You are not here to suffer

I was 24 years old when I came across my Master. Today I can put This into words for you, but I did not receive it from His words. I received it only from His look.

Everything I can share with you here is more in Silence than in words. It is more in my eyes than in my mouth since that was how This was shared with me.

Since I was a child I was prone to this search. All my upbringing and childhood were at church. So, I didn't really appreciate this messy life a lot of kids my age had. I got married when I was 19. I got married early since I didn't want to live up to a messy life. I felt if I become a family man, I would have the chance to have an encounter with the Divine, with God.

There was a search here for something beyond this world. I prayed, I spoke to God, then my Master appeared. What I'm telling you here is what I'm living today because, by his Divine Grace, everything is different. Why am I telling you this? Because you are not here to suffer. Nobody is! People don't know this, but you are being warned and advised: you don't need to live like this.

Everything you are looking for is what any human being is also looking for. I was still a child and I realized that. Everything we do or try to do is basically to feel good, to be happy. But we have a very stupid inclination – human being carries a stupid naivety. It is not that innocence of the one who is curious to discover and discern. We have a stupid naivety. We try it once and it doesn't work, then we try again. That's why people get married again and again! They are stubborn since they believe it will be different the second, third or fourth time around.

So, it seems that we have this conditioning. We are educated and raised like that. This needs to be broken! This pattern, this conditioning, needs to be broken! You need to Awaken, and This is something that happens naturally when there is an inclination towards an intelligent life, which is a life without conflict, without fear, beliefs, without being led, induced by others to live as they live, to do what they do, to want what they want, to seek what they seek, to give up, too, because they give up.

So, welcome to this place, to this space. In India, it is called "Satsang," an association with the Real, with Reality, with the Truth of who You are. You are so involved in thoughts, feelings, emotions, seeking sensations... When you arrive in Satsang, I work on that with you, so that you discredit what thought says, what feeling says, what emotion says.

You need to trust something internally, bigger than the mind, bigger than these stories thought creates and feelings produce about this "little person" you believe you are, about this story you believe you are living, about this world you believe is real.

So, my emphasis is that you discover the deep meaning of a mind-free life. Mind is total conflict! Every problem is inside your head. Your whole world is inside your head. You produce this all the time, all day long, every day! Then you don't rest. You take medicine and you can sleep, but at night you dream, and there problems appear again. There is no Joy, there is no Beauty, there is no Silence, there is no Meditation, there is no Consciousness!

This is my specialty! Some people are great football players, others are average players, but they are also players, and some are real phenomena. This goes for any sport. I wasn't born to play soccer, but I know how to look at you and say "see, being Happy is possible. Realizing God in this life is possible."

Whether we like it or not, this approach to the Divine is a kind of flirtation, a kind of courtship of God. It's just like that. Actually, we are kind of conquered by His Grace, by His Beauty, by His Truth. Isn't it so? We are kind of touched by something out of this world. We don't know what it is, but we know It's there.

That's why I say this is not a meeting for you to learn things. It's like taking a walk out of the world, of this mind's world, of this world of the head. You've been listening to me, for example, for a few minutes, but during this time, you haven't had any sense that there's an incentive for you to go out and be a better person, a successful person, a fulfilled person, a powerful person… No! You listen to me and the feeling you get is that you don't know, but you feel, somehow, that I'm pointing out something outside of this world's condition people are living in the mind.

So, see this: if you're willing to realize This now, you can't give This up, you can't swap This, you can't let anything ward you off from This, you can't let anything be greater than This, because This is your purpose, your unique purpose. You were born to realize God. You were born to realize the Truth.

So, stop listening to what the mind says. Stop believing what people say to you, good and bad, since it doesn't matter if it's your mind talking inside your head or if it's people's minds talking through their mouths. Do you see?

Human beings have this stupid naivety, as I've just said, of believing in what thought says. Not only in thought inside their head but especially in what is verbalized in others' head. The world of the mind is chaos. There is a lot of conflicts, a lot of disorder, and a lot of suffering, because there is no Truth.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 24th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 16th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

Enlightenment is the blossoming of the Unknown

One of these days, on a social media page of this work, someone asked me: "Do you have free time so we can talk? I would like to know a little more about your life story." I have no problem talking to you a little bit about my story. However, I see this is not the most important thing. Maybe I will tell you a little bit about my story, just for you to realize that your story is no different from mine. It has quite different aspects, of course, but the search for something beyond the mind, beyond a story, is the same.

Now, you wrote here "this peace is the most beautiful thing that exists." Yes, that is the foremost thing! Here, the foremost thing is You! The story is always the same. I have been sharing this with you for some time already and I don't see anything real about this story since it is just about a character's past. You cannot be open to the New if you are stuck in the character's story. Your reason for being here must be to know who You are. The mere curiosity about someone's story will not help you. Discovering the Truth about Yourself is discovering the real meaning of Life, and if This is present, Peace is present.

So, I do not really know what to say about the story since stories are all alike. The purpose here is for you to discover What You are, here and now. That must be the reason for you to be here. For that you need to be open to the New, to be completely open to the Unknown. I want you to find out the Truth internally present, in what You are. Only then you will know Freedom, including Freedom about the known, time, story, the past of this person you believe you are. As a matter of fact, all your problems are absolutely there, centered on a character's story. Enlightenment is the blossoming of the Unknown. So, Peace settles, because Peace is your Natural State, free from this character, free from this story.

You always need the past to reassert yourself as someone, but you do not need the past to be in your Being, in your Natural State – the State free from ego, from the sense of a separate "me," a separate entity with conflicts, dilemmas, dramas, problems… And person has a lot of problems! People do not stop having problems! Actually, people are the problems! You do not come here to improve the "person." For that, you have to go to a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, therapist, or a counselor… They are experts in helping people. My specialty here is to help you find out the Truth about who You are, and not empower you to be a better person, to face adversities, vicissitudes, complexities, difficult situations of life.

So, when people come to me asking about my story, they still do not understand I am not interested in the story. I can have clear memories, because I have a brain that has memories, like any other. Memories of facts, situations, everything that has happened – or has apparently happened – but I do not give an identity to it. I only tell the character's story someone believes to exist.

Right now, you are watching me through this video and you are sure you are before a person. But I do not see you as a person since I do not see myself like this. I see myself in What I Am. That is what I have when I look at you! To me, This is the Truth! Apart from that, many stories...

Notice that these stories uphold the whole problem. I see people suffering because they are upholding stories about who they are. This is just a belief in what they believe to be since there is no story in what you are. But, in what you believe to be, there is a lot of stories! Guilt, fear, desire, suffering, all this is always part of the story, always of the characters. They desire because they do not feel complete. They feel guilty since they feel responsible because they believe they could have done differently.

We do not see the Truth behind everything. To me, things just happen. Right now, this is just an event. Apparently, you have decided to come and be with me here in Satsang, but that is not how it works. It looks so, but it is not. You are sure that is how it was, and I would question this until the end. Things happen, as well as decisions are made, however, there is no "someone." Things happen, but there is no "someone." Things are solved by themselves, there is no "someone" solving them. That private sense of identity must be broken down internally. This is a fraud, an illusion! Your Being is not stuck to that character's story.

I know this is new for some of you here since you have been hearing other things. There are infinite beliefs within each one. All of the beliefs are learned by culture, by society, by the world around you. You need to know What You are, who You are. Real Intelligence is present when this way of thinking you know, disappears. Real Intelligence is the presence of pure Consciousness, and This is the Unknown. I could call this "Real Thinking." When there is no thought, there is the presence of the Unknown. Intelligence flows when you are open to the Unknown. Everything you know represents what ordinary thought produces.

So, when you say "this Peace is wonderful," this Peace is the presence of Intelligence. It is the presence of the Unknown. You do not have Peace when you think, when you are involved in calculated thinking, looking for results, to gain or trying to get rid of things. Only when you ward yourself off from this conflicting thought process, a Space opens up. And in that Space, there is Something new, which is the Unknown. That's when you are before Intelligence, before Peace.

By thinking, you do not have Peace. By calculating, you have no Peace. By concluding, trying to make things right, you do not have Peace. Actually, all the internal restlessness exists because thought is present. It is thought inside you that upholds the absence of Peace. Does it make any sense to you?

My specialty is the absence of thought, living in Consciousness, as Consciousness, as the Unknown. So, there are no beliefs, there is not the ordinary process of dealing with thoughts, as it happens to people. See, person is synonymous with people who think, which means an entity present, stressed, worried, afflicted, trying to solve situations, looking for solutions – actually, creating problems since that is all the mind does.

Life is happening without thoughts, but thought arises to create problems. Life is already in Its rhythm, in Its form, in Its way, but you think. You are not in control of what is going on there in your life, but you think you are. Once more, it is thought in conflict with what Life represents here, right now. The desire, the fear, the anxiety, the worry, the despair, the attachment, the conflict to try to change things is all part of it. Life as Consciousness is a Life of Love, of Peace, of Intelligence, without conflict.

There is no Peace if you are angry, and you are not free from anger when your ego conflicts. When your ego is upset, when, for example, a desire is denied, your ego becomes resentful and angry. If there is anger, there is no Peace. Peace is the most desired thing! Not by "people." Peace is not desired by the "person." "Person" has other desires before this. "Person" knows nothing about Peace. People only know about what they look for. "Person" only knows what to gain or to get rid of.

When you are free from thoughts, Silence is present. Under thought's movement, you are constantly placing yourself as someone – someone to work things out, to get rid of things. Someone in the past, someone in the future. Even when the thought is "I am happy," that is an idea, a belief. Thought is continually objectifying something. It wants even to objectify a state. Thought says, "I will achieve peace!" This is to objectify a state.

To investigate yourself means stopping the objectification of internal states. To understand Yourself is to find out this Unknown Reality of your own Being. The thoughts you have about yourself do not represent Understanding. They are mere beliefs cultivated over time. You see yourself as a creature in time, as a person, an entity in time. Peace is apart from time, mind and thought.

Notice that the times you enjoy peace are the times when there is no thought about who you are, about what life represents, or about what is happening within this personal story. When this personal story arises, which is when thought arises, there is no Peace. This is not being before your Being. It is to mistake yourself for a story that thought creates, and this is what people do throughout their lives.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 26th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 6th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

Your Real Ideal is the association with Silence

Being is something that requires an approach entirely different from what you are generally used to. When we go to a meeting to listen to someone, we hope to learn something there. That is not the purpose of this meeting. I have nothing to teach you here, but you can investigative your life here with me, about how your life is going and what is happening to you.

So, the purpose is not to teach you something, but rather to investigate something with you, which I consider of utmost importance. Satsang can bring a profound change, something that can have tremendous meaning. We are talking about a change in your way of seeing yourself in life. You would not be at this meeting if you were not looking for something beyond this ordinary life that everyone is living. If there was not a real internal search, you would not be here.

Human beings have been living in conflict, and this has been so for millennia! Human beings live on this planet in conflict – with themselves, with others, with everything around them. Human beings are seeking peace and creating war.

So, what we have to say to you at a meeting like this is not something you are not already aware of. You may even know it. What you do not know is what to do with this. What to do with these internal conflicts? How to get rid of suffering? How to discover a quality of life in which you are at rest, in a true internal rest? How to live in peace? How to live intelligently? How to live with that perfume of Freedom, of Love, which is to live a life without conflict?

We are proposing that you investigate this and ask yourself if this is possible or if we are really doomed to live the rest of our days looking for what makes us happy. Perhaps some people are already doomed to live like this until the end of their days, precisely because they are doing what does not need to be done. They are mistaken. The vast majority of people are radically wrong. That is why there is so much conflict, so much suffering, so much despair. There is no Peace. There is no Freedom. And words like "intelligence," "love," "happiness," "freedom" are interpreted in a very superficial way, since no one knows what this is. People do not know what this represents since they are under this doom, this condition of an eternal search for something out there. They are looking outside because they were raised, educated, encouraged to do this. These people are us.

Those who represent humanity live like this. When I was young, I was also somewhat encouraged in that direction. But something internally was saying there was something else. So, when I use the expression "we," I include myself, but actually everything is different here. I do not see anything that way. Not anymore. For me, the words "intelligence," "freedom," "happiness," "love" and "awareness" have a totally different meaning than that which is used by people applying these words.

You cannot keep on depending psychologically, internally, on what others think, on what they accept or reject by the traditional way of seeing themselves, of seeing life and the world around them. Some people have used the expression "Awakening," a word that is already quite emptied of significant, real, profound content. It has also been trivialized. However, This is what human beings need! When I say "human being," I mean you who are here in this room.

All your conflict is with yourself, and your desire is its base. It is your conflict that generates dependence, which upholds fear in relationships, which makes you depend on others – and here, others are anything on the outside. What you lack is the Silence, the Silence of your Real State of Being, of your Divine Natural State of Being. All you need is to find this enchantment for the Truth you carry within yourself. You need to be in touch with This. Otherwise, you will be continually moving under this world of desire, continually looking for something outside. Looking for anything! People are also things, they are nothing but images. They are images of special things. More special are the ones we love, or less, for the ones we do not love so much. They are also special to annoy us, grieve us and make us miserable.

This deep pain of desire upholds this dependence on objects, which are images of these so-called "people" we are in constant contact with. Apparently, they make us happy or sufferer. I say "apparently" since this is not true. The problem is never outside! The problem comes when you trust what thought says about what people are saying about you and themselves. It is always the internal thought.

I have been emphasizing this a lot to people who come to this work. They live in thought, so they are sure of the conclusions they draw. This is so childish. When you trust this, you suffer, you ward you off from yourself, from your Real Ideal. Your Real Ideal is the association with Silence, with the Love of your own Divine Nature. You ward yourself off from your True Nature when you believe what thought says, what mind says, in this relationship mind has with these objects.

You were born for Intelligence, for Freedom, for Consciousness, for Truth, for Love and Happiness. This is the Nature of Being!

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 24th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 13th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

The adventure of going beyond the “person”

Satsang is not a relationship between two people. It is an adventure for you to find out what abandoning the "person" means. When you go climbing, you have to pay the price to get to the top. Here, the price is to go beyond the person, beyond this personhood sense.

So, we are talking about an adventure whose price is the surrender, the abandonment of the "sense of a person." If you are willing to pay this price, there will be a contact between us. Then, you will be able to ask questions, get closer, look at this closely, to investigate this. This way, there will be a contact, and not a relationship.

Here, we have some difficulties while using the expression "abandoning the person." Actually, I know person will not abandon him or herself. Personality will never be able to give up itself. The only way for it to become possible is the understanding of the illusion "person" is. So, it is not just saying "I want to abandon the person" for this to come true, since you are the very person saying you will abandon the person.

One of the basic things in human beings is the lie: you are born lying, you grow up lying, you become a child, a teenager, a young person, and you are constantly lying. Then, you become an adult, grow old and keep on lying. And you die in the lie! Therefore, you will not tell the truth to yourself. You will say, "I want to give up," but in fact, you do not want to give up.

The difference between a meeting like this and a therapy meeting is that in therapy you will look for help to be a better person, and here the proposal is to abandon the person. As the person will not give up and will lie about it, Satsang is not for someone looking for help to improve as a person. But therapy, yes.

Self-Realization is indeed the end of conflict, the end of suffering, but This has the price of the end of lying. What human beings want is not to stop suffering, but rather to suffer less. That is why people look for help in therapies and, in fact, therapy helps. It is possible to manage well this issue of suffering. But Satsang is the association with the Truth, which is the end of the mistake, the end of lying and the end of this set of beliefs you have about who you are, about what others are, about what life is. So, here the question is "who am I?"

This inclination towards the Truth is the inclination for Wisdom, which is Intelligence, the Intelligence of not suffering anymore. This Knowledge about Yourself, this Vision of the Truth about who You are, is the basis of Wisdom. So, Self-knowledge, here, is not what they say out there. Self-knowledge means abandoning the "sense of person," which is the basis of Wisdom, the basis of Intelligence, and when there is Intelligence, Love is present and suffering ends.

Generally, people spend their whole lives in a silly, mediocre way, resigned to the prevailing pattern of confusion, disorder, fear, desire, jealousy, envy, and so on. They are born, grow, live and die like this. They never ask themselves if it is possible to live differently, intelligently, without conflict, without suffering, with the real Consciousness of the Divine Presence controlling everything, doing everything in Its way. They never ask "who is really in control of everything?" or "what is this that governs all things?" On the contrary, people arrogantly seek their own way. They firmly believe they can be happy in their choices, making their decisions. This is not the way the Sage, who is living in this world with Intelligence, lives. That is why Satsang, this space here, is unique!

This climbing, which aims for the top – and, here, the top is the end of this "sense of person" with all the conflicts that this represents – requires surrender, a commitment to deep honesty, and loyalty to oneself. What is the nature of the mind? Who are you? What are your choices? What have you really done? Who is this "me" doing things, deciding, solving, and making things happen? Is this real? Here we go on our climbing!

Personality is not real, but who is willing to pay the price to be sure about this? So far, you are not sure about this, but you have the arrogance of being certain, many forms of certainties, and one of them is the certainty you are a person; and I assure you: personality is not real! That sense of person is a fraud! You will never give up this!

Without the Comprehension, this abandonment is impossible! This Comprehension is the price, and not an understanding. This is like driving a car. You do not drive a car by reading a book on how to drive it. That will not make you a driver. When you go to a driving school, do you take lessons in traffic laws, take a theoretical test, and immediately you have your driver's license? No, that's not the way to become a driver. A driver is not a theory, but a vehicle driver who needs to be approved in a practical test.

You can decide to become a pilot and take an online course. Does it happen like this in civil or military aviation? No. This requires many hours of flight before you can take someone with your little plane somewhere.

Living in Happiness is also something like this. You understand the Truth about Yourself, you stop lying, and then God shows Himself. You know yourself and then you know God. And if you know God, you know everything is right. You know there is nothing wrong going on anywhere. This represents Peace, Freedom, and Happiness.

People come to me and say "I want peace." They talk as if they do not have Peace, as if it is something they have to receive from somewhere, and that is not true. Peace is not something you receive from somewhere. It is not something you are lacking. Peace is your Divine Nature! Your Being is Love, Peace, Truth, Intelligence! So, This is not missing. You just do not know who You are. You are entangled with thoughts, with stories this "sense of person" has created and upheld within you for all these years, a cultural thing that you have learned. These things are learned! We learn to be unhappy, to cling to conclusions, beliefs, material goals, desires... Human beings are strongly prone to quickly learn all the bad things. Once again this shows to be true: You have learned to be a person!

Look at your children, your grandchildren... They are repeating your ambition, your envy, your bad customs, your bad habits, your vices. You have already learned from your parents, your parents have already learned from your grandparents, and we "play the show" that way. It is a performance without rhythm, without tune, without arrangement. So, you come to me and say "I want peace," and I say to you: "This is present when you are in your Being." If you remain in the world, you have no Peace. If you remain in the mind, you have no Peace. If you remain like your parents, society, culture, psychologically speaking, you have no Peace, since there is no Peace in culture, there is no Peace in your parents, there is no Peace in the world!

Peace is inside you. You find out who You are, accept This and "blow up" the world! That's right: you have to "blow up" the world, this confusing world of yours! Comprehension places a bomb on the world and blows it up. Leave the world alone and you will have Peace! In other words, do not meddle with the world, do not meddle with other people's lives, do not meddle with your own life, since you do not have a life of your own. This is a lie, an illusion.

The Sage has Peace, truly. The one who lives in God has Peace. The holy man has Peace, the holy woman has Peace, since they do not live in lies. They do not cultivate confusion, suffering. They do not live in the world. The Sage does not live in the world. The Sage lives in his Being. The Sage's world has already blown up. The Sage is not concerned with what happens in the world.

For example: are you involved in political, economic, social issues? Do you beat the drum for causes of injustice and justice? This is all because you live in the world. The Sage does not live in the world. This world for him has already ended, has already concluded, has already blown up! This is a dream. It has no reality for him.

The Sage has nothing to defend or attack anymore. The Sage is already dead to this world. The Sage is worthless to this world. You cannot say to a Realized Being, "Can you help me fix this or that issue?" You will not be able to count on him, he is "alienated"! The Sage is not only alienated from Life, but he is alienated from the illusion of what life is. People who attack or defend, who want to fix, adjust or resolve issues, are from the world, they are in the world… they are people!

Does it scare you? It is scary because you like that party, that football club, that militancy, you like government A, government B… Yes, I know, you do. People like things. They just do not know what Love is, and that is why they always like things. When there is Love, there is no "liking." When there is Love, you are Happy. When there is Love, you are Peace. When there is Love, you are free from that "liking" and "disliking." There is no dependency. There is no fear. There is no suffering. It is typical of a person to be unhappy, to like and dislike, want and not want, make decisions and make choices, want to fix others, fix the world, fix oneself. You cannot fix yourself, you may "improve." I love therapists, I love doctors, but they do not give health, they make adjustments, they help in some way. There is no cure for the person! Person may get better but not cured.

Mind has no cure. Ego has no cure! The end of the "sense of person" is the final solution, and I'll repeat it once more: the person will not give up! The person is not real but sure it exists. The person will not pay the price. The person will not give up on him or herself. If this word and this contact we have here are indeed reaching you on a level quite far from the "person," then it is on this level of pure Comprehension. The only thing that can make the "person" disappear is Comprehension, the pure and straightforward Understanding of the uselessness of that belief. This reaches you outside that "sense of person." It is not in the "person" that This is seen, but rather outside of the "person."

You need to come to an absolute, firm, resolute Understanding that "person" does not exist. This is not a common understanding; it has to be a Comprehension! "Person" does not exist. The "sense of personhood" is not real. This way, you will know directly what it means to no longer identify with yourself, which means no longer identifying with the "sense of personhood," including this will to improve.

Weak people want to make improvements, some tweaks, to fix some parts when everything else is ruined. Those who come closer to God know they are going to "die," and it seems that it is the weak ones who resist. "Dying" in God is Awakening to the Truth there is no point in having just one part fine. This "death" is Integral Life!

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 27th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 2nd, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.

To love the Truth is to not lie to yourself

To love the Truth is to not lie to yourself. That sounds like the simplest thing ever, but it is the rarest thing in this world: being truthful with yourself. In the ego, you put pleasure ahead of the Truth. When you love the Truth, you really appreciate Love, Peace... you love God! The Master fosters this love for the Truth within us since, in this contact with Him, we end up realizing there is so much Beauty, so much Intelligence, so much Freedom in Him. And if This grows within us, the love for the Truth grows, the love for God grows, and then we stop lying.

When you stop lying, you stop suffering since there is no longer "someone" present to come into conflict, to keep thinking, trying to solve things. Everything starts to be delegated to the Divine. In other words, everything starts to be surrendered to God. He knows everything. He decides everything! The secret of Peace is the absence of thoughts. The presence of Peace is "I don't know," "I don't solve anything," "I don't decide," "I don't make choices," and that means not lying. It means love for God. Love for the Guru is love for God, love for Truth, and that is love for Yourself.

You cannot give the world what you do not have. You cannot give Peace to others. You cannot give this to your husband, children, relatives nor people you are in a relationship with. You cannot give others what you do not have for yourself. You realize Peace when you live in this Unknown, in this Reality, which is free from lies, free from this false center, this false "me," which believes it thinks, controls, can do, accomplishes… This is egoic life, a lie's life. There is no Truth in living in the ego. There is no love for God, there is no love for the Guru, there is no love for Consciousness when you are lying to yourself. And all the ego knows is to lie, all the time, inside your head.

You embrace the Truth when you are Happy, and not when you are thinking, choosing, solving, deciding, doing everything your way. Your way is always confused, never real – it is the control way, the "person's" way! The joy of living in Peace and Happiness, without illusion and lies, is very much needed

It is not to others that you lie. It is not to others that you do not give Peace. One of the egoic mind's absurd things is this… it believes it can give Peace, Freedom, Love, Happiness to others. The ego cannot give This, for the ego is in conflict with itself! If you are identified with this false entity, this false "person," living the lie of this false center, of this false "me," you do not know what Love is. You do not know what Freedom is. You do not know what Peace is. You do not know what Happiness is. So, how are you going to give someone This? Be internally Happy first! Find internally Peace and Freedom... Live free from this false "me"! Do not think!

When there is Intelligence, there is no need for thought. When you think, you do not sleep, you lose your hunger and things do not work out. When are you going to understand this? It is exactly the opposite. When there is no thought, things start moving and working out! When you do not think, you go to bed and sleep, you are normally hungry, you eat and you do not feel bad afterward. When you think with a full belly, you feel sick. You have heartburn and other even worse things. All of this when you think!

Thought is a problem! You need to find out what it's like to live without thought. Look at me: I live without thought! I am always here, in this Place! I do not need thought. You do not need thought! You are addicted to it. It is a kind of drug you cannot live without, but see what thought does in your head, in your body, in your relationships – just confusion! Look at the people around you – they are disturbed! Look closely and you will find out the reason: they are thinking, and thinking a lot! Full of suspicions, beliefs, guidelines… They know everything. They just do not know the main thing, which is to be happy! They solve everything by thinking. They just don't solve the foremost thing, which is to live free from the ego, free from suffering. Look at the smartest people you know and see if, deep down, they are really Intelligent.

*Online meeting transcription originally held on February 26th, 2021. First published in Portuguese on April 9th, 2021. For further information about our meetings, please click here.