Satsang with Mooji
Brixton, London 27th August 2007
When to press the delete button and when to allow things to be?
[Questioner] I was wondering.
How do you know when to press the delete button
and get rid of something that is not original, as you were saying before,
and when to allow something to manifest and be, without rejecting it?
[Mooji] This is a beautiful question, very subtle.
It's a very subtle thing.
First of all, don't be in a hurry to delete,
otherwise, it smacks of avoidance. Sometimes we feel,
'I don't want to look at something, I want to get rid of it,'
which is what we have been doing for a long time,
avoiding what smells like it could be a confrontation.
We don't like it so want to ...
It's like killing ants. You want to get rid of them.
So, be aware of that first thing.
So, we spent a little time just looking a bit at ...
At first it may feel a little unnatural
not to go with the reflex, or the reaction,
but the reaction will happen.
There is something in which
both actions and reactions take place and are perceived.
There is that space, let's call it that,
within which both actions and reactions are observed to take place.
Are we aware of that? Sometimes you can see,
maybe crossing the road and something comes, 'Ahrr,'
and something moves out of the way,
but inwardly there is no jerkiness inside, a responding takes place.
In fact, you cannot even say that you responded, the response happened.
In fact, actions and reactions are also occurring.
Sometimes you may think that something happens
and your place is in your reaction to it, but neither are yours.
The actions and reactions are also taking place
as impelled by the force of nature, it's acting out something.
Really, your true place is the observer of it.
It's only through identification and education,
that we have come to be personal with what is happening.
So it becomes as though something is happening to you,
whereas it is just happening.
Everything is just happening.
Just like your breath is just happening. You say, 'I am breathing'.
The fact of the matter is you are not breathing.
Breathing is just happening, heart beating, blood flowing,
thoughts arising,
within an intelligent spaciousness in which they are perceived.
So now your question comes,
'When should I delete and when to allow it to happen and be seen?'
So I would say first, Don't be in a hurry to delete.
First allow, if you can,
allow the seeing of what is taking place to simply happen.
That is not difficult.
Even if something reacts and goes into story telling,
come to recognise that that is also arising
in a quieter intelligence that just observes.
Behind this observing is not an independent observer.
Behind the observing is not an independent observer observing.
If you follow through behind the observing
you will not find a little observer.
Like the guy in the Yellow Brick Road,
behind the screen, a little observer.
There is no observer, actually.
There is just that power of observing taking place.
And even this power of observing,
you can say, that also is observed.
Don't start to wobble.
Allow it to be heard in you.
Even the power to observe is also within this perceiving intelligence.
It's there.
So, when to delete?
Somehow, there is no one even deleting,
the deleting is also happening.
When something is recognised
to not be in resonance with the felt truth,
it gets evicted by itself, it falls by itself,
it will shrivel up and fall.
You won't have to follow where it falls, it's gone.
Such is the, not eloquence, but efficiency of Being in self cleaning.
Just like you get a cut and without applying anything
the body is already healing.
The Being is always self composing itself,
but the mind wants to get in on the action,
to sign the cheque, 'I did it! Look, I did it!'
And this 'I did it' brings a lot of trouble,
because it brings in the sense that
there is an independent actor doing something
and that actor has been believed into existence
and now you call it 'I', you call it yourself.
So, just allow this to find its own landing place.
You don't have to park it.
Don't try and park these words, they know where they are going
and they will land where they will.
At a certain point, the Beingness pulls its own sword
and will start to chop when it's in the mood for that moment.
Sometimes, it will be Kali, it will be chopping, 'phew phew'!
Another moment, it simply sits back
into an open panoramic view of all that is arising,
but it is viewing it with detachment.
So, the seeing is merely occurring,
but there is no investment in the outcome of the seeing.
It is like space seeing, but it has no eyes.
Its eyes are itself space, everything is being seen.
In moments like this, you may begin to feel this.
You cannot know it, nor think it.
You feel that there is a kind of a rightness
about what these words are pointing to or implying,
which is already here. It is just here.
This is really your perceiving skill, or power,
it's only pulling the curtains on it,
so that it's clearly seen that all is well by itself.
We are making unnecessary work
when the beingness is doing it already.
Then the mind is wanting to double check on the beingness.
It's almost as though you're handing the headmaster's notes
to a child to look over them,
to see if the headmaster's notes are right.
If you ask the mind to check out what the being is doing,
once you relax in your own relaxedness
some recognition will begin to take place
and to give authenticity and recognition to what is already so.
This is the beauty of seeing. Mind wants to act, it wants to do,
wants to recite, wants to practice, 'What's next? What to do?
Next step, where to go?'
So, you can be doing this for a very long time
and at the end of it, you say, 'To be honest,
I haven't really gone anywhere at all, not really achieved.
Just learnt a lot and became very busy.' Busy about being.
So, deleting happens.
Then even this concept of deleting,
it was said just as a flicker, 'Phoof,' into the beingness.
Now you can forget it. Don't make a tattoo out of it.
It's just, 'Yes'. Something recognises it,
because there is a natural urge to be yourself,
to rest in awareness, to rest in your being,
to not constantly be starting fires and putting out fires.
There's a time when your beingness is happy just to be.
So, this recognition will come more smoothly,
it will announce itself in you, be confirmed in you.
Satsang with Mooji
Brixton, London 27th August, 2007