Take One Minute to Discover the Timeless
06 October 2021 (with subtitles)
[Questioner] In the dynamic world
I get pulled into shape so much
when there's so much to do, it seems, to solve problems.
And when there's the state of presence,
I could certainly see how I'm not the doer of everything,
how everything's flowing.
[Q.] But when I'm not ... [Mooji] When you're not, what?
[Q.] When I get triggered, and then I'm in, solving sort of problems ...
[M.] When you're identified again with the mind-person.
[Q.] Absolutely. But it's too much doing, maybe, in the dynamic life,
it feels, that there's not enough time
to sit and contemplate and to be, and ...
[M.] It feels like that, it feels like there's not enough time.
I know that. There are so many things happening.
It's almost ... If you're going to tidy up all those loose ends,
there's no time left.
By the time time is left, you're too tired to use the time that's left.
But I don't want to put something monumental in front.
Make a start.
Just make a start.
Even if you say, 'I'm going to take three minutes',
be fully in that three minutes,
and you'll see that it will give you eternity.
If you can do it.
If you say, 'I'm going to wait
for the outer circumstances to be solved and to be resolved',
the mind will keep hitchhiking from situation to situation.
But if you only have a minute,
take that minute and really be!
Really take it, just take that minute,
and let go of minutes and time. Just be.
If it feels the minute is up and you didn't quite succeed,
take another minute, take another minute
because that minute, given the level of respect,
which means your attention to your Self ...
Not to figuring out problems,
just to pay attention even to the sense 'I am',
to the sense of presence, to acknowledge presence,
and don't combine it with any other thought!
Please listen to what I'm speaking.
If only you do that, for one minute,
just to pay attention just to presence,
already you begin to feel the waters of the Self coming.
You already begin to feel, 'Whoa, whoa!'
Because the mind will hide that!
We say, 'One minute isn't enough!' 'Five minutes aren't enough!'
You need to go on holiday, and make a big epic, which you can't do.
Take one minute, take one minute, and sit!
Put a clock, one minute, and just forget about the minute.
Let the clock remind you, and just let go.
And just be aware, 'But I am here'.
Don't associate with anything.
There's an 'I am',
the vibration of 'I am' is here, without attaching to any thought!
Because thought appears, you can engage or not,
but just pay attention, whether engaged or not,
to the 'I am' presence, which is your way of knowing that you exist,
without anyone telling you; just pay attention to that.
And keep doing that, until you find that, somehow,
the bliss begins to come.
The bliss of being, it comes from within you.
It's almost like it's locked, but it's not. It's just there.
It's just that your attention goes somewhere else,
that attention going somewhere else is eclipsing your natural being-ness.
So, as you sit, even for a minute,
you begin to feel again, [exhales] 'This peace is coming back'.
It's like, the blood starts to flow again, the blood of being. [exhales]
And give another minute,
afford one more minute to sit with him.
Take a minute at a time and see what happens.
A minute at a time returns you to the timeless.
A minute at a time will return you to the timeless.
It's something that speaks from within you.
It cannot come from without. It's from within.
It's your Self, contained.
You sit with that, you begin to feel.
And you begin to recognise, nothing in the world can give this to you!
Nothing in the world can give this to you
because it gave all things in the world.
But it started here, in the root, the feeling, 'I exist, I am'.
Pay attention to this. Just keep paying attention to it.
It seems almost too simple!
Maybe even like naïve advice to you.
'How can anybody work with that?' No, no. Sit with it.
It is the miracle of God! Just be with it.
Thinking wants to come in to say, 'Yes, now you got it, now this ...',
to make all this commentary.
Be aware of that, and just keep ... Because you can.
You are the master in your Heart.
You can just keep taking your attention back to put it here.
You deserve a minute of the day for your Self. Put him there.
And then if you enjoy, extend. Enjoy, extend. It's OK.
And you see, at a certain point ... Even to say, 'Just give a minute',
and then come back and say, 'Can I have another minute?'
'Mmmm, OK, one more minute.'
If you were like that, if you had to come to me and say,
'Can I have another minute, Mooji?'
I'd say, how did you do the last one? ...
OK, I give you one more. I put you on the clock.
You will use that minute!
But if you give it to yourself, 'I'll sit a minute',
you start to see cappuccino ...
'Cappuccino. Maybe I come back. I'll have a cappuccino.'
This is how mind is, it multiplies itself.
But you just sit like that for one minute,
feel it, really, for one minute.
See if you can really have a minute.
Sometimes your mind won't even give you a minute,
if you look to him to give you the minute!
Don't let the minute be a gift from your mind! Just take it.
Just stay here, and then you may see
something is just trying to stop you from even one minute!
One minute just feels like an eternity, 'Argh!'
Like he cannot give you one minute!
He's going to put a burger in there, and some chips, a coffee,
he's going to put time, he's going to put something.
And just watch him, then you know what has been your struggle.
But you keep doing this, and you'll feel the power coming back.
You feel the power flower again. It's there already!
But you start to feel it is manifesting
because we are suffering from the manifesting, not from the unmanifest.
Then you feel the power,
the darshan of the unmanifest is coming back in you.
And you see after that ...
It's almost like the mind is trying to stop you from even this,
because it knows what power is in you! It's the play. It's the maya.
And just like that, as you begin to have the taste,
the nectar, the nectar, the amrit,
when you begin to taste that again, you're already falling in love.
You're falling in love.
But you're not falling down.
You're falling up, into the very Heart of awareness.
You know it, it's like nothing, nothing!
It's like this world,
it's like the maya, it's like the shaitan, he'll give you everything!
'Yes, I'll get everything!' Because it's the game.
Always know that the Supreme is above all things.
And take everything as a gift, as an opportunity.
But you take this thing, you see,
and you start to feel again, he's flowing inside you again.
[Mooji] And you start to fall in love again,
with the one thing that can never leave you.
But you missed it.
You keep missing it.
This.
I'm telling you something which is right now attainable to you.
I'm not telling you, 'Go on a course for six months
then come back'. No! Right now!
We're going to finish satsang in a moment.
I say, sit right now with yourself. Sit a little bit.
Spend a good 10 minutes, sit down,
and just see if you can give yourself one minute!
For you, without 'you'. Do you understand?
You, without 'you'.
You, without your agenda and your projections and so on.
Just sitting as being-ness, be aware.
Watch the mind and see. Don't go, 'Oh, my mind!'
Don't keep reacting. Even... It's OK.
Each time just keep coming back into this empty space of being.
And I have to say that, so that the next time I see you,
which I hope, at some point, I will do,
I'll be able to tell just by looking at you!
I'll be able to tell just by looking at you.
Because there's something in us,
that light of pure divine consciousness
that has somehow been ...
As though there's a veil of mind in front of it, like you're elsewhere.
I look at you and you're elsewhere.
We're always elsewhere into some thing, next thing, another projection, and so on.
Let me see your original face,
your timeless face. Don't try to show me. [laughter]
[M.] Don't try to show me. Because I know him also, OK?
Forget about him. Just be with your Self, like that.
Just be with your Self and see.
I'm speaking about facts, not about fiction.
You sit and do this as often as you can.
Take a moment to yourself, just sit,
just be clear, 'At least I'm not ...'
It doesn't matter if inside the body it's going [chatter].
That doesn't mean you're not your Self.
Actually, nothing means you're not your Self!
Nothing that is shown from the mind means, 'OK, now I've lost it'.
That's a thought! You bought it!
You bought it, and now you're believing it into existence,
and it becomes operational for you.
If you didn't buy any thought at all ...
Just feel them, let them feel, let them happen,
but know that without you they cannot even manifest
because you are the witness of them.
With this, with this, with this,
you are securing your place in the Infinite,
with what I'm telling you.
Don't be a victim of time and the mind.
This is the trick of this life.
It's like you're tricked out of your eternity,
which is not true, it cannot be!
But you're missing out on the glory of God within you.
So, I'm not going to say anything more now.
I'm going to leave it like this.
As I said earlier, When you can bear and be the silence you are,
you're in the taste of freedom.
It doesn't mean that thoughts shouldn't come, they can come,
but they must have their right place.
Anything can come.
When the sounds [whirl] 'Argh, I wish they would stop!'
No, no, just let them go. Say, 'It's all God's working'.
Let them do, let them happen.
Stop taking responsibility for that,
and you will know what is your responsibility.
And responsibility, they say, means response-ability,
the ability of responding freshly, you see.
And that is the gesture of spontaneity. You will know.
If you say, but how will I know? I tell you, just do what I tell you.
And when it is time to know, and not to do, or whatever,
something will inform you from within.
You don't need to study any manual, how to be and ....
No, you don't need to know how to be.
You don't even know how to be happy.
Don't study any of that nonsense.
Happiness sprouts naturally from you.
Pay attention to your being, just keep paying attention.
You say, 'He didn't say what to pay attention to. And then do what?'
No, shut up! Just pay attention, keep holding.
Out of this focus of just ...
Because your attention has been given to everything else!
But now, just rest attention only here.
Don't create any shape.
The knowing is already in you.
You're just acknowledging the knowing.
Anything that comes up, it is perceived.
Don't touch. Don't go into any shape. Anything. This is your exercise.
Afterwards you can go into shape and see what happens. OK.
But you're going to develop a longing in you to keep coming back here.
And this is faithfulness, this is loyalty,
this is the beginning of devotion,
[Mooji] this is surrender, this is transcendence,
[Mooji] to come back, just to be,
and to know the miracle of 'to be'.
OK? So, it's not, Stop doing! No, no, no, no, no.
No, we are too attached to doing.
Leave the doing to life. Life ... This is life force, it's flowing.
But it works in two ways.
There's an action that comes from you
which is being generated from your ego-mind,
'I need to do this', 'I want to get this' ... This action.
But there is action that comes out of your cosmic being,
meaning the action that this body was made to perform,
and it produces much more joy
when it's not confused with the ego action.
Don't try to fix them.
Just keep paying attention to the being. He will sort it out.
Just keep paying attention to your being.
Leave it to the being. He will sort it out.
Once you try to sort something out,
you start to become a 'sorter-outer', which is another identity.
Don't take any identity.
Even, 'Yes, now I'm just dedicated ...'
Just stop. Just be. Just be. [laughter]
There's a time when we hear the teaching,
we have all the teaching, but now it has to be swallowed,
and I'm showing you the most simple:
fix yourself, your attention, on just the sense of being.
It is there before everything else.
It's natural. It doesn't have a shape.
How do you know him? You know him when something else comes to be known,
you know that you're not that. That's knowing your Self.
You can't know your Self directly, like, 'I can see my ...'
No. That's not knowing your Self. You come to know that you're knowing
when something comes to be seen.
When you see that, you say, 'I'm here to see that. I can't be that.'
But don't give a shape to what you are.
Only to what you see, you give a shape.
This simple thing, can I trust that
you'll try to remember this thing, and apply it? Everyone.
It doesn't matter if you're here for the first time, or for ten years.
Use this exercise, because I'm always looking
to find and to put across something that is tangible and practical!
If your spirituality is not practical,
you will just jump to something else again. It's like monkey stuff.
But when you see that it works, it works; stay with it.
Don't say, 'Been there, done that, tried that, next thing.' No. No next!
Just be with this, over and over. You'll begin to feel the fruits of it.
Don't try and make your mind be convinced. It doesn't work!
It's like asking your mind to be quiet, 'Mind be quiet'.
He loves that. He loves it. 'Try to be quiet.'
[humming] He's going to laugh at you.
No, you be quiet.
To be quiet means to put your attention just on the sense of being.
Not as a thing apart from you. You're here already.
At first, your mind may say, 'You don't know. What's he telling you?
You can't do it. What are you going to focus on?' All this kind of stuff.
Because that's been the reflex, that's been the habit
to go out and to contact something.
So, this you do!
Thank you.
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