Satsang with Mooji
The Wisdom of the Heart - Part 2
London, 16th November 2013 (with subtitles)
[Questioner] How can I give attention to my Self?
[Mooji] Cut attention to everything else.
For a moment you can do like that.
If you cut attention to everything else,
you'll find unexpectedly, surprisingly,
everything is flowing fine.
You are feeling that, somehow, it takes you to run the world.
Well, it doesn't, actually.
You will then find the life that is the unfolding life,
not the constructed life.
Would you be content with the unfolding life?
Because it is not deficient of anything.
In fact, it is your happy life, it is your true way,
but our conditioning, our coaching in life,
is to project an idea and try to fulfil it.
We must try this. It is the game of life.
Then when you see that by your own projections
it does not bring you happiness,
it makes you into a beggar, in fact,
then somehow, maybe the bite of these experiences
will turn your attention a bit to that which is not a beggar.
[silence]
What can we find out here today
which does not need to wait for tomorrow?
What can we find out here today?
If you come for gold, don't leave with bronze.
Gold is here. Bronze is also here.
[laughter]
What can you discover today
that is not a contract?
If you're going to keep paying attention
to the behaviour of your personality and mind,
and again the person comes, and again the same old thing.
How did it come to be there?
It was not original to you.
[silence]
Then you are left with some tired energy. Tired.
Something in you is not tired,
and something there is tired.
Slack has no twang.
Drained.
What is that in you which is not a belief,
which does not need belief?
It Is. Perhaps there's not the appetite for that as yet.
Maybe the appetite has not yet blossomed inside you.
So there's still appetite for something that
also catches your attention easily.
When it is grasped it is the most natural
because it takes a lot of energy to be a person.
It takes no energy to be your Self.
Again, it takes a lot of energy to be a person, or ego,
high maintenance.
It takes no energy to be your Self.
And to give you an example.
Often when we meet or encounter other beings,
so to speak, 'other beings',
a kind of a psychological self-consciousness is present.
Have you noticed that there's a feeling that
somehow you are self-watching, and how you come across,
how you're feeling, how you're perceived,
whether you're going to be rejected, all of these.
So it cannot be you!
It cannot be what you are.
As you discover your natural Self,
you are not intimidated into acting differently,
or trying to be entertaining, or trying to be amusing.
You don't have to be a performer.
So no rehearsal is there, no skill is necessary,
you are just yourself.
You're not even being yourself. Do you follow?
You're not even being yourself, as that will take another kind of effort.
To be yourself is not your Self.
So something has to change,
and it cannot be just covered over with clever ideas, or clever concepts.
This is why I say, to put in and reverse the glove.
What does it mean?
To really offer oneself up,
and to approach your search
with an attitude of some devotion towards the Truth.
Don't come with any arrogance.
One must be somehow humble within one's own Heart.
You have no power to demand anything,
but to quietly look and follow.
Offer yourself up
to that seeing, to that possibility.
Don't let your mind go before you.
Don't live as though you are in front of your mind.
You can't be in front of your mind, or in front of consciousness.
You must be behind the consciousness.
Your dynamic expression as life,
your encounters that are happening in front of you,
just like the flow of sensations.
Behind that, so to speak, you are present as That.
At a certain point your own attention is, somehow, incubating in itself,
incubating inside the state of presence.
And then the pull of the mind, the personal mind, becomes very weak,
and it becomes increasingly automatic that you simply are as you are.
[silence]
So I feel with you that
I don't want to give any technique at all.
Something has to somehow just go 'pfoo!'
Surrender yourself, don't just try to work things out.
That has served its place, it has an importance also,
but not to rely only on this.
If it's been pointed, but you are aware of this,
as you said you are, 'I'm aware that my bodily identity,
the sort of programming is not what I am, yet at the same time
there is still some attraction, some fascination, some pull,
giving attention to that life'.
And it's only there, this life that you talk about which is trouble,
do you know why it is there? Because you see it.
Can I say it again like this?
The reason why that life is there and continues to be there
is because you have an interest in it and you see it.
And the very fact that you see it and take it to be something
is the feed that you give to it, and so it perpetuates a delusion.
When your eyes are baptised inside the ocean of your own Self,
when your eyes remain only ...
If you want to start at the place of the 'I am', you can say,
the feeling 'I am', which is natural for you,
and from this moment you can do it.
The natural sense 'I am', it is not the person,
it is not personal, it is not the body.
In fact, it has been referred to as the Godly state,
the Godly name and presence within you.
That's your sense 'I am'.
Start at the place of the 'I am',
but don't put any image to it,
don't put any associations with it.
Try and just remain in the state 'I am',
and don't put any future to it, no intention to it.
As soon as you put your attention like this
some forces are going to come to pull you into a relationship.
Then you are to observe them, feel the magnetism of them,
but stay only in the sense 'I am'.
It will feel very difficult,
but by and by you will gain the upper ground
and they will diminish in power.
That is the most practical, simple thing you can start.
If you've done this,
to isolate yourself from the activity of the mind that
wants to pull you into a story, into some relationship,
feel the pull, but stay only as the sense 'I am'
in which the pull of the mind is seen,
and then there's nothing constant about that,
it will subside because it's not true.
Only the true is continuous.
The momentary is momentary.
Something to pull the attention will come,
but you'll say, 'Something is pulling my attention here,
but I'm aware of that', just stay only as the awareness, and it will go.
After a short time you'll find just the space,
the sense of space that we speak about,
the feeling of just being, the sense of presence only
which is a beautiful state of being.
Remain, and then all that I'm speaking to you
will be assimilated in you very naturally, without any effort,
you'll just know that inside yourself.
Then there is one stage beyond this.
When you are ready, we'll speak about it.
Each one should be able to, somehow,
recognise your natural 'I am' state, state of presence.
You should be aware of this.
And from this state you have the power now
to bring any chaotic state back into silence.
You have the power,
if you have been able to remain,
to rest consciously in the state 'I am'.
A little exercise. Do it!
Then the rest becomes very easy.
Most spiritual effort is to bring the 'you'
from the state of the person into the state of presence.
Do you follow what I'm speaking? Yes.
It's the movement, the shift from person to presence.
The person is a very fragmented state.
It's very inconsistent, it says 'Oh, I want this!'
And when it gets it, 'Can I have this?'
It's a very restless state.
It's the state where you grow old very quickly.
As soon as you are aware of the state of presence,
and come to see that it's natural for you,
this waking state, the ground of the waking state
should be lived as the sense 'I am'.
In the sense, in the state 'I am'
all your activities will flow in a new way,
and your actions and thoughts will not be so consequential,
they'll be much lighter.
So you can come to this,
in satsang it will happen for you very easily also,
where you come to know just the state of presence.
When people say things to you, try to offend you,
it will not come near you, it will feel distant.
When so called 'troubles' which usually come,
they will feel like they're ...
There's space in you,
your being is not suffering any kind of claustrophobia.
There's a sense, 'It's OK.'
Your powers of discernment become very acute.
You can see, 'Don't worry about that. It's OK. Leave it. Don't worry.'
But if you stay in the state of the person
it will always be unsteady,
and you all know it also.
So with someone like you, I would like you to be around,
maybe one week with me, somehow.
Should I say that? [laughter]
To be in that space, so that the little things you can see,
and sometimes unusual feelings will come.
Here also it's going to happen,
some strange feelings, it's OK.
In fact, it's part of your cure, to be burped out,
all these little strangenesses.
For someone who is aware of the Self,
these things don't matter, and because it doesn't matter to them
they can't live, they burn right there,
they shrivel up right there because they have no food.
The food for these types of energies
is interest, identity, meaning, habit,
this is the food for these forces.
As soon as you begin to discover your own Self,
which is very simple, you're finding it out now.
There's already a germinating unfolding, more and more.
With some beings very simply, it's very easy.
With others it's just showing itself.
And you'll begin to feel inside a kind of fizz,
like a soft current that seems to just wash your mind out,
leave you in that beautiful inner spaciousness.
Then you will come to know, without having to hear from others that
it is quite natural for you to be happy,
it is quite natural for you to be free.
This Emptiness, this unplanned unpracticed Emptiness,
is the most agreeable state for you.
And within that will develop
a deep yearning to complete your journey.
How long it will take? We will see.
But Truth is on your side
because that is your fundamental nature.
It's not something you're going to develop or cultivate,
you cannot help it.
The 'you' that I'm presently speaking about
is only because I'm learning it from you,
to call yourself your portrait.
Presently we're living as the portrait that
consciousness has made of itself.
It is OK, it is fine,
but it is not okay to only be the portrait.
You must know the painter also,
and the painter himself is also painted.
The painter itself is also a picture.
It takes a lot of energy to be a person or ego,
it takes no energy to be your Self.
As you discover your natural Self, no skill is necessary.
A video extract from the Satsang DVD
The Answer of All Answers
London 16th November 2013 - Session 1
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