Mooji Quotes
Mooji is born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita teachers or Papaji, as his followers call him. Mooji conducts spiritual retreats and open satsangs in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, the USA, Brazil, Argentina, India (at tiru, close to ramana maharhsi ashram). Mooji teachings have a flavor of advaita.
- At the root of all things perceived;
who is the perceiver, the experience?
Who is the seer?
Can it be other than you?
Who are you?
- Whatever is arising is in front of you.
Whatever is appearing,
you are the perceiver of it.
See if you can be perceived.
- We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes.
We are trying to make steady and permanent
what is by nature impermanent.
- You can have a life called 'Spiritual', but still you may live in ignorance. Who Are You? This is the most auspicious question that can present itself. Don't walk away from it.
- Leaving all else aside remain as the imageless,
the unmoving, silent and centre-less seeing
—it has no name.
- Ripeness is an idea. If you cling to it as an idea it will choke you. It will keep you seeking for more ripeness. You are beyond ripe and beyond ready. What I am really pointing to is what you already are, not what you should become.
- Questions appear real for as long
as you consider yourself to be a person.
When you realize you are the impersonal presence,
all questions vanish.
- Don't expect life to be perfect.
Leave room for the unexpected.
Like this disappointment will no be your regular visitor.
- Find that place
which is effortlessly
at rest within itself.
Be there—be one with that.
- That principle that manifest as the master, is ever Here Now. The true master never dies. It is the mister that dies. The true master, that Sat-Guru within, alone is the Real.
- I don’t tell you what you should do or not do;
I only show you who you are
the timeless and unchanging awareness.
When this is firmly established inside you,
your life will unfold spontaneously and joyously.
- Throw everything away, forget about it all!
You are learning too much,
remembering too much, trying too hard…
relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way,
unassisted by your mind and effort.
Stop directing the river’s flow!
- Actually, being what you are is the simplest.
What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.
Because we wish to keep hold of our attachments.
Freedom is to be free of attachments
and the main attachment is to the ‘I’-self.
- Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself
so much and let the universe care for you;
it is the best mother.
There has to be some trust, not just belief,
because trust is intimate...
something lets go to this invitation to stop holding yourself
and let’s go to existence instead.
The very letting go will be observed in your presence.
- A guru is a human being who has realized their original nature, and has transcended the influence of the ego and the mind.
- The sense of doership in us is mostly a failing device. See that this device is not true. It's a fraud. It is not real. Reject it completely, and what remains is that which is effortless. It is not "living it". It simply is. It does not have to remember how to be this, how to stay like this. This is the common misconception which leads to so much suffering, and the sense of failure.