Walk with Moojibaba
Life Beyond Mind
15 April 2020 (with subtitles]
[Mooji] Where have you come to in your search for Truth?
Where have you come to in your inquiry,
in your sadhana?
What have you actually discovered?
It's not how much you can talk about it.
It is just, really, what have you learnt?
It is just that.
[Friend] It's a very good point.
We were talking about some people who read a lot of spiritual books,
they have a lot of knowledge,
but that cannot be compared to the experience of the Self.
[Mooji] It is a very ...
It is a very seductive thing
that the mind takes on the mode of learning,
learning and learning, and learning,
but it is really to help the person,
rather than to transcend the person.
As yet, most people don't realise that
the personal sense of self is the lower self,
that can be, and ought to be, transcended,
in order to come to the fullness of what we truly are.
I don't feel that, that knowledge, that fundamental knowledge,
has really sprouted in the world, as yet.
We all have a strong conviction of the sense of personhood,
that we are just our person, we are our egos.
In fact, we can say like that, that we are our ego, and ...
Of course, we don't use the word 'ego' in reference to ourself,
but what ego means is not merely
that you are boastful, 'Look at me'.
Ego can also appear to be very humble and very nice.
What 'ego' means, when I use the word 'ego',
is that you take yourself to be your body
and your conditioning,
the conditioning that arose with this body.
That you are a particular type of person,
with the body that you are a man or a woman,
and that becomes your fundamental belief, that this is what you are.
'I am this person.'
And when we indicate the person, we are really referring to
a very fluctuating, unstable state of being.
As long as we have that conviction,
that we are merely our body and our mind,
or the conditioning that arises in the mind,
we will only evolve within that paradigm, within that shape.
But I want you to know that
there are beings in the world who have transcended,
who have gone beyond the limitations of personhood.
I would like you to know that,
that is actually the real opportunity and possibility
of having a human body.
Here the consciousness is sufficiently capable
of transcending the stage, or the state, of personhood,
and returning to live inside its source,
which is Pure Awareness!
And if that possibility has not been introduced to you,
then it is being introduced to you now.
The true state which we call awakening to our true nature,
or you may hear other terms like 'Self-realisation',
or 'liberation', it actually means that.
Because as long as we are living
in the limited state of personhood,
we will live in the realm of judgements,
fears, desires, and frustrations,
hatred and division.
It is a very unstable, very turbulent state of mind and being.
Our True nature is pure awareness beyond the mind.
Now you may feel, 'How can we speak about, "Beyond the mind",
because the mind is all we know?'
Well, if the mind is all we know, even in saying that,
the 'we' who knows the mind cannot be the mind.
If something is known ...
If I know something, 'I know this thing', that thing is not me.
'I', the knower, is who?
So that knower is, in fact, consciousness.
And we can explore and begin to discover
the richness, the depth, the fullness
of what it means to be fully conscious,
beyond the limitations of the body-mind.
The body-mind is included in it,
but it is far beyond the scope of the body-mind self-reference.
We are, in fact, and have always been ...
The only fact that there is that is unchanging in us, is that,
we are pure consciousness, or pure awareness.
Meaning that, all the interrelated opposites
that we perceive through the mind, and through our feelings, and so on,
they are observed as appearing within us; they come and go.
We are not anything that comes and goes.
And in fact, whatever you can say that you have learnt,
or perceived, seen or experienced,
has always been something which comes and goes.
Everything is coming and going.
Even memory, which you require to retain them,
memory is also coming and going.
What witnesses the coming and going,
the strength or the weakness, of even memory?
Reflect.
If you are drawn to such introspection, then you will find that,
a wonderful force begins to open up within you, to take you deeper.
Thank you.
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