Mind is like a goat...eats anything

Nothing has to be wrong for the mind

to launch an attack.

Nothing has to be wrong for it

to make up big stories, out of nothing actually.

There only has to be a seed of a thought

given attention, ‘Hmm, there's still some separation…?’

And the mind says, ‘You see?

I’ve been trying to tell you!’ and there you go,

sailing off down the road with the unstable

and unreliable mind. It can happen just like this.

The mind doesn’t need any substance or truth.

You can give him anything.

He is like a goat—he eats anything.

And we are quick to believe anything it says.

Our life is chiefly made up of thoughts, interpretations

—and wrong interpretations also,

based upon fear, desire and rejection.

This is why I say: pay attention

to the sense of being—the Self.

Be one with the Self, rather than trying

to pick and choose through

the innumerable thoughts and sensations

that mind tends to see

—which one is true and which is false.

You can spend lifetimes doing this

and you will never come to the end of it.

As soon as you finish pruning this tree,

new leaves are coming.

So don’t waste time cleaning up the mind.

Stay as the Self. As you train your attention

and mind to stay as the Self, the space

in which the mind and person lives vanishes.

Thus you come to experience a completeness,

a contentment in just resting in and as the Self.

And when you are content, the interest

will fall away from these other rooms

and their contents.

The feeling of separation, or even union,

all of this becomes redundant as thoughts.

You simply are. There is a unity in that.

There is a harmony in this.

And where no doubts come,

there is even no need for union or separation.

You experience real unity

beyond even the concept of unity.

This is your natural state.

~ Mooji

Expressão do Imanifesto

 

Não é sábio você comparar sua vida

com a dos outros, 

pois cada fluxo de vida é único, 

e é a expressão do Imanifesto.

Perceba no coração, 

que a sua existência, 

é feita, 

sob medida,

para despertar.

Mesmo se uma enorme dificuldade surgir em seu caminho, 

não se queixe, 

nem julgue e nem caia na auto-piedade. 

Não gaste energia com isso.

Em vez disso, 

use as mesmas dificuldades e circunstâncias 

para aguçar seus poderes de discernimento.

Você está aqui como Vida,

fluindo em direção à Fonte.

Reconheça e respeite a sua vida como auspiciosa.

Mooji

Eu acreditava em tantas coisas que não eram verdadeiras

 

Eu antes acreditava

que todos tinham que gostar de mim,

mas agora essa crença não existe mais.

Eu antes acreditava

que eu tinha que ser a melhor pessoa que eu poderia ser,

para ser livre, mas não mais.

Eu antes acreditava

que tinha que primeiro fazer tudo

o que eu precisava de fazer no mundo,

e só quando eu o tivesse feito e estivesse satisfeito

é que eu poderia voltar a minha atenção para a auto-descoberta.

Eu já acreditei nisso.

Eu antes acreditava

que cabia a alguém me fazer feliz

isso parece que foi há muito tempo.

Eu antes acreditava

que não era digno,

mas vejo agora que era um absurdo.

Eu antes acreditava

que não estava pronto,

mas vejo agora que isso não é verdade.

Eu antes acreditava

que tinha que praticar mais,

meditar mais, ser mais sincero,

mas eu vi que não é assim.

A vida não é tão extenuante ou cruel.

Eu acreditava em tantas coisas que não eram verdadeiras.

Então eu percebi que nada obstrui a liberdade que Eu Sou.

Mooji

Searching for freedom

 

Michal Karcz

You say you are searching for freedom

and something is becoming worse inside you. Why?

Because a power, a force that has not been serving you

is being exposed. And it is as though there is another entity

inside your being that is pretending it is you, or with you.

But now you are discovering it is not in service to Truth,

and being exposed, it begins to retaliate against you.

Are you aware of this or not?

Everyone who searches for the Truth or freedom

experiences what you are experiencing now.

So I am asking you all these questions, what will you do?

Will you say, ‘Okay, Mr. Mind, I will be nice and obey you.

I will be a good person. I will stay with you, just don't beat me.’

Or will you say, ‘Whatever it takes, I will be free of this’?

Then, you turn yourself over to the Supreme and the divine energies.

You surrender to them, or you follow this process

and guidance of self-inquiry which I am showing you.

Trust it. Work with it until you are free of this molestation.

Because in this life, you must transcend the voice of the serpent.

And you have all the advantage

because what you are searching for is already inside you—complete.

It cannot be destroyed. It cannot be lost.

It can only be hidden and it has been hidden for a very long time,

and replaced by the devious play of the psychological mind.

Is it time for a change?

Yes. And so change has come.

Grace has come. Also fire has come.

Don't be in despair. Don't be discouraged. Don't be afraid.

Greater is the power that has come for you

than the power that fights against you.

Trust and apply what I say.

~ Mooji

The ‘person’ itself is just a state

 

The ‘person’ itself is just a state, 

a movement in the greater Self that you are. 

This is why you can observe it. 

You know its energy, its limitations, 

its passions, its fears,

but you who perceive this, who are you? 

It is not the person. It is away from the person;

it is a much purer state of consciousness, 

and it is becoming more and more pure, 

more and more empty of association

with the constructed, imagined self until finally, 

it loses the lower state 

and shines inside its own glory and perfection 

as unborn awareness.

~ Mooji

Arrogance

 

Why does complete discovery

of the Self take so long?

Perhaps because of arrogance.

Arrogance can emerge in such subtle ways,

maybe like, ‘I have finally done it!'

'Now that I am free, I can do pretty much

whatever I want. Nothing can touch me.’

'I just want to save everyone in the world.'

'Lord, thank you for making me so humble.’

In innumerable ways he can come.

And this arrogance is a poison.

It was said in the biblical scriptures

that Satan himself was of the heavenly kingdom

and was driven out because of his arrogance.

Arrogance brings in separation from the Oneness.

Yet we must never think that we are free of arrogance.

This is one of the ways to start transcending him.

In fact, freedom means to be free of arrogance.

 

Mooji

 

There is never a time when the presence is not there

 

You say, ‘Even if the person comes strongly,

there is never a time when the presence is not there.’

You are saying perhaps the most profound thing,

but you are not aware how profound it is.

You say the presence is never not here.

What notices this?

Even presence is perceived.

Whatever you can say, whatever you can perceive,

whatever you can conceive—that stands in front of presence,

but there is something beyond presence itself.

That you are.

It has no duties.

It has never changed.

It is not an evolutionary process or state.

It does not come or go.

It does not grow up.

It never gets old.

It has no age.

It is ever perfect.

This is the greatness of the human expression of consciousness;

that in this human mode you can awaken to this pure understanding.

The highest discovery in the human kingdom

is to wake up into consciousness of the infinite Self.

And what have you done to find this?

I am met with silence, why?

Because it all happened by Grace, you may admit.

Grace is the mirror in which the Infinite perceives,

recognizes or experiences its formless reflection.

Mooji

What you have seen in your heart, that will never leave you

 

Don’t try to learn what I'm telling you so much.

Follow the pointings and you will see.

Discover Home first and then grow from Home.

Don’t try and follow and learn with your head.

Whatever you merely learn with your head will not stay with you

—it will collapse under stress. It will run away.

Mere mental or intellectual conviction

will not be available when you feel the pressures of egoic life.

It’s like the friends who promise to stay with you,

but in the moment of need they are gone.

Like this, what you learn with your head won’t stay with you.

But what you have seen in your heart,

that will never leave you.

 

 Mooji

 

Other dimension of spaciousness

 

If you don’t identify with your mind, you are the limitless one.

Don’t be afraid of this word, neither feel that it is just an abstraction.

It is very much at the core of the reality of who you are.

We have become so familiar with limitations

as are suggested by and imposed upon us by the mind,

conditioning and so on.

We are familiar with living life in a mind-set kind of context

and having a fixed notion of self.

But it is quite unnatural to the Being.

It does not accept this in the way that the 'person' does.

We are so habituated in transacting through concepts

that we believe in them and feel quite comfortable to interact

on the basis of our false or limited projections.

We don’t understand that they are largely imaginary.

The Self, on the other hand, is unending consciousness.

Why should this be an abstraction?

It is not concerned about any such things.

Don't we know this?

When we look outside, outwardly from the eyes,

we perceive a world of uncountable names and forms.

When you close your eyes and look within, what do you see?

Kidneys and lungs and stuff like that? No.

When you close your eyes, what you see?

It brings you into another space, another dimension

of spaciousness, of spatiality—a limitlessness.

If you don’t accept the mind's interpretations,

then you are immediately in the limitless.

It is not an idea. Ideas appear and disappear in the limitless.

When I speak of this limitlessness, do you feel it as an abstraction

or do you feel it to be totally your highest Truth?

Mooji

Trust

 

Trust is the great key!
First look at what mistrust brings you
then you have a sense of what trust is.
Mistrust shuts you down, hides you away.
Trust opens you up to the fullness of life.
There was a time when ship builders
would carve a figure out of wood at the front of the boat.
I found it so beautiful
—like this, you also are right at the cutting edge of all existence.
And the fierce winds of the sea, the biting salt
and roaring waves are blasting and blowing past,
but this figure is just so still, so majestic and so unperturbed.
It invokes a feeling of trust.
Trust takes you where logic will fail,
trust will sail you over the seas.
It is instinct in us to trust,
But trust must come with wisdom also.
Like with love, they work together and reveal great things
—when you trust in the right thing.
When we are full of ego, our trust is very limited, very weak,
for we are trusting in the wrong thing.
But this we have to taste also,
so when you taste the right things you will know.
Trust reminds you, ‘Don’t panic.’
In life we have been trained and habituated to acting prematurely
because of the fear, ‘If I don’t act quickly, I will miss my chance.
I will miss my change for this job, or to be married, or to have children,’
so we force ripen ourselves, and miss the real juice, so to speak.
But wisdom says, ‘Just observe a little, be very present with yourself.
Don’t encourage superstition or suspicion.
Just rest in your being and observe.
Don’t panic, don’t pull the parachute too quickly.'
Some are pulling the parachute open when they are still on the ground!
Just hear that voice of wisdom that tells you to simply to be present
as the uninvolved witness, and it will not go wrong.
Trust gives you the courage to express your heart’s truth.
Know that if you do what is right inside your heart,
it cannot turn out to be wrong for someone else.
They may go, ‘No, no, no,’ but it will turn out just fine.
Trust opens you up to the great things of life.
The greatest is to wake up.
Trust is there, faith is there, courage
—all these they come and make their home in you.


Mooji

spaciousness

 

We believe too quickly in feelings and thought-processes.

You must become more detached from them.

Keep looking without interpreting so quickly.

Once you understand that you are the witness

to what is playing in the mind, if you don't identify so quickly,

you start to become aware of your own presence.

You begin to enjoy your own pure presence.

You will enjoy its spaciousness. It is empty of mind.

The world will lose its grip on your mind.

You will start to experience the state of love again,

deep peace and the joy that does not come from things,

but a joy that emanates and resonates from your own Self.

And all of this will come to life in a short time.

It is your invisibility that matters.

There are some people I don't see very often.

There are some, in one year, I only see them for 2 or 3 hours.

But each time I see them,

I see that they are less and less of a person

and more and more of being.

The absence of them as a person

is perceived more powerfully as presence.

So it is not your presence as a person that matters,

it is only your presence as presence that matters.

In a funny way, it is your absence, personally,

that is spiritually attractive,

because in your absence as ego,

you become Universal.

And it is only your universal spirit

that can bless the world.

Mooji

If I am empty of me as a person, how can I live?

 

Nothing does everything better than something.

I say this because we have a fear that

‘If I am empty of me as a person, how can I live?

I have rent to pay. I have children to look after.

If I am empty, how I can do these things?’

But you merely think it is you who is doing all these things.

This is a very difficult thing to convey to the immature mind

because the mind won't accept these words.

The Supreme Being is doing everything.

Through all the bodies it is doing all this as the vital force.

But also the personal mind has an influence.

Now you must judge whether the influence of the mind,

if the involvement or so called help of the personal mind,

is needed by the Absolute.

Mooji