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.
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