Satsang with Mooji
Stockholm 29.08.10 (with subtitles)
'You Cannot Move On From Truth'
[Mooji] It's not like this.
Because this cannot exist without the perceiver of it.
And where is this perceiver?
Is the perceiver also tangible? Like, what else is tangible?
Is there a perceiver as an entity?
And something began to scan
to see if it could find anything,
anything that could be touched, and say, 'Ahh, this is me'.
And found there's nothing that could be touched,
not on this side of the eyes, [outside]
and not on this side of the eyes. [inside]
Neither outside in the world of names and forms,
nor inside in the world of emotion, and feelings, and thoughts.
Because the inside is still outside of This.
Outside the eyes is outside,
and inside the eyes is still outside of This.
What is left now?
Don't use thought.
It is obvious. But it's not an object.
What kind of talk is this?
It is recognised. But it's not a phenomenon.
I say, a non-phenomenal recognition.
What is recognised?
What cannot be an object is recognised.
And sometimes, there is a fear to come this far,
because it's almost like saying, 'But I don't exist'.
[Questioner] There is this fear and feeling of separateness.
[Mooji] From what?
[Q.] It's just a feeling of separateness. I can't tell from what.
And it's always been like I projected in the world.
[Mooji] But even the feeling of separateness,
is itself perceived.
Separate means two, at least.
Something is separate from something.
What are the components?
What is separate from what? You say, 'I don't know'.
So it's nothing. It's just a sensation.
Sometimes, a little sensation comes inside. 'Something is missing.'
I was talking with one chap in London about this.
He said, 'Something is missing, Mooji'.
I said, What is missing? He said, 'I don't know'.
Then how do you know it's missing? [laughter]
'Yes, I don't know.' [laughter]
So, a little thing inside says, 'Something is missing'.
and you purchase this thought, 'Something is missing',
and you start to tap your feet, 'Something is missing'.
But it's not a truth. It's just a belief.
And you believe something is missing. And this is gonna wind you up.
Because anything anybody says, it's still, 'Something is missing'.
And you know what? You'll never find it.
It's one of the things we say, the ace is up the sleeve of the mind.
Meaning that, this one thing,
it will keep you running on the treadmill.
They say the gerbil is running on this mill,
but he's not going anywhere.
You can be running in your mind and not going anywhere at all,
as you hold on to this thought that something is missing.
Even if God comes and says, 'Look here'. You go, 'No it is not that'.
OK, he sends Gabriel. Gabriel comes and says, 'Look'.
'No, no, it's not this.' 'Then what is it?'
'I don't know, but something is missing.'
So, forget about this thought!
Because it has nothing to offer you,
except the feeling, 'Something is missing',
and that's going to agitate you.
It's never going to let you accept your unicity,
because this thought comes. And it's just thought!
Like anything else, it's just a thought.
What is not a thought?
When even the thinker is a thought.
Is there anything beyond this?
You experience it. It is here.
You don't have to go the left or the right, up or down, in or out.
And even here, the mind wants to put a comment.
Yes, it wants to put a final word.
Because if he can get the final word, he has got you,
if you buy this final word,
like, 'You are stuck, aren't you?'
You say, 'I am stuck'.
[laughter]
And then nobody can answer you.
Then you recognise that even stuckness is another sensation,
and you throw it out. It doesn't mean anything.
Don't embrace any concept,
including 'I'.
What happens if you don't touch even 'I'?
What does the mind have to say about this?
And who cares?
Don't make any conclusion.
Come to that place of reckoning. Look.
Everything will vanish from you.
Please understand this point.
I want to get in before the mind does on this point.
I am not rejecting the world. It can be.
it is not a problem.
But you not knowing who you are became a problem
The world is not the problem.
Duality is not a problem. It's not a mistake.
It's the divine intention,
the instrument through which experiencing could happen.
There cannot be any experience without duality.
Duality was the instrument through which the Supreme
could have a taste of its own recognition.
So don't stop with this feeling, 'Oh, something is stuck'. No
Don't be in the picture.
Just like you can look at something perfectly,
like these flowers, perfectly,
without absorbing it, or being absorbed in it,
leaving it right where it is.
You read a book and you leave the words on the page.
Don't be buying, purchasing, collecting.
And so you are free.
You're not creating noise.
And somehow like this you have sanctified yourself.
You can go now anywhere. Anywhere! Anywhere.
And you will not be overcome by the mind.
What is happening now?
[Q.] I feel immense love for you.
[Mooji] Yes.
[silence]
[M.] That love is the love that the Self has for itself,
in all its expressions.
Allowing itself to show itself,
because nothing stands in the way.
[Q.] And attain freedom
[Mooji] Yes.
[Mooji] And that Which Is, is also beyond freedom even.
Even beyond freedom,
because freedom is linked with bondage.
And that Which Is knows neither bondage nor freedom.
In the purest sense, it simply Is.
It tasted the sense of bondage, restriction and so on,
because of identification with the body,
and the mind, and conditioning, for a while,
and now it's waking up.
Awakening is a beautiful term, actually.
It's waking up from that sleep of ignorance
and so in the waking up, it feels it's freeing.
It is free. 'I'm being set free.'
So that is being enjoyed now.
There is now space again
and that claustrophobia is removed.
And there is immense space, and joy, and love.
And beyond all of these,
that which has no name, no labels, unborn.
[Mooji] What can we say now?
[Mooji] I am very happy.
[Mooji] Wonderful.
[Mooji] Very great. [Q.] Thank you.
[Mooji] That is good.
[silence]
[Mooji picks up a letter] [laughter]
[silence]
Because of the depth of that introspection actually,
and that looking together,
there is a feeling of not rushing on to something.
Because actually, you cannot move on from Truth.
Video Extract from Satsang 'Safety or Freedom?'
Stockholm 29.08.10
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