Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In the second session of Bentinho Live – A Series on Awakening and Purpose, Bentinho explores suffering and how individuals have the power to control their own suffering through the use of their mind. Bentinho examines how people can suffer only when they want to, and not when they don't want to, regardless of circumstances.
He explains that the mind has two key aspects - the contents (thoughts, emotions, perceptions) and the underlying basis or awareness that allows those contents to arise. Bentinho argues that by shifting one's attention away from the contents of the mind and towards the fundamental awareness or "basis of mind," one can stop suffering at will.
He emphasizes that this ability to control suffering is our natural state, but many people have become indoctrinated to believe they are weak, vulnerable and victimized by external circumstances.
Bentinho encourages listeners to let go of this limiting belief and instead recognize the power they have to choose whether or not to suffer. He provides a simple practice of focusing on the open, spacious awareness that underlies all experience as a means to transcend suffering.
Part 2 Q&A: Available exclusively in the Massaro University Adept Membership.
In the Q&A segment of this session, Bentinho answers the following questions from live attendees:
• With hopefully more and more people waking up in the near future, what would you say is the best way to support and guide them effectively?
• “I am in constant fight/defense mode, even against my body, panic attacks/physical symptoms. I would appreciate your thoughts on that.”
• How to meditate and deepen recognition of I Am or the basic space of awareness or mind with ADHD and problems focusing persistently?
• The body follows the mind. This is how sickness is accepted. Can you talk about how the unconscious influences the body?
For privacy reasons, the Q&A segment of Bentinho Live recordings are exclusive to the paid MU Adept Membership. To access these interactive sessions, join the Adept tier at Massaro University by visiting https://www.massaro.university/plans/411714
Love these free sessions? Are they having a positive impact on your life? Consider making a donation to support our efforts at making our core content freely available to all seekers in 2025 and beyond.
Your support directly sustains and empowers Massaro University, the continuation of these free publications, and it helps us further share these teachings with the world. We thank you from our hearts for your love and support! Each donation gets highlighted within our entire team including Bentinho, and is celebrated with a moment of gratitude for your contribution to our mission.
Donate here: bentinhomassaro.com/donate
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Meditation
04:45 Suffering and Free Will
08:16 The Mind’s Role in Suffering
16:34 Focus on the Basis of Mind
26:37 Practical Steps to Stop Suffering
29:31 Massaro University Community
30:16 Awareness and Gratitude for Source
36:51 The Natural Freedom of Awareness
41:26 Practicing Openness and Recognition
46:33 The Importance of Practice and Commitment
50:08 Join Massaro University
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ABOUT BENTINHO MASSARO
Bentinho has dedicated his life to humanity’s awakening. Everything he does—whether or not it’s understood at face value—springs from that intention. His taboo-breaking approach and non-dogmatic style are integral to his teaching, helping to expose and uproot the unexamined opinions and deeply-held beliefs that limit people's ability to think freely, honorably and grow at a faster pace.
Bentinho’s teachings guide seekers into the same recognition of Source and devotion to service that he embodies. In addition to teaching Self-Realization with unprecedented clarity and efficiency, he also delves into the more confronting work of becoming honorable: purifying your character from selfish, limiting intention and sourcing your life directly from Oneness.
PLAYLISTS
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youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ9NAmYL-5xbnwgCVFiaGQu1VreGIIHj
LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
#Spirituality #Enlightenment #Awakening #Meditation #Selfrealization #Consciousness #Empowerment #LawOfAttraction #MassaroUniversity #OneTeam
In the second session of Bentinho Live – A Series on Awakening and Purpose, Bentinho explores suffering and how individuals have the power to control their own suffering through the use of their mind. Bentinho examines how people can suffer only when they want to, and not when they don't want to, regardless of circumstances.
He explains that the mind has two key aspects - the contents (thoughts, emotions, perceptions) and the underlying basis or awareness that allows those contents to arise. Bentinho argues that by shifting one's attention away from the contents of the mind and towards the fundamental awareness or "basis of mind," one can stop suffering at will.
He emphasizes that this ability to control suffering is our natural state, but many people have become indoctrinated to believe they are weak, vulnerable and victimized by external circumstances.
Bentinho encourages listeners to let go of this limiting belief and instead recognize the power they have to choose whether or not to suffer. He provides a simple practice of focusing on the open, spacious awareness that underlies all experience as a means to transcend suffering.
Part 2 Q&A: Available exclusively in the Massaro University Adept Membership.
In the Q&A segment of this session, Bentinho answers the following questions from live attendees:
• With hopefully more and more people waking up in the near future, what would you say is the best way to support and guide them effectively?
• “I am in constant fight/defense mode, even against my body, panic attacks/physical symptoms. I would appreciate your thoughts on that.”
• How to meditate and deepen recognition of I Am or the basic space of awareness or mind with ADHD and problems focusing persistently?
• The body follows the mind. This is how sickness is accepted. Can you talk about how the unconscious influences the body?
For privacy reasons, the Q&A segment of Bentinho Live recordings are exclusive to the paid MU Adept Membership. To access these interactive sessions, join the Adept tier at Massaro University by visiting https://www.massaro.university/plans/411714
Love these free sessions? Are they having a positive impact on your life? Consider making a donation to support our efforts at making our core content freely available to all seekers in 2025 and beyond.
Your support directly sustains and empowers Massaro University, the continuation of these free publications, and it helps us further share these teachings with the world. We thank you from our hearts for your love and support! Each donation gets highlighted within our entire team including Bentinho, and is celebrated with a moment of gratitude for your contribution to our mission.
Donate here: bentinhomassaro.com/donate
______________
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction and Meditation
04:45 Suffering and Free Will
08:16 The Mind’s Role in Suffering
16:34 Focus on the Basis of Mind
26:37 Practical Steps to Stop Suffering
29:31 Massaro University Community
30:16 Awareness and Gratitude for Source
36:51 The Natural Freedom of Awareness
41:26 Practicing Openness and Recognition
46:33 The Importance of Practice and Commitment
50:08 Join Massaro University
______________
ABOUT BENTINHO MASSARO
Bentinho has dedicated his life to humanity’s awakening. Everything he does—whether or not it’s understood at face value—springs from that intention. His taboo-breaking approach and non-dogmatic style are integral to his teaching, helping to expose and uproot the unexamined opinions and deeply-held beliefs that limit people's ability to think freely, honorably and grow at a faster pace.
Bentinho’s teachings guide seekers into the same recognition of Source and devotion to service that he embodies. In addition to teaching Self-Realization with unprecedented clarity and efficiency, he also delves into the more confronting work of becoming honorable: purifying your character from selfish, limiting intention and sourcing your life directly from Oneness.
PLAYLISTS
Jump into one of these curated playlists:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ9NAmYL-5xqiJNZwaEE_0pEk_OSVJ5J
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ9NAmYL-5xrHz-tQH8Js_wPIj0XgQl8
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ9NAmYL-5yYT1htDyb3Bx2_tZAgP-GX
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ9NAmYL-5whrsUDulKZd5y4otvKy7n9
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ9NAmYL-5zLqVBisqZxNKkR2Coc3NK7
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZ9NAmYL-5xbnwgCVFiaGQu1VreGIIHj
LICENSE
Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
#Spirituality #Enlightenment #Awakening #Meditation #Selfrealization #Consciousness #Empowerment #LawOfAttraction #MassaroUniversity #OneTeam
