Be in Your Universality

Spontaneous Talks With Mooji
05.05.2012, Monte Sahaja, Portugal

To live a life that most people call "life" or "existence"
can be a very narrow thing, very personal affair,
but to be in your universality is to be conversant with all things.
Not necessary that you are conversing with all things,
but your Beingness is large enough, everything fits inside your Beingness.

As a person we are claustrophobic.
So many concerns so many things have to be kept up,
so much self-consciousness, so much looking after this body.
As Consciousness we are universal, we are not personal.

It can be an instant of recognition.

Even if you live in a place like a little, tiny village,
it doesn't stop you from being universal inside your Self.

Mooji

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Spontaneous Talks with Mooji

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Be in Your Universality
(with subtitles)

Monte Sahaja
5 May 2012

[Mooji] Consciousness
in its expression as human being

lives a very narrow life,
small life actually, very private,

it's part of the coziness
that the mind dwells inside

this, sometimes, very small world.

But I want to encourage us
to be in the universal being.

Somehow, something wants to shrink
into being personal,

a personal being, small.

You know your world,
you fit into your context very well.

But you're a universal being at the same time.

And even if you live in a place,
like in a little tiny village,

it doesn't stop you
from being universal inside yourself.

This is something I felt this morning,

I very, very much want to share this way.

Just to announce that, again,
that inside the consciousness,

as consciousness we are universal,
we're not personal.

And when we ...

Now I am saying it deliberately inside,

as an invitation to welcome,

not even to welcome,
but to come into your universality.

When I say, you welcome your universality,

it's almost like sometimes you are welcoming

from the place of still being personal.
It's a very subtle thing,

because after a while
it feels completely natural,

and easy, and effortless just to be a person.

I say, don't try to stop being a person,

just be in your universality.

Because,

to live a life that most people call life
or existence,

can be a very narrow thing,
a very private affair,

but to be in your universality

is to be conversant with all things.

Not necessarily that you are
conversing with all things,

but your beingness is large enough,

everything fits inside your beingness.

I don't know if you follow
what I'm really pointing to.

Because this can be an instant [snaps fingers]
of recognition.

An instant, [snap] instant, [snap]
instant, [snap] an instant [snap]

of reminding and recognition
to stay in your openness.

And it will feel like an effort in the beginning,

because something just drops back
into the personal setting.

Of course, that can continue.
Don't fight with that.

But try to understand what it means

to say, 'To be in your universality'.

And the only way that
we can experience this successfully,

in a sense, is to be aware of the 'I'

in its normal expression and context,

and be aware that
that is being also observed.

The very fact that
it's the observing of the 'I-me'

places the sense of self
in a larger space of being.

It's almost like you have to be empty.

You come back to just being empty.

When you're empty, you have no size.

When you're a person,
you definitely have a size

And you feel almost a kind of security
in your size.

But universality is more to do with consciousness,
the body is not.

It has a size, the mind
and our present level of knowledge

that has a kind of proportion, in a sense.

But the pure Being has nothing, no proportion.

And that is the only constant, amazingly.

I'm not just talking about
the dynamic consciousness,

the dualistic function of consciousness,
but as pure Being.

That's the only aspect, the only part ...

I'm using words like 'part', aspect,
it's not this,

but because language is itself so limited,

we are touching words
that brings a kind of limitation.

But that dimension of one's Self

which is entirely the only place
where you are effortless.

And yet, because we come into
the sense of effortful-ness,

of being a person, into a kind of construction,

it seems the 'we' has to make an effort

to be the effortless-ness which we naturally are.

So, you see how the mistake is kept up.

Constantly our self-referencing
goes back to something personal.

We always go back to measurements,
'Well, this is just how I am',

and measure ourselves by our temperament,

and habits, and conditioning,

whereas all these are phenomenal
to the one who sees.

So this call to universality,

I don't know where this will reach inside yourself

and how it will manifest.

But it is in somehow communicating these truths

that the consciousness shakes off
the littleness of being,

and finds the infinite space

in which all things have a place.

In the totality, all things have a place.

In the person, not.

Definitely some things are required,
some things are not required.

We are like traffic policemen in our own mind,

because we have to protect our identity,
and the idea of self.

This is not so, for the one who sees.

For one who sees there's nothing to protect,

because that Which Is cannot be harmed.

It's like while we have a sense of being

and having an existence in a body,

it's like the consciousness seems to want
to perpetuate that at any cost,

to the point where, if we had the choice
to live forever in this body.

We would choose, 'Yes, yes, yes!'
We'd think that's just such a big gift.

But really it's not the life
in any particular body that is so precious,

It is the consciousness.

Everything points to ...

If there's going to be really
an evolution in the conscious being,

everything points to coming back to emptiness.

It's the only place where there is space!

Everything is claustrophobic!

As a person we are claustrophobic.

So many concerns.
So many things have to be kept up.

So much self-consciousness,

so much looking after this body, all of this.

So the crisp thing I want to say is,
be in your universality.

Sometimes just the saying of these things,

just the very saying of them
and the hearing of them

shows us how we are not in our universality.

Where consciousness points attention

is always into the kind of personal projections.

Don't waste time with that for a moment.

Just somehow contemplate a little bit

what it means to say, 'Be in your universality'.

Is there something you have to do?

Is it something you have to do?

Or is it not just a kind of recognition

that is pointing somehow to what already is?

But then something feels,
'But how can I stay like this?'

This is the voice of the human, you see?

'How can I stay like this?'

And I want us to really understand,

what the content of this desire or prayer
in the human mind is.

First is the one who says this,
is this what you are?

Because if you identify with this,

this is where the energy will start from.

Do we see this or not?

If you say, 'How can I stay here?'

then that's where efforts are going to be made

by the one who cannot stay.

It cannot be consistent enough
to see through its projections.

We have to examine this posture of identity.

If you say you are the Self, you are That,

something inside says,
'Yes, yes, I know I am That'.

But even in that moment,
there's a betrayal, or something.

It is as though we are agreeing

from the position of the person

that we are the Presence,
but it's not just Is.

It is something like,
'I agree, I see, I understand this',

But it's not your living truth, not yet.
Or something.

And it's not about if you try harder

and you practice more techniques.

It's really like I say,
it's a twist of consciousness

that removes the feeling of the belief

in the one who does things.

Of course, it is helpful for a while

if consciousness chooses to express
as a journeyer in truth.

It's simply becoming
more and more refined in the mind realm,

but it can go through
so many variations and subtleties

that so much time can pass doing that.

Sometimes you think you zoom in on something,

you go very, very deeply
into the essence of something

and it turns out just into mind.

You think you are going deeply into the Self,

but it's just going more and more in your mind!

And the moment you see this

something just drops off from this.

The one that is journeying,

feeling, 'I'm journeying, I'm getting closer.

I've got to get it. Maybe, sit more.
I, I, I, me ...'

it's also the Self,
but it's the self in a state of hypnosis,

sleep-walking, sleep-talking, sleep-living.

The ambition, the destination,
the goal of that seeker

is also the Self that we are.

And just that little unclarity

keeps billions immersed in samsara.

Because the identity seems so persistent,

so continuous almost.

I don't know if you want to call it grace.

Don't see grace as something else
coming in to act upon you.

Grace arises within your own self,

it arises as openness,
as understanding, like this.

Gradually the personal,

what I would call self-infatuation burns off

and only the space of Being should remain.

If you want to know what the goal of truth is,
you read books,

people love Rumi, they love Papaji,
they love Ramana Maharshi,

they love Krishna, and stuff.

And yet the same point,
they are pointing only to this.

You can love Krishna, but in the end,

if something is afraid of the inquiry -
it's afraid, mistrust -

these two forces are working there.

They have only discovered this
and have merged in this.

They have no past that is more powerful

than the Presence that they are.

The history of Krishna
is meaningless to Krishna.

So I'm just putting it out today,

to try and move in that space,

to be aware, to stay in that awareness.

I don't want to tell you how.
That's too small.

I don't want to tell you how.

It's enough to say, be your Self.

You are the universal Self.
You are the universe.

There's no, 'How to do that?'

If I tell you how, you fall into a trap again.
We are This!

Something inside is completely at peace with that,

but it needs sometimes
a kind of acknowledgment,

and maybe I can call it self-respect.

Maybe I can use this term.

If you say no to this thing,
we just go right back to the dribble.

But really to sit, and feel that.

The mind wants a piece of the action,
to do something,

wants to say, 'When I do this and do that,
then I see this'.

No, no, no. It's already done.

So I don't want to say anything more about that.

As you move about,
what you're doing, or not doing, whatever,

becausethere will come a moment, a time,

maybe today, maybe this morning,
maybe another time,

maybe another week, another month,
I don't know,

when you are going to see things as they are.

You'll see it from a place of emptiness,

that you'll be entirely empty,
but you fully are!

And that's not a belief!

That we are the ego, is a belief!

That we are the ego and the person,
that is a belief,

a very entrenched belief,

and so entrenched that
really it goes unquestioned.

And then everything is going
from the position of that identity.

But if anything is going to be true for you,

that has to get swallowed up!

You don't need the reference your mind imagines.

Your life can be fully here.

You'll see things with the senses,
like everyone sees them,

but they won't have that command that they do.

They're not meant to command.

They are our agents,
our antennas to perceiving the world.

We are not meant to be ruled by these forces.

We only have to become a person for that.

First you become a person,
then you become a donkey. [laughter]

To your own thinking you become like this.

[Friend] Every time there is engagement
on a personal level

it feels like a big 'Ouch!'
and something wants to ...

[Mooji] If we are aware of the Self

then you may enjoy the person,
because it has no threat.

It's like playing with a snake
that has no teeth!

It's OK. It's fine. It can't do anything to you.

If you give it to your children,
they play with it.

But if you believe in this,
you're carrying 'person',

then person's going to be too much for you,
after a while.

You say, 'Oh, it's enough.
Oh, I got to go!' Finished.

So the person-sense can just be playful.

It's just light for a moment. It's nothing!

It doesn't leave a bad smell.

It's only when this sort of person
believes in the person,

it carries the weight of a person.

As I said before,
The ego is the heaviest thing in the world.

It's heavier than all the mountains put together.

Because when he sits on the being,
the being can't move, it's heavy.

The Being is that which is the womb
of the whole universe,

but if the ego sits on him, he can't move.

That's why I say that the ego
is the heaviest thing in the world.

Sits on him, means somehow to blind him.

You forget your Self.

That's a very heavy thing.

If you are aware of the Self,
then you may enjoy the person,

because it has no threat.

It's like playing with a snake
that has no teeth.

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