Fear cannot get rid of fear

You cannot get rid of fear, because you are the fear! There is no separation between you and the fear when it is present. Fear moves; that is what fear does. You want to get rid of fear just because there is pain involved. So, you ideologically dissociate yourself from that pain since, actually, you are not separate from it. You are the pain of fear when fear is present. That is why analysis does not help. Analysis only camouflages it. It does not give definitive help. It only gives a palliative help, once the analyzed thing and the analyst are not separate.

Notice how this is quite interesting, quite important to see.

When you want to get rid of pain, you are the pain. There is no way of getting rid of it! This is the very own pain in discomfort moving reactively. When fear is present, the discomfort of fear is the fear itself. Who is trying to get rid of this discomfort if not fear itself?

So, this is reactivity, it does not work. Fear is fear and it will never stop being fear. Pain is pain and it will never stop being a pain. Do not think that it is you with the pain, that it is you with the fear – you are the fear, you are the pain.

Some days ago, I was asked on Paltalk: "Is 'me' the fear?" It seems that someone had this insight, this glimpse. I replied: "The 'I' is not only fear but also suffering, anguish, sadness, joy, frustration, desire…" You do not separate them, since there is no separation.

So, here the first point is: if you want to get rid of fear, fear is that desire, and that is you; then, it is not going to work out. There comes the question: "How to get rid of fear?" Forget about getting rid of fear! And there comes another question: "What do I do with fear?" Nothing, as it would be fear itself making the action.

The one who analyzes is the one who is being analyzed: there is no separation. So, the therapist is no real help, since the therapist also needs to abandon the illusion that someone can be helped. That is why therapists look for therapists to treat themselves, once they are never fine. The "I" is never fine, even the "I" specialized in treating the "I." The mind is never fine, even the mind that knows how the mind works.

I have never said it, but I am going to say it for the first time: ego has no cure, the mind is a hopeless case, and that's it. Ego's nature is fear. Mind's nature is fear. It is not only fear but also desires, conflict, reactivity, search, escape, misery. That is what I have been saying "misery" all these years and some of you have not understood. I say that human life, without the awareness of what is the Truth of this "human being," is misery.

Everyone who is suffering some situation, listen carefully: you will not get rid of it! This is bad news, I know, but the good news is that you do not have to get rid of this for it to disappear! This is available to disappear, continually available to disappear without effort. So, that is where the good news comes in: suffering is not real; it does not have to be present there.

See what I said: you do not have to get rid of it since this is not real! So, I broke the bad news and now I am breaking the good ones. The bad news is: you will not get rid of suffering. Every move you make to get rid of suffering will make it stronger.

Here is the key: surrender! Since you are not separate from fear, since you are not separate from suffering, there is only this surrender, as any other movement is resistance. All that is needed is surrender, surrender to the truth. Is the truth fear? So, surrender. Is the truth the pain? So, surrender. Is the truth boredom, is it loneliness, anger? So, surrender. Resistance is based on the assumption that all this can be overcome, but this resistance is the strengthening of ego-identity, of this fear, of this suffering, of this anger, of this pain.

Where is the ego living? In this attempt to do something. You cannot do something. You can stay with it, that's all. This is surrender to the Truth! You surrender, you do not resist, and you stop formulating internally something different from what is happening. What is happening to you right now concerning work, relationships, body health, financial, physical, or psychological problems, in this idea of the "I," of the mind, in this thought process? What is happening? Is there discomfort? That is your challenge, for that is where your "me" is alive, where your ego shows to still be alive. So, you have a test, a training ahead of you. This is the time you have to abandon the ego.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on January 16, 2021. First published in Portuguese on March 16, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

Thought is the biggest drug of all

Master Gualberto: Why is there this interest within you? What brings you to Satsang? What is so precious about Satsang? Why is a meeting like this so interesting?

Participant 1: It is an unparalleled silence.

Participant 2: Because thoughts cease.

Master Gualberto: Why is there Silence here? Is that already clear to you? This is a Silence that is not the absence of sound. The thought revolving inside your head is the noise. Everything you do in search of peace is actually in search of this Silence. If you are in search of peace, you are in search of this Silence. Peace has nothing to do with what is happening externally, but rather internally. If the mind is busy with thoughts, there is no Peace. In a few brief moments, you perceive Peace. If you look inside your head right now, here in Satsang, you will find out that there are no thoughts.

Thought is a phenomenon, just like breathing. Notice the link, the intimate connection between both. The greater the stream of thoughts, the more you breathe. For example, when you are nervous, stressed, you breathe a lot and when you are not nervous, when you are calm, your breathing happens slowly and more smoothly. The amount of inhalation and exhalation is much less.

When there is this internal Silence, you breathe very little. If this Silence is deep, because of a complete absence of thoughts, and you notice the body at this moment, you will see that it "stops" breathing. Breathing is maintained only at a level to nourish the cells with enough oxygen. When you are nervous, stressed, you breathe in a way; when you are afraid, you breathe in another way; when anger is present, you breathe differently; and when there is no thought, you also breathe in another way.

Silence is the nature of Consciousness, which represents the absence of thoughts. Identified with the egoic mind, you live in this common and ordinary "person's" state. This is a heavy breathing state because there is a lot of stress. There are many desires, conflicts, fears and thoughts.

The addiction to thinking is huge! We get a little scared when we hear that someone snorts cocaine or smokes crack, but that is not a dangerous addiction. The dangerous addiction is to thinking. This thinking addiction is what leads you to other addictions.

Human being, in general, is living like a drugged creature. When you wake up in the morning, you are already under the influence of the drug. You wake up and the drug "thinking" begins to enter your system. That happens because thought is not seen. You do not see the thought! It captures you and you have no idea you are under its effect. It is an invisible drug. You do not see it, but you are under the drug's effect the whole day.

This drug puts you in a state of unconsciousness, of sleep. This drug has complete control! Using this drug, you experience all its effects – the feelings, the emotions, the way of perceiving what is happening externally and internally... All of this happens in unconsciousness!

Under the influence of thought, you adopt various forms of escape from all this conflict thought itself represents in this unconsciousness. You do all this, actually, because thought is a very heavy burden. Thought in control is disorder, confusion, conflict, suffering, unconsciousness. So, what I have just called "sleep" is this unconsciousness brought on by this drug called "thought." It is important to see the movement of thought; otherwise, you will not be aware of this unconsciousness.

In general, people don't know what Meditation is. Meditation starts when you start noticing this movement of unconsciousness, this movement of the accelerated mind, of the accelerated and disordered thoughts going on internally. People say they think… They are not present, thought is. So, thought thinks. The "person" is the thought that thinks. Do you see it? Thought thinks – this is what you call a "person." You are not someone thinking. The thought is the "person" who thinks. The thought passes for "someone thinking." I do not know if you see what I mean... You are not thinking, you are the thought, and if there is only thought, there is no Consciousness.

That explains all the confusion, all the mess, all the suffering in the world. You are the world! The world in confusion, in conflict, in pain, suffering – this crazy world is you! You get free from thought and then there is no "you." There is no more world and there is no more confusion either. There is no more drug, since there is no more unconsciousness.

Everything the mind knows is everything you know, which is everything thought knows: confusion, disorder, imagination, fantasies, desires, fears… noise! Actually, this is the absence of your Being since your Being is not that. Your Being is the Divine, Intelligence, Wisdom, Love, Peace, Consciousness. People come to me and say, "What is this?" and I ask them "this What?" So, they say "where does this Intelligence, this Freedom and all that come from?" When I hear people asking that, I don't know exactly what they are asking. The only thing I can say to you is that This is your Real Nature, which is Being, Consciousness, Intelligence, Wisdom, Peace.

Everything you need is already present in What You are. Therefore, if you assume the Truth about yourself, you are Free in your Being. There is no need for drugs since free from thought, you are free from all drugs.

You mistake yourself for thoughts, as well as mistaking yourself for the idea of being "someone," which you call "you." You mistake yourself for the experience of the temporary relief sensation when the mind is forced, by a chemical effect, to decrease the volume of thoughts. It is evident that under the influence of marijuana, or alcohol, or some other drug, there is a temporary relief from this psychological pressure that thought exerts on the brain. The body relaxes, breathing slows down. This well-being is not coming from the drug's effect. The mind says it comes from the drug's effect and wants to seek that experience again.

The Nature of your Being is well-being. The egoic mind captures the experience of well-being and attributes it to the drug's effect. But you can be without any drug effects – like before sunset, sitting on a beach, looking at the sea – where your brain will also calm down. Your breathing rate will decrease, as well as the volume of thoughts, so there will also be well-being. However, your Real Nature is beyond the brain!

What you can get by using drugs, some people can get by hang-gliding or practicing an extreme sport. But what each one is experiencing is a temporary contact with their own Being. Some people are taking drugs and becoming addicted. Other people are practicing extreme sport and also getting addicted. In this way, all dependence on an experience to obtain this Silence, this Peace, this internal Freedom is, actually, a prison.

You need to find out your Being and live in It. If you remain in your Being, you remain in Peace, in Joy, in Freedom, in Happiness. Your Natural State is the same as "getting stoned." Your Being is Consciousness, pure Joy. To live in this Freedom, in this Peace, in this Happiness, is to live drunk with the Divine, it is to live "stoned" by the Divine. So, you do not need the egoic mind, you do not need thoughts nor drugs to suppress the burden the thought drug produces.

The problem with drug use is that the egoic state is already a huge drug since thought is already producing this. So, when you use a drug, not only are you not becoming free from the thought, but also you are becoming a slave, a victim of another trap of thought itself. It is the thought trying to deal with itself through a chemical substance. Therefore, this is inadvisable for those who want to Awaken.

Here, the aim is to go beyond the mind, and not numb the mind, have a slowing effect on it. Here, the purpose is a highly capable brain of a clear and complete speed – a quite objective brain. However, drugs reduce this, numb the brain, make it sluggish, lazy. Actually, drugs dull the brain. Drug does not make you Intelligent, it makes you stupid.

People do all of this just because thoughts are heavy, not a soft drug. So, people do this to temporarily escape from themselves, from this chaotic, disturbed, suffering, conflicted movement that is thought. People use drugs or chemicals since they are disturbed. If people were really happy, in peace, they would not use these substances. If they were already free from thought, they would not use these substances. So, the problem is still thoughts. The presence of thought is suffering, it is what makes you look for ways to escape the affliction it causes.

When you find out it's possible to live free from the mind, from all the confusion it creates, you acknowledge within yourself something much greater than chemical substances. The effect of Freedom, Peace and Joy due to the absence of thoughts and conflict, is inside you. You do not need a drug to produce This!

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 3rd, 2021. First published in Portuguese on March 2nd, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

Suffering is resistance to Life

We are here working on this matter of the mind and its movement. After all, what is the mind? How does it move internally? The question is if you are truly conscious of yourself. When you explore this matter, you see how dispersed you are. The identification with the mind is the ordinary state. So, you are never really conscious of yourself, of your actions, thoughts, feelings and reactions.

It is quite important and essential that you see this, otherwise you will be stuck to a psychological prison. The egoic mind is a prison! The paradox of this situation is that this is an imaginary prison for an imaginary prisoner, but this prison is quite real for you, with a living prisoner inside it.

So, there is continuous tension. There is one or another form of conflict, continually. Actually, the clash with others and the world, has become a conflict with yourself. So, there is a lot of tension, a lot of fear you are not even aware of. There is constantly some form of resistance, an unconscious reaction, an ever-present conflict, anxiety, fear, stress... Suffering is the most ordinary thing in the mind, and that is what I have just called as tension. There is a lot of tension!

Here, the point is the mind is "very smart," and it is against Life. Deep down, the mind knows there is no room for it in Life, in Life as It is, as It shows itself, so in a way, the mind is against Life and tries to protect itself from Life. With this sense of self-protection, the mind creates this tension that manifests as resistance, conflict, anxiety, fear and every form of negative imagination. So, there is this mind's "smartness," a pretty tricky, cunning self-protective movement, which is actually a movement against Life as It is. Mind knows there is no room for it, so it tries to protect itself.

I would dare to say, being quite generous, that you live like this for 98% of your day, and only 2% stay out of it. Thus, 98% of your day is of complete identification with every psychological movement. That means a movement of beliefs standing in a cunning and sharp way against Life. This is how the egoic mind works! I was generous in saying you have 2% of some level of awareness, of consciousness, as this is not entirely true. This unconsciousness represents the absence of Peace, Intelligence, Freedom, Happiness and Love.

The burden of psychological beliefs the egoic mind upholds is a total dispersion of energy. Mind lives in duality. It sees the world and itself as distinct and separate things – the mind sees itself being the subject, and the world or others being the object. There is no truth in this psychological memory based on beliefs, creating constant conflict, innumerable problems of every kind. All this remains in the field of unconsciousness. Only 2% of energy is being used practically in your life, whereas 98% is involved with this false "me," with this false entity you believe you are, living in conflict, in resistance, in fear, in desire, against Life.

So, what is missing? Actually, there is no shortage. It is a matter of excess! What you already bring in Yourself is not being used, since you are not aware of It. You are not aware of the Consciousness you bring, the Consciousness You are! So, you are in this psychological dispersion, in this psychological memory, upholding this personality, this "sense of person."

My emphasis is on discovering the beauty of Meditation. Meditation means abandoning that false center, that false "me," that false identity, the "person" you believe you are. So, when that personality – which is this prisoner in an imaginary prison – no longer moves, it is no longer upheld, since there is no longer this belief, this psychological memory, this energy dispersed psychologically in activities led by imagination.

When you find out the uselessness of this movement of thoughts, this movement of images thought creates all the time, about the past and the future, which is nothing more than imagination, your energy is available for Silence, for Consciousness, for Intelligence. There will be a functional memory, naturally, but that psychological memory has no longer any reason to exist. This is my invitation to you in Satsang, an invitation to Silence, to Consciousness, to Intelligence. Here, time and space are no longer needed, thoughts are no longer needed.

Thought is a dysfunction! This is a huge discovery in Awakening, in Self-Realization. Egoic mind uses thought as that is all it has, but this is a dysfunction, a kind of chronic disease. You, in your Being, do not need the egoic mind. You do not need this psychological memory. There is a functional memory, and it is natural. Remembrance is part of this functional memory. But, what is the purpose of this psychological remembrance of a trauma, for example? This is a dysfunction; it is not natural. This traumatic memory, this psychological pain of memory, such as guilt, fear, anxiety, craving, are all part of this dysfunction. There is no longer any reason for this in Consciousness, in your State of Pure Intelligence, in your Real State and Natural State.

Suffering is part of this, and you were not born to suffer. The purpose of your birth is to find out Reality – the Truth of your Very Being, of What in You is not born and therefore does not die. You are born to find out you are not born! You are born to find out you do not die! You are born to live as Pure Consciousness! This Consciousness, this Silence, this Truth, is not in time. This is not part of space. This is not part of this resistance, of this conflict, of this cunning, tricky and "sharp" movement egoic mind has against Life. This Consciousness, this Intelligence, is the background, the basis, the groundwork, which sustains everything!

So, when you are no longer stuck in a personal viewpoint, you become naturally efficient, there is economical expenditure of energy there. Before, this energy was dispersed, involved in these activities of ego-identity – fear, desire, choice, imagination, anticipation, psychological memory – but this is no longer present. Interesting, isn't it?

So, as I invite you to this Silence, I am inviting you to this Intelligence, to this Freedom, the Freedom to live outside this prison. I have just talked about the prison to an imaginary prisoner... In this prison, there is a constant battle, a constant struggle. You are not economically efficient in living like this. This is a stupid way of living! I have called this "miserable mind" since this is living in misery. Living apart from Consciousness means living apart from the Truth, from Love, from God, from Sanity. Does it interest you or not? Is this important to you or not?

Look at people, they are not fine. No person is fine! Living in this "sense of person" is conflict, suffering. You need to look inside yourself and completely discard this cunning, this "smartness" of being against Life as It is; to look within yourself and abandon this egoic movement. This "smartness" is stupidity. This resistance is sheer ignorance! To look inside yourself and abandon this is crucial. Otherwise, you will always be welcoming nervousness, stress, anxiety, worry, and this or that form of suffering.

The moment you realize you are no longer living in this false center, in this false identity, you clearly realize that Life begins to take its place, without any effort on your part. Everywhere you look, you see Life in Its movement. You are no longer in that unwillingness against Life. Then, you realize everything is in place and internal suffering ends. Do you see the beauty of this? You are relaxed in your Natural State. You are not tense. It is always in the egoic mind that this tension takes place.

To know yourself is not to psychologically understand yourself, but rather to know there is no one present in the experience. There is no prisoner. There is no prison. There is no reason to think. There is no reason to live in this dysfunction, in this ignorance, in this internal disorder. I have talked a lot about the importance of understanding yourself, but not as a "person," and rather outside of "person." The common approach is: "Know yourself." Mine is: "Unlearn everything about yourself, everything you have learned about yourself."

Society, the world around you, is a beautiful mirror – how people feel, move, do things, think, speak, desire, what they look for, where they go... Look at this mirror! See that people are confused, and what you are seeing is just a reflection of yourself. Society is the mirror where you see yourself. As a "person," this is how you move in the world. Society is your face. So, as it is not possible to escape society, the best thing here is to become aware of it and face this mirror, look at it. When you look at this mirror, you can see what is going on internally – your reactions, your remembrances, your memories, your way of feeling, of thinking, of believing, of living.

You need to go beyond that, beyond society, allowing yourself to abandon this condition, this mediocre condition. Find out the real cure of this chronic disease, this congenital disease, only then can you find out what it means to live in Joy, in Freedom, a life without resistance, a life that is an expression of the Divine, of the Truth.

You were not born to suffer! Suffering is resistance, it is being against what Life represents. You are the same Presence, the same Consciousness that Life is, you simply cannot be in conflict. If you are in conflict, it is based on that resistance, which is in this attitude of the egoic mind, in this ignorance, in this condition of congenital disease.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on January 29th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on February 23rd, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

The mastery of Being

In Satsang, we are talking about Happiness, Freedom, God, about ourselves, about What is deeply held within us. Happiness is something that depends on mastery: the mastery of Being. Few people in this world are interested in Real Happiness, since few people plunge into themselves to find this out, to become aware of This.

The mind's nature is to the external, to the outside. The mind is interested in satisfaction, fulfillment, comfort, pleasure, desire… People come to me, but they are not interested in what I have to give them. They are too dispersed, too attached on externalities, on external achievements. However, Happiness is not in external objects, but rather in us, inside us! And the mastery of Happiness, the art of Happiness, is Being. It is not having things, like a new husband, a new house, a new car, a new sentimental, emotional, physical accomplishment... The mind is interested in that.

Happiness is this State of Being, while the mind's activity, all its excitement, gets in the way of This. People are interested in their projects, in their thoughts, in the world of shapes, in the world of appearances, colors, names – in externalities. Beauty will not give Happiness. Wealth will not give Happiness. Objects will not give Happiness. Knowledge will not give Happiness. You only find This internally, only within you...

All my interest lies in Happiness, not in something of the mind's world. Mind is confusion, disorder, suffering. Mind is samsara. Samsara is a word for "wheel of confusion," "wheel of deception." If you intend to realize Happiness, you must become a master in that science, in the science of Being, and leave the mind. Mind is conflict, war, chaos, pain, suffering, misery. The mind is quite stupid!

What do you think? Do you want to be free? Freedom is here and now! Remain tuned to the Heart, turned inwards, and go beyond appearances, names, shapes, colors. Externally, outside, is the hurricane, and in the hurricane's eye, inside you, there is the calm.

I love sharing This with you: Truth present here, right now. So, become a master of Yourself. Find This in Silence. Find This within you, not outside.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on July 7th, 2017. First published in Portuguese on March 14th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

The illusion of an identity present now

Consciousness is not in time. The mind is. Time is synonymous with mind, which is thoughts. Consciousness is your Natural State – in India, they call it as Liberation, Moksha, which is the self-fulfilling and resplendent state of Consciousness. It is like when you look at the sky and see the Moon amid the clouds... It is still a sunrise and the Sun is beginning to appear, to shine on the horizon. The Moon is there, amid the clouds, and the Sun begins to shine, to spread through the earth. The Sun goes up and the moon, which earlier was so bright, is now going pale... You look and wonder: "Where is the Moon?" The brightness of the Sun is so great that the Moon disappears. The Moon is there, but it is not shining anymore.

The Natural State is something like this. The mind is present, with all its natural functions: to feel, to think, to move, to reason, to deduce, to conclude, to speak... In the Natural State, the mind is present with all these functions. But, as the "Sun" is shining, the mind no longer matters. The Sun is Consciousness and the mind is the Moon. Once this Consciousness is established, once the Sun is at noonday, the Moon keeps working but without covering the sunshine. So, the mind operates in its natural functions, but it does not take the place of Consciousness. The Natural State is like this!

In the unnatural state, which is the state of the common man, the Moon is trying to take the place of the Sun, trying to do its job. So, when the "Moon" tries to do so, it mixes up its natural function, which is to reason, to conclude, to deduce, to explain, to know, to experience... It takes this and creates the illusion of an experiencer controlling those functions. The mind starts to take control of what does not belong to it.

The mind tries to take the place of Consciousness, "the Moon tries to steal the sunshine." It is not enough to just reflect the brightness of the Sun, it wants to totally steal it. It wants to be a Sun apart, and that is the sense of separateness; that is what the Scriptures call as the fall of Satan. In the Bible, in the book of Isaiah, there are some words like this: "I will ascend above the highest clouds and become like the Most High!" It is all a figurative language of this sense of identity in control, being the lord of everything. This produces the illusion of space and time for this supposed present entity.

So, the mind, which has its natural functions (thinking, feeling, deducting, concluding), creates the sense of a "me" in the "body-mind-world" experience, as a consequence of this illusion of separateness. Therein lies the ego illusion. The mind itself is not evil. Thinking, feeling, concluding, deducting, learning, remembering, forgetting, this is all very natural. However, when it is at the service of a supposed present entity, at the service of a separate "me," it complicates everything! That is where Satan comes in – Satan in Hebrew and Diabolus in Greek!

The notion of time and space arises for this "identity," not for the mind. Putting it in didactic way, we name it as the "egoic mind," but the mind itself is only the Moon in a sky, where the king is the Sun. The Moon just reflects the brightness of the Sun, without problems. Is this clear? That is why you see me, sometimes using the expression "mind" referring to that egoic mind. However, at other times I am speaking only of the mind and its natural functions, not of the egoic mind. That is, you can observe, in the speeches, that I interchange words using mind and egoic mind. Just as the body has natural functions, so does the mind. What I call mind, in this "machine" [body-mind], is this inseparable operation of body itself (it is called "mind," but, in fact, body is mind and mind is body). Here, I am referring to the non-physical functions of the "machine", more subtle, such as "feeling," "perceiving," the movement of thoughts, the reason, and so on.

Now lies the space for the atemporal. This space for the timelessness is the "Sun" in its fullness, in its glory. Once this Consciousness is established in this mechanism, in that organism, the mind assumes its natural functions. The Now, which is not the "now-time" but the timeless Now, which is Consciousness, assumes Its place. So, the past or the future becomes irrelevant, since this supposed entity is no longer present. It is possible to remember the past, as you remember a movie, but without those old sensations of the moment when it was watched.

Notice, at the moment you are watching the movie, you go through various sensations and feelings. The images and sounds cause impressions. But then, when you remember the movie, you laugh because it does not cause impact anymore. It is no longer "the movie." It is only an unimportant memory. So, the past is this unimportant memory, which is actually happening now only as part, also, of an imagination, because there is nothing, in fact, happening. Not now!

When this is already solved out, it is seen this way. However, when it is not solved, the "movie" returns – which is the past – yet with all that load of imaginary impressions, which are felt now, here. So, traumas are like this. Not only them, but also every and any egoic memory operates in the same way: it is only an imagination appearing at this moment and taking an impression of reality, because it still finds room to reverberate in this illusion of a present "identity" still carrying the past, which is only memory, imagination.

The ego is this: the illusion of an identity present now, here, feeling a trauma, a guilt, a remorse, a regret (what some call depression). Or it plays with the imaginative memory of a future (what some call anxiety), but it is the same process. It is always the imagination of an "identity" now, here, feeling. There is nobody here to feel it. There is only the illusion you are real inside the body and this imagination is yours, of this "someone" you believe you are.

The Natural State is the awareness of this moment, but it is a Real Awareness. It is not the vision of the present moment. It is the Awareness of this moment. In the Awareness of this moment, a past memory may appear, the imagination of a future, but this is only an event happening at this moment, as a thought, without any validation, without any truth. It does not change at all What Is.

If a memory or an imagination appears, it does not matter. The thought in this Natural State is like hay in strong fire, which disappears in the flame by simply falling over on it. The mind of the Sage works like this: when thought appears, it is already demolished by this Consciousness. So, time, past or future does not last. Consciousness is this Presence now!

* Originally published in Portuguese on April 25, 2018 ** Excerpt from a in-person meeting in Campos do Jordão – SP, Brasil city, Brazil, on September 2016. For further information about our meetings, please click here.