Satsang with Mooji
Zen Art House Torre Vecchia, Lecce, Salento, Italia
[music]
The Lazy Man's Way to Enlightenment
[Mooji] What tastes nice, what doesn't taste nice,
all is allowed, everything is OK, but I am beyond it.
I'm in my original home.
When it's like that for you,
then things like rebirth and destiny, and karma, and liberation,
they mean nothing at all for you!
They mean nothing at all for you.
Still you'll say,
'Next week, I think I want to go to Napoli to see some friends'.
But it means nothing. It may happen. Maybe it doesn't happen.
But it doesn't mean anything for you. Nothing has a hold.
Yes, you're in this body. Yes, I'm in this body and in this body also.
In all the bodies, I am there.
I am the one who is speaking and I am the one who is listening.
I am the one who says, 'Hey, Mooji, I don't agree with you'.
I am also this one, somehow.
But this you cannot speak to everybody.
You won't say that. You'll keep it quietly in your heart.
People will say, 'Are you a vegetarian?'
You say, 'Yes I am vegetarian'.
What is vegetarian? You don't know. [laughter]
You see, like this.
Sometimes you see this. Maybe you say, 'It happens in a flash.
"Ah", for a moment, yes, I saw it's like that.'
Yes, and I say, What sees the flash?
You're there before even the flash.
The flash was just a mirror, throwing you back on your infinite Self.
Don't pay attention to the flash.
So, everybody is It. Everything is It.
But whether you will realize it in this body ...
You have had a good start because you are here,
where only this message is being spoken.
In this place, you are not being told, 'Oh, we are going to do puja today.
We are going to light so many candles.'
In this place, I am not telling you,
Now you go and you chant every morning at 04:30 for three hours,
and meditate for seven hours, and eat one peanut. [laughter]
We are not selling anything for you here now.
Everything has been left aside for you.
Only the primal message is announced,
no distraction, just this simple, simple thing.
I feel it is not a bad place to be now.
Maybe sometimes we call it, 'The lazy man's way to enlightenment'.
We're not doing anything. Just somehow it's all happening by itself.
[Mooji] Now I say, whatever experience happens is fine.
Maybe it's happening out of your own satsang,
but don't put any emphasis on that.
Whatever experience happens, don't talk about it.
'Oh, yes, this thing happened,
and then yesterday, ah, my chest opened and this flower came ...'
Because that also is passing.
That which is witnessing it, it has no story. Stay there.
[Mooji] And then they say, 'responsibility'.
We talked about this thing. I've heard it before.
Usually now, responsibility has a kind of heaviness about it.
But I heard it said that when you recognize who it is
that is supposed to be responsible, and see that even that is a thought,
then responsibilty becomes 'response-ability',
the ability to respond completely freshly, without the mind.
That kind of responsibility is OK.
It means that nature is responding by itself,
it's not something heavy, psychological, 'Ah, I must do this'.
When this understanding takes place now,
even after this official retreat is over,
something continues living life almost like you are on retreat, somehow.
Wherever you are, you are on retreat,
this really means to be inside your heart.
Keep your mind inside your heart.
Recorded on June, 24 am, 2007
[Mooji] So, that's it.
Is there something more we can say?
Sound: Antonia Filming: Nageena
Music: Suryaneel Editing: Nataraj