Mooji on Self Inquiry

posted 22 June

Inquiry #3: Don't Form Any Conclusion

When I try to follow your instructions, what tends to happen is... my attention just flies off. I find it difficult to go deeper.
Yes. What sees the attention flying off? What or who says: "It is difficult to go deeper"? Find out for yourself. It is as though something resists this exploration, isn't it? Like something does not want to be found out, doesn't want to be seen or discovered. Forceful distraction comes up at this point, resulting in the attention flying off and mostly landing on trivia.
Gently return to the question each time the attention strays. Don't fall into: "Oh no! I've lost it again!" As well, do not accept any answer the mind gives - such as 'I am Awareness,' 'I am the Witness only.'
It may even seem that the 'problematic I,' the ego, suddenly vanishes, leaving a sense of calm and emptiness.
Mistakenly, the inquiry is then prematurely abandoned, leaving a false sense of victory. This being a false peace as often, the mischievous 'I' starts up again very quickly.
So the point here is: remain in the sense 'I am the witness,' but don't give any image or identity to this witnessing sense. Watch the sense 'I,' without thought. 'Feel' it out.
Stay with fixing the attention on this. Do not be hurried or put off the 'scent' of the 'I' by any distracting thought. Gradually, any personal quality attaching itself to the 'I' will begin falling away, leaving only the intuitive and imageless sense 'I am,' without the intrusion of the thought-current. Remain in this as this. Don't form any conclusion in mind. Stay as open, neutral non-objective awareness.

 

 

More Text Dialogues

Inquiry Series Start by holding on only to the sense of being or 'I am-self,' to the exclusion of other thoughts. Don't form any conclusion in mind. Stay as open, neutral non-objective awareness.

Dialogues on mooji.satsangs.net There is a beautiful collection of dialogues on a Satsang friend's web site: mooji.satsangs.net.  To see these transcripts, on the left-hand side of the page, click on Texts; new text will appear at the bottom of the menu listing "Texts from A to M" and "Texts from N to Z". Click on one to see more. When the "Mooji Satsang Transcriptions" page opens, you'll see a dropdown list at the top of the page with an index to all of the transcripts offered by this beautiful web site.

Partial Transcript of Mooji's Skype Pod-cast 19-April 2009 Attention and what the attention turns toward are both manifestations in the one consciousness. Therefore attention itself is a phenomenon. And you are aware of attention. So what is this that is behind everything, that knows even this?

Simply This Mooji expounds the true nature of the Self, pointing out the common pitfalls to clear and lasting recognition of the one truth we are. Here, he guides the seeker through and beyond the early hurdles of doubt, resistance, fear and confusion and into the irrefutable clarity of Being.

Enlightenment The firm realisation that there isn't a 'somebody' to gain enlightenment, and that there can never be an entity to gain any such state, is what amounts to enlightenment.

You Are Beyond All Concepts You are now free, but somehow your attention caresses 'other' and your facinations - your conceptual investments which spring from the belief 'I am the body' amounts to an eclipsing of your natural Self-awareness/beingness.

Emptiness In the emptiness, what are you? What form do you wear in emptiness? Are you in it, or are you it?

SAYINGS A collection of Mooji's sayings selected and compiled by Noé.

GLOSSARY A list of Sanskrit and Hindi words that are sometimes used in Satsang.

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