Mooji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mUy51ms98U
"I Am" before any concept that I need to remember myself, or that i could forget myself
was believed.
I know I am not the body and not the thoughts, and that I am a part of God ... but…
You are therefore holding the “I” this is holding on to the separation.
Without “I” you simply are God. If the sense “I” is still living as a person, the best is to bring it back to Presence.
Shift the consciousness from the person to the presence. At that point, it is all natural.
All the trouble in the world is caused by the person, yet it is only a role played out by consciousness.
We can say what we are not, but not say what we are. We are infinite.
To know yourself is not like knowing an object. You are not an object.
Introduction to Self Inquiry
Mooji:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSgWktJ2nE
When we were babies, 'I, or I am' was the first knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSgWktJ2nE
When we were babies, 'I, or I am' was the first knowledge.
Then we melted this feeling with the feeling and experiemce of the body.
We developed into 'i am the body' -or so we came to believe
Later, we came to believe that we were male or female,
That we posessed things like familly, a father, a mother,
The first conceptual word is I, one can not say 'you' before the 'I' has appeared.
It is the fundamental idea in our life.
In common language we say
My father
My relationship
My trouble
My ego
My body
My eye sight
My feeling
My emotion
Who is the I at the first, who is it that sees all this? The witness of this experience?
Check it out now. Do it. Look within at the sense of 'I'
Does it have a sex? Does it need something?
Enlightenment -- Mature Development -Mooji
Many
beings come to me and say, ‘Life is flowing very beautifully now. I am
in a state of peace. My intuitive powers are opening up. Life is a sweet
flow. I see sensations and thoughts coming and going but I am
unchanging.'
They feel they are enjoying the complete state of Self-realisation.
But then unexpectedly, this state is suddenly changing. Many thoughts are coming now and they are not nice ones.
Before, there was a shield of protection but now all ugly things are coming through. The awakening honeymoon seems to be over.
Now please pay attention. Listen well.
This is a form of Grace actually. This phase has come and signals that you must mature further in order to attain complete realisation of the Self.
I sometimes say, 'You want to taste the honey, you don't want to be the honey'. What is this honey? It is the satchidananda state—the perfume of the Self experienced as existence, consciousness and bliss. All beings enjoy this state and wish to prolong it, believing it to be the ultimate state.
Through these intense satsangs, ego is thinning away and you are beginning to experience an expansion within your being.
You are enjoying. You are tasting the honey. Why not? Very nice. Best honey. But then somehow you get a bee sting and the tongue hurts. The honey is gone or feels polluted.
What happened? Your beautiful spiritual world has changed. Your spontaneity has gone.
Don't panic. You haven't done anything wrong.
What is important now is that you recognise that you are still totally here as pure qualityless awareness.
Grace says, 'You must experience only awareness without the taste of the honey.' But this is not acceptable to the 'experiencer' self. It wants the tasting to continue uninterrupted. It wants nothing more.
Where is the taste?
There is only the tasteless awareness.
This 'experiencer' self is a mix of presence and ego and must be transcended before Self-realisation is complete.
Remember, just as the flower is not attached to its smell, awareness is not addicted to any state.
Now you must be the Self beyond quality.
Don't rely on the fragrance.
The initial fragrance is still the subtlest part of phenomenality, but it can and will disappear.
But the Self cannot disappear.
It cannot even appear for it is infinite and timeless.
As soon as you, the true Self, recognise and start marinating in your own emptiness, the attachment to fragrances weaken.
Before arriving to this stage, there was no attraction for the ultimate Self, only for its dynamic aspect as presence.
Now, as a result of listening to and following these direct pointings you come to find the Supreme joy—the immutable Self.
Here is the unfading peace that cannot be described.
You are not merely tasting peace.
You are peace itself.
You are not feeling happy.
You are happiness itself.
You are beyond the play of interrelated opposites. Beyond the spell of duality.
This Realisation few have attained.
Here in satsang today, you may discover and be one of them.
~ Mooji, India 2015
They feel they are enjoying the complete state of Self-realisation.
But then unexpectedly, this state is suddenly changing. Many thoughts are coming now and they are not nice ones.
Before, there was a shield of protection but now all ugly things are coming through. The awakening honeymoon seems to be over.
Now please pay attention. Listen well.
This is a form of Grace actually. This phase has come and signals that you must mature further in order to attain complete realisation of the Self.
I sometimes say, 'You want to taste the honey, you don't want to be the honey'. What is this honey? It is the satchidananda state—the perfume of the Self experienced as existence, consciousness and bliss. All beings enjoy this state and wish to prolong it, believing it to be the ultimate state.
Through these intense satsangs, ego is thinning away and you are beginning to experience an expansion within your being.
You are enjoying. You are tasting the honey. Why not? Very nice. Best honey. But then somehow you get a bee sting and the tongue hurts. The honey is gone or feels polluted.
What happened? Your beautiful spiritual world has changed. Your spontaneity has gone.
Don't panic. You haven't done anything wrong.
What is important now is that you recognise that you are still totally here as pure qualityless awareness.
Grace says, 'You must experience only awareness without the taste of the honey.' But this is not acceptable to the 'experiencer' self. It wants the tasting to continue uninterrupted. It wants nothing more.
Where is the taste?
There is only the tasteless awareness.
This 'experiencer' self is a mix of presence and ego and must be transcended before Self-realisation is complete.
Remember, just as the flower is not attached to its smell, awareness is not addicted to any state.
Now you must be the Self beyond quality.
Don't rely on the fragrance.
The initial fragrance is still the subtlest part of phenomenality, but it can and will disappear.
But the Self cannot disappear.
It cannot even appear for it is infinite and timeless.
As soon as you, the true Self, recognise and start marinating in your own emptiness, the attachment to fragrances weaken.
Before arriving to this stage, there was no attraction for the ultimate Self, only for its dynamic aspect as presence.
Now, as a result of listening to and following these direct pointings you come to find the Supreme joy—the immutable Self.
Here is the unfading peace that cannot be described.
You are not merely tasting peace.
You are peace itself.
You are not feeling happy.
You are happiness itself.
You are beyond the play of interrelated opposites. Beyond the spell of duality.
This Realisation few have attained.
Here in satsang today, you may discover and be one of them.
~ Mooji, India 2015
Be Still
As soon as you come to the beautiful space of serenity and emptiness, simpy keep quiet inside your being. Now it is easy to recognise who the first visitor will be.
Mind will come and ask: "Now what?"
This usually gets the person and its sense of insecurity going again and many get distracted by the fear of the unknown and hesitate to go further in.
But to whom is mind asking such a question?
Mind id outside the door now but he is not yet gone.
He is trying to re-enter to regain control by connecting to your "person" "So what are you going to do with all this emptiness" How are things going to get done?" He asks. But this is not your concern now.
You have moved from the person to presence -a higher state of consciousness.
It is a crucial moment in awakening. Mind is not going to give up so easily. Any chance to push you back into your previous state he will take. Do not fall for this. Trust the Self. Be one with your inner being. There is nothing to do but keep acknowledging the state and presence of grace. Just keep quiet. Let go of command.
Let go of the wheel of life. If you as a person try to direct life, you only make strife. When you give up the need to control, you find you are caressed by a deeper power. Appreciate the silence, the stillness, the intuitiveness and the wisdom that is arising naturally inside, which your mind is trying to ditract you from recognizing. Trust. Be empty, quiet and trusting.
It is like a hole being made in the mind's universe and the hand of God is pulling you through into your divine existance.
Mooji, India 2015
Presence and the Person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui3vIvymDE
the teacher here is your own experience.
"human being" needs not concepts attached. Stay with this and discover what it is.
"to be" is enough
"I" word is the most important word because all other words came after it. I am needs to be before you are.
"I" is our natural name. am = to be, what does "I" mean ?
('i and my Father are one' maybe was used as a pointer, like My name and the Father's are the same name... From ACIM)
(self existant one) = 'I'
I must be before I am aware of you.
presence that I feel is
- the self of the waking state
- the dynamic being
- the seed being
- the seat of perception
what is in front of the presence? --the person
presence is aware of your attention to. Watch this. See how attention shifts from
the presence to the person or the person's concerns.
once this happens, presence seems to get drugged and forgets to watch what is happening.
Bring your attention back to awareness and keep going back there.
Eventually it will be easier to stay as awareness. When consciousness becomes self-concious, it no longer believes in the person.
When we forget, go back and say "I am not the body" "I am not the mind" or better still look to see that this is so. All phenomenon is like clouds that come and go from this place of witnessing.
in deep sleep, we have no experience, we are no one. We are, but there is no "I am feeling", no person, no dreaming. We love this state, as it is a natural one. Enlightened ones love being "no one" in the awakened state.
Am I aware of the "I AM" feeling?
Yes? Don't add anything to it, no concepts, no adjectives, no stories, no desires...
This is what you are --the unchangeable one.
be "no one" inside in this way. On the outside be a person to function in the world, but on the inside always be "no one" Identify with the I Am feeling, the space of presence. The personality appears in front of it. See this now.
Even the feeling of "I AM" is watched. See this now. The Self is more subtil than the feeling of I Am.
outwardly we say "I did this and that" but inside I am watching it so I am nothing here. That is why enlightened beings can say they are talking, but that talking is happening (because they see it happen)
Identity has separated from the activity of the person.
the person: the idea of who you think you are.
but if you are aware of the unchanging as you, then dropping attachment will be natural
attention goal: find your stability in the unchangeable
- the person needs the presence to be, but the presence does not need the person --you can not say "you are not" because you must be there to say something
- the person is constant in the waking state, but the Constant always is presence
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