It's Nothing, Nothing, Nothing!

DVD extract from Silent Retreat in Tiruvannamalai, on 14 February 2012, session 2.

What will strip you back to this place beyond time and intention?
How far are you from this place now?
What unfinished business is left to do before you can simply be your Being?
- Mooji

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[music]

It's Nothing, Nothing, Nothing!

Tiruvannamalai, 14 February 2012
(with subtitles)

[Mooji] I would like to introduce you a little bit

to the many forces that come to visit this body
over the years;

from different dimensions also.
[Mooji chuckles]

How they came, how strong they could appear,

and everything like that.

And each one is defeated like that.

So much so, that when you look back

and I hear things like this,

I can say, It's nothing!

'And this and that ...'
It's nothing!

'But this thing ...'
Nothing!

'Yes, but last night an angel ...'
Nothing!

'Yesterday I almost died.'
There is nothing!

Yes.

'I had an experience, it was so ...'
Nothing!

'I want to be free.'
Nothing!

Nothing, nothing, nothing,

nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing!
[laughter]

I have to tell you about now,

because something is tightening up.
[Mooji makes squeaking sound]

I say, Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing!
Nothing!

'I sat in the cave and it was ...'
Nothing, nothing!

'What you speak about ...'
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.

Just you amusing yourself.
It's nothing.

How many times you thought,
'Oh, this is my last day!'

Nothing! Nothing, nothing, nothing!

One day this body ...
[imitates falling]

Nothing! [laughter]
It's nothing!

Nobody here is going to convince me
it is something.

Get over it!

[laughter and applause]

And it is precisely that

because I don't accept
your version of yourself and I don't believe you,

yes, it is the only reason I can serve you.

Because I cannot accept
the things you say about yourself.

They are simply not true.

I know you.

I know every single being.

When I look in your eyes, I know who dwells there.

And I know the state of that one
to be perfect and holy.

So everything else you say, for a few moments,
Ah, OK, OK. OK.

I am waiting for a chance for you to say,

'And then, actually,
all that that I saw is nothing'.

I go, Ha-haa!
[laughter]

But still, you persist and go on,

'This thing came last night, and it was so big.

And I had a dream and in this dream I saw ...'

I say, It's nothing!

'And what happens though after I die?'

Nothing, nothing, nothing.
Don't ...

Nothing, nothing, nothing.
[quick cutting movements and sounds]

So I say sometimes, it's like ...

I used to say a samurai comes to you,
a divine samurai,

and he says,
'I have come to take what I cannot have.

Give it to me.'
And you say ...

'I've come for your ...
I've come.'

And you go,
'OK, OK, take all my possessions'.

[cutting sound]
'I don't want that. That's already mine.'

'Take all my learning.' [cutting sound]
'It's not this.'

'Take all my experience.' [cutting sounds]
'It is not this.'

'Take my devotion.'
[cutting sound]

'Take my family.'
[fast cutting sounds]

[laughter]

'Take my future!'
[cutting]

'Past!' [cutting]
'Present!' [cutting]

'Take me.'
[cutting sound]

Where have you come to?

Because everything is telling me
about where you have been.

But what about where are you now?

Where are you,
if you stop talking about where you've visited,

what you've thought, what will you want, what ...
the story.

[fast cutting sounds]

And this thing,
I say to you like this, all of you,

it was this story that Papa told me,
I say like this.

It is about one girl
and she was just about to get married.

And she was ...

The next day,
she is getting married the next day.

She has been planning everything for this wedding,

because it's a traditional place and in this place

you don't get to be with your beloved
in any intimate way

until you are married.

So tomorrow is the wedding day.

And so today she must make the final arrangements.

And this girl lives in the forest.

She lives in the forest and she is ...

Now, today, final arrangements,
she has a few appointments.

'First I must go to the cake maker.

After the cake maker,
I must see the dress maker.

After the dress maker,
I must go and see the priest,

to go through my vows.

Then finally, at the end of the day,
I'll see my beloved,

we'll have a cup of tea together,
look forward to tomorrow.

Tomorrow we will be in each other's arms.
Wonderful!'

She is full of the joys of spring.

She is walking out in the forest
to go to see the cake maker,

the first appointment on the list.

And after a few steps,
right in front of her steps a lion.

Face to face, like this.

A hungry lion also.
And she can feel its breath.

[Mooji makes loud breathing sound]
Like this.

Then, in that instant, you see?
[cutting sound]

The cake maker's appointment is gone.
[laughter]

Then, the dress maker [cutting sound],
it is not there.

The priest [cutting sound],
it is not there.

Only the beloved. [cutting sound]
It is also not there.

In this moment, absolutely alone.

No time, no future,
no intention, no past, no identity.

So the master says,
'Welcome the lion on your path'.

Because until then,
you are planning a tomorrow you don't have,

a next week that nobody promised,
and all of this.

And our minds are full of the noise of otherness.

What will bring you to this instant, this moment?

When will you spend one moment to be just you,

not carrying some message for tomorrow
or something?

And this is a habit that all of us have.

And so we are full of noise,
claustrophobic with noise.

What will strip you back to that place

beyond time and intention?

How far are you from this place now?

What is left to do?

What unfinished business is left to do,

before you can simply be your Being, be your Self?

Because the mind is not going to have a holiday.

[silence]

There is something that is not in the next moment,

not in the past moment, also.

Don't look anywhere to find it.

Even your very search to find it
is already arising in it.

We are missing the obvious.

Don't seek help from your mind.

[music]

What will strip you back to this place

beyond time and intention?

What unfinished business is left to do

before you can simply be your Being?

Video extract from DVD

'It's Nothing, Nothing, Nothing!'

14 February 2012, session 2

Tiruvannamalai, India