[video with English subtitles]
Evening Talks with Mooji
Monte Sahaja 19 December 2011
Living by Trust
[Mooji] He was speaking from the unity with God,
which he didn't believe, he knew!
Just like if you go to your father and you say,
'Father, I don't have any money. Please, could you send me some?'
You phone your father,
'Could you send some money for me? I need it urgently.'
He says, 'OK, give me your account number. I will send it.'
Then, immediately your heart is at peace, because you have that trust.
It is not, 'I believe he will send it'. No, you know!
Already you start to say to people,
'Now we can go and get the things, because my father is sending it.'
You have that trust. That is trust.
There are some people who cannot trust.
They just won't trust. Something inside says, 'No, I can't trust.
Until I see it in my hands, I won't.'
They are said also to be wise, because somewhere it says,
'A promise is a comfort only to a fool'.
They are saying it like this, 'Don't live on promises'.
So, it can seem contradictory. In one case, just say the word.
But that must be someone who you know in your heart,
you trust so fully in your heart.
But, if you are only accepting promises from people who flatter you,
then you will soon find out that that was a mistake.
Don't live in promises.
So all these things point to a kind of a flexibility, an intuition,
a sensitivity, a maturity, an inner maturity that is immeasurable.
It just springs out of This.
One thing I would want to emphasise more and more
is not only the wisdom factor of spirituality,
but the trust, the love, and the faith factor also are important.
Because otherwise, you can learn things and you know it in your mind,
you feel really clear, really sure, but you don't have any power.
Do you understand?
You don't have any power, because you have no trust.
You can know these things that I am speaking now.
If you know these things in the mind, you can speak eloquently about it.
But when it comes down to the ground, we don't have that trust.
You don't step forward.
When the day comes to fight, you will not fight.
You'd say, 'No, I can't fight. I'm not this type of person.'
There is a time when you have to stand up and fight,
because that is the time.
And you do this because you trust,
and you know that life calls you to this.
Can you drop yourself?
This is why I keep asking, Can we drop our self?
Because if you are constantly holding yourself,
there are lots of places you will not go.
There are lots of boundaries you will not cross.
Therefore, your knowledge will be strong only intellectually.
But it won't have the potency, it won't have the authority,
because inside it hasn't touched trust; it hasn't touched faith.
And this, I would say, is one of the obstacles,
the possible obstacles to a path like Advaita Vedanta, or inquiry.
It can seem entirely mental, you can have the understanding of this.
But then life draws you into situations to activate and to bring
what you know with your mind into your body and your heart to express it.
This is why this manifest life, terrestrial expression of life,
is also very important, because it is the testing ground
for what you claim to know internally.
Life will bring you into situations
to see if what you say here is how you can act here.
So that your behavior and your thought, they are one.
Your so called knowledge and faith, and trust are together.
Whereas, foolish people think,
'Knowledge is enough, faith is not necessary.
Faith has to do with some lesser thing.'
They don't know the power of faith, the beauty of faith,
the greatness of faith, actually.
Because human beings are instinct with faith.
Faith makes us do many things.
Trust makes us do many things.
We are living by trust.
When you go into a restaurant you have to trust that
the chef has not been blowing his nose in his hand
and cooking the food with the same hand,
or going to the toilet and not washing his hand,
or poisoning your food.
When you get on a bus, you have a trust that
the driver hasn't had a quarrel with his wife, or with her husband,
and decided, 'Today, I am going to crash this thing'.
When you fly on an airplane, you have a trust that your pilot is not drunk.
We have a trust, because life is trust.
But, somehow we can have a sense of mistrust,
carrying the weight of mistrust inside the heart.
Now I say, not necessarily that one has to trust or mistrust people.
There can be a kind of neutrality, but this neutrality is not dead.
It also has a heart quality if you follow what I mean.
It is not an excuse to avoid decision making.
It is a very, very high posture, but it is a heart quality.
It is not just a mind quality.
And if we are living only in mind quality,
life will show you something is inadequate.
Because if you do not have a personal guru, life is your guru.
It will keep on bringing you to the places
to dip your face in the water of your own claims.
To see if you can stand ...
If your heart and your life will stand up to what you claim is true.
So this is a magnificent life,
magnificent opportunity to play this game.
All of us came into this world to play this game somehow.
I can put it like that.
You can be in this game for a very long time.
You can come out of this game, or at least go beyond,
not be a victim of the game.
Daily life is the testing ground
for the wisdom you claim you have gained.
If the tree is good, the fruit will also be good.
Similarly, when words and deeds come from the heart
their perfume will always be pure. -Mooji