Spontaneous Talks with Mooji
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Monte Sahaja 16 May 2012
There is no urge to do anything.
How do I know that this is an expression
of the natural state and not just plain laziness?
First if you can allow your old sense of being to slow down
by just resting in the I-sense
without adding anything
then it just lowers the temperature
of the whole mind-being drive
and comes to a kind of silence, naturally.
It comes to its own,
just like if you pour water down a mountain,
by its own time it gradually settles to where it can be level, by itself.
Nobody has to level water.
In the same way the Beingness comes to its own resting place
when it's not being flicked up
in this being a machine of the mind.
It just somehow settles down very nicely.
And then, this is a place
not so much more of learning
but of intuition, insight, revelation.
Things become very clear.
It's like the life speaks to you
if you want to put it like that.
You are more conversant with all things much more naturally.
We don't allow ourselves the space to do that.
We're always acting prematurely,
from the mind's point of view.
It's lik it doesn't want you to reach this place of stillness inside
because it's so powerful to just recognise the stillness
which is not something you did right or did wrong.
It's not on that level,
it's another language, it's another level.
But the place where you really see from Truth.
It's as though some activity jumps up in front of that
and entices our attention to go to that activity.
So you're constantly up in the air with it.
When you slow down, you will see
that at the ground level of being
there is no such thing as laziness.
That's a kind of thought.
The vital force expresses
at different speed and dynamic-ness by itself.
Sometimes for no reason. You know?
You get up and you're just full of energy
and it's like twelve, midnight.
Everybody's going, 'Good night!'
But - pfffff - you're full of energy,
you could walk up the mountain on handstand.
Well, don't argue with it!
Express! Let it be expressed!
Don't program your life so tightly
and you'll be more in the presence of that freedom than you imagine.
It is just there.
Otherwise we are avoiding so many things.
So many things represent 'crash' for us.
You know?
Nobody wants to see you. Pffff!
What a beautiful space!
But for you, 'Oh my god, all my friends have left me...
I'm not worthy anymore...'
By yourself you defeat yourself!
Life is giving you some space.
So, how do you know when you're just calming down
or whether it's really just a kind of laziness?
You have to somehow just move inwardly deeper than the mind
into that place I'm speaking about,
so the space of non-self.
non-self Self.
And it's here. It's not ...
We talk about 'behind the screen' and ...
but actually
I don't know if it's really behind anything.
Awareness shows you that place where you are.
Or shows you that place - your true place.
And how content and comfortable you are
just in Being,
whatever Beingness wishes to express.
If you say, 'Okay, you know,
next Monday at 11 o'clock we're gonna play volleyball,'
at 11 o'clock maybe you have no energy in you at all!
And then people, your friends, start to say,
'You're such an important member and
you are letting us down!'
And, 'You don't have enough determination etc.'
'You just think about yourself ...'
And the fact is that you haven't got the energy to do it.
But we don't as yet ...
There isn't sufficient self-awareness or self-respect
to say, 'But you know, listen, this is okay.'
And sometimes they are only saying that
because somehow
the consciousness is like speaking to itself,
it takes that form,
to play out this kind of objections,
to play out our resistances and our freaked-out-ness
in order to become an embodied expression
so that maybe more easily you can get out of it
or throw it out.
Because if it is too subtle
you probably don't understand it enough
to make really conscious choices about it.
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At the ground level of being, there is no such thing as laziness.
That is a different kind of thought.
The vital force expresses at different speeds
or dynamic-ness by itself.
Let it be expressed.
Don't program your life so tightly and you'll be more
in the presence of that freedom than you imagine.
You have to move inwardly deeper than the mind
into that place I am talking about
the space of the non-self Self.
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