What Is Our True Self? - Let's Find Out
(with subtitles)
[Mooji speaks] We all say 'I',
but what do we understand, or feel, or take 'I' to be?
What is this life?
And who are we in this life?
Where did we come from?
Where are we going?
Is there a going place,
after you finish this story in this body?
Do you move on to something else?
Because the body will fall.
Then, is that it? Is that all there is to us?
So these are ancient questions. People have been asking like that,
but few know inside the heart.
What Is Our True Self?
When this body first appeared as a child,
freshly entering into this field of life,
it had no name.
It did not come with a name stamped on the forehead.
And after a while, the child was given the name 'George'.
'Hello Georgie, how are you? Oh, you're so beautiful.'
It's hearing those sounds, but is more that it's feeling those vibrations.
It can respond to the vibrations of love.
'Georgie darling, how are you?'
This love vibration.
But the name 'George', it doesn't know.
But after this association for a while,
somehow, the consciousness is ripe enough
to absorb the impression, through memory,
of the name 'George'.
Then once that name was impressed in the consciousness,
it's as though the name was never forgotten again.
Who are we?
The child of our parents?
The main assumption.
We just assume, 'I am my body and my beliefs.
And the conditioning that arose in my body
amounts to what I am.'
But this has not proven to be enough
because with this belief we still struggle to be happy.
We still struggle to understand who we are,
what our purpose is,
or whether we do have a purpose, or something like this.
Because as long as you are personal,
you cannot read life truthfully.
And your mind will present so many things,
'Yes, this thing to do, that thing to do'.
And it just keeps you on a treadmill of thinking,
'Yes, the next thing and the next thing ...'
And you pay very little attention to yourself.
We're feeling that we're restless.
You imagine something's going to make you happy,
but after a short while, it doesn't make you happy.
You go for something else to make you happy,
and everything is only for a time, everything is only in time.
What is constant?
Is there anything constant in life?
Really.
... and who would know?
Is there a thing, something that you can know,
that gives you understanding about all things?
Wise it would be, to find what this thing is.
Understand what 'I' means.
Only those regarded as the sages in the human kingdom,
the Buddhas and the Christs, and so on,
understood the power of 'I',
the truth of 'I'.
And they've found it, in its true meaning,
to be so important that they forgot everything else.
They forgot everything else, including themself.
They forgot everything else,
to find what this 'I' is, and where this 'I' comes from.
And because they forgot everything else, including themself,
the whole world cannot stop remembering them.
Who is the 'I' that 'am'? What is it?
If 'am' means 'to be', what does 'I' mean?
What is it?
Only one who is looking inside,
to discover
That without which the world cannot be perceived or seen ...
That without which
the world, time, nothing, even God could not be known.
What is this 'I' that 'am'? And here?
Don't give this just to your mind.
What is this 'I'?
The 'I am - here'.
Just in that intuition, the sense 'I am',
don't allow it to connect with any thought,
or to run into any thinking or any imagery.
See if the sense 'I am' ...
One just remains conscious of the sense 'I am'.
Not just the words, 'I am', but the sense, 'I am',
without connecting it to something to make a statement.
Just stay as 'I am'.
Don't get into imagination.
It is not imagination.
Feel, stay with it,
and it will begin to reveal its own mystery.
You will get a taste of its juice, of what it is.
Don't read any books about it.
Don't go to anybody else about it.
Sit with This, 'I know I am here'.
First, be with your Self.
This is greater than being with anybody!
First know how to be with yourself.
Not how to be. You already are.
Give a little attention to that purity.
It is the first knowing.
It is the first knowing!
Before anything else can be known or perceived,
it is here.
So, stay with this and don't let imagination come.
Because imagination wants to come,
'Oh, I love this! There are lots of things to imagine!'
No, no. Don't have any of it.
In the beginning, you may find,
'I can't concentrate! I can't concentrate!
It's like 101 things are coming up in my mind.'
As though to stop you from knowing 'I am'! [laughs]
Suddenly, pizza comes to mind.
'Oh, pizza. Oh, I like Margherita!'
No! Stuff Margherita.
Today, I am.
Just be with That.
You may experience ... And if you feel some turbulence,
some sort of moving energy,
be aware of it, but don't go into that.
It is being perceived in the presence of the 'I am'.
It is not the 'I am'.
But without the 'I am', it couldn't be perceived.
But don't combine.
It is going back the way you came.
You came through the opening, 'I am',
and then forgot it.
Or you dreamed you forgot it.
Because even to forget it, requires 'It' to be there
because 'It' is consciousness.
It is there before everything!
Before any thought, any intention, anything,
it is already here.
You did not earn it. It is you.
So just be with That,
because the mind will tell you,
'Listen, you need to try and focus, to try and catch it.
Really, really try and catch the 'I am'.
You're coming close, but you're not there yet.'
If you have this kind of thought, you must throw them away.
The natural feeling of 'I' in you belongs to 'I am', not the person.
This we know.
And stay with it.
In the beginning, you may find it's easy to be distracted.
Other thoughts are coming in, other things are coming in.
Your mind becomes like a news page, so many things are coming.
But know and recognise, that's some kind of scam going on.
Stay with it. And gradually, by persisting,
it's like the skies open.
Something opens and you just find that you are here.
Stay with it,
be in that natural vibration.
It's not a 'doing', it is an 'Is-ness'.
And just stay with this.
Thank you.
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