An Invitation to this State of Pure Consciousness

The essence of our work is Consciousness, which is also known as the Being, the Reality of the ‘I Am,’ Love, Life, the Divine, God. That is all you need to realize. After all, what is This in you that is aware of this moment? This is always present. That is what we are exploring together.

The thought you have about yourself is of limitation, because you think of yourself as being the body and the mind. You cannot imagine yourself as that unlimited Consciousness, something beyond time and space, and naturally something beyond body and mind. Mind cannot reach that Reality. It cannot even imagine This. Therefore, you are not prepared for This.

Satsang is a very interesting thing, because in it you have to face this possibility of seeing yourself beyond the body and the mind. The point here is to break this paradigm of limitation that mind imposes on itself. In fact, this is an impossible feat for the mind, because its consideration of life is based on the experience it has, which is of time and space. So, it cannot visualize or consider that there is something outside time and space. This is very hard, very difficult for the mind.

Every belief is based on the imaginary experience of the mind, which requires material, images. Notice how important this matter is! This is outside of all experience, outside of imagination and, therefore, out of mind´s reach. So, in general, people are not prepared for This. They need a mysterious touch, something beyond the mind, and that touch is the possibility of a glimpse of Meditation.

Mind loves adventures but within the known, something it can deal with, imagine. In Satsang, the invitation is for this state of pure Consciousness, where there is nothing physical or material, no images, only Consciousness. This is an unknown state for the mind, which I call "Intelligence," the Natural State of Intelligence. There is no Intelligence in the mind, because it deals with the known, with what is imaginary. It deals with time. Mind is time, and this State is outside of it, outside of the known. This may sound incredible to you, because everything mind does, takes place within time. The five senses are within time... or the six senses (some consider the mind as another sense). Therefore, the senses are not proof of Reality but of experience.

We are talking about Consciousness, about Something prior to the this. Physical space is measured in time, that is, from one object to another there is a distance, and this is time. This physical space is full of separate objects, perceptible to the senses, and this is always being perceived in the mind. There is something in you that is beyond the mind and, therefore, beyond experience, beyond these objects, beyond all this multiplicity of appearances.

Consciousness is all that exists, all that there is. Nothing exists outside of It. So, the mind, in which these objects appear, is within this Consciousness.

Ask yourself: what is time? The whole notion of time is always linked to the movement of memory. Memory speaks of time, reports its existence. Without it, there is no time. The notion of space is the distance between one object and another, and this measurement is only possible within time. These are all experiences in the mind, experiences of knowledge. Without knowledge, without memory, without measurement, there is no notion of space; without objects, there is no sense of space or time; without memory and knowledge, there is no notion of objects, and all this is part of the mind.

So, what is time? It is just imagination, a movement of images, a space between images. Isn't that so? How do you know if 30 minutes or one hour has passed without the timekeeping object, which is knowledge based on the hands changing in that object that you call a clock? So, knowledge is necessary for the notion of time, and thought is necessary for the notion of object. So, what is time? What is space? This is a very radical question! In fact, this notion of timelessness, of Reality outside time and space, outside material, outside perception, is not a new thing, since every religious tradition in human history has dealt with this. Buddha, Jesus, the Sages of all times spoke of this eternal Now, this Reality, which is Consciousness.

To be there, this is the absolute perfection, is omniscience, immortality! Consciousness is What makes everything perfect, complete, everything free of limitation, and You are That, now! You are that timeless immortality, that timeless perfection, the Divine, the Truth, God! Such discovery lies in the recognition of your Natural State, which is Meditation. So, these are no longer words but a direct realization of "Enlightenment." That is what we are talking about in Satsang.

This timeless Reality, which is pure Consciousness, is the absence of the illusion of separation. You are really pure, you are free, you are the Truth in this present moment. Your Life is free. It is timeless. So, your Being is immutable! Hearing all this is very strange for you, because you have been trying to improve yourself throughout all your life, you want to be different from what you are. You see yourself as a limited being and, therefore, with the possibility of going through a process of improvement, expansion, of development.

You want to be different than what you are, and I am saying something else. I am saying this is not necessary. It is just an imagination, a belief, something you have learned. Besides not being necessary, this is not possible, because What You Are is immutable! It is this timeless Reality, That which is already complete without change, which is pure Consciousness, infallible, unlimited, indescribable Absolute Intelligence.

This may sound very abstract and profound, but nothing is so unique and simple. The Reality of your Being is the manifestation of this Natural State, which is Meditation, and nothing is as simple as That. So, please, be patient, relax, look within yourself and go beyond the body and the mind, go to the Heart, to this timeless Space, to this “non-space,” this “non-localizable place”. Move yourself to the “non- movement”!

Until now you have always moved horizontally in the world of ideas, beliefs, thoughts, images, projects, desires, dreams, that is, you have always been in a movement of experiencing, of perceiving, of feeling. Now, the invitation is for What is outside the mind, the unknown. Do you see the beauty of this?

So, the invitation here is to your Natural State, which is Meditation! That is the supreme Truth, the infinite Reality. There is nothing but Consciousness! Consciousness is the only Reality of yours! So, everything you assume as “the world,” apart from that Reality, is an illusion! This Consciousness is infinite, without border, without description. What becomes so obvious to the Sage is, in fact, a great shock to the whole cognitive process of the mind. Humankind has been missing This, because it is identifying with the body. Person lives in this identification with the body, and what we call "person" is just a projection, a set of beliefs, an illusion.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on September 11, 2019 - First published in Portuguese on January 22, 2020. For further information about our meetings, click here.

The nature of this Consciousness is timeless

Our approach in these meetings is for you to become aware of this Consciousness. Realization, Awakening, Enlightenment, or whatever you want to call It, is not about becoming Consciousness, but about realizing the Truth that It is already present. You cannot become Consciousness, because You are Consciousness! You are the Consciousness of Consciousness in Consciousness itself! Therefore, we are dealing here with the discard of the illusion of unconsciousness. Follow this carefully... This unconsciousness is an illusion! Consciousness never ceases to be What It Is - Consciousness in itself.

Understanding this is important because then you see that this “me” is just a thought, an idea produced by the thought itself. You believe you are someone, but that is just a thought sustained by that unconsciousness for ignorance. However, even this thought is within this Consciousness that You are. Being identified with this thought is what I have called as illusory unconsciousness.

Today, someone asked me if Maya is prior to the mind and the body. My answer is that Maya is an illusion and is thus present in the mind itself. Maya is not prior to the mind. It is the mind's own illusion. Mind carrying this sense of separation is illusion, and that is Maya. Therefore, it cannot be prior to the mind and the body.

So, you are not going to become that Consciousness. You will assume the Truth that there is only Consciousness and This is You. You are not the mind. You are not the "I" nor the body. You are Consciousness!

It is beautiful this contact in Satsang with the One who is seeing This clearly. Only the One who is no longer mistaken oneself for the illusion of the mind, for the illusion that is Maya, can see This clearly. The beauty of investigating This with a living Master is because He/She provides you with a perspective from the viewpoint of His/Her Real Nature, of His/Her Real Being.

This is a timeless perspective and not an intellectual one. The nature of this Consciousness is timeless and is outside the intellect. Therefore, this is the real approach way to the true Satsang. The mere intellectual, verbal understanding of This is not Satsang. This is not the perspective or the formulation of a living Master. So, the emphasis here is on this internal position, on this position outside of the mind, outside of the perspective of intellect and time.

In other words, you cannot eliminate conflict through analysis, because it is part of conflict itself. Analysis works with images, comparing them, and this makes it remain as a process limited by thought, by imagination. This cannot change the mind, because it is inside itself. The real transformation occurs only when this movement of images and thoughts ceases, which is when there is no more any restriction. So, no analysis is needed anymore and conflict ends, because now you enter this dimension of Totality, which is Consciousness.

If you try to eliminate conflict through analysis, you will sustain the illusion of an entity present, making comparisons and working with images. This does not work! That is why this process never ends. The mind will continue to appear, because images will continue to be produced, and the mind knows how to do this very well. When the mind produces images, it separates, divides and compares, and this sustains conflict, suffering, so there cannot be Self-realization.

Self-realization, in a real way, is the end of the illusion of this “I,” this “me,” of this sense of identity that searches for fulfillment. So, we can call This as the simple and direct Realization, the Realization of Truth about Yourself. That is why I started by saying you do not become Consciousness. You are already Consciousness, the Consciousness of Consciousness, in Consciousness and by Itself, because there is only Consciousness!

What happens in this process of the Realization of the Truth about Yourself is the direct verification that there is no "someone," there is no mind, there is no "me," there is no sense of identity and separation, because this is all in the fantasy of the thought. Is it too complicated or are you with me? You will not be able to grasp it, if you try so intellectually. If there is no intellectual effort, but just an attentive passivity in listening, the understanding of what I am saying here will come to you.

I will give you an example of this: when you wake up in the morning, there is no "you" waking up. There is only Consciousness expressing itself again through this mechanism. So, this mechanism recovers its functions for another day because of this Consciousness and not because of a “me,” an “individual” present, a “person” present. This Consciousness becomes aware of events, of situations of another day, and, interestingly, all this is happening in this Consciousness itself. It is not something separate from It. It is its own world experience. In other words, there is no such “I” there! There is You, but You are that Consciousness! There is no such “I,” this “person” you believe you are, because this is not real.

This is beautiful! It is just wonderful to know that there is no “someone” doing anything; that everything just happens as it does, and not because it has to happen or was planned to happen. It just happens because it happens! Just like that! There is nothing to do and there is no one who can do anything.

When you are comfortable with this vision, then what I mean as Meditation is present. It is about accepting the possibility that everything is perfect, that everything is in its place. This is Real Perfection. It is your body living in You. It is not "you" living in your body. It is the world living in You, not "you" living in the world. It is Life living in what You are. It is not "you" living life! There is nothing to do and no perfection to obtain, because That is already perfect as It is! There is nothing to obtain, to conquer, to achieve…

This sense of “person,” the “I”, the ego is the illusion of unconsciousness, the unconsciousness in its own illusion being supported by thoughts, beliefs, imaginations, ideas. Your personal concerns, your desires, fears, your relationship with life, with your body, with the world, all of that is imaginary. None of this is, in fact, happening outside of your imagination. All this is just the imagination of being "someone." There is only Consciousness, and It is common to everything, to everyone, without distinction and separation. The funny thing is this constant search for freedom, for transcendence, but to transcend what? What is the kind of freedom that is being sought? All of this is in imagination.

But to find This out is something that requires investigation, inquiry, self-observation. When you take on this work, you are ready to discover What You Are: Freedom, Consciousness, Happiness. So, you are ready for your Natural State, which is Meditation.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on October 30th, 2019. For further information, click here.

Presence is the only Truth

We are present at one more meeting... This expression “we are present” is quite interesting because, in fact, Presence is the only Truth. Without the reference of thought, of memory, which is knowledge, there is no vision of limit, outline, shape, dimension, color, history, past, future, present, destiny, nationality, no notion of being present or absent. All of this requires thought.

On the other hand, the Truth of this Presence, your True Nature is something that is independent of thought. You are Consciousness, which is this Presence and is even aware of thinking and of all these apparitions that it brings, like your history, color, age, past, future, destiny, nationality, However, you are beyond these perceptions, beyond the known, knowledge. You, in your Self, do not own this knowledge and neither are you possessed by it. In fact, all this knowledge is just a form of limitation that thought creates in an imaginary way about whom or what you are for real.

In our culture, we are entirely lost in this dependence on thought, prisoners of age, of history, color, future, past, nationality, of all kind of things. Actually, these are qualities or attributes working to confirm the illusion of an “entity” present in an illusory time thought creates in need of past and future. This is the illusion of a separate identity imprisoned within time and space.

If you pay a little attention to this movement of the mind, to this movement of the thought, you will perceive that You, in your Being, are always present. It is not to be present within time, but in this ever Now, in this Reality of Now. Without the reference of thought, there is no past, future, culture, history, color, destiny; there is not body, mind, world, time. The Reality of Consciousness is this Truth, now! Not in this present, but in this Now!

Present presupposes a truth within time. There is no Truth within time, for it is only the imagination of a break between two events (what happened in the morning and what happened in the afternoon). Between these two events, time is present as a form of thought, because it is required to have the sense of morning and afternoon, of events happening in the morning and events happening in the afternoon. However, notice that this time is just imagination. There is not morning and afternoon simultaneously! What you call “morning” or “afternoon” is only a memory, which is present now. Thus, “morning” and “afternoon” are imagination, which is thought.

So, you remain at this point, inside this culture, this cultivation of thought. You are trapped in this web, which is the illusion of time, like a fly that was captured by the spider of imagination. The belief of self-identity is this fly caught in the web of time.

So, you can only imagine two events, but you cannot simultaneously experience the truth of them. Was it clear? Two events cannot be happening now. They can only be imagined. In fact, what is happening cannot be imagined, because it is happening in this Now, out of time, and here is Life, the beauty of Life, the Reality. Then, there is no present, past, and future! This Reality of Life is Consciousness, which is your True Nature.

Therefore, you are not born, nor will you die. Since time is not Reality, the apparition of the body has not happened either. It presupposes past. Body, just like any other event, is something present here and now. Any manifestation is present now as Consciousness. So, everything thought imagines, it does within this illusion of time. It sounds very strange to thought itself.

Notice how interesting this is: thought is just an idea, a concept, a belief, an imagination. It talks about events that happened in the past, but past and future are now, as well as the present. Thus, this Now is the only Reality of this Consciousness, and This is outside the illusion of time. This way, the body cannot be an event of the past. Nothing can have happened in the past because, in fact, nothing is happening, except this Consciousness expressing itself and manifesting itself now as the unique Reality.

Observe that it is just a matter of culture, of illusion sustained by thought. The Real Unknown is pure Consciousness, and This is beyond the known and the so-called “unknown.” This Consciousness is beyond this known, “beyond” and also below. In the Now, there is only Consciousness, which is the Presence, which is Action. In Action, there is only Consciousness! There is only this Presence making everything, so everything that happens is in its proper place.

*Online meeting transcription, originally held on March 6th, 2020 - First published in Portuguese on May 16th, 2020 – For further information, click here.

01st - How To Be Happy

To be Happy is to find out who You are. There is nothing else to be achieved and, therefore, nothing else to be sought. Why do we travel so much and want to be in beautiful places? Why do we take so many pictures of these places and keep them with us to see them again? Beauty, wherever found, it manages to awaken in us the Truth of God that we bring and are.

We are already complete, so we only need one single journey – the journey into ourselves. As a matter of fact, this is the most beautiful “Place” of all. When we find this “Place,” we no longer need to travel to looking for beautiful places for them to make us happy, even if for a brief moment, because now we can see Beauty anywhere.

We see God everywhere when we have His eyes to see Him. These are the eyes that shine on us when we know who we really are. For many years of our lives, we have carried the dissatisfaction of not knowing who we are, living on the surface without knowing the wealth we bring within ourselves, in our depth. It is there the place of the infinite. It is the center without circumference and the circumference without center. I know these are non-sense words, but the direct experience of God is just like this: something beyond words.

To enter therein is to find yourself or to lose yourself in the Ocean with no beaches of the Supreme Happiness! This is the goal of human life: to live beyond the limits of human life, which is full of conflicts, dilemmas, problems, and all suffering of a separate existence. Such separation is created by the mind that is always dividing, comparing, judging, distorting, constructing a fake world. Seven billion human beings are living on this planet, that is, there are seven billion “worlds.” Everybody is sure   about being and living in “his or her  very own world.” But is there a world? Where is it? Those who realize God find out who they really are, or  what they truly are.

Happiness is the simple art of being who we really are. There will not be Happiness as long as this false identification with feelings, thoughts, emotions, and this terrible and frightening identification with the body remains.

To mistake the Pure Consciousness, which does not know limits, for the so-called mind limited by its conditionings of emotions, thoughts, and feelings, produces an illusion of the identification with a false “me.” So, in this identification, this limitless Consciousness seems to sleep, which means that you, once immersed in all this, are unaware of who You are.

This way, you live without the real perception of Reality, that is, you take as reality what happens to you and not what You are, your Being, which is always free and untouchable, for it is beyond suffering, fear, and despair. For Him, there is just what is and not what should or could be.

This was the first text published by the Master on his blog in Portuguese ten years ago, on October 2nd, 2010. More information about our meetings click here click here.

This is the only reality in all manifestation

Here, we are talking about What You Are. So, we are faced with something very simple: You Are What You Are! The difficulty here is that you cannot accept something so simple, but this is what we are talking about in these meetings. Satsang is the encounter with Reality, with Truth, which means remaining with What You Are. You are What you Are, and that is all!

Thus, it is not only You who are “What Is”; but Everything is “What Is”. Then, everything is What You are! Notice what I just said: You are “What Is”, All Is You, everything is What it Is! This is the only Reality in every manifestation, in all this appearance of names and forms. The difficulty is to accept this, that everything is What Is and What Is, is You! We will explore this here in this speech.

What I am saying is that anything is What Is. You are not a "person" who was born in a specific day. You are that Reality that is What Is and is expressing itself through this mysterious phenomenon of Life. Your difficulty is to accept there is no "person" present, but only a manifestation of this Mystery, which some call Consciousness, Being, Presence, or God.

Your difficulty in accepting this is because you see yourself as an entity in time and space, with a unique personality, unique characteristics, a differentiated, special character. That is, it was given a name to a talking doll. When you see a puppet, you have no doubt that it is not a real entity. You know it has no life of its own, that it is not its talk, the movements are not its, because it is just a puppet. You even have fun, pretending to believe it is real, but, deep down, you know it is not.

I want to ask you a question: what is expressing itself there? There are activities, there are energy, atoms, molecules, cells, muscle movement, speech, all kinds of things, but what is this “person” there? Do this life, movement and energy belong to this "person"? That movement, that energy and that speech, are they from that doll? This is what thought calls "individual experience" or "individuality".

So, these electrical impulses, this energy, this movement, this speech, are these from "someone"? Is it from the "person" or from this Consciousness, this Source, this Reality, this unique Truth? This individual experience is like the wave that the surfer expects. In a surf championship, surfers are waiting for the perfect wave, which is that spectacular, big, monstrous wave that will rise a lot, but that will end up breaking, like all other waves. Wave grows, as does the drama of the “person’s story” - a particular and spectacular “wave”. Surfers are waiting for this huge wave, which grows and becomes unique, but it ends up breaking like any other.

But what is really this wave, even though it looks like huge, spectacular? What is this big particular drama’s character? This wave is just the ocean. It is not individual, personal, nor spectacular. It is just the ocean! Is this clear to you? So, the “person”, no matter how great, noble, important, intelligent and spectacular he or she may be, is no other than this Unique Consciousness. So are all waves, which united or separate represent a single thing: the ocean.

So, we are only talking about the Ocean, not about “waves”. In other words, here we are not talking about people, with their characteristics and particularities, their unique dramas and stories, their intelligence, their brilliance. We are only talking about this Ocean, which is Consciousness, the unique Reality. There are no “people”. There is only this Consciousness expressing itself, just like the ocean: some waves are whopping and others, smaller; some represent a great story and others, little stories or stories without any importance. However, no wave is important, no "person" is! Consciousness alone is important! You are always That, the Ocean, the Consciousness!

Wave does not need any accomplishment to be the ocean, does it? Who believes that a wave needs great achievement to become the ocean? First, no wave will become the ocean because no wave ceases being the ocean. So, it does not require accomplishment. When people are looking for spiritual fulfillment to become divine, what are they doing? Nothing! This is great nonsense! A person will not cease being a person, for that would be like the wave not being a wave. "Person" does not exist, as the wave does not exist. Ocean is there and wave appears, but it is not real, what is real is the ocean. Person appears, but he or she is not real, the real is the Consciousness.

Transcribed from a speech of an online meeting on January 8th, 2020 - Online meetings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 19:30 pm (Local time: Brazil BRT). To participate, download Paltalk App. For further information, click here.