Satsang With Mooji

In this talk Mooji shares his views about commitment in intimate relationships, faithfulness and love. "Is it possible to keep your word? How can anyone make the promise, 'I will love you forever?' At the most it can be a declaration of the love that you feel right now. Many people don't have the spiritual maturity to be in one relationship forever. There is not a set standard for how a relationship should be; some relationships have a very deep potency — there is a depth of experience and a deep connection, but the time spent together (physically) is short." And what about faithfulness and vows made in front of God? Mooji says that nobody can disappoint God or make God angry. To be faithful is first of all to be faithful to your heart and to honour your own Self. A being that is not immersed in his own heart cannot really be relied upon. In fact, usually we are relying on others based upon our own projections of what we want from them. Better to let each other be free and have trust than to make too many

"To the witness of the thing that is playing, we pay no attention. We have a strong desire to have some particular outcome happen, like these feelings should stop, they should become beautiful, I should be happy again, etc. No one introduces you to these things; it is not felt to be important even. If you look in the direction of the events that are happening, then you'll panic. Be the witness; when this is heard, immediately your inner climate changes. If you go again to the mind, the vibrations are strong. Be the witness of it. Immediately, there are results. Right in the eye of the storm of your experience, you begin to discover the still witness of it. You are the awareness, don’t overlook this!" A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja

"We are infinitely broader than all answers can be, but the minute you hold on to something, you start to protect it. Therefore when I say: You have to be the cow that jumped over the moon, you have to jump over the mind. The whole human thing does not work – it has never worked. It only works when it connects up with the God power, with the heart – then it becomes something beautiful. Otherwise we are like an unstruck match. Sitting in a box in a damp house. But once lit, once struck, it can burn a whole forest." A Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal The cultural conditioning can be very limiting, almost a kind of prison. Mooji says, "Don't reject your culture, just go beyond it - You are earlier than that." Sometimes we are devoted to religions, beliefs and cultures which are suffocating for us; some pride is there and we won't let go of it. The Satsang is here to push us back to the place earlier than human identity. The One here has no race, culture or parents. This is the original place. Knowing this Truth makes it possible to move freely in the realm of diversity; the dream can go on, but we are experiencing it while being awake.

"Depending on how much we are still functioning with a strength of belief in our person and our personal life, it will appear to be that that life is predominating. That's the life 'I' have to deal with. As the attention is dropping again into its Source - into the Heart - the focus on the terrestrial existence becomes softer and softer and thinner and thinner, and is replaced by the sense of Being which is not calculating; it is felt as presence and joy." A spontaneous Skype Satsang recorded in London

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal "The Self is like light - it has no colour. The Beingess and the body is like a prism and when the light hits this prism, all the colours come out. These colours are what you call your mind and the world. The substratum of this colourful existence is always here - this unimaginable light." Music: Yeghish Manukian - Duduk, track 5

Spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja "If this life was all about momentary pleasures and shallow entertainment, we would be the weakest species on the planet. It seems that the highest human attainment is to transcend the egoic influence of the mind; to transcend the hypnosis of conditioning, the ignorance and the arrogance. Don't set your goal too low—go for gold! This is intelligent living. Hold your ground in the Self and let everything happen." Music: By Pratah Smaranam, ("Morning Mantras")

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal "The life that we project from a personal perspective has to crash at some point; that is grace. Because if it doesn't crash, you start to believe it is true. When it crashes, your aspiration for Truth can broaden and go deeper. So what is the way to transcend this mind that functions as an obstacle? Find out who the mind attacks. It can only be the self-image that is attacked; the idea you have of what you are is attacked." Music: Amma Sangha ("Om Namah Sivaya")

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal Mooji oftens asks, "As who are you speaking? As what are you speaking? Who sees the power of such a question?" What may come out of introspections like this is a kind of deconstruction of a lot of conceptual skyscrapers. You can feel a space of being rather than the noise of our identity and projections. Don't get your notebook out! Just let the vibration of the words do their thing, and listen in inner neutrality. Music: By Joy ("Hymns and Songs in Sanskrit")

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal "The Self, which is the most pure, has no distance. There is no gap except the distance of a concept, the distance of thought. But really, we are That - the Self. Just the belief that we are not the Self brings in the feeling of separation. So the Self is our perfect place. Only there can we leave the world alone, leave ourselves alone. There is perceiving in this place but there is no effort, no intention, no management, no faith or hope. These things have their beginning and their life in the mind, in the identity. Beyond the mind, meaning right here, there is no effort. Where there is no effort, that alone is called natural." Music: 'Yaman' by Bikram Singh and Manish Vyas (on "Healing Ragas" album)

A spontaneous Satsang recorded at Monte Sahaja "What we should really drink in is that the real cannot die; what is true cannot come to an end; what is timeless cannot be cut. Therefore – how pressing it is to find the Truth while we have the chance. The waking state is the perfect vehicle, the perfect mirror that the timeless comes again to recognize itself."

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal "After recognizing the Truth of who you are, the old way of thinking will try to come in and create doubt in you, the Beingness. At a stage of awakening you will have your 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness; forces will come and cause division and insecurity, but you have every power to transcend this. Mind can only function by distraction, by the seeds of guilt or accusation. You just hold your ground. Somehow, you catch your Self from inside, so everything is fine. Once this is clear for you, inwardly you are growing; the consciousness will expand, getting more refined and more clear, but behind that the Absolute is untouched. Don't try to figure anything out - just stay put." Music: Krishna Das' "Mountain Hare Krishna" performed by Omkara

Recorded at the intensive in Krakow, Poland, August 2011 "After recognizing the Truth of who you are, the old way of thinking will try to come in and create doubt in you, the beingness. At a stage of awakening you will have your 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness; forces will come and cause division and insecurity, but you have every power to transcend this. Mind can only function by distraction, by the seeds of guilt or accusation. You just hold your ground. Somehow, you catch your Self from inside, so everything is fine. Once this is clear for you, inwardly you are growing; the consciousness will expand, getting more refined and more clear, but behind that the Absolute is untouched. Don't try to figure anything out - just stay put." Music: 'Moon Shines at Night' by Djivan Gasparyan

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal "Whatever food you eat, you're going to be hungry again." In response to these words from Mooji, a determined seeker says, "Then let this be the last meal." Letting this be the last meal means to accept that you are just here - no longer running after meals (desires) that you will always be hungry for. "From now on, I am going to do this!" - Can you make such a promise that is alive? Is there something that determination can give to you? Who is the 'you' that will do it? Somehow, this question is almost always overlooked. Mooji emphasizes this: "It only needs to be recognized and understood the implication of what I am pointing to; I am not telling a 'you' to go and do something to then become 'Mr. Nobody'." Mooji says to all those gathered around, "Consciousness brought you to me. Seeing you here, my question to you is, what do you want? And, how much time will it take? What are you holding onto that's more valuable than timelessness? Have you shed the serpent's

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal "The potential of being human is to discover that state within oneself which is beyond effort, which cannot be maintained or sustained. No effort is required for being. Once that realization has occurred, one sees that oneself is not the moving part, not emotion, not time, not space, not body, not relationship, not contact, not separation, not mind, not senses, not anything that belongs to the interrelated play of opposites. Knowing I am not that, leaving all that to dance; not striving to control what is by nature restless and moving, but realizing oneself as that unmoving being, then one is free. That alone is freedom. Freedom beyond the concept of freedom. Not someone being free; free of somebody-ness."

A spontaneous Satsang recorded in Portugal "When you speak from the mind, from the past, you already know what you are going to say. It's dead! It's not even alive for you, so how do you expect it to be alive for other beings? You have to come fresh, from that place." "The mind is afraid of that place. It is always rehearsing, wanting to be brave. Trying to remember its best tricks." "You have to come from nowhere. It is very simple. Then it is not like you are speaking as a person." "If you want to be One with Truth, you must disappear." "How to vanish? Let the words of Satsang enter your Being and something will begin to deconstruct."

A spontaneous talk recorded in Portugal Mooji says that you cannot change your personality in a flash, but you can realize the Self in a flash. It is not that the conditioning has to leave, but that the identity has to be exposed. Don't try to change yourself - that is to put your power in the wrong place. Just find out who you are. We are here to hatch, to crack open and to peck ourselves out of our own shell - the limited life lived merely from the perspective as persons. Ultimately it all boils down to a certain state which is not a profile, a thing or a way to be. It's so empty. You see everything as a phenomenal movement, an object of perception. Who is the one perceiving this?

Spontaneous talk recorded in Portugal "If the whole world is holding on to you and you are not holding on to anything, then you are free. Let everything come and hold you, but you are not holding anything. That's how you leave the mind." Perhaps this thing that we call enlightenment is too easy, too natural and we are attracted to complicatedness. Mooji refers to the saying 'light as a feather'. The feather still has weight but Truth is without any weight and doesn't belong to any category. Simply keep on seeing.

A spontaneous talk recorded in Portugal. This talk begins with questions about transcending conditioning, balancing spirituality and worldly life, and working hard for 'things'. As Mooji addresses each of these questions, he reminds us that the human being is designed to fail in order to succeed; the inability to balance our lives can be a doorway into waking up from the shallowness of our own conditioning. What is important is to find out that which is not passing. The questioner's mind is then brought closer and closer to its Source with the question, 'Can the seer be seen'? This reminding does not create, invent, or try to make perfect what you are; it is only a dis-covering. "This is the beauty of Advaita guidance; it points you immediately beyond all the phenomena that appears in front of you, to show you that you cannot be any of that. This Advaita pointing is the essence of all religion. It's the direct path - it's the mirror path. How much practice do you need to look at your reflection in the mi