Silent Retreat 30 July 2015 Session 1
[Mooji] It is like this sometimes.
The truth is sublimely simple. It is here.
But, we don't want it ... yet!
Truth is sublimely simple. It is here.
But, we don't want it .....yet!
[Questioner] Somehow it feels like
maybe there are very subtle strands of somebody, who came to this retreat.
And I don't want to leave with any of those strands.
[Mooji] But that can be there.
You cannot take the spots out of the moon.
Still, it doesn't affect its light.
You follow?
You cannot go get all the dust from the earth.
Even from Monte Sahaja we are trying. We cannot do it. [laughter]
Still life goes on and we are happy. Full, full life!
So these things have caused many troubles.
Because we see them and we think,
'I don't want them to be there'.
But what's the problem with them being there?
Are they more here, than you?
As long as the body is here
and the vital force
and consciousness, some thought activity will manifest.
And it is good so that you discern that it's OK.
It can be there. Or whatever.
You know what makes it there? Your attention makes it there.
If you have no interest in it, it is not there.
Have we figured this out yet?
You have no interest in a thing, it doesn't register in consciousness.
It's as though it doesn't exist.
And where does the interest come from?
We are again told, 'That thing should not be there'.
And then now you put all your energies trying to get rid of something
which is effectively trying to straighten the curled tail of a dog.
The dog has got a curled tail.
You try to straighten it out. Then it curls back up again. [laughter]
You put it in a tube. [laughter] You take it out.
Why waste time? [laughter]
So this is something, it is worth pointing out
that this tendency to feel,
'No, no. I must clean everything first and then...'
Then you put the Self as somehow, some kind of award
at the end of your hard work of cleaning your mind,
which you cannot do.
And then you who have done it now become the deserver.
Who can deserve the Self?
Self means, absence of 'you'.
So subtle, subtle are the ways of mind.
So when you say like that,
'There are still some strands of the sense of a person.'
Of course. The sense of you and me being here
and all the people being here. It's a sense.
It's not nonsense. [laughter] It's a sense.
It's a way, the consciousness is playing all of this.
But it should not disturb you.
You have to go beyond this and see, 'Yes, of course.
They appear within the lens of the absolute.
All that is.
Am I in front of the lens or behind the lens?
Are you merely an object in the lens of the Supreme?
Or are you behind looking through the lens?
The lens is the field of being. The sense 'I am',
the field of consciousness which makes the play
of learning, of seeing and perceiving.
All of this is functioning in front of you.
Who is the ultimate perceiver of all of them?
Is it not you?
So this is something you could clear up today.
If you see, 'I don't have to get rid of.
I don't have to sweep this house completely clean.'
Because the house and the apparent one living in it
are both seen, actually.
And the one who is seen living in it is only a tenant;
he is not really the landlord.
[Mooji] But can you accept this?
Or is there something more than this?
Something more interfering or ...
[Q.] I feel like,
I do see that space and I do know that space.
And I see that, that's me.
Because everything manifest passes in front.
And at any moment
that bigger space can always be seen. But then...
[Mooji] What sees the bigger space? Another space?
[Mooji] What is seeing the bigger space, the greater space?
Is some entity is seeing the greater space?
Actually all the questions are your questions.
Are you someone, seeing the great space?
Because your body language says, 'I can see'.
You locate it even.
'I can see the great space.' But you, the seer of the great space,
you must assert your own identity. Who are you?
Are you apart from the great space?
This we must sit and contemplate a little. Look.
Seeing of the sensing of the great space.
Does the great space fill everywhere right up until here?
Right up until here. [questioner laughs]
What is the size of the seer of the great space?
What is the shape or the gender of the seer of the great space?
It's a very subtle thing.
Do you know any question more intimate than this?
Because it's not a question that will be satisfied merely by some concept.
It is directly pointing at something.
What the finger is pointing at, can it touch the thing it's pointing at?
In what direction is it?
Are you with me or am I on my own? Very good.
Who is there? The seer, that which sees even the great space.
Can it be introduced?
Can it be photographed?
[silence]
[Mooji] It is purer than the oxygen you breathe.
It's distance-less.
[Mooji] Even when you say 'I', it arises in front of it.
[Mooji] Don't give this to your mind.
The altitude is too high for your mind.
Who is here?
[Mooji] Is it not you?
But you in a way that you have not thought of before.
Not Mr so-and-so and Miss so-and-so.
It has no nationality.
It has no religion even.
[silence]
[Mooji] This very meeting is like the Bhagavad Gita.
From the outset you are discovering the Truth.
But if you are not able to embrace it,
we will have to carry on.
[Mooji] It is like this sometimes.
The Truth is sublimely simple. It is here.
But we don't want it ... yet.
Because we prioritise our personal desires, give them more weight.
Because you want to invest more time, in time,
rather than to be established in the timeless,
which is one's real fact.
So potent, so powerful.
Because we feel somehow,
that you can find something of greater worth in the field of phenomenality.
What a trick!
[M.] Surely a part of this great play of life
is to transcend the voice that presents every trick.
Why? Because within you is the capacity to do so.
[silence]
[M.] Who are you in the light of this kind of introspection now?
Where is the evidence of you?
Are you material or immaterial?
Form or formless?
Can you bear your formlessness, with form?
[music]
This tendency... I must clean everything first, and then...
then you put Self as some kind of award
at the end of hard work cleaning your mind, which you cannot do.
And You who has done this now, become the deserver.
Who can deserve the Self?
Self means absence of you.
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