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: "The Art of Spiritual Healing." In one passage of this book, Joel makes the following comment: "The Father is in me. I am in the Father. We are one in each other. This is the secret we know." In this passage, Joel talks about this Unity with God. Within this subject, can the Master share his vision on what Non-Duality is?
MG: Gilson, Life as it happens at this moment is within a single Reality. It is this Reality. It does not separate from this Reality. It is Reality, Life itself. And this Life is the Reality of this Being. This is Non-Duality. That which is You in your Being, Life, is Reality. However, we are moving in the world, moving as people, from the idea, the belief, the suggestion of separation. You see yourself as someone present in the world, separate from Life, separate from Reality. This is duality.
So, what is Non-Duality? It is the awareness of Life as it is. The main element here that sustains us within this program or illusion is the presence of thought, the model of conditioned thought. We have the belief and also the sense of separation. The result of this is confusion in life, it is confusion in the world, it is suffering within us.
Thought present in you deals with the past, with experiences that have already happened. And that is exactly how you feel life happening. Your perception of the world is the perception of a consciousness that sees itself trapped in the pattern of thought within time. We have a notion of life in time: the past, the present, and the future. This is how consciousness within us is aware of the world, is aware of life, has taken on the awareness of what we are. However, this is not Real.
It is the presence of thought that constructs time and that places us as an entity present in life, living experiences. Therefore, there is Life as it happens. Experiencing life is something present in the mind. But the mind has transformed all this experiencing into memories. Thus, the mind created this experiencer, this particular model of thought, which is psychological thought. So, notice how all this is processed. When you have a moment here, at this instant occurring, the mind, in this experiencing, transforms it into an experience when it registers that. And so there is the basis for this "I," which is the person, the experiencer. The result of this experience is memory.
Thus, we are living in memory and looking at the world from memory, which is thought. Thus, there is this separation between you and the world, you and life: you, being the experiencer, living experiences. This is how thought gives us the suggestion of life, shows us life. Therefore, there is no contact with Life as it is. It is contact with life from the interpretation that thought makes. This interpretation is the presence of the "I," the presence of the person. Therefore, there is this "I" and the "non-I." In the very existence of someone, we have the idea of ??the experiencer and their experience. This way we are in contact with the world around us, with the people around us, with everything that happens. This basis is mistaken.
Comprehending Life requires the awareness of this Being, the absence of the illusion of thought. I am referring to conditioned thought. Thought as a record has a space, a place-but only the technical, functional, practical place-and not the psychological one, as we have been doing. Here, for example, the use of speech is the use of a memory record, and therefore, of thought. The word is something functional, something technical. However, we do not remain with thought only at this level. Thought, within us, is at the service of an entity that sees itself as present. This entity is illusory. This entity is the "I."
When I meet you, I do not meet the Reality of this Being. I do not come across this real meaning of Life, which is Non-Dual. When I meet you, this encounter is the encounter of this "I" with the "non-I." This is the meeting between people: the person that thought says I am and the person that thought says you are. This is how our meetings are: in duality, in separation. In this separation, every form of conflict, disorder, and confusion is established. Because Life is Non-dual, while the mind is dualistic. The mind is living in this duality.
Is there a quality of mind for this experiencing without the experiencer? That is what we are investigating here with you. We need to become aware, in life, of this mind free from the "I," the mind free from the ego. This mind, in the "I," is the programmed mind, which repeats itself and maintains its continuity of existence or illusory life in separation. This quality of mind is the conditioned mind.
The true contact with the moment is the true contact with the Self. It is not someone having contact; it is the Presence of a state of communion, of the realization of Reality, where we no longer have the presence of separation. So, your response to the moment is not the response of thought, it is the response in line with Life.
At every moment we are living a new moment. Either we approach this moment from conditioned thought, from the "I," or this contact is contact with Reality, without the "I." And therefore, this contact is the Presence of communion, it is the Presence of this Divine Intelligence, of this real vision of Life.
So, what is Non-duality? It is this present Reality, without the "I," without the idea of ??someone present, being the thinker, being the experiencer. It means Life happening in an experiencing where we no longer have the presence of the past, which is the experiencer. Thus, there are no records. There is no need to record the moment. There is no need for the presence of thought to read the instant, what is happening here, or to record this moment. This is contact with Life, this is contact with Truth. Therefore, the Presence of Truth is Non-dual. This Truth is Divine Reality, it is the Reality of this Being.
Therefore, your question is: "What is Non-duality?" Approaching oneself is having a direct realization of this, and not a theoretical one. It is not something you can theorize about or have ideas about. It is something that is present here, being the only Reality, when the mind is no longer present. When the mind we know, within the model of the known, is no longer present.
GC: Master, within this subject, we have a comment with a question from a subscriber here on the channel. It is the following comment: "I understand the idea of ??Unity intellectually, but, in practice, my mind keeps creating separation. Why does the mind work this way?"
MG: Gilson, intellectual understanding is the theoretical approach, it's the approach of words, it's the approach of the logical basis. But that remains in the realm of ideas, still in the field of abstractions. Direct experience of this is fundamental. Here, you ask: "Why does memory work this way?" It's because it's the mechanics of memory. The brain registers; it's constantly making records, that's how it works.
How can we break this memory? We need technical memory, but we don't need psychological memory. So, that's the question: How to get rid of this psychological memory? The one that provides the basis for the ego's sustenance, for the sustenance of the "I"? When we bring attention to this instant, this moment, in contact with the instant, with the present moment, there is no record. It is only in inattention that the brain registers.
Notice how important this is: When you praise me, in inattention, there is a record; when you praise me, in this attention, when the praise happens, when the word is pronounced, there is no record. And why don't we register when there is this attention? It's because, when praise occurs in this Attention, there's no room for an entity, in its self-image, to take that praise for itself.
We are constantly inattentive-it's the presence of the "I," the presence of inattention. When we pay attention to our reactions, there is no "this one" that separates oneself from what is present there. Therefore, when you praise me in this Attention, there is no "me," there is no "I," there is no separation. And, if there is no separation, the brain doesn't register it. Therefore, real Attention to this instant becomes fundamental, a true and profound Attention to this moment, which requires the presence of a quality of Being, a quality of mind that doesn't register.
We are constantly, Gilson, placing an identity on the experience to live it, to be the experiencer of it. Here, the invitation is to bring Awareness, Presence to this instant; it is to bring Real Consciousness to this moment, it is to be conscious of each and every reaction. When there is this Attention, this reaction does not assume this model of registration, of memory.
Therefore, the true approach of Real Life, of Non-dual Life, is to become aware of these reactions, without being confused by them, without identifying with them, without getting lost in them. Identifying with them, getting lost in them, being confused with them-that is the quality of the inattentive mind.
When there is no Attention, this happens all the time. The basis for a vision free from the "I," free from the ego, is the presence of Self-awareness. This Self-awareness requires looking at this moment without the observer; it requires perceiving this instant without the perceiver; it requires the awareness of experiencing. Therefore, the mind needs to be silent, aware of its reactions. Then, there will be this Attention, this full Attention, this real Attention.
So, thought has its place-a place in this technical register-but we no longer have psychological thought, which gives foundation to this sense of "I," which underlies this sense of ego. This requires the presence of this gaze, this perception. Therefore, that which is Self-awareness is the basis for Meditation. We have to deepen this, comprehend this, have direct awareness of this-in this experiencing, without theories, without concepts. We don't need intellect here; we need the direct awareness of this Truth, which is the Truth of Meditation.
GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, who made the following comment: "Master, how can I use self-observation to perceive my actions in everyday life?"
MG: Gilson, this self-observation is the presence of this gaze towards your reactions in this Attention. When we use expressions like "self-investigation" or "self-observation," we are talking about a state of Being, of a mind free from the experiencer, free from the thinker, free from the element that looks from the past, that perceives from conclusions and beliefs, evaluations and ideas.
So, what is this self-observation? It is the awareness of your reactions here, at this moment. Therefore, moment by moment, this direct look at all this movement of thought, feeling, sensation, without interfering with it, is the presence of this Attention. It is when you interfere with what you observe that the observer emerges; it is when you interfere with this feeling that someone emerges in this feeling.
Our actions, in general, are born from the model of thought, from this impulse, from this "I," which is the presence of intention-this is involvement. But, when you don't get involved, when there is no involvement, a new quality of feeling, also of thinking and acting, is present. There is no longer the presence of the "I," the presence of the ego. It is when contact with the moment is not from the past, not from memories and remembrances of the past. It is when contact with the moment is the contact of Life in life. That which is You is Life in your Being; the Presence of Life is the Reality of Being, and this is Divine Truth, it is the Truth of God.
Therefore, the direct work for this Flourishing of this Natural Non-dual State of Being is this gaze, this perception, it is the presence of this Attention to any and all reactions that arise in this moment. When we do get involved, this sense of this "me," this "I," this "we," this entity that sees itself present, is no longer there. Therefore, there is a single Presence, there is a single Reality. It is not your Reality nor my Reality; it is not our Reality. It is the Present Reality. In it, there is no separation between me and you, between us and them. All this idea of ??us, of them, of me and you, from the internal point of view, from the psychological point of view, is an illusion.
There are many things, there is a multiplicity of forms and names, objects and human beings. However, the only Reality present is Divine Reality, it is the Reality of Being. This real contact with the moment is Divine Reality. There is no one present for this contact. Therefore, we need a mind capable of perceiving, comprehending, of looking. This quality of mind is in Silence, in Freedom; it is outside the known, outside the movement of evaluation, comparison, judgment, acceptance, or rejection.
What gives us the basis for all this is this quality of observation. Therefore, the presence of self-observation is observation without the "I." It is simply observing, becoming aware, becoming conscious. It is when we discover the beauty of this Real State, which reveals this Natural State of Being, which is Meditation. This is what we are working on here. To look at this in a direct way is to become aware of the Truth of this Being, it is to become aware of Divine Truth, of the Truth of God. Okay?
GC: Gratitude, gratitude, Master. Our time is over. Thank you for another great 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 meetings that Master Gualberto provides. These meetings are much more impactful than these videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions live. And second, and much more transformative, 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.
And, 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 practice, without any technique, without any effort, we enter a meditative state, we silence our minds, we forget about any and all problems. So, the invitation is extended!
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