A prisoner of the mind

Once you start trusting what thought says... Notice, this is something happening since childhood. From the earliest age, you give credibility to thoughts. All we do is trust in what thought says.

We even carry the illusion we are the authors of these thoughts, that these thoughts are our creation, which in fact isn't true. Thought is something learned. Thought is something copied.

Another thing about thought is that it is just a transient appearance, while You are immutable, although your body changes and the whole psychological structure is constantly changing. You remain unchanged in your Being.

So, your Divine Reality doesn't alter, doesn't change, but thought is something constantly changing, just like feelings, emotions, and bodily sensations.

So, once you start trusting thoughts, which is what happens since childhood, you become a prisoner of the mind – that's the expression. Mind becomes a prison.

Then, your Being that, paradoxically, remains entirely dissociated and free…It temporarily experiences a prison.

Once you're identified with what thought says, you become a prisoner of the mind.

The observation of this movement, the attention on this movement is the basis for Meditation, for the discarding of this identification. Then, you can dissociate yourself from what You are not.

So, this story thought has about who you are, throughout this time, has formed an image within you, which is the image you have of yourself. Based on this image, you are in a prison.

Your work of Self-Realization is the work of acknowledging your Divine Nature, which, by the way, will not be self-realized. It remains completely dissociated and already free, but, paradoxically, I repeat, this is not the way you see yourself since you see yourself based on this self-image, in this prison, the mind's prison, in which you move like a prisoner.

Therefore, anxiety, loneliness, anguish, any form of psychological suffering, lies in this ignorance. The basis of these lie in the fact of this present illusion, the illusion of a supposed entity, and now I can say, a supposed prisoner of mind, moving like this.

Self-investigation, which is the basis for this Meditation, which is this attention to all this internal movement, inside you, is what allows you to see all this illusion, everything that thought has engendered, has shaped, has produced based on the illusion of this self-image.

Here lies the possibility of a straightforward answer to the end of this internal confusion, for the end of all this disorder, for the end of this suffering, for the end of this anguish, these states of pessimism, defeatism, negativism, as well as the end of the illusion of pride, envy, of showing partiality to people, of the illusion of being a person and so forth.

So, here the point is: find out the Truth about who You are and go beyond the illusion, this illusion of prisoner, of a mind's prisoner, of a prisoner of everything that mind represents.

January, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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How to observe the mind?

The question is: how to observe the mind? The question is here: how to observe the mind? By becoming conscious of the mind!

So, let's put this in a simple way: the acknowledgement of the Truth about who You are lies in the attention you pay to yourself. The condition of the egoic mind, the condition of the ordinary mind, the condition of this sense of separation, which is the sense of "me"… First, you need to see this, you need to become aware of this. You'll never be aware of this if you don't become aware of mind's movement!

Then, I say: you don't exist as you believe you do. You're not a person. The "sense of person" is a fraud, an illusion. So, you listen to it and you may, at first, find it strange or even interesting. But as long as you don't pay attention to this internal movement, which is this movement of observing every proposal of thought, of everything thought represents, everything it means, all the internal floating of remembrances, memories, feelings, emotions… as long as you don't observe this, you don't really become aware of the simple Truth that there is no "person" present.

You move with this "sense of person," just as a condition of memory. This memory condition has formed an image of itself. This image of itself is what you believe yourself to be.

Thus, when you refer to yourself using the pronoun "I," actually, you don't know what it represents. You are referring to this movement of memory, to this sense of personality that was acquired through these years.

So, if you ask me: "How to observe?"… Observing! You need to pay attention to yourself. Thought is not who You are. A feeling is not who You are. An emotion arising is not who You are. Therefore, all of these can be observed. Just like you can observe a cold sensation in the body – and you get a blanket to be warmer, naturally searching for comfort – this cold sensation can be, in the same way, observed in the body. And if it can be observed in the body, whatever is in your mind can be observed as well, because, just like your body is not You, this Consciousness that witnesses, observes and watches sensations in the body, this same Consciousness is the Truth that witnesses, that observes, that can be fully aware of the so-called "mind's movement."

This is fundamental, essential! You'll never know the Freedom of your own Being, the Happiness of your True Nature, which is the Divine Nature, while you remain mistaking yourself and getting tangled up with… I've been using the expression "identifying" with the egoic mind. In the same way, once you identify with the mind, you end up also identifying with the body.

I've used the example of the cold just now. A hot or cold sensation in the body is a sensation in an object witnessed by Consciousness. As this habit of identifying with the mind is so ingrained and so strong, you also end up mistaking yourself for the body.

See, the body is an appearance in this Consciousness, as is the mind an appearance in this Consciousness, but this Consciousness that is You, your Real Being, your Real "Identity", doesn't mistake Itself for this.

Observing mind's movement is important… It will give you, over the course of time, the liberation of identifying with the body. You disidentify with the mind, you disidentify with the body. This identification with the body is broken. This identification with the mind is broken. Then, if your question is: "How to observe the mind?"… You pay attention to this!

When thought arises, when feeling arises, it is the same for a bodily sensation arising… It can be observed, witnessed by Consciousness. Then, the way to Liberation from this egoic complexity, this suffering, this false identity, the way is this attention, this observation about "who I am," or about "what I am," here and now.

January, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The Wisdom of Silence

I have been emphasizing the matter of Meditation. Meditation is essential since Meditation is the basis for Wisdom. Meditation is what gives you the Acknowledgement of the Truth about who You are.

So, completely free from all the illusion thought creates, you are in a direct contact with the Wisdom of Silence, which is the Wisdom of your Being.

Your Being is Silence! This is the Truth of who You are: Silence, the complete absence of story, of memory. This entire story, all this memory, is attached and connected to this physical form, to this mechanism, to this organism, and there is no "you." Your Nature is Silence. I'd say your True Nature is the Wisdom of Silence.

Thus, Meditation is the basis for this Acknowledgement. The authenticity of your Divine Being is this Silence. When there is Silence, in this Silence, Intelligence shows itself, Intelligence reveals itself.

It's interesting to say that Intelligence is synonymous with Love, Real Love. When there is this Intelligence, which is this Silence, we are before True Love, the Unconditional and Real Divine Love.

I've been emphasizing the importance of this work in yourself. You are here to realize This, to realize the Acknowledgement of this Silence, the Silence of your Being, the Silence of Wisdom.

The Divine Comprehension, God's Truth, this Unicity, this Divine Reality, is the Reality of Meditation. See, it's not Meditation as a technique or practice. This is not what we're talking about. We're talking about Meditation as an appearance, as an emergence that, actually, we could put better as the flourishing of your Being.

This is your Real, Natural State, of Meditation, which is Consciousness, which is what I've just called the Silence of Wisdom, the Silence of your Being, the Truth of who You are.

Every suffering you experience, or you've been experiencing until now, is because of this separation, the separation from the Truth about yourself. When busy listening to the mind, you ward yourself off from Truth and suffer. It's the suffering of a false identity, which is not You since your True Nature is the Nature of Silence, which is Wisdom, which is Love, which is Peace, which is Happiness.

January, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Live without worries

My recommendation is for you to live free and keep yourself free from psychological occupations.

The basis of all concern is psychological occupations. All the mind does is to create psychological occupations, and with that, it survives under its own condition.

The Freedom of Being What You Are frees you completely from this psychological occupation. And therefore, It frees you from all forms of worries. Worry is just thought anticipation of some negative situation that may occur, but that will not necessarily happen.

What I mean is that many of the psychological occupations you have, may or may not happen, and thought is creating that all the time.

One of the strategies of the ego, of this false identity, is to keep itself alive through suffering, and the thought of a negative anticipation, which is what produces worries, is one of the ways the egoic mind uses to stay alive inside you.

The measure for that is, once again, to become aware of this movement, which is the movement of this ego-identity, the movement of this false center, this false "me." Mind lives and is reinforced by conflicts. Ego lives and is reinforced by problems. And thoughts are problems. Your Real Nature, your True Nature, dismiss the movement of thoughts. It is assertive with what happens here and now. In an intelligent, lively and real way, It always knows and can deal with what happens here and now.

But what does thought do? As a matter of habit, you have already, for a long, long time, been identified with this process of thoughts, especially negative thoughts, of failure, of defeat, of inadequacy, of non-results... But, in fact, thought is always thought. Whether it is positive or negative, it is actually useless from the viewpoint of Consciousness, from the viewpoint of Reality.

Learning to deal with yourself, learning to respond to the challenge that presents itself here and now, is something you need to do. This is something that naturally happens when you are in your Being. It is something precise. It is something complete. It is painless.

So, my recommendation to you is: live free from worries. Live free from the mind. Live in your Being. Remain in your Being. Silence is the result of that. Silence is what brings you, straightforwardly, the appropriate response to this or that situation.

Life is complete. Once you surrender to the Divine, surrender to the Truth, It will take care of everything. In other words, God is the Truth of your Being. God is the Truth in everything, and He is the One who takes care of everything. What room, what place, has your concern, your anxiety? What place, what room, has your thought pattern? So, abandon thoughts! Live in your Being! Then, this action will be the action of Grace, the action of Intelligence, the action of the Truth.

We can't change what happened, and in our illusion… I mean in the illusion thought creates, speaking here as a representative of humanity… we have built a model in which we believe we are capable of doing things. This is not true! There is only one Power doing everything. There is only one Power resolving everything, solving everything, putting everything at stake, and always doing as it pleases Itself. That Power is the Divine Power. It is the Power of Grace. It is the Power of Truth. Remain there, remain in That, and everything finds its right place, its proper place.

So, don't worry. Trust in Grace. Surrender to the Truth. Live the Truth and be Happy. That's your Nature, that's what you're here for: to live This, to live the Truth, to live in God!

January, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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Pleasure and fear

Notice, fear is something inherent in this sense of duality, in this sense of separation. So, as long as the illusion of an identity separate from life, separate from existence remains, fear remains.

Fear is something that bothers. It's something that disturbs. It's something that afflicts. Fear is a very dense, heavy form of suffering, but that suffering is something inherent in this psychological being, in this false identity.

So, we can't get rid of fear, as a "person." We abandon the illusion of "personhood," and that's the end of fear.

There is a constant internal movement in this "sense of person," in this "sense of an I," of a "separate identity," which has already become clear, for it, the difficulty of dealing with fear. So, to overcome this, it lives in a constant, continuous search for pleasure. Then, it will always try to replace fear with pleasure. It will always seek to find more satisfaction, more accomplishment, more fulfillment in pleasure, to ward off fear, and that doesn't solve it!

So, we actually have fear and pleasure as two sides of one single coin. This coin is called "sense of separateness." Your pain… your pain, which is the pain of fear, which you try to overcome through satisfaction, through the fulfillment of pleasure, this is the same coin. The coin of the sense of separation, of that sense of separateness.

So, it is inherent to this duality, to this "me," to experience pleasure and fear, to live in this constant search to ward off fear, in this constant search for pleasure. So, we are dealing with something inherent to this psychological sense of being, this false center. Thus, the ego is basically that. We can also replace the word "fear" with "pain." Then, here we have pleasure and pain or pleasure and fear.

We can go beyond that, we can understand what this represents, and that is the way of setting free or liberating from this condition of pleasure and pain or pleasure and fear. When we are dealing with pleasure and fear or pleasure and pain, we are dealing with something that is part of the illusion, of this "sense of separation." So, Enlightenment, Awakening, or the Blossoming of your Real Nature is the end of this.

When my Master appeared, he showed me that Liberation was in the recognition of the Truth about who I Am, and this recognition is the end of the illusion of who I believed to be. So, that's what we're dealing with you. The recognition of the Truth about Yourself is the end of the illusion, of the idea, of the belief, of the image you have about who you are.

So, if we have a real interest in the Truth of who we are, we are already mature enough for Happiness, for the end of fear. Fear is present, I repeat, in this "sense of separation." So, the cause of all this, the reason for all this, for this constant search for pleasure and escape from fear, is in this illusion: in the illusion of this false "me." That's basically it. It's basically like this.

January, 2022
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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