[Mooji] What do you want it to do?
Why are you employing the inquiry? That's the first thing. Why?
[Questioner] To get through the blockade.
[M.] To go through the blockade? [Q.] Yes.
[Mooji] OK. And the blockade is comprised of what?
[Q.] I think my mind, my ego. [Mooji] Yes.
You can be free today!
[Mooji] The first thing is, all of this is so incredibly simple.
We learnt that whatever happens in our mind,
that somehow it blocks you from going somewhere.
I'm saying that awareness, the goal of all inquiry,
cannot be on the other side of working through any process.
Because awareness is that within which even the attempt,
to work through to get to something, arises and is perceived.
[Friend] Could you repeat that?
[Mooji] I want to repeat it. Usually, I'm not good at repeating things.
I'm not good at repeating things, but this I'll repeat for you.
We have the feeling that to get to Truth,
you must work through something, some method, some process,
untangle some knots, climb some mountains, sit in some cave.
And then, Truth is the prize at the end of your striving.
But awareness, which is synonymous with Truth, is that already,
within which the very striving,
the attempt, and the practice arise and are perceived.
This is an atomic discovery! [laughter]
And this is what's called 'the power of maya'.
You think you have to go somewhere to find Truth
because you think Truth is other than you.
It's somewhere else, it's a location.
You can give it any image.
Maybe you call it the 'Buddha land' or 'Heaven',
or the 'Buddha mind', or 'Christ Consciousness'.
But in a subtle way, mind phenomenalises something,
like it does with enlightenment and awakening.
It's a space that I'll reach where I'll be able to turn water into wine.
And whatever it is that you feel because of the stories we hear.
These stories, I take them to be true also,
that these things happen in it.
But they're not a condition that needs to happen to get to somewhere.
And this somewhere is right here. You are That.
But you have not been educated to even recognise that
you could be perfect from the beginning.
You think you'll be perfect at the end.
[Q.] Yes.
[Mooji] Therefore, a journey comes into play.
The birth of all religions comes out of this.
[Q.] So do we need the journey?
[Mooji] For a while, it seems that it's unavoidable.
That we must taste the tax for having a life.
To go through this, and to taste all the interrelated opposites.
Not all, but many. And then to come out.
It seems as though all of the sentient beings
were poured into the forest of existence.
We are to make our way through it,
and come out the other end into open terrain.
And every now and again, a Buddha comes out and walks on.
And a Jesus comes out and walks on.
Occasionally, one of us pops out, looks, and runs back in again.
[laughter]
Some are building tree houses.
[Q.] Yes. [Mooji] Yes, like this.
[Mooji] It's very much a part of our human mythology,
that we must go through this long journey,
and eventually, if you're good enough, if you are strong enough,
if you try hard enough, if you focus enough,
if you're detached enough,
if you're lucky enough.
Then after, meaning after this, then you may get in.
[Q.] Or may not. [M.] Or may not. And we purchase it.
[Mooji] I'm pointing you to something, what you are, before you became.
And what you timelessly are even in your play of becoming.
And what you timelessly are even after the endings of your becomings.
That you are the witness of this, and you are That now.
I'm prepared that there'll be fierce resistance to this idea.
After all, it's too simple. Maybe it's just another modern trick.
Because we're all very lazy, which we are.
In the old days, you would spend at least 12 years with a master.
[Q.] Yes, I spent 18.
[Mooji] Yes. Now we don't want to spend 12 minutes.
We want it over-the-counter.
[Q.] Does one need to give up the journey then?
[M.] To give up the journey?
If there is within you, the routine of something which you enjoy,
and see that it's consciousness,
if you see that consciousness is what's playing all of this,
then the poison is removed from the serpent.
If you see that it's not the individual who has to do something,
but even the sense of individuality
is actually the consciousness in expression as individuality.
Something beautiful happens to you.
It's not personal, it's like the play of existence.
If you follow what I'm pointing, you will be free today!
What I'm pointing at, then you'll recognise your eternal freedom today.
You are That!