are. It's the end of this psychological condition of ego-identity. So, yes, we are facing something indescribable, which is the Presence of Reality, which is beyond the ego, which is beyond the "I."

We will never have a vision of Wisdom from intellectual studies, books, or mystical or so-called "spiritual" or "esoteric" experiences. The Awakening of Intelligence that arises with the Truth about this comprehension of ourselves, which is Self-awareness, is the door that opens up to Wisdom, to the Real Vision of God. It's the presence of Self-awareness, the awareness of this emptying of all this psychological content, the comprehension of this book, the end of this image of someone present - even the end of this illusion of someone spiritual or spiritualized. It's the presence of Meditation that makes this possible.

GC: Thank you, Master, we've already reached the end of our time. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are following along and truly desire to experience these truths, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These are intensive weekend meetings that take place online. There are also in-person meetings, including retreats. In these meetings, besides the Master answering our questions directly, something much more powerful and profound happens: because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares a field of Presence that is pure Power, Energy, and Grace. And in these meetings, we are carried by Master's energy field; and by taking this ride, in this Master's presence, we spontaneously enter a meditative state, silence our minds, and can have insight and comprehension beyond all intellectual limitations.

So, here is the invitation! In the first pinned comment, you'll find the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. And Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

June, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? Ego advaita.

Here, it seems to me that it is of essential, fundamental importance, in these meetings, that we work together on this relation between this sense of "I," which is the ego, and non-duality, which is Advaita. The expression "Advaita" means "the One without the Second," and this sense of "I" is the presence of this ego-identity - thus, ego and Advaita.

A true comprehension of what is intimately linked to the presence of this sense of separation within us, which is the presence of this egoic mind, a direct vision of this represents the end of the main element of this ego-identity, which is the presence of self-image.

Thus, this close relation between you, as a person, and self-image is something very clear. Looking at this clearly, becoming fully aware of it, is opening this door to the end of this self-image. This is what we will be addressing here with you in this meeting, in this talk.

First of all, this is fundamental: becoming aware of how we are functioning internally, psychologically. The answer you have for the present moment, for this instant, for this moment, what this relation is and how it occurs between you and the experience of this moment.

Every experience we have is an experience that is only an experience because it is recognized. When we recognize the moment, we recognize the moment because of the presence of memory. Thus, memory is the main element of recognition, and the presence of memory is the presence of thought.

So, we need to comprehend, first of all, what thought is, since thought is the main element in this context of relations. Here, together, we are studying with you how the mind functions, how the mind works. The truth about the mind, the direct vision of this mechanics, which is the mechanics of thinking, is what reveals to us what is beyond the mind, beyond the "I," beyond this self-image.

When you have a technical problem... If, for example, you have a plumbing problem and you know plumbing, or if you have an electrical problem and you know electricity, you know how to deal with this technical aspect, which are these electrical mechanisms, your contact with this situation is not, in fact, something insoluble. There is a response for this given situation, for this problem.

So, if you know electricity, you know how to find the fault, the problem. If you know plumbing, you know how to find a problem in the pipes, in the plumbing, because that is your technical knowledge. Therefore, dealing with the mind is something similar.

The way the mind works in us is problematic, psychologically and internally, within ourselves. All these mechanics of brain functioning, when it comes to the movement of thought, we don't have the expertise, we don't have the technique, we don't have the insight into how it happens, how it processes.

When you're anxious, or afraid, or angry, or sad, or depressed, this internal psychological state, the mind as it's functioning at that moment, is in disarray; and we don't know how to deal with it, because we don't have a complete understanding of this mechanics, of how thought works with its images, its symbols, its mental representations.

Our entire emphasis here, in these meetings, consists of this study of ourselves, this learning about ourselves. This self-discovery gives you a clear vision of a mind free of conflict, disorder, confusion, and problems. We don't have this because we haven't engaged in this investigation, as we are proposing here: comprehending that the "person," this "me," this "I," is a mental representation of who you are, within the brain.

Your brain works this way; it's part of this mind, just as this intellect is part of this brain mechanics, and we are psychologically functioning this way. We have a constructed image, established within us by past remembrances, by the experiences we've been through. These recollections formed this psychological structure, they formed this self-image, and that is how you show yourself in life.

Therefore, you and self-image are not separate. This self-image is functioning in disarray - it's quite simple this verification. When you're praised, you feel happy, but when you're criticized, you feel sad. When you're challenged, you feel irritated, or driven by motivation, driven by the desire to respond to that challenge, to prove to yourself that you're special, that you're better, that you're capable.

We don't realize it clearly, but the way we've been functioning, the way we're functioning, based on the effort to control, this desire to be better, this desire to rid ourselves of the worst, all of this is part of conflicting internal states within us - the basis, the true origin of all the problems within this ego-identity.

This psychological condition of dependence on praise and criticism, of dependence on challenges to take action based on effort, in an attempt to prove something to ourselves, all of this represents conflicting, distressing, and suffering internal states. This is within this aspect of the ego. It is present as part of this sense of separation from life itself.

Therefore, there is no Freedom, no Peace, no space of Silence, of serenity, of comprehension of life. We know nothing about Real Happiness, which is Bliss. We have happy moments; most people consider these happy moments to be happiness. They even say: "There is no happiness, there are happy moments." Yes, they are absolutely right, because that is their experience. But that is not the Truth, when it is present here.

When there is a true vision of Happiness, the presence of Happiness is Bliss. It is not something for the ego, for the "person," for the "I," as we believe, just like the presence of Love and Freedom. There is Freedom only when there is a space free from the center.

When you look at an object, there is a space around that object; the object is exactly in the center of any space. When you see the object, there is a space around the object. The object is visible, the space is invisible, but it is there. The only space we know in life is space from a center; this center is the "I," this center is the ego.

Similar to an object that has space around itself, this sense of ego has a space. Every action of the ego, of this "me," of this self-image, is an action within this space; and this space is limited, always limited. This is the absence of Freedom we are talking about.

Freedom is the possibility of movement. Why is Freedom so precious? Because without Freedom, there is a restriction, there is a limitation, there is a curtailment of freedom. This curtailment is the inability to move. When you cannot move, you are imprisoned; this prison is the absence of Freedom.

We need Freedom in life. The sense of "I," the ego, is imprisoned within its own space. This is the condition of self-image. All unhappiness in human beings is due to the absence of Freedom. Therefore, when we use the expression "Freedom," we are speaking of Real Freedom, of this Freedom that is present when this center, which is the "I," which is the ego, no longer exists.

So, there is a present space; in this space Happiness is present, in this space Love is present. But, note: just as Freedom is not for someone, Real Freedom is precisely when that someone is not there, when this ego is not there.

Similarly, it is the presence of Love. Love is what is present when there is no longer this sense of "I." Happiness is what is present when there is no longer this "I." It is not Happiness for someone, it is not Love for someone, it is not Freedom for someone. Freedom is the Nature of God, just like Love and Happiness, the Reality of That which essentially is You when there is no longer this self-image.

Therefore, it is not about this you as you see yourself, it is about this unknown, indescribable You, as Love is, as Happiness is, as Freedom itself is. This is what we are proposing to you here at this moment: to have, in life, a free approach to self-image; when there is the end of self-image, because there is a comprehension of the truth about thought.

We have to free ourselves from thought, and we free ourselves from thought when we comprehend the truth about thinking. We do not know what thinking is. We are confusing ourselves with the model of thought, and this model of thought that we know is psychological thought; it is thought that is providing constitution, foundation, and structure to this "I," to this ego.

Dealing with the truth of thinking. We need to discover what thinking is. Thinking is what is present, as well as feeling and acting, when the "I" is not. We did not learn to think. We were given what to think, we were given the motives and reasons for what to think.

Behind these reasons and motives lies the element of the "I," laden with desires and fears. This is part of the will, of the desire, of the ego itself. This is not the truth about what thinking is. This is the particular vision of a conditioned mind, which has been taught what to think.

Our psychological condition is to have background thoughts of conditioning, based on psychological, religious, philosophical, political, and family tradition. We have a conditioned brain. This conditioned brain is malfunctioning, and no one can address this malfunction, solve this problem, or put an end to this internal condition, except ourselves. Comprehending the truth about yourself is the end of this ego illusion.

A specialist, an analyst, a therapist, they can be helpful, or not, but the fundamental element for ending this ego-identity, this illusion of separation between you and life, between you and God, is comprehending yourself, seeing the truth about yourself.

These weekend meetings, where we're together Saturday and Sunday, have this purpose, they're two days long. You can find our WhatsApp link here, in the video description, to join these online weekend meetings. Here's the link.

In addition, we have our in-person meetings and retreats. If what you just heard makes sense to you, here's an invitation.Give a like to it, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

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Joel Goldsmith | Consciousness Transformed | What is Advaita? | Marcos Gualberto

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

Master, today I am going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Consciousness Transformed." In an excerpt from this book, Joel makes the following comment: "Shankara rediscovered the Truth in the teachings of Buddha and revealed it in what is called 'Advaita.'" Well, Master, on this subject of Advaita, can you share your vision of what Advaita is?

MG: Gilson, we have a view of life based on a misunderstanding. This mistake is the idea, the thought present in us, that there is, that it is real, separation in life between "I" and the "non-I," between this "me" and life happening, between an element present "in me," which is the thinker, having thoughts as something that it produces... Our particular vision of the world is the particular vision of an entity present in life that sees itself as this experiencer having experiences; this thinker having thoughts.

Therefore, the idea, the way we deal with life as it happens, is based on this mistake, this idea of ??separation. So, there is "I," the world and life; there is "I" and God. This duality, this separation, this division, is something that thought has established within us as being the real contact with life as it happens. This is a way of interpreting the experience in duality. The ancient Indian sages called this duality "dvaita." It is a psychological condition of life in ignorance, and it is on this principle of ignorance that the internal condition of suffering for the human being lies.

We are living in duality, in the belief that we are entities separate from Life, we are entities separate from God. So, dvaita is this model of ignorance, of a mistaken life for this personal identity, which is this "me," this ego. There is a Reality in Life, which is Life itself, which is not separate from Life itself. This Reality is the Divine Reality. This Reality, this only Reality, this "One," this primary Reality, does not have a "second." There is no duality. It is the only Reality present. This Reality is the Reality of God. This is Advaita, non-separation, non-duality.

This encounter with Life is not about someone having an encounter with It; it is the Revelation of It present, and it is when this sense of ignorance is not there, when this duality does not show itself. This is the presence of the Vision of Life in Wisdom, in Freedom. It is the Awareness of God, it is the Awareness of Love. There is no unhappiness, Gilson, in your True Nature, because your True Nature is this one Reality. There is no separation in You, in this Reality of your Being, in the Truth about You.

This is the Reality of your Being and Life itself, and the Divine Reality itself. But we do not have access to This until we become aware of the Truth about who we are, which requires the comprehension of this truth of the "I," this truth of this "me," this "person," this ego. It is the discarding of this truth about this "me," about this "I," it is the discarding of this truth about us, in this duality, that reveals the Reality of this Being, this Divine Reality. This is the Awakening of Consciousness. This is Spiritual Enlightenment. This is the Vision of God. But our entire way of thinking, feeling and acting in the world is within this mistake, because we have, with great certainty, the "truth" about who we are. All this absolute certainty is the certainty produced in us by thought - which is, in fact, something completely false.

Thought in us falsifies, falsifies Reality. So, the truth of thought in you is the illusion of someone present, who sees himself separate from the other, who sees himself separate from God, who sees himself separate from Life. Comprehending yourself - this requires the end of the "I," this requires the end of the ego, this requires the end of this illusion, the end of this separation. This is what we are here, together, exploring with you, deepening with you. Life in its Beauty, Truth, Reality, is the Presence of Love. This is the Nature of your Being. There is no reason to continue life in this old condition, which is the condition of this ego-identity.

This continuation of this life is the continuation of this particular egocentric life. There is no Real Life here. What there is, is the continuation of a model of unconsciousness, of permanence in a pattern of mechanical behavior. This is the egoic consciousness. Some of our actions are actions that occur in this field, in the peripheral field of this consciousness. So, driven by desires, we take actions, but some of these actions in us may also arise from a more complex condition. These deeper layers of this consciousness, which is the consciousness of the "I," which is the ego consciousness, also impel us to actions.

Therefore, our behavior, whether it is born from this periphery, from what we call "conscious," or whether these actions are born from deeper layers within us, from what some call the unconscious - which is how we have divided this consciousness: into conscious and unconscious... Therefore, whether these actions are conscious or unconscious, when they are born from this psychological background, they are born from this internal condition of disorder, contradiction, and conflict, because they are born from thought. Thought within us, as stored memories of experiences that we have recorded - they are there, these experiences, in this format of remembrances, memories, of knowledge, because they have not been concluded. Thus, we are constantly, in the present moment, repeating the past, continuing the past. This is the life of the ego, this is the life of the "I."

We have several videos here, on the channel, delving deeper into this issue of actions. Our actions are actions that are born from the past and, therefore, are reactions. They are not actions that correspond to life as it is happening at this moment. They are inappropriate actions and, therefore, they are causing problems. And all this because of this duality, this separation. Here, the Vision of Truth about Life is the quality of action free from the ego, free from the "I" and, therefore, free from this duality. You, in your Natural Divine State, in your Natural State of Being, act and operate in this instant without the sense of separation and, therefore, without conflict, without suffering, without the contradiction of this duality.

This is what we are here with you, deepening, investigating, examining, for comprehension - not for understanding, but for comprehension, which are different things. Therefore, looking at this is something fundamental. Discovering how to realize This in this life is to flourish in Wisdom, in Happiness, in Freedom. Okay?

GC: Master, we have a question here from a subscriber on the channel. She asks the following question: "And what is the meaning of our existence, if it has any meaning at all?"

MG: Life in Itself, the very presence of Life in Itself is its meaning. The point is that we do not know what Life in Itself is. We are living in a psychological condition where what we consider "life" is the continuity of unfinished, unfinalized experiences. I do not face Life, at this moment, as It happens. I face what thought projects onto life at this moment.

Our particular contact of the "I," of the ego, with the present moment, is from the past and, therefore, from this continuity. Is there a new way of dealing with the present moment without the past? Then, yes, at this moment, Life has an extraordinary meaning, a significance of great Beauty, of indescribable Reality. It is the Divine Reality, it is the Reality of this Being, of this Happiness, which is the Nature of God, which is the Nature of ourselves.

So, this particular existence or this existence of someone, in fact, has no meaning. And it is exactly because there is no meaning in this that the human being lives in various levels of dissatisfaction, contradictions, dilemmas, conflicts and problems. And no matter how much he is searching for a meaning for his life, as long as this "life" is situated in this old pattern of thought, which is collective thought, which is cultural, social thought, which we receive from education, from this model of the world, much of it comes from this form of propaganda, formation of mentality, of consciousness common to all. As long as this is present, there will be no reality for this existence, which is the existence of the "I," of the ego, of this "me."

Life in its Beauty is pure Existence, but it is no longer this existence of someone, this existence of someone, in this format of conditioned mind, of conditioned thought. The Vision of Life free from the ego, the Vision of Life free from the "I," is the Comprehension of the Truth of Life without thought. Contact with Love requires the Vision of Beauty. There is no separation between Love and Beauty! Love and Beauty partake in Real Happiness, and all of this is something unknown to the ego, unknown to this existence of someone, this existence of the person. Therefore, the real meaning of Life consists in the Vision of Life, when It reveals itself. It reveals Itself without the ego, It reveals Itself without the "I," and here we come across the Mystery; and here we come across the Indescribable, That which cannot be put into words, which is the Presence of Bliss.

Why have we been emphasizing with you this encounter with Self-awareness, this encounter with the Truth of Meditation? Because unless the presence of Meditation is present in life, there is no Real Life. What we have is the particular life of the person, and in it is the illusion of an identity that sees itself present, searching for a meaning for its life - a meaning that it will never meet, that it will never find. Because the very movement of searching for meaning has no meaning, no value, no importance, since the Truth reveals itself in this instant, and it is in this instant that the Beauty of this meaning is revealed. But this is not for someone, it is not for the ego, it is not for this "me."

Your encounter with Divine Reality is the encounter with the Truth of yourself. There shall be an encounter with Divine Reality, always possible. It will not be in time, it is always here and now. It is here and now that this Truth of Divine Reality is revealed. But this requires, first of all, a comprehension of the truth about oneself. This door that opens up to the comprehension of God is from this Self-awareness. All imagination - because thought is just an imagination... Thought is a symbol, it is an image, it is a mental representation; therefore, it is an imagination - all imagination of the future to find God is something that is only in the field of the intellect, in the field of ideas.

Divine Reality is not in the intellect, it is not in the field of ideas, it is not part of thought. It is the Reality that is present in this moment, exactly when this conditioned intellect, when this model of idea, of thought, of imagination is not. So, the Real meaning of Life is Life itself. This is the Reality of God! However, it is not for someone, it is exactly when this someone is not there, when this ego has disappeared. Okay?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. Tiago asks the following question: "How can I get rid of the idea of ??being someone, since I see advantages in keeping it?"

MG: Gilson, look at the question! So, if you see a great advantage in continuing to be someone and ask me how to get rid of this idea... notice carefully that your question is the question that, basically, is inside most people. They continue to feel very comfortable with someone, with this someone they believe they are. So, any idea of ??getting rid of this someone, see, is just another idea.

I cannot offer you hunger, I can offer you food... I cannot create hunger in you. This work here consists of talking to you about food. We are not producing hunger in you; it is either there or it is not, and if you are not hungry, no one can create that hunger there. And when you are not hungry, you have no interest in food, in nourishment. So, in your own question lies the answer. If you continue to feel the great advantage of continuing to be someone, you will continue to be someone.

That is exactly what most people on the planet are doing. They are far too happy in their discontent. They are not aware of their discontent. Because they are not aware, they feel happy! So, if you are not hungry, no one can force you to be hungry.

Here, our job is to talk about food. However, it is for those who are hungry! This will make sense to those who are hungry, it will not make sense to those who are satisfied - although this satisfaction is the satisfaction of non-investigation. Although this contentment of this absence of hunger is something present because of the absence of investigation itself, of this honest look at what you are, in this context of life as it happens.

When I tell people that they think too much and that they are too busy with thoughts, and that they do not control these thoughts, and that these thoughts create many problems in their lives, they say: "No, you are wrong! It is not like that at all, I am fine! I think when I want, I think what I want and I know how to deal with thoughts. I have no problems, no problems with thoughts." Therefore, people are not aware of the mess they are in, of the complication of living as people, of living, of living within this circle, which is the circle of the ego, which is the circle of the "I." And yet, no one can produce in them a hunger that is not present.

That is why I have always insisted in these speeches on asking if what we address in these speeches makes any sense. I usually do this in all the videos: "Does this make any sense to you?" Because, if it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. If there is no hunger, it doesn't make sense. Only when the suspicion becomes clear that there may be something beyond all of this; that, in fact, there may be something beyond this condition of life in which you find yourself... Only when this arises, will a statement like this - and all the statements we have here on the channel - make sense.

Here we are putting it very directly: there is something present in life beyond this life, this "me," this "I," this person as you see yourself. You are alienated, completely alienated from the Beauty of Love, the Beauty of Freedom, the Beauty of Happiness. In fact, you have no idea what we are talking about when we use these expressions here, because our conditioning out there, the way we deal with experiences, we call those experiences "love," "happiness," "freedom" ... and this is very far from the truth... but this requires the presence of this verification. Until this penny drops, none of this will make sense. Therefore, our work here is for you, for whoever this makes sense.

You don't go to the doctor if you don't feel bad. You go to the doctor when you're sick. You don't have the longing for Truth, while you believe you're living the truth. The Reality of God is the Reality of your Being, it's the Reality of That which is indescribable, of That which is unnamable, possible for you in this self-discovery, in this self-realization, when there is the presence of hunger, when there is a real approach to ourselves. Okay?

GC: Thank you, Master, our time is over now. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are watching the videocast until the end - for those to whom what the Master shares with us makes sense - I invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings. In these meetings, the Master explores in a much deeper way what he brings here in the videos. These meetings are much deeper than the videos here on YouTube, because in these meetings, in addition to the Master answering our questions live, something much more powerful happens. Because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares a field of Energy, a field of Presence, and in the meetings, we end up taking a ride on this Energy of the Master. And, being taken by this ride with the Master, in a spontaneous and natural way, we enter a meditative state, silence our minds and can have a glimpse of what is beyond intellectual understanding.

So, here is the invitation. In the first comment, pinned, there is the WhatsApp link to be able to participate in these meetings. And go ahead, give a "like" to the video, subscribe to the channel, leave comments here with other questions for us to bring to the next videocasts. And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

June, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? Advaita philosophy.

Here, what is known as division, separation or duality, and which we discuss here with you, showing you the beauty, the importance of the end of this condition, the end of this condition is what is known as Advaita.

Here we work with you on how to have a direct approach to this, not from a philosophical or theoretical, conceptual point of view. Therefore, this is not about Advaita philosophy. Here it is about a direct look at this moment, free from this element that sustains this duality, that sustains this separation and, therefore, sustains every form of conflict, contradiction, disorder and suffering in life.

Here, the expression "life" is also to be comprehended. There is Life as it actually happens, but we place on Life as it happens an idea, an overlay on this Life, on this Reality, which is Life, on this Truth, which is Life: it is the particular life of self-image. You have built this image on yourself; therefore, you are the self-image.

What is this self-image? It is the thought that you have about who you are. Any description that you have about yourself, that you can tell me, that you can give me about yourself, that description will be a description based on thoughts.

At school, the teacher asks the student: "Describe your family; write something about yourself in that description." Whatever we are putting into a description about ourselves, as well as about our family, will be a description of ideas.

Our descriptions occur based on thoughts, images, symbols, mental representations, in this format of words. You have a mental representation of yourself, a set of symbols, images, words about who you are and about the world around you, about those who are around you, those closest to you and those farthest away.

Everything we do from the mind is to look at the world through the lens that thought gives us, through the vision that thought evaluates, translates, represents and interprets. This is the vision of the world that we have, this is the vision about ourselves.

As people, our relations with each other are relations in this format. You have not the truth about yourself; the truth about you, that you have, is the truth that you are, that thought says you are - this is the truth about you. The construct that thought structured there, supported there, established there, is the vision about oneself, this is the vision about the other, this is the vision about the world.

What is the Reality about you? Since you know the truth about yourself, is there a Reality about you, something beyond this truth? Approaching this moment requires an examination, an inquiry, an investigation of what this moment here represents, and we are incapable of this, we are incapable of doing this; we are incapable of having real awareness of this from the vision that we have, because it is the vision that thought has about life.

Therefore, we have to examine here the matter of thought, since thought, notice, is the main element in our psychic life, and the basis of life as we know it in relations - because life consists of relations happening -, the basis of our life in these relations is psychic. Our relations are relations in thought, from thought.

The words you know, the names you have stored inside you about people, about objects, all the experience with these objects, also with these people, with the events you have been through since childhood, all of this is inside you, in this psychological base, in this personal mind model. This is our relation with the present moment, but this relation is mistaken, because it is a relation that is based on memories, on remembrances, on recollections; it is a relation that is based on thoughts.

Life is something that is happening here and now, in this instant. For practical purposes, in this dream, which we call life, thought is necessary. My contact with you is based on the remembrance I have of who you are. So, I "have" your name, I "have" your face and I also "have" ideas about you.

But here the Truth has been falsified, there is the presence of the truth of thought within this relation, but there is no Reality of life, because the idea I have about you is something that comes from the past, the one you have about me is something that comes from the past, while life is something that is happening here and now, in this moment, as it has never happened before.

We think we are meeting the same people we recognize. In fact, we are always coming into contact with them based on remembrances of him or her and, in this contact, in this relation, we are falsifying the truth of the relation, because our encounter is with the past. The person you meet is no longer the same; you have their name, their face, psychologically they are another person, and you are another person too.

We are constantly changing internal states due to responses and reactions given to the present moment, but these reactions come from the past, they are always inadequate, they never correspond to the Reality of Life as it happens.

Therefore, our relations are conflicting, problematic, disorderly, confusing and full of problems, because our contact with the present moment is mistaken, because, as people, in this psychological complexity that is this self-image, we are incapable of dealing with the present moment, we are incapable of dealing with life, we are incapable of having a relation with this instant.

What we are doing, what we have been doing are adjustments; but adjustments within this confusion, within this disorder, within this mistake. You do not know your husband, you do not know your wife; she does not know you either, he does not know you either. We believe that we know people. We do not know who we are, how can we know people?

Here, our work consists of going beyond this person, therefore, going beyond this self-image, which means going beyond thought. Unless there is an end to this psychological condition, we will never have contact with Real Life, with him or her, with situations, with events or with ourselves.

We do not know the truth about who we are, about who the other is, about situations as they happen and about life as it emerges, here and now, moment by moment. This is because we are always bringing these memories, these remembrances, these recollections, these thoughts from the past.

Speaking a language requires learned knowledge, so it is natural that this information is present in you, is coming from the past, is emerging from the past. It is based on memory, on remembrance, on acquired knowledge that the efficiency of speaking a language occurs. Working in a profession requires learned knowledge; new knowledge is acquired and also accumulated.

So, at a certain level, thought, which is past, which is memory, which is knowledge, something that is learned, is functional, is necessary, is practical, we need thought. But from the point of view of the vision of Life, of the totality of Life, we do not need thought.

Only technically, scientifically, mechanically, technologically do we need thought, for professional knowledge and experience, for example. But to deal with people, deal with myself, deal with situations that arise, with life as it happens, we do not need thought. And it is precisely because thought is present in this context that problems are present in our lives.

This particular life of the person, of this "me," of this "I," of this ego, is anxious, depressed, full of anguish, pain of loneliness, insecurity, attachments, fears, jealousy. There are innumerable forms of conflict, disorder, suffering, and all of this is present because we do not know what thought is.

Thought is taking over this space, which is not its real space. Thought is this present element that comes from the past, that is constantly occupying our brains, our minds. There is no space, there is no silence, there is no inner stillness to deal with the present moment, because our gaze is the gaze that comes from the past. We have a restless mind, a chattering brain, an internal movement of uncontrolled thoughts.

We know nothing about thought. So, what is thought? This is the condition of disorder that we need to free ourselves from. We also do not know what thinking is. We believe that we are thinking; in reality, thoughts are controlling, in this disorderly, confusing, chaotic control of our relations.

So, we need to investigate this issue, here, of thought. We have playlists here on the channel about this subject: "What is thought?" "What is the truth of thinking?" The beauty of this encounter with life in this moment, free from thought, is the presence of thinking.

We are unaware of the beauty of thinking, of what thinking is, because the illusion present in us is the presence of a thinker behind the thoughts, of someone feeling behind the feelings, of someone in emotion behind emotions, someone being an experiencer behind the experiences. This is something completely illusory.

Life as it happens is just what happens. There is no such thing as this thinker, this experiencer or this one who feels. This is where we find the crux of the matter, a matter that has not been resolved, which is the question of this "me," this "I," this ego. That is why we need to discover the end of self-image, the end of this image, this self-image, this element that thought has constructed, this identity that thought has constructed, this illusory person that we believe ourselves to be.

Therefore, a real approach to life is the end of this duality. Duality consists of this illusory separation between this thinker and his thoughts, between this, who is the experiencer, and his experiences, between this "I" and the "not I." When there is the end of duality, there is a clear vision of Advaita, of non-separation. Then, Divine Reality, the Reality of God, is revealed.

The word "Advaita" means "the One without the second." This is the Reality of this Being, this is the Truth about You when the "I" is not there, when this you, which is the self-image, is not there, when this illusion of this person is not there; this is the encounter with Divine Reality. This encounter is not someone having an encounter, it is the Truth revealing itself, it is the Divine Truth showing itself. This is the end of duality.

When This is present, there is a way to approach life in this instant, in direct contact with the present moment, where there is this feeling, this truth of thinking and acting; this action free from the "I," this thinking free from thought, this feeling free from this "I" in feeling, from this "me" in feeling.

Here, together, we are with you deepening this, becoming aware of this Reality, which is the Reality of Life, free from the "I," free from the ego. Then, Love, Happiness, Freedom, the Awareness of God, the Awareness of Life is present.

So, these meetings that we have here on the weekends, online, are two days together: Saturday and Sunday. I want to leave you with this invitation: here, in the video description, you can find our link to participate in these meetings. In addition to these meetings, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats.

So, if this is something that makes sense to you, here is the invitation. Leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and leave here in the comments: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

June, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Beyond Words and Thoughts | How to observe thoughts? | Marcos Gualberto

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.

In the first comment, pinned, there is the WhatsApp link to be able to participate in these meetings. In addition, give a "like" to the video and subscribe to the channel. And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

June, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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You and self-image. The end of self-image. What is thought? What is thinking? Kundalini: what is it?

Here the question is: Kundalini, what is it? Note that approaching this subject requires much more than just a meaning within a search of words. The awareness of Kundalini is the awareness of Divine Truth. There is no real distance between this Revelation of the Truth about you and this direct comprehension of the Reality about God.

When the search is for God, the idea present in us is of an element that is separate, out there somewhere, to be found, distant to be seen, which is a mistake, which shows itself to be, in fact, an illusion, since the Truth about God is the Truth about Life; and we, as human beings, are not separate from life, we are within the context of life as it happens.

So, when people ask "What is Kundalini?" Kundalini is the awareness of your own Being, which is the vision of Life, which is the Reality of God. However, we cannot confuse what some out there understand by Kundalini with what we are talking about here. We are touching with you, working on with you about this vision of life, free from the ego. However, most people understand this expression - Kundalini - as an experience that someone, that we can have.

No, it is not an experience that you can have. There is no such element capable of experiencing that which is outside of the known, outside of time. This element would be the experiencer - the element that lives from experiences, that has experiences. This is how we see ourselves as people; as people we see ourselves as an element present in life to have experiences. This element to have experiences is the presence of an image that thought has established in us as being ourselves.

You, as someone, are a person. You are this self-image. You are this image that thought has been constructed. There is an image present; it is not separate from what you are as a person. Contact with Divine Reality, which is contact with Life, which is the Revelation of this Being, the Reality about You is different from the truth about you. You have the truth about yourself, the truth that thought has established, but there is a Reality about You that thought does not know, that the mind does not know. This Reality is this Real Consciousness, this Divine Consciousness. This Reality is the presence of Kundalini.

This is not an experience for you, this is not something that you achieve, this is not something that you accomplish; this is something that is present in this moment, being the Truth of Life, the Truth of Life when the illusion of the person is not. All our work here is towards this one purpose: to become aware of life as it happens, which represents the end of self-image, the end of the image that thought has established within you, being you, being the person.

So, what is Kundalini? Kundalini is this Presence, this Energy, this Reality, this indescribable Thing, this unnameable Thing. It is That, which present, represents the end of all confusion, disorder, problems, conflicts and suffering for the human being. Note, it is not an experience; it is the end of the element that experiences, that experiences internal states, conflicting states, created by thought, created within, in this self-image, sustained by this self-image, which remains constantly present in these various conflicts that exist in the personality.

The human being suffers because of the presence of the "I," the presence of the ego. It is the present self-image: how one represents oneself and how one shows oneself in life as it happens; this person who is constantly dealing with life based on beliefs, opinions, concepts, ideas, evaluations, comparisons, judgments, and so on. It is this element that comes from the past. The element that comes from the past present in you is the presence of thought.

You have no contact with the present moment without the past when thought is present. Your contact with this instant, free from thought, is a contact free from the past. We have moments, occasions when we find ourselves like this, in life, in the instant, in the present moment: contemplating the sunset, taking a dip in the sea, there, sitting while you relax, watching the waters of that stream flowing down, there, on the bank of that small river.

We have some moments in life when there is no thought, no record of remembrance, of memory, so, in that instant, the working place, the office, the bills to pay, the memory of family are no longer present. It is just the presence of a look at that stream, the waters flowing down there, the light on that small stream reflecting in your eyes, on that sunny morning. In that moment, the mind is completely free, temporarily, provisionally, of all movement of thought, of restlessness, of chatter. Then, an inner space opens up. In that instant, the past no longer exists, because memory no longer exists, thought no longer exists. It is the presence of Life in that encounter. It is not you meeting life, it is a look free from this thinker, this observer, this separation. In that encounter, the moment reveals itself as pure Presence, Silence, Energy: this is the encounter with Kundalini.

It is not a mystical experience, it is not about someone having a sensation. It is exactly the end of the experiencer, the end of this sense of separation between you and Life. So, what is Meditation? It is this encounter with the presence of the instant, free from the past, which represents the Truth of God revealing itself. When you learn to approach yourself, without the sense of someone in that approach - this happens at some moments in life, at some moments it happens - notice that there is no effort; it is exactly the absence of all effort. There is no concentration, there is no one there getting involved to achieve something through effort, through concentration, there is nothing to receive, conquer, obtain, achieve, and yet there is a moment of encounter with Beauty, with Love, with Life.

So, what is Kundalini? It is the Reality of God, when the "I" is not there, when the ego is not there. So, when we come across life as it happens, without this sense of the "I" present, in that moment there is no self-image, that is the end of the self-image. We are working with you on exactly that: this encounter with the Reality of your Being, which is the Awakening of this Energy, this Presence, this Real Consciousness, which is Kundalini.

Therefore, Kundalini is your Natural State of Being, free from the "I," in this contact with the present moment, in this contact with him or her, without any image of him or her. Any image of him or her is an image that comes from the past. When we have the end of self-image here, we have contact with him or her without any image of him or her. The common belief is that you know people; what you actually know about people is what thought in you has about them, has to say about them, has something to conclude about them, evaluates about them, it is what thought has to judge about them.

Our evaluation of experience from self-image is the illusion of an experiencer experiencing this experience. In this duality, illusion, ego-identity is established. When there is not this self-image, there is life in this moment. Life at this moment does not carry conflict, problems, disorder, confusion, or suffering. Getting closer to this moment requires comprehension of what thought is. Comprehending thought is ending the continuity of this psychological movement of self-image.

So, what is thought? Thought is this element present in us that evaluates, judges, compares, that deals with the present moment by creating a curtain, a separation, an artificial division, creating the illusion of this "I" and what it is seeing, of this "I," in this format of the thinker, about what it is thinking, in this format of the experiencer and about what it is experiencing. Thought is this element.

We do not know what it is to have contact with this instant free from thought. This contact is the presence of an approach of this moment where there is clarity of thinking. This is the truth about thinking. What is thinking? Thinking is the clarity of looking at this instant without the past, without thought, without someone involved in this division, in this separation. The awareness of this moment requires the presence of a quiet, silent brain, of a mind free of thoughts. Only at this moment is the truth about thinking possible.

We were not raised for a life free of thought. All our mental conditioning is for the continuity of a thinker behind thoughts, of an experiencer behind experiences, of an observer observing from the past. This gaze free from the past is the presence of the Reality of Life. This gaze free from the past is the presence of Life, without the "I," without the thinker, experiencer, observer.

So the truth about thinking is like the truth about feeling, it is like the truth about action - there is no one in the action. This moment of stillness and silence, of presence, of awareness of the Reality of Life, here and now, is the presence of Meditation, which is the presence of this Divine Reality, of this Being. So, there is a quality of action that is possible, that is not born of the "I," that is not born of the ego; there is a quality of thinking that is free of thought; there is a quality of feeling that is free of an element present in that feeling, or that emotion, or that sensation. Here we are faced with something unknown to thought, but something possible for you in your True Nature, in your Real Nature.

The Awakening of Consciousness is the Flourishing of your Natural Divine State, which is the presence of the Reality of God, the only Reality present, the only Truth present. The truth that we know from thought is the illusory truth of an identity that sees itself separate from life itself, that sees itself acting from memory, from remembrance, from the past, that sees itself feeling from the illusion of an identity in this feeling.

Here, together, looking towards the end of this psychological condition, towards a new brain, towards a new mind, towards a new approach to this moment, which is life happening, without the experiencer, without the "I," is the only thing that matters. Here, together, on the weekends - Saturday and Sunday -, in online meetings, we are working on this with you: the Flourishing of your Natural State of Being, the comprehension of Truth, of this absence of the "I," of this absence of the ego, the Beauty of this Kundalini Awakening, of your Natural State of Being.

Here, in the video description, you have our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on the weekends - Saturday and Sunday. In addition to these meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard makes any sense to you, I would like to extend this invitation. Leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and leave here in the comments: "Yes, that makes sense." Ok? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

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Joel Goldsmith | The Foundation of Mysticism | What is Self-awareness? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master, for being here. Today I am going to read an excerpt from 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.

May, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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