Monte Sahaja - 15 July 2014 The Way Out of Suffering
[Mooji:] Sometimes we are just miserable because we are miserable.
It's not, "Oh, it's because this person, they did this thing" and so on.
It is like Jesus shared one time,
He said, 'These people, they hate me without reason.'
They will produce something and say,
'he speaks against our country and all".
But it is not that. It is something inside.
The egoic nature is easily disturbed.
If you rock the boat a little bit he is disturbed.
Then he wants to, 'Ahrrr,' attack you. 'Leave my life alone.'
And yet, you need so much that your boat is tipped and toppled over.
So, if one knows that you are not going to be
good enough that everybody loves you.
As I said before, there has never been a being,
in the history of any universe,
who has been loved by everybody, and that includes God.
Not even God is loved by everyone.
So, something inside, just in the force of life plays as opposite.
And it doesn't really need a reason, it just comes out,
because this is the realm of interrelated opposites.
So if there is joy there will be some sorrow.
You cannot just sieve it out and just take out all the bad bits,
because very often the bad bits lead to the so-called good bits.
The bits are very much subjective.
There is not anything inherently bad or anything inherently good,
in the phenomenal sense.
It is our perception that makes them good or bad,
and that is also shaped by conditioning and so many other factors.
Some of them are untraceable, actually.
If we can accept that our world does not have to make sense...
Sometimes, there are some things that will make sense.
Other times, they don't make any sense.
If we are okay with this, and we don't require or demand
that the world is a certain way so that we can be a certain way...
Because that leaves a very strong sense of suppression and frustration
which quickly turns into judgement,
which then flows into aggressiveness.
We don't have to look very far to see the outcome
of when we are not sitting right inside our Self.
What is this not sitting right?
It means that too much attention is given to our personal sense of self,
the inhibited self, the fictional self,
and believing that it's thoughts are true it's feelings are true.
And when you are in this state, it is very difficult to deny
that your feelings are true. They feel very real.
They feel like blood flowing through your veins
and they are in the lungs.
It feels so intimate; even one, you may say.
But upon deeper reflection and when bringing your attention back
to the starting place of attention,
and then behind the starting place of attention;
by this I mean where even the movement of attention is also perceived.
When that is really clear and acknowledged to itself,
then you are in a boundless, an unbound space of Being.
And this anybody can do, you see.
The beautiful thing that is pointed to through non-dual pointing,
is that this is the tree that bears immediate fruits.
Because what I am pointing to is not a creative outcome.
It is not that you must create something and then you get there.
Some people are better at creativity,
they are more artistic than others; not like this, not creative.
It is simply a recognition that takes place
to what is ever present in everyone.
So, it is there.
Then the question may be asked,
'If it is there, why is it so rarely perceived'?
I can only answer that by saying that
it is not perceived,
partly because the consciousness that we are
might be presently invested in it's self-portrait as a person.
When it is invested in it's self-portrait as a person,
it's dedicated to that image.
The person is a vulnerable state, an insecure state.
And so, the consciousness is converted
away from its universality and is condensed
into this very intense psychological entity.
And so, this is the beginning of suffering.
And the way out of suffering, I cannot say what triggers that.
I will have to use the word Grace here.
Grace is very much at the heart and center of our life.
But we don't recognize her, you see.
I heard someone say it is like
'Missing the elephant in the room'. It is here but you cannot see it.
All your life, your breath, your ability to think and feel,
is all the flow of Grace, the vital force,
the Love and Presence of God, or Truth.
These are all the same.
I do not have a distinction between God and the Self
and the Truth, whatever.
Largely, these are terms that are over-exaggerated
or seen with the fragmenting mind,
so they seem like they are distinct things.
But there are no 'things', actually.
At the highest state of Consciousness, there are no 'things'.
There is just what Is
and It is there before things. It is not a thing.
How would we know that? How would we know this?
You do not need to go any step away from right where you are.
You have to learn to look inwardly.
The person looks outwardly because it perceives itself to be a form.
But the Self... Somehow as you are coming into
a deeper understanding, your attention is more in-turned,
and you can observe your emotions, feelings, and so on
until you find that even your in-turned attention
is external to a deeper seeing, you can say.
When you come to this deeper seeing
then all I am trying to convey right now
will be automatically and spontaneously revealed in your Self.
It may take some time,
but it comes without blood, sweat, and tears.
It is revealed just like the flower emits a certain fragrance;
then out of the Self emits the fragrance of Peace and Wisdom and Love.
At the higher state of consciousness there is no "things"
there is just "what is" and it is there before things.