Self-Awareness: how to know oneself? Wisdom: how to attain it? How to achieve success in life?

Here the question is: how to achieve success? And there is another question: wisdom, how to acquire it? How to acquire wisdom? Let's draw a parallel here and explore this subject with you. What do you truly need, what do we need, in life? Do we need success, or do we need wisdom? Let's see the first thing here; the first is: what is life?

If we want to make our life depend on success or make our life depend on wisdom-if the purpose is a successful life or a life of wisdom-we must first investigate what Life is. So, let's explore this with you. And we'll draw a parallel between what is commonly known as success and explore what the truth about wisdom might really be. And what life is.

Look, in my view, there are two ways of looking at this question about our lives. There is this main, very personal idea that the vast majority usually has, which is the idea, when using the expression, "my life." In this so-called "my life," we have projects, projects to achieve in life; something we call "success."

And what is success? Is it fame? Is it power? Is it money? Is it professional achievement? Is it building a good family? Is it building a business? A good business? Is it acquiring possessions, movable or immovable? After all, what is success? Is that exactly what we call success? This ability to achieve things in this "particular life," as we know it?

Okay, and despite that, despite this achievement, after this achievement, after this long-dreamed attainment or achieving of success, do we continue internally, inwardly, being the same people? Notice the question: this is easily observable by all of us. Whatever you achieve in life, externally, outwardly, does not internally alter who you are, it doesn't change you.

If internally we are creatures burdened with worries, fears, anxieties, various afflictions; if, as people, we struggle to deal with others, struggle to deal with ourselves; if we carry a certain degree of anxiety, anguish, or depression; if, on some level, that happens to us; if we are ambitious, envious, jealous, possessive creatures... notice what we are presenting here to you. No matter what you obtain, achieve. You might call it success; others might call it success. But inwardly, you know you still remain unhappy.

Here, on this channel, we are investigating these issues with you. Here, the fundamental question is the Science of the Truth about who we are, about what we present ourselves to be. And it doesn't matter what you have achieved, or what you have lost, or what you may yet achieve. Psychologically, internally, we carry this sense of "I," this sense of "person," and this "person" basically does not know itself. So, it doesn't matter what we call success, or love, peace, or happiness. We have given names to very particular states of satisfaction, fulfillment, or achievement that we have temporarily attained in various goals, in various relationships, in relationships with objects, with people, with situations. We have given those names to them. But we do not know the Truth about who we are. And the unawareness of this Truth is ignorance.

Here on the channel, we are looking at this place. We are investigating these issues because they are the fundamental questions of life. The lack of understanding of the truth about who we are, the lack of knowledge about ourselves, the absence of the vision of truth-and here I refer to this truth that is beyond everything we know as persons; I refer to this Divine Truth-this lack of understanding is suffering!

So, amidst fame, prestige, recognition, public acceptance, an enviable life, without the presence of the revelation of Divine Truth, there is no real love, no real peace, no real happiness. This is what we are working on with you. Thus, when people ask, "how to achieve success in life," our focus here is on discovering the Truth about Wisdom. And Real Wisdom is Divine Truth, it is the Truth of God. The good news is that this Wisdom or this Truth is the Reality of Your Self, your essential Nature.

Therefore, what is necessary for this approach-and without it, it is impossible to come closer to Wisdom-is the understanding of ourselves! So, here, the fundamental thing is to have a direct look at this study of ourselves. Understand this. Self-awareness, the Truth about who You Are, the Truth of this Self-awareness, which is to know yourself, brings you a clear vision of the illusion you have about who you are.

One thing we've learned, which has been built over the years-is within this human, social structure, within this collective mind-all this idea of being "someone," of seeing yourself as "someone," of thinking, feeling, and acting as a "person." The reality of your being is impersonal! And here, when I use this term "impersonal," it is literally that! It is something outside the sense of the "person," as the "person" sees itself. As the "person" feels itself to be.

Thus, we have various needs, which are supposed needs. All this has been devised, constructed, produced, sold to each of us as real needs. We were educated within an ambitious, envious, greedy, acquisitive, competitive culture. So, we learned, within this context of the world, of life, that we need things-we need external achievements-because with those achievements, we will be happy.

Notice that "someone" who seeks fame, prestige, popular acceptance, success, is, in truth, searching for love, peace, happiness. However, in the mind, we confuse external achievements-or the building of a world surrounded by material comforts and surrounded by admiring looks or those who, looking at us, envy us-we confuse that with our Purpose in Life.

The Reality of your Self is the Reality of God! You, in your Natural Self, being naturally what You Are, present in that is Happiness, Compassion, Kindness, Freedom, Intelligence! So, what people call "success" or "happiness," based on constructs of thought, on idealizations that thought builds, is a mistake.

Here our emphasis is on investigating Divine Truth with you. This truth consists of Life, with Life being this very existence. And in this existence, there is an action born of this understanding. The actions we know are generally born of an impulse, an ideal, a goal, an intention that thought has constructed. We need to discover another quality of action, which is action free of the "I," free of the "ego."

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It is about your Divine Nature in expression, for being your Real Nature, impersonal, which moves in Joy, in Freedom, in Love, in Happiness; it does not cause disorder, it does not produce suffering. We do not know this! Because our actions are born out of an impulse, of competition, of greed, of envy, within this ideal, this purpose of achieving fame, power, this so-called "success"! So, what is the truth about Wisdom?

Drawing a parallel here, establishing a parallel between Wisdom, which is the Science of your Self, of this Divine Truth, where life is Understanding; and in this Understanding, there is an action of a new quality, of a quality unknown to this egocentric, personal, ambitious model that always carries this yearning for more and more and more, as it has been with the actions of the "ego." Becoming aware of the truth about yourself is becoming aware of the Presence of Divine Truth, here and now! It is the end of this "egocentric" condition of moving in the world, in this dream of separation, of duality.

The core subject here on the channel is the Truth that the only reality present is the Divine Reality, the Reality of God. And all this movement, which is the movement that thought has built, established, in all these generations that came before us, this entire model that has been guiding human existence on the planet for millennia. Notice that for hundreds, thousands of years, human beings have been creating confusion, disorder, and suffering in the world. Looking closely, every problem in the world is the problem of man, it is the human being, in their "egocentrism," in their behavioral pattern, who has created all this confusion.

Here our purpose, together, is to know ourselves. So, the first thing here is to very clearly differentiate what this action is, as we know it, from the truth of free action. Notice that our actions are egocentric actions because they are actions established in the model of thought. Life is something that is happening at this moment, but the response we have to life happening at this moment is the response that comes from the past. The way you confront the experience of the present moment is based on the experiences you have acquired in the past.

But who is this element that carries these experiences and now appears here, at this moment, to face this instance, with this basis? This element is the experiencer. The experiencer is the one who is constituted of thoughts, of memories, of recollections, of all your history, of all your memory. And this is thought! Notice, we want to deal with the present moment from the thought that comes from the past.

Our actions are actions born from this particular center that is the experiencer, which consists of a set of memories, recollections, thoughts that come from the past. So, when the situation here, at this moment, arises, the response to this given situation is the response we bring from the past. Thus, our actions are egocentric actions. They are actions centered in this "I," in this "ego." Your way of relating to your husband, to your wife, to your children, to your family, to the world around you, is a particular, personal, "egocentric" way. Because it is something that comes from the past. It is the way thought interprets the present moment. It is based on your past experiences.

Notice how delicate this is. Your contact with your wife, with your husband, with your boss, with your coworkers, with the world around you, is the contact of thought in you, interpreting him or her, interpreting what is here at this instant. And this interpretation, as it is personal, particular, based on this experiencer that comes from the past, it is isolationist. It is separatist. It is "egocentric."

So, the action that arises from this movement is the action of the "ego," it is the action of the "I," producing confusion, producing conflict, producing suffering! Is it possible for us to have a life that is this life of Understanding, of the action of Intelligence, of Wisdom? An action of this quality is not an action born of the past, born of memory, born of thought. Notice, this is an action that responds intelligently to this moment, based on this presence, on this new, free mind. So, we have an action free of the "I," an action free of the "ego," where the Divine Reality is present.

Our objective here with you is to show you that this quality of action is possible. As long as the human being does not realize this, does not embrace this Truth of their own being, of this free, new mind that does not operate within this old model, because of the understanding of Truth, of Revelation, of Wisdom, which is born of Self-awareness-as long as this is not present, our life will be a confused, disorderly, disordered life, unhappy, and generating unhappiness, problematic and producing problems! So, it doesn't matter the position that "someone" has achieved, how much he or she has accomplished, how much he or she is seen as a "successful person." What we are saying to you-and it may be very challenging, of course-is that this sense of "person," present, is not the truth of what we are. And every achievement is not real. All of this is not the Truth of your being, the Nature of Divine Truth.

Here, the action free of the "ego," the action free of the "I," is the action of Real Happiness, Love, Fulfillment, Compassion. This has nothing to do with what thought has constructed in this idea of being successful, of success. We are telling you that, at this moment, it is possible to discover and verify what you are in your being, this awareness of your Essential Nature, of your Divine Nature.

It is interesting when people ask: "how to act correctly?"; "how to take the right action?" We have countless questions, and in this psychological, egocentric state of being "someone," we will never find answers to these questions because this very state is creating all these problems, all this confusion.

The purpose of these meetings of ours here is to look together at the possibility of the Blossoming of Truth about who we are. This is the Real Awakening of Consciousness. Some also call it Spiritual Enlightenment, the Blossoming of your Divine Nature, the Truth of What You Are, when the illusion ends, when ignorance is no more. This is the end of suffering; it is the end of these internal complications so well known to all of us in this model of "egoic" identity.

This is our work here, with you, on this channel. And also on our other channel called Marcos Gualberto. Later, take a look at our other channel. Moreover, we have online meetings that take place on weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, we are together, looking into all this, exploring these issues, working on this with you. Here in the video description, you'll find our WhatsApp link to join these online weekend meetings. In addition, we have in-person meetings and retreats. If this is something that makes sense to you, here's an invitation: leave your like, subscribe to the channel, okay? And we'll see you! Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time.

December, 2024
Gravatá-PE, Brazil
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The Search for Spirituality | What is Mindfulness? | How to Overcome Insecurity? | Master Gualberto

People have the idea that they will find spirituality. That is why they embark on this so-called search for spirituality. Here on the channel, we have several videos dealing with this topic.

Why is it that people are on this search for spirituality? What is the purpose of someone becoming spiritual? Generally, the belief is that you become a better person, a special person. You achieve a status that sets you apart from others around you. Notice, what is behind all this? It is still ambition, vanity, the desire to be special. Note, it is purely egoic. Here, we are inviting you to ask questions, to look, to listen, to investigate all these issues. Or perhaps your search for spirituality is to solve problems.

Human beings carry many problems. So, you end up believing that a spiritual or spiritualized person has no problems. There is always the idea of a person in conquest, in a goal, in achievement. Here, we are investigating with you this question of the person.

What is the person? Who am I? If your purpose in life is to discover the truth, this is entirely different from finding a position or a privileged place to be someone there. The encounter with the truth is the revelation of divine science, the science of God.

It is not about this so-called spirituality, as humans identify it. We have many perspectives, ways of approaching, looking, asking, investigating, already with a purpose, with a goal, with an ideal. This ideal, purpose, goal, is still seated in the ego, in this model of being someone seeking something.

We have some things here to show you, actually to see with you. It is necessary that within you, there is something very honest in this direction of the encounter with the truth and not with a place, a position, or prominence, or power that a goal, a target, this so-called spirituality, might give you.

Here, we are with you on this channel, showing you that a new life is possible, a new way of acting. But this requires a new way of feeling and a new way of thinking. And we cannot have this within this format, within this program, within this way of being that we have received from culture, society, the world, and also tradition.

Our tradition is religious, philosophical, political, familial. What has this given us? Today, you are, what, 30 years old, 40, 50? Or are you just 20 years old? Or have you passed 60? What we receive from society, the world, is a model of feeling, a model of thinking, a model of acting based on the cultural, social, educational values we receive. We are competitive, vain, ambitious; we have internal psychological characteristics of arrogance. This is vanity.

It is in this sense that I use here the expression vain. It is not about taking care of your hair, or doing your nails. That is not what makes you vain. Being someone is vanity.

Taking care of your hair or nails does not make someone vain. Someone is vanity for being someone, for carrying this psychological sense of being someone in the world. Here, we are seeing with you the illusion of being someone and the problems it brings.

One aspect of being someone-this is just one example; we have countless others for you-it would be better if you looked at your own life and directly perceived what we are addressing here. In fact, this is how these issues are resolved, when we, by ourselves, become aware of it.

It is not about hearing a talk like this and following this language or this way of speaking to later reflect on it. It is important that you follow this and discover this in living, in your own life, everything we have shared here with you. So, the tip is for you to notice in your own life these examples of this sense of being someone and the problem it causes you.

So, this question of being someone, for example, this is just one, take note of the others, in life, in your living. Your relationship with your husband, with your wife, with your child, with your family, is nothing other than the relationship you have with yourself. If you are not in peace, in silence, in serenity, in stillness, in love, in yourself, with yourself, in the relationship with him or her, conflict is established. Because if you are not in your natural state of being, which is the state free from this sense of the "I," of the ego, it becomes burdensome, heavy, difficult, unmanageable. See, with yourself, this is what you reflect, this is what you share, this is what you divide in relationships.

So, your way of dealing with your wife stems from the way you are dealing with yourself. If you are restless, your relationship with him or her is one of restlessness. If you are not at peace, your relationship with her or him is one of lack of peace.

Your way of dealing with the person you believe you are is, naturally, the way of dealing with the other, as you believe the other is. Notice how important it is for us to have a new look at this moment for the novelty of life at this moment.

Right now, at this moment we are together here, it has never happened before, and it will not happen again. So, it is not something that happened, nor is it something that will happen. Note, life is like this.

It is a novelty. We are always facing a new moment, and everything is new in this moment. With a new moment, your contact with the person you are talking to is a new contact, and you are facing a new person.

Notice how important this is. But the thought, the feeling, the sensation in you, something that comes from this movement of the past because it comes from this movement of the image, of the mental representation you have about yourself, is now in contact with this moment, from this place. Notice how fascinating it is for us to have this understanding. Your state, which is the state of the "I," of the ego, of this element that comes from the past, which is this person, as you see yourself, notice, is a portrait of the thought about you, of the feeling about how you feel, of the emotion of how you are feeling at this moment.

This comes from the past; it has nothing to do with this moment. It has to do with this element that usually shows itself at this instant, in this present moment, to deal with this novelty, which is the novelty of life. And this does not adjust.

And there is no way an adjustment can occur between the past and this instant. This is the sense of the "I." When you ask: after all, what is the ego? The ego is this: it is the person who comes from the past, who faces this moment and tries to adjust their feeling, their thinking, their acting to what is here in this moment.

This produces conflict, disorder, problems, confusion, suffering. Are we together? Your contact with the person you are seeing in front of you is a mental representation you bring from the past about who they are because you have memory records of him or her. So, your contact with him or her is not real because it is established in this time, which is the past.

This is the egocentric model of being, feeling, and acting in relationships. So, this is an example.

The husband has been with the wife for ten years. In reality, he has not been with her for ten years. What he has of the last ten years of living with her is a set of images.

This set of images is in relationships. So, the husband has been with her for ten years, and she has been with the husband for ten years, but, in reality, there is no truth of the relationship because what we have is a game between images of ten years of relationships. Naturally, all these relationships are based on the ego, on the "I." He has his interests, and she has her interests.

What do we have in this relationship? Agreements, negotiations, egocentric adjustments, personal adjustments of images. We are not in real contact with life as it is. This game, which is the game of the "I," of the ego, in relationships, does not fit, does not adjust to life as it is, as it is actually happening at this moment. So, what exists between people? Agreements, adjustments, a model of thinking, acting, feeling that is egocentric. We do not have the truth of the relationship free from the ego, and therefore, we do not have the presence of truth, the presence of love, of happiness. We have pleasure, we have fulfillment, satisfaction, but we also have the misadjustments.

Beyond the adjustments, we have suffering, conflicts, and clashing interests.

So, couples fight and love each other. They feel anger towards one another and then exchange caresses, kisses, and affection. This is how our relationships are with neighbors, with coworkers. All of this happens because what I am is not well. This "me," this "I," is egocentric. It is self-centered. It is exclusively involved with itself, but in a negotiation of interests, bargaining, and exchange of pleasure and sensation.

I know all of this sounds very strange to you, but notice, this is a fact, this is how it is. If I carry fear, fear is present in my relationships. If I carry distrust, that is present in those relationships.

It's very interesting when people ask: how to overcome insecurity? Notice: how to overcome insecurity? Basically, this question is about how to overcome insecurity in relationships. But what is insecurity? Insecurity is the presence of fear.

But what is fear? Is your fear of the other, or is your fear just fear? Our relationships are sustained by desire, pleasure, and fear because there is dependency, attachment, possession, and control. There's a whole game behind it that sustains our relationships. While they are advantageous, the sense of "I" feels good, comfortable. But when these relationships are threatened, there is resentment, worry, jealousy, envy, insecurity, and fear.

Can we approach life at this moment without this sense of "I," of "me," of ego? If this approach exists, the relationship with him or her will be real because it will no longer be established within this game; it will no longer stabilize within this model, which is the model of the image I have about who they are, about who I am, and about what I need. When there is no longer the sense of "I," of ego, we have the truth of relationships because we have the presence of love.

Try looking at him or her without the image you have of him or her. Try this. Notice that this requires attention to this moment, which, in general, we do not have.

The ability to look at the husband without the image, at the wife without the image, at someone you know without the past, without this element of self-image, which is the image you have of yourself. Then it becomes possible to look at him or her without the image you have of them. At that moment, we have an encounter with something new.

This new thing is the novelty of life; it is life as it is here and now. Without the "I," without the ego, without the past. Here on this channel, we are working with you on life in love, in freedom, in peace, in happiness. This is present when, in relationships, the sense of "I," of this "me," of this ego, does not enter.

Of course, this requires work, inner work to end this psychological conditioning, where we are repeating everything we learned throughout all these years of life, which was to sustain this self-image and this unconscious way of dealing with the experience of the present moment, where this game always prevails-the games of images, where the sense of "I," of ego, prevails. So, when people ask: how to overcome insecurity? We need to approach the attention to this entire movement of the "I," of the ego, of this "me." So, what is mindfulness? This is a topic of ours here on the channel, one of the subjects we are working on with you: What is mindfulness?

What is bringing to this moment the awareness of being, in the absence of the "I"? This awareness of being reveals this moment as a moment free from an identity present, which is this self-image, which is this element that looks from this image it has about who it is, creating images about the people with whom this self-image relates. So, bringing attention to this moment is discovering what it is to look at this moment without the past. Try this-looking at the wife, at the husband, at the children, at the boss at work, at the coworker, looking without beliefs, ideas, opinions, conclusions, without this feeling, thinking of liking or disliking.

So, we need this art of attention, of mindfulness, of full attention to this moment. Learning to look without the observer, to look without the thinker, to look without the thought, without the ideas, opinions, and judgments about what is here and now in this moment, about life as it happens, about people as they present themselves, about the world as it is. Then, something reveals itself at this moment when there is this full attention. So, this is the approach to self-awareness.

To the truth of what is present in this moment, which is beyond the "I," beyond this self-image, beyond the past. So, this is our topic here with you on this channel and also on our other channels. You have the link in the video description to learn more.

Additionally, we have in-person meetings and retreats where we are working on this with you in person during multi-day gatherings. And besides these meetings, we have our online meetings, which take place on weekends. On Saturday and Sunday, we are together, investigating this with you through questions and answers and within a context of approaching meditation.

If what you have just heard makes sense to you, our WhatsApp number is here in the video description for these online meetings. If everything you've heard truly makes sense, leave your like here, subscribe to the channel, and comment here: yes, it makes sense. Okay? And we'll see each other.

Thanks for the meeting, and see you next time.

December, 2024
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Joel Goldsmith. Beyond Words and Thoughts. Who am I? Marcos Gualberto.

GC: Hello, everyone! We are here for another videocast. Once again, Master Gualberto is here with us. Thank you, Master, for being here.

Today, I am going to read an excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book called "Beyond Words and Thoughts." In an excerpt from this book, Master, Joel makes the following comment: "The moment he begins to learn and to know, he begins to be." In this excerpt, Joel comments on learning. Can the Master share his vision on what real learning is?

MG: Gilson, here we come across, in your question, the most important question in life. This question is directly linked to the revelation of Life itself. You see, we underestimate this issue of learning; we fail to understand the importance, the beauty, the truth about learning, but it is learning that reveals Life. When, for example, you ask "who am I?", this is a question that only has a real answer through true learning, and this learning about what this "I," this "me," this "person," represents is to have an approach of the Vision of Life as It Is. So, let's calmly explain this here.

We have two ways of learning. The first is the one we know: we learn by listening, reading, performing a task. See, these are the ways that we have to learn. So, this learning, this form of learning as we know it, is based on knowledge, practice, execution and, naturally, experience. What we generally understand by learning, in life, is acquiring knowledge, storing information, executing it, making it practical and, thus, acquiring experience. So, learning, for us, consists of having experience based on the knowledge learned. So, it is knowledge that has been learned.

Here, we are pointing to the awareness of learning, and this learning. notice, the verb here is active at this instant, at this moment. It is not about this "learning" as we know it, it is about this new learning, because this concerns Life, this truth about this sense of the "I" present in this instant, in this moment. So, what is the truth about real learning? In this real learning, you are, at this moment, becoming aware of what is present here. That's all! You become aware of what is present; you do not store it, you do not accumulate it, you do not take it to memory. It does not become, now, part of your knowledge, of your experience.

This learning is the real way to get closer to Life in this instant, and this is the only way to become aware of the very Reality of this Mystery, which is the Mystery of Life, which is the Awareness of Reality about That which is You. This is what reveals the Truth of God! So, learning is getting closer, at this moment, to what is happening in you at this moment, because you are the very portal to this Revelation of Reality, which is God. When we have this principle of the comprehension of who we are, at this moment, we can go beyond this psychological condition of conditioning in which we, in the ego, find ourselves. And this only becomes possible when you are learning, moment by moment; becoming aware, at every instant, of your reactions.

The Awakening of Wisdom is, in reality, Gilson, the Awakening of Intelligence. Here, I refer to this Divine Intelligence, not to the intelligence that we acquire when we learn something and, through practice, are able to do it with agility, with mastery, with capacity. In general, we call someone intelligent who is able to perform extremely complicated tasks, but these tasks that are extremely complicated are complicated until you have real mastery over them. The moment you have got them, they stop being complicated. So, we consider this ability to learn and perform as intelligent. Our intelligence, the intelligence that we know, is the intelligence of knowledge and experience.

Here, the very presence of Intelligence is Intelligence in action. It is not based on learned knowledge, nor on practice, nor on acquired experience. Looking at this moment, becoming aware of your reactions, whether they are thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, whatever appears at this moment as a way of perceiving... just becoming aware of this. This reveals to you the truth about this sense of someone present, which is the "I." Therefore, this is the real way of learning. It is being present without being confused by the illusion of an element present within this moment, in this experience. Looking at this moment without the sense of someone present who evaluates, compares, has this acceptance or rejection, who agrees or disagrees; looking at this moment without placing a present element that comes from the past to do these things is to be in this real internal disposition to learn.

So, what is the truth of learning? It is being open to Life, to That which Life is, without the sense of someone present. When this happens, moment to moment, in this instant, there is an approach of the Vision of Reality, of Divine Reality. The basis for Self-awareness is this learning, and the basis for this encounter with the Reality of Life, which is Divine Reality, is Meditation.

Thus, we have this learning, which is, in reality, bringing Attention to this moment, an Attention that does not make choices; that does not agree or disagree with what arises, with what appears; that does not evaluate, does not compare, does not bring any element from the past to reject or accept.

See, Gilson, this is the real way to get closer to the truth of this "I." Once the illusion of this false identity is discarded, due to the presence of this learning, which requires the presence of this Attention, we have the Revelation of Self-awareness. This Revelation reveals That which is beyond the "I," beyond a present identity to maintain its continuity, beyond this illusory identity, this false identity. Therefore, the great truth about learning is that, in it, this sense of "I," of the ego, is unlearned and something new takes over this space. This something new is the Divine Reality, it is the Reality of this moment, it is the Reality of God. We need to discover what it is to learn, what it is to learn about Life, what it is to learn about ourselves, what it is to learn about this moment.

GC: We have a question from a subscriber here on the channel. Maria makes the following comment and asks: "Master, how do we know what comes from God or what comes from the ego?"

MG: Gilson, this question is a very common one. We want to have discernment, notice, from the viewpoint of the thinker, this "I," this "me," about what is a real action, what is an illusory action. She talks here about an action of the ego or an action of God. But, notice, this present element to discern one thing from another, who is it? Who is this thinker? Who is this one who can discern? You see, we need a new action. Real action does not arise from this illusory center which is the "I," which is the ego. Now, any personal, private attempt by this "I," this thinker, this "me," to discern real action from unreal action, that is still within the movement of the ego itself.

Here, to have a real approach of action, of real action, requires the end of this illusion of a present identity. So, I would say to you: don't think about what real action is, investigate the nature of this action that is happening in this moment from this "I," this "me," which is the action that is born out of thought, out of the premeditation of the thinker, something that comes from the past. Here, the very comprehension of this quality of action is the end of it. And when this action ends, the Truth of an action is present, which is the action that is in line with Life. So, we cannot discern what is a real action based on thought, based on the criteria of the egoic mind itself, but we can discard this egoic mind through self-observation, and then a new action will be present, and this action is certainly not someone's action. But this idea of a formula for knowing what is and what is not is still something that comes from this movement of the "I" itself.

Religious people have sought to do the will of God. If they understood the Truth about the will of God through the intellect. but through the intellect what you can have are rules, ordinances, commandments, attempts to get it right. But who is this element in this action? It is still the ego. Here, it is a matter of abandoning the sense of "I," the sense of the ego. Then, a new quality of action arises, but there is no way to capture it in the intellect, since the conditioned intellect itself is part of the "I," of the ego itself. Is that clear?

Thus, Gilson, a real approach to the Truth of ego-free action is only possible when the sense of this egocentric action is no longer present. Thus, the real form of approaching action, in line with this Divine Reality, is something that is present when the illusion of this ego-identity is no longer involved in it. The real form of this approach is in the discarding of this action that is born out of the thinker, that is born out of the determination of thought, within relationships, in this contact with the other, in this contact with life, in this contact with situations. As long as the movement of the thinker, which is the movement of thought itself, is present, every action will be an action that is born out of this illusory center, this false "I," and, therefore, will be an egocentric action. The real approach of this is through self-investigation, through self-observation. That is why we need the basis, which is Self-awareness.

GC: Master, we have another question from another subscriber here on the channel, José Ribeiro. He makes the following comment and asks: "Master, is Enlightenment, then, for the ego? So, enlightenment is the ego discovering that it never existed, that it is not alive, that it is not a person and, therefore, in an encounter with itself, it will never come back? Because it is not about someone alive requesting something. Clarify this, please."

MG: Notice, Gilson, this statement that our friend José makes here. See, it is just an intellectual statement. Here, it is not about having, once again, a mere intellectual understanding of this subject. We are very biased, Gilson, when we listen to a speech and draw conclusions from it. It is very typical of our intellect, of this conditioned model of intellect that we have, of seeking security from knowledge. Knowledge can give us words, it can give us conclusions, but it cannot give us the Vision of Reality. We need to go beyond the intellect, beyond words, beyond conclusions.

When you ask this question here and ask for clarification, we have two things to tell you. The first is: abandon conclusions about what Enlightenment is. Work towards this awareness of the truth about yourself. As for this Realization, or Enlightenment, or whatever name we want to give it, this is not something that happens to someone. It is something that happens when that person's sense dissolves, but we cannot just hear this and then draw a conclusion, because we are still only in the realm of ideas.

Here, what is necessary for a Real approach to this work is to discover how to look at all of this, how to become aware of how you function here and now, in this moment. Do not idealize, do not imagine, do not draw conclusions, do not think about Enlightenment, because, in fact, Enlightenment is not for anyone. The Reality of Awakening is possible, but it is not the Awakening of someone, it is not the Awakening for someone. The Reality of Enlightenment is possible, but it is not the Enlightenment for someone, it is not the Enlightenment of someone. So, this is the first thing. The second thing is when you say: "Clarify this." All clarity on this subject arises from the Natural State itself. This Natural State is called "Enlightenment" for a reason, because it is, yes, a state of clarity, of clarity, of vision, of light. So, if there is this vision, there is this clarity, there is naturally all comprehension, but this arises from the State itself, it does not arise from the intellect.

This entire basis here, of speech, of talk, is just a basis. With this basis, but going beyond it, yes, this Realization is possible; but, with this basis, positioning yourself on this basis, supporting yourself on this basis, we remain stagnant. The vast majority of people spend many years of their lives reading books, studying, listening to lectures, but they are grounded in a basis. This basis is the basis of knowledge, it is the basis of learning. As was said a little while ago: there is a difference between what you have learned and the reality of what is, at this moment, revealing itself in this learning. In general, we are living with what we have learned.

This is how our actions, our speeches, our decision-making, our achievements, all this knowledge, experience, this so-called "intelligence" present in us. All of it has, in principle, this formation that we acquired, something that came from the past. It is expressing itself here, at this moment, but it is something that is being born from this past, from everything that we have acquired at some point, being expressed at this moment, manifesting itself at this moment. All this action is the action of the "I." So, we can simply be grounded in this basis, which is the basis of knowledge, and remain stuck there for another five hundred years.

The awareness of the Revelation of Truth, the awareness of Awakening, is the absence of the "I," it is the absence of the ego. It is not something that the intellect reaches, achieves, or can know. Truth is beyond this so-called "knowledge" that we know and this so-called "ignorance" that we also know. Our work in life, Gilson, consists of becoming aware directly. It is direct experience, direct observation, direct perception, something possible in this learning moment by moment. The sense of "I," of the ego, in us, is an element that is always in its dynamism, changing. This element in us, which comes from the past, has this dynamism of this change, but it is a change of continuity in time itself.

We need to be alert, to have this approach to look moment to moment, so that we become aware of what is happening to us within this process of conditioned mind, of mental conditioning. So, yes, this learning about this process of expression of the "I" occurs. And, in this learning, we discard this identity; simply by observing, without reacting. Only in this look, moment to moment. So, the real way of this learning is, in reality, as I have said, an unlearning about this old condition of continuity of this ego-identity.

Here, in these meetings, we are showing you how this becomes possible. And this becomes possible when you discover what it means listening, what it means looking, what it means perceiving, what it means feeling, what it means living without the past, without this element present in each one of us that, when it appears, appears making choices, making resolutions, appears in this like or dislike, wanting to alter, change, impose thoughts, impose feelings, impose ideas, beliefs, emotions. over this moment, on what is shown here. Looking at these reactions is the discarding of these reactions, so that something new can be present, something outside the mind, something outside the "I." This is what we are proposing here, for you, in these meetings. Something possible in this life, for this life, because it is the only life, it is the Only Reality, where everything is already present.

GC: Thank you, Master! Our time has come to an end. Thank you for this videocast. And for those of you who are following the videocast until the end and have a sincere yearning to comprehend these truths, to truly have a comprehension beyond intellectual understanding, we invite you to come to the meetings that Master Gualberto provides. There are weekend meetings, there are online weekend meetings, there are in-person meetings, including multi-day retreats. In these meetings, the Master answers our questions directly, live, and much more than that. Because the Master already lives in this so-called "Awakened" state of Consciousness, He shares a Presence, a Power and Grace that help us greatly in this comprehension. We end up taking a ride on this energy of the Master's presence and this really makes it much easier for us to get to know ourselves, to be able to observe the crazy movement of our thoughts. So, here's the invitation. In the first pinned comment, there's the WhatsApp link to participate in these meetings. And, Master, once again, thank you.

December, 2024
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Stoicism and Human Relations. What is Thought? Learning about Self-awareness

Generally, we have a way of approaching any subject either by creating a much greater complication than the subject represents or by oversimplifying it. So, there is this general tendency in us: either we complicate it or we simplify it. So, there is an exaggerated simplification or exaggerated complication.

Here, with you, today we are going to discuss some subjects that involve the beauty of this encounter with Self-awareness, this encounter with the truth about who you are, about who we are. So, this requires a new way of approaching it from each one of us. We cannot continue to complicate this subject, nor oversimplify it. I say this because some people write saying, "It seems so simple to me." And why, in fact, is it not so simple? While others say, "But what you say is very complicated."

So, you see, for some this is very simple and for others it is very complicated. What is it that is really creating this differentiation? What creates this difference is our way of approaching things, and we don't have a true way of approaching these subjects, because we are too used to looking at them from a background of knowledge and experience that we bring, something that we already have within us, and naturally this makes it difficult to have a new approach. And here we need to have a new approach.

It is only possible to delve deeper into a subject like this when we have a different approach to it, and this approach requires from each of us, right from the start, a silent mind, a mind with a certain stillness for this approach. You can never understand someone or understand something without a minimum of silence. If you want to pay attention to something, the brain needs to be quiet, which, in general, we don't achieve easily.

So, we put ourselves in this way: we want to understand, but there is this internal restlessness within us that makes this silence impossible, which is the silence that facilitates the deepening of that subject, and that is what we need here. We need to discover in this encounter what it means learning about ourselves.

Our topic here with you is learning about Self-awareness. We don't have this awareness of learning; we don't learn how to learn. We may have some ease in learning certain things in life, and it's interesting to mention this here. Everything that we have, in truth, a certain ease to learn, observe it yourself and you will realize, there is an interest within you, a deep interest. So, there is this internal fervor, this internal love, this internal passion for that subject.

So, notice, it doesn't get complicated, or no matter how complicated it may seem to you at first, this is not taken into consideration, because of this fervor, this love, this passion for that. So, it becomes simple when you learn with ease, no matter how difficult it may have seemed to be at first.

Here in these meetings, we are, with you, investigating the most important subject in life. And what is the most important subject in life? It is life, the comprehension of the totality of life; and this comprehension is something that is present when what we are discussing here with you is present, which is the vision of yourself.

There is no such thing as a true separation between you and life. Life is you; you are life. Everything that is present in you today is what is present in life, in this life of yours. Here, the lack of the understanding of "your life" is the lack of the understanding of life as it is happening at this moment to you.

We have some beliefs; in fact, we have many forms of beliefs. Here, to put it more specifically, we have, in relation to life, some basic beliefs that we need to get rid of. One main belief is the idea of separation, where you feel like someone in life, you see life as something for you. As long as this psychological condition persists, which is in reality illusory, various forms of conflicts will continue to be present within your relationship with life.

I want to address this subject of relationships here with you. This is one of the subjects that we need to have a real approach to, a true approach, a meaningful and deep approach. Here, when we touch on this issue of Self-awareness, we are basically touching on the importance of understanding how you function in the context of relationships, the truth about relationships.

Some want to approach this from a philosophical point of view, from a philosophical perspective, others from a psychological perspective. So, we have several ways of approaching this. We have the religious perspective, the psychological perspective and, for example, the philosophical perspective, as in the case of Stoicism - this Stoic view of relationships. But here we are with you, delving deeper into this from a perspective of what is happening here, in all of us.

Our relationships are not real when they are fixed to patterns that thought constructs. Let us clarify this for you here. The way we approach others is basically the way we approach ourselves. What is the truth of this approach we have about who we are? The truth is that we do not know the truth about ourselves; we have an approach based on what thought has been constructed, on what thought is showing us, presenting to us.

So, this approach is the approach of thought. This is the approach we have to ourselves. So, naturally, any approach you have with others, on this same basis of approach, will not be a true approach; we will have a mistaken approach, because we will have the presence of a separation in which the curtain of separation is thought.

So, there are several things here that we need to study when we study ourselves. One of them - and we have a playlist here on the channel - is about thought. This curtain of separation, of division, prevents us from a real relationship with what we really are. Our relationship with ourselves is mistaken, and so is our relationship with others.

It is impossible to have a true relationship when there is a wall, when there is a curtain. It is like when you go to the window and see the window, but there is a curtain there. If you do not open the window, there will be no relation of vision, of visual contact with the outside. So, you have the window, you have the window glass and you have the curtain. If you do not open the curtain, if you do not open the window, you will not have real contact with vision. At least this curtain needs to disappear from your field of vision, because it is the impediment.

In this contact with yourself, you do not know yourself, because you have about yourself what your thought says about you; you have about the other what your thought says about the other. Therefore, it is essential to discover the truth about thought. How do we get closer to this truth about thought? By becoming aware of what it represents.

Our difficulty here lies in the fact that thought is constantly occupying this field, it is constantly being this curtain that prevents us from being aware of what is happening, including with ourselves. This way, contact with others becomes impossible.

What we have considered as contacts in our relationships are rather contacts where this model of thought is present; and thought distorts reality, it prevents the truth of what is present in relationships. Thus, what is present in these relationships is division. And if we have division, there is no awareness, there is no comprehension, there is no truth.

Every thought you have about yourself is this curtain that prevents you from being aware of the reality about you, just as every thought you have about others, this is the curtain that prevents you from seeing the reality of who the other is.

Life requires this learning, moment by moment. Thus, this contact with life, which is contact with oneself, is the contact of learning; it is only when, in life, Freedom becomes possible and, naturally, the presence of Happiness, the presence of Love in relations, because it is the basis of this relation in life, with life. Once there is awareness of non-separation, because there is no longer this curtain, which is the curtain of thought, there is the presence of this communion with us, because there is no thought, there is our communion with the other, because there is no thought.

So, we need to discover what life is without thought. And what is basically thought? What is the truth about thought? Thought is a construct of memory, of remembrance, of recollection, of idea. When we deal with thought, we are not dealing with reality, we are dealing with the symbol, with the image, with the idea about that.

Notice how simple this is. When you remember your house, you do not have your house, you have an image, an idea, a picture, just as when you remember someone, you do not have him or her, you have an image, a picture, a thought. Thus, we are dealing with life through thought. All of our relations, all of our relationships, everything that we relate to through thought is nothing more than an image that thought is constructing and establishing as being true within these relations.

So, learning about Self-awareness is becoming aware of how you function in this contact with life as it happens. And part of what happens in life is the presence of thought, part of life is this very movement of life in relations. Thus, without understanding thought, without understanding relations, we have a conflicting, distressing, disorderly, confusing life.

Therefore, the basis for the Divine Reality, for the Reality of God, in life, is the awareness of his Grace, is the awareness of his Presence, and this present Reality is the Reality of the Truth about You in your Real Nature. A direct understanding of the truth about yourself is the elimination of this pattern of thinking as we know it, to approach life and, therefore, relations without this curtain. Then, we have contact with the reality of this moment, which is life as it happens, where the Truth of this new approach to this moment, this present moment, this living is present.

This contact is what I have called experiencing moment to moment. It is not about an experience you have, but about experiencing that moment, in that relation; in this relation where the absence of this separation is present and, therefore, Communion is present, Love is present, Freedom is present. What makes all of this possible as a basis is the vision of the Truth about who we are, which is this Divine awareness, which is this awareness of the Reality of Love, Peace, Happiness, which is the Nature of God.

Some have called it Self-Realization or God-Realization, it is the awareness of the Truth of your Divine Nature revealing itself due to the vision of Self-awareness, of understanding, of the elimination of this sense of "I," because of the truth about Self-awareness. Therefore, Real Self-awareness is nothing other than the elimination of this separation, this duality, where there is the Truth of That which is beyond the mind; therefore, beyond thought, beyond what we have been living for a long time in our lives, in this illusion of separation.

In these meetings here on the weekends we are working on this with you. Saturday and Sunday, we are together delving into this subject here. I want to leave you an invitation here: there is our WhatsApp link in the video description for you to participate in these online meetings on weekends. In addition, we have face-to-face meetings and also retreats. If this is something that makes some sense to you, leave a "like" here, subscribe to the channel and leave a comment here: "Yes, that makes sense." OK? And we'll see each other. Thanks for the meeting and see you soon!

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What is meditation? | Learning about Self-Awareness | Atma Vichara | Meditation | Self-observation

Having an approach to the truth about yourself requires having a perspective that we generally do not know. It is the perspective that some like to call self-observation. But there is confusion here because the idea behind this self-observation is someone looking at themselves.

Here, when we present this expression to you, self-observation, we even prefer the term observation, plain and simple. We need the science of pure observation, because this is not about the self, this "I," this person, looking at themselves in the sense of introspection or self-analysis. Here, the better term would be self-inquiry or self-investigation.

So, we are at the threshold of a portal that opens to this study of ourselves, to this learning about ourselves. Thus, we observe what happens in this perspective. We simply observe.

This is what I want to invite you to understand here with great clarity. We have a playlist here on the channel that talks about the truth of this self-discovery and the beauty of this self-revelation. Studying oneself is learning about Self-Awareness.

This is a playlist on the channel: Learning about Self-Awareness. We don't know how to learn.

We are learning the way machines learn: acquiring information, acquiring knowledge, and applying this knowledge, this information, in action. And then we call this acquired experience.

So, for us, knowledge and experience are the foundation of learning. At least, this is how we function. In life, we learn everything this way: knowledge and experience. Everything we know how to do in life, we do based on this principle, on this foundation. Knowledge and experience.

As for this science of the nature of the self, which is the nature of God in you, learning about this is something different. It is not about acquiring knowledge or gaining experiences. See, here we already face a problem because, for most people, the encounter with God is possible through studying about God.

But what do we have to study about God? Generally, we believe that what we have are the things written in books, in spiritual books, in sacred books. So, after many years of reading many books, we develop a highly capable intellect to quote the scriptures, to recite pre-packaged phrases of things we have learned. How do we learn them? By acquiring knowledge and practicing speaking about it, or by listening to it over and over again. So, this is what we call knowledge, this so-called spiritual knowledge.

Now, understand this. This remains at the level of the intellect. Yes, we can have some so-called spiritual or mystical experiences, but the element that sustains this knowledge, this experience, remains.

And that element is the "I," this self, this ego. Whereas the reality of the revelation of this divine science is precisely the absence of the ego. Therefore, the learning we receive, that we have, that we cultivate, that has been taught to us, that we need to have, is a mistake.

We need to discover what it means to learn about God. But learning about God requires approaching the discarding of this element that sees itself as an entity present in time and space, which is the "I," having a particular life, separate from life itself, separate from the other, separate from God. Thus, the science about God requires the discarding of this "I."

That is when God reveals Himself. This is the real learning about God. So, how to approach this? How to learn about Self-Awareness? Because it is the absence of this understanding of oneself that places us in this mistaken condition of acquiring more and more theoretical, intellectual, verbal knowledge from books, this cultivation of experiences still for this element which is the "I." This is the mistake. We need to approach ourselves, observe ourselves, become aware of this movement, which is the movement of the "I," of the ego.

Therefore, the idea of bringing the reality of God into our lives, since my life is still a mistaken life, a conditioned life, a life imprisoned in a model of fear, anger, violence, ambition, conflicting desires, where all kinds of disorder, disharmony, problems, and suffering are present-that is the mistake. The real way to approach God is by discarding this illusion, which is the illusion of the "I," the illusion of the ego. So, the true form of this approach to learning requires this perspective, observing, becoming aware of the person you are, that you present yourself to be, that you demonstrate to be, in this context of relationship with him or her, with the world around you, and with yourself.

Hence the real need for the truth about Self-Awareness. And it seems to me that it is already becoming clear to you here that we use this expression not in the sense of this person changing, improving, learning more about themselves, acquiring more experiences, having a better foundation for a successful life where results are achieved through this tool, this so-called tool of Self-Awareness-a better position at work, in human relationships-this is not it. Here, the truth about Self-Awareness lies in becoming aware of this sense of separation between you and life, between you and the other, between you and God. So, an encounter with what you are is the discarding of yourself for something new to emerge.

For this reason, the presence of the true vision of Self-Awareness is something close and naturally aligned, without separation, without divorce, with the art of meditation. We need the foundation for meditation. You learn the art of meditation when you unlearn a life centered in this turmoil, this disorder, this noise, which is the noise of the "I."

The presence of meditation is the presence of this mystery, which is silence, the silence of truth. It is not the silence achieved within a meditative practice, within a meditation technique, but the silence that is present when the sense of separation is not. This is the presence of meditation.

So, we also need to discover what meditation is. When people answer this question, they immediately point out a technique and explain the benefit of the technique or practice they are prescribing to you. But a technique, a practice, see, is something mechanical, and the benefit of something mechanical is also the mechanical result of a system, a technique, a practice.

This is something that benefits someone. Someone benefits from the technique or practice of meditation because there is someone performing the meditation. Whereas here, we are telling you that meditation is exactly the absence of someone, in practice.

So, there is no such thing as a benefit to someone. There is the end of the illusion of someone. This is the presence of divine reality.

Thus, the real purpose of the truth about meditation-and here meditation is not something mechanical, it is not a technique, it is not a system, it is not something that someone does, that someone practices-the truth about meditation is that meditation reveals that which is beyond the known, which is the reality of God.

Our work here together consists of this discovery, the discovery of this present moment without someone present in this moment. Notice how we need to approach this topic in a new way here. When you have a thought, or feeling, or an emotion, the idea behind this subjective experience, this internal experience, this experience in you, the idea behind this experience is someone present, having the experience.

See, we were educated for a life where there is a central figure within it, having experiences. Whether they are experiences of this quality, which are subjective experiences, or objective experiences, in the sense of contact with the external world, when you are talking to someone, or seeing something, perceiving something external to yourself, the idea behind it is someone present in this objective experience. Talking to someone is the idea of someone saying something to another. Seeing something is the idea of someone being the observer of what is being seen.

When there is music playing out there, the idea is someone listening. So, there is the music there, the sound there, and someone here; there is the vision there and the observer here.

Notice that we have been educated, programmed, our psychological model of mental functioning is of this type. We believe we exist as someone present in the experience. Whether it is internal-when I am thinking, I am the thinker, when I am feeling, I am this element that feels, when I am sad, it is me and the sadness, when there is fear present, it is me and the fear-or when we are in contact with the external experience, we are present as the observer, as the one who speaks, as the one who listens, that which is outside of me. See, here we encounter an illusion. Because there is no such thing as someone, an experiencer, the "I" present in life. But this is our belief, this is our stance. So, dealing with life as it happens, the idea is that someone is capable of doing this.

A direct perspective on the truth, on who you are, requires the presence of this learning about yourself, this new perspective on these reactions. This will show you that this feeling, thought, and sensation of being someone, this experiencer, this observer, this element in the feeling, is a suggestion of thought. It is the idea of a thought present.

It is the idea of this "I" thought in this feeling, in this thinking, in this speaking, in this listening. Here, with you, we are seeing together the end of this illusion, for a direct understanding that life is what is present, being the reality itself, unique. And it is exactly this confusion we have about who we are in this context that is producing all kinds of disorder, confusion, suffering, and problems in our lives.

What is it to look at this moment without this observer? What is it to listen to this sound without this element that listens? What is it to speak to someone without someone seeing someone? What is it to look without the observer? Where is the looking present, just the looking, the sound present in listening, where only listening is present? What is life when the "I" is not? When the ego is not? This is what we are proposing here to you.

Therefore, in this approach to oneself, in this learning about what you are, it is learning about what life is in this moment. Here on this channel, as well as on our other channel, we are having a perspective, a listening, a perception, an approach to a unique vision regarding life.

Evidently, this requires unlearning all this that culture, society, human history has given us. We need to discover life in life as it happens when thought is not, when this trained model of thought is no longer present. So, what is the truth of this observation, this self-observation? It is the vision that there is no such element present that separates itself.

Notice that in this separation, we have space, and it is within this space, from this "I" that sees itself as separate from this or that or the sound, situation, or event, that conflict, problem, and suffering are present. Notice how important an understanding of this is.

Looking and perceiving that your relationship with him or her, from the perspective of thought, is a relationship based on an element within you that sees from an idea it holds, from a thought it has, from a concept it carries, from an image it has formed within itself about who he is, about who she is. Notice, we are not dealing with the truth when we are dealing with thought. Once thought is a representation that comes from the past, based on a memory of something that happened.

But our relationship, for instance, with someone, based on the idea that we are someone, this basis is a basis that rests on thought. I form an idea about who I am. I have an image about who I am.

And I have an image of who you are. When I meet you, I am not meeting you; I am meeting the image I have of who you are. And you are doing the same with me.

Thus, our human relationships, which are these relationships, are founded and anchored in this form of contact. And the presence of thought there is the most important element. And when it becomes more important, and once you understand that it is only distorting reality because what it brings is only something from the past to this present moment, we face a great problem.

Thus, our human relationships, our relationships, are full of problems because my contact with him or her, in this contact, the truth is not present. We do not have the truth of love but the search for something thought is projecting onto him or her. So, it is something completely mistaken.

This feeling I have for him or her does not rest on freedom; it does not rest on truth. This explains why there is no love in human relationships.

We have companionship, complicity, appreciation, care, affection, in a convenient way, as long as it is advantageous. When this no longer brings advantage to this self, to this "I," to this self-image, which is the ego, we break off the relationship and move on to another or maintain this game where a game of interest is present, an artificial life, which is the life of the ego. So, we have this aspect in this relationship with the external and, from the internal point of view, we naturally have all this complication. See what we are presenting to you here. As long as there is no real approach to this learning about ourselves and this truth about the science that reveals God, which is meditation-and here on the channel, we have some playlists working on this with you-until this is present, we will also be psychologically burdened with internal states that are present and will remain present because of this illusion that we see ourselves as this "I" in feeling, this "I" in thinking. Thus, internally, states such as anxiety, anguish, depression, low self-esteem, fear-see, there are countless internal states of conflict within each of us, problems within each of us.

Naturally, this is expressed in our relationships with him or her. Thus, conflicts, problems, and suffering are present in the absence of this science of divine truth. Why? Because we lack this understanding. We lack this vision of reality. There is no intelligence, no freedom, no wisdom, no love.

Here, we are working on this with you, showing you that in this life, yes, it is possible to become aware of the truth about who we are. You see here a photo of Ramana Maharshi. In his days, he shared with those who approached him what became known as Atma Vichara.

To look, to see the science of meditation. Becoming aware of what true meditation is: Atma Vichara.

So, Atma Vichara, from Ramana Maharshi, is this approach to the truth about meditation. Atma Vichara means self-inquiry, this self-observation, this science of how you function. This is what brings you closer to the truth of Self-Awareness and reveals to you the truth of meditation.

Here on the channel, we have a playlist about this truth of meditation, of this Real Meditation in an experiential way, in a practical way. This is one playlist. The other is about the truth of Self-Awareness.

So, here is an invitation for you. We also have online meetings on weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, we are deepening this with you here.

In the description of the video, you will find our WhatsApp link to participate in these online meetings on weekends. Additionally, we have in-person meetings and retreats. If what you have just heard resonates with you in any way, here is an invitation. Leave your like, subscribe to the channel.

Leave a comment here: "Yes, this makes sense." Ok? See you. Thanks for the meeting, and until next time.

December, 2024
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