True Happiness - Mooji

Mooji - 30th March 2013 - London

What makes my soul smile..

Well...

I don't know if anything outside of itself

necessarily is required to make it smile

It smiles from inside its own Self, you know?

So it's not like...

something outside is required to...

to say..trigger it

so it's smiling...i think you can say it it smiling all the time, you know

it is smiling all the time

it doesn't necessarily have to show itself on the face that it's smiling

but it is smiling all the time

meaning that it is the natural state of joy

within one's own being

and I feel that this is the natural state of all beings

inwardly if they are not troubled by their mind

if they don't give the mind

their daily life, or personal sense of identity so much attention

they will find

they will be happy inside themselves, they are

If you want to use the word smiling

I think...it's a beautiful word

Smiling inside yourself

just happens like that

And I wouldn't want to force it

because it doesn't happen like that

that you just

have this one kind of constant remark

to be making

but I would encourage also

the people to look towards that

because it's not really that it is so

far away from themselves in fact

this is just immagination

in fact...like that

but if it was not appropriate to say that

you know? I don't know

everything depends upon a kind of openness

some people are at a crossroads in their life

and it's a defining moment for them

like this

I would want to say also

don't take things too personally

if you can hear that, you see?

because always where there is a kind of person

too much thinking of yourself like a person

then right there always

some trouble come

because I don't feel we need to take life so personally

I think that's the mistake we make

and due to

an ill conceived idea of who we are

we do take the life too...

almost like a threat

it comes about because the people

then feel that life is so unfair

it can feel like that to them

or it is so demanding

and we don't know how we can respond

from a place of Truth

and really be happy

It's almost like, some circumstances

situations come

and we are not able to be happy in them

I say that's not necessarily true

and anyway about happiness

i don't mean the happiness which is

the superficial happiness

not pretending to be happy

so there's a happiness that is so broad

that on the surface it can look like you are deep in thought

or something like that

but underlying that

there can be a beautiful space

which I call joy or

peace

a loving state, at the same time

we sometimes feel that we cannot

have these two states:

either you are unhappy or you are happy

I say it's not like that

the natural state is to be joyful

not necessarily joyful about

any particular thing

but just the joy of Being

that is our natural state

so...

I feel that again

coming back to the point that I made

very often I think people put too much energy

perceiving life personally

and then also problematically

that something is a problem

and why this happend to me

and get caught up too much into that type of traffic

so if I could and there was oppenness

I may find myself saying

"Listen, don't take it so seriously"

It's also passing

Everything is passing

That would be probably

one of the things I would say

don't identify so strongly with anything

because

it's just life, it's just moving on

you know?

That again is not easy though

because again when we take things personally

we become very very serious

and then if someone says to you

"Listen, relax a little bit" you know..

"Pull back and learn to observe"

"a bit more what's going on"

"Rather than being so quick to identify"

- Then some people will hear that

and make use of it

and see actually the beauty in that

to take some space meaning

to become a bit more detached

and that sometimes things are not really as bad

as they initially appear to be

so if you are able to observe

you may come to see that...

some reactions may happen

but you don't identify with those deeply as well

and then a clearer space comes, like that

I feel that there's a place for grief

if someone is grieving

I feel that there is totally a space for grief also

I may not want to go to intrude

and even somehow to say something

to try and get people out of grief

I think grief is a very credible

experience and feeling also

so that if somebody is grieving

I think there's a room

I mean I don't feel that there's a..

that we have to be happy all the time in that sense

- that you know, if somebody is looking sad

there's no space for that -

I think there's tremendous space for that

because sometimes out of this experiencing sadness

can be someone's opportunity

to face some things in themselves

that they have not so far been looking at

so there has to be space for that

so I would only really want to

- I don't know if the word is to "console" someone -

If I felt that somehow

they were slipping away

from a place which I would have to intuit in my own Heart

that they are slipping off

and they really do need

you know, some contact

that can actually help to bring them back

to a stable..to some balance

because it doesn't do good to anybody to just be drifting off

to deep sorrow and get lost in that and so on

that's not good

*I would like to feel that,

There are some beings

who fully understand in the Heart.
what is being pointed.

And come alive
in that understanding.

And continue to share
from their place of seeing,

and from that beautiful discovery
with other beings;

because I feel that
that is an authentic sharing

in the human kingdom.

Being free from the hypnosis
of conditioning

is the biggest smile.

You're going to feel in your life;

because as long as
we are holding on to

ideas about who we are
which are not true;

then you cannot really smile
with your Heart.

I mean you may have a laugh,

You may have a joke,

but I don't think that
you are asking that question.

Just like a momentary smile;

Because even the most miserable person
in the world

must have a smile
every now and again.

But I think you are asking
and I'm responding to your question,

like something very profound,

that really brings a smile,
that comes,

that begins in the Heart
and shines.

You know just as,

Unquestionable joy
from your Heart.

I would have to say that;

It is someone who has
found themselves.

someone who realises

the Truth of what we are.

rather than what we have been conditioned
to believe we are.

And this is totally totally
possible.

My line of expression,
you may say,

it's only for that;

because we see the outcome

of not recognizing that.

That we do so many crazy things
in this world.

And hurt ourselves
and other beings.

so someone to realize,
to recognize

again their true nature

that is...uffff!

You are smiling
in every being!

It's very infectious
to find somebody

who's happy like that.

Who's happy
but it's not about a joke.

You understand?

Who's just happy!

Because, why?

"Why are you happy?"
I don't know!

I cannot even say
why I'm happy!

That is the best kind
of happy!

When you cannot even say
why you are happy.

If you can say
why you are happy,

then your happiness
is going to finish soon.

When you don't know
why you are happy,

you just can't help being happy.

You even try to be sad
you can't succeed;

Because your light is so...on!

That is happiness for me.

And that happiness
I'd love to see in human beings.

Not just human beings.

I'd like to see a dog happy!

I want to see a happy dog!

Dogs smile also if he's happy.

I even see birds happy!

I see them happy.

I see how they behave.

I don't know
what they are happy about,

but they are happy somehow;

because for me
I cannot explain any other thing

than to say:

because they are life!

I am life!

I'm not even living life,

I am life!

We are life!

And in that joy...

I don't want to tell the people:
"Be happy".

I don't want to trouble you!

To tell you "be happy"

I just want to tell you:

"you are love"

"You are ok"

I say I don't want to
remind the world

that it is suffering
and that it is unhappy.

I want to remind the world
that it is beautiful and free.

Because people forget this.

We are not here
just to struggle,

Or to party.
I'm not here to party

I'm not interested in partying,
I've done enough partying.

It's not partying.

I don't even want to say,
I'm here to celebrate life even.

I'm just here,
and it's enough.

My here is enough!

But I'm happy inside my Heart.

And everything that it's inside,

every cell in my body

is dancing to see that joy
in other beings.

So I don't know where to go.

I don't know where to go
with that joy.

I don't know where
I can be without that joy.

And so something inside,

I don't know
what compels me

or compels this body to

to try and somehow remind;

because I cannot create you see.

I can only remind you that

that joy is inside you.

And sometimes we have to work
a bit at it.

sometimes you have to
remind someone,

listen "let go of this!"

Sometimes I'll even push you.

I say "What you're doing!
You are crazy?"

"Leave this alone!"

"You know you're just
messing yourself up!"

Just to allow your light
to shine again.

I don't see any other thing;

because pleasure
you can find,

but happiness seems rare.

And yet I say that,

our Being is happy, by nature,
I know it.

It's not my belief.

I don't believe these things.

I know it, I am it.

If I am it, I'm no more special
than any other human being.

Than you must be it.

And that is not a supposition

that is an affirmation

that you are That!

But I know that it's not enough
just to say these things

Your life has to be the evidence
of what you say it's true

I'm not going about
trying to be happy

I don't have to
try to be happy

I failed miserable
at being unhappy

I can't be unhappy

you understand?

That's the one thing
I can say I fail

I don't even fail
because I don't even try

Why would I try to be unhappy?

But it's just there.

And...it's like that

It is like that

So in summarizing it,
I would just say to be

to discover one's Self

Because if you don't

then whatever happens

as we find in this world,
it's momentary

but when you are again

I would say that
when your mind and your heart connect

then the lights go on

I think this is the light
you are talking about

sometimes we see it
in the face of children

but it's only a spark

even they cannot keep it

it comes really with

coming home

I would put it like that

and I don't want to feel

that it's too much
to put in front of a human being

because then I would be
insulting human beings

Does it take a bit of work?

Yes, in the beginning
it takes a bit of work

not because It itself is work

It itself is not work

but because we have put
too much attention

on the wrong things

then it takes a bit of work

just to turn your attention
back a little bit

but as soon as we begin to
discover again our original joy

we don't need any encouragement

that's enough encouragement
already

you know you're
onto a winner somehow

and you just want to be there

life pulls you

it embraces you
and pulls you inside

but if you don't know of it
before

like one time
i was not aware of that

so my life was momentary joys

momentary pleasures

momentary sadness
and whatever

but this I received,
what I call like

a kiss from within myself

and that just completely
devastated me

in the most beautiful way,
you understand?

I mean I couldn't carry on my life
how I was before

it just started to change

and it's the best change

and it's still changing

even on the surface
it's still changing

but something inside
is not changing

and there is that duality in life

something is changing
and something is not changing

and I've found that
which is not changing

and then what is changeful,
I can enjoy now

before I was a bit more afraid
of what is changing

now i'm not afraid
of what is changing

'cause you find
what is not changing

and that's a smile
that is not made just with your lips

or with your mouth

it's made with your whole being

and joy is that smile

satsang is one of
the very few

and authentic environments
for me

I know in one way you are sitting
in front of a lot of people

what is so authentic about it!

It looks a bit formal

if we could have
it another way

it would be another way

but the fact is that
is what we do

we are looking into the subject
of who we are

on a firm recognition

that the discovery is worth it.

and so there's a joy in that

when we are looking

because we mostly seem
to have forgotten that

sometimes fears come up

because people feel
"Oh my God!"

Because we have invested so much
to become something we are not

when is time to return to
what we are

we are afraid of giving up
the something we are not

but that's life also

a bit of pain
has to be there

but only so much that is necessary
to return you

to your painless truth

that would be
my take on that one

I want to say,
if I have to say something

that whatever happens
everything is ok

whatever happens

the final word is

Everything is ok,
inside the Heart

Something takes care of you

whatever it is that happens

I know that...

even if it comes to losing people
close to you

I've lost my son, I've lost my sister,
my brother and so on

and friends you grow up with

you reach my age

you start to find a lot more people
around you are passing away

people you have shared
very closely with them

you feel the pain of that

and also sometimes

with things going on
inside this body

you go to the doctor

any moment they could be
telling you,

like you got this
prostate cancer or something

you are like ...
something is ready for that

and then you begin to see
it's all momentary

all of this

you put so much energy

but you cannot keep it

because even the body that you need
to enjoy you cannot keep

and it's a time when you reach
a certain level of seeing inside yourself

that everything is passing by

and you grow up very quickly.

you grow up very very quickly

to the point where you know

like I said in satsang

that I am

I don't have a future

therefore I'm supremely happy

I'm not concerned at all

like my happiness
is next week

or something is happening

I'm just here now

and there's a fullness a richness
about that

because I know the reality
that tomorrow may not come

in terms of...you know...

we live on
a lot of projections

People say "oh you know next year,
I'm going to do this"

and for me that's
a "Wow, really?"

I don't know what that is.

I only know
next year doesn't exist for me.

Last year doesn't exist for me.

yesterday also.

I have to try to catch my memory
about what yesterday was.

It doesn't have any real.
life in itself.

I found something which has
no yesterdays and no tomorrows about it.

It doesn't even have
a today about it.

That has been
the most beautiful discovery,

but I can't discuss that.

I can
but it's not really worth it.

But it comes a time when there are people
who just understand that.

I don't know, they have a way
of just understanding these things

and they say
"Hey, I'm on board with that"

"I'm here with you"

But it will be like that:
whatever happens, whatever happens

Especially if you can just pay attention
that everything comes and goes.

Everything comes and goes.

Everything comes and goes.

even this body is going to
come and go.

But something will witness also
this body coming and going.

And I say that you are ok.

yes

Q: Namaste, thank you so much.