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Online Weekend Retreat with Mooji
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22 - 24 January 2021
(with subtitles)
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Beyond the Clouds of the Mind —
This Is the Highest Way I Can Be With You
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23 January 2021 | Evening Satsang
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[Mooji reads]
'Dearest beloved Moojibaba' ...
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[M.] I know that you ...
Ah! There you go!
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[Mooji] And surely we have been
in close contact over the years.
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Thank you for writing.
I found your letter now.
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[M.] 'Immense gratitude', you write,
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[Mooji] 'Immense gratitude for you
guiding us to our freedom and Truth.
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I would like to take this blessed opportunity
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to ask for your grace and blessings,
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so that there is full recognition of the Self,
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and any seeds of delusion, illusion,
ego, identity, and fears
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are completely burnt and removed.'
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[Mooji] Everybody who has tasted
the nectar of the real,
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spontaneously they want,
'I just want to come all the way home!'
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We want to come all the way home
because we know that
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this is not going to be found
in any object in the world.
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It's not going to be found there.
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You're discovering this inside your Heart.
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And you don't want anything to stop you
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from coming fully into your discovery.
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This is a wise attitude, of course,
and a fruitful one.
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However, we would all love to have a switch that
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we could just switch off the mind with.
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Just [click], 'Thank you very much.
Enough of you!'
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But at the same time, we notice that,
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of course, the mind energy
has been empowered through habit.
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And we are meant
to experience the phase of the mental self,
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the psychological identity, for a while.
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But you must know that
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you're experiencing
on the base of consciousness,
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consciousness is there first,
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it will take the shape of personhood
for a while,
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and we don't know how long.
We don't know.
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Certainly, some say,
before this present lifetime and life form,
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we have been moving, we call it like,
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in soul, over many bodies
in this journey of Self-discovering.
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And what we can say is,
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in this lifetime, in this life form,
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something has stirred into an awakening,
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and we are naturally convinced that
the Self is our reality,
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and that we don't want to waste time
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living in the shallow
and narrow mode of personhood.
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We have received the darshan of God already.
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Somehow, any journey is a journey inward.
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Before, the journeys were outward.
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Now, the seeming journey is heartward.
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And we may find that,
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of course, from time to time
some old habits may flare up.
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Something may happen,
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and without effort we find ourselves
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back into the old regime of personal identity.
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I say, don't be too surprised by that,
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it is the force of habit.
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Your Self has not gone anywhere.
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Your Truth is not moving out of the way
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to give a stage to your mind.
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No. It is just a twist of attention,
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and we are back somehow experiencing
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as though we are in the old identity again.
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And just accept that it is not bad luck.
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It is not a terrible thing.
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This oscillation between person and presence
may happen for a while.
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We may feel in the state of presence,
so blessed, so peaceful.
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'Thank you, thank you, I'm so happy!'
You just want to stay here.
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Then, somehow, something happens,
and the pendulum swings outwards,
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and again we're thinking,
'Oh, what's happened? I don't know.
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This is horrible. I don't like to be in this.'
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And back again, you're feeling,
'Thank you. Hallelujah to the Truth!
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I'm so happy, I'm here again!'
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So this oscillation plays for everybody,
for a while.
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By the momentum and the force of habit,
it comes and goes.
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But what happens, when it comes,
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it's as though
we are hypnotised by the old patterns,
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and we are playing out
the game of personhood.
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And then somehow,
by grace, or by your satsang,
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you find yourself again
just free and empty of the mind energy,
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and again in your natural place of silence.
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And it feels,
'Oh, how divine! How blessed!' And so on.
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And so everyone
who is experiencing these states,
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asks, 'How can we stabilise in this?
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Please help us to cut the mind dynamics
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so that we can always be in this state.'
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And then I ask you,
who is the one who is suffering the mind?
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Who is the one who is suffering the mind?
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And of course, we feel, 'It's me, it's me!'
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And I ask you,
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please, let's just focus a little bit
on this sense of 'me' again.
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Who is this 'me' who is suffering the mind?
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And we find that
sometimes people are a bit stuck.
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They don't know how to answer that,
because until now, for most people,
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we have not gone
beyond the shallow reflection of what we are.
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We just say, 'I am me'.
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But we have never thought beyond this.
What is this 'I'?
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Now, I point you again,
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rather than going to try
and untangle this mentally, and to understand,
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which sometimes we feel like,
we have come to understand,
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but it has not gone deep.
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So, the early exercises that I gave,
which is just to sit ...
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Leave aside these notions about,
'I need to get rid of my mind',
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'I need to suppress',
or 'I need to throw the mind out'.
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Have no intention for a moment,
not even good intentions.
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Leave the 'preparation to be something' aside.
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And as you do that,
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even your present identity,
who you take yourself to be,
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your desire
for what you'd like to happen in the future,
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and all this type of stuff,
every kind of mind-tendency or habit,
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just leave this aside for a moment.
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Just leave everything
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until there's nothing left that you're keeping.
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And this you can do right now.
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It's so practical, and it's so immediate.
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Leave everything aside right now,
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until there is nothing left to leave aside.
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So, what remains here
is a beautiful sense of just being empty.
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Now, this emptiness is not something
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that you see with your physical eyes.
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It's an intuitive knowing. You are just here.
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Now, here, you know that you are, naturally.
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And this 'I am' sense ...
Look!
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It's not attached to any history.
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Please look with me as I'm sitting here now.
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This sense 'I am',
and this is for anyone and everybody,
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this natural untaught awareness of Self
is without history.
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It is not personal.
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So, you're not a container
of memories or concepts.
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Everyone.
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There is only the natural sense of being.
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And awareness is here.
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Not awareness of this, awareness of that.
Just awareness.
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You naturally know, you exist.
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But you are what, that is existing?
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Just look. Look. Don't create.
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And don't imagine.
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Start here.
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So, of course, the mind-habit wants to come in,
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to give some feedback, to give some answers.
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But you know,
and you will know if that happens,
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'No, not you. Not now.
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I don't want any opinions about anything.'
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Just you stay as you are. OK?
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Also, sometimes the mind comes,
and it feels like, 'Yes, but ...
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It's nothing, it's nothing! Come on!
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Why wait for more nothing!
It's just, nothing is going on.'
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But its voice is not so, what you may call,
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the influence is not strong now
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because you have chosen simply to be.
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And this sense of being is not a verb.
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It's not that you're doing being.
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You simply are. Pay attention to this.
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Everyone, just pay attention to this.
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Wherever you may be, in whichever country,
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whichever place you may be,
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your experience and seeing
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is universally one, right now, if you follow.
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I'm not asking you to think about this.
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Simply just, you are here.
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You are here.
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Whatever it is that is here now,
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I want to ask you all some questions,
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and I'm not going to ask you, necessarily,
for a verbal response.
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[M.] But you can nod your head as 'Yes',
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or shake, to say 'No'. That's OK.
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I ask that you do this
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because physically demonstrating
what you see,
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in simple 'Yes' or 'No' responses,
has a power.
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Because it's as though
you are registering your seeing,
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and not just imagining.
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So now we are here.
We are simply here in the space of being.
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Now, may I ask you
a few simple questions again,
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to which you may either nod 'Yes', or 'No'?
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Look. Whatever is here,
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is it an object at all?
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[Mooji] No, it is not an object.
Not an object.
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[Mooji] Is it merely a feeling?
Is it merely a feeling?
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No, not merely a feeling, not merely a feeling.
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Is it a mood? Is it a mood?
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No, it is not a mood, not a mood.
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[Mooji] Is it personal?
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[Mooji] No, not personal, not personal.
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[Mooji] Thank you.
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Whatever it is,
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I call it sometimes just the Is,
or the Is-ness,
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to stay away from the words
which we have used so often before,
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and have developed
other kinds of connotations for.
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Just that which is here now,
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did it arrive, whatever you are aware of?
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Did it come from somewhere?
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I'm watching you. I'm watching. I'm with you.
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So, I'm just registering your responses.
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[Mooji] This is an interactive moment,
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[Mooji] so I can see
and feel your responses also.
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What you are aware of right now,
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what you are aware of right now,
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is there any boundary to it?
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Like, at a certain point,
do you come to the end of it?
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The feedback I'm seeing from you is,
'No, there is no boundary'.
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No boundary to it.
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[silence]
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May I ask you,
whatever it is in this knowingness,
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can it be sick? Can it ever get sick itself?
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My eyes are on you. Just let me know.
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[Mooji] It cannot be sick.
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[Mooji] Have I got everyone's response here?
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[Mooji] Ah. It cannot be sick.
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[Mooji] Can it ever get depressed?
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No, it cannot get depressed. OK.
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Can I ask you, are you imagining this,
or directly perceiving?
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You're imagining it?
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Not imagining. No need to imagine.
No need to imagine.
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I'm going to take a risk and ask a question.
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Does it have any beginning? Simply, simply.
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Is there any feeling that
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it has a starting point, or any beginning?
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I'm with you. I'm with you here.
Look, now.
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No, no beginning.
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Or, let's go to the other end now.
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Can it end, or be destroyed in some way?
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Please look.
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[Mooji] No, it cannot. It cannot be destroyed.
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[Mooji] Can it ever be
against what you are, or any person?
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It cannot be. Very good.
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Does it have any judgement in it at all?
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No, it has not any judgement.
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Can it belong to one specific religion,
and not to another one?
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Can it belong to anyone?
Can anyone have ownership of that?
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I'm watching, just to hear from you.
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No. Very good.
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Wonderful!
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Let me ask you,
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you are so aware presently,
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is it an object?
I ask again, is it an object?
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Can it fade?
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Can it fade?
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Meaning, can it gradually disappear?
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[Mooji] Can it disappear?
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[Mooji] Did it appear?
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[Mooji] Ah, wonderful!
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You see, this is why I asked you
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to just postpone your thinking energy,
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to empty your mind completely
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of the usual habits of the mind,
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to be totally empty,
even of personal identity. I ask this.
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Why to ask you to be
so empty, empty, empty, empty?
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Because when you are empty of all that
you think you've learnt,
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then I can ask you this type of question.
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This kind of question,
which most people cannot even answer,
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it is so, it is so ...
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No university can teach you about it!
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And yet, without spending time to think,
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and to work anything out,
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your responses are arising
as soon as the question is heard.
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Why?
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May I ask you another question?
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How far away from you is it?
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What you are aware of now,
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how far do you have to go to meet it?
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Do you have to make some distance
to connect with it?
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No distance. No distance.
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So, this is what I've been asking you.
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These questions are the questions
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I've been asking beings all over the world.
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Whichever background they have come from,
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whichever belief systems they have had,
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whichever background they've had to their life,
all these things,
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and largely, the response is coming from here.
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Almost 95, 96 percent of the people are aware.
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Some people say, 'I can't work it out'.
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I say, OK, for the moment,
if I leave those aside,
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the vast majority
is seeing and responding in the same way.
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So it doesn't matter which country you are in.
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It doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.
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It doesn't matter if you're black or white.
It doesn't matter.
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The seeing is confirming something
that cannot be touched.
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It is not a form.
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So I'm just going to go over for myself again.
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When you are asked, 'Is it an object?',
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you say, 'It is not an object'.
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I ask again, does it have any shape or size?
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Now, I ask you.
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'It has no shape or size.'
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Is it a mood?
You say, 'No, it's not a mood'.
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What about a feeling?
'No, it is not a feeling.'
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Can it fade away?
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For instance, now you are aware of it,
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and let's say, you wake up tomorrow.
Would it have gone?
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Can it go? Can it go away?
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I'm watching. Can it go away?
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[Mooji] No, it cannot go away.
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[Mooji] I asked you, Can it be sick?
You said, 'No'.
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[M.] I asked you, Can it get depressed?
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You said, 'No, it cannot get depressed'.
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I said, Where did it begin?
Does it have a starting place?
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You say, 'It hasn't got a starting place'.
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I say, Does it have an ending place?
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You say, 'No, it doesn't have an ending place'.
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I say, Does it judge?
You say, 'It does not judge'.
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I ask you,
Can it belong to any particular group?
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You say,
'No, it's not a religious group or category'.
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Can any government take hold of it?
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'No, it cannot do that.'
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I said, OK.
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I mean, well, was it born?
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'No, it was not born.'
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Can I ask you, can it die? Can it die?
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[Mooji] 'Oh my gosh, can it die?'
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[Mooji] Then I ask you,
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how long will it take you to reach it?
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You say, 'No distance'.
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So I said, If this is the response from you,
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then what you are perceiving directly,
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what you are being aware of
is your own being,
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your own Self,
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your own nature
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in Truth.
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Can it come to an end?
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Are you in a state of hypnosis?
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No. You see.
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So, look what you are verifying today,
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what you are verifying by yourself.
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If you are someone
who likes to figure things out with your head,
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you're used to using your head,
right now you may feel a bit lost,
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like, 'I don't know,
I cannot answer any of those questions'.
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But I'm happy with your responses.
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You are, right now,
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I don't even want to say,
you are 'in contact' with it.
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Can you be separate from it?
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Then look at that. Look at that.
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For the first time, you are speaking the Truth.
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For the first time, you don't need an opinion.
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You can see directly,
without your physical eyes,
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with your inner knowingness.
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Did you have to go deep, deep, deep
to find what you are seeing? No.
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[Mooji] This is the fruit of your satsang.
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Can anyone take it away from you?
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How wonderful!
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How wonderful!
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In what way can you be different from This?
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[silence]
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So, this is the fruit
of The Invitation to Freedom.
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So, if I say, OK,
as an exercise, it is finished!
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So, has This gone away? Has This finished?
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[Mooji] This is true Self-discovery.
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[Mooji] This is not asking you
the opinions of your mind,
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which today may say, 'It's like this',
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and tomorrow, 'It's not like this'.
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If I were to see you in three weeks,
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accidentally we bump into each other,
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will you have to take time to say,
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'Wait a second, this thing that you ...
I've got to try and find it'?
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Can it hide?
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[Mooji] Ha-ha!
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So, this is itself a joy in just looking.
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Is it merely a mental discovery?
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No.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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And what a joy
to watch you in your own presence,
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resting inside your own being!
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So, suppose now, the mind comes,
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a big tsunami [mimics sound of tsunami],
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can it disturb This?
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[Mooji] Can This go away?
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[Mooji] And this is all
you need to really know.
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Because the mind will come,
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and it will feel like
you are hypnotised into identifying again,
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'Oh, I've lost ... Oh, I'm lost again!
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Yesterday the satsang was so good.'
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And you'll be speaking like that.
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I call it sleep-talking,
sleep-walking, sleep-living.
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How to wake up out of this sleep?
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Well, is This asleep or awake?
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Beyond sleeping and awake.
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How much did you pay for it?
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[Mooji laughs]
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[Mooji] Like this, you see. Like this.
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And I asked you,
Are you in some hypnotic state?
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Are you visualising the Self?
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No, no.
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The Self cannot be visualised.
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You may try and imagine something,
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but it will not be This.
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This is This.
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This you are.
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And at the same time,
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we were given
the opportunity and the experience
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to identify with this instrumental body,
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in order to taste
the sense of being a separate private person,
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who learns things through our mind,
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who experiences interrelated opposites,
and all the emotions.
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We are meant to experience everything!
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To experience the sense of fear,
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the sense of the fear of dying,
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sometimes the fear of living,
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experience to be without important things,
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experience to be afraid,
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experience to be in love,
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experience to be alone,
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experience to be hungry,
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all these things we must experience.
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We must experience, not as a punishment,
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but because consciousness
wanted to, needed to explore,
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to experience the diversity
of its capacity to manifest differences.
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Understand that.
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But understand that,
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That does not need
to stop in its manifestation.
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But now, as you bring your attention
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to be present, and to be one with,
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is your attention separate from This?
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We know ...
This is a bit of a subtle question.
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Because it seems as though,
when the attention turns towards the mind,
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and the sense of identity and so on,
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whole different experiences
are coming into play.
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And those experiences are believed
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on the basis of personal identity.
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And whenever
we go into the state of personal identity,
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it is as though
the identity eclipses your natural knowing
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that you have just been sharing with me,
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and you start
to speak from the place of the person,
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which I call the mask
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that appears as though it can cover the Self.
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Can anything cover the Self?
I'm asking this question now.
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Yet, through the mind it appears
as though the Self was an experience,
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and now it has gone, 'I cannot find it'.
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And the 'I' who says,
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'Oh, the Self, the experience is gone,
I don't know what to do',
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this 'I', that is appearing,
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is also appearing
in the same space of awareness that you are.
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But you forget
because attention goes into identity as a person.
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As you spend time to verify,
to marinate in that seeing,
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which is your Truth,
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it will become increasingly clear
how the mistake is made.
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Now, can I ask you?
The exercise is finished.
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For now the exercise is finished, OK?
Has it gone?
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The Self, has it gone?
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[Mooji] I'll keep checking in with you,
if it has gone.
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[M.] Suppose you had the ability ...
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I can ask you this question, we can play.
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Suppose you could go into a spaceship
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and travel to a very, very distant planet.
Will it not be there?
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Can you leave your Self?
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This is the thing.
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And how simple, simple.
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And yet, what a mystery that
the mind movement comes,
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and it's as though we get hypnotised
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into becoming a finite thing again.
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So, you are going to get used to this.
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You have received in yourself, by yourself,
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the grace of real seeing.
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And even though
some distortion, some distractedness
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may come and play for a while,
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it will get weaker and weaker,
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as you continue
to affirm and confirm your true seeing.
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This is how powerful it is!
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How powerful it is.
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So, it was very good for me
to share this with you,
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in your presence, you came,
and because of you, somehow,
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I have been able
to introduce again The Invitation.
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[Mooji] And this, when I ask you,
and I ask everybody,
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can you ever not be This?
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You can take your time.
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You can take your time.
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Wonderful!
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So, thank you Nupur and Nisheeth.
Thank you.
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[M.] Wonderful for now, it's very good.
[Q.1] Thank you, Guruji.
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[M.] Wonderful, wonderful!
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[Q.2] Thank you, Guruji.
[Q.1] We love you so much, Guruji.
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[M.] Wonderful, wonderful! Beautiful!
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[M.] Thank you, thank you.
[Q.2] Love you, Guruji.
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[Mooji] Let's take a moment, just to ...
I don't know.
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Even if I say, to be with This, it's OK.
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I can say, be with This.
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Because of the language,
of conditioning and habit,
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I have to say, be with This.
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But actually, you are This.
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You are more This
than any person you previously thought you were.
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And you may say that you are your person too,
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but that's a much more superficial state,
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because one day you are like this,
and another day like that.
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Another day like this.
Another day like that.
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But from this place, if I ask you,
you will not say,
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'Oh, yesterday I was different
from how I am today'.
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Because it is not a mood, it is not a feeling,
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it is not an abstraction,
it is not a visualisation,
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it is not a product of imagination,
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it is not a belief,
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it is not an object.
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It simply is.
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Pay attention just to This.
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In what direction can you look
where This is no more?
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Wonderful!
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You know, there will come a moment, a time,
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when having come to this recognition,
this realisation,
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and I say, we have to stabilise in it,
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because this 'me' factor,
this 'I' factor, this 'we' factor,
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which seems to admit
to a sort of personal identity,
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that sense of,
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'Yes, I came back to my Self',
and 'I go away from my Self',
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will feel natural for a while,
to keep saying that,
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but maybe, something changes.
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Maybe whenever you feel,
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'You know what,
I don't know what I like anymore'.
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You will hear that
within the wider space of your true being,
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and you may just laugh to yourself
and say, 'What is that?'
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[Mooji laughs]
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You may just catch yourself laughing,
'Who was that?'
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'Who is making all these decisions?
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Who is suffering all these moods?'
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So, this is the power of self-inquiry
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now presented in the form,
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in the simple form of 'Invitation to Freedom',
I call it like that.
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And it is with you.
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What is 'It is with you'?
Is that really true?
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Is the Self with you? Who are you?
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How much distance is there
between you and the true Self?
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So, what we are experiencing
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is the natural sense of separateness
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that comes with years and years of living
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in the notion of being this person.
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And the personal identity
will feel a bit left out.
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Like, 'Oh, so you want to leave me now'.
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So sometimes it comes back, and it may create,
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it seems experientially, in the mind,
like some kind of tantrum,
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some sort of distortion of perception,
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[M.] 'My mind just won't stop',
and all this type of stuff.
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For a little bit it may happen.
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But has anything happened here?
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I'm looking at you.
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I'm looking at you, Dee.
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[Mooji] I'm looking at you, Michael.
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[Mooji] I'm looking at you, Yam and Joel,
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and Henrique, and Donna, each of you,
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Duong, Sandy, Julian, Maureen, all of you.
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When will This be lost,
and what will remove this knowing?
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[Mooji] So, what is called
the realisation of the Self?
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[Mooji] Is that the sense of division
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between yourself in the mind and person,
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and the Self which is unchanging?
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Somehow, something merges,
the shallow idea of the self,
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of the personal self,
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is merging in the natural being,
more and more.
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Are you going to look different?
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Well, if you look different,
it's going to be better.
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It's going to be a face
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which is not carrying
the reading of stress, and anxiety,
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and fear, and desire, and neediness. No.
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It will be, what I call, you without 'you'.
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Meaning, without all that stuff,
stuff, stuffing, stuffy.
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And often, when I see people in satsang,
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I have a sense, I'm seeing your true face.
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What is a true face?
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Not the face of your thoughts,
and attachments, and fears,
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but the face, the feature,
the countenance of your pure being,
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radiant, silent, peaceful, wise.
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Don't try to be that!
Don't try. It doesn't work.
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Because the one trying to be that ...
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Already you've been tricked into being a person
trying to be that.
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When I asked you to look,
you made a discovery,
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not an invention.
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So, that is the power of your looking.
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There will come a time,
when just this is enough.
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Just this is like a reminder,
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why are you speaking
as though you are this person?
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And you'll go, 'Phew! Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, Mooji! Thank you!'
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You see, 'I was distracted for a moment'.
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We are largely suffering from distraction,
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distractedness from our central being.
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This is a kind of paradox.
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But gradually, you may say,
'How can I make the two merge together?'
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Where are you speaking from?
Who asks this?
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So, I say, just by sitting, being at one with,
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which means that your already-ness
being in natural recognition,
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confirmed through direct seeing,
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a non-dual seeing ...
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By this resting in the awareness,
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all the troubles, all the complicatedness,
all the to-do lists,
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soften down and merge in being.
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And you will find, spontaneously,
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your responding actions,
reactions, interactions
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are seen to be and experienced to be
happening spontaneously.
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Trust this!
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So why do I say trust it?
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Because through the mind,
sometimes you may think,
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'I can't deal with the world
by simply being here'.
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That's another trick!
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'I can't be! I have so many things to do!
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I'm under so many pressures!'
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That's going back
into the old regime of identity.
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Learn to be quiet with yourself.
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Don't go with reactions
when they come from the mind.
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You'll begin to know this.
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I could sit here and talk about it
for a long time, but I will not.
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Because it doesn't work like that.
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What works is you paying attention
just to the sense of being.
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It may seem oversimplistic,
or even naive to you,
-
but what a power will come out of this!
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So, can I take it,
while I'm sitting here with you, and all of you,
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that a natural sense
of being loyal to your Truth
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is felt inside your Heart?
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You don't have to go somewhere else for that.
Wherever you are.
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Sometimes you may have to step aside
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from the traffic of worldly noise,
for a moment,
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just to sit
and clarify your mind in your being again.
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It may be five minutes, just to sit.
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And as you learn to do this,
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you'll find that you are naturally attracted
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to staying and honouring yourself in this way.
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If somebody asks you, 'What are you doing?'
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Don't say,
'I'm trying to be one with myself'.
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Don't talk like that
because people will think you're crazy!
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Just say,
'I'm just taking a moment to sit quietly'.
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You don't have to go
and tell anybody anything.
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I'm not turning you into evangelists.
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I'm telling you, just to rest in your being,
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and find the power of this. OK?
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And how beautiful, how impactful this will be!
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I cannot say in what area of your life.
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Sometimes, the people
who you are used to being close with
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may not understand you,
because we all have a picture of each other.
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And when someone changes
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from the shape
you're used to seeing them through,
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something doesn't like it.
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We want to see you back in the old shape
that's in the mind of people.
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So don't worry about that.
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Don't try too hard
to make people understand anything.
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But you will find that you're able to be kind,
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and without judgement,
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that you have a deep natural confidence,
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not an egoic confidence,
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and a peacefulness about you that is undeniable.
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Sometimes, some people are intimidated
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by the presence of someone who is awake.
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It's a superficial response.
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Or someone who is deepening
in their Self-discovery.
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You may find that
you expect that people are going to notice this,
-
and want to say nice things to you.
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But you might be surprised that people go,
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'Who do you think you are?'
And this kind of stuff.
-
And don't say anything clever.
Just stay inside your Heart.
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Even though you might feel that
you're being tested,
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just stay with what you are, like this.
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And your actions that flow from awareness,
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they always have a deep power,
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a beautiful quality about them.
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So, I have all these letters to go through.
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I think I have answered all of them
in just this invitation.
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To be honest with you,
I could go through and read,
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there are some beautiful letters,
but we have surpassed them.
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We have surpassed!
If I have to answer this one,
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I think, maybe you need to take
a bit more time away from work,
-
and give a bit more energy to this.
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Say, 'No, we don't have to go into that!'
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Just you stay in This, honour This,
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and you're going to find that
your life becomes magical!
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One's life has to be magical.
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But not from your mind,
'I've got to try to make my life ...' No!
-
Because the God-life, the real life is magical!
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Don't try to be too predictable
and too consistent.
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These are things that the mind is trying to be.
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There's something unpredictable
about someone who's really alive.
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Meaning, unpredictable in the sense that
they always surprise you,
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and they're always surprising themself,
if I can say that.
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It's not true, you don't surprise yourself.
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When you are at peace with yourself,
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something is in a deep sense of acceptance,
and you find your way.
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And this is what is beautiful
about today's Satsang with you,
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I'm not giving you a lot of instructions.
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I'm just pointing you back to your Self.
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Everything is already with you
in your natural being.
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Begin to enjoy
the adventure of Self-discovering,
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and the fruits that come from this.
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Just be with this.
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Your mind might say,
'I wanted you to answer my question'.
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Don't go backwards. You are here.
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I'm not even going to ask you to go forward.
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Stay in your silence.
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The Self is not behind, or before.
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It is always ever-present, and it is unlimited.
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I hold all of you inside my Heart,
I tell you this, because we have met.
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And we have met
in the truest way human beings can meet,
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in the truest way.
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I've not come to talk to you about football,
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or politics in the United States.
I'm not going to talk about this.
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This is too, too, too high for this!
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This is too high for this. OK?
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You will find your way.
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You will find your way
-
because you are not being guided anymore
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by the torch light of the mind,
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but by the radiance of the Heart,
and it is beautiful!
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Are you going to make mistakes? Seemingly.
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You will find seeming mistakes,
but guess what, it's not a big deal.
-
They will all be, sort of,
what I may call, growth hormones.
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They will help you
to discover deeper things in your being.
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[Mooji] How are you feeling, guys?
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[Mooji] Yes, of course, of course!
I'm not surprised.
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[Mooji] Of course, of course!
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But there's going to come a time
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when you won't mind about how you're feeling,
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if the feelings are coming from the mind,
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and you will know the difference.
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There are pure feelings
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which are arising
out of the perfume of your own being.
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You don't have to plan for those.
-
Spontaneously, it is as though
you're kissed from within,
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and you feel like, 'Phew'.
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You're lifted above the clouds of the mind.
-
But this is just
part of the display of the spontaneity,
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the range of expressions
arising from the true nature.
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And this is where, in some mysterious way,
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you cannot explain this beautiful transforming,
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this beautiful grounding.
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And as I said before,
You don't have to explain it.
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You don't have to write a thesis about it.
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It is just the fragrance of your own being.
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What am I going to do with these letters?
I don't know.
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How often I have waited
for this kind of opportunity!
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I always find myself ...
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Because it's the highest way I can be with you.
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Don't feel that somehow,
you have unanswered questions.
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You'll probably find what?
Your questions are not solved,
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they are dissolved
by the light of your own presence.
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How often I've longed to be with you,
like this, like this.
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So, if the mind comes,
'Yes, but I wanted you to talk about this',
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'Please tell me a bit more
about reincarnation',
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'What happens after this?'
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No, no, please, please, please,
don't belittle yourself.
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Don't belittle yourself.
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Remain in the height of your being.
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Remain in the height of your being,
-
and you will know everything is fine!
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Leave it to God. Everything is fine!
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Continue growing inwardly.
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This is true aliveness!
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This is true life.
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And it's you.
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I'm not telling you any compliments.
You don't need compliments.
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Truth is enough! Truth is enough.
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I'm not flattering you.
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I'm telling you, and I'm showing you,
-
and you are discovering for yourself
what is here.
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Honour This.
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We have an old saying, 'Abide in This'.
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This is Grace.
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This is being in God's presence, directly.
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This is walking in Truth.
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So, I'm very happy for this evening's satsang.
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I see that ...
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I don't know. Maybe I can try a question.
But it may not happen. OK?
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It may not happen.
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I'm just going to look and see.
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Because by the ...
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[silence]
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For instance, I'm looking at this.
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I won't say who. She knows.
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'Dearest Mooji,
the pandemic has allowed me more time
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to deepen the recognition of That,
which you point to.'
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That you have discovered.
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'This, in turn, is giving me
a clearer view of what I'm not,
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for which I'm most grateful.'
Wonderful!
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'One of the things that
has come into view through this
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is the pull of distraction away from the Self.'
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The attention of the mind
can be like 'away from the Self'.
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So tell me now, which direction can you go
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to be away from the Self, in Truth?
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I'm just asking an open question. OK?
-
When you had a placement,
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a very physical identity that
was being honoured,
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then relative to that identity
in place and time,
-
you can say, 'I'm moving away from something,
I'm distracted away'.
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But when you are discovering the Self,
which is everywhere,
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and it is not imagination,
-
you are in direct oneness with your seeing.
-
Simply be with that.
-
If I were to say,
oh, well, try to do this. Try!
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You have accomplished it.
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Now, honour it.
-
How to honour it?
-
Don't go out
looking for how to honour the Self.
-
The mind will show you
when you need to honour your Self.
-
Do you follow?
The mind itself will come to show you,
-
'Now you need to honour your Self
-
because every time you turn to me
I'm going to bite you!'
-
He's going to tell you like that.
-
Every time you turn
and start to pick up the 'How to do',
-
and 'What not to do', and stuff,
-
you're going to find that
it bites you with confusion, with anxieties.
-
Stay as the Self. Keep quiet.
-
If something needs to be known,
don't be in a rush.
-
Wait on God's timing.
-
God's timing is very, very in tune
with your Heart vibration.
-
Don't worry.
-
Don't listen
to the mind's assessment of your life,
-
or anybody else's life.
-
Learn to be one
with your own silence and being.
-
And don't imagine that
-
somehow you're suppressing something.
Suppressing! No.
-
You don't have to suppress the mind.
You can control him.
-
Meaning that you see,
the energy wants to go there,
-
but you know through your intuition,
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you know through your sensibility that
it is not truthful.
-
It's just out of habit,
or addiction, or neediness.
-
So when you pay attention,
-
rather than fighting the mind, or resisting,
remember your Self.
-
Be back into your Heart again,
and see, what does awareness want?
-
What does awareness want, and from who?
-
And you will find,
everything is flowing again, and out.
-
And I would love that, as these days continue,
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and life continues to unfold
in its natural unfolding,
-
that in some way
I would love to be in touch with you,
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and to see how you're doing.
-
And I want to tell you something.
It's going to be mysterious!
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[Mooji laughs]
It's going to be mysterious! Yes.
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[Mooji] You will see. You will see.
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[Mooji] By the grace of God, you will see!
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[Mooji] So, my beloved ones,
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we are happy together in this One.
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[silence]
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May I ask you another question?
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In this awareness,
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what time is it there?
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What season?
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This is what I call divine intelligence.
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It's not working like the earthly mind.
-
Whatever you do, wherever you are,
-
everything is taking place
in this realm of being, you can say.
-
It doesn't matter what,
whether it goes fast or slow, up or down.
-
It's all a movement in the mind,
-
arising in the unchanging awareness Self.
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You are in the God-zone.
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[silence]
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And such peace is going to keep arising in you,
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such joy, unmerited.
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Such aliveness.
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[silence]
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The Self can never leave you.
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Everything will come and go
because of consciousness,
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playing in and out, like clouds floating by
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in the infinite expanse of the sky, unchanging.
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You will notice this to your increasing joy.
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I tell you this thing.
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Nobody can know you, even personally.
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Everyone has only a view, a perspective,
and it's not stable.
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Thank God. It's OK.
-
But This is not a mental knowing.
-
It's a non-dual awareness.
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Be with it,
-
and you will be truly in love,
-
a non-dual love.
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Whatever you do
through the intention of personhood,
-
it's never fully successful.
-
But here you move because love compels you,
-
the grace of God guides you.
-
And more and more you'll find that
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the sense of separation and distance
-
is reducing and reducing.
-
The sense of feeling
alienated and separate from the core,
-
from God, from Truth,
is reducing, reducing, reducing.
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And you will not even know when they meet.
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You are already in your Oneness.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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And love you, love you, love you,
love you, love you.
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[Mooji] You have given me
a beautiful evening, also!
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Can it really be this simple?
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Can it really be this simple?
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Yes, yes.
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[Mooji laughs]
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Yes, you are the embodiment of love itself.
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I'm sharing this with you,
-
you are the embodiment of love itself.
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But you will still have to hold fast.
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You'll still have to pay attention,
-
not go to sleep in the mind.
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You have to keep on confirming,
-
every time the mind comes to test you.
-
Remember, it's not testing you
so that you shall fail,
-
but that you need to develop
the muscles of discernment.
-
You are winning your Self back.
-
At times, when you feel,
-
'I'm not as strong as I was yesterday',
it is a feeling,
-
but don't give it too much.
-
Just go back immediately.
-
Pay attention to your Heart,
-
and see what your Heart has to say about it.
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So, thank you, thank you, thank you.
-
I'm going to spend a few moments
just to sit in silence with you,
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so I can just keep bathing in your presence,
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registering your presence in my heart.
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[silence]
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I had this feeling, at a certain point.
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Have I left anything out?
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Because I had so many, so many letters.
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I thought, How am I going to reach each one?
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Then I checked in, and I've left nothing out!
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And yet, I'm not keeping anything at all,
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just like you can be right now.
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Don't be holding onto anything,
to any shape at all.
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Remain shapeless.
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[silence]
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This is just for you.
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