How to find God? Meditation: what is it? Learning about Self-Awareness. Self-Awareness in practice.

When you're angry, sad, anguished, depressed, or worried, what are your reactions? What do they represent there, at that moment? What does it mean to be someone angry, worried, or depressed? What is the truth about this person? What is the truth about you at that moment? It's the direct vision, you see, not theoretical, not conceptual, not a mere description of words, but the direct vision of yourself in that moment, the comprehension, in practice, in a practical way, of Self-awareness.

So, Self-awareness in practice is the presence of learning about Self-awareness. And you learn about Self-awareness when you learn about yourself, about how you, psychologically, internally, are functioning. At the same time, this contact is Meditation. When people bring up the topic of meditation because they have a purpose, a goal, an objective... It's quite curious how people seek meditation. They imagine the practice of meditation for themselves.

We do not comprehend the Truth of Meditation to the question: "Meditation, what is it?", the truth to this answer about what meditation is, is that Meditation is the Revelation of the awareness of your Being. Here, the first obstacle or difficulty lies precisely in the illusion that Meditation is something like a practice you do, like an exercise you perform for this or that purpose, including the purpose of finding God. For spiritual seekers, the question is: "How to find God?"

So, here, the first obstacle or difficulty lies precisely in the illusion of a separation between the one who practices and the practice, between the one who seeks and that which is sought or searched. This separation, this division, is the first obstacle. And, in reality, the first obstacle among many others, but the basis of every difficulty in the Truth revealing itself here and now lies precisely in this separation.

There is no clear vision of Truth about the awareness of this being-this psychophysical being in its background of psychological expression, its mental conditioning, its egoic conditioning-and the Reality that is present beyond this psychophysical being-which is this body and this mind-which is the Truth, the Reality of something that is present here, beyond the body and mind, which is the Reality of this Divine Being, this Truth of God.

We place this Truth of God as something "there," somewhere. You are here and this Divine Reality is "there," somewhere, waiting to be found; found by someone who is here. The foundation is completely illusory, a mental fantasy. What we don't realize, what we are not aware of, is that the present mind, the mind within us, this mind we know, which has its truth in thought, ideas, concepts, images, and beliefs, is that this mind is laden with illusion.

There are countless illusions present in the mind, and the truth of this gaze upon what we are here, in this moment-just looking, becoming aware, knowing ourselves-is to know the world of ideas, opinions, beliefs, concepts, images, of what is happening within us, superficially and also deeply. Knowing ourselves means knowing how we are dealing with others in this relation to them, how we are dealing with ourselves.

Knowing ourselves means becoming aware of how thought within us is creating images of situations, of people, how thought within us is predicting the future and trying to escape the unpleasant past it has lived. It is thought itself in the form of a person, an idea it has constructed. This idea is you. This person is the "I," the "me."

When we have a direct gaze toward practical vision, in life, within relations, in contact with the world around us, the condition in which we position ourselves begins to become clear. We position ourselves as someone present: someone who likes, someone who dislikes; this someone who loves, this someone who doesn't love, this someone who hates; this someone who distances oneself from, this someone who approaches. This someone is the model of thought, the structure of thought within us.

Life within a person, the life of a person, is the presence of thought. Is life possible without thought? All your contact with the present moment-see-you don't need thought, and yet, thought is present. When you meet someone, why meet them based on a memory you carry of them? Why do this? Why do we do this? We do this because the sense of "I," the ego in each of us, seeks security in relations. But it only seeks security because fear is present. If there were no fear, we would have no idea of ??any need for security in relations.

Note the trick, the old model of continuity, of egocentric movement present in each of us, how this "I" seeks continuity. First, thought constructed this "I," this image-the image you have of who you are-and then this "I," which is thought, made present, within this relation of the moment, the past, when it wants everything to be the way it wants, which is basically fear, insecurity.

We haven't investigated the nature of thought, so we know nothing about the "I," about this whole game that occurs in life, in the life of the person, in this "my life." Therefore, I return to the question: is life possible without thought and, therefore, without this insecurity, without the presence of fear?

The sense of personhood in each of us carries attachments, the desire to possess, dominate, control the other. And, note, this is only one aspect, or two or three aspects of the "I," of the ego. But we are also envious, ambitious; there is this insecurity in its various forms of expression. These are expressions that we are completely unaware of within our relationships. Therefore, this is the life of thought.

Is there a life free of thought? Can thought cease? Because we don't need it, I repeat, we don't need thought. Here, to deal with the other, we only need Intelligence, Freedom, Comprehension, Wisdom. Then, there will be no conflict, no disorder, no confusion, no suffering. The presence of dependence, the search for acceptance, appreciation, acknowledgement from others, the inner condition of the "I," the ego-sustains separation, isolation.

The end of thought, the cessation of thought, is the cessation of fear. Look at yourself, look at the world. Fear is something that is present from the first days we become aware of ourselves, of this person. The awareness of this person is self-consciousness. From the moment we become aware of this "me," in this self-consciousness, from that moment on, we begin to become aware of this self-image, this character, this idea constructed by thought. And so, throughout our lives, we carry this self-image in fear, in the contradiction between pleasure and pain-the search for pleasure through desires, the search for pleasure in escaping pain, which is the presence of fear.

This encounter with Life, in this moment, is the encounter with Life without thought, without the past, when the "I" is gone, when the ego is no longer present. Is a life free of the ego, free of the "I," free of thought patterns possible? Without this image? An image we've been holding for thirty, forty, fifty, seventy years. Can we free ourselves from this self-image so that we no longer depend psychologically on this need to possess, dominate, control?

A life free from fear is a life free from suffering. Then, Something new reveals itself. When the question is "How to find God," here is the answer: He is not something that is "there." This is the Truth present here, when the thinker is no longer present, when the experiencer is no longer present, when this self-image no longer assumes this role, this figure. All we truly need for this awareness of the Truth about God, for this realization, in this encounter with Divine Reality here and now, is the presence of Meditation.

So, what is Meditation? What is the Truth of Meditation? It is looking at this moment without conclusions, choices, rejections, or condemnations; without the idea that thought constructs when we are in contact with others, with life, or with situations in this present moment. Thus, when we bring Attention, looking at whatever is arising here, in this Attention, in this gaze, in this perception, we nullify the past, we nullify thought, and then the mind becomes still.

You won't accomplish something with a practice called meditation. Meditation is here, in an experiential, practical way, when the looking at the present moment without the image that thought is constructing about what is here. When thought is not present, because of this Attention, this looking, this perceiving, we eliminate the separation between what is being revealed here and someone else looking at it, liking it or not, wanting more or wanting less, carrying this insecurity, this urge to control, to dominate, to possess.

Therefore, we are here, together, becoming aware of the Truth about ourselves, when we discard the illusion of this "me." The encounter with the Divine, the encounter with Truth, is the realization of Truth here and now. Unless we have an encounter with Divine Reality in this moment, in this contact with life as it happens, everything else about an encounter in future, a divine realization in future, is pure imagination.

When you sit down to meditate and wait a few minutes for your mind to quiet down and achieve, through a practice or technique, a stilling of the mind, when that meditation ends, that practice ends, the mind stirs again. Here we are inviting you to bring attention to this moment, to your reactions, to a direct encounter with the awareness of Self-knowledge. Then, a natural silence in the mind reveals itself; then Meditation occurs naturally.

The encounter with Meditation is here and now, moment by moment. It is not something for some special moment, for some particular moment of the day; it is the encounter with the instant, with the present moment, without the past. So, we eliminate time, we eliminate practice, we eliminate technique. We are in direct contact with the truth of what is here, looking at what is present, discovering what it means looking without this background, without this past, without this memory of self-image.

We are working on this together here with you. Two days: Saturday and Sunday. I want to extend an invitation to you: here, in the video description, is our link to join our online weekend meetings. In addition to these meetings, we also have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you just heard resonates with you, here's your invitation. Give a like, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? See you soon. Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time!

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Joel Goldsmith | Consciousness is what I am | The Art to Meditate | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We're here for another videocast, and Master Gualberto is with us again. Thank you, Master, for being here. Today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Consciousness Is What I Am." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "If we live every day in meditation and contemplation of the word of God, we will be nourished from within." Regarding this subject of meditation, can you share your vision of the art to meditate?

MG: Gilson, approaching life without the past, encountering the present moment without the presence of the thinker, the experiencer, the observer... since this observer is an element that separates itself in order to observe, this experiencer is an element that sees itself present in order to experience, and the thinker is an element that sees itself present in thinking. You see, we are confronted with a model, a pattern of duality, of separation. Therefore, approaching life as it happens, without this duality, without this separation, is the presence of Meditation, the art to meditate.

You can look from the past and you can look without the past. The point is that, when you are present, your gaze will always be the gaze of duality, where there will be an observer, an experiencer, a thinker. The meditative mind is like the meditative gaze: there is no one in it, just as there is no one in this mind. The good news here, for you, is that we can indeed approach life as it truly is, without someone present as an element that is separate from life. This is the Awareness of seeing God. It is not someone seeing God, it is the Reality of God being seen.

When God assumes Reality, this present Truth of this Being-I refer to the nature of your Being, the nature of the Truth about you-in that moment, God sees God, looks at God, witnesses God.

We are talking about something that is beyond thought; naturally, beyond the image you have of God, beyond the belief you have about God, beyond imagination and the idea you have about God. The encounter with the present moment without the past, where life is now, here, happening as it is, the presence of the Reality of this moment, is vision without the observer, it is perception without the perceiver, it is experiencing without the experiencer. This is the presence of Meditation. A life free of the ego, a life free of the thinker, a life free of the observer is life as it happens, where the past is no longer present.

Look at yourself: everything you have about who you are, everything you think about who others are, about what life represents, this is a complete alienation from the Reality of life, from the Reality about yourself, and from the Reality about others. Here, we are investigating what Meditation is not, to comprehend what It truly represents. We cannot describe, or write, the Beauty found when God is the present Reality of this Being, which is the Presence of Meditation, but we can investigate what Meditation is not.

It is the investigation of what Meditation is not that allows us to discard this illusory life of "I," the life of the ego, life of separation between you and God. It is the Real comprehension of the Truth about ourselves, about who we are, who we express ourselves to be, who we demonstrate ourselves to be. It is the comprehension of this psychological condition, which is the condition of "I," the discarding of this "I"-the emergence or appearance of That which is already present but does not reveal itself, due to the presence of ignorance, illusion, of this mind with its illusions.

There is nothing more important in life than the Awareness of Being. Culture, society, the world, which lives in the mind-and we were educated to live this way, conditioned to live this way-in this format, in this pattern, the intention of this "I" is to be, achieving something to be someone, achieving something to be something. In the mind, in the ego, we want happiness, we want love, we want peace, freedom, a life of wisdom, without suffering. but everything we've just stated is presented as a projection! It is thought that projects all of this into an ideal to be, to become, to happen for this being that thought imagines.

Here, our work consists of becoming aware of Happiness, here in this Being that is present. It's not about becoming, it's about the awareness of Being. You don't need to achieve, obtain, or accomplish. You simply need to become aware of Being, of this present Reality, which is present when illusion ends, when mental conditioning, when the way thought operates in each of us disappears. This is the art of Meditation!

Meditation flourishes when there is Self-awareness. This Self-awareness is present when we, in this moment, pay attention to these reactions, to each and every movement present in each of us. All this movement will, naturally, come from the past. Thought is something that comes from the past, as well as feeling, emotion. The response we give sentimentally, emotionally, and from thought to life as it unfolds in this moment, all of this is part of a movement within us, which emerges, which has its origin in the past. This is the life of the "I," of the ego.

Thought has constructed a story about itself and placed a character present, the one who tells the story and the one who listens to the story. This image that thought has constructed is the person, it is this "I," this ego. Human beings live forty, eighty, ninety years without the slightest awareness of Reality about themselves, because they are living in ignorance, because they are living this self-image, they are living this story that thought is telling. It is a complete alienation from the Beauty of the Truth of Life; from the Truth of Love, here and now; of Happiness, here and now; of Freedom, here and now. It's not about achieving something to "come to be," it's not about achieving something to be someone; it's about embracing the Reality that is present in this Completeness. We are facing something beyond thought, beyond the ego, beyond the mind. This is the presence of Meditation, this is the presence of Truth about you.

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. Cíntia asks the following question: "Master, do Meditation and self-inquiry have the same meaning?"

MG: So, why do we cling to expressions like "Meditation," "self-inquiry," or "self-observation"? And why do we link these expressions? My recommendation to you is: let it go, don't get caught up in words. Here, contact with the Reality of Meditation or self-inquiry, or self-observation, will show you something beyond words. So, this relation between Meditation and self-inquiry, or self-inquiry and mindfulness. I use these expressions in these talks these days. Obviously, this has some value, some importance, but in reality, it's very small. What we need is direct contact with Silence, with the absence of the thinker, the experiencer, this "I" that looks, this "I" that feels. Thus, we have a Real contact with Meditation. However, we are faced with something beyond words.

Our inclination, in general, is toward intellectual, verbal understanding, through words. We often confuse understanding with comprehension. I've been emphasizing this a lot: there's a difference between real, direct, experimental comprehension and theoretical, verbal, conceptual understanding. We need to go beyond words, beyond ideas, beyond books, theories, concepts, and beliefs. Learning to look at your reactions is the basis for Meditation to flourish. Learning to observe our reactions is self-inquiry, but it is also attention, but it is also Self-awareness, but it is also Meditation.

We try to place this event, which is Meditation, as steps being taken, step by step. There is no step by step! The presence of this gaze on the moment is the very presence of perception of Reality - which involves attention, self-inquiry, Meditation, and, of course, Self-awareness. What we truly need is not an intellectual understanding, not a step-by-step guide to this Awareness of Being. What we truly need is the power of this Grace. We have invited you to participate in online meetings on the weekends. There is Something present in these meetings that is Something greater than a speech like this. It is the Power of this Grace, it is the Power of this Presence, it is this mysterious Divine Power that makes possible the vision, the presence, the realization of Meditation, this encounter with the Truth of this Being. It is not someone having this encounter, it is this encounter revealing itself due to the presence of this gaze, this perception. Okay?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. She makes the following comment and asks: "Master, isn't there a meditation technique, but is there a learning about self-awareness?"

MG: Yes, of course there is a learning-that's her question. If there is learning, in reality, the only real learning is learning about ourselves. This learning requires, at this moment, attention to our reactions. It's not like learning a language or a profession. From knowledge and experience, the learning we know reveals itself. So, you learned to speak a language, you learned a profession, it's from knowledge and experience, while this learning here consists of discovering what it means to look, discovering what it means to perceive your reactions.

It's not a technique, because it's not something you can say, "I've learned." It's something you are, at this moment, learning. It's learning, moment by moment, about yourself, about how thought happens, here, in this moment; how feeling happens here, in this moment. You don't take this experience with you; you are becoming aware, at every moment, of this movement that emerges, appears here, that comes from the past.

We are dealing with life at this moment, and it is at this moment that we are learning about ourselves. Everything you are, as a person, is what thought has established in you, as being you in a model of belief and also of feeling, emotions, sensations, and ways of perceiving. This learning about ourselves requires, in this moment, this looking. Looking at your words, your gestures, thoughts, emotions, feelings... What do you feel, what do you perceive, what is this perceiving? It's about looking! It's not about changing it, it's not about altering what is being seen, but about seeing, perceiving, realizing, being aware. So, something happens in this looking, in this perceiving, in this being aware.

All this psychological content that has formed and sustained this "I," when seen... this psychological condition undergoes a profound change. This is the emptying of this internal psychological content of this "me," this ego-identity. So, we are faced with this attention, this attention to our reactions, this attention to life as it is happening, internally and also externally. There is great beauty in this encounter with this learning. We do not carry this into the future, because there is no future; we simply become aware of this moment, and in this moment, this past ends.

The continuity of the "I," the ego, into this psychological future requires the presence of this psychological past. When we eliminate this psychological past, because of the presence of this attention, this learning about ourselves-which is Self-awareness-we eliminate the psychological future. Thus, we end this idea, this model of psychological time that this sense of "I," the ego, uses in this belief of this tomorrow, this future. Therefore, this encounter with the Reality of Life requires the presence of Meditation; and Meditation is the awareness of dealing with this moment without the past, without this "I." It is the pure, direct comprehension of the Truth of the present moment, without any adulteration, motive, reason, or intention to do something with what is here and now revealing itself, which puts an end to this continuity of this mental conditioning, this model, which is the model of the "I," which is the model of the ego.

This learning about ourselves is the Awakening of Intelligence, the Awakening of Wisdom, the Awakening of the vision of life, free from the past. The comprehension of this moment, the vision of what is present here in this tone of voice, in these gestures, in these feelings, in these words used within a conversation. this looking, this perceiving, puts an end to this continuity of the "I," puts an end to this continuity of the ego. Thus, we are faced with the Presence of Meditation.

I have said that Meditation has two aspects. This one we've just described is the practical aspect; it's Meditation in a practical way. Another aspect of Meditation is the awareness of this revelation of this Natural State of Being, free from the "I," free from the ego, where this Divine Vision, this Vision of God, is present. Thus, there is the Presence of this Silence, this Freedom, the Presence of Bliss, Happiness, and Love, when the ego is not.

Meditation is the absence of the meditator, the absence of the "I," the absence of psychological time. The Reality of this Being, the Reality of this Divine Consciousness, this Reality of God, is present as Meditation. And thus there is Meditation as your Natural State of Being, which is true Consciousness, real Consciousness, true Happiness, true Freedom. This is what we are working on here, looking at, here, together.

GC: Thank you, Master, our time is over now. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are following along and truly want to experience these truths, we invite you to participate in the intensive meetings that Master Gualberto offers. These intensive meetings are available online, as well as in-person and retreats. These meetings are much more profound than these videos here on YouTube. First, because Master Gualberto answers our questions live. And second-and more impactful-is that because the Master already lives in this Awakened state of Consciousness, He shares a field of Presence, a field of Energy around Him. And in these meetings, we end up being carried by this field of the Master's Presence. And carried along by the Master, spontaneously, effortlessly, we enter the meditative state, quieting our minds, and gaining insight and comprehending into what lies beyond all limitations of intellectual understanding. So, here's the invitation: in the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to join these meetings. Also, please give a like to the video, subscribe to the channel, and comment here with questions for us to add to future videocasts. And, Master, once again, thank you for the videocast.

July, 2025
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How to find God? | Meditation: what is it? | Learning about Self-Awareness | Self-Awareness

There's a lot of confusion in people's minds about this study of ourselves, about what it means to study, to comprehend, to become aware of the Truth about who we are. Generally, the confusion revolves around the fact that we confuse an introspective look at ourselves with self-awareness. Self-awareness is not introspection; it's not also looking at oneself to analyze oneself.

When we talk about change, generally, in people's minds, the idea of change requires adjusting to a new pattern, a new way of life to deal with it. So, the idea of the need for self-awareness is the idea of a necessary change that we need to have, that we need to accomplish, and that we will achieve through introspection, learning to look at ourselves to remove the bad things and keep the good things. It's something that involves an analysis of oneself, self-analysis.

When the intention is to achieve a goal, a purpose that we already have clearly defined within ourselves that we want to achieve, this so-called change is, in fact, a modification. We are modifying what we have here and transforming it into something else that thought has constructed, that thought has established as a goal, as a purpose. And that's why we use introspection, and that's why we use this self-analysis.

The Truth about Self-awareness is none of that. The Truth of comprehension who we are is not about changing into what we idealize ourselves to be, what we want to be, what we imagine we need to become. Comprehending the Truth about yourself is the vision of how you position yourself in life. Yes, this brings a profound and radical change, but it's not a change toward an ideal, toward a purpose. It's the emergence of something beyond the mind, beyond any idea or imagination you might have.

The result of Self-knowledge is the awareness of the Truth about yourself. The awareness of who you are is the end of who you are, how you show yourself to be, express yourself and have been. There is a Reality in life revealing itself when there is the presence of this learning about Self-awareness. That's when there comes the Truth of Meditation. Because, look, what is Meditation? What is Meditation? It is the awareness of Self-knowledge.

Only in this sense do we use the expression "Self-awareness" here, as that which reveals Divine awareness, the awareness of God. Therefore, the vision of Truth about yourself is inseparable from the vision of Reality about God. So, here we find the answer to the question "How to find God?" You don't find God, you become aware of Reality present here, in this moment, when you, in this ancient and old structure of the "I," the ego, the person, are no longer present. Then, there is something new, completely different from this "you" that you recognize. This "you" that you recognize, recognize in thought.

The element of knowledge within us, of recognition within us, is thought. The realization of the Truth about yourself is the end of this "me," this person, for this present Reality, which is Life, which is God, which is You in your Essential Nature. This cannot be achieved, this cannot be realized in this old format of construction, assembling, edification, transformation, which implies the ideal.

You have something here and the ideal there, so, from here to there, a change, having the ideal as an image. So, all this improvement for the person is the improved, constructed, edified person. The Awakening of the Truth of your Being, the Reality of God present, is not a modified person, it is not a transformed person; it is the presence of Life, it is the presence of God. There is no one present.

It is very strange to hear this, the fact that Life is happening without people. The idea of people present is a mental construct, because thought has constructed the idea of people present-the movement of these people, who are merely ideals, purposes, desires, fears in motion-and there is the portrait of the confusion in the world, the photograph of the confusion present in our relationships, all the suffering present for this element that sees itself present in experience. An element, yes, illusory from the perspective of Reality, but within the context of this dream of separation, it is very real and it is present suffering.

Psychic suffering in human beings is the presence of suffering in the person. Free from the person, free from suffering. This psychic consciousness, this mental consciousness, is the psychological structure of society, of our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, of all human culture. See, it is the truth of ignorance, of illusion, of the imagination of an entity that sees oneself separate from the own life, that sees oneself in a relationship with another. There is no such thing as "another" for this person. For this person, the vision of the other is the vision that the person has constructed in this imagination of separation, of duality.

Life consists of relations happening. They are relations that occur between people. No! They are relations that occur between human beings. As human beings, we are in relations with one another. The idea of a person is a construct of thought; a thought that seeks security in the ideal of relationship it imagines, idealizes, and seeks. This is the egocentric behavior of the ego, this is the egocentric behavior of the "I."

We are living in an isolated relationship. Each of us is living an isolated, separate life. We are separate from each other and seeking for ourselves the ideal of the best that the ego imagines for itself. Therefore, the behavior is isolationist and egocentric, creating conflict, problems, and suffering, because violence is present. Based on violence, every type of action, due to the presence of fear, creates confusion, creates problems.

Therefore, when we approach the Revelation of Truth about ourselves, we become aware of the presence of this observing, perceiving, becoming aware of how we are acting from the perspective of thought, from the perspective of the person. The clarity of this vision ends this fallacy, this lie. This is the end of the idea of someone present in contact with others.

A Real Life is a life free of the "person." This quality of life is present when Meditation is present. We need a new brain, a new mind, a new vision, a new way of perceiving, feeling, speaking, acting, moving through life, without the "I," without the past, without the "I." This is the presence of Meditation.

So, what is Meditation? What is the truth of the Revelation of this awareness that reveals God in this moment? The Truth in this moment, the Supreme Intelligence in this instant, is Attention, observation, listening, perceiving. When we introduce the element of thinker, experiencer, observer, we place thought as the one that recognizes, interprets the experience. Then, there is a separation between the experience and the experiencer, what is being seen and this observer.

When we approach this new quality of perceiving, of looking, of observing, we eliminate the pattern of this egoic mind, this mind that positions itself in this separation. We don't know how to deal with the present moment because we position ourselves to deal with it. A full comprehension of the present moment requires the absence of an element behind this interpretation, evaluation, choice, and judgement.

When you look at what is here, you look with the eyes of thought, and thought distorts it. It places us in a project of what should be; it doesn't align with what is here. Observe the mind working within you: it always speaks of what was or what will be, of what it intends to achieve or what it intends to free itself from. It intends to free itself from what it experienced in the past, which was bad for it; it intends to achieve what it imagines will be good for it. However, the mind is you, as a person, in this self-image.

When we learn to look at the mind, in this moment, the instrument of perception, of looking, of perceiving, is the mind itself, which has become silent, which has become still. When it becomes still, a new space opens up, and in this space we have the presence of a quality of Consciousness, of mind, of perception, of seeing, of listening, beyond thought.

When we use expressions like "this mind in Silence," "this new Consciousness," "this Real Consciousness," we are pointing out Something beyond the known, unattainable by thought. Therefore, Divine Revelation, the true encounter with God-in the question "How to find God?"-is something that is present here, revealing itself when the "I" is not present, when the ego is not present.

Life consists of a single present Reality: it is the presence of non-separation, of non-duality, it is the presence of Advaita. The Reality of this Being is the One without the second. And this Being is Life, it is Happiness, it is Divine Nature, which is You in your Natural State of Being. The Presence of the Unnamable, the Indescribable, of That which is unattainable by thought, is the Presence of God.

Therefore, Self-awareness and Meditation are the Truth revealing itself as Wisdom, as Freedom, and all of this is the result of this listening, this looking, this perceiving. Bringing this Attention to this moment. You don't bring it from the past; you reveal This here as something already innate, present within You.

It's not something you learn, like you learn something out there. This learning about Self-awareness is the moment-by-moment acknowledgment of life as it happens. So, it's the moment of Bliss, of Happiness. It's the moment of Supreme Intelligence, this moment of acknowledging Reality, Divine Reality.

This is what we're working on here, with you, in these meetings. On the weekends, Saturday and Sunday, we have the opportunity to be together investigating this, delving deeper into these questions. It's two days online. So, I want to leave you with the invitation: here, in the video description, is our link to participate in the online weekend meetings.

In addition to the online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If this makes sense to you, here's the invitation: give a to like it, subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? And we'll see you. Thanks for the meeting, and see you soon!

July, 2025
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Joel Goldsmith | Invisible Supply | Conditioned Mind | Marcos Gualberto

GC: Hello, everyone! We're here for another videocast, and Master Gualberto is with us again. Thank you, Master, for your presence. Master, today I'm going to read an excerpt from a book by Joel Goldsmith called "Invisible Supply." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel Goldsmith makes the following comment: "At this stage, we no longer think about Truth, we no longer read it, nor hear it with the mind." Regarding this question of the mind, can you share your perspective on the conditioned mind?

MG: Gilson, the way we approach life, how it happens, is determined by how thought evaluates, compares, accepts or rejects, likes or dislikes, believes or not. When you ask, "What is this conditioning? What is this conditioned mind?", it's the way thought takes place within each of us. We were educated to think what we think, to feel what we feel, and to do what we do. You believe you have the freedom to think, feel, and act. However, you behave in a way that everyone around you is behaving, and you are unaware that this is happening. This is how the mind was programmed to position us in life; this is the presence of a mind that knows no freedom.

We talk about "freedom," but this word, in fact, means nothing. Doing what you like, what you want, is not freedom. You do what gives you pleasure. You like what gives you pleasure in liking. However, this is something that concerns the way this brain, this mind, is conditioned to like what it likes and to do what it does, or to dislike it, or not to do it. There is no truth about ourselves; there is the truth we receive from the thought present in each of us. It is thought that determines this truth. This truth is the truth of the "I," of this "me," of this person, which, by the way, is a way of thinking, acting, and feeling within this human consciousness, which we call the mind.

What is the Reality of What you are? What is the Truth about you? We don't know it! We have not the Reality of What We Are, much less, naturally, the Reality of Life as It Is. If you don't have a vision of yourself, of the Reality about you, you don't naturally have a true vision of who the other is, of what Life is. Our internal psychological condition of existence is the mere existence of the "I," of the ego. We have a way of responding to experience that always stems from the past. This is producing conflict, dilemmas, disorder, and problems in our lives.

It is enough to say that this life-since there is no Freedom in it, and the response is a response that has its origin, its basis, in thought, in this element present within us that comes from the past-all of our actions in life generate problems, generate confusion, and suffer, because there is no way to be otherwise, because there is no Freedom. This has alienated us from life. We are, in fact, in this condition of conditioned mind. Since everything we do, we do it based on the past, on this model of thought, which is part of a collective worldview, we are merely maintaining the continuity of a model of human problems, something common to all and also present in our lives. We lack the Awareness of Reality, the Truth of That which is present here, beyond the "I," beyond the ego, beyond this conditioned mind.

Thus, all kinds of problems are present, and we don't know how to deal with life as it happens. Because we don't know how to deal with life, the problem is the presence of this "I." It's not life that's the problem; it's the presence of someone, which is this "me," the presence of the problem. Can we, in this life, comprehend ourselves enough to go beyond this format? To go beyond this suffering, this disorder, this way of looking at others, ourselves, and life, as everyone is doing? You were born for the Awareness of the Reality of your Being. This Reality of your Being is something that is beyond this very appearance, this dream we call "birth."

See, here we're already presenting you something that is completely strange to our way of thinking about ourselves, about others, about life-including about God. What we were given within this pattern of cultural, social, and educational conditioning about God, were organized religions, sacred books, and scriptures. At best, within this psychological conditioning, we're content to follow what religions say. This movement of following, of accompanying, of thinking within this religious context, intellectually, based on the scriptures, this sense of "I," of ego, still remains, remains alive.

So, we have religious conditionings, also philosophical, political conditionings, cultural conditioning, the culture we were born into, tradition, family conditioning... Can we go beyond all of this? Can we assume, in this moment, the reality of life in this moment, without this conditioned brain, this conditioned mind, this consciousness, which is the consciousness of the "I"? Is there another possible life different from this known life of thought? That's what we're investigating here, saying precisely that yes, this is possible. There is a present Reality; this Reality is the Reality of God, it is the Reality of Liberation from this confusion to something indescribable, to something beyond thought, to the Real Divine Life, where there is no longer separation between the Reality of your Being and the Reality of others, the Reality of Life, the Reality of God. This is what we're seeing with you, delving deeper with you, working with you. Okay?

GC: Master, we have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. She makes the following comment and asks: "My mind judges everything all the time. How can I silence these conditionings and see reality as it is?"

MG: Here, Gilson, regarding this question-note, the movement of the mind is precisely this movement. Thought within us is a movement that, because it comes from the past, it already has conclusions, it already has a basis for evaluation, for comparison; naturally, for judgment. We are faced with an addicted model of behavior, which is the behavior of thought. This is how the mind works, this is how the mind works. The mind sustains itself within us based on an identity it forms, creates, and establishes. Thought is not secure. Notice that no thought lasts more than a few seconds; it arises, and another thought follows. It's like a line! Thought is here, another one soon appears, but thoughts interconnect. So, they create a narrative, they create a story. They have something to tell, they just don't have someone to tell it to. But then they create! At that moment, you appear!

You are the element that is the "I" to hear the thought, to hear what it has to say. Note that this is exactly how the person, the "me," the "I" emerges. The "I," the "me," the person, is just a fragment that separates itself from thought itself, from the narrative itself, from the plot itself, from the very news that thought is bringing. So, follow this carefully: thought emerges, but it emerges with a narrative. A set of words, images, thoughts is an idea-this is a narrative. A thought separates itself from this narrative-this thought is the thinker to hear the news, to accept, reject, agree, like, dislike. This is the presence of the "I." This is the presence of this "me," this thinker.

We have a belief that the thinker comes first. In reality, what comes first is the narrative, the story that thought is telling. It immediately creates, it supports someone to like or dislike, to agree or disagree. Thus, evaluation, comparison, and judgment are born. This is the setting, this is the stage where this play is being performed. This performance of the play, the story, is the story of this "I." This is the presence of self-image, of the person, of this "me"!

We spend our entire lives wrapped in the illusion that we are thinking, that we, as thinkers, are the authors of these thoughts, these judgments, conclusions, evaluations, disagreements, and agreements. All this internal chatter is happening within us all the time. At times, this very thought, in this thinker's format, becomes stressed, nervous, tense, and wants to free itself from the thoughts it is producing. So, the ego, this "I," lives bored, anxious, worried, angry, fearful, stressed. However, all of this is part of the very game of thought, of this play in this theater of the mind. There is the mind as the theater, there is the play happening in this theater-this play is the presence of the movement of thought, this is the conditioned mind. And there is the protagonist, the main actor-he's still part of the story, he's still part of the scene. He's the presence of thought!

Here, together, we're discovering what it means to break free from this condition. Breaking free from this requires a gaze, a quality of mind that silences. When the mind becomes aware of its own movement, through silence, this is possible. You ask how to silence all this conditioning. Yes, because we just described all this conditioning; this entire model of mind is conditioned. You ask how to silence... By becoming aware of these reactions, without reacting, without getting involved! When the mind becomes aware of its own movement, there's something present in this new look. Then, the mind quiets, the brain becomes silent, a new space emerges. We are faced with a different mind, a quality of mind, where this attention is present.

This attention to our reactions is the end of this present element, which separates itself to fight against all of this, to mistake itself for all of this. Then, judgment stops, comparison stops, evaluation stops. This accepting, rejecting, liking, disliking... this dissolves, this disappears. Can we learn this art of looking without the observer, perceiving without the perceiver? Being aware without someone in this awareness? This is the presence of the mind free of the "I," it is the presence of the mind free of the mind. We need a foundation for this new vision, new perception, for this new mind. The foundation is this attention; it is what brings us closer to Self-awareness. And, with Self-awareness, a space opens up, which is the space of Meditation, of the absence of this model, this pattern, this format of conditioned thought. Then, Something new is present.

I invite you to participate in online meetings, so you can have a deeper approach-not to words but to something beyond words, which is present in these meetings called "Satsang." Okay?

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel. Paula makes the following comment and asks: "Master, I realize I'm always searching for security. How can I let go of this mental comfort zone?"

MG: Well... the illusion is that we are in a mental comfort zone, and we want security to maintain that mental comfort. In reality, this search for security is the greatest proof that, in fact, we are not in a mental comfort zone; there is nothing comfortable about the movement of the mind. The mind is restless, repetitive, chatty, insecure... It is the nature of the mind to seek security-not because it feels secure, but precisely because it carries nothing but insecurity, fear, discomfort. This restless, uncomfortable state of mind creates this impulse to seek security, stability, comfort, peace.

Can we free ourselves from this illusory identity, which is the presence of this "I," which is nothing other than this egoic mind, which is always in this search for security because it experiences this discomfort? This is the question. How does this become possible? By becoming aware of what is present here, precisely this discomfort present here, this dissatisfaction, this fear, this insecurity. This is the truth of this "I." This is the truth of this "me."

Most people, when they talk about the "I," about the "me," about the ego, they speak in the third person. When they talk about the mind, they speak in the third person. They say: "This mind in comfort," "this mind in discomfort," "this 'I'," "this ego, this 'me,'" as if there were a separation between what they are and the "I" itself, the ego itself, the mind itself. Can we become clearly aware that there is no such thing as a separation? The movement of this search for security is the movement of the mind itself, which is the "I," which is this "me," which is this ego. Unless we have a clear vision of what we are addressing, of this given thing we are talking about, we will never have a vision of Truth. Truth reveals itself when Freedom is present. The awareness of Truth is the very presence of this Freedom. We do not separate this Freedom from Truth. It is the clarity of this Truth-which is the truth about the "I," about this "me," about this ego-the presence of this very Freedom, of this condition that is the condition of this mind, which is the condition of this "I."

There is a present Reality that is not this mind, this "I," this "me." A Reality that reveals itself when the illusion ends, a Reality that reveals itself when Truth is comprehended. The clarity, the lucidity, the real vision of this truth, of this sense of duality, of separation, of ego-identity, of the egoic mind, is the end of this psychological condition of a conditioned mind, of a mind in discomfort, of an insecure mind, of a mind in suffering. Having an approach, in this moment, to what is happening here and now, learning to look, to perceive, to become aware of this discomfort, this pain, this suffering, in this instant: this is the end of the "I," it is the end of the ego, it is the end of illusion, it is the end of suffering.

Getting closer to yourself means learning to look at how you function, at how this mind is happening to this "I"... how it feels, how it speaks, how it acts, how it responds to life... how it responds to itself, how it separates itself as a thinker thinking, someone feeling, someone speaking, someone acting... All of this needs to be seen. This vision requires the presence of Self-awareness. It is when, in this moment, Meditation reveals itself. The Awareness of Truth reveals itself. Okay?

GC: Thank you, Master, we've reached the end of our time. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are following along and truly desire to experience these truths, we invite you to participate in the intensive weekend meetings hosted by Master Gualberto. These meetings are offered online, as well as in-person meetings and retreats. These meetings are much more profound than the videos here on YouTube. First, because the Master answers our questions directly, live. And second, and much more impactful, is that, because the Master already lives in this Awakened State of Consciousness, he shares a field of Presence, an energy field around him. And, in these meetings, we end up being carried by Master's energy.

And being carried along on this ride with Master's energy, spontaneously, effortlessly, we enter the meditative state, silencing our minds. We have an incredible facilitation for self-investigation; we can gain insight and comprehension of what lies beyond intellectual understanding. So, here's the invitation. In the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to join these meetings. Also, please give a like to the video and subscribe to the channel... And, Master, thank you again for the videocast.

July, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to find God? Meditation: What is it? Learning about Self-Awareness. Advaita (Non-Duality).

There is something fundamental here for us to investigate: it is the difference between learning something-anything else out there, in life-the difference between this form of learning and learning about ourselves. Therefore, there is a difference between learning something and learning Self-awareness. The truth of this learning about Self-awareness is something different from any other form of learning.

When you learn anything else, you learn by starting from observing and studying it, acquiring knowledge; and soon after knowledge comes experience, and with experience, specialization. What differentiates this encounter with the Truth of What Is You, which is revealed through Self-awareness, through comprehending ourselves, from any other specialized, specialized learning, is that here we need another element; the element present is perception.

Contact with life requires perception, not knowledge, not experience and specialization. To learn a technique, such as mechanics, electronics, languages, or any other activity, you need knowledge, experience, and that's where this specialization comes from. Here we are faced with something different; we need an initial foundation. The foundation, yes, is contact with the observation of what is present here-contact with it, experiencing what is present here. But we don't need knowledge, that means, information about it being stored.

We are functioning, psychologically, on memory, and this is our problem. We lack a true vision of who we are, of what thought has constructed about us, because we are living in memory, living precisely in thought, trapped, precisely, in knowledge and experience, and we need to free ourselves from this, because this condition of knowledge here and experience here puts us in direct contact with life in a mechanical, automatic, unconscious way.

Note that all technical knowledge, all specialization, coming from memory, gives you a mechanical skill. Thus, thought present within us is the element of knowledge and, also, of mechanicity for the person. This mechanical, unconscious condition, which resides in thought and, therefore, in memory, is the life of the "I," it is the life of the ego. Since here, together, we are investigating how to go beyond the ego, how to discover life free from the "I," we need to discover what it means to learn about ourselves, what this new way of learning is, which does not consist of accumulating knowledge or experience.

Based on the past, we are acting in life; everything we know, we know based on acquired knowledge. Technically, we need this form of learning. However, psychologically, this form of learning, this format based on knowledge and experience, has shaped us within a conditioning. We are constantly repeating this system; we have been shaped by a thought pattern, which is the thinking of this social structure, this worldview.

Thus, every behavior we have based on this form of learning based on knowledge and experience is pure mental conditioning, pure psychological conditioning. Observe how you react when someone upsets you; observe how you react when someone makes you sad, how you react when you feel loved, when they like you. Every response we have is a response from conditioning.

If I praise you, your response is conditioned; you feel good, comfortable with me, and you respond. Where does this response originate? Automatically, mechanically, and unconsciously. Yes, because this "I" consciousness, this ego consciousness, is acting inattentively. Just as you feel good when you're praised, you feel bad when you're criticized. When you feel bad, it happens unconsciously; when you feel good, it also happens unconsciously.

Therefore, your life is shaped by the behavior of a mind that reacts inattentively. The presence of this inattention is the presence of duality. Here, the term "duality" is the same term they call Advaita in Sanskrit. Our psychological condition of existence is one of separation. The mind functions within us in this unconsciousness, in this mechanicalness, reacting to the present moment in inattention.

Therefore, there is a separation between you and the present moment, between the perception that is present here and an element that is the perceiver; it is the presence of duality: the presence of the element within you that we call the thinker and the presence of thought. Here we face an illusion, the illusion of separation. Therefore, the presence of this separation, this duality, is called dvaita.

Here, the encounter with the Reality of non-separation for a new mind, free from separation between thinker and thought, between experience and experiencer, between perception and perceiver, is what in India they call Advaita, non-duality. We are living within a principle of duality, of separation. Breaking with this psychic, psychological condition requires the presence of Self-awareness, because that is when we are facing the beauty of the encounter with Meditation.

So, what is Meditation? What is Meditation? It is the presence of the awareness of non-duality, the awareness of Advaita, of non-separation, that reveals itself in this learning. True contact with the present moment requires the presence of perception. When there is perception, there is not the presence of the perceiver; it is only perception, it is only perceiving, it is the clarity of the present moment, where everything is seen, not from the past, because there is not the element called thought to judge experience, to be the sensor censoring the present moment. There is only a clear vision of this instant, of this moment.

The clear vision of this moment brings self-discovery, self-revelation, brings awareness of the moment. So, the truth of learning about ourselves is, in reality, the unlearning of this psychological background, this pattern of conditioning that we carry and to which we are constantly responding from itself; responses that are constantly coming from a background, where we have the presence of this thinker, this experiencer, this "I."

The great truth about this is that this entire response, since it arises from thought, thought is the basis of this illusory condition of separation, because there is no such thing as "I," this "me," this ego. What is present is the response of mental conditioning in this format of thought. Thus, the mind within us is the conditioned mind, the mind within the pattern of duality, of separation.

We have no real response to the present moment because we are unconscious, inattentive. There is no presence of Attention, no presence of Real Intelligence. Every present response to any stimulus, to any situation, to any person, to any external condition is something that always comes, arises within us within the model of thought, which is the model of the past. When you talk to people, there is no Attention in this conversation. Clearly, everything we talk to someone is based on the knowledge we bring.

In a way, knowledge is necessary, technically, professionally, within simple relations, but we place the psychological element within these relations, due to the presence of this inattention. In the absence of Attention to our reactions, our contact with people is a contact born out of the past, this background of egoic conditioning. All my contact with him or her, centered on the "I," the ego, on this image that thought has constructed about who I am, which is the belief that thought has established about me, all the contact I have with him or her, is within this self-centeredness.

We lack the presence of Divine Reality. When we are inclined toward this search or quest for Truth, a question eventually arises within us, and the question is: How to find God? Here, the fact of this contact with the Reality of That which is You, based on Self-awareness and this vision, which is the awareness of Meditation, already lies the answer to this question. You cannot find God outside; He is not somewhere to be found. There is no such thing as a place where God is found, to be found.

Here, this moment is the moment of Revelation; here, this moment is the moment of realization of the Reality of your Being, of Divine Truth. Clearly, this is something that requires the presence of Self-awareness, of this new learning, and this learning requires the presence of perception. To perceive the present moment, without the past, is to be aware of what is unfolding here, without the perceiver, without the thinker, without the idea, the belief of someone present. It is precisely when someone appears, it is precisely when someone arrives that the element of separation arises, the belief of the division between this "I" and the "non-I" occurs.

We are constantly looking at the world from this separation, this duality. The end of this duality is the vision of Divine Reality. This encounter with God is the awareness of this Being; it is not you having an encounter with God, it is the Reality of this Being revealing itself. When the "I" is not there, when this feeling, thought, sensation of someone is no longer present. Comprehending life is the Truth of the Revelation of your Being. Learning about Self-awareness, learning about non-duality, learning about God is something here and now.

The Reality of God is the Reality of this Being, which is the Truth about You in your True, Real Nature. This is what we are here working with you on the weekends. We have two days together, Saturday and Sunday, to get closer to this vision. These are online meetings on the weekends. I want to extend an invitation to you: here, in the video description, is our link to participate in these online meetings. In addition to the online meetings, we have in-person meetings and also retreats. If what you just heard makes sense to you, here's an invitation: give a "like," subscribe to the channel, and leave a comment: "Yes, that makes sense." Okay? See you soon!

July, 2025
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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