Walk with Moojibaba
What Is the Best Way to Start the Day?
10 November 2020 (with subtitles)
The first thing is to be aware that
you're already there before the start of a day.
The very idea, 'OK, now it's Wednesday, I need to go and do something',
you are already here before even that first thought emerges.
If there's a first thought, it must emerge in front of some consciousness
that's aware that, that is my first thought.
To be conscious of that is already very, very powerful.
I gave an exercise recently. It is good to develop the habit ...
Let's not even call it a habit,
because when you first start something it's not a habit.
Try this exercise of just sitting quietly for a while.
Get up a bit earlier than usual, if you feel that you need to,
and just sit, as though you're sitting inside yourself,
sitting inside your being.
And just keep your awareness around this body, for a moment.
Just be present with your body.
So there's an awareness of the body, of course.
It's not that the body is aware of something.
Something is aware of the body, and just be with that.
If you want to close your eyes or open your eyes, it's fine, but be aware.
Now you register the body's here, sitting in a chair, or whatever.
But what else is present?
And there's an obviousness that something,
which I'm calling your being, is present.
Sometimes the mind is also coming up.
If the mind is coming up, be aware of that.
If it comes up, almost as if it's fishing for personhood,
if you can make a personal contact,
then it will start this mechanism of, 'Yes, I should do this',
and, 'What I need to do', and so on.
Just be aware of that,
but don't try to get rid of, pacify, or change anything.
Just be aware, that's the mind-stuff. That's more important!
That's just kind of bubbling here.
But greater than that is the space that is allowing the mind to come up.
And the mind is going to come up in the form of some noise,
some person, memory or projection.
Just see it like a butterfly
passing through the greater space of just Is-ness, of just being.
And that's just here!
Beingness is not at work.
It's not doing-ness. It's a beingness.
Sometimes the mind reacts against it,
like the beingness is kind of stuck,
'It's nothing, it's nothing going on'.
These are from the mind, don't get engaged with that.
Just be aware of the being, the sense of being.
It's not personal!
Even a sense of being here, keep the attention just on that.
Not in a tense way. It's just that you are aware of the beingness.
You may be aware of your mind, your body,
but these, the body and mind stuff,
are appearing in the greater Self, in the beingness,
the sense of just 'I am-ness', impersonal.
And rest consciously in this 'I am-ness'.
Now, in the beginning, of course, we may struggle a bit with that,
because the habit of the mind is to kick up, to rebel,
or to project or something.
But the more you try this, the better it gets.
And you'll feel just very ...
It's almost as though you're hugged inside your own self, by your Self.
Something is immense about it! It's not tight.
It's like you're hugged, and yet you're without shape.
It's as though you're embraced, but without shape.
Embrace means a beautiful warmth and intuneness,
and oneness in this expansiveness that seems to just be immeasurable.
And the more you focus your attention on this, then you'll see that
you stay in that awareness, even throughout your activities.
You don't have to postpone activities.
Give yourself ten minutes of that in the morning.
Whenever you feel like, actually, you can do that. Develop that!
Of all habits, this is going to be the most fruitful,
the greatest, the most delivering habit, in fact.
And this habit becomes integrated in your being.
Beautiful. Follow that!
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