Your person is not you!
It is only your present construct that you believe in out of habit!
The moment that it is seen a great space is opening up.
You're not a prisoner anymore!
You see the power of observation.
And also to not be passionate about your observing,
not identified with it.
Don't take it personally.
Just be in a detached space of only looking as though you're only your eyes!
Just looking, but not creating interpretations of what you see.
Just being the being itself.
At first it feels impossible.
As soon as a thought comes, something goes.
You're not that which goes. This is just your favorite habit.
Stay. You observe this. You see this. Be one with this.
And gradually it comes quiet.
I gave an example. I think it has worked for many people and I can tell you again.
I put it in the form of a story:
A driver goes out learning to drive.
And he goes out with the instructor now.
The driver has understood how to look in the mirror, signal, maneuver.
This doesn't happen in India, by the way.
But they are driving and the instructor tells him that they are going to the highway today.
Driver: 'You think I'm ready?'
Instructor: 'Yes!'
They are driving, driving.
Then, it starts to drizzle, some rain is coming.
Then, the rain is getting heavier.
And the instructor says: 'Put on the windscreen wiper.'
'Where is it? Where is it?'
The driver puts them on.
Then the driver starts to follow the windscreen wiper.
'Can we come off the road. I am distracted by the windscreen wiper.'
The instructor says: 'No, just focus on the road.'
Other drivers are coming and shouting: 'What are you doing over there?!'
Driver: 'Please, can I turn it off?'
Instructor: 'No, keep driving. Just focus on the road!'
Then the rain gets even heavier and the driver turns up the speed.
Driver: 'Please, can I slow down?'
Instructor: 'No, you cannot slow down. It's minimum 70!'
Driver: 'It's too much. I am going to crash.
Instructor: 'Just focus on the road!'
Driver: 'Can I turn off the windscreen wiper?'
Instructor: 'No, just focus on the road!'
Driver: 'Please, please, please.'
Instructor: 'Focus on the road!'
Then at one point, somehow, focusing happened.
When the focusing happen, the car steadies up.
More rain is coming but the driver focuses on the road.
It's just like that.
The moment I'm saying: 'Just stay where you are' and a thought comes, you loose your focus.
Focus on the silence. Stay with silence.
'But Mooji, a big thought was coming!'
You are not the thought!
You are not the thought, you are just here!
'Mooji, Mooji, there is more coming!'
You're just the seer!
'Yes, but it's too much.'
This is also a thought.
'Oh no, they're coming!'
Just stay as the Self!
Stay as the Self!
'Yes Mooji, but this is too much!'
'Give me a mantra, give me a mantra!'
No!
Stay as the Self!
'Please Mooji, bless me!'
You stay as the Self!
Then one moment: 'Ah!'
What's happening?
'Nothing!'
It's like this, you see!
We're putting too much attention on the thought.
'It's a big thought, Mooji, it's too big for me! No, no!'
No, this 'big for me' is also just a thought!
'Ah!'
'It's really difficult!' That's also a thought!
It's like this!
We're giving a lot of attention to what is coming up and you're taking your thoughts as facts,
but it's only fiction!
You are the fact! You are the fact!
You keep quiet. You stay here. Nothing is happening to you.
Maybe something is happening, but nothing is happening to you.
You're just witnessing all this in your stillness!
And gradually: 'Ah!'