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Remain As You Are
A guided meditation with Mooji
[Mooji] Om.
In this moment, I want you to just be aware.
First, we can begin with just your bodily sensation,
the awareness of the presence of this body.
And the naturalness and simplicity of this awareness.
It is just here, neither doing nor undoing.
The body can only be perceived because first of all, awareness is here.
And this awareness itself is what we are, actually.
What we appear to be is the functioning of the body and mind,
and the sense of personality.
This is also watched in the awareness.
Whatever appears in the mind or body,
or appears apparently external also to the body,
all this is being perceived effortlessly,
in the awareness that is unmoving.
You are naturally aware of this.
But in this moment, it should be very clear for you.
[silence]
There isn't a functioning for awareness,
but functioning of body and mind
and all movements are taking place
and are perceived in the awareness itself.
You are here.
You are not behind awareness, or in front.
You are the awareness itself.
As pure awareness, you have no self-image.
An image is only another phenomenon,
appearing in awareness, and watched by your own Self as awareness.
Create no relationship to anything that appears or arises in you.
Remain Self-aware.
[long silence]
The sense of coming and going is also a movement appearing in you.
Because your body, mind, thought, feelings, all these,
they arise as movements in that unmoving awareness.
Whatever appears, let it appear by itself.
There is no need to follow or to analyse or interpret now.
Let them come and go.
Like this, nothing will trouble you.
You are not that which comes and goes.
No appearances can be you.
They come and go, appear and disappear.
You are the witness of both the appearance and disappearance.
But now, you are not concerned about these things.
There is a presence, a silence, a stillness, which is here by itself.
There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness.
It is simply here, in you, with you.
It is the fragrance of your own Self.
There is nothing to do about this.
It is naturally present. It is the fragrance of peace, spaciousness.
It is the fragrance of your own Being.
You have no form of your own. You are the formless void.
And beyond void, because if there is a void,
your Self perceives it.
Your own Self, the pure awareness, is not perceived by another.
It is self-aware.
You are the witness of all.
All names and forms appear in front of you,
they report to your presence.
You are the witness of time. Time does not witness you.
Your senses, mind, emotion, all these arise in you naturally.
You are naturally aware of them, but none of them stay.
All comes and goes.
Even the attention is watched by you.
When I say it is watched by you, it is not in some personal way.
The person itself is only an idea.
Watching of the idea of 'person' also appears in you.
You are the Unborn.
There is no date of birth for you.
There's no date of end for you.
You are like unbound space.
There is neither death nor life for you.
You are immaculate awareness.
There is neither high nor low for you, neither inside nor outside.
All these appear through the mind.
The mind itself is only ideas appearing in your own Self.
Let all things arise. Let them appear.
Remain in your natural detachment.
This is effortless for you. Remain without identity.
Identity adds nothing to you of value, but limits your openness.
You are the pure Being.
There is a silence now.
This silence is also present with you, indivisible.
It's a subtle current of pure joy.
But there's no one behind it, no one to keep it or to lose it.
Be aware of this. Knowing this, you will not be troubled.
Remain in your own natural spaciousness.
When I say remain, it means simply
remain in your natural Self-awareness.
There is no one to do this. You are already this.
Do not create any relationship with any object, any appearance.
Also, do not create any relationship with the idea even of subject.
Let object and subject appear.
Keep no labels for yourself. Remain as you are.
You are the Unborn,
the undying,
the timeless.
You were never born.
What is born is this form and the name that came into being,
and this coming into being appears in your own timeless, infinite Self.
You are pure awareness, beyond names and forms,
beyond what comes and goes.
All these appearances, are watched effortlessly in your Self.
If you remain without identifying with what appears,
then your own timelessness will become self-evident for you.
You are the witness of all appearances, all phenomena.
You are the eyes that see all.
But these all-seeing eyes, they cannot be seen,
because they themselves are formless.
Ideas such as 'becoming your Self', or knowing how to be,
leave these ideas, and these ideas will leave you.
They do not serve what you are.
Do not tie yourself to any intention, nor to time.
Don't anticipate to become something in the future.
And your timeless, ever-present Being will reveal itself more clearly.
Remain like this.
Om.
[bell ringing]
'Remain As You Are'
The full 30-minute meditation can be listened to on the w.w.w.mooji.org Audio page