The Buddleia and the Daffodil
Mooji:
I keep saying you are not that
which can die, but you can experience being that which will die.
I
wonder if you follow?
Because some beings, you know, we are winding
down, so I really want sometimes to be blunt when I see the dedication
that we give to the noise in the mind, to present your life like its
some kind of tabloid event.
I think, "My God! How unworthy to give such
attention to such things! Don't be so spineless! How great you are! How
great you are! kick these habits! Don't be the body.
The body is here,
its an instrument through which the Divine can taste experiencing.
Enjoy, but don't cling to it because its made out of organic material
and it will pass. Why cling to that? Why cling to that which in a short
time is going to be decayed material; congealed blood, pus, smelling
gases. What is that? That will die! Why cling to that? Why bring your
thoughts to that? It is not a curse, but have the courage to face these
truths, these actualities.
This is not you. Its just your "spacesuit".
Don't be so tender. I used to tell you that one of my favorite plants is
a plant called the Buddleia. In England we have a lot of it. This plant
is not going to win the Chelsea Flower Show. It grows anywhere in the
wild. You will see it even on the Railway stations, on the bricks. Its
growing out of the bricks. It doesn't even need any soil. It grows like
this. I don't think many people are planting Buddleia.
It just grows. It
grows on a rooftop, on the side of a building...anywhere, it can grow.
But when it flowers, all the butterflies come from everywhere! They go
mad for it! Be like this. Don't just be a daffodil that needs water and a
careful place to be.
Be this Buddleia Being. Be robust! Don't be
requiring, requiring.