Joel Goldsmith | Beyond Words and Thoughts | What is the art of meditating? | 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 a book by Joel Goldsmith called: “Beyond Words and Thoughts.” In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: “The heart and soul of the mystical life is an inner experience, and no matter what may be your path, it must lead you to this experience.” In this excerpt, Joel comments on this inner experience. On this topic, can the Master share his vision of the art of meditating?

MG: Look, Gilson, the awareness of Meditation, the art of Meditation, is the comprehension of the one who meditates. When people set out to practice Meditation or a Meditation technique, they haven't comprehended something basic. It hasn't been made clear to them that every technique or practice is the mechanical exercise of an entity, the meditator, whose purpose is to achieve a goal called Meditation. This is not the truth about Meditation, because the truth about Meditation is that, in it, there is no meditator, since the presence of Meditation is the Awareness of Being.

Whereas In the practice of meditation, there is the idea of ​​becoming: “I am not in meditation.” “I want to enter into meditation.” “I don't know how to meditate.” “I have to learn to meditate.” “I am not silent, but I need silence.” “I need to quiet the mind, to have a silent mind”... Note: “I need to have.” “I wish to have.” “I have to have.” The presence of this “coming to be” is not the Awareness of Being. The art of Meditation consists in observing the meditator, in becoming aware of the movement, the impulse, the will, the desire, this intention to become. The true approach to Meditation is self-comprehension.

We have no real basis for Meditation. We do not have a real encounter with Meditation when one is engaged in it. Studying oneself is becoming aware of this entire movement of the “I.” Recognizing in oneself, in this “me,” the presence of “coming to be,” the desire to achieve, the purpose to accomplish. Learning about oneself is learning how the mind works, which involves the awareness of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and emotions.

Looking at this instant: there is a quality of looking without someone in that look, there is a quality of perception without someone in the perception. Who is the element present in the perception? It is the one who has lived experiences and perceives from the background, from the past, from memory. Who is this present in the gaze? The one who looks. It is the presence of the observer.

The observer in you is the element that comes from the past. When looking, it looks from the background, from recognition, from past experiences, from memories. Real contact with the Awareness of Being is the nullification of this “coming to be.” The Awareness of Being is the nullification of this observer, this experiencer. Any and all contact with life is only a Real contact when there is no one to make this contact.

Since this someone is a suggestion of thought, of an identity that sees itself present, this identity is the experiencer, the observer, it is precisely that person who sits down to meditate; and they concentrate, they push away thoughts, they breathe, in a certain way, they chant a mantra. There it is someone in action, in the execution of a project, a plan, a purpose. This purpose, a project, a goal, is something that comes from a thought suggestion, to achieve something.

The art of Meditation reveals the presence of Being. There is no time, no future, no purpose. Life, as it reveals itself here, in this moment, is the purpose. We are only unaware of this purpose because we are present as someone. If someone is present, that someone is moving toward the future. It is someone who is coming from the past, moving toward the future. This is the feeling and thought present in the person—in the person who meditates, in the person who does not meditate, in the person who turns to spiritual search, and also in the person who has no involvement with it.

The entire movement of the “I,” of the ego, of the person, is toward the future. Either in the search for spirituality, as thought projects, imagines, for the person, this includes the presence of a meditation system, a meditation practice, or the pursuit of material achievements, in worldly goals and purposes. As human beings, we live in conflict, in suffering, with problems. We lack the vision of Life, Freedom, and, therefore, Love. All our movement is the movement that involves some kind of intention, of desire. We want to escape what is bad, we want to reach what is good. It is the movement of the person.

You ask us about the art of Meditation. The Awareness of the Truth of Life, without the “I,” without the meditator, without the person, without the observer, without the thinker, without the experiencer, is the presence of the Natural State of Being, where Love is present, where Happiness is present. Here, Happiness is not found, not obtained, not achieved; it is assumed when illusion ends. This is the art of Meditation. The only Real purpose in life is Life in its purpose, and its purpose is the realization of the Truth of Being.

Paradoxically, we are faced with something that is already present. It is a realization that will not be done in the future. It is a realization that is assumed precisely when we abandon the idea of ​​becoming, when we abandon the idea of ​​achieving. Why don't we know the Truth about Meditation? Because all our involvement in thought is in time. How is the Truth of Meditation revealed? When thought is nullified. When it ceases, then time no longer exists, there is no longer past, present, or future.

At some moments in life, you encounter meditation. Something akin to a stumble. You're walking along and suddenly you stumble upon something. We constantly experience moments of egolessness, of absence of the “I,” when we are, so to speak, run over by something outside of egoic consciousness. Something akin to a stumble. Notice that when you stumble, you don't expect it to happen. It's something you don't expect. It's something that happens. Meditation is also something that happens.

You're at the edge of a lake, gazing at the water, and suddenly the mind is completely emptied of all the past—memories, remembrances, thoughts. And there's something present there, in that moment, that is beyond description. The luminosity of that lake, the sunlight, those leaves on the trees dancing in the wind. It's an encounter with the moment without the “I,” without the office, the clinic, the workshop. There are no friends, enemies, relatives, or family. It's a moment of Silence, of Stillness. A complete psychological emptiness, when the mind is temporarily emptied of all its old content. In that instant, there is an encounter with Meditation. There is no practice, technique, or method. It's something that simply happens.

So, what is the awareness of Meditation? It's the art of Being in everyday life, even in the office, in the practice, in the clinic, or driving your car. Approaching this Natural State of Being requires the presence of Self-awareness. We have several videos here on the channel talking about this.

GC: Master, on the subject of Meditation, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: “Master, the Meditation you propose seems fantastic, but no matter how hard I try, my mind won't stop. There are so many thoughts. Shouldn't they stop?”

MG: You say: “It seems fantastic, this Meditation you propose.” Notice here, Gilson, once again, when you say: “How can I stop this? It seems like thoughts won't stop.” Yes, it's true. The thought pattern present in the mind we know, which is the conditioned mind, is the egoic mind, the “I” mind.

You're going to live until you're 80, 90 years old, and you will die like that, unless this is broken, shattered, undone here, at this moment. We need a mind free from all the weight of thought continuity, and, therefore, free from conditioning, free from the past. We need to be in touch with the present moment, without the pattern of internal restlessness. It's interesting when you say: “These thoughts, shouldn't they stop?” No, not necessarily.

In fact, the movement of thought is something common, continuous, repetitive, mechanical. Thought is in a movement of continuity, of repetition. Only when we become aware of the movement of thought itself, bringing awareness to this moment, only then, yes, in this moment, do we have the freedom of a mind free from all this movement of restlessness, chatter, and repetition of thoughts. So, thought, necessarily, doesn't need to stop.

Look at people: they spend their entire lives in this chatter. Here, the awareness of a mind free from the “I,” from the ego, which is this movement of restlessness, of thoughts, is what I've called “luxury.” You can spend your entire life wrapped up in the “I,” in the ego, in this chatter. Or you can break free from it here and now, becoming aware of your reactions, going beyond them, going beyond these feelings, emotions, sensations, and, of course, also going beyond these thoughts, because they are mechanical, unconscious; they repeat themselves, and they move like this within you, because you don't observe, you don't become aware, conscious of them.

And this is our invitation here: become aware of your reactions. Become aware of your feelings, thoughts, sensations, gestures. Bring into this moment perception without someone. Comprehension without the “I.” Bring into this instant perception without the perceiver, observation without the observer. This is self-observation. This is approaching yourself to comprehend the answer to the question: Who am I? You are not formulating the question. You are investigating the nature of the answer. Yes, the nature of the answer.

The Awareness of Truth is the Reality of this Being. It is the Reality of God. That which is Real Consciousness does not carry this restless movement of thoughts. I refer to this Real Present Consciousness here and now, when you assume the reality of a free mind, free of the thinker, the experiencer, the observer.

Now, we must make one thing clear here. A work in this direction is fundamental. This requires the presence of a Divine Power, which is the Power of Grace. Then, we situate ourselves outside the known, outside of time. When the reality present within you is the Reality of this Being, of this Real Consciousness, of this Divine Power, of this Grace, it is the presence of Self-awareness, the basis for Meditation, for this quality of life free from suffering, confusion, and problems.

That is why we present to you here that a life of Love, a life of Sanity, a life of Happiness is a “luxury.” It is a Divine Life. Interestingly, this Divine Life is the Only Real Life. Everything else that the human being is experiencing within this old model of the ego, of this restlessness, is not real. They are in a dream, in their confused, disoriented, disturbed state of being. A dream that, at times, seems like everything is fine, but then, in the next moment, everything changes. Then, it ceases to be a dream and becomes a nightmare. This is the life of the “I.” This is the life of the ego.

GC: Master, on this topic, we have another question from another subscriber on the channel, who made the following comment: “Master, how do we silence the noisy mind?”

MG: Gilson, the other question here is: How do we silence this noisy mind? Silence, serenity, stillness, the absence of movement, of thoughts, and therefore, of someone involved with the idea of ​​past, present, or future; is this possible? That is the question. Is what we just discussed possible? The answer to this is found within you, when you directly engage in direct, specific, clear, and objective work in this direction.

A direct work in this direction brings you the clarity of a vision of the Truth about yourself and shows you yourself in your Natural State of Being. Here, there is no model of restlessness, chatter, or all this noise of thought. This is something present in this egoic mind pattern: the mind we receive from culture, the mind we inherited from a model of the world, of existence, where this existence is the personal existence, the existence of someone who sees themselves present.

Discovering the Truth about oneself is discarding the truth of this “me.” Then, the mind becomes silent, the brain becomes still. It's not you silencing the mind, quieting the brain. It's not a stillness you achieve, that you acquire, that you conquer. It's a Stillness, a Silence that arises naturally, when we bring attention to our reactions, when we learn to learn about ourselves.

When we move in this direction, in this work, life is Real when you, as a person, as ego-identity, are no longer present. Then, this mind becomes silent, this New Space opens up, and this Freedom flourishes. Then, that which is Divine Reality is present, that which reveals itself as the Truth of God.

Human beings spend their entire lives immersed in their dreams, in their “nightmare-dream” of being someone. The flourishing of this Natural State is possible for each of us. However, it is a discovery, an acknowledgment, a perception. This is what we are working on with you here, speaking to you about this possibility, this Freedom, speaking to you about this Love.

The Awareness of God is Supreme Happiness, it is Supreme Peace. The Indescribable Reality of Life, free from the dream, this “nightmare-dream” of being someone, is Bliss, it is Happiness. It is indescribable you in your Natural State of Being. However, it is possible to embrace this in this life. If you are here approaching this topic, it is because this is your moment. This is what we are here for—and also in our online and in-person meetings—working on with you.

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

And for those of you who are following the videocast to the end and truly want to experience these truths and discover what Meditation is, we invite you to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto offers.

These meetings are much more profound than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions directly. And second, and more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares a field of Presence around Him, a field of Energy, Power, and Grace.

In these meetings, we end up being carried by this field of the Master's Presence. And the power of this field of Presence places us in a meditative state, without any practice, without any effort. Before we know it, we are in total Silence, in this state of Meditation.

So, here is the invitation!

In the first pinned comment, there is the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Also, please “like” the video, subscribe to the channel… And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

September, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Joel Goldsmith | Living the Illumined Life | What is spiritual life? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello everyone! We're here for another videocast, and Master Gualberto is with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here. Today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Living the Illumined Life." In one passage of this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "In spiritual life there is no chance, nor accidental events of any kind." In this passage, Joel comments on spiritual life. Within this subject, Master, can you share your vision of what spiritual life is?

MG: Gilson, life is one single life. Thought, within us, is the element that separates, divides, and subdivides. We speak of material life, we speak of emotional life, we speak of spiritual life. Thus, for us, there are diverse forms of life, and we can continue subdividing this. The Reality of life, that is what interests us here, in these meetings, to have a direct vision. There is a difference between indirectly looking at something-which is what we generally do when our approach to it is intellectual, theoretical, in words, verbal. It is the indirect way of addressing certain issues.

It has created several difficulties for most of us. We are only treading on the ground of ideas, in the field of concepts, in the theoretical environment, in the space of abstraction, when we are dealing only with theories, with words, with concepts. And that is what we do when we talk about life: we write poetry, poems, songs. we put the expression "life" in a romantic, emotional, sentimental way, in song lyrics, in poetry and poems, and we find the power of this expression very interesting, but we remain only in this quality of field, which is the theoretical field.

We are unaware of the Reality of life, and that is our endeavor here, that is our interest here: we are investigating the Truth about life. And the Truth about life is that there is no "someone" to live life; that is just another idea we have. We speak of life as an element separate from ourselves, as if we were the present, living element, meant to live. We mistake ourselves for the body, we mistake ourselves for the mind, we see ourselves as entities separate from life, and then we speak of the possibility of a spiritual life, just as we believe that we are already living a life. So, the idea is to move from the material life we ??are living to a spiritual life.

What we are actually living, or believing we are living, is the presence of a dream that we call "life." When people die, we believe they have left life, that they've been taken from life. In truth, what we now have is the physical absence, or the absence of the appearance of a person within a dream, because the pure Reality of life, the real life, is Divine Reality, the Reality of God, and we assume this Reality when we leave behind the illusion of the dream, this so-called "life" that we call "my life," the idea of ??this particular life of the person. So, "I have my life united with your life," "I love my life," "I am living my own life well," these are expressions we use, expressions without any real meaning, because we are only expressing thoughts, ideas, concepts, and beliefs - and how we appreciate that!

And now we are talking about achieving a spiritual life. You ask: "What is this spiritual life?" It seems to me that, the awareness of life is the true comprehension of life, and it is only possible when life is real, and it is only real when there is no more illusion. The presence of thought is sustaining, for each of us, the continuity of a dream that we call "material life," and in this so-called "material life," we are pursuing happiness, pursuing peace, pursuing freedom. We are on a trajectory or journey of pursuit to find, in the thought, within us. The idea is of finding tomorrow: tomorrow finding love, tomorrow finding peace, tomorrow finding God, tomorrow finding spiritual life, ceasing to be materialistic.

The reality of what we call "life" is the absence of real life-that is the reality of the life we ??know within thought. Here, investigating the issue of thought means comprehending the nature of the one who thinks, who is the person; of the one who feels, who is the person; of the one who believes to be the person. That is the dream! It is a dream present in the mind, within its illusions. We need to be aware of a free, clear, lucid, real mind, where there is no longer this contamination of beliefs, concepts, ideas, imaginations, as we are currently living. That is how we are living this particular life of the person: we are inside a dream.

So, you ask what spiritual life is. It is real life, but this real life is not the life of "someone," it is not life for "someone," it is the life of Being. Yes, it is life in this Being. Being is the essential nature of each of us, it is the Truth about God, the nature of your Being. Here is life, a life that, however strange it may seem to us, is beyond birth and death. It is fundamental to comprehend this, that it is the only real life. It is not life for you, it is the life that is you! We are dividing, not only in words, but above all in an imaginary way, we are establishing in living the illusion of this separation. Therefore, what disappears here is this illusion.

Life is not something that is absent; however, what is present falsifies the Reality of this life that is here and now, and what is present is the illusion of an identity, the illusion of "someone," of "someone" who feels alive and who can die. All our fright, fear, all our dread consists in the disappearance of this history, of all this memory, of what thought believes it has, possesses, for this "me," for this "I." That is why we speak of the fear of death. Some engage in this so-called "spiritual" search in the idea, in the illusion of what they also call "spirituality": a path, a form, a way to escape suffering.

The reality of life is the end of suffering. Yes, it is the end of the idea of ??someone dying, but that is the Realization of the Truth of That which is present here, not something for the future in this imaginary spirituality. Therefore, spiritual life consists in the awareness of the Reality of this Being, in the awareness of the Reality of God, here and now. You were born to embrace the Truth that there is no one present. We have, here in life, the reality of God, and that is the true spiritual life. Real Divine life is the life of this Being. Therefore, Love, Happiness, Peace, Freedom, is the presence of this life, of this awareness of God, of this real life, of this Divine life, of this real spiritual life.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, can I find God, even with so many thoughts?"

MG: Gilson, the idea of ??finding God is still just a thought. We need to discover the Reality present, yes, beyond thought. But investigating the nature, the structure of thought is to find oneself in the possibility, in fact, of going beyond them. And when we are beyond thoughts, we discover this Reality present; this Reality present beyond thoughts is your natural State of Being. Here, the presence of Being is the absence of the mind as we know it, and therefore it is the absence of this model of thought. Your concern is to have an encounter with God. Here the recommendation is: investigate the nature of the "I," investigate the nature of this thinker. Once it is clarified that thought is the thinker itself and this thinker is the "I," and this "I" as a person is an illusion, once this is clarified, the Reality of God, which is not absent, reveals itself.

We cannot, in fact, have an encounter with God, because the idea of ??someone having such an encounter is an illusion. It is the very thought, stemming from the idea of ??that thinker, creating this suggestion. The real, direct path to God is to become aware of the illusion of the "I," the illusion of this person, and it requires the presence of Self-awareness, it requires a look at life without the model of the past. The model of the past is the model constructed, designed by this structure of ideas, beliefs, words, which are thoughts. It is necessary, and that is fundamental, to have a mind free from the past, a mind free from all this historical content-??the history of this character, which is the history of this ego-identity. The complete emptying of all this content arises naturally when the mind finds itself free from all the psychological occupation.

Here it is the presence of Meditation, the true approach to the Truth of this revelation, this awareness of God. God is the only Reality present, but any idea about that is just a belief. We see ourselves as people, separate from life, separate from God. The Reality of life is the Reality of God, and this is the Truth of this Being: there are no people! This is what we need to comprehend, and this comprehension is born, flourishes, awakens naturally, when we discover what it is to learn about ourselves, what it is to learn how the mind works. And it eliminates this quality of particular life in this dream, which is the dream of someone present. It eliminates this particular life of this center, of this "I." Then, God reveals himself as the only Reality present when the Truth of Meditation is here. Therefore, we need to learn the awareness of Being, we need to learn about Meditation, Reality, what real Meditation is. We have a playlist here on the channel, working with you on this matter of Self-awareness and real Meditation in a practical, experiential way.

GC: Master, regarding this topic of thought, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "How to observe my thoughts without getting lost in them?"

MG: Gilson, your question is: "How not to get lost in thoughts?" Note that the central idea, the basic idea in all of us, is of someone present doing something, accomplishing something, having a purpose and working towards it. Here, yes, work is needed, a purpose is present; however, there is no one to do this work, nor to achieve this goal or purpose. So, here, in response to your question, which is "How to observe thoughts?", we are faced with something of incredible simplicity, but at the same time incredibly complex! We are creating this incredible difficulty for something so basic and simple, which is looking at thoughts.

Out of habit, bias, practice, or addiction, we are constantly interfering in the present moment, interfering with what is happening here. We see ourselves as an entity present in this instant to interfere. So, we see ourselves as someone capable of intervening, shaping, and interfering in the moment. I refer to interfering with the experience of this instant, for example: a thought is present. When it arises, immediately, out of habit-this is how we have been functioning for millennia-the thinker emerges. When a thought arises, the thinker immediately emerges. This thinker is the person who likes the thought or dislikes the thought.

So, we don't know how to look at thought, because our gaze is contaminated by an observer, by a thinker, by an experiencer who wants to interfere. However, we need to discover, here and now, what it means looking-just to look, simply to look-in this attention, looking. Looking is not interfering, looking is not liking or disliking, it's not trying to do something with what you observe, it's just looking! It's as if I were to present you with a flower: you can look at the flower or you can create ideas about it. I present to you the flower and you imagine this flower in a vase inside your house, on top of some piece of furniture. I present to you the flower and you imagine yourself extending your hands, picking this flower and giving it to someone. You can have many images about this flower that I show you. Any of these images is an imagination within you about this flower.

When you do that, you lose the "gaze"-there is no longer a gaze directed at this flower; what we have present is someone looking at this flower. We are constantly putting intention, motivation, the idea of ??what to do; we are doing this all the time with experiences. Thus, it is very common, when faced with something we are seeing, to project the idea of ??someone being present. The presence of this someone is this one which observes from an ideal, a purpose, or an intention.

Here, the Truth of this fundamental gaze is this gaze without the observer, this is the fundamental gaze without interfering. So, there is a direct observation; therefore, to observe is simply to look, to become aware, to become conscious. It is not to interfere, it is not to do something with what you are seeing. The idea, the intention, the motivation to do something is the presence of a separation between what is being observed and someone in this observation. You ask: "How to observe thoughts?" It's the same way you look at something: you just look!

Become aware of thoughts; when a feeling arises, become aware of the feeling or emotion, or sensation. If a thought arises within you, you simply observe. If a sensation appears with that feeling, you simply observe. The point is that we are constantly engaging with thought or sensation, or with what shows itself, with what presents itself. Thus, we are placing an experiencer, an observer. There is no real observation when the observer is present because, as looking, that looking is to interfere.

Will it be possible to only look a thought as it arises, a feeling as it appears, a sensation?... This feeling, this sensation, this thought is something that is arising due to a stimulus-this stimulus is what is presenting this experience. When there is only the look without interference, we have the end of the idea of ??someone present being the experiencer, being the observer. True observation is observation without the "I," which is the observer! This is the real way of approaching Meditation, it is looking at this instant without the past, that is, without the interference of the "I," without the interference of this experiencer, without the interference of this observer.

Approaching this moment requires looking at it. The true look of this moment is one of perception-in this perception there is no one to perceive; it is listening to what this moment represents-in this listening there is no one to interfere. Then, something beyond what shows itself here is revealed. Thus, we are before the end of duality, the end of separation. There is no observer observing something, no experiencer experiencing something, no one listening to this or that-it is only listening, only observing, only perceiving.

This is the true approach to this moment, when the sense of separation is not. For a long time, everything we've done has been from the perspective of "I," from the perspective of "someone." We look from the perspective of ideas, concepts, beliefs, will, desires, the impulse to do something, to alter, to modify. And so we always place the presence of an identity here, which separates itself from this instant, from this moment. Therefore, there is a quality of approach to this moment, from both an external and internal viewpoint, without the presence of this duality, without the presence of this "I" and the "non-I." It requires this attention.

Just looking, just perceiving, then something new emerges. That something is the awareness of non-duality; then what is present here beyond this "I" and the "non-I" is revealed. This is the true way of approaching the present moment, this instant, what happens externally or internally. Therefore, this sense of "I" does not show itself, does not present itself. So, there is no one to get lost in when there is only the gaze, the perception, the observation. There is no one getting lost in thoughts; what we have present is the presence of thought. This sense of someone is not real, and what reveals this is this quality of approaching this moment in this attention. Thus, contact with this instant is the vision of the moment, the simple and direct vision of what is present here, emerging in this instant, internally or externally.

GC: Thank you, Master, our time is up. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are watching the videocast to the end and truly wish to experience these Truths, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These meetings are much deeper than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions live, and second, and much more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares a field of presence around Him, a field of Energy of Power and Grace. And, in these meetings, we end up taking a ride in this field of the Master's Presence. And, taking this ride with the Master, spontaneously, without any practice, without any technique, without any effort, we enter the Meditative State, we silence our minds and we can have a real vision and comprehension of the subjects that are discussed here on the channel.

So, here's the invitation: in the first pinned comment, you'll find the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Also, please leave a "like" to the video, subscribe to the channel. and, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

October, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? | Meditation: what is it? | Learning about Self-Awareness | God's Wisdom

We are working on this with you, this question of the vision of life, what we could call Divine Wisdom or God´s Wisdom. The vision of Life is the comprehension that there is no separation between you and Life. When this is seen, comprehended, clarified, realized, all confusion ends.

Human life is complicated because we are not living the truth of a simple and natural life. Our internal model of consciousness, of mind, is far too complex. The psychological complexity, the model of consciousness and mind within us, is producing confusion, sustaining all kinds of problems within ourselves. And what we are internally inevitably expresses itself within the context of relations, producing chaos, producing all this confusion.

Here we have emphasized with you the beauty of an opportunity that opens up for each of us to have real contact with the Divine, real contact with Life. Yes, a real connection, because what we have as contact, based on beliefs, theories, and speculations about what God is, about what life is, doesn't put us in real contact. We are only in an abstraction when we are stuck to philosophical aspects of life and religious aspects of God.

A real contact with God, a real contact with Life, is revealed when we learn everything about ourselves. We have to learn about ourselves. We were told about the existence of God and placed Him far from each of us. We are told about life, but also through song lyrics and philosophical phrases; we know nothing in a direct, experiential way about life or about God. And we know nothing about this because we don't know the Reality about ourselves.

We don't have the understanding of Reality about who we are because we don't have the Truth about what we present ourselves to be here. We present ourselves as people, we are relating, as people, among people. As people, as relating to experiences, situations, events. We don't have the truth about the person, about that 'I'. We don't investigate that.

Learning about Self-awareness is what brings us closer to the Truth of the awareness that reveals where God is, where He is found, where His Presence is revealed. So, just to say this in advance, what we've been saying is this: the Reality of Life, here and now, is not something separate from the Truth about God in this moment. Therefore, it's not something you find out there.

Thus, it's not where God is, but where His Presence, here and now, is revealed. That's what matters for us to investigate, to comprehend. When people ask, "How to find God?", They place Him far away, distant, because we were taught that way. Each of us has a vision. Here, a vision is a particular opinion, idea, belief about God. We were raised within a religion, surrounded by various forms of religious and spiritual doctrines.

Thus, we have an intellectual, credulous formation of ideas about God. So, for us, He is something far away, distant. So, how do we find God? Here we are investigating this with you. Thus, we can make these statements, and it's not about believing what is being presented here. It's about investigating whether there is any truth in what we are presenting to you at this moment. This requires a brain and a mind capable of looking and, by itself, approaching and seeing directly what we are addressing here.

The awareness that reveals Life is the awareness that reveals God. This awareness is the presence of Meditation. The Reality of this Being is not the person as you see yourself. I am referring to the Reality of this present Being, it is the Truth about Life, it is the Reality about God. Therefore, nothing is more important in life than the recognition of That which is present here, beyond the known.

The word "recognition" is very strange here, but since it is something innate, present in your True Nature, there is nothing more intimate to be verified, to be experienced and, therefore, recognized. These are not like aspects of thought, the images that thought establishes within us to be recognized in memories. The Reality of this Being is something entirely different.

You recognize objects because you have knowledge of them in memory. Here, the Truth of God is something beyond the mind, yet it is something innate, being the Truth of this Self. Why don't we approach it? Because we have been molded within a social, collective structure of ideas in the world, to always think in terms of becoming, of achieving. So, we have this inclination.

The idea is: "I am not, but I will be," it is: "I don't have it here, but I will have it," "I haven't achieved it yet, but I will achieve it," and this has given us a quality of consciousness in duality, of mind in duality, where there is the idea, which is a thought within us, that we lack something and that we need it. So, we are not, but we will be, we don't have it, but we will have it, we haven't achieved it, but we will achieve it. That is the separation.

This places us in the context of life in an internal movement, of thought, of psychological orientation, where we see ourselves as entities separate from life as it happens, from the other as they are, and from ourselves. When a thought is present, we have the illusion of a thinker: once again there is duality here. When an emotion is present, there is the illusion of someone who is separate from emotion. That is what we are investigating here with you: the illusion of this duality.

God is not something distant. There is no such thing as You, in your True Nature, and God. There is no separation between Being and God. Being is the Reality of God. Therefore, it's not about becoming. "I am not happy, but I will be happy." This "becoming" is an illusion. "I don't have love, but I will have love," "I don't have peace, but I will have peace." No, absolutely not! The Reality of Being is Love. The Reality of Being is Peace. The Reality of Being is God.

For some human beings, this has already become clear. And why isn't it clear to you? And why isn't this possible for you? Here we are saying that You in your Real Nature are That. Our work here consists of letting go of illusion, the illusion of this thought that sustains itself on the belief of a thinker, that separates itself from thought. When we let go of the illusion of this idea of ??becoming, of achieving, of obtaining, that which is real reveals itself. So, yes, this is for you, here and now, in this life, You being the pure Divine Reality.

All we need here is to learn about ourselves. Therefore, learning about Self-awareness is encountering the awareness that reveals it, which is the art of Meditation. So, what is Meditation? We have a playlist here on the channel about Real Meditation. Meditation is not what some call meditation out there. When there is Meditation, it is revealed in the space, which is Meditation, the non-separation, the non-duality.. Thus, it is not someone meditating, it is Meditation present, but the meditator does not exist.

When there is true Meditation, Real Meditation, there is no one meditating. Therefore, what is Meditation? What is Meditation really? It is the awareness that reveals what is present here, and what is present is what is outside of time. Therefore, we discard the illusion of God to be found in the future, of this "coming to be." So, it is not happiness for someone, it is not happiness that is not here and will be found later, love will be found later. There is no such thing as this "later."

The elimination of time is the elimination of becoming, the elimination of the psychological future, of that psychological "after." That psychological "after," that psychological becoming, that God being found within that psychological belief, all this vanishes. There is a present Reality beyond belief, beyond the idea, beyond this psychological time, this mental time.

Here we approach the awareness of the moment, the Revelation of That which is outside this very instant, beyond this very idea of ??the present moment. That which is timeless reveals itself here as the awareness of Being. Therefore, how to find God? When we empty ourselves of everything that thought is producing and sustaining in this psychological model of cultural consciousness, social consciousness, human consciousness, there comes the presence of a new vision, a new perception of Reality. This is the Real Divine Consciousness, where the Reality of God is present in the space that opens up when there is the presence of the Revelation of this Being.

The basis for this simple, direct, and clear vision consists in the presence of Self-awareness, of true Meditation. Therefore, when this is here, Bliss, Love, and Freedom are revealed. The awareness of God is the vision of Life here and now, beyond, I repeat, the very idea of ??time. That which is indescribable, unnameable, timeless reveals itself as the Wisdom of God. You were born for this vision, for this comprehension, for this realization.

This is what we are working on together here with you. We have our online meetings on weekends, where we sit and look at this, investigate this. Your Natural State of Being is the presence of Meditation; this is the vision of Life in Intelligence, Love, Freedom, and Happiness. We have online meetings on weekends, two days. I want to extend an invitation to you: you have our link to participate in these online weekend meetings in the video description. In addition to the online meetings, we have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you just heard makes sense to you, here's an invitation. Leave a "like," subscribe to the channel, and comment below: "Yes, this makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for watching, and until next time.

October, 2025
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Joel Goldsmith | Consciousness Transformed | Spirituality | Egoic Life | Marcos Gualberto

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

Today, I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Consciousness Transformed." In one passage of this book, Joel makes the following comment: "Ten righteous men can save a city. Who are the righteous? Those who dedicate themselves to righteous prayer. And what is righteous prayer? That which seeks nothing for itself, but seeks only the Presence of God."

Master, in this excerpt, Joel comments on this righteous prayer that seeks nothing for oneself. Within this subject, can you share your vision of how the ego hides itself within spirituality?

MG: Look, Gilson, this is very common in all of us. Life in ideas, in concepts, in beliefs, our great attachment to expressions, to words. Therefore, we are living within an abstraction when we talk about this life of spirituality. So, this disguise for "I," for the ego, the disguise of a spiritual life, is very common.

In general, we are content with beliefs, with ideas. We are content, see this, in our discontent, we are content to follow doctrines, mystical practices, spiritual beliefs, and we believe that we are living real spirituality, real spiritual life. We even take pride in it. So, in fact, the ego hides itself, it disguises itself in this model of spirituality.

We don't have eyes to see, nor ears to hear what is here, inside us. To know our own mind, to become aware of how it works, how it functions. That is what we need to do for a Real contact with Divine Life, with spiritual Life. And this is something that involves the question of listening.

We don't know how we function. From where we find ourselves - within the particular vision we hold of who we are - we project what we wish to be, based on criteria we receive from so-called spiritual teachings, commandments, and doctrines. This is not the Real Truth about us; it is, in reality, a movement of hypocrisy, and we are unaware of it. Moreover, in the mind, from this curtain of beliefs, images, and ideas that thought has established within us, everything we see from this place, from this curtain, is within this unconsciousness. It is within this pattern of unconsciousness of the mind.

This mental unconsciousness, which has shaped our lives, is the mind trapped in patterns of behavior. These are our conditionings. All this result of acquired knowledge, of tradition that we receive within the culture, within this movement of human history, we are still living within patterns of worldliness, linked to the values ??of the senses, to the values ??of the mind. Values ??that we receive from the cultural context, from the social context. So, in fact, our life as people, in the spirituality that we know, is a life in the ego, it is a life in this "I."

The presence of this "I" is the element of separation between you and Divine Reality. It is Divine Reality, Real Spirituality. But Real Spirituality, which is this Divine Reality, is unattainable by the mind, inconceivable by thought. All we have done is imagine, create a spirituality within imagination, within thought. And thought within us is an element of psychological conditioning, of memory structure, of continuity of the past. That is what our spirituality is like.

There is no truth in this spirituality. What is present, is the model of the "I," it is the model of thought, in this desire to reach God, to find God, to live with God. For the mind present within us, the idea of ??someone, of a person, is the idea of ??finding, is the idea of ??becoming spiritual. When we learn to observe the mind, it requires that we not look from behind the curtain, the curtain of evaluations, beliefs, concepts, teachings, and doctrines. We begin to become aware of how the mind works, of how this sense of the person, which is the present "I," the ego, acts. And so, yes, truly, we can disentangle ourselves from this egoic sense, from this sense of "I." Only then can we become aware of the true awareness of the Truth about Life.

When we strip ourselves of the "I" by stripping ourselves of the ego, this Real sense of Life is revealed. In this sense of Life, there is no entity separate from Life. It is this sense of Being, this Mystery revealing itself. This is Real Spirituality. Otherwise, we will continue living within a pattern of hypocrisy, in this so-called spirituality of spiritual practices, of following doctrines and teachings. This discovery, this revelation, is what is revealed here when we have eyes to see and ears to hear what is present, at this moment, within ourselves.

The foundation is always this gaze: a gaze without the past, a gaze without choices, without conclusions, without beliefs. When we become aware of envy, fear, anger, jealousy, possessions, the idea of ??possessing things, the idea of ??someone present having these things, the idea of ??someone present not only with what they have acquired externally, but with everything they have been acquiring internally, psychologically. The truth about this "I" is the comprehension of this idea, of this image that thought has constructed.

The whole work consists of becoming aware, of looking, of perceiving, therefore, this foundation is the basis for a work. It is the presence of this Divine power, of this very Divine Grace, that makes this work possible. So, truly, this contact with spirituality is not contact for the "I," for the ego. It is contact revealing itself when the "I" is not there, when the ego is not.

Life is to be comprehended, realized, verified in this observation, in this awareness of being. Expressions like "self-awareness," "awakening of consciousness," or "perception of divine reality" are expressions that we can use within theories, within concepts, or we can assume this in a real, experiential way, for a direct comprehension.

In this comprehension, there is no hypocrisy, no illusion, so there is no longer this "I" hiding, concealing itself behind expressions, expressions like "spiritual enlightenment" or "spirituality." This is what we are investing our time, our minds, and our hearts in. Here, I am referring to this investment of moments together, like the one we have here, to look at this.

Moments like the ones we have in online and in-person meetings to investigate the truth about the "I." Then, we can have the awareness of this Revelation, and, if It is present, illusion ends, ignorance dissolves. This is the Truth of Spirituality: It is not someone becoming spiritual, achieving spirituality, or attaining spirituality. It is this Spirituality taking over this space, taking over this Realization for this body and for this mind.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, how to deal with a wounded ego?"

MG: Gilson, the idea of ??a wounded ego, for most of us, is, in fact, just an idea. We are not aware of what this "I" is, of what this person is, the person that we are. So much so that, when we use the expression "ego," we have already separated ourselves. Because people, in general, say: "my ego." There is no such thing as this "my ego." That is an idea, the idea of ??someone who has an ego.

There is a Reality present here. This Reality is not the "I," it is not the ego. However, when thought takes over, when it is present, it separates itself as being the thinker, as being someone, someone who is having this thought. And immediately, it uses the pronoun, the pronoun "I" or the pronoun "my." So, we use expressions like "I," "myself," or "my house," "my family," "my name," "my ego." And now, we use expressions like "the wounded ego." But what is the truth about the ego? What is the truth about the "I"? We will never know what this "I" is, what this ego is, without an investigation of the very movement of thought.

The basic element that sustains the continuity of this sense of separation-which is the ego, which is this person, which is the "I"-the basic element is the presence of thought. And we don't know how to listen to thought. We don't know how to observe thought, to be aware of thought. Because, when thought arises, it immediately separates itself. It separates itself into liking or disliking. It separates itself into evaluating, judging, or comparing. This is the internal movement within each of us, in this mind, in this consciousness, in this "I."

Therefore, learning to listen, to observe the movement of thought, requires this gaze, requires this quality of approach to listen to what is happening to us, without interfering, without getting involved. This is the real form of approach, of comprehending this ego. And, when there is this comprehension, it becomes clear that all the movement of the "I," of the ego, is a movement of separation to feel hurt, to feel offended, to be wounded.

We carry within us, in this egoic sense, and this in an entirely unconscious way, the pursuit of pleasure and the escape from pain. It is the pursuit of the continuity of an identity that needs to continue: to continue in control and, therefore, in insecurity and fear. Where there is control, there is fear, there is insecurity. And yet, this control is a projection that thought has been constructed for this "I." Because, in fact, there is no control. It is the idea of ??someone who possesses things that gives us the illusion of the person who controls those things.

Thus, we constantly live in this illusory center that is the ego, being hurt, in this feeling of fear, of insecurity, like aggressive, possessive creatures, burdened with anxiety, with all forms of despair. Is it possible to break free from this, for a Real Life free from this "I"? Then, there will be no more wounded ego. There will no longer be someone having control or believing they have control of things.

The point is that you were born for Freedom, but freedom for you is not the presence of someone free; it is the Reality of this Being, which is You, who knows no prisons. Exactly the prisons created by thought, built by this structure of psychological conditioning, which we receive from the world and establish in ourselves as being our real life. We establish it in ourselves as being the life of this "me."

Therefore, this "you" that you know is an illusion. We are talking about this Freedom of Being. This is You in your Real Nature. This is the Awareness of God. This is the Awareness of Life. There is no wounded ego. It is the presence of Love, the presence of Happiness, when illusion ends, when that idea of ??someone is no longer there.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "How do I know if I am acting in ego or if I am acting freely?"

MG: Your question is: How do I know if I am acting in the ego or not? Who is the element present in this? Observe your question. What do we know? Everything we know is something we bring from a recognition of the past. All the knowledge you have-the reference is the experience you have lived-is therefore something that comes from the past.

The element that recognizes the past is the presence of thought. It is the presence of thought that creates this orientation of knowing, of understanding. When this is present, what is present is the person. It is this me, this "I."

Therefore, when you ask, "How can I know?", who is this who will know? Isn't he part of thought, of experience, of memory and, therefore, of the past? Isn't that the conclusion of belief? Therefore, this idea of ??someone to know is something present in the "I," in the ego itself. So, this needs to be clear.

The awareness of Truth reveals itself in a quality of action, of feeling, of thinking, of acting in life. However, there is no one present to comprehend.

The presence of comprehension is the real discernment of a quality of action free from the "I," free from the ego. However, there is no one as a sensor, as an experiencer, as someone for this discernment.

Thus, here we face something outside the "I," outside the mind. Therefore, never worry about the idea of ??someone to know. Your job is to become aware of this "someone." Just be aware of this movement of the "I." Just become aware of it. Be aware of the movements of thought, feelings, sensations, and also actions.

When you bring awareness to this instant, attention to this moment, there is a quality of listening, of perceiving, of feeling Life happening, which is beyond the person, beyond the ego, beyond the experiencer, beyond the past.

When Reality reveals itself, no one remains to know anything. This very Reality is in expression, and this expression is in line with Life, in line with the Inner State of Love, of Beauty, of Intelligence, of Presence, of Comprehension.

Therefore, we do not need the idea of ??someone to know, to control, to understand whether what they are doing is being done in the "I" or in the ego. That is still part of illusion. That is still part of the past. This contact you have with life is not contact with someone to know, to control, to understand. This contact you have with life is Life revealing itself at this moment. It is the only Truth present at this moment. So, this quality of action is not the action of intention, of motive, of egocentric reason. It is the quality of action that is free from thought, free from the past. It is something natural.

When Divine Reality is present, that Truth is expressed. That Truth is the nature of God. It is the nature of the Self. It is You, without the idea of ??someone present, of that present You. So, it is natural! All action that arises from this natural State of Being is based on the Freedom of Love, the Bliss of Grace, the Freedom of this Real Consciousness, which is pure Intelligence. There is no one left to know. There is no one left to try to get it right.

In this nature of Truth, which is the Reality of Love, there is no mistake, no deception, no illusion, no idea of ??someone who separates themselves to feel, to speak, to act, to think. Thus, in this doing, in this acting, there is no longer the "I," there is no longer the idea of ??someone who separates oneself and, from the impulse of the past, from the impulse of memory, seeks to adjust oneself to their beliefs so as not to err. All of this dissolves when the Natural Comprehension of Being flourishes here and now. Okay?

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

And for those of you who are watching the videocast to the end and truly wish to experience these truths, you are invited to participate in the meetings that Master Gualberto provides.

These meetings are much deeper than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions live. And second, and more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares an Energy field around Him, a field of Presence, Power, and Grace.

In these meetings, we end up being carried by this field of Presence of the Master. And by being carried by the Master, spontaneously, without any effort, we enter a meditative state, silence our minds, and can have a vision, a real comprehension of these matters.

So, the invitation is extended! In the first pinned comment, there is a WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. Also, please "like" the video, subscribe to the channel, and Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

October, 2025
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How to find God? | Meditation: what is it? | Learning about Self-Awareness | Wisdom and revelation

Freedom consists in a free vision. It is not a matter of achieving this Freedom, but of looking from it. Generally, we think of freedom as an objective to be achieved, something that is in the future. To become aware of our reactions here, at this moment; the very awareness of these reactions is the presence of Freedom.

A Life in Wisdom is the presence of the Revelation of that which is present here. So, let us touch on this subject with you, here and now. What is this Freedom? What, in fact, do we need for a happy life, in Love and Peace? It is the presence of Wisdom.

Wisdom is present when we have the Revelation of Life. How can we approach this Revelation? To look at this instant, at this moment, learning to look at that which is here. What we actually need in life when we touch on this issue of the need for Freedom is not something to be achieved; what we need is the approach, at this moment, to that which is going on with us here, at this instant, at this moment.

This is why we have emphasized with you the beauty of Self-awareness, the importance of that. Learning about Self-awareness is to discover the Truth about the one who is involved in thought, with thought, being the thinker, the presence of the "I." Learning about Self-awareness is to discover something beyond the "I," beyond the "person."

This is what we are, with you, here investigating. This is what frees us from the illusion of someone, of someone who has to find God, in the question "how to find God." The thought, the idea is of someone to have an encounter with God. We need to free ourselves from this illusion of someone for an encounter. Yes, the Reality of God shows itself present here and now, in a profound and real encounter, but it is not an encounter of someone having an encounter with God; it is an encounter with Life, of Life itself.

We need to investigate this issue of time, of the idea of a thinker, of this issue of thought, the image that thought has built about God, the idea, which is thought, that thought has also built about the "I." So, "I need to find God," but what is the truth of this "I"? This "I" is the presence of thought itself. Thought has created an image of itself. Thus, it created, established the idea of the "I" and created an image of God, and placed God far away, distant, to be found.

This is why we use the expression "encounter with God" as if, in fact, it were an encounter between two. While the Reality present, the Truth of God, is the only Reality of Life. There is no such element that separates itself; that's the illusion established by thought within each one of us, creating this idea, establishing this idea.

A life in this sense of separation from Life itself, from God itself, is an image that thought has established within you as being you. When we approach to look, to observe, without mistaking ourselves for it, what it means to look without the observer, what it means to look without someone to look-a thought arises, a feeling arises, an emotion arises-just to look, to become aware, is to be before the learning about ourselves.

Thus, Freedom is already here; it is the Freedom of not mistaking oneself for thought, placing the thinker in this thought, of not mistaking oneself for this "I" in this feeling or emotion. It is when, in this way, we approach Meditation. People have many doubts about Meditation because they place meditation as the technique to be executed, as the practice for someone to do. Thus, they look for a way. After all, what is the right technique? What is the practice that one should do? What should one practice? While the Truth about Meditation is the investigation of the nature of the "I," which is the meditator.

By observing our reactions, this thought that arises, this feeling that appears, we place ourselves in this learning about ourselves, in this learning about Self-awareness. In this learning the illusion of the "I," of this element that separates itself, that sees itself as someone when a feeling is there, when a thought arises, when an emotion happens, is revealed. Therefore, the presence of Meditation, what is Meditation? It is the awareness that there is no meditator, there is no "I."

Thus, we approach the present moment for a profound Revelation of Life, which is the Revelation of Wisdom, which is the Revelation of God. Therefore, Wisdom revealing itself is Truth showing itself, it is the Reality of God present when the "I" is not there, when the illusion of a person is no longer present. Therefore, this is the true encounter with God, this is the true Revelation of Truth, which is Wisdom.

Real Life is Life free from the "I." Real Life is Divine Life, You in your Being, free from all forms of complications, disorder, confusion and suffering. Your contact with the present moment without this background, without this internal condition of a model of thought, where we constantly bring to this moment the illusion of the thinker, of the one who thinks, of the one who feels and the one who does... Actions happen, but there is no one in this doing. Thought arises, but there is no one in this thinking. A feeling is present, but there is no one who sees itself in this feeling and mistakes itself for that. Thus, the illusion of duality is eliminated.

We were educated for the belief, for trust, for the common thought of duality: "me and the not-me," "me and the other," "me and God." If a thought is present, the illusion is someone thinking; if a feeling is here, it is someone feeling; if an emotion is present, it is someone being emotional: we find ourselves here with a frame of suggestion of thought, which is the frame of separation, of duality.

Life as it happens is the presence of Supreme Reality, of Divine Reality. This is the Wisdom of Revelation. For millennia the human being has been searching for something beyond the known, beyond the world, beyond what it knows as life. Because, yes, as human beings, we are living, in the ego, in a tedious, problematic life, full of problems, confused, disoriented, stressed, a life in depression, in anxiety, with the various forms of fears that all of us know.

Thus, man has been seeking or has been searching to have an encounter with God, in the idea, in the imagination that with this encounter, all of this will disappear. The point is that we do not comprehend that we are only projecting something into the future. When we speak of "someone," we believe in someone present to, in the future, have this encounter, and this future never arrives. Here, to investigate the truth about the "I" is to strip oneself of this illusion of separation. So, yes, at this moment is revealed Love, Freedom, Happiness; it is the Awareness of God, the Awareness of your Being, and this is Liberation in this life. It is the presence of Bliss; it is the presence of true Happiness.

Therefore, we have to discover here what it means to look, to observe, to become aware of how the mind happens, how this internal movement shows itself-I refer to this movement of consciousness, which is basically the presence of the past, because it is the presence of thought. This is the element that, like a veil, separates us from Reality, because it creates the illusion of an identity that sees itself as separated from Life. The presence of this identity, created by thought, separates us. This is the veil of illusion, it is the veil of ignorance.

It is this ignorance, it is the presence of this thinker, of this "I" that is projecting itself to, at some point in the future, be happy, find love, peace, happiness, while in reality what we have present here and now is That which is beyond thought, beyond this veil. If we do not have the presence of this veil, which is thought, we do not have the thinker, we do not have the "I," the "ego." So, the Mystery of Life is the Reality of Being. Wisdom and Silence is the Nature of God, it is the Truth about ourselves.

Therefore, we have this first aspect of the truth about the "I," which is the truth about who this "I" shows itself to be, appears to be. The investigation of the truth about the "I" is the comprehension of the illusion of the person, of the ego. Thus, the true approach to Meditation, the Reality of Meditation, what is Meditation? What is this awareness of Meditation? It is to look at this instant without the observer; it is to become aware, at this moment, of the Freedom that is here when the thinker does not interfere, when the observer does not get involved, when the experiencer does not arise.

Therefore, we are facing an experiencing without the experiencer, an observing without the observer, a perceiving without the perceiver. It is the presence of this very Divine Reality, because now there is no longer the illusion, there is no longer this veil of separation. Reality and God is the Truth of this Being, it is the presence of Life, Supreme Joy, Supreme Happiness-some call Spiritual Enlightenment this direct and simple Natural State of Being, free from conditioned thought.

And why conditioned thought? Because it is the way that thought, in a mechanical, automatic, unconscious way, has been functioning in this model of mind as we know it. When it ends, this quality of mind disappears; we have this new space, this space that reveals God. Thus, when we touch with you here on the Truth of Meditation, we are speaking of Real Meditation in an experiential way, something here and now, moment by moment.

Thus, Meditation reveals this Natural State outside the mind, outside the "I," outside this pattern of thought, this format of thought. This is what we are working on here, with you, in online meetings on weekends-it is two days in an online format. I want to leave an invitation here for you. You have here, in the video description, our link to participate in these meetings. Besides these, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you have just heard is something that makes some sense to you, then here is an invitation. Go ahead and leave your "like," subscribe to the channel and write a comment here: "Yes, it makes sense." Okay? And we will see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you next time!

October, 2025
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Joel Goldsmith | A Parenthesis in Eternity | What is psychic suffering? | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast, again with Master Gualberto here with us. Gratitude, Master, for your presence. Today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "A Parenthesis in Eternity." In one passage of this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "No man can take your peace after you have discovered the inner world." Well, in this passage Joel speaks of this peace of this inner world. Within this subject, Master, can you share your vision about what psychic suffering is?

MG: Gilson, when we ask this, "What is psychic suffering?", what do we actually expect? A definition? Or do we actually need a direct vision of what this represents? You can consult a book, you can listen to a talk, you can go to a specialist, you can look for someone to help you understand intellectually, or in some other way, what psychic suffering means and yet continue trapped within this format of ignorance.

Therefore, the answer to this question requires a direct vision, a real comprehension, a true perception about this. Something that a book cannot give us, that a lecture cannot give us, that a specialist, however clever he may be, cannot give us. In fact, it is a real contact that is the end to this ignorance, to this condition, to this internal position. That is the answer. It is this contact with reality that is the real comprehension of suffering. In this comprehension, this pain ends.

We carry in us everything that is present in the human being. The discovery is here, possible; the revelation is here, as a possibility for each one of us, when we learn to look, when we learn to listen to ourselves, because we are the entire history of humanity. Psychologically, we carry everything that is present in the other; everything that is present in humanity is something present in each one of us. This is our consciousness, the consciousness of the person. This consciousness of the 'I' is human consciousness.

Therefore, your contact with anxiety, with fear, anguish, worries, the pain of loneliness, the despair of insecurity... of all the various forms of fears, all the conflicts present in our mind and in our heart are part of this psychological structure within the context of this human mind. This is psychic suffering! But this is the verbal aspect, in words... They are mere theories! All this quality of expression, of definition, we can find it in talks, in books, in the dictionary itself, but none of this resolves anything. Unless you learn to listen, to observe your own reactions-here is the true revelation, here is the true teaching, the true talk, the true book; the book to be read, the talk to be listened to, the specialist to be understood.

This consists of a comprehension about you. Having the Truth about you is not something that someone can give you, can assure you, explain to you, give you the information, give you knowledge. We have insisted here, with you, on the importance of understanding oneself, on the value of Self-awareness. It is this that brings you closer to something beyond the mind, beyond the "I," beyond the ego. This ego is this human consciousness that has problems, that carries this psychic suffering and does not know what to do with it. We want to free ourselves from pain without the comprehension of pain, we want to free ourselves from suffering without the comprehension of suffering, of sadness, of anguish, of fear.

We do not investigate the nature of this, where our fears are grounded and founded, our conflicts, contradictions, the internal disorders we carry. We do not investigate this foundation, we do not comprehend this, and we want to free ourselves, as if there were someone to free themselves. This is the mistake! What we are insisting on here, with you, is this direct Truth that is hidden from most of us: the Truth present under the "I," under the "me." It is the ego that is the presence of conflict, it is the ego that is the presence of psychic suffering. There is no ego and suffering; the ego is suffering! There is no ego and fear; the ego is fear! Without the presence of the ego, there is no fear. You cannot be afraid of something if this "something" does not appear to you in thought. If this "something" does not appear to you in thought, it remains nonexistent for you.

Thus, the sense of the 'I' lives from that which it sees, from that which it witnesses on the outside, externally. Thus, it lives its fear, it lives its anguish, its worries, its dilemmas, conflicts and problems. There is no separation between you and fear, between you and conflict, between you and the dilemma. The presence of the dilemma requires you present; the presence of conflict requires you in conflict; and fear, the presence of someone. There is no such thing as a separation. And how can we become aware of this? By listening, by hearing!

It is not someone listening to the person; there is only the listening; in this listening this principle of separation is revealed between the person and his conflict, between the person and his fear, between the person and his dramas. This requires looking, looking and listening-listening is looking! It is these reactions that arise at each moment, in the context of relationships with the other, with life and with ourselves. It is here that the thing is, it is here that the secret is, it is here that lies the possibility of comprehension for the end of psychic suffering. It is here that lies the comprehension for the end of the 'I,' for the end of the ego. If the ego is not present, this person, this "I" is not. The "I" is the ego, the ego is the person, and if it is not present, there is no fear, there is no anguish, there is no psychic suffering.

Thus, the comprehension of suffering is the end to suffering; it is not theory. People have immersed themselves in books, studying for many years. They study sociology, philosophy, psychology, theology... This stays at the level of intellect; only intellectually do we acquire an education. However, this does not resolve! The foundation of our intellect is conditioning; it is the formation of a structure of learned knowledge. That which is learned, which is reserved as information that we bring, that we have, is something within a conditioning.

Conditioning is the acquired knowledge, which allows you to act from this background-this is conditioning. It is not the conditioning that we need... Putting it another way, it is not conditioning nor experience. What we actually need is awareness, and awareness is comprehension, and comprehension is here and now. This "comprehending" is born in this instant and disappears in this instant. It is not comprehension for someone to comprehend; it is the comprehension! And comprehension is present when this mechanics of registration, which gives foundation to this center that is the "I," the ego, the person, is no longer present.

It is this that we have insisted on here, with you: discover the Reality of this Being, go beyond the 'I,' go beyond the ego. Become aware from this observing, from this listening. This requires the presence of Self-awareness, this requires the presence of Meditation.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel who made the following comment: "Master, I live in constant anxiety and worry about the future. How do I stop living worrying about the future?"

MG: Your question is "How to free yourself from the future, because of worries?" Comprehend the Truth of thought; have that very clear, there, the awareness of what thinking is, of how thought is established, of how it happens there, and you will be free from "someone" present who is occupied with the future. Your occupation with the future is the occupation of thought with what will happen, with the "coming to be," with what will arise. It is the presence of thought, an element in you, of registration of memory, something that comes from the past. Every thought in you is memory; it is the presence of the past. It is thought that projects itself, creating the future.

Observe how interesting this is: thought arises in this instant; in this instant there is no past; in this instant, there is no future. When it arises in this instant, you are captured! You are captured to go to the past, to live again, once more, what thought represents. This "you" does not separate oneself from this thought; it is the very past living this, but this is now, here, happening. So, in fact, there is no past. It is thought creating the suggestion of time, creating the suggestion of someone, who is the thinker, who is you, still living this pain-something that occurred in the past, but this is here, in this instant. In the same way, thought projects itself into the future; it is something present here, but it is projecting itself into the future. Thus, it creates time: It creates the past and it creates the future.

There is no such thing as the past; there is no such thing as the future; what we have present is thought. Thus, thought creates this structure; it is the structure of thinking. The presence of this thinker is involved with this structure. This way, there comes what we know as 'thinking." What we know as "thinking" is someone thinking-thinking about the past or thinking about the future, while in reality there is no such thing as the past, there is no such thing as the future.

If it becomes clear to you what thought is here, you do not confuse yourself with it, because there is only the looking, the perceiving. When thought arises, do not place "someone," that is: become aware of it here, be conscious of the presence of thought. This is the presence of "knowing oneself," of knowing the Truth about you, about that which takes place within you, when you simply look, when you simply listen to this, when you simply become aware of this. Then, the sense of the 'I' does not arise to live the past again and to project itself into the future.

Thus, it is the presence of this vision that breaks with the psychological condition of this 'I,' of this ego, and see that, when this "I" is not, when the person, the thinker is not, life reveals itself in this instant; and in this instant, there is no such thing as the future nor the past. This requires this quality of listening, of perceiving, of observing life from the point of view external and internal. To look at this instant as it happens, internally or externally, without getting involved with this, is to not place the experiencer, the thinker, the sense of someone present. Then, we have the end of the illusion, the end of the idea of time: past, present and future.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel who made the following comment: "I have several problems in my life: financial, family... How do I live in peace, even with problems to solve?"

MG: Notice what you say... You say: "I have several problems in my life, financial problems, family problems..." That is, many problems. At the same time, you ask: "How to live in peace amid all these problems?" Here the point is: become aware of what the problem is. Is it that, in fact, we have many problems, or is the foundation of all our problems grounded in our internal state of mental confusion, to deal with matters both external and internal? It is exactly what we are saying here, to you: All these problems that we have are problems that are present in the person that we are. Any demand for peace is the projection of an image that thought is producing about peace; it is an imagination, a belief.

We are living within ideals. We have stopped looking at that which is present here to look at that which is there far away, but what is there far away is an idea, a concept, it is an image that thought is producing. Notice that we were not educated to approach life as it is. Our psychological model, the presence of the egoic mind in us, this presence of the person, is something that is always projecting itself into the future. We live either in the past or in the future, regretting what happened, unable to do anything about it, but projecting the future to try to fix something or solve something. This is the mind that we know.

Is it possible a direct contact, in this instant, with the problem, without separating ourselves from it in this ideal of what should be? Is it possible just to be with this, to look directly at the problem? To confront the problem is not to seek a way to solve the problem, it is not to seek a way, a manner to escape the problem. To confront the problem is to assume the Truth of that which is here, examining, looking closely, and this looking requires that you discover the Truth about yourself. Only when the mind is free to observe the problem does it become clear that this problem is not, first of all, an external problem; it is a problem that is, first of all, a problem within each one of us.

As long as psychologically, internally, there is no Silence, Quietude, Peace, Serenity and, therefore, Intelligence, we cannot, in fact, free ourselves from problems, because there will be no Presence, Consciousness, real Intelligence to deal with this. But here we have, still, an aggravating factor: Most of the problems that we have are not problems to be attended to in this way, because they are not external problems; they are internal problems. They are problems that are present in this sense of the 'I.' Thus, the very 'I' itself, the very ego itself is the problem. It separates itself, for example, to deal with fear, with anger, with jealousy, with envy. There is no such thing as a separation. This is something that the very 'I' itself, the very ego itself, creates from thought.

So, the only and real problem that we have in life is not in life; it is in us ourselves, in the person that we are, in this egoic sense. You in your Divine Nature, which is the Nature of God, there is no problem there. It is the presence of thought, building a world around itself, projecting itself from conclusions, beliefs, evaluations... It is the presence of thought trying to change what is, alter what is. All this movement takes us away from the comprehension of what is to the Truth beyond this, to this Truth of Being. The real approach to life is the presence of this Divine Intelligence, which requires Self-awareness and the presence of Meditation. When this is present, something beyond the 'I,' beyond the ego, is revealed, which is Divine Reality, which is the Reality of God. And when this is present, there are no problems; life is as it is!

The Reality of God is the awareness of this Self, it is the Truth of Being, without the idea, without the imagination of the 'coming to be.' Then, the Supreme Reality is present, Reality, Truth, and here there are no problems. It is in this that we are working on here, with you. To assume the Truth of That which is you is Love, Happiness, Peace, Freedom... There is no problem there, because there is no problem in God.

GC: Gratitude, Master; our time has come to a close. Gratitude for another videocast. And for you who are following the videocast to the end and truly wish to live these Truths, here comes an invitation to participate in the intensive weekend meetings that Master Gualberto provides. These meetings are much deeper than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master responds directly to our questions, and second and much more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, He shares a field of Presence around Him, a field of Energy of Power and Grace. And, in these meetings, we end up "taking a ride" in this field of Presence of the Master. And taking this ride, spontaneously, without any effort, nor any practice, we enter into a Meditative State, we silence our minds and we can have a real comprehension of the subjects that are addressed here.

So, here is the invitation: In the first pinned comment, there is the WhatsApp link to be able to participate in these meetings. Besides that, give a "like" to the video and subscribe to the channel. And Master, once again, gratitude for the videocast.

October, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to achieve the desired reality? | Life free from ego | The conflict of desires

Here, the old question is: "How to achieve what we desire?" To put it another way: how do we achieve the desired reality? Notice what an interesting thing it is to use the expression "reality" in this context, in a sentence like this. What do we actually know about reality? What do we call reality?

When we come across life as it happens, we are faced with Reality. But any thought about it, is a superimposition on that Reality. This overlay is an idea, a thought, an opinion, a conclusion, a concept, a projection. Here, the word "projection," as a synonym for thought is very clear being placed in this context now, in this phrase, in this expression "how to achieve the desired reality through thought." This is how we are moving through life.

We have no awareness of life as it is. We have an idea of how it should be, how it could have been, how it would be. All of this is within this projection, this model, which is the model of thought present in everyone of us. Thus, what is the truth of this idea, this movement, this projection of thought, called desire? When do you feel desire? Either when you have a need, a real need because there is a lack, or when you have a psychological need, in the imagination of a lack.

The complexity in the human being - I refer to this psychological complexity in us - invariably places us in this second alternative. We are not dealing with real needs, but with imaginary needs. So, what we call reality, desires, are projections of thought, within supposed needs projected by the "I," by the ego.

See how we need to investigate this carefully, patiently, or we'll spend a lifetime fulfilling desires and moving from one project to the next, from one achievement to the next, without ever touching the Truth of Reality - we'll always be in the movement of thought. What is the truth about desire? The truth about desire is that you desire on the basis of an image. When you see an object, you desire it if it is beautiful, and you reject it if it produces a feeling or sensation of disgust, of rejection.

The movement of thought present in us is one of embracing, wanting more and constantly seeking more and more pleasure, and rejecting, repulsing, moving further and further away from pain. This behavior in us also has two aspects, as does the presence of desire. Desire - as we've just said - can be a need: if you're hungry, you want food; if you're thirsty, you want to drink. Drink, which is water, is what solves the issue of thirst. But you can have any other drink when you're thirsty too; that other drink is no longer the need for water, it's the psychological need for the satisfaction of pleasure - when you drink something else when you're thirsty.

So, we have this movement in us, a movement of need, of seeking to fulfill a natural, organic, physical need, or even a need for transportation. If you have to go from one city to another, you can't walk, you need a vehicle. At that point, you opt, you choose: if you want to get there faster, you go by plane. Then, it's natural to want a flight because you need a flight, and you have a timetable, so you know that on a flight your travel time is shorter.

So, we have a quality of desire based on a need and we have a quality of desire based on thought, because it is precisely in thought that we store the sensation of pleasure in that desire. When you remember something, the thought itself carries a sensation with it, and it's the thought itself that links what you remember to that sensation of pleasure that you've already felt in the past. Notice that it's always a game of thought.

The memory of the pleasure, of the sensation, is the thought. The image you see there, physically, is being touched here, psychologically, by thought. So, the sensation arises again, it's a memory, it's a recollection. For whom does this memory, this sensation arise? The answer is: for me. But what is this "me?" Who are you? A set of memories, a set of recollections, a set of sensations. Thus, we are faced with a game, which is the game of thought.

The thought says: "you - note, this you is the 'I,' it's the 'me,' which is a thought - will be happy, you will find love, you will find satisfaction, you will find fulfillment"; and what happens, in reality, is that no desire, in this psychological aspect, actually gives you an end to this psychological condition of dissatisfaction, or actually gives you the presence of Love, and Happiness. All that the movement of thought really does is to sustain its continuity by projecting itself into the future; it needs continuity, it needs projection.

So, every desire not only doesn't break with dissatisfaction, with incompleteness, but also reinforces this sense of thought even more, in this format of the "I," this "me," this ego, in search of continuity. This search for continuity, this search for more sensation, note, is the presence of suffering. Here, with you, we are investigating the truth of life at this moment, and we are also asking ourselves if it is possible, at this moment, to assume the Reality of Life as it happens, without this illusory presence of this "I," which is nothing other than thought projecting itself into one's own imagination, in an illusion of conquest, completeness, love, happiness and satisfaction, in this form of desire.

Contact with life at this moment is Joy, it's Completeness, it's Love, it's Peace, it's Happiness when thought is not present, when this projection is not there, when desire, which is this craving for more, linked to this sensation of pleasure, is no longer present. So, we are facing something new, which is present when thought is not there, since thought is the main element in all of this. Thus, can we have contact with life at this moment, but without the suffering that thought causes, due to this desire for more and more and more?

Is it possible to look at something, at someone, at a beautiful car, a beautiful house, a beautiful face, a beautiful body, something that brings back a memory, a recollection and, of course, a sensation... You see, the sensation, the memory, the recollection is of pleasure with that experience, with that object, with that given situation. But is it possible, at that moment, not to place this element, which is thought, in sensation, in pleasure, in that experience? Notice, that's the end of the past, that's the end of this element that comes from the past, which is thought.

Is it possible to stay with the sensation alone? Because without the element, which is thought, there will be no projection, no continuity of desire. Then, what we call here sensation or pleasure is not sustained. If this is not sustained, desire is not established. So, we're left with the moment, with that beautiful face, that beautiful body, that beautiful car, that beautiful house, we can see how beautiful that person on stage is singing, but there won't be envy because there won't be this element, which is thought, creating the comparison, creating this image "I could be there too, I could be someone as important, or someone as beautiful as him or her, in that place."

If the thought isn't present, we have the end of desire because we have the end of comparison, we have the end of envy, we also have the end of fear. Because when we have the presence of desire, notice, there is also hidden there the presence of fear that one day we won't achieve that fame, that one day we won't be able to get there where he or she did. You see, comparison is the basis of fear, the basis of desire. All this is sustained by creating this identity, which is the "I," here, at this instant, projecting itself onto this ambition, this envy, this desire, this fear.

Notice what an important thing we have here. The presence of desire carries fear. Furthermore, the presence of desire carries contradiction. The contradiction present in desire is the presence of suffering. When you want something and you know you can't have it, that causes you fear. When you want something you know you shouldn't have, you can't have it, because it's not ethical, because it's not moral, because it's not right, but, you see, desire is present, but so is an element in you, which is this "I," this sensor, which says: "you can't have that, because it will cause you problems." So, this state is the internal state. Then, this state is the internal state of the "I," of the ego, in contradiction. You see, in desire we have the presence of suffering.

So, note this, when desire is present - I refer to this psychological condition of desire, not that simple, natural desire for a flight or for food when you're hungry, or even to buy a car when you have the money; I refer to conflicting desire, to desire that generates conflict, which is psychological desire - wherever there is the presence of desire, there will be conflict, because we will have present either ambition, envy, contradiction, as has been said, or fear.

Notice the problem that desire, this quality of desire that the ego knows, produces in each of us, in this "me," in this "I," desire being thought itself, thought being the "I" itself, this "me," this element that comes from the past. Here, we are with you, investigating all this, telling you that life is possible free from ego, free from the "I" and therefore free from the issue of this quality of desire where the sense of "I," where the sense of the ego, is present, being the basis for all that. An encounter with the Reality of Life at this moment is the Freedom of an answer to this instant free from the past.

Here, we are telling you that Happiness is already present when the sense of "I," of the ego, is not there, and all your contact with life is of Love, is of Peace, is of Happiness, is of Beauty because that element, which is thought, which comes from the past, which creates this psychological condition of ambition, envy, comparison, desire, is no longer present. So here, we have Divine Truth revealing itself, which is the Truth of your Being. This is the end of the past, the end of time, the end of the "I."

Thus, we're working on it together here with you in these meetings. Real Life is life free of the "I," free of the ego. Then, there is Beauty, Grace, Love, Happiness in What is You in Your Being, here and now. We have online meetings here on weekends, where we are working on this with you. Saturdays and Sundays we are together: two days in an online meeting. Apart from these meetings, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If what you've just heard makes any sense to you, here's an invitation. Go ahead, leave your "like" here, subscribe to the channel and say in the comments: "Yes, that makes sense." OK? And we'll see you. Thanks for meeting us and see you next time!

April, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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